 Hello, my name is Joey Gimenden. I'm here with y'all today to do a tour of Founders Hall. I'm the CRE which is the coordinator for residents education over Founders Hall. What the CRE means is I oversee the residence hall. I supervise the RAs. I supervise the lead hogs in the building and I put on fun programs and educational programs for the students in the hall. They have issues going on in the hall. They'll come talk to me if they can't get resolved by the RA and I deal with student conduct as well in the building. This would be my third year here at the University of Arkansas. And so like I said, I'm going to show y'all the outside what's surrounded by Founders Hall so you have a better idea of the geographical location of the building. We're here in I guess central campus, right? This is the central part of the campus, yeah. So over here we have the Greek Theater. A lot of students will come out here and study and take their acts and break during the day. It's also where our bed day location is typically held at for the sororities. Over here is Kimple Hall. Kimple Hall is our communication building. It actually has, you can't see it right now, but it actually has our on-campus TV news station in there as well. Over there down that way is going to be our Walton Business College. So which is really nice because we have a lot of business students located in Founders Hall. So if you have any intro business courses, just show me right down the street from you. We have a couple people tuning in already Joey. So if you'd like to, we'd love to hear where you're from and where you're going to be visiting the University from when you arrive this fall. Yeah, so glad y'all here to join us. Over here is going to be some of our food locations that you'll have access to right next door and Founders. They're actually connected to Founders. You'll have to walk outside and to access them, but some of the restaurants right over here is our local Slim Chickens. You got Slim Chickens? Chicken. They have really good chicken. I really like them. I think they're better than Canes. I think they're better than Chick-fil-A, all those places. Strong opinions, yeah. Strong opinions. I really like it. So but you can use your meal plan at Slim's. We also have the Wild Greens and a sushi place as well that just opened up last year. Right next to us is a Starbucks and we also have a Quiznose. And you can use your student meal plans at all these places. And then we have Brough, one of our three main dining halls, and they actually went through a renovation of it last year as well. And they have really good food in there. I really enjoy. I use my meal plan as a professional staff member all the time over there as well. So yeah, perfect, perfect. And two halls behind us, I guess too. My point goes out. Yeah, so we have four neighboring residence halls. We have Gregson over there. We have Gibson. And then behind founders is going to be Humphries and Yokum. So these two buildings over here are upper classmen and the two buildings behind us, Yokum and Humphries are some freshman dormitories as well. And then also the Union's not too far away as well, which is just right down that road right there. So that's really awesome. You have walking distances within the Union as well. You don't have to go to a giant hill to get there. All right. Should we head inside? Of course. Let's do it. And Joey, I think you mentioned Walton Business College. And I guess we can get a good view of it here. Of course. You wouldn't mind pointing it out. Yeah. So it's just going to be right there. And so founders, we share the business LLC, which is the Living Learning Community. It's located on our third floor, on the co-ed floor. We share that business LLC with the Humphries Hall, which is right next door as well. Awesome. Yeah. And where are you from, Joey? I'm originally from Georgia. I lived there my entire life. I got my bachelor's and my master's down at two different universities down there. And then my first professional job, I came out here about three years ago and started working as a coordinator out here. I really love Northwest Arkansas. It's a great area. Unlike Atlanta, where I'm originally from at that part of Georgia, doesn't compare. I really enjoy it out here. Great. I really do. So the first door in here, we like it there, yeah. So to gain access into our residence halls, we have a security measure for so only residents of that building can actually gain access to it by using a fob. So you'll be issued a fob along with your keys when you move into campus. And so what you're going to do is you're just going to place it against it. The doors get a little locked and there'll be a lock for a couple seconds for you to open it up and walk right through. So welcome to Founders Hall. We have a guest with us today, which is Eric Peltier. He was a former Siri of this building the last two years before this. Last two years, yeah. Yeah, so. Come together there. You might introduce yourself to us. Yeah, I'm Eric Peltier. I am the coordinator for residence education over in the Northwest Quad now. I was here for the last two years. And before actually that, I was actually at CRE over in Holkman Futral too. So a veteran of the Founders experience. Excellent, excellent. Will you come along with us as we do? Thank you. So one of the first things we're going to show you is the community kitchen that we have here in Founders. So we can walk down in here. So we have a little, we got rid of the couple tables just for social distancing policy this year. But we have a couple tables and chairs for students that they want to sit down at. We have an island for them to use and cook at. We have a full-function fridge, microwave, oven, stove, kitchen sink, all those good stuff. And so if you use the community fridges, I definitely recommend that you label any items that you're going to put in there. But yeah, a lot of students will come down here and cook and make some meals and stuff like that down here. If they don't want to go to the dining hall, they just want to practice cooking or make their own home meal. What is a common thing that's cooked here, Eric? Do you know? I mean all sorts of things. Last year we had a lot of cookies. Cookies were baked a lot. Anything really sweets were baked for a lot. We had some queso. Queso was a big last year too for our building. So, but definitely sweets, cookies, brownies, things like that. Cheese dipping cookies. All right. Great. So right here is going to be our front desk for Founders Hall. An RA or a student worker will be working this desk on weekdays from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. And then we'll have, they'll also be working the weekends from noon to midnight. So unlike other halls, you don't get your front desk inside, you don't get your mail and all that stuff at Founders. You actually go over to Humphreys, which is located just behind us. And so you'll get your mail there. You can do so during, they'll have the little extended package hours, some anywhere between 8 a.m. until about 8 p.m. depending on the weekday or weekend. But you can go over there. You'll have a mailbox located for you over there. And you can have packages and anything like that delivered. If you go to our housing website, you'll go look at Humphreys for the location, the address. You'll see that you should be able to ship any packages and stuff like that to Humphreys. And all the Founders residents have access to that first floor of Humphreys. So you can key in, key out and check your email and everything. Notice that there's a new plexiglass there. Yes. That would be a COVID-19 precaution. Yes. Just to make sure our students are safe and when you come over and interact with them and stuff like that. So we'll be taking a lot of measures to make sure our students are safe inside the residence halls. We'll have cleaning crew going through the buildings during the morning and the night crew to sanitize and clean, to make sure our residents are safe during the building. Yeah. And so normally during the school year, maybe we'll open up in the spring, but we do have a lot of stuff that supplies that residents can check out. We're going to limit that to during the fall, just for obviously safety concerns. But if you want to end the spring and stuff like that, hopefully you can rent out some supplies out of the closet there, like pink fun supplies, cooking supplies, all this good stuff, board games, whatnot. And then so we have this is on a living lobby area or lounge on the first floor. We have a giant TV over here that the students can use, hook up, play their consoles, watch some TV, some cable, anything like that. And then we have several other TVs on the floors. If they're not located in the lobby area, just down the hallways, that's actually where we do our media and advertisements for stuff. We don't really do any flyers or anything like that at the building. But typically if there's any news or anything that you need to know, you'll see it on the TV screens down the hallway. Yeah. One of our halls that uses digital signage, as opposed to paper signage. We have a ping pong table located in our building. We do recommend that you bring your own supplies for the ping pong this year just for safety concerns. So yeah, perfect. Nice big lobby area. Yes, it's great. Over here we have a water fountain. We have one of these on each floor. We have a little bottle for you all to use so that way you don't have to use a bottle blotter. And you go in there and fill it up. We've actually saved over 54,000 bottles of water just by using that. So and like I said, it's located on one of each floor. Yeah. Joey, I noticed there's tape on there. Yeah. That would say, hey, don't put your mouth on that. Don't put your mouth on that. So yeah, just use the bottle if you can please. All right. And so over here is where our laundry room facility is. We have three, five washers and eight dryers located in here. We also have a laundry app that they can use. You want to tell them about the laundry app? Yeah, if you go under your iPhone and or Android phone, you can get it or you can scan there. It's super great. It'll let you know when the dryer is in use, when it's not in use. I don't know if the feature is still on there, but there used to be a feature about times. Like it usually shows an average of like Saturdays in the morning. It's super busy, but Wednesdays afternoon is super calm. So come get your thing. So it's on there. Absolutely great. It also allows for you to do if the machine breaks or something like that, you can scan and send the work order right straight to the company. And you can find out more at housing.uark.edu forward slash laundry. Yeah. And I think it also tells you if there's any open or if they're already in use as well. Yeah, it gives you all that. Like if for sure it tells you like which machines are open, which machines are not open and stuff like that. And even I think you can even track it so that you know, if you put it in like washer three, it'll tell you that you've got 20 minutes left or 15 minutes left or whatever. And it'll tell you even how long someone else's does have. Like so if you come down here and all of them are full, it's like, well, I got this machine may open up in about five minutes. And we definitely recommend you all use the pods rather than a detergent. In fact, that just a little cleaner and easier to use. We also have the vending machines and an ice maker over here as well on the first floor. They're empty right now, but they'll be filled when they get here, oh boy. So, and this is the only part of the building where we have vending machines and ice maker and washing and laundry. So it's just located in the first floor. First floor only. Okay, good to know. Yeah. Over here is where my office is located. I work from nine to five p.m. every day. Mine's lunch break, obviously. You can find me in broth, probably Slim's over there during those times. But during the weekday, if a student ever needs to come talk to me and wants to chat or if they have a problem, or anything, I can really help with them. I thought that they can come down to my office and chat. I also live in the hall, so easy access. I'll be in and out and here for a residence and everything. Well, down here is where our conference room is located. So if you need to kind of like a private space to study or anything like that with some friends, or really anything, I don't know what else did you all use this space for Eric the last couple of years. It's the only enclosed like walled study space we have in the building. So a lot of study groups and stuff like that. They would have, sometimes we'd have game nights in here. Like there was a group of students for a couple weeks that were doing, or not a couple weeks, but for part of the semester that we're doing like D&D games and stuff like that. So it's really able to use things, but it is also the only sort of closed private space. So if you want to do a study group and stuff like that, or we actually had students who would take tests and things like that in here too. Is it freely available or do you need to rent it? For me, and for me when I even had it, like as long as it was open, it was fine. But we do have it reserved for various meetings and stuff like that. So if someone wants to reserve it, that's totally fine. There's actually a Hoxing form. So if they know they want, for sure they have a time in the specific day they want to use it, they can fill out that form and we'll make sure I or another RA puts a sign on the door to make sure that space is reserved for them at that time. But in that it's free, first come, first serve. Yeah. Thank you, thank you. All right, is there anything else on the first floor? Take a look at here in Founders Hall. I don't think so. There's just a couple of exits down there. There's an exit down that way. There's a community bathroom that people can use, a public bathroom that's down that hallway as well. Visitors who can come in, for example. Yes. And I think this fall we're not allowing any overnight business. Does that sound right? No, overnight visitors, that's correct. Should be thinking we want to keep those visitors associated with U of A students. Yeah. Immediate family members. Enhanced sort of COVID-19 precautions that we're taking. Exactly. All right. And so what we're going to do next is we're going to go to the sixth floor. We're going to come get them. We left them behind, but we won't go get them. So we're going to go to the sixth floor and show you. We have two different variations of the rooms that we have. One is a standard room, two persons that live there. The other one is a, you know, it's a gable room. So it's just a little bit of variation on the elevator. I should have warned that sometimes we disconnect a little on the elevator, but we're back again and we're up on the top floor, floor six. We're going to show you one of the two different variations of rooms that we have. This is what we call a gable room. And so the ceilings are a little more enclosed in the typical room. And so we're just going to show you all this. What we're going to do, probably more measurements down there. And we'll show you a room on the fifth floor. But this is what every room and it kind of looks like on the sixth floor. It's got the gable like kind of whatever's going on with that seal in there. That's what's going to look like in all the rooms on the sixth floor and a handful of the rooms on the fifth floor. On our housing website, if you go look up founders, you will find a PDF of a gable room. So you can see what exactly that consists of. Okay. Awesome. Well, you want to head down to a more normal room? We're going to go down to the fifth floor. So Georgia. Born and raised, huh? Born and raised. Okay. And what would you say is one of the major differences between living just a little bit north of Atlanta and living in Northwest Arkansas? Oh, the traffic. Anytime you hear people complain about the traffic up here, I'm like, you've never been to Atlanta in your life. You've never had to deal with eight lanes going both ways. And it takes you about 45 minutes to go a mile to work. So that is something I definitely and I also, one thing I really love about here, though, is like the trails and the nature and everything like that. You don't get out a lot of that out there. So yeah. So we can go ahead. I'm going to go to, yeah, that's fine. I go to that room? Yeah. Yeah, let's go. So on each floor, there is a located a trash room for residents to use. So they can throw away their trash in the hallway. We also have a recycling bin in each floor as well. So now we don't have to go outside and throw away your trash or recycling out in the dumpster. We can actually use these rooms. Pull up. Yeah. To save frustration because this will happen is that as you can see, it is locked. You press the button, it should release it. Yeah. And that red light will turn on all the other floors so the other floors won't open. So please make sure you close it shut tight, nice and tight, because it will cause the rest of the building to not be able to get their trash through the trash. So make sure you press the button, open it and close it. This is the voice of experience speaking, I think. So we're going to walk out here. We can go ahead and show you a bathroom as well. Would you want to do room first or bathroom? Bathroom would be great. Yeah, we'll do the bathroom first. And then we can also look at one of those common lounge areas. Yes. So we'll do the bathrooms. Which are pretty nice, honestly. Very nice, yeah. And so I mean this building was built in 2013. So the bathrooms and everything like that are very in-laws of the rest of the building. Yeah, let's go up in a shower. Yeah. So again, nice little privacy in the shower as well. There's actually a door that connects to it. So yeah. There should be about three showers. We saw this before in each bathroom. And there's on the third, fourth, and fifth floor there is three bathrooms on each of those floors. And I think what? Two on the second and the sixth floor. And we have about 50 residents on the third, fourth, and fifth. About 25 on the second and sixth. So yeah, there's plenty of bathrooms in the spaces like that for the residents to use if they're out in the day. Well, let's head up into a room then. Yeah. Let's see. What lounge are there in the room? So there's also three lounge spaces on each floor as well. They have a TV they can use, little study spaces and stuff like that for them to use if they want to get out of the room and hang out with some of their other residents on the floor. Awesome. And then now we'll go to the room. Sounds good. Yeah. We're going to check out 510. So if you live here, here's your room. This is your room. If you're in 510, let me get a little pan here. Yeah, and to see the beds you can lower them if you want to move the desk out underneath away from the bed. You also raise it so that way you can sit directly underneath the bed as well. You just, you can do that on your own and you can place a work order and someone can help you raise the end and lower the bed. They have a desk drawer tables. Each resident also comes with a little armour that has a closet bar up here, a mirror, a shelving and everything for students to use as well. There should be an armour right here as well. And a mirror right there. Yeah. Each room comes with two sinks as well. One sink as well and two sets of little drawers that they can use. They're all the same depth as that for the last one which is a little deeper. I think the, I think the sinks are something that really stands out about this particular hall. Yeah, you're gonna do a little sink and everything like that in your rooms which is, you'll get that in every hall. Yeah, right. Well, if there's any questions about different measurements in this room, this is the perfect time to ask them. We have a tape measure. There's also a lot of measurements available on the housing website. So you can check that also. Well, let's see if there's anything else we want to point out. Let's point out the chair. I don't know if you know about the chair. What it can, oh, these chairs, I think, let's see, these are not the chairs that go into the gamer mode, okay. No, these are not, I think you know. No, they're not the chair. Okay. But you do get a sink. So that's a thing. Yes, you do get a sink. Yeah, this is normal chairs. You also get a great view if you live on this side of the hall, this side of the founders. Okay. Well, fantastic. Thanks to those of you who turned in. Let me get on the other side. Oh, and you also have a thermostat right over there that you can control for each of the rooms as well. So yeah, that's kind of anything else here? This is the rooms. You do also, we didn't mention, I don't know if we mentioned other ones, but every room should have their own Wi-Fi hotspot behind us so that you have your own, sort of individualized, not individualized, but your room has its own Wi-Fi. And that includes HBO as well. That's one of the offerings you get with cable. Joey, are you excited about this fall? Yeah, I'm super excited for all the students to come back. I've missed them since March. So it'll be nice to get them back here and hopefully get everything kind of normal by the spring. Perfect. Okay, well, wave us out if you don't mind. Yeah. All right. Okay. Thank you. Bye.