Hassayampa

Hassayampa Academic Village is one of the newest dorms on campus.  With students from the W.P. Carey School of Business, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, there is a healthy dose of mixed majors.  Hassayampa is known to students as the party dorms; filled to the brim with excited students that wish to uphold Arizona State University's title of being a party school.  It is almost humorous how these dorms full of party animals is seated right next to the honors college.  

Which leads to the first point; Hassayampa is pretty far away from the center of campus, where most classes are held.  Just about a five to ten minute walk from their dorms to Memorial Union, the heart of Arizona State University’s Tempe campus.  Students wind up needing to use the Flash bus system, which only runs Monday through Friday.  With such a distance between these dorms and a large amount of the buildings that would host classes for these students, it may as well be deemed off campus living.  With off campus living, there comes the facts that students who live on campus their first year have more beneficial gains in the area of academia (Ernest 216-220).

Though the rooms are some of the newest on campus, they are not, however, provided with such amenities like a free fridge or microwave.  The trade off for that is a much more spacious room, not to mention decent showers.  Students are located very close to a student service center, where tutors help students with homework related to certain subject areas.  These factors help boost Hassayampa to be a bit better than it might have been rated.  Wireless internet is offered, as well as free cable.

With all these factors in mind, Hassayampa isn’t quite what one would hope for it to be.  Though these dorms are new, and somewhat big, they however have the downfall of being rather far from most of the classes on campus.  Hassayampa is a decent dorm to live in on campus, but it has plenty of room for improvement to what it could offer.