Safety
The Residential Life Program will provide for a safe and secure environment.
Each hall is supervised by a live-in Professional Residence Hall Director. Each evening one or two RDs are on assigned duty for the campus. They are available to address problems and concerns as needed.
Each hall has a Resident Assistant Staff. The RAs sit duty in the RA office from 7:00 pm to midnight daily. They make hourly rounds of the entire residence hall to ensure the building is safe and quiet. At midnight they return to their rooms where they are on call until 7:00 am.
Night Hosts sit duty in the main lobby of each hall. They sit from midnight to 3:00 am to monitor all traffic in and out of the hall ensuring that unwanted visitors are not let in and that an appropriate level of quiet is maintained.
University Police, our own campus law enforcement and education/service agency, is ever-present and assists in the residence halls on a regular basis.
The Student Medical Response Team, University Police staff and Residential Life staff are available to assist in medical emergencies. For more information, click here: Wellness Center
All exterior doors are locked continuously. Students are issued a front door key for their hall and a room key.
Guest Policy: A guest is someone who is not a resident of the room in which s/he intends to sleep overnight. Guests are only permitted on Friday and Saturday nights. All guests must be registered in the RA office.
Study Hours
Quiet: The Residential Life Program will provide for a positive residence hall environment and for development of a community where students value and respect others, understand and accept differences, value diversity, respect facilities and learn to resolve differences through positive communication.
Consideration Hours: At all times noise is to be kept to a level that will not disturb other hall residents. Students are expected to ask other students to be quiet when others are being disruptive.
Quiet Hours are in effect from 8:00 pm to 8:00 am Sunday through Thursday, 11:00pm to 8:00am Friday and Saturday
24-Hour Quiet Hours go into effect one week before final exams and continue until exams are finished.
Environment
Clean: The Residential Life Program will provide for a clean and well-maintained environment through the maintenance of its facilities.
The cleaning staff is in the building Monday-Friday. They are responsible for the common areas, bathrooms, lounges, hallway, stairways - students are responsible to clean their rooms and clean up any student-created messes.
Recycling is mandatory in all halls. Students are responsible to source-separate their own trash for recycling purposes.
Comfortable: The Residential Life Program will provide for student leadership development opportunities and interpersonal communication skill improvement for its resident students. It will also help students develop a strong sense of purpose, a sense of independence, personal growth and competence.
Cable television, which is part of the campus Educational Technology System, is provided in each student room and main lounges; with access to 88 channels including 8 HBO channels.
In-hall programming provided by each residence hall staff is offered in conjunction with the campus community. Over 400 educational, social and campus-wide programs are offered to students throughout the year.
Hall Council and other student leadership opportunities are provided for students to have an active voice in determining what happens in their residence hall.
All of the halls provide direct access to the campus computer network for each resident student. This provides direct access to the campus main frame system.
The college furnishes each room with a bed, a desk, a chair, a mirror, window blinds, and a lamp or overhead light. Students are advised to bring a study lamp, rugs, a pillow and blankets, and other bed linen.
Certain electrical appliances are permitted in the residence halls including a refrigerator (one per room and no larger than 1.75 amps), a hot pot, a coffee maker, and a hot air popcorn maker. Certain other electrical appliances are not permitted due to energy conservation and safety concerns including: halogen lamps, toaster ovens, microwaves, hot plates, hot oil popcorn makers, electric blankets, sun lamps, and the like.
Each hall provides vending and laundry machines which can be used with the CobyCard or Cash.
Most halls have a microwave, vacuum and VCR for student use.
Each room is equipped with a telephone which provides on-campus service and access to long-distance service. Each student has a personal voice mailbox on the phone.
The only pets students are allowed to have in the halls are fish.(1 aquarium or more than 20 gallons).
Smoking is not permitted in any residence hall. and must be 25 feet from the building
Mail is put into student mailboxes in the student mail room located in Bouck Hall each weekday.
