 Hi everyone, welcome to the Founders Live Hall tour. My name is Brittany. I am currently a conference ambassador on campus and a junior double major in criminology and sociology. Behind the cameras today, we have Emily. Hi everyone, my name is Emily. I'm the marketing intern with the University Housing and tell us where you're tuning in from. So thank you guys for tuning in today. One good thing about Founders Hall is actually that's a really central location on campus. So right in front of Founders, we have the Kimple Hall, which is sort of where the journalism center takes place. To the right of Kimple, we also have the Walton College of Business. So if you are going to be a business major, you will be taking a ton of classes there. And actually something that's under Founders right here is Slim Chickens, Sushi with Gusto, and then where the wild greens are. You can use a lot of meal trays there, dining dollars. And we also have the 10-21 food hall behind us. Ready to go inside? We'll leave these, right? Very secure, all doors are locked. You will have a fog to get into the building. So if you want to have any friends come over, you'll have to score a thing through. This is Joey, he's a CRE here. Hello, my name is Joey and I'm one of the coordinates for residence education over Founders Hall this past year. So basically what a coordinator for residence education is is we supervise the RAs in the building and we oversee the residence hall as well. Outside of that, we also help plan programs and events. We're on the call for like a practice response for the entire campus. And then we also do student conduct hearings. And each residence hall has a series that works and lives inside the halls. And we're a professional master level staff. So yeah, we also advise our Leadhawks program, which is a first year leadership organization. So if you haven't signed up, I definitely encourage you to do so before you get here at the end of the year. It's a really great opportunity for you to get to know some of the students in our hall and help plan some extra fun activities for other students here. So yeah, nice to see all. So starting with the lobby area. Here we have the front desk, which is where you can check out equipment for the ping pong table, which we'll see in the future. And then also there will usually be an RA standing here. So if you have any issues, we need to talk to someone. You can always ask them about that. And right here's the front desk, we have the kitchen area. Which is really nice because I know fresh in here, I want to give love to my own meals, especially not just eating dining food, dining hall food 24 seven. It's got a stove, which is really nice. A lot of people I knew, usually made brownies, cookies, stuff like that. So it's a really good experience, especially if you want to make like food nights, you'd develop a lot of fresh in here. Yeah, and we have some kitchen supplies that you can also rent from the front desk at each residence hall if you'd like to cook, you don't have your own supplies. And the rest of the lobby. We have the toilet seating area. Actually a lot of people come out here, hang out with friends, do stuff like that. A lot of people study down here as well. So that's pretty cool. We also have a huge TV that the residents are able to use. You can bring your own consoles, bring your own games. A lot of tournaments happen here, like Smash Bros, Mario Kart, stuff like that. Yeah, also if you go see over here where a front desk is located, we do have RAs that work at that front desk. In this hall, they don't work there during the day. We actually have a hall admin over at HubFrees that serves the HubFrees and Founders location. And that's where all the packages mail will be sent over to. So we have a front desk here for RAs that work here and stuff like the after hours after like 4 p.m. or during the weekends. But you can pick up all your mail packages over at HubFrees. So here's the ping pong table that I mentioned earlier. If you wanna play ping pong, there will be supplies you can check out at the front desk. So that's honestly a really nice thing because there's a lot of ping pong games that happen. We also have a bunch of water fountains everywhere. I think there's one on each floor too. Yeah, definitely bring your own water bottle. That's saved me so much in the Arkansas heat especially. Are you much of a ping pong player? Yeah, I'm pretty good at it, I'm not gonna lie. You got some skills? I can beat some people in some tournaments. Okay, okay. Emily, you, how's your ping pong game? I'm bad at it, I have no coordination. I thought you were flipping a script, I thought you were like totally good at it. You've been in a tournament though, right? Yeah, it wasn't good, I didn't make it far. You never know. This is kind of a laundry area. One thing that we like to tell people about is you don't bring any coins. It's all included in your student fees. And there's actually an app called Laundry Alert that you can download on your phone. I like to use it all the time. Basically, it can tell you if there are any open washers, how long a washer or dryer has to take left. So, especially if you don't want to carry all your clothes down here just to find that there's nothing open. It's a real game changer. We also have a bunch of vending machines and an ice machine, which is really nice because it's hot in Arkansas, ice is the need. And it takes digital wireless pay as well. I think Apple Pay and Google Pay. And about the laundry machines comes out of your housing fees. So, not specifically student fees, which all students have to pay, but if you're a housing student that comes out of your housing fees. Yeah. Is this office? Oh, yeah. This is Joey's office. Yes, so my office until the 16th, there's actually gonna be a new series coming over here to be founders in Gibson. I will be transitioning from Walton Grexton and Duncan, but I will be working in another office until the 16th as well to assist that transition. Sweet. We have sort of a little study room down here. Oh, we can head inside. It's got a huge TV, which is really nice. And then usually a lot of study groups like to come in here, maybe work on some chemistry together, math, stuff like that. It's really multi-purpose. We also allow a lot of our band students to practice in this conference room as well. So that way they don't have to play in the halls. There's no residents that live on this floor, so it's a really nice area. If you are wanting to practice in your arrangements and stuff like that, you don't want to play on the floor, and that sort of stuff. You can come down here and serve this space by just emailing your Siri to use that space for a couple hours of practice and stuff. It was a really nice location. So lead hogs meet in here? Or do they meet in other rooms? So typically our lead hogs also meet in this room as well, so if you ever receive, so on our meetings and stuff like that, we'll meet in this room, and you'll be meeting with the founders in Gibson. I don't know, trust us all, so yeah. And there was a ping-pong table. There's a pool table, but there's actually a pool table over at Hubfree's, which our students and founders can also use since you have access to a space for mail and stuff, so you can go over there and play pool as well. There's that television, we'll just, who's note that this is a digital post stream? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, there's a TV on each floor. Our A's will post important information there, since we don't have like bulletin boards, so they'll use the TVs to post stuff and info and bits and flyers and everything you'll find before that gets regularly updated. We are getting into the elevator, so we may lose connection for a little bit, but we will be right back if that happens. Yes, continue. Yes. So did you tell us what you were studying? Yes. Okay. Sociology and Criminology. Sociology and Criminology. Doesn't seem to go together to me. Oh yeah, a lot of my classes are pretty interesting. I couldn't watch it, yeah. You like true crime podcasts? Oh yeah. What's the best one right now? The best. Also, if you're going to notice, when you get off the elevator, there's two elevators on each floor. We do have the centralized trash rooms on every floor, so we don't have to walk outside and throw away your trash and stuff. We have the trash room right here. It's in the middle of the hall. They just dump their trash down the trash, and we also have a recycling bin. So if you're into recycling, which we heavily encourage you, we actually just won the competition for Recycling Mania this past year's founders, so our hall was the best at recycling for the amount of resins that we had in the material, which was really awesome. We definitely want to win that again. So that is the recycling. We also have a little cardboard station down in the lobby as well. Speaking of hidden secrets, what is your favorite true crime podcast? Oh no. I think right now I'm more leading into the YouTube videos, like Bailey Sarian. She's kind of like a crime YouTuber. She's really interesting. She just does her makeup like while she is... Oh, I've seen those. Yeah. This is one of the bathrooms. We'll go ahead and take you in here. Very nice. There's sinks. And then we have these really amazing shower areas. They're pretty huge, and the door locks itself. So one thing I would definitely recommend in a beauty and kind of bathroom is to bring your own shower caddy. It's really a lifesaver. Also shower shoes. Yeah, don't forget about shower shoes, but don't spend like $20 on a pair of flip-offs. Just get like the $1 one from old Davey. Exactly. Yeah. And there's three showers. Three showers. And there's typically a community bathroom on every floor except for the second floor has two. It's a smaller than the sixth floor has a giant bathroom since that floor is also smaller and it just has one giant bathroom on the floor. This is one of the kind of study areas. I think there's three on each floor. Yeah, three on each floor except for the fifth and the, sorry, the sixth and the second, which have two since then. Like I said, it is a little smaller, so you just have these two little space spaces there. Yes. And then this is the wall you can write on. Yeah, so there's actually a wipe-in round, which is kind of like perfect for chemistry, especially. Yeah, you can look up, you know, brain projector, showcase stuff on there. You can use that as a wipe-in board, whatever you kind of need. I also have the TV up there where shoes will use that and stuff like that. We have a lot of poker tournaments and a couple other fun activities there already will do and stuff like that on the floors and stuff, but a lot of students you like to use this stuff. It's a quiet place to study and take out and stuff. Thanks, William. So we're going to look at the two types of rooms that we have here. One is called Vita, the gable and the other is just sort of a normal room. So we'll check out the gable first. Five, 26. So, if you live on the north end of the fifth floor, there's some gable rooms, which just means that the rooms are a little smaller because of the ceilings. As you can see, it goes in a little bit. So just a couple of rooms on the fifth floor, a couple of northern end of the rooms and then all of the sixth floor gable rooms. The rest of the building is all what we'll show you then which is a normal layout of the room. And feel free to ask any questions you guys have about any measurements or anything in the gable room or the standard room, which we're going to go look at right now. Yeah, sink. That's one of the really unique features out. Founders. You see. So you own your own individual sink. You have little cabinet drawers, so I have a wreath. So a nice little storage area and stuff like that. We'll leave both of the fridges can also fit underneath the other part of the fridge. Sorry. Many furniture should be able to fit underneath the sink area over here. Besides that, all of the furniture is movable in here except for the sink area, obviously, but you'll have three distinct furniture pieces outside the arm more, which is a desk, nightstand and a three drawer dresser. We're getting a couple of questions. Amy asks, is there a map to show how much of a gable you may have? Room is 519. 519. What do we say, a map of the rooms and stuff like that? On the website, we do have a floor player layout, but it may be, I think it's typical. I don't know that it's exactly representational, but it's pretty accurate. Could they hit you up with an email if they were talking about one specific room? Yeah, if you need to do exact measurements or something like that at your individual room, you can email me at JDGEMUEN at york.edu, and I'd be more glad to answer any questions you might have to any sort of individual measurements. Mike asks, can you measure each shelf inside the closet? Yeah, of course. Here we go. You're especially trying to sort of find. It's about 15 and three-fourths inches deep and then about 16 inches wide. Do you mind giving the height too? Yes. There is a lift there, but I think it goes back. I think they want the other ones. I think they want all, these three maybe look the same. Yeah, they are the same. So it's really just that one and then those two. Yeah. How long were the tape measures? 15 and three-fourths. What was it? Can you say that one? 15 and three-fourths. Okay. High. Deep. Deep. And then about 17 inches wide and then about 36 inches tall. Maybe give them the link. Just one of those. Yes, one of these will be fine. Or just the height of that one. Yeah, just the height. 10 and a half inches. Okay. Someone else asked, did you say gables are on the fourth floor? No. So only some of the rooms on the fifth floor. It's on the northern end. You can always email and ask if one of your rooms is gable, that's fine. But it's just the northern end of the fifth floor and all six floors. And the rest of the building is all of the other rooms. Those rooms are specifically called out on the housing website. Yeah. You go to the Founders Hall page or just Google, you are and Founders on Google and you'll get right to that page. It'll tell you what room numbers. All right. Mike asks, if I bring my own chair, is there any place I can store the original dorm chair? No, unfortunately all furniture that is provided in the student room you have to keep in the student room. You won't be, you shouldn't, you can't bring anything outside of the hall. Chris. Sorry. Kristen asks, do students need dehumidifiers in Founders? I don't know. That's something like we would say, hey, you have to bring this, I mean is each their own, but that's something that you need or want that's allowed to bring your own dehumidifier. But like that's not something I've experienced where people are like, I have to bring some more of those. I think it goes down to personal preference. And I don't think this is a hall, like some of our older halls, you know, we recommend that you don't cover over the ventilation areas and a dehumidifier can help with some of the older issues that a building has. This, I don't think this hall has any of those older, because it's a 2013 building. Yeah, it's pretty modern. And also the other question, do you more love to bring your own chair? It's just like, yeah, I find a kind of space in the room to put it. Yeah, freshman year, my roommate actually brought her own chair. So what she did was she was pulled the desk out from under her bed and then she just kept the old chair and pushed it into the corner. It's actually a little seating for having people over too. Oh yeah, yeah. Pretty good. Amy asks, are there measurements for how high the beds will loft? There are. This is sort of a mid-level lofting right here. If you go to movein.uark.edu, go about midway down the page, to ready to arrive, you'll find an area that says lofting information, mattress information. It's gonna give you the top and the bottom and you can go every three inches between those two values. We just don't know them offhand. Yeah, and if you know where you want your bed lofted to before you arrive, you can always submit a work order for that. So that way you don't have to worry about that right when you arrive. We'll already have that submitted to the right length and height that you want. So if you know you want it on the top level or in the middle level, then you can submit that request. They all should stay at the middle before you get here. Well, not in the middle, but it's a little lower than that, but it's wherever length are for a journey to come fit. But if you have a site, a height that you really want, yeah, you can submit that before you get here through our work request website. Can you tell them how they didn't get there to the work request? Yeah, if they just go to the housing you are and if you go over down to services on that tab, you'll find one that says work requests and you can split it out. It's just like a kind of a Google form. Then we'll get that and go get an email when it's completed and accepted. I can tell a little bit on this one. It's about 56 inches, looks like the finest. You can set it to 56, yes or no? Kristen asked, is there a place to store golf clubs in the dorm? Your room. So anything that you want to store, you can store it in your room for that sense. But there's no additional storage that we have outside of your room. You might consider a third, some off-campus place where you could rent some space. That's a good plan, but we don't have this. Yeah, some people will take out storage, you can stuff like that. There are some good golf courses around here if you want to go do that, so. Someone asked, can you measure the inside of the bathroom drawer and also the dresser drawers, please? Nine and five eighths inches wide. All right, and then the dresser drawer. And then the bottom one's actually kind of taller. So I'm gonna measure like the height. Yeah, I think this one is about three inches, probably deep in that room, and that one's probably what? Six or seven inches and a half foot, about a half foot. Okay. Nine inches deep and one third inches wide. All right. Someone asked, is there a thermostat in the room? There is. And then. Definitely work with your roommate to find a temperature that works for the best for you, for both of you, and find a compromise on that. But yes, that is controllable by all. We do transition from heat to, transition off from heat, to heat or something like that. But once it gets a walk holder. Yeah, somewhere around the spring break, we'll take it to its, where it can only provide coolness. Yeah, and I believe somewhere around Thanksgiving, we turn it so it'll only provide warmth. Yeah. Is this one of those buildings? The transition's completed. So then our goal in housing is to keep you somewhere between 68 and 72 degrees, which is the comfortable level for humans in this part. But, and then you have some range there that you can play with. Mike asks, can you show all the electrical outlets in the room? There are so many here, I'm glad you asked. Yeah. There's like 15. Some right there. There's one, two, right there. A billion right here. Three. Every, sorry, every room is going to have internet ports and a cable box area that you can hook up to your cable box as well. That, A's plus another, there's another one on the seek area. Plus there's a five, so that's 13, 14, 15. There's no one. So there's 15, our average is between eight and 12 and you've got 15 here, so. Someone asked, can you measure the window? Emily, did you use a tension rod or did you use one pretty? I'm using a tension rod right now. Okay. I just used the blinds that they provided. Yeah. It's about 61 inches tall, three to seven inches wide. Let me give a quick shout out to these blinds. Can you pull it real quick? So it's not blackout, it's not blackout, but it's pretty dark. You're not going to get a ton of sunlight coming in. Oh yeah. Someone asked, can you measure the length between the beds? Yes. And it is movable. Yeah, do they want, like, for wall to wall or are they just curious about the current? Probably like dresser to dresser. I've heard of configurations. Yeah, I would take this, I would take this bar and do the book between the blocks. Yeah. And it's kind of hard to just line it up. 61 inches. You're talking about a rug. Someone asked, are there drawers on the desk? Yes. There's this lockable drawer right here. So if you do want to put the eyeballs in here, you can lock it and it won't like... Yeah, it will lock. It will lock. You just have to actually lock. Yeah. And that drawer is separate from the desk itself. There's not one on the actual desk, but that, like I said, all three pieces of these furniture are movable. So you can use it as like an additional part of your desk or as a nightstand or whatever you kind of want to use it for. And pro tip on the lock, don't get one where the key goes in, but get one that has the little numbers on it. That way you won't have any risks that you're going to lose a key. Yeah. Kristen asked, hanging stuff on the walls, monkey hooks question mark? I would encourage you not to use anything that's going to damage the wall. So, like, if you do, you can just be followed instructions very clearly and make sure that you're removing it properly. These otherwise, if you do damage the wall, there are fees associated that, and those fees are located in the student handbook guide for our housing handbook and stuff. So if you do use that sort of stuff, please, please, please, follow the instructions of how to use it properly. They don't just rip it off and stuff like that, please. Command strips and blue painter's tape. Yeah. They're recommended. Yeah. And someone asked, is it possible to see a quick look at a non-gabled corner room? Is there more than one window in a corner room? I would say I'm pretty sure most of the rooms that are in the week don't look at them. The hallway, if that's okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's perfectly fine. I wonder if we have any more questions in here. Yeah, let's do that. And then we can finish up. Yeah, let's table that question for the man. Okay. Mike asked, can you measure the two desks? Maybe, he means like, the desk and the knife stand together? Let's do both separately. I'll do it separately. I don't know how, literally. 32 and a half inches of wide, or inches deep, and then get the tree to the height. Oh, can you measure? About 30 and three, so I can actually call. And then, let's put them in the second piece, okay? Yeah, yeah, so it's because they're all three movable, you can combine them, whatever you kind of want to do. 17 inches wide, 24 and three fourths inches long. Someone asked, can you measure from underneath the counter to the floor? This is the door, no, okay. So I'm gonna measure from this one, and from that one, because they're all separate. Oh, that lip, yeah, yeah, right there. This one's about 26 and a fourth, and then this one is 32 and three fourths. Nora asks, which side is A and which side is B? Also, is a safe recommended? So, when I say A and B side, honestly, you can typically just choose your own side. That's just you and your roommate choosing which side that you want to pick as A and B. But typically, we would say where I'm gonna walk in, A and then B, so A would be left and B would be right. But it's really up to you and your roommate and I kind of just want to decide that. And then is that the question? Safe recommendation of safe. It's up to you, if that's a preference that you'd like to do, maybe if you don't know your roommate and stuff like that, you can bring a safe, just be safe. But it's really up to you. I have had students bring safe before, so it's really just up to you. If you have valuables and stuff like that, you wanna make sure, because you have roommates bring it up and come over. Sometimes you don't know those other people that might be bringing it over. So if you have this sort of items and you just wanna be extra secure, go for it. But we don't deal with a lot of theft in the resident rooms at all. And especially since they are locked, the doors lock when we leave. So it's an actually like security measure to it. Like we showed you the fall up access and that sort of stuff. So our buildings are safe and stuff like that. So like I said, it's just really up to you. If you'd like to bring one. Mike asks, do I have to request to change the bed frame height? You can request or you can do it yourself. It's either one. If you're not sure before you get here, but you decide you want to change it and stuff like that when you get here, we have mallets downstairs. So you can help get the bed frame out of there. And you can work with your members here with you to move the height anytime during the year. You're gonna request if you don't wanna do it yourself. We'll have many people to help you out with that. I would give you a just a heads up that first kind of day. The first couple of days it's gonna be super hectic. So you put a request right when you get here. It might take you a couple of days to do that request for you, but you can do it yourself or we can help you out with that. Three things you might wanna consider when you're moving in or bring with you. Rubber mallets always good to have. As Joy mentioned, we do have rubber mallets, but it doesn't hurt if you've got your own rubber mallets or just toss it in the back of the car and you've got it. A dolly, we do have some dollars you can rent with an ID or rent. Yeah, just borrow with an ID. But bringing your own is never a bad idea. And third, packing in smaller boxes that are easier to carry. You're gonna have a better experience that way. Someone asked, is there an outlet under the sink area? Probably either of them. Yes, there's one over there. Mm-hmm, I like sorrows. 16, 17. Aiden asked, how high are the beds lofted already in this room? I think we measured it a moment ago, was it 52 or something, 55? Was that the highest? Or I think he's talking about right now. I think I can go higher. Yeah, okay. Let's see, right now, it's at, right now it's about 35 inches. And then maximum, I was wrong, maximum is gonna be 59 inches right there already. All right. Amy asked, can you go back into the gable room and spend a few minutes so we can see how the furniture fits with the smaller room size? Okay. Anything else for this room at the moment? We already did that. Yes, the dresser under the bed is also movable. Someone wants to see a corner gable room. And did we measure the dresser? It's the same as the others. Yeah. Okay, then we're caught up and we can go. Let's go back to the gable and then we'll end in the corner. So one of the, the biggest difference in furniture for the gable rooms is just going to be the dressers. They are smaller. So, what's the address? Sorry, our doors. They are gonna be smaller than the typical ones. But other than that, the rest of the furniture is going to be the same. And then there's the extra window. Yeah, some of them, some of the gable rooms, I believe have extra windows with them. That's the similar way. And I think they wanted to see a corner room. That was, here's a gable corner. Yeah, the both gable corners. And then I think they wanted to see a normal, okay, the board as well. Here's a gable corner, in particular. Am I giving it a quick 360 in there? Yes. How much the towel racks in the back of the door, so that's really nice, actually. All right, there's a 360. We have a question from Amy. Amy asks, she has a couple of questions. She says, how much smaller is the gable room? The measure, I can't tell you off the top of my head, but there are measurements on our e-work website and they'll tell you exactly there. I will say only, yeah, it's only the males of the fifth and sixth board that will have this gable room, but it does have the dimensions on the website. And Amy also asks, for the gable rooms, is the closet size also on the website? We can do the size right now, if she's curious. Yeah. Do they want specific measurements? Yeah, what part is she? She was wondering how much smaller is the armoire. Yeah, we would have to measure to tell you exactly. I'd say just do the height and the width. This one's about 60 inches. Okay. And the width of it? The width of it? The width should be this, oh, is it? Oh, the width is the same? The width should be the same, but you can go ahead and do it just to make sure, though. Yes, I got you. I'm sure we've got 36. Yep. All right. All right. Exactly on the width. Yeah, it is, there you go. And then any other questions before? We can show you a quarter, just normal room as well. I think that was one of the questions around the windows. But besides that, some other interesting facts about the building, it is a co-ed. The building we have two understudents that live here. The second and the fourth floor are all female, the fifth and sixth are male. The third floor is actually where our business LLC is located. It is a co-ed floor. It's just like any other floor right here. It's just put males on one side, females on the other side. And that's where business LLC is located. It's one part of it. The other half of the students are part of the business LLC living Humphreys, which is just the neighboring building. Other things to make sure you guys get involved in, when you guys get here, move in is A-week. We have a lot of fantastic events for you guys to get to take part in and get to know our students and stuff like that here. We do have one exciting program that's new this year. It's a Pick One initiative. It is an opportunity for you to pick one organization that you're really excited about and want to try to get to know information about and join. And each of those organizations are gonna host their own special event for you guys to know, so there's students that are also interested in doing this organization. Yeah. Pick one that you are planning to do, I think is the website. That is correct. And for us at Housing, I think we want you to get you involved in RIC. I believe that's one of our programs. Yeah, RIC Lead Hogs. We'll have a lot of early awesome, I believe our lead hogs are doing a field day and everything for it. So yeah, very nice. Here we are on the opposite side of the building. Yeah, so there is what a corner room looks like. It's got two windows. It's a little bigger space than some of the other rooms since it is a corner room, but it'll have two windows in here, one side and the other side. So yeah. Do you have anything to say to the incoming first year students or any advice or anything? Yeah, definitely get involved. Especially like during a week like Joey was saying, that's where I met a lot of my friends, but also I met a lot of my friends by just going door to door and just knocking. So, surprising how nice people are, especially first of the year, and they don't know anyone and you don't know anyone, so yeah. Do you have any? Yeah. Anything else to say? Get involved and get to know people. That's why I'm here. You know, outside of just, you're here more than just an education and this is an awesome learning experience and me a lot of lifetime and friends why you're here. So get involved, you know, put yourself out there, you know, break out of your shell if you need to and get to know some people and you know, have a good time and we're here. You all have our RAs that live in the dorm as well to help you guys get involved and they're a great resource to definitely reach out and get to know your RA. We'll have one per floor and stuff like that for you all to get to know. But on that, we're excited to have you all here and in a couple of weeks was just super exciting and if you all need anything else, don't hesitate to reach out to us and we'll see you soon.