 Good afternoon, my name is Jill Cyprock. Welcome to the 2018 URC Home Facebook Live Tour of Founders Hall. A little bit about myself. I'm a junior from Russellville, Arkansas. I'm studying communication, minoring in political science. I hope to go to law school. And filming today is Courtney. I'll let her introduce herself. My name is Courtney. I'm a student here at the University. I'm going to be a sophomore this year and I'm a nursing major. And I'm from Fayetteville, so if you need any Fayetteville help around with restaurants and fun places to hang out, you can just let me know. And y'all can ask us any questions today and I'll be behind the camera, so we'll try and answer those for you guys. Thank you, Courtney. So one great thing about Founders is that it's located really conveniently in the middle of campus. We've actually got some great eating options connected to Founders. Right behind me is Slim Chickens. They just have fried chicken tenders and fries. It's a really popular stop for all students on campus. We've also got Rocket Taco and Where the Wild Greens Are. Where the Wild Greens Are is a salad place. You basically build your own salad. It's one of my personal favorite things about campus because it's a little bit healthier. And then Rocket Tacos Tacos, they've got good rice and beans. We've also got Starbucks behind us, which is always crowded. It's college, so you've got to have your coffee. And there's also Quiznos and then Brough Dining Hall is right above us. And Brough is the most centrally located dining hall. It has really good food and I always enjoy it. We'll walk this way and talk a little bit about some of the classrooms that are close to Founders. Right behind us is Kimball Hall. It's the home to the journalism department as well as the communication department. And as you can see, they're doing a little bit of renovation and construction. Just adding a journalism wing to Kimball. And then further this way, the Walton College of Business is also directly across from Founders. That's where most of the business courses are located and all the advising and things like that. This is where the entrance to Rocket Taco and where the Walgreens are. It's right behind us. So whenever you need a quick bite to eat, you can use your dining dollars and your flex and purchase food there. During weeknights, there's also a meal trade, which means you can use a dining swipe instead of using your dining dollars. And that just saves a little bit of money. That's a great touch. So here's Kimball. You can see the new journalism wing. It's supposed to be state-of-the-art. We're really excited about it here. This is where most of my classes are as a communication student. Here's the entrance to Founders Hall. You can see we have a little sign out front. Founders is our newest hall. It came on line, I think, in 2014 or 2015. One fun nickname that people have for Founders is Hotel Founders just because how nice and clean looking it is. So we'll go ahead and walk inside and take a look at the front desk and kitchen area. So you use your fob on your keys to get into the building. It's just for security. Alright. So back behind me is the kitchen area. It's being used a little bit right now as you can see. But you can actually rent cooking supplies from the RAs. And if you ever have a sweet tooth, I'm sure there will be someone down here making cookies or cupcakes or things like that. There is a fridge, an oven, and a stove. And students are free to use these as they please. There's also a little dining area behind you. It has some stuff on it for storage right now. As well as recycling bins. That's a big initiative at here at the University of Arkansas in our residence halls. We want to recycle as much as possible. Then over here, here's the front desk for Founders. This is where you can find RAs working their duty hours and desk hours. We actually have a coordinator for residence education. Here's our CRE, Eric. Hello. Do you want to talk a little bit about your job and what you do? So we're the living professionals for the community. We oversee the RAs. We help the RAs with a bunch of their programming initiatives, their community building on the floor. And then we also oversee just the general well-being of the building, making sure that if there's any issues that the RAs can't help with, then we're here to help out with those situations too. And what are RAs? So an RAs is a student staff member who's at least a sophomore. They've all lived on campus either here or at a different university if they transferred in. So they understand how it is to live on campus. And they try to help out, support the floors, support individuals in any situation that might arise that are pretty well trained on all of that stuff. Awesome. Well, thank you. So one of the best additions to Founders Hall is this kind of communal area in the front. You'll always find people watching games on the TV or playing ping pong. You can check out ping pong equipment from the front desk if you and your friends would like to play. There's also a university-wide ping pong tournament this spring semester. And the residence halls have qualifying tournaments to kind of pick who will represent them in the university-wide tournament. So you're free to bring your own ping pong supplies if you'd like to play whenever, but when the desk is open you can rent ping pong supplies for men. What's your ping pong game like? My ping pong game got better since I started college because that's what I spent all the freshman year doing. But I still lose often, could never win in a tournament. But I've gotten to watch the tournament and it was really fun. People are very talented. So we have a viewer named James who wants to know when students will know who their RA is going to be. So RA's have been chosen. They're still getting sorted by halls. So by the time you move here, they should be up on the housing website so you'll know. And the RA is going to be for specific halls. Also when you move in, you'll have a floor meeting with your RA's. They'll introduce themselves and give you contact information and explain a little bit about what their job is and how they can be a resource to you. I love my RA. He became one of my really good friends actually. He would always hang out in the common areas and watch basketball and baseball games with us. So that was really nice. So we'll walk you through. Well, mail is something we want to talk about too. Eric, how does mail work at Founders? So all of your packages and mail will be delivered to Humphreys. So we pick up mail at Humphreys. Yeah, yeah, Tara. So you'll receive, well if your email comes in, or sorry, if you get a piece of mail that's just like a generic letter or whatever, that will just go into your mailbox. You'll be able to find that stuff, your email address, or not your email address. Boy, your mailbox and your code combination for it will all be in your UA Connects portal. If you get a package, this is my first year over here at Founders, so I'm trying to remember how Humphreys does it. But if you get a package, typically you'll receive an email from Tara, well we'll say University Housing, but our administrative assistant name is Tara. And then you can go pick up your package. Pick it up? Yeah. Wait for your email though, wait for that email to come. Even though it says, your tracking says it's been delivered, wait for that email because there's some processes that we have to do on our side to sort of make sure that they're on campus. So if you see it says it showed up, but it may not be yet processed. Right, okay. Well there's a big common area, so let's go check out the rest of this. We also have a viewer named Scott who is wondering if boys and girls have rooms on the same floor. They do not in Founders. I believe it's split up by floor. If it's not split up by floor, then they're certainly split up by like side of the floor. So there is always some level of separation. Okay. Okay, so we've got the common area here, and I guess we have the... It's the ping pong table. Yeah, there's construction paper stuff on there. Some arts and crafts. This is one of the few halls where they use digital signage. So you'll see large televisions where digital signage happens. Yes. And one cool feature at our residence halls is the water bottle filling station. It's just a sustainability initiative, and you can actually track how many plastic bottles people have saved just by refilling reusable bottles here. It's a lot. 36,000. And so that's a really good feature. It saves money as well. You don't have to keep buying bottles of water. We can go ahead and go in the laundry room and talk a little bit about that. So in this laundry room, there are also vending machines. And the vending machines actually use card swipes or Apple Pay. So if you have an Apple device, you can just swipe it in front of the vending machine and pay for your snack or drink. There's also ICE machine. You can get ICE for free. And here at the university, you don't have to pay to use a washer or dryer. Those costs are included in your student fees. However, you do need to bring your own detergent. And also, one cool feature here is it's called Laundry Alert. And there's an app you can download, and it'll just have laundry information so how long your load has left what step in the process is it at. It'll also alert you whenever your laundry is ready to be picked up. And so, it's definitely a good idea to kind of figure it out in the beginning when the best time to do laundry is. Because as you can believe, a lot of people will be wanting to do laundry at once. So maybe in an afternoon, a weekday afternoon is a good time. That's when I always did mine. Just so I wouldn't have to wait for a washer or dryer to open up. Are you a pods man? I'm a pods man. Not for eating, of course. No, no, don't eat time pods. However, it's a lot easier to just have the detergent amount pre-decided so you can just put it in there. I did some laundry at home before I moved to college. But my roommate, freshman year, actually had to learn that whole process. So it's kind of fun to watch people do laundry for the first time. But I am a pods man still to this day. I'll just throw the pod in there and I don't have to worry about pouring detergent. Are you a separator? I do not separate. I wash everything I want. You need to advance. Right, right. That's to advance. Definitely. And I'll just do the normal wash cycle. You won't catch me doing anything special. This is the laundry room. We have a question about mail, actually. And it's when they can get things mail to the dorm. So I'm sure she wants to know like schedule-wise when they can get mail. Like the first day that you could receive mail, maybe? Maybe. Well, maybe with Shilchai Men or Shilchai Men and say a little more specific. You know, in general, you can receive mail anytime of the year except around the breaks. I think sometimes we have a published time where we're not accepting mail anymore. We're going to follow up with you if you're with your question at the end of this about the exact answer you need when it comes to mail. I do know you can pick up, if it's a mailbox, you can pick up your mail just whenever you can get over that mailbox during business hours. Because then the front desk area will be open for packages. So it's around 8 to 4.30, I believe, when you can pick up your packages just because that front desk will be staffed. So we're going to walk this way and look at this multi-purpose room over here. So one cool thing about this area is it's open 24 hours for group study or private study sessions. It's a really cool feature that founders has. You can basically use it for meetings or anything like that. I personally used it for some meetings before in this hall and it just comes in handy to have a space like that that's open to everyone. As long as we're passing through here we'll just call out Eric's office. Is that your office, Eric? Right there? Okay. So if you have an issue, come knock on your door. Okay. Alright. It'll be open. Yeah. We've got an avocado on here. Lots of cool door decks. Alright. We're going to walk this way. We're going to head upstairs. Sure. Let's head upstairs to the floors and see one of the residence halls in the back. That's my favorite part. Yeah. So at founders there's two elevators. There's one down here and there's also one at this end of the hallway as well as two sets of stairs. Awesome. It's got us if we're on the first floor and we are. Yes. We are on the first floor. Headed to the second. And we're going to head up to two to check out our room. Here's the elevator. It's really nice elevator actually. Pretty spacious actually. I'm super claustrophobic at hail. This one's pretty big. Should we start bathroom? Yeah. We'll go ahead and start in the bathroom. Here's just another water bottle filling station. It's on each floor. So that's really convenient. So we're going to go ahead and walk and look at a restroom. Founders might have my favorite bathrooms on campus just because of how nice they look. You can go ahead and knock. Yeah. Sure. So here is the founders restroom. Here's sink area. The stalls are behind us. And then here are our showers. So each shower will have a door that you can lock. It's a more personal space where you can change a little bit. I'm free to go ahead and step in there. I know a lot of times they were very curious about the features. Do you bring showers? Yes. I did bring showershoes. Did you have showershoes? I absolutely had showershoes. What are showershoes exactly? Well, if you want me to be honest with you, I go into Old Navy and get my favorite color and cheap pair of flip-flops. And those are my showershoes. That's how you do it. That's how you do it. Super nice bathrooms in here. I like how the doors on the showers are water. Very cute. All right. We'll walk this way. Can I point out the study here? Sure. So on each floor, there's two study spaces that are open to anyone to use. There's also a television up there. So when football games are on and things like that, people will be watching. So it's a really good space to relax. On the weekends, it's really quiet, a nice place to write a paper, and things like that. What was that air? I'm sure this is supposed to be whiteboard. Whiteboard wall paint. Oh, good luck, Paul. Oh. I do remember that. Oh, my gosh. So this paint on this wall can actually be used as a whiteboard, and you can erase off of it. You can still see a little bit of marker. That's really awesome. Yeah. If you're studying with a big group, you can write things on the board. And I saw you, too, out toward Kemple Hall. Right there. This looks like a great place to take a nap. Oh, yeah. I was thinking the same thing. Like the window chairs. Very cool. All right. Walk this way. Next, we're going to just check out your standard room in Founders Hall. Going to 210. And there is a type of room we should definitely mention. That's called the gable. And that's a room where one of the beds, the wall comes in slightly. And it's explained on our website. There's a PDF that explains what a gable room is. If you have further questions about which rooms are gables, we're happy to explain that to you. Yeah. Is there any in there already open? They all got closed. Um, so in Founders, the doors do lock behind you automatically, so always keep your keys on hand. You just got to ride away in that big mess of keys. I have experience. That is experience talking right there. It's a little dark in here, but a little like, kind of a little stronger. Or is it like, here's what? There she is. So, each room has a personal seat space and a large mirror like this. It's actually a pretty big space with drawers that you in your roommate can use to store things. Behind this as well, there's wardrobes. You can move the furniture around if you would like. We do ask you don't take any out, but you can move it to your discretion. And it also has towel racks on each door where you can hang your wet towels after you're finished in things like that. Here's a desk and each desk comes with a chair as well as a nice drawer that you can lock if you choose to lock. You do have to bring your own lock, however. Here are the beds. You can request your bed to be lofted before you move in. The deadline for that is July 31st and it's first come, first served, so there's no guarantees. But you can do that at housing.york.edu slash fixit. We have a question. What's the width of the bed frame? From post to post is what she wants. From post to post, I believe it's 80 inches. So the mattress is going to be probably 80 inches, but did you have the tape measure? Yes, I think she wants this way for a headboard type of thing. So post to post up here basically, yeah. And then we're also asking for measurements of the desk and the area between the beds for a carpet. So it is 41 inches from post to post. It's a little bit over 3 feet and then we're going to measure the desk, you said. Let's go ahead and measure the mattress too. Sure. And give us the width. How do you want to have the width? Just give them my details. So the width is 80 inches and then the width is 36 inches. So it's 80 inches long, about 3 feet wide and then we'll go ahead and measure the desk. So the desk is just over 32 inches long and about 24 and a half inches wide. Someone asked what the height of the bed is as it is right now. Yeah, sure. From the floor to the bed. It is 40 inches off the ground. Go ahead and give them also the mattress frame to the floor. Yeah, because you can set those at different levels but where it is right now this is just over 30 inches off the ground but you can move the beds yourself if you would like a little up or a little down. There's just notches in these posts and so you'll just lift the frame out and then lock it in place. We do ask if you're going to do that bring them over from Hallett. It just makes it a little easier. Someone wants to know what the measurement is from the top of the counter underneath for a mini fridge. Like right here, down? Yes, that space under there. This is about 30 inches from the bottom of this counter to the floor. There are outlets under there too. Yeah, we had a question about how many outlets there are here. There's two down here. There's four here. I don't know if there's any more behind here. And there's four over here. And then there are some next to each bed. Lots of outlets. It's always good. And here's how many we total up to here. Eight by eight. 10, 12. 14 it looks like. Maybe 16. People have a lot of devices. Four here. Four, eight. Four, 12. And then there's also the cable box is over here. The university does include HBO to your cable subscription. Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones. I do not watch HBO. I don't have an account. I might have to get it because I really want to watch Game of Thrones. There's also here's your thermostat over here where you control the heat. We had a question before about it gipsing out the control. So to change the temperature there's the reading and you'll just twist this knob. You twist it left to go negative right to go positive. And here's your fan speed. And then we do want someone that wants to know the measurement between the beds for a rug. Select this in between these. Yes. Reminds you that it changes the layout of the room. So not every room is going to be exactly the same. Before you change it you measure it from the inside outside. So it's about 52 inches between the two beds. Between the two beds. As this layout is some of the layouts will change or be different. Yeah. If you do decide to change the layout because you can move this furniture around or you put stuff underneath that will turn beds sideways or whatever that will change. And I guess it's easier to explain now what a gable room is. So basically the gable room will just have the wall will slam down a little bit over the bed. So it'll touch this top of this post. And it's just instead of having a flat ceiling up there it'll just be slanted a little bit. So that's the difference between a gable room and a standard room. Could we measure the width of the window for Emily because she wants to know how long a curtain rod needs to be? Sure. Where are you from? Let us know. I'm from Fayetteville. I already told you guys that but I love it here. I like the way it shifts for someone moving to Fayetteville from some place like El Dorado where I'm from or from Texas. Bring a coat. Definitely bring a coat because it gets pretty chilly and you gotta lock the glasses. So the window's about just around 37 inches wide from the insides where you hang the curtain rod. In these blinds you can adjust an internet port. There should be one right over here behind this desk there's an internet port as well as there's Wi-Fi available right above us is the Wi-Fi actually. We have Wi-Fi in all the halls so you don't have to connect by Ethernet but some halls have it it looks like this hall does have an Ethernet connection but our Wi-Fi in the halls is pretty reliable. We've got a lot of Texas viewers on here. Kansas City Germantown It's pretty awesome. So we had someone ask which side of the room is A and B because I know when you get assigned a room you do get assigned A or B but you can of course choose which side with your roommate you can discuss that when you get in here. Is there a designated A and B? I don't think there is. There's not a designated A and B. A and B are basically the spots we have administratively but it's not like the left hand side is A and the right hand side is B it's something that roommates agree upon themselves. I think that's right. There's not a desi note. So sometimes you'll have A is a certain length and B is a certain length that's for roommates to make that decision themselves. Let's see what else can we show you in this room? Are there other questions? What else were in the room other than under the sink? You can place a fridge wherever you would like it's up to you. You can add furniture if you would like you just can't take any out. One nice thing about founders is on each floor there's also a trash chute inside of a trash room that includes recycling bins and you can just open the chute up and put your trash bag in there and it'll go straight down to the downstairs so you don't have to carry it up and down stairs. So that's really nice. All right. Well, Eric and you guys want to say goodbye to everyone? Sure. Thank you guys for joining us and we'll be here in the fall in about a month when you guys join up. It'll be good to see you all. We look forward to seeing everyone. Thank you for joining us today at this UR Come Home Facebook Live Tour of Founders Hall.