MU provides moving crews for students in hot weather

The University of Missouri provides crews to help students move in, said MU spokesman Christian Basi.

“(The university has) moving crews helping students get their belongings into the residential hall rooms, so that should take an enormous load off of them because it will greatly reduce the amount of time they are outside,” Basi wrote in an email.

Students who did not do early move in will be able to move into MU properties starting on Wednesday.

According to ABC 17 Stormtrack Meteorologist Kevin Schneider, the temperatures could be in the middle 80s on Wednesday. Though he said it is “seasonal” for this time of year, it is lower than the estimated high temperature on Monday, which is 97 degrees.

Basi said staff and faculty volunteer to help the students move, and paid residential life staff members assist in move in day as well.

“I was helping on Saturday, although I got assigned to an indoor job,” Basi wrote in the email.

Volunteers are asked to take a four-hour shift, which involves moving in and out of the buildings, Basi said.

All residential halls on MU’s campus have air conditioners, which allows the volunteers to have bursts of air conditioning, as well as easy access to water, Basi said.