 Good afternoon. Welcome to our UR-Con live tour of Humphries Hall. My name is Courtney Soulsby. I'm a student here at the University of Arkansas. I'm about to start my sophomore year as a nursing major. I'm super excited. I'm actually from Fayetteville, so feel free to ask any questions. We'd be more than happy to answer them. You can just hit the comment button while the video is going on and afterwards, and we'll be sure to answer whatever you guys would like. I'll do my best to read them out and Courtney will answer them for you. Yes. And we're glad to have you join us. Yeah. So we're right now on the outside of Humphries. Before we go in, I just want to point out how great of a location this really is to be in. Over here you can see this is Brough Dining Hall, which is a great dining hall that's open basically the whole day. So whenever you have a gap in your schedule, it's a great place for you to go eat. Tons of options. I love Brough. We have three dining halls on campus, Brough, Humphryt, and then on the north end of campus, we have Fulbright Dining, which is located sort of the Northwest Quad. Yes, for sure. Do I get some ice cream while you're in there? Because it's fantastic. It's also a really great location because if you don't know what Club Red is, it's this little convenience store that we have throughout campus. There's someone right around the corner. It's right under breath. It has snacks and drinks and scantrons for your tests, which you're going to need throughout the year. So that's a really great place to go to get that stuff. We also have Slim Chickens is right over here in the bottom of Founders, as well as where the Wild Greens are in Rocket Taco. You can meal trade at all of those places at night. So this is a really good spot to be in for food. As far as classes go, the Walton Business College is literally right there. It's like a 30 second walk from here. Campbell is also right over here. And yeah, over here we have Gregson, which is a good building to be close to because they have Class Plus in the bottom in the basement of Gregson, which is a place where you can go to get any resources that can help you with academic stuff. Gregson is one of those halls that a lot of upperclassmen live in because their second year they're like, oh, I want to live right next to the central part of campus. Yeah. It's a good one for that. Yes. This is a really great spot to be in on campus. Stadium's right over there. So you're kind of right in the middle of all of it. It's a really good view once you get inside. Nice. We'll head inside to Humphreys. We've got nine people watching. Feel free to tell us where you're from. We'd love to say hello to you as you follow along with us. Oh, let's get the fob going. Here you go. We're going to have a really cool security system. Just everyone that wants us to really want to follow them is fobby fobby. We're going to take those keys. Outside the area that we were in. Right. And there's another one on this side. That was the north side on the south side of the building now. It's not cold outside. This is a really good spot to hang out. You could have picnics or Let me give an overview of it. There's Yoko right there. And all it's ten floors of glory. This is where you will be parking when you come to move in. I'll show that off. There's your parking lot area. Fantastic. So two outside areas. North and on the south side of the building. It's always nice to have. You might not be introducing yourself to everybody. Yes. Hi. My name is Grace Karpassi. I'm the coordinator of Humphreys Hall. So you'll see me around all the time. I'm so excited to have you guys here. You're also going to see fun fact. We have a Humphreys mascot. And her name is Ella. And she's an adorable lab mix. And she loves people. So she'll be very excited to see you guys too. Nice. Come meet Ella when you arrive. Yes, absolutely. Now, did you submit a CRE as you may have? No, a CRE. That's coordinator for residents education. So basically what I'm here for is to advocate and support all of you guys in Humphreys Hall. Build you guys up as a community. Help you with academic success and personal development and help you guys experience your first year here at the University of Arkansas. Fantastic. Thank you. Will you join us as we take our tour? Yes, absolutely. Thank you. Please feel free to chime in if anything. All right. So here we are in the lobby. So whenever you get packages, this is where you will come pick them up at this desk. They will send you an email actually. If you have a package come in. All the green. There's a lot of plants on that desk. I like it. I like it. Nice touch. I'll show you guys where you will pick up mail. It's not a package. So here's the mailboxes. You will also get an email telling me which mailbox is yours and the code to access them. All right. I think there's two banks of mailboxes. Is that right? I'm sorry? Is there's one bank of mailboxes here and then there's another one in there? Yes. So this one is set for Humphreys Hall and then the one in the great room, which is on the east side of the building, is actually set for Founders Hall. So anyone that's in a Founders Residence Hall, which is northeast of our building, you'll come over here and pick up packages and all of your mail. Fantastic. Thanks for explaining that. So we'll head on down and look at some more of the stuff on the first floor. Oh, in your office? Yes. Welcome to my office. So feel free to stop by anytime. I always have you. Get your little door in there if you don't mind. Yes. All of my decorations. Okay. Nice. Nice. Feel free to stop by anytime. I always have coffee, tea, snacks, and sometimes Ella's there, so have a sneak peek with her. Mackenzie asks, do you know when we are supposed to find out about parking? I'm assuming that's going to be resident reserve parking or opportunities to be in the parking deck. Those should be coming up very soon. Yes. Very soon. And they should send you emails with that information as well. So what are we looking at here? This is normally a spot for you to study. They're easy for storage right now, but by the time you guys get here, it'll be set up to where you can come in. You can use this whiteboard. You could study in here with your friends, do homework, just however you'd like to use it. All kinds of study space. Yeah. There's another good spot over here. It's great to study in. It's a good space to hang out. If you want to, there's another whiteboard that you can use. Those really come in handy once you start sending in groups. Sure. We actually have some stuff going on right there. It looks like a elasticity. Yeah. And maybe some science. I think there's science happening. A lot of students come in here for study groups that they have from their floors, or they also use this space for recreational meetings. So it could be anything from Bible studies or a registered student organization that you're part of. You guys can use this space to meet as well. Sure. Lots of community spaces for them to kind of meet even in small groups, not just the big, great room spaces that we're going to look at. Absolutely. Fantastic. Great. Well, in fact, is that our next stop on the tour? Is the big room in here? So those of you who are watching, can you tell us where you're from? We'd love to know. We're always interested to see where people are from who are coming to live in the halls this August. That's a big chalkboard. Oh, yeah. And typically during the year, we'll post upcoming events on this shockboard to your left or to this shockboard to your right. We'll have like a monthly calendar and it'll show you what intervals we have going on with Humphreys Hall, any type of programs, event activities that we're affiliated with. You'll always see on these two boards. Nice. Hey, Bob from Arlington, Texas. Glad to have you. Mackenzie from Dallas, Texas. Glad you're going to be joining us. All right. I'll hold the door. Let you go in first. Thank you. It's a big, big space in TV today. They're currently back to the floors, but normally all of this furniture is right out here. So it's a great place to hang out. You can watch TV because we were frozen too long. Surely. Let's catch up with you here. That's a big space. Voice is caring. Make TV right there. It looks like. It's an 8-H TV. Also, that's where the founders' mailboxes are right here. Just to say a sneak peek you have. Sure. All of the students have been here to play games. So what our hall is known for is we have a lot of international students, as well as the music living learning community and the English and literature living learning community. And so a lot of times they'll come down here as a group and play games and invite all the other hall members to come by. So typically this room is packed. Very social. That's awesome. Barb says, she's from McKinney, Texas. Her son is living in Palmford. No tour this year. I get it. Yeah. Check out our 16 tour and our 17 tour. And we'll be back online and do a one and of course 19. Raphael is from Brazil. He lived here in 2014. Yes. Fantastic. Glad to have you tune in, Raphael. All right. Any other things to point out in this gigantic space? Yes. So related behind the stack of furniture that'll be fixed before you move in is our famous piano. We have a lot of musicians in here and even if you aren't a musician, we have a lot of great creative opportunity to come in here and practice your instruments as well. We also have a foosball table, a ping pong table, and a pool table over there. In any of the equipment that you'd like to reserve or rent out, you can actually go back to the front desk and just use your student ID and you can swipe it and trade it and you'll be able to get all the equipment for games. And do you have board games as well? Yes. We have a lot of board games. We have movies to rent as well. And all the information will be on HogSync, which if you haven't been introduced to HogSync, that's where you're going to find a lot of your social events, how to get invested, and how to get involved on campus. So be sure to stay connected on HogSync. Join us on the Humphreys Hall, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and also on HogSync. That's where you'll be able to find most of our events and how to reserve all this equipment and whatnot. Very good. Okay, well, let's continue to take our tour of Humphreys Hall. There's, I guess, a wall of trophies there from the past floor east of the hall. Yeah, it's a fun color scheme. I like it a lot too. So we're about to go down to the basement area, I think. That's a nice one. LaDrew 101. Never's too soon to learn how, right? Right. That's right. Okay. Well, we go on drillers. Is this thing? There you go. Lead us into there. So we're going to show LaDrew. Sure, sure. Nice machine that you can all use from every line. The University of Arkansas has this really cool system called LaDrew Alert. If you see these scan here stickers that are on every machine, you can use those. We have apps, LaDrew Alert apps, which tell you when machines are open so you don't have to come down here and check. They also tell you if you just put in which machine you're using, it will let you know when your clothes are finished. So you also want to sit down here and wait for them. So it's really convenient. It's a really great system. Definitely use it so you don't have to sit down here and wait for your laundry. And what do you use when you were doing your laundry? You did it once a week. Use pods. Use powders. Time pods are easy. I would definitely recommend them. Just throw a couple in there. Sure, sure. Excellent. And I'm down here and I think there's some vending over here to the right. Right in the classroom and all that. Sure. This is a good spot for recycling. Right. We'll point out that recycling space too. So vending, maybe there's vending in every hall really. Yeah. Probably gets heavily used and we now accept Apple Pay so you can use your washes and phones to pay if you wish to. And then we have these water stations in every building which are great because this tells you how many water bottles we've saved. Almost $6,000. There is a water bottle filling station on every floor in Humphreys. So you can just, it's right in the middle of your lobby, which we'll probably see in this. Sure. And then the recycling itself, this is the main recycling center, is that right? Yes. That's right. So would they be bringing their stuff down here? Yes. Typically, unless it is trash, we do have trash shoots that you'll just take your personal trash into and just drop it down and then, but if you have plastic, newspaper, regular paper, aluminum, or cardboard, you can bring it down here and we'll recycle it for you. Okay. Fantastic. And in this space right here, you were saying is... This is the Humphreys classroom. Typically it's used with the living learning communities and if you don't know what a living learning community is, it's a common ground space where students actually choose to live in a hall where other students are similar to them have same majors or same commonalities and then they get to participate in extracurricular activities with those academic departments. So like I said before, the music LLC is in here and they typically use a lot of the space for their own programming and typically during the school year, we just leave this space open and if anyone wants to come down here and study or do small study groups, they also do that as well. Great. That's a theme that I keep hearing again. There's lots of community space in this room. Yes, absolutely. Humphreys is well known as just a really tight-knit group every single year. Every single year people come back and back and again and they're like, oh, I love Humphreys Hall. I always felt connected which is my own pride and joy of living here as well is that I really enjoy getting to be so connected with the students and typically that happens because of you all leaving your door open, trying new things and just getting to know one another, which is the best part about college. So great advice. So we'll head upstairs in or is there anything else on this floor? Nope, that's pretty much it. Okay, we're going to head to the top of the building. Hey Lou, you're right, Pomfret is ginormous. It is a ginormous building and there's really three wings to it, so it's pretty big space. We're giving our life to her. And we get to wait on the elevator, which is something that never happens every now and then in this building. It's better than taking the stairs all the time. Can you imagine a nine-story walk-up? Yeah, sometimes when we get in the elevator and go up we lose connection a little bit, so just be aware that may happen. You're from Fayetteville, you said. Yes. What is like the top three things you have to do in Fayetteville? Drive in movie theater, for sure. Personally, that's my favorite. You can't say you live in Fayetteville, but you're in Fayetteville. And Mount Sequoia. Do you hike up Mount Sequoia or do you just drive up there? I drive up there. I like to bring food and have picnics a lot. That's really fun. I still have to look out because it's a good stress relief burn. It's a great view. Wonderful. So here we are on the ninth floor, the top of the building. Here's the study room. There's one of these on every floor. We're just going to show off this space in here. It's a great place to hang out and study. And you get a good view out of here, out of there. I had a question from Ken Siebel, which is the closest airport to the university or in Fayetteville. And I would say that generally, XNA is the, the Northwest Arkansas Airport is the main airport, though occasionally people will use Drake if they're flying in like a personal aircraft. But generally XNA, although I know people use the Joplin Airport a little bit. I would typically say most of our international students or students that are looking for a cheaper flight use the Tulsa Airport, which is about an hour and a half to two hours away. Typically you're going to find your most low price and more international flights and easier connections from Tulsa. And then sometimes XNA as well, but those are going to be a little bit more high cost. And it's about an hour and a half from here, Tulsa roughly. And here's another one of our water filling stations. Great, great. Ready to go peek into a bathroom, I think. Yes. And you can see they're putting out, there's air filters here. They're changing out the air filters. We're getting ready for you to come. As you can see, there's two stalls over here and two showers inside of here. Now there are, I believe, from wrong here, there are four bathrooms like this on each floor. Yes, that is correct. So each little wing of Humphreys, so there's four bathrooms and each is located in the wing of Humphreys. And so that's because this side of Humphreys will typically be a male or female space and those students will use this space. And then on the other side, there's going to be another bathroom that is going to be gender specific to those students. So that's how we make floors co-ed to give them bathroom spaces that are based on gender. Yes. Chris asks, does Pomfret have the water filling stations too? It does. We have them all around. So in here I think are the stalls for the bathroom. You've seen one, you've seen them all, no reason to go in there. But we'll check out maybe the showers. Mackenzie asks, how crowded do the showers get in the morning around here? And where were you? I wasn't reading. Okay. But I never really heard anyone complain about showers not being available to them. So I lived in Pomfret a while, a long time ago. And as you remember, there are six rooms to a bathroom. And so you're going to have a different schedule than a lot of your residents and your in your community. And so it's going to be dependent upon their schedules. We really never have a problem. And you really do get to know people a lot better, because if you are on the same schedule, you're going to be brushing your teeth with those people and changing and doing all those things. And so there's more of a community vibe with that. And you get to know your friend's schedules on your floor. So you're like, Oh, well, I know that, you know, Sarah isn't is going to be sharing. So I'm not going to go in there because I'm going to wait for my turn. So there has, there is a system typically that takes place that you guys decide on. So and you know, I've only been in housing for about three or four years. One of the things I've heard and I've observed is that in the halls where you have a community bathroom like this, where people just, you know, share the bathroom even a small kid, they really get to know each other. Obviously, it's nice to have a bathroom in your in your suite. And we do offer those kind of options. But there's something to be said for, you know, seeing someone every day in the bathroom and what's going on. One of the things that a lot of students forget about is that these bathrooms get cleaned twice a day every day. In the suites, you're on your own, you got to clean up your mess. So that's something that a lot of our students really like is that they can come in here to a clean restroom and not really have to worry about purchasing more toilet paper or running out of paper towels or anything like that. It's already provided for them. So that is a perk in a lot of students first year experience away from home. Question we got before was about hand sanitizers. And what we do offer is soap. But I don't think we offer like per cell hand sanitizers. We don't, that's not something that we offer. There is actually dispensers in the lobby for hand sanitizer, but they're not in every restroom that's just soap. And like she said, they provide paper towels and toilet paper. So. Right. Well, let's go check out a residence hall room. See what it's like to live here. It's a really great view out this window. Yeah. What do we got here? Here's a bigger one. Here's the stadium. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's a really good look. And you all see that? I hope so. There's the stadium right there. And then just the, it was our mountains. Gentle green, beautiful mountains out there. Hills kinda. We're going to head into room 922. Okay. So each room's going to have two beds, two desks, two sets of drawers, and bookshelves. And then of course you have your two sets of drawers right here. Each have your own closet. This is a good example of a lofted bed. So when you move in, your bed's going to be more set up like this one. Yeah, like this one. Show them that one. And if you would like to get it lofted, you can just send in a request online and Housing will do that for you. You can also do it yourself. We request bringing your rubber mallet. Makes it easier to say what to do it. But yeah, this is how high up it can go. There's a few more notches actually. That's a note that came in, someone submitted a request through housing.ur.edu forward slash fix it. And they asked that it was lofted. So this piece of paper says, hey, we lofted it for you. Yeah. We can honor those. Fourscare first come first serve, but get it in about July 30th and we should be able to really get it done for you. Yeah. So this is a good option if you, of course, need more storage. Some people put little couches over here or beanbag chairs, futons. I see all kinds of different configurations on that. Yeah, it's a great, great way to make use of your space, I would say. Of course, there's a lot of space in here. Anyways, you have these cabinets above which you can store things in. And you can also bring, you know, little storage boxes and such of your own. Put them in the top of your closet or, you know, get plastic doors and put them out of your bed. There's a lot of options. Sure. Bob asked, can you point out the electrical outlet and outlets, really, because we have several, and mention the typical appliances that residents have. So let's start with the outlets. I just probably would about There's two here, two down there. That's eight. And there's more right here. So wait, there's two, four, six, eight, ten. At least ten. I think that's. And as long as, is that pretty standard? Okay. And as long as you bring something with a circuit breaker and you don't try to put power strips on top of power strips, we're totally fine with you using something like that. But we want you to protect your electrical equipment. So get one with a a circuit breaker, a surge protector, please. If you guys want to know any measurements, feel free to ask us. I'm just going to go ahead and let you guys know each bed is about 36 inches wide. It's about 75 inches long. So 36 by 75 on that one. Can we measure this one? Is it possible to And then we have all those measurements. We've got a couple questions coming in. 36 as well. Okay. And then would you mind holding this on me? Absolutely. This one's also going to be about 75. Okay, okay. So this is one of the halls where they're still mostly around 75. You can always check movein.ur.edu and under getting ready to arrive, there's the mattresses by size by hall. And that can help you on that is accurate. Bob, it also asks about the typical appliances that residents have. What did you have? You know, I had a mini fridge and a microwave and a coffee machine. Or a curing. Yeah, curing. Curings are awesome. They're easy. That's great. If you like coffee or need caffeine, I'll be studying. We have a service where we can rent to you refrigerators, I think, and some other items. Yeah, refrigerator and a microwave are sold together and you can split the cost between you and your roommate. And they'll move it up here for you and then they'll take it away for you. So that's a lot of the convenience part of it. Other appliances that I've seen are kind of like what she said with everything else. Probably a lot of our guys bring Xboxes, game consoles, TVs. I've seen Alexa's or I, one of those things called Google Homes. We definitely have some of those Roku's, different appliances like that. What else? Desktops. We see more laptops nowadays, but some desktops. Sure. Jeanette asks, what size are typically the mattresses? We went over that one. Angela asked, do you need to bring a curtain for your closets? And I think, yes. Tension rod is our recommended method for mounting those things because it doesn't do any damage to the wooden frame there. So what do we have there as a width? It's about 46 and a half. Okay. So if you're getting a tension rod, just keep that in mind. Yeah, 46 and a half. So anything that goes from 30 to 50 would work in that space. A lot of times we have students who coordinate with their roommate about the color of curtain they would like and the length. Do we have a length measure maybe? Yeah, we can do that. We can do from, how about the, let's see, we've done a couple of them. Let's do the bottom of the top shelf. Absolutely. That is going to be about 76 inches. Okay. Okay. So 76 inches from the bottom there. I think when we measured it from the top there were about 20 more. Yeah, I think it's about 90, 91. It seems about right. Mackenzie asked, can we get measurements of the closets, shelves above? Yeah, we did some shelves above. Yeah, how much is that? Sure, nine inches in the shelf in that space between. Just about 90, 91. And then mirror area, which I guess, yeah, sure. It's going to be about 88 inches. And then the top, good measure from the lift, yeah. 35. 35. Okay. Let's see if there are any other requests there. And then between for two beds on a rug. So if you want to put a rug in here, kind of space you have to work with. Yeah, so most students do it from between the bed spaces, which is about 81 inches. And then from the vanity to the desk, which is going to be about 89. Okay, 81 by 89. Is that kind of what we saw there? Yes. Okay, great. What was that? They also have these fun chairs that come out. They turn into gaming chairs, which there's a lever behind the chair and you just pull it apart and it comes off. And it turns into a chair and then also a table that can is swivel. Very cool. That's pretty fun. Yeah, that's a nice little thing. And I don't think it's something you would just know automatically. Someone has to show you. Figure that out. Chris has the shelf heights on the over the desk cabinet. 10 inches? Yes, on the bottom. And then the top one is 12. 10 and 12 on height. Right. And then watch, I think one link would take us the whole way. Yeah, 40. 40. Okay, great. Thank you. Welcome, Chris. Kenzie asks, how do people hang the curtains over the closet? Command strips, you're welcome to use command strips. Like you can use them, you could fill your whole room with command strips. We're comfortable with that because they don't do any damage to any of the existing stuff. I think tension rods are probably a easier method to get there. But it's possible that command strips would get you there just as well. I'm not as familiar with that method. Please use it if you'd like to. Julian asks, how high is the third wooden bar on the bed from the ground for lofting with a smiley face? Thank you for the smiley face. 32. 32. And it looks like it would connect, you know, on those two right there. So if you were to loft it there, you would say third bar and then you'd probably know what you meant. Okay. Got a couple more questions coming in. Okay. All right. I think actually that bulls the simp. That gives us most of the questions. Are there anything else anyone would like to know as long as we're here in this room and eager to measure for you? Courtney has been nice enough to answer some questions for us after we go offline. So she'll be there and we'll continue this thread if more questions come in. Julian asks, also how high is the desk between the beds to the bottom of the shelves? He's thinking about putting, let's see, a lamp under the overhang shelf. So I think we're talking about a lamp that would go on the desk side. Yeah. On the desk here, but below that. So just for your information, we do have lights right here. Oh, yeah. Let's see. Okay. So there is already some lighting. But we can measure the. Yeah. Yeah. We'll measure it, but you do also have the ability to use the light that's already built in. It's 10 inches from the bottom to the top. So you would need a 10 inch lamp to fit it in there. Stacey asks, which bed is A and which bed is B? Stacey, the way we do A and B beds is they are not an actual physical bed. There are two positions within the room. Essentially the roommates can agree to which one will be A and which one will be B. Chris asks about AC and heat controls and believe, yeah. Located right here. They're going to differ depending on what room you're in, but you will have the same console and you can adjust it based on the heating and cooling. We do have a central AC system. So in the summer, we're going to run on AC in the winter. We're going to run on heat. And so sometimes there will be a little bit delay where it might be a little bit too warm or might be a little bit too cool for a couple of days just because our whole system is rebooting. But generally you have from 65 degrees to 75 degree control in your room. So it's unseasonable days in March and in November. You're probably going to be a little less than comfortable as we make our decision because we have to, as Grace was saying, we turn the system all the way across. It takes a few days for it to cool down to move into the next mode. But during the time that it's cool, you have a lot of control and during the time that it's hot, you have a lot of control on those. So let's see what was the website for loft requests. It was housing.uart.edu forward slash fix it. All of our maintenance requests, and this is a maintenance request, go through that system. We'll try to link that in the show notes, so to speak. Let's see. Jeanette asked, if you don't loft your bed all the way, will you have that bar? And I'm trying to remember how that, the bar right here. Yes, so you are always going to have this bar. What it is called is a stabilizer bar. And that's because we have different sort of systems of like, if you see this is a connection. And so it's meant to stabilize your bar, your bed, when getting on and off of your bed. So it doesn't wiggle too much. So that's something that's really on every single bed. It's for your own safety. Okay. Hey, McKenzie, Wu Pig Suey back to you. We're happy to help you. It's our pleasure. We're so excited you're coming. Do you have any, before we sign off, do you have any final words to say to our incoming Humphreyites? Or what's it, is it Humphreys? I've never said it like that, but I am very excited that all of you are going to be here. We really can't wait to have you guys. We have a ton of events. Our resident assistants are excited for you guys. They're going to go through and they're going to get trained and ready. And like I said before, so many events, so many ways to get involved and so many ways to get you guys successful academically and personally. Thank you very much. And uh, sign us off there. Yeah, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Check our calendar to see which tours we're going to give you next. And we're really excited for all of you next year.