Nearly 80 students to live in hotel for more than a week
Students who expected to be settled into their dorm rooms will spend the first few days of school living at a hotel - sleeping in queen size beds instead of a single, and bathing in a private shower instead of a community bathroom.
And while most University of Arizona students will be leaving pizza boxes and dirty clothes on their floor, the students who were displaced will have a maid to clean up their mess.
About 80 students will live in the nearby Plaza Hotel, 1900 E. Speedway Blvd., instead of Pima Hall until construction on the new addition is completed.
Crews are scrambling to finish the structure within the next 10 days, though the finish date has not been finalized.
"Students are taking the news very well," said Pamela Obando, associate director of UA Residence Life.
Obando said the university has its hands tied in this situation and has no control over the actual completion of the building.
Residents of the new addition began checking in at the hotel Wednesday, taking the temporary inconvenience in stride.
