 Hi, y'all. My name is Summer. I am the CRE of Humphreys Hall. Basically what that means is that I supervise the RA's, I advise the lead hogs, and help make sure that the building is run and smooth. So CRE's are kind of like hall directors, right? Yes. Nice to see you. So right now we're on one of the Humphreys patios. It touches the parking lot, basically where you'll park to move in and hang out for the year. And this is a really cool place to kind of hang out and socialize and everything like that. There's another big building right there. Do you mind telling me? Yes. So that is Yocum. They are our neighbor building. A lot of people call them sister buildings, but we're a little bit more different than that. So they're kind of more like cousin buildings. Okay, great, great. So let's see. And then this is the parking lot that you'll be using for move in. And we're going to have a good move in. We will, we will. It hopefully won't be too too hot for a move in. That would be great. That would be great. So we've got about eight people watching right now. Just let us know where you're watching from. We'd love to learn that and we're excited that you're coming this fall. I'm into the building. Do you mind telling me about that key system you used? Yes. And all of our residence halls are fog access. And basically when you get your key for move in, you'll also get a fob. And your fob will be specific to the building that you're moving in. So you will only be able to access the building that you live in. Okay, okay. Hey Joseph, good to have you here. And then Sherry from Springfield, Missouri. Glad to have you watching. We just went through the building and back out the building again. So this is our other patio for Humphreys. We have the beautiful Humphreys lawn in front of us. People play volleyball or other kind of games out there. This is also a great place to people watch. And then on the opposite corner is probably the most perfect place to watch sunsets on campus. Where is it? Right in that corner. It's probably the most perfect place to watch sunsets. Nice, nice. Yeah. Morgan from St. Louis and Sheila from Western Springs, Illinois. Apparently that is just outside of Chicago. She informs us. And then Brandy from Alito. Do you mind waving to Brandy? Nice. Okay. So anything else you'd point out around this outside? Yeah. We are also right across from Brough, which is one of our dining halls. And then kind of on the other side of Brough is a lot more of the food court. So like Starbucks and I think they're going to have maybe Eureka pizza this year. So literally right across the way you can grab bites to eat. And then we're also close to a couple of academic buildings like Kimple and the business building. So you're literally five minutes from class. Yeah. Very much the central part of campus. Located close to just about everything really. Yes. Pretty much everything. Any questions? Yeah. Any questions that people have? Just go ahead and ask us and we'll do our best. Summer and I to answer the questions for you. But otherwise we'll go inside and start touring the inside of the building. Awesome. Sounds great. The building was, we were just discussing the history of the building. Yes. The Humphries was built in 1961, I believe. And this year we are this upcoming year in 2021 we will be celebrating our 60th anniversary. 60th anniversary. Okay. Thank you Nancy for that note. We'll try to speak up a little bit. So basically when you walk into Humphries one of the first things that you see is the front office. This is where you'll get your mail and packages and everything like that. So basically we have somebody staffed here during the day as well as some hours at night. So this is where you can get a bunch of answers, a bunch of your questions answered. Right. And right there I see a huge plastic divider COVID related I'm sure. Yes. Yes. So we are trying to take as many safety precautions as possible. So the plastic dividers between the office guests and the people working the front desk is there just for safety measures. Perfect. Trying to keep it safe. Down this hallway is where you'll find your mailbox. So you do share your mailbox with your roommate. But basically you have these really kind of old school mailboxes. And that's where your mail will be dropped off any letter mail. And where will you get packages? Packages are at the front desk. Very good. Very good. Awesome. Now we can go to one of our big community spaces in the building. Okay. And I mean, do you happen to know how many students usually reside here? Yeah, we have anywhere from about 450 to like 350 to 450 is typically our range of students. Just depending on how many sign up for Humphreys. Sure. That's a pretty big number 450 or so. So this is the great room. This is basically one of our large, large common spaces and community rooms. We have it set up a little bit differently this year than in years past. But one of the cool things that the setup is now for the TV, we basically have theater seating. Oh, right. Like we're going to walk over to the TV right now. I mean, there's a lot of good shows you could watch a big TV like that. Absolutely. And you basically have your own movie theater in the building now. Very nice. Anything you're binging at the moment? What am I binging at the moment? I'm all about normal people on HBO. No, no, no. On Hulu is what I've been watching. I can't stop watching Hamilton over and over again on Disney Plus. Hamilton over and over on Disney Plus. Yes. On the other side of our great room, we have a ping-pong table and a pool table. Right now and kind of for the start of the semester, we're not renting out any equipment. But if you want to use these tables, you're more than free to. We just ask that you bring your own ping-pong paddles or whatever other equipment you need. Great. Do you play ping-pong? I am not skilled at it, but I will play with anyone who wants to play. You'll jump in for a round or two. Okay. Outside of the great room, we're going to run into the Humphreys kitchen. This is free for all students to use. In Humphreys, we typically have a good bit of international students, so we end up with some very interesting spices left in our kitchen at the end of every year. And again, with the kitchen, just like the other equipment in the great room, we're not providing any pots and pans right now, at least for the beginning of the semester. But the kitchen is yours to use if you want to bring your own pots and pans, cookie trays, et cetera. And you might smell some good things, apparently. Great. Awesome. I think from here, we can go ahead and head downstairs. How many floors do we have in Humphreys? So we have technically 10 floors. One of the floors is the basement, and only floors 2 through 9 have residents on them. 2 through 9, okay. First up in the basement is the laundry room. Obviously, this is where you'll get your laundry done. So we have a bunch of washers and dryers for you to use, and an ice machine in case you need ice for any reason. Every building, the laundry machines are free to use. They come out of your housing freeze, so you don't need to keep quarters or anything like that. And additionally, there's this cool laundry app that basically lets you monitor which washers and dryers are open, as well as track your laundry. So you'll know when it's done, go downstairs to pick up your laundry when it's finished. It's a pretty convenient app. Every year we do these tours, and usually at least one student will say, yeah, I really do use it. It's pretty useful to know when to come down and when to time it. So you can go to housing.uark.edu forward slash laundry, and you can read more about that. Yep. The comment space is down here in the basement. Okay. And you call it the basement because it doesn't seem like a basement. It seems like a kind of a cool floor. Features that will pass on our way, but we just refer to it either as the ground floor or the basement. The basement. All right. In the basement, we're going to run into Matt. He is the CRE of Yocum, so he's helped me out with this tour today. Okay, I'm just shadowing something I'm learning. Welcome, welcome. Thank you, thank you. Glad to be here. So basically in the basement, we have our recycling, so you can recycle anything from plastics, newspapers, paper, cardboard, everything like that. And then on the other wall, we have these cool old closets. And basically these used to be built in phone booths for the residence hall. Phone booths? What do you mean like cell phone booths? Like old school landline phones. The landline. Yes. Very, very interesting. Yes. In the basement is our classroom. This is where we have meetings or programs. This is where our lead hogs meet on Monday nights. And this space is reservable if you want to rent it out. And we can show you where that form is. It's on the Humphreys Hogsink. So make sure you join Hogsink, because that's where all the events will be as well. Well, tell me what Hogsink is. It's basically this awesome portal that'll connect you not only to your building, your residence hall, but all the other organizations on campus and everything like that. It's a good place to know what's going on on campus as well as kind of what news is out there and everything like that related to campus. Perfect. Hogsink. Hogsink.uark.edu, I believe. Yes. That's H-O-G-S-Y-N-C. Yes. Okay. Great. Awesome. I think that's it for the basement so we can go ahead and head upstairs. Let's go upstairs and see a floor. Yes. Now, how long have you been the CRE for this particular hall? For two years. So this is going to be my second year in Humphreys, but my third year on campus. So I was in Pomp for it for my first year here. Okay. So you've been around a little bit, seen a couple of different halls. What do you think makes Humphreys kind of a unique hall? I think what makes Humphreys a unique hall is that we have so many different types of students here. We have international students. We have upperclassmen. We have freshmen. We have half of the business LLC. So it's just a cool hodgepodge of students that really get to connect with other students who are different from them. Fantastic. Yeah. And, I mean, this is a community-style building. Yes. Which means they share a bathroom, some smaller groups do, and then there's just a lot of interaction. Yes. There's a lot of interaction. We're also so central on campus that, you know, it's so easy to get to everything and really connect with campus in that way as well. Perfect. Well, yeah, it's a neat place to be. Particularly your first year, I would think. Yes. When you're starting to make friends and all that sort of thing. Yes. It's a very unique experience to be in a community-style building, but we love it, and my staff here loves it as well. All right. Stepping off onto the floor here on floor nine. On the ninth floor, the very top floor of Humphreys. The first thing we're going to check out is the study room. So every single floor has a study room exactly like this. It's a place to hang out, study, watch TV, do homework, hopefully. Everything like that. Got a whiteboard over there. Whiteboard, beautiful view. Hopefully it's not too distracting to your study. That is really a nice view. Can we see the stadium from there? Yeah, stadium's right in that corner, right there. Can we take a look? Can you pull up the drape force? We'll take a look up there. Woo pig suey, right? It's not a big deal if you can't get it or whatever. Yeah. We can actually see it right through there. Awesome. It's a stadium that's literally across the way. That is very, very close to Razorback Stadium. Yes. Okay. Well, cool. This is a study room, and then in years past when we've had so many students, we were like trying to put them in places. I've used this as a room for actual students, and they love it. I mean, usually they do. Yes. In the past, it's been an overflow room. We basically block out all these windows. That way it creates privacy, and we arrange some furniture in here and make it work. But the past few years, we haven't had to use any of our over exposed spaces. So you've got it as a study room now. Yes. Okay. Well, let's go take a look at maybe the bathroom and then maybe a room. And when we're in a room, feel free to ask us if you have any measurement you want us to take. Summer has a tape measure. Matt has my tape measure. Matt has the tape measure that he's getting, but we have tape. We're tape measuring capable. I'm mentioning that every floor has four bathrooms. So typically you would share a bathroom with about 15 to 20 people. Okay. 15 to 20 people in the bathrooms. Some questions that have come up on some of our other tours are what are we doing in terms of preparing for COVID this fall? And I'll say that one thing we're doing is we're cleaning the bathrooms twice a day now instead of just once. And we're also extending that cleaning into the weekend when typically we wouldn't be cleaning on the weekend. So we're doing significant amount more cleaning in our bathrooms. Yes. ISA staff or our staff that's cleaning these spaces, they're also cleaning a lot of the high touch spaces. So a lot of the doors and the common use spaces. So that way all those spaces that a lot of people touch get some extra cleaning as well. Just trying to keep it safe as possible. Brandy asks us, is the building co-ed by floor? So every floor is designated by gender, but we do have both males and females in the building. What's interesting is Humphreys often has more males than female students. So I think our ratio is about 60% male to 40% female. My mask, correct? Interesting. Yeah. Because that's not, I guess typically when it comes to enrollment at a university, it's not so much 60% male, 40% female. So kind of unique thing here. Yes. So we'll check out the bathroom and then we'll talk a little bit more about the floors and everything like. Sounds good. Why don't we jump up in that, like look in the shower and then the sink. It's a pretty typical shower in so many ways. But big. Like it's actually quite sizable. And they welcome shower curtains. I believe they took them down to clean them. So there's typically a shower curtain in front of each of the shower spells. Yeah. You'll have the privacy, no worries. Okay. Let me get a view of the sinks. Then you have commodes over here, but everybody's saying commodes. So I think that exciting there. Okay. Where are we going into? So the majority of our floors are double floors, which basically means that every room has two students living in it. However, we have two floors and Humphreys that are single floors, which means that there's only one student per room. You'd still keep all your furniture. So you'd still have twice the amount of furniture, but you can organize it however you want. We just want to make sure that all of the housing furniture is there when you move out. Absolutely. Yes. And the furniture here is built into the, built into the facility itself. So cabinets, shelving, closets, everything like that is built in. I'll give them a big pan right now. There in the window. With all the sunlight. Okay, great. So yeah, here we are in the room. One thing to point out is that you get free, or cable that is paid for with your housing fees. That includes HBO. So you can watch all the HBO shows as well. The internet is pretty strong in this building. And so maybe we'll get some pictures of the built-in closet. I know that's oftentimes an area of interest for people. Have you been getting any questions from people? A couple questions. Just about kind of the room layout and everything like that. A few measurement questions. But nothing too super, super specific. So this is a typical room. Pretty much every single one of our rooms look like this. The windows, the blinds go up, the windows open. Typically all of our windows have screens on them. They ask that you don't go out on the window ledges. It's super tall and super high, and it's super unsafe. So at least stay inside your room. Good advice all the time. We do have a question from Shamus who asks, can you measure the window width and length? Yeah. And maybe that's a two-person job I'm thinking. The window width and length. So I think we're talking about, yeah, those two dimensions, the X and the Y, if you will. What's that? Oh, it's on there too? OK. We'll confirm with that. It's over 10 feet in this thing. That's about 10 feet. OK. Can you take a measurement and then add that to it? Take two measurements and put them together? So at least 10 feet. 10 feet, 6 inches. How does that measure against the? 10 feet, 6 inches. That's what the website says. We love it when that happens. OK. Some more questions here. One from Gail. Can, well, we gave Shamus the length. Do we give him the? I guess height is kind of what we're talking about. Yeah. Let's do that one too. Because he wants to put a curtain in potentially. And I would say a tension rod, if you can find one that big, 58 inches in that dimension. Yeah. If you can find a tension rod that big, it would work fine. Those are awfully big. But OK. And Gail asks, can curtains be hung on the window? And again, tension rods are our typical go-to when it comes to that. We just ask that you don't put anything in between the window blinds and the actual window. So you can have curtains or decor or anything like that on the inside of your room. We just want to make sure that everything's up to fire code. Sherry asks, is the black metal rail at the top of the bed frame removable? It is. It's basically just a stabilizer bar. So with these tall bed frames, we typically put in a stabilizer bar, but we do have some bed frames that are shorter. And those don't necessarily need the stabilizer bar. So removable stabilizer, stabilizing bar. OK. Well, this is the perfect time to ask any more questions. We're happy to answer them. We'll do a quick mattress length measurement that tends to be one that's very popular. 78 inches. So this should be the long one. Yes. So the long mattress is typically by the window. OK. So this is one of the residence halls where there's two different sizes. So 75 right there. Yeah. OK. So 75 in that direction. OK. OK. Who gets the long bed and who gets the short bed? You can do it by height or by preference, whatever you want. But since you will be living with a roommate, if there are any issues you have any questions or need any resources, we do have students staff who live in the building called RAs. And they're basically here to help you with any questions you have. They are students on this campus as well, but they're pretty much here to help you and your experience in Humphreys. Nice. A couple more questions came in. Jennifer asked our both beds twin size, and we just confirmed no. One is, what is our designation? How do we call them? Twin RSL. Uh-huh. And then a twin large, maybe, or some, there's a 78 and a 75. 75 is right there, against the door. Angie asked how deep is the window ledge. So that was the one we didn't get. Yep. So am I getting the depth? 16. 16 inches is the depth, Angie. Gail asked how many outlets are in the room? A lot. A lot. A lot times there's like as many as 10, but I don't know exactly. Yeah, so we have two though. There's a good amount of outlets. So between 8 and 10, does that sound right? Jessica asked, are all the window beds XL twin? Yes, they should be. They should be? Yep. Let's just hang out for a second. See any more questions come in? Yeah. And we do have, like we did the measurements, we have really huge windows in Humphreys. I know a lot of our students bring a lot of plants in. I have a lot of plants in my windows, so you'll probably see them from the outside, but you also get such a great view living at Humphreys, especially on some of the top floors. What's the best thing to grow? It depends on what you want to grow. What's what plant of yours is doing the best? Yes, what plant of mine is doing the best? I actually am growing an avocado tree right now, and it is about almost 5 feet tall, so it's almost getting taller than me, but it's doing really, really great. That's amazing, an avocado tree. Christie asks, what are the depths of the two closet shelves, and what is the height between the bottom and the top shelf? Absolutely. You already measured it. What is that? This one is 16. 16? Yeah. And then the top one? 9. 9? And how much Friday did that one come out this time? You got masking? Yeah. You just measured this one. I want to make sure that I get those two. I'm sorry, the first one was what? 16. 16. Okay, the depth of the closet shelves is 16. And the top one is 20 and a half. The top one? 9 inches apart from each other. And 9 inches apart from each other, Christie. Brandy asks, can you hang stuff from the ceiling? You can. We ask that you don't puncture any holes in any of the ceilings, walls, etc. It would be really hard to puncture holes in the wall since they're made out of cinder block. And we ask that you don't cover any of the lights or the smoke detectors or anything like that. So technically you can if you want to put a poster or something on the ceiling, but you wouldn't be able to hang anything heavy or drill any holes anywhere. And if there is damage to the building unfortunately at the end of the year, we have to charge for that. So always be aware of, will this damage the property before I move out? Let's see, we've got a couple more questions coming in. Sherry asks, how deep are the shelves above the desks? Let's see. And inches exactly. Well, there we are. Again, the website has that information. That's great. Sheamus asks, how do you request your bed be raised bunked? And the way you do that is you go through our website, housing.ur.edu, fix it, F-I-X-I-T. And you can make that request. On the housing website request to have a, we have the option of putting a mini fridge microwave combo, which you can basically rent for the semester of the year. So I believe that's through the housing website as well. And if not there, it's on movein.ur.edu as well. And I also think it is on leadhogs.ur.edu. So a couple of different places where you can make that rental if you wish. Okay. Jennifer asks, what size rug fits best? And maybe what we do is we just give the dimensions. And then she can make that call. Remember, her only use the sheet. Yeah. Between the beds. And then, seven feet between the beds. Seven feet between the beds. And then 91 inches in that direction. Gail asks, what can be used to put things on the wall? Command strips, something else. We recommend command strips. Command eight is what we use to hang all our flyers. So if that is in your aesthetic, feel free to use that. Just be careful, just be careful taking everything off the wall when you're done. Typically command strips come with instructions on how to remove them. So I would follow those when you're ready to move that at the end of the year. John asked, where are the air conditioner vents? Yeah. So the air conditioner vent is basically on the wall near the window. So every room has one of these. Unfortunately, there is no AC control. Well, there is AC control in the room. So I almost made a mistake. So you can control the AC temperature in your room. It is right there. Wonderful. So yeah, right there is the AC control. Okay. Angie asks, when not lofted, does the fridge usually go at the door of the window bed? The extra furniture that you bring in pretty much however you want. So I've seen sometimes people put many fridges in their closets. I've seen them put them under their bed. I've seen them put them next to the bed. So it's really whatever you want and however you want to decorate your room. And then Jennifer asks, what size rug fits here? Do most people put their TVs? Where do people put their TVs typically in Humphrey's room? That people bring their own TVs. I've seen them on the dresser. I've seen them in the closet. It's really kind of whatever works for you. So for you and your roommate. So if you wanted to put a TV here and block the mirror, that might be something to discuss with your roommate beforehand. And Morgan asks, is there a mallet provided in the room to loft the bed yourself? And we do have a limited number of mallets, I believe, during our moving. But we really strongly encourage you to bring your own mallet if you want to use that to do lofting. Or you can use us. You just have to get that work order in. Yes, like you just said, we have a limited amount. You can rent them out during move-in, but a lot of people you typically want to use them during move-in. Same thing with dollies is we have a very limited amount of dollies. So we always recommend you bring your own for moving as well. Yeah, if you want those things, you're probably going to wait a little while. I know it's just one more wait to have to endure on a move-in day. So always best to bring your own things. Yeah. Okay. Well, we've got a lot of really great questions as we've toured Humphrey's and we're excited for next year. You know, if a couple more come in the next minute, we'll take them. But otherwise, tell us what do you think this fall is going to be like? Going to be very creative. I think with everything going on in the world, it's changed a lot of things. But I think that it's going to allow us to be super creative and get to know one another in different ways. So I'm still excited for fall and I think it's going to be a really fun semester. Me too. And we're excited to have you come here this fall and will you mind waving us out?