 Hey so we're live. That's cool. Hey everyone I'm Abyn Widener. I'm a senior here at the University of Arkansas in my major's Advertising and Public Relations. Absolutely. I stayed in Yocum Hall my freshman year behind the camera. Yes Christopher Spencer I'm the Assistant Director for Marketing and Strategic Communications here and this is the very first of the tours that we're going to do. We're going to do 18 and all so this is what 10 a.m. Monday we're doing Gibson Hall and happens to actually be the most historic hall too. We had intended to start from the outside but unfortunately the Wi-Fi was that in the middle part wasn't going as well so we're going to do it from the inside here and yeah but let me let me just point outwards for a moment to kind of show where we are. Let's see if we can go out here a little bit. I'm going to try it. Let's have to see if we can't start a little bit outside. Still working okay yeah okay so outside here we're in the central part of campus for one thing and then over here Gregson right yeah and then rough dining right there we got Starbucks Starbucks right there you want to get the fun and then founders we're doing one at founders later today and then down down there is the famed Dixon Street so we can go a little further out. We're a little worried about Wi-Fi issues but let's see we can get down there to Dixon Street and that's our entertainment district down here and you can't see it so well from right here but it is definitely down there Greek theater is right there so you're in the central part of campus right now basically and you see the Ozark mountains out that area now let's head inside and see Gibson. There you are I'm back on you Abby and show us the FOB system here for all your security needs. There you go FOB is on in all right excellent great so I'm going to come around here and show kind of this some of the detail of this main hall area and you stay right there and get you yeah so um oh yeah until people they can ask questions if they want yeah you guys are free to ask any questions that you want and if you see that you've got the option to leave little emoticons on the screen you can do that as well but all questions are welcome so ask away we have six people watching us right now just so you're aware hello everybody yeah hello everybody um so we're in the lobby area of Gibson hall and you can see it's got this nice little uh detailing on the floor you're gonna see a lot of interesting detail like uh hardwood floors that were recently done you know in the last few years and um what we've got our front desk here our front desk area and is there any way Ashley asked if there's any way we could look at a corner room do we have the corner room open or we have we have not one of the corner rooms we have one of the other rooms okay we might be able to get one unlocked for that for that particular reason thanks for the question Ashley we'll try to get that done if we can okay so let's go ahead and what go upstairs yeah so um tell us a little bit about this uh hall Abby so Gibson was originally called razorback oh right that's right we found that year though let's let's look at that real quick too it wasn't yeah and actually we we just this is a uh scrapbook that was found whenever they did some restoration in here and we won't go through the whole scrapbook but it's kind of cool it connects razorback hall the former name to what it is now which is of course Gibson and a fun fact that we just learned is that one of the articles that the student put in their scrapbook was that parking was a big issue back then the 67 and 68 year so I don't think that's changed much the more things change the more they say the same so yeah let's head upstairs and this is an all woman's uh hall right yes all women's multi-class so everyone from freshman to senior um according to our rest hall fact book there is about 40 percent um sophomores so mostly sophomore hall yeah mostly sophomores ages 19 but it is a multi-class I had friends that lived here their freshman year too okay and where are we going right now right now we'll see the kitchenette and study lounge area okay and so you will see right here we've got the kitchen yeah it's a very nice updated appliances sure and then we've got a study note over here got a well nice natural light picture study on it this hardwood floor is doing it for me I'm liking that yeah we were restored in the summer of 2015 is that correct I think so it's fairly recent yeah so I guess we could let me get a view here the pan this is the study study note area so yeah you can see right there it's kind of a nice little view got all the magazines here life station so Abby are you playing Pokemon go how many have you caught is that the right term okay okay oh I see I see there's a xbox system right here too as a matter of fact I was walking along the greenway this weekend and I saw a lot of a lot of just guys walking around with cell phones in front of them yeah they travel in clusters it was it seems like it hey Bailey sorry I'm not sure why you can't see anything right now but I'll we'll try to work on that if we can we've got five people currently watching right now um yeah so here is the kitchen area and let's see okay we'll move on sure was there anything else on the floor too that we want to check out okay yeah we actually we're gonna try to satisfy your your desire here and check out a corner room if we can stairs there are three floors here apparently okay so we can check out the corner room now we'll do measurements in the floor below but here is an example of a corner room the linens are here for as kids said linens are here for conferences so there's a bed and you know these furnitures kind of it's nice detail furniture I like that um yeah you bet anything else you want to see in here Ashley yeah yeah I'm happy to if you anything you want to see Douglas or actually we're happy to check it out there's apparently a mount right there for a tv so it's good enough we'll be doing measurements down here so we have a tape measure and I think a lot of these carry through okay great let's head on down see some more details about this hall should we use that one or you want to use this one you want to use that one okay all right so I'm going to show you a bathroom here in uh Gibson so you have a sense of it again that tile kind of a fun detail uh now of course these are women's bathrooms so they're not hoed um yeah I mean we're not going to like go literally into the too deep into the bathroom but just so you're aware of what the of what's going on here um we've got you know shower back there um obviously some stalls right there yeah let's see is there anything else about that okay and there are three or four bathrooms on each floor okay and as Kent said there are three or four different bathrooms on each floor so yep let's head down right there so Bailey I'm sorry you're having a technical issue is anybody else uh trying to see and can't see because we'll be sure we address that this is again our first tour so and our first time ever to use this so there's going to be some issues some trial and error now we will be posting this though online after it's done okay so we're going back towards the uh main area okay okay good okay thanks Sadie she reloaded the page and then she could see the video again okay so maybe that'll work for folks you can mention that third floor also has a lounge okay oh yeah so that that kitchen we looked at on second floor third floor also has a smaller well slightly smaller version of that it's a study room but no kitchen right it's the same size it's a study room without the kitchen okay no that's cool that's cool um all right well let's head on down what we're gonna oh we're gonna look at some of the the laundry and the mailboxes that's right so you'll be getting your mail here go ahead each person will be given a combination and you just do the combination your mail will be in there so that's really nice you can take that right from your dorm and then in here there is not an elevator in this room in this room okay yeah so third floor walk up yes okay so we've got laundry units here do you want to tell a little bit about the laundry alert that we're doing yeah we can tell them we have a new system coming in for laundry alert um and that's starting with you guys if you are a freshman and do you can you tell us a little bit about it too or should i go into detail on it i know very brief details um i don't know probably what i understand and it'll notify you when your laundry is done it'll text you or email you email and then you can also check and see which units are open yeah right exactly so so if we're looking at well there's the ice machine but if we're looking at what i don't know machine number five or whatever you can get a text message that says machine five is open if you want to or you can just check the digital dashboard and it tells you which ones are open and which ones aren't so we think that'll be a cool service for folks because then you can i don't know go to class and get a text on when your dryer's done yeah yeah i think i was trying to see if there was is there some detail there yeah um oh and there's a vending machine too down here just in case and recycling right there yeah all laundry is free it's covered by your fees so so you just come and use as much as you want scan here to report a problem if that happens okay so we're ready to go into a room i think that's what we're doing covered bathroom in here because it is an all women's residence hall okay so there's one co-ed bathroom i don't know if there's one on each floor but i know there's one for sure right here right so we just got a question in so we'll try to address it um really asked can the window uh can the window could you use a tension rod for curtains in the window let's go find out let's go find out or that way oh yeah no worries and you lived again in which halls i lived in yokem yokem yes that's right okay but you're working with us because you're a good broadcast journalist major it looks like all tension rod there if it's skinny enough see but there's come i'm sure that you could fit a tension rod yeah right i would think so so we're in the room right now that we're gonna be kind of measuring and looking at we're in room 142 in gipson hall and uh let's just let's just go on a full sweep start here on the left so we have thermostat there and then a nice closet with the door actually yeah i don't get that very often so you get a lot of the historic details of uh this yeah go on up there let's see what's up there maybe maybe can you get up there i'm thinking okay not for our entrance all right but yeah you got you know full and there are two of these in here so i'm looking at the one that belongs to this bed and this desk um let's see if there's anything else in there okay yep uh well this okay so yeah apparently you can get out there that's extra storage if you want it i can see how that would be pretty useful um as well as the closet so um then we have this dresser which is i guess a is it shared or yes okay so they kind of mirror each other yeah we've got all the drawers and everything like that does anybody have any questions about the hallway room and how it's put together i want to poke into any corner you want me to poke into so there's one of the beds yep so the sink do we show them the sink why do we show them the sink so sink in the room is not a bad thing at all again our beautiful hardwood floors that we have so let's see let's um if people aren't necessarily asking for measurements then maybe we'll just read i think we have some measurements already put in there yeah um let's see if there's anything oh well i guess this is kind of interesting detail so yeah you can put anything you want on that shelf any any question oh let's see douglas asked is there campus wi-fi available in the rooms in this building we were told we we may need our own wireless router in this building well they did and i think wi-fi extends to every residence hall now yeah douglas let me get a more um technical answer for you and i will post it on this event we'll try to make sure that we get you the exact right answer because i don't want to misspeak but i do know that we've done some recent upgrades let me get you on there some recent upgrades on uh our wi-fi so thanks for asking that question are there any other questions before we just start reading some measurements which are available at housing.uark.edu then you click on campus communities you're welcome douglas and then you'll see um you'll see all of our residence halls about midway down the page you're going to see a lot of measurements um if you need more detailed measurements than that now is really the time to ask for those but we can give them to you we'll we'll kind of what are some of the details we have there so long twins okay what is extra our twin is 36 by 80 most of ours are 36 by 80 there's a few exceptions but yeah um across all of our residence halls so yeah what else um let's see so then i've got two desks okay and two side tables that come with that um the desk itself is 48 by 24 by 30 okay and that's length by width by height okay okay okay okay does the mirror do we have some dimensions for the mirror yeah the mirror 32 by 40 okay nice to know the bookshelf so it's 71 inches across 71 nine inches deep nine inches deep okay do we have the height element it doesn't say the height okay let's measure it sure why not that's uh would someone be hope putting stuff on there i guess 40 inches okay from the top shelf to the desk about 40 inches okay what other dimensions i know a lot of people ask about lofting the beds and that sort of thing yeah looks like these are loftable well let's measure it because i think that would be actually a useful calculation to that yeah so let's well actually let's go from where the pen is let's get both so how tall is the uh thing itself okay 36 inches 36 inches from the from the top pin the highest point you can raise it is about 34 inches so 34 inches um now if we measure the bottom of this because you could only put stuff in from there well oh that's okay and i was a whole mini fridge wow okay that's a thing so yes are there any other room measurements that um yeah um i mean if we can get it easily we don't i don't want anyone breaking their neck let's see it's not on the first show not on the first show yeah we got it the windows are 82.5 and width and 78 inches tall so okay so 78 tall 82 wide yeah okay no yes that's right okay well i'm not not getting that question but 53 by 29 by 80 is the whole size of the closet so it's 53 long okay i forgot my numbers here 53 long 29 feet and 80 tall okay okay these chairs come apart i'm not exactly sure they do come apart wait show me this trick and someone's served this to me before remember how to do it they because like rocking chairs right we can make this happen there you go done look at that why don't you why don't you rock us out okay you know why i'm rocking us out of this tour there you go so um i think i think that concludes what we formerly wanted to cover in our uh in our tour of Gibson Hall we're doing another another one at two out of founders um do i have any questions before we finish up you're gonna rock us out abby rock us out we'll fix it we'll fix it in an editorial it's just a puzzle yeah it is a puzzle that part of school okay wow it is fancy furniture okay everybody well thank you for joining us for the very first one uh we're learning as we go and uh thank you very much