Rally Committee will relocate to former office in Kerckhoff Hall

Published: Thursday, October 30, 1997

Thursday, October 30, 1997

Rally Committee will relocate

to former office

in Kerckhoff Hall

FACILITIES: Organization moves out of trailers back into original home

By Teresa Jun

Daily Bruin Contributor

UCLA's Rally Committee will be moving back into its original office space in Kerckhoff Hall much sooner than anyone anticipated.

Due to staff cutbacks and changes in management in the Food Services department, the office space that Food Services now occupies can be relinquished to the 75-year-old spirit organization.

Friday, a representative from UCLA's Student Support Services called leaders of the Rally Committee and proposed the premature move back into their offices in Kerckhoff.

"When we found out, we were ecstatic," said Melissa Brown, chairperson of the Rally Committee. "It will be nice to be back."

The move is planned for next week, although the exact date is not set.

Since June, the Rally Committee has been working out of two make-shift "rooms" in trailers behind Kerckhoff. One of the trailers is currently used to store their stunt cards and equipment.

Although the Daily Bruin recently published an article on the Rally Committee's situation in the trailer, officials say that the change has been worked on over the past month.

When Food Services was reorganizing their staff a few weeks ago, ASUCLA officials thought this might be a fortunate opportunity to accommodate the Rally Committee within the limited space in Kerckhoff Hall.

"As soon as we saw the opportunity to address this, we wanted to act on it," said Roy Champawat, project financial coordinator for UCLA Restaurants.

"We certainly weren't happy to be in anybody's way," he added, referring to their room, which was originally reserved for the Rally Committee and their activities.

"We expected to be in this trailer for at least this whole year," said Renzo Salerno, the second vice chair of the Rally Committee.

The Rally Committee was one of the first student groups to have an office in Kerckhoff when the building was first established.