Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140212164009

@Dex, it may be a localisation thing. I'm currently sorting out student accomodation and finance for this Semptember and a large majority of universities use university owned accomodation for first year's with what's remaining obviously being available to the rest. The second year's and beyond are expected to group with friends or a partner and rent a flat on their own, that being said they have a lot of partnerships with the government and some housing agencies and landlords who will usually take students in. It's basically as guaranteed as student accomodation but the university has no financial tie. It may be different elsewhere, it may not apply to all universities in the UK but of the one's my friends and I have looked at, most reserve their accomodation for first year's and merely offer aid in helping most of their 2+ year students find their own flat.

Back on topic: Velvet strikes me as an older student. They never showed her during initiation after all and the journal entry back during the contest kinda made it sound like she and her team had extensive experience fighting together which no one seems to have just yet in the first year.

Glynda - She never actually taught, she was escorting the students for Professor Peach's class. I think Glynda is a huntress currently hired by Beacon as a "protector" of sorts (possibly head of security under the guise of a secretary, chosen as such due to Ozpin's familiarity with her). She, and likely several others potentially including teachers Oobleck, Port and Ozpin are there to make sure their students don't die. They had people in the forest during initiation (or maybe Ozpin said that just to ease them) and it would make sense for them to hire protectors considering the danger they are constantly put in.