RA work doesn't stop, even during the holidays.

          Residence Assistants, unfortunately, have to rotate around the holidays to stay and work, despite the lack of students staying over the holiday weekend.

         "I'm on call from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. [on Easter Sunday]," said Los Alamitos RA Laura Jenkins. "And then I work again from 7 p.m. until midnight on night rounds."

          Many of the RA's reported a huge drop in the number of students staying in the dorms over the weekend because of the holiday. But because of the incoming mail and the potential lockouts that need to be tended to, RA's and student assistants (or SA's) had to continue working through the holiday weekend.

          How does this effect the RAs? They can't make it home as often to celebrate holidays with their family members, holidays that are often very near and dear to their hearts and have deep religious meanings.

          "It's definitely hard being away from home so much," said Jenkins, "but I know that it's just another part of my job."

-Lauren Weiss