With temperatures in La Verne hitting record highs, students who live on campus are having trouble dealing with the heat.

With his experience in housing at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Northridge and Cal State San Bernardino, Juan Regalado has had no problem stepping in as housing director to deal with the issues that have come his way.

Students from the Sheraton, Brandt, the Oaks and Stu-Han dorms will engage in a Battle of the Halls all year for the most points to win a dinner from the housing office.

The influx of new students, and expectations that this year’s enrollment increase will hold steady has created the need for additional on-campus housing.

This fall’s record-setting enrollment should benefit the University of La Verne’s prestige and financial well being. But the significant number of new undergraduate students has put a squeeze on resources such as housing.

The University of La Verne is a private school, and by default charges an arm and a leg, and another arm at that, for tuition, room and board.