 Hello everyone my name is Mitchell Foster my pronouns are they and them and I am the coordinator for residents education for Futurel Hall and this afternoon. I'm gonna be joining you in touring or in this live tour of Futurel Hall Thank you Christopher. Yeah, and then we have people tuning in feel free to tell us where you're from and Yeah, if you're gonna be staying here at Futurel we want to know absolutely so I moved here from Northern California I got my master's degree at California State University in Chico And immediately after my master's I got this job as a full-time coordinator for residents education at the University of Arkansas So I have lived here for two years now And this is also my second year going into my third year as the coordinator for residents education for both Holcomb and Futurel Hall Today again as I mentioned we are gonna be touring Futurel Hall and next week We will also be touring Holcomb. So stay tuned for that too. Yeah, well, we're outside. What do you see around here? What can we tell people about this area of the this area of campus? Absolutely, so Futurel Hall is in a very strategic area of campus because it's very close to three different Important facilities one is the bookstore. So the bookstore is literally right across Futurel to the north of the building so for any of your needs With your textbooks or school supplies the bookstore has all of those needs for you all and it's very very close The other thing that's close is to the south of the building is the Union and the Union has a lot of Student organizations The associated student government is in the Union and we also have the food court in the Union as well for your meal Trade so that's pretty close. And then the last thing that's really close to Futurel is Fulbright Dining Hall Over at that side of the street And Fulbright Dining Hall is where Holcomb and Futurel students usually go to When they want to go and grab some Excellent. Yeah, well sounds good. And then I noticed there's some carts here. Those are pretty new. Yep The the the motorized scooters, right? Yeah We got this about Maybe like the start of the spring or maybe a little bit earlier than that like late fall and it has been a hit for all of the students That some students would you know rent one of these to get to their classes if their classes are on the other side of campus It's very convenient. I ride them myself And it's very fun to especially on the weekends when you just want to scoot around and see you know The town the square or Dixon or whatever. Nice. Nice. Well, thanks. Yeah, so we'll head inside then. Let's let's go Yeah, let's head inside because it's really hot outside. It is. It's definitely Arkansas summer weather all right, so As residents of this hall you will get a fob And this fob is what you were you will use to enter the building and so basically you just scan it and once it turns Green it means that it's unlocked Okay, okay. Hey, Mitchell. We did have one question come in already. We'll head inside Deborah asked what are the dining halls doing to address social distancing and I'll I can address some of that We just put out a new FAQ on our housing website Which explains what some of dining is doing one thing that they're doing is they're not having any self-serve bars really encouraging Pickup of meals so they can be eaten remotely when you take them out I don't know. Are there anything else that you can think of offhand. I think you got it And if you want more information about that other than what Christopher was saying go into the housing website And there's a link that says COVID Plans yeah And you could click on that and one of the FAQs is actually about meal plans So and we just put new content up yesterday regarding that so hopefully Deborah We've we can address some of your questions there if you have anything further You are welcome to email us at housing at you arc edu. Thank you All right, really good question Deborah keep the questions coming y'all All right, so currently we are at the front desk of future. I'm sorry I have to like always constantly check my mask because it's like falling But we are in the first floor a futural at the front desk This is our front desk area We have a plexi Guard for all the students and also for all of our arrays who are going to be manning these desks And so basically as residents and as students every time you go to the desk We expect you to be on the other side of the plexi class Just so we could protect everyone involved in any conversation that may be happening in the front desk But the front desk is where our RDAs, which is the resident desk assistant and our arrays are going to be Situated throughout the day To be of service to our residents and so they could help the residents with any questions that they have One thing about futural is that we don't receive mail and packages in the building So for all residents in futural you have to go to the building across the street where Fulbright is To get your mail and packages and it's not that inconvenient because it's very close And not only is it very close because Fulbright is in that same building called Morgan Hall across the street It's easy to just go across the street Grab your package and then go get something to eat or you could like go get something to eat first And when when you're on your way out you could grab your packages and your mails Very nice and that's really a central point for all of North Campus all of the North Campus residents tend to go to Fulbright for breakfast and usually dinner Oftentimes they're in central campus and go to Brough During the day when they're taking classes, but yeah, those are it's a very very popular dining hall right there. Yeah, absolutely All right, so this is the front desk and we have defunct Mailboxes right here and these are just purely decorative These are not functional in any way So when you walk in and you see this it's just there to to give aesthetics to our first purely Aesthetic mailboxes nice. Okay, exactly. All right, so now we're going to be heading to the first floor Study area and TV lounge and I'm going to show you the study area first as we walk towards this way Great, and again if anybody we'd love to know where you're where you're watching from if it's here in Arkansas or in Texas or Missouri or even further away. Let us know All right, so right now we are on the first floor study lounge in futural Which is basically encased by the by this glass encasing We have socially distanced tables and chairs in there And we also have a piano in there for anyone who wants to maybe practice their piano skills Patty glad you're tuning in from Texas. We appreciate that All right, and further down this way We do have a question Mitchell if you're ready Joy asks Does future have an elevator? Future does not have an elevator Well, at least not have a functional elevator So we have four flights of steps all the way to the fourth floor and we would I would definitely Advise you all that if you're moving in move in in small chunks and small bits so that you're not carrying a lot up the stairs And that will make the trips easier for you because it's going to be a few trips To move up, especially if you're on like the upper levels and upper floors of futural Which it goes to a maximum of four floors. Is that right? Yes four floor including the basement It's five floors, but from the from the front door that we entered its four floors up including the first floor And then Michelle from Texas and Deborah from Arkansas. Glad to see you. Glad to have you All right, so now we're walking towards the TV lounge of futural We have different types of chairs For just people hanging out or students hanging out. We have more socially distanced tables here for studying Usually this is where future students just chill after a long day when they just want to hang out with their friends Or this is also where they study. Of course within the COVID pandemic We will be expecting students to socially distance from each other And if they can't socially distance for them to wear a mask and that's going to be an expectation for everyone Who is going to be living in futural? Absolutely enjoy can make said her daughter's on the third floor. So three floors for you not too bad. Hopefully. Yeah Very excited to meet Everyone coming in in August. They're definitely going to be seeing me All right, so now we're heading towards the basement And I'm going to all show you the basement lounge We're going to show you the kitchen, which is the communal kitchen that everyone is going to be using And we're going to be showing you the theater room as well One thing about kitchen is that we highly encourage you all to bring your your cooking utensils Your pots and pans if you all need or want to cook for the rest of the school year So that you could have your own and you could sanitize your own as you go along or go through the year We'll head down the stairs now Down to the basement area, but it's not it's not a dingy basement. It's actually a wonderful community space down here Lot of space really We are just walking into the base a wide area for different activities We have a ping pong table We have a pool table and we have more seating and more spaces for studying for group meetings Maybe for group projects For the students and we even have the bars up here where I always see students also studying in the bars And again, I want to reiterate this if you're just coming in One of the biggest expectations that we have for all of the students this year is to socially distance from each other And wear masks so that we could protect everyone's health and the health and safety of the community as well and of course Make sure to sanitize always Everything that you've been touching We have ISAs which is our institutional service assistants or custodial staff that will sanitize all of the common spaces every single day For the benefit and the safety of all of our students But if you could be proactive and also carry your own Disinfectant wipes to wipe like the surfaces that you're going to be using as a student or for your students That would also be highly highly ideal You know, it's interesting you say all that Mitchell because it's like you're reading the question that got asked Oh my gosh Deborah was asking about how will it be managed that we you know make sure students follow the rules for social distancing and I guess I would say that there's probably Two levels of that one would be here at the university We do have You know the first thing we're trying to do is say hey, please put on your mask Always trying to go there first to say Please follow these practices. We want you to be part of the community and and behave in that fashion But we do have the ability to use the student Conduct code to you know, take progressive discipline if that's needed Also, the state of Arkansas now is requiring it. So then you actually have An executive order where there's its own level of penalties But nobody wants it to come nobody wants it to come to that So we're hopeful that we'll all be kind of razor backs together and and try to try to do the best we can and and keep each other safe Absolutely, you hit that right on the head Christopher Um, let's see what else we have in this space. Okay, let's all walk towards the theater room So the theater room is basically a room with lazy boy chairs and a tv and a dvd player for students to use If they want to watch a movie with friends Of they they just want to get together Do you have to like rent it out or are there like regular showings or how does that work? It is a first come first serve. So you don't have to rent it out But if you come in and you are already watching the tv Usually there's a community expectation And that if you're already in there that no one has the right to like, you know Shoe you away or like ask you to leave for their own, you know purposes. Gotcha. Gotcha Nice that's a big that's a big one. Yep theater room with lazy boy chairs And our equipment up here Yeah, so again students could just come in there are remotes in there To use the equipment the tv and the dvd player for their leisure Perfect all part of what you pay for when you live here. Absolutely Now we're heading towards the kitchen the communal kitchen Can I take a minute to point out the tabletop here? Yeah, I really like it It says u of a hogs. Let me see if I can get it You have to read upside down. Unfortunately Thank you. All right. So now we're walking towards our kitchen So this is the communal kitchen for future. It's the only kitchen that we have in the building Um, we have an electric electric stove in here. So we don't have a gas stove We have two sinks We have a microwave And we also have a fridge for students to use We had another question about how often will the bathrooms be cleaned and sanitized? I know it's well, I don't want to misspeak here. I'm Do you happen to know how often they get cleaned? It will be cleaned every single day So even before the pandemic, um, we have institutional service assistants that clean And disinfect our bathrooms every single day of operations And it's the same thing with the kitchens and with the common spaces that I mentioned earlier Thank you, Mitchell And then another thing because we're talking about the fridge One expectation that we have of the students who live on campus or who live in traditional style dorms Is that if they use the fridge for storage to make sure that they're Putting all of their stuff in a plastic bag or in a container with their name on it So that they could separate it from the stuff of other people so that we could also Avoid contamination and avoid mixing of different items and belongings in there Labeling your food in a communal fridge. That's that's just a good skill. No matter who you are. Yep. Absolutely Exactly. All right. So we've currently seen the basement Lounge the theater lounge and the kitchen Now I'm going to take you all to the laundry room of future hall I'm pretty sure everyone watching Is also very curious about where are your students going to wash their clothes and where are your students going to dry their clothes So it's going to be in here It's kind of loud in here. So I'm going to have to shout. So please bear with me Please do so these are our washers and dryers and The use of the washers and dryers come with the fees that you pay When you live in the halls on campus I'll step out for a second because it is really loud So one thing to point out is there's an app that university housing offers called laundry alert and that allows you to see Which laundry facilities are open individual machines As well as we'll send you a text message When you're done with your laundry. So it can be a really nice Asset to have there and we do recommend the use of pods They're just much cleaner and easier to use. Absolutely. Definitely. Definitely agree with Christopher on that Please use pods. It's easy. It's clean. It doesn't leave a mess. It doesn't give room for any accident And that's just, you know, easy for the institutional service assistants and the students as well All right, now that we've seen The laundry room, I'm going to take you all out to a space in futrol that is very unique to futrol Which is the courtyard The outdoor courtyard So this is the outdoor courtyard. It's very much enclosed students could use these tables and chairs to Study if they want they could have lunch out here. Of course, they're just going to have to Avoid falling leaves from the tree But that's definitely manageable Another thing that's cool about futrol is that you could actually enter the building through the courtyard. So In the wall out there, there is an entrance That leads out to the resident reserve parking So if your student has or was able to reserve a spot in the resident reserve parking It's very easy to come in park their car and then go in from the entrance to the courtyard And into the doors that we just came out of Perfect, perfect All right, and if your students like hammocking these two trees behind us Is something that um, or it's very convenient for hammocking. So the students use both of those trees to Attach their hammocks to and they just basically a lounge Not a bad way to pass some time And another safety feature is that we also have a fob access to this door So no one not just anyone could enter these doors into futrol if they don't have a fob, they're not going to be able to enter Okay, sounds good. All right, so That's just the door the door always makes itself known it's it's been open for a longer period of time But yeah, so we've seen the courtyard and now we're going up to The floor right above us so I could show you all the community bathroom And then I could show you all the show space for the room Or the show room And we were asked about will there be multiple daily cleanings of the bathroom during fall. I think there'll be one One very thorough cleaning every day. I might be wrong, but I think that's the case currently Have you heard anything different? Um I've heard that there will be extra measures for cleaning But the great thing about the bathroom and I actually had a conversation with my ra about this the other day Is that we are definitely going to encourage students to go in there to wash their hands, you know Like they go in there their sinks their soaps they could always wash their hands And of course we would hope that everyone would be not using the bathrooms to hang out Like we would hope that they would actually be socially distancing in the bathrooms And not only that to sanitize themselves as they go in and out So it's definitely going to be a community effort. It's not just going to be an effort of one group of people You know maintaining the halls, but it's going to be the the community effort and the effort of the students as well So, um, that's my job. Basically my job is to always Um communicate with the students and to make sure that the students understand the expectations of the community So that we could maintain community health and safety Very good. Thank you All right, so we're going to go into the first floor and I'm going to show you all the community bathroom Let's go take a look I'm fond of your flamingo shirt Thank you Flamingos flamingos are like my thing like I really I feel like I own like six flamingo shirts Um, but I love I love the pink color. I just I love what they stand for We're learning things about you even as we get right Okay, so this would be the bathroom and let me just kind of give a pan to it. Yeah, absolutely. So, um, as you can see these are the sinks Um to one side of the bathroom. They're the showers Down here and I'm pretty sure let's go take a look in a shower too. Yeah, let's go And so we have four stalls each floor has two community bathrooms. So we're showing you one of two Um to accommodate all of our students Oh, let me give some understanding of their little step there. Yeah Fairly big space in there, honestly Yeah, there's like a changing area where you walk in and it's not immediately the shower and then you go in further And that's where the shower is And on the other side, um, we have the toilets Which is kind of you've seen one you've seen them all but we can take a look at your water Oh Okay. Well, yeah, so it's and you've got you said, uh, two of these on every floor Yes, one on the east wing and one on the west wing, but there's two on each floor Perfect. Thank you. Wow We'll go take a look at a room now You know, the most important part of this live, um Virtual live tour is the room, right? I'm pretty sure you all are tuning in to see the room So we've prepared the show room for you all Um, just so you have an idea on what a room or a traditional style room in future hall looks like so Um, it's usually a double. Um, we have single rooms in future, but the doubles outnumber Um, the singles by A huge ratio So we have two desks Two twin excel beds Um, we have two armoires. So this is one of the armoire Would you mind opening one of them up so they can kind of see what the features are of the Of the dressers? Yeah, so we have two of this one for each student So one one student would get that entire dresser. Yes, they will The fridge is um, just an example But we also have fridges for rent for anyone who wants to rent out fridges I'm not sure if that email has been sent out yet But if it hasn't please keep on the lookout for that that may be a still a service that we will be providing Well, um, I haven't got any requests for dimensions. Just yeah, but why don't we go ahead and take one or two Why don't we do the mattress and go ahead and get that? You might be able to help 75 inches, okay Should be about 36 Yeah, 36 And that's a that's the door side. Let's look and see if the window side is any different I don't remember if it is in this hall or not It should be they should be all identical 75 okay 36 75 36 there you go Great. Well now is the perfect time if you have any questions that you want to ask us About anything in the room because we will go and look at it as much as you'd like So before the questions come in, I also want to highlight that each student would also get their own three drawer dresser So underneath each desk They will get that mini dresser And then they will be sharing a six drawer dresser. So a dresser with six drawers And for the both of them patty asks, how do the kids put up a bed skirt? How do the kids put up a bed skirt? My experience as a bed skirt is that that's something that you place under a mattress, right? And so the mattress you could absolutely detach it And you could put the bed skirt from The spring and then it falls down onto the floor Absolutely. Absolutely. And I mean, I think these are like all the others in that they are loftable Yes, they are loftable. You could place A service request as early as now If you want your students bed to be loftable I'm pretty sure that email has already been sent out because I've been talking to my facility's person My building facilities person and he has already been getting a lot of requests for different rooms To want to loft their bed. So that is an option for you all Please check your emails. It's should be somewhere in there Um and patty follows up with do they use a tension rod when the bed is lofted and I'm trying to make this particular version I believe it does So, yes, so um when it's lofted they definitely use a tension board to make sure or the yeah the tension um Thing to make sure or rod. Yes to make sure that um, it's very stable Um, and we add we add one more Of these head and foot pieces on top of it and then loft the bed up that way And then do the tension rod on the bottom part of of the bed Well, some of you might have seen this particular room when you came through if you visited the university and took a tour Before you even were admitted. This is one of the rooms. It's on the tour offered by admissions Um, let's see. How about we go ahead and do the window as well So that's 46 46 height 46 by 44 46 by 44. Okay, and can you give us the depth as well? Of the ledge? Yeah 21 inches 21 inches. Okay, fantastic. Well um What would you say is? Something that stands out to you about the uh, future community especially anything that just comes to mind For me, um, I've always thought that future is a very comfortable building And what I mean by that is that it has a very homey feel to it like you walk in The halls are kind of like um smaller or more narrower and um, there's access to your neighbors really quickly Um, and there's access to your ra really quickly as well Another thing about future is that again in the start of this live, um Tour I mentioned that it's very close to the bookstore. Actually if you look out the window, that's the bookstore out there So that's the bookstore out there very close just across um west douglas street Very close to fulbright. Um very close to where the students get their mail and packages as well And it's also very close to the union Where they where there's food where there's a food court where there's um different student organizations as well It's an all-female residence hall as well. And it is an all-female residence hall. Um, this year We have converted futurel into an all-female residence halls. It used to be a co-ed So it started out as an all-female residence hall. Actually christopher tradition or classically originally it was a Female residence hall and then it became co-ed and now it's going back to its roots as a Female residence hall back to the roots. We did have a couple questions that came in Joy asks, can you move the furniture and it is all movable furniture? It is all movable furniture. You can move the furniture. We highly encourage for the roommate to Definitely agree upon moving the furniture. I think that's just a very smart idea so that we can avoid any conflicts that may happen in the rooms Um, so yes, you could move the furniture According to the roommates wishes Both of the roommates wishes Mitchell, do you happen to know how many rooms are on each floor? That's a question patty was asking about, um, I would say about 30 rooms Around that. Yeah 30 times 420 that seems about right. Yeah Um, and then debbie points out that if you're going to be in this hall, you're closest to the sororities Very close to the sorority row. That is that is correct. Yes okay well, let's go ahead and And and and tell people that we're excited that they're coming. I guess absolutely. Um, Again, my name is Mitchell Foster. I'm the coordinator for residents education for holcomb and futral halls My office is in holcomb, but my office is open to all residents who may need me You will definitely be seeing me during move-in. So say hi if you're tuning in Um, and I'm very excited to see all the residents coming in I'm pretty sure I'm going to be able to meet with them or interact with them at some point throughout the school year We have a very small community of people. Um, and so I get to really get to know our students If not by name, then I kind of know what they look like by the end of the year So that is something that I'm looking forward to And I'm also very excited to create community with the residents and with the resident assistants that are going to come Be coming in in the next two weeks Okay, it's fantastic. Will you wave us out then? All right. Well, um Do you mean we should go out? Oh, no, no, no, just wave at the ball. All right. All right. Just a good old wave of the ball Sounds good. Well, everyone. Thank you so much for joining. Um, it was a pleasure for you all to be joining me It's a pleasure for me to be with you all today and I'll see you later