About 530 Adelphi Commons residents have seen unexpected changes since ASU took over management this fall, ending ties with Community Living Villages on the Tempe campus.
Arizona Capital Facilities Finance Corporation hired ASU to manage Adelphi Commons II, one wing of the complex, this fall, and ASU also added Adelphi I to the deal, said Eliza Robinson, marketing specialist for University Housing.
Adelphi Commons II is now used for freshman housing instead of sorority housing. Adelphi Commons I still houses sorority members in 12 clusters.
Though chapter leadership at Adelphi I was notified during a meeting once the decision to use ASU management was final, many residents are having trouble adjusting to unexpected changes.
“Students residing in Adelphi Commons must follow University Housing Policies that they received on a [thumb] drive during move-in,” said Robinson.
Residents now face new rules and stricter enforcement of guidelines. Staff members have new job requirements.
The use of community assistants at Adelphi is new this semester, a change from the community liaisons the complex used before it was ASU-owned.
Some Adelphi Commons residents like nutrition sophomore Rebecca Ramirez said the change has limited the authority the sororities have in overseeing their individual chapter’s area.
“Basically, in the past guidelines were set by each chapter and the members would follow them, but now we have to listen to CAs,” Ramirez said. “So, if there are any problems we would not only get in trouble with the chapter, but also ASU.”
Ramirez said dealing with Residential Life was a letdown when she moved into Adelphi last month because she was expecting more freedom after living in a residence hall during her freshman year at ASU.
“[Moving in] was kind of unfortunate because I lived in the dorms last year and it is like the dorms at Adelphi now [with CAs] and without some advantages I was looking forward to,” Ramirez said. “There’s not that much to be happy about.”
Elementary education sophomore Tatum Stein said she found out about the new management while she was moving in after she left some trash bags outside her door.
“I got a notice on my door that I had to go to the Adelphi office,” Stein said. “I ended up having to write a paper about littering, which I thought was really inconvenient because it was the first week of school and I was busy moving in and going to class.”
The new procedures Adelphi staff use are stricter, Stein said, adding that she feels bombarded with new policy and procedures when she wasn’t aware of the new management.
However, writing the essay was a good learning experience even though it was inconvenient, she said.
“I think I should have had another option,” Stein said.
Robinson said though policies may have seemed different in the past, residents have always been required to follow ASU policy no matter who manages the Adelphi complex.
“All ASU students are held to the policies contained in the Student Code of Conduct,” she said.
ASU took over full management of Adelphi II on Aug. 1 and Adelphi I on Sept. 1.
Reach the reporter at tnowen@asu.edu.
