 Good afternoon! Welcome to the UR Come live tour of the Maple Hill neighborhood. My name is Courtney. I'm a junior here at the University of Arkansas and I'm from Fayetteville so feel free to ask me any questions about the campus or the city or whatever you can think of. Behind the camera today is Channing. I'll let her introduce herself. Hi guys, my name is Channing. I am a senior communication major on campus and I am from Springville, Arkansas which is right next door to Fayetteville. So if you guys have any questions today, please comment them throughout the video and we will be sure to answer those for you guys. And let us know where you're from. Yeah, we're both from Northwest Arkansas so we like seeing where people are coming from. Before we go in I'm just going to show you what's surrounding us. So right under that awning over there you can see it in there. There's something called Club Red which is just like a little convenience store. There's snacks and coffee and drinks and a bunch of good stuff in there. I lived in Reed which is actually right over there and so on my way to class I would stop there and get snacks all the time. And then right down this hallway is the Fulbright Dining Hall which is your closest dining hall so you'll probably be going there a lot. And then if you can see over here in the bottom of this building there's a little restaurant and you can actually use your meal tray there at night so you can just go and use one of your swipe and they'll have like chicken nuggets and just all the good stuff there. I went there a time so that's really nice. And then there's this giant field that's used for all sorts of things. People are always playing frisbee or catch or football and then sometimes there's even events like they'll get a big blowout TV and they'll have a movie night out here so there's a lot of stuff going on in this neighborhood. Really nice. Looks like Carol says hello. Yeah. Thanks for watching. Is this a tour maybe right in front of us? I think this may be a tour. We'll go ahead and sign. Even as we spin. Bye. We have that so don't leave the door open. But you do have fobs for security so if you live here you'll just swab in and then you're good. We're actually in the common space right now. Maybe from the south. Yes we're in the south. I'll show you. Security. A big study space right here. Yeah this is really nice. Whenever you want to get out of your room and just hang out. Fireplace. Yeah cozy little fireplace. I really like this room. It's really cozy. It's a big good place to make friends. Common areas are really good for that. You're an Indian people. These are pretty big neighborhood. I think about like 900 students all together by a few. So we're lucky enough to have CREs with us today. Do you guys want to introduce yourself? I'm the CRE or Hall Director of Maple Hall West. I'm Lene Patterson. I'm our third four south is currently out but that is Jake Talley. Yeah do you want to kind of tell them what you guys do around here? Yeah definitely. So a Hall Director is basically a live-in professional. We have master's degrees. We're here to serve you as our residents. We also oversee the RAs and we actually live on campus as well. So our experience is kind of similar to yours in that we go to programs. We interact with faculty and we also work within the housing office to make sure that the halls are safe and that you enjoy our event. So they're going to be going on tour with us today so if you have any questions. Got people that know it all. We've got the front desk right here. How does mail work in Maple Hill South? We've got different mail boxes that are out here so you'll actually be able to come pick up some of your mail from the boxes that are here in the lobby and if you have a package you should receive an email that says they have a package to come pick up. You can come to the front desk here if you have like a large package that needs to be and we do have limited hours when you can pick up that package so when you move in just ask your area for more information. Thanks. Hey good to see you there. Now they may see you. What's your name? Johan. Yeah so you may meet Johan when you come down to Maple Hill South. Awesome. Thank you. Nick said he was an RA here and he loved it so that's awesome. Thanks for joining us. Yeah we're going to show off some of the outside bases before we go. There's a lot of places to hang out out here. This is a really big neighborhood. There's a ton of green space here which is really nice especially if you're maybe from like Central Texas or something like that. Oh yeah. Lana Green. There's a lot of people from Texas. Oh yeah. And so now we're coming up to East and West. West will be on your left and East is on your right. Fire pit so sometimes like roast marshmallows or just different things. Yeah so we do have a grill. We do a lot of outdoor programming. We do a yoga class out here several times a semester. It's just a great space to like throw a ball around or if you want to sit out in the sunshine and get your vitamin D for the day it's just a great spot for that. Yeah so like we have those spots where students will come out and set up hammocks and just kind of relax and lounge around. The hammock. Yeah there's always hammocks. Big part of college. Yeah this is where you can find all of our residents like on a nice fall day or right before a football game they like to chill out down here because we're a couple minutes walk from the stadium which is a great feature. Nice. We have what 62 people watching so yeah just let us know where you're from. We love to know that. Yes. I like the red brick architecture quite a bit. It's a very classic university. You show the fob. It's a fob system. We also have a pool table in Maple East so if you want to play pool we have that improved for that equipment it's all behind the desk and that's also where you go pick up your packages as well. That's our study room. Very cozy. There's a lot of just open space. Sure. Now you did read right? I did. Did you ever come here? I did. I did hear a lot to study with friends. They have whiteboards in the study rooms which are super nice especially like I remember when I was in Anatomy we would always use the whiteboards in here to study. We just worked by a water facility where you can bring your own bottle and a lot of people do in fact do that is bringing their own water bottle. Carol asked if we're currently in East or West? East. Maple Hill East. So even if you're in West you'll pick up your mail in East and some of the study notes and spaces like common spaces are available to you as well here at West We've got a question for about fobs. Do you know are you fobbed by building or when you're with maples you can kind of move throughout the building? To my knowledge if you're a West resident you can fob into this space so this isn't actually residential it's not residential until you fob in again to go upstairs so the West residents don't have access to the East resident to my knowledge but this common area you would have access to that so that you can get your mail and enjoy some of the classrooms and common areas. Yeah some of the university perspectives are held here so you might have a foundation level course try and think what other classes have been held here I think some agriculture classes but don't be surprised if you might you know you might have a class in maple We're getting some questions about room measurements we are going to go up to a room a couple of rooms later on in the tour so if you have questions when we get to the room that'd be a great time to ask them. You're a fob isn't it? Thank you. So now we're in the residential area. Yeah. I think we're going to look at this study area here first. Yeah there's one of these on each floor. Oh that's true. They're all kind of the same I guess aren't they? Our first floor is the only one that's different because it has an actual stove top so the other floors won't have the stove but you can't come down to the first floor and cook on the first floor. And do you find that people do come in and do some cooking? Yes actually we do have students that occasionally come in and like cook their own meal or occasionally they really want cookies so that's always a blast to watch students come in and make their own cookies and stuff. Occasionally we do have programs that come in here and we'll do like a big cooking program. What was the program? We used to do midnight midnight breakfast. Yeah that was like a fun like finals event but we also did a cooking and chocolate class. So we did chocolate tasting and they got to make their own pasta dish which was really cool. Some of the students have never cooked before so we do offer some of those cooking classes. It's one of those adult-age builds. Yeah for sure. It's important. Can you get your bean supplies before the next two? Yes we've got some cooking sheets, some baking pans and stuff. There's I think there's a queue for utensils and stuff so you should be able to get those with the equipment that you would need to make. You just need to buy the actual ingredients yourself. That's always fun. We make cookies a lot. You definitely have your cookie cravings and you can always set it in the air. A lot of study space you smell like. Did you hear the shoes all right? I am which is weird because I feel like I just lived in Reed. I feel like I just started. It goes by unbelievably fast. Yes. It's really sad. And you're graduating? Yes it'll be my last year next year. Time flies so enjoy it for sure. Do you know what's next for you? TBD? I love the whole city. TBD. The maple east and west and there's also a lounge like this in south on each floor so what you see here is literally mirrored in maple west. Do you do a lot of floor level programming or is it mostly building level? So our floors we like to have a like very fun friendly community so we'll do like little cooking nights things like that. We'll watch movies but as far as like our educational programming or like social programming we tend to do all maples so all three of the buildings will get together. We'll do a cookout or for each specific building we'll all do something together so like maple west we did a sushi night a couple months ago and we all made sushi and talked to the japanese student association so we do a lot of things like that. That's fun. So let's go check out laundry I think and then there's a study space whatever you for? Yes several. Okay. Yeah I think so that's really cool I don't know that we have that many buildings usually you're either going up the stairs or down the stairs and I believe it's right here on the left and there are two per floor so that's good to keep in mind. There's a countertop we use. We have an app called Laundryler so you can see the numbers and like the scanning stuff and machines so that you don't want to come check and make sure that something's available you can just check the app and then when you are using it you can scan the machine and put the number you're using and you'll get an application way to your stuff so you don't have to sit in your way on it. Yes super convenient. Yeah it's very nice and it's nice that there's so many laundry rooms in here so it will be offer. Good wipe one. Yeah are these used for like reminders of RA's right side lines? They write all kinds of stuff so if I write like to write like little reminders of like things that are coming up and then sometimes like encouraging words or if we have a program coming up or an event coming up soon we'll usually use that as advertising. Nice. And these are open 24 hours so you can stay in here and there's a big white order on the wall. Will residents have to bring their own expo markers for the whiteboards or are those provided? We have some for checkout but we would recommend just picking up a couple that way you always have some if you're not waiting for someone else to be done first. Yeah there are four of these study rooms on each floor in east and west. We have one that's like this which is perfect for group projects so it's like a conference style and then the other one which you'll see in this packet is more of like a lounge so like the one we just saw. Yeah we're going to check out the lounge too. Yeah these are definitely in use a lot especially finals week study rooms are crazy everywhere. Yes. So like you'll come in here and people will already be here or what's the etiquette around that? Really it's just first come first serve. First come first serve. Yeah first serve so they nearly swim but this one's more like a living room and did you say there's four on every floor? So four of these smaller ones and then one main lounge. Right. And the lounges on the first floor have an oven so you can make those cookies and then on the other floors we have like a microwave oven so if you wanted to like pop in I don't know like a lean cuisine or something. Yeah I like I always like having the option of being able to put because it just makes it feel like more at home. Yeah Yeah and actually if you don't want to bring a microwave in a fridge we do offer them so it's through like a third party but you can basically go ahead and reserve that and then it'll be ready to go in your room that's always a feature we like to tell our residents about we just don't want to have to move that in. You can go to movein.ur.edu and there's information about how you can rent I believe a refrigerator or a microwave and maybe some other things. Yeah that's like a whole unit so it's awesome. Yeah so let's go check out 416. 416. Which in this case is a loft style. It has that area up above but the first floor that you're going to see is very typical of Maple Hill residences. Do you want to head upstairs first? Yeah sure. The lofts are really cool. Oh yeah. Imagine a lot of people put their game systems up here or they're going to attain the console. This wouldn't be the typical style we have typically it's just the first floor but we did want to make sure people who had a loft knew what it looked like. Chase wants to know if you have to use this furniture that comes with it. So you don't have to use the furniture but it has to remain in the room. That is to say we would expect it to like when you check in it's there when you check out it's there because you will be charged if it's not. We're going to show this one. So now we're going to order resident rooms. So all of the rooms do come with this setup so you do have a bed that is loftable which means that you can remove this and move it up if you'd like to move the desk underneath or like you bring a futon or something you want some extra room to work with. You also have a desk which comes with drawers and then a chair which is actually more comfortable than it looks. It's very comfortable. And then you also have a wardrobe so sorry I'm a little tango with you here and you have another set of drawers here as well as a drawer on bottom and then you have room for all of your clothing items. Do you want to show them the chair trick? The chair trick? Yeah have you ever seen it? No I haven't. No one will show me. It's kind of like a painting there. Oh sorry. Yeah. So they're just a little bit in the back and then. Wow that's crazy I didn't know that. So you have a little side table on it. Yeah you got your little table. And then you have a little ottoman thing you put your feet up or something. Yeah. Isn't that funny? A lot of people like I didn't even know. How should I figure that out? I don't really remember. One day. It's too funny. Yeah so you always have that option. Also this um laptop here's like a core board so you can like hit up those and stuff. It's kind of cool. A lot of students don't know about that so little no facts. We have a measurement question. Um can we get the width of the headboard? Yeah feet five inches. Perfect. Um and Nicole and Sano if you loft your bed high enough to put your desk under is there room for a headboard? A lot of these are really tall headboards because yeah if you were to put it up it would be about like probably about right here would be as high as you want it to be safely. From top of the headboard or top of this to the ceiling it's three feet. Three feet. Because you've lofted someone underneath that probably. Yeah probably right here is where you want to be and then we do have a stabilizer bar as well just so that it's safe. And then when you do a ride you will need to loft it yourself but we do have arrays that can assist and we have mallets and all you do is you just pop it off and you can stick it on top so. Awesome. Jennifer wants to know the measurements of the corkboard behind the desk. And Kelly wants to know other lights on the desks under the shelf. There should be a little twist light. I'm not sure if it's plugged in right now. Oh yeah. There is one. Yes there is one. Yep it's right under. And if for any reason that's not working then you can go to housing.uart.edu forward slash fix it and they can turn in a request there they will come and fix it for you no cost. Yeah so if a light goes out or anything like that you just go to that website and then they'll come fix it for you. Alina wants to know the measurement from the top of the window to the floor. I don't know if you can reach that. Let's see probably with an actual analog type measure. Yeah. See if we can't get it that way. Because I can get to I can get easily from here. I feel a little bit of math. Let's see that is approximately 37 inches to right here. Yeah. Can you give me a measurement can you give me the measurement from the top of that to the floor. That is 4 feet 9 inches. 4 feet 9 inches plus 37 inches. We are not math people. But there you go. Lauren wants to know the measurement between the two beds. And it will vary between room. Okay. So if you have a two person suite which means you walk in and it's one room with two beds that will be different than this. Okay. Just so that you're aware a little disclaimer. So like this there's four feet eight inches between the two beds. This all this furniture is movable. Yes. So you can put in whatever configuration you want. Yeah. Yes. See these a lot of different ways so you can always move separately on them. People get very creative. But again the furniture does need to remain in the room throughout the year. So when you check in it's expected that it's here and when you check out same thing it's expected that it's here. Awesome. We had a request for the measurement between the mattress and the bed post. So is there any mattress and bed post? Yeah. Yeah. They're asking for a headboard. It's going to be very small. Yeah. So the bed will push a little bit one way or the other. It's probably a matter of an inch maybe. Yeah. It's about an inch or two. An inch. Could you get them to the wall to the to the headboard too? That might be helpful. It looks like they're trying to build something. I mean from the back of it to the wall there's about five inches but a lot of people will just sit headboards in here and I know mine was probably about an inch or two thick and I could fit between the mattress and that. Sherry wants to know if the rooms come with cable, TV and ethernet. Yes. So they definitely come with cable and HBO. Yeah. Wi-Fi absolutely. Yes. We have a service called ResNet that makes sure that happens. Ethernet may or may not be in your room. We've been in a transitional period with that but you have a lot of Wi-Fi. Okay. Kendall wants to know can you remove the black bar on the side of the bed? The stabilizer bar. I personally don't know offhand if it's low enough if you can or not. Do you happen to know offhand? If not we can come back in and answer that question. Does the stabilizer bar need to remain there at all times? It's good that it remains there because it basically keeps the two sides of the bed from like collapsing in on you. So I would recommend that you keep it up there and we do inspections every so often just to make sure that it is still present. If it does go missing then you would get charged for it. So I would recommend just keeping it up there for safety purposes and if you loft your bed you'll just move it down a bit. Awesome. Elaine wants to know if they can take the headboard slats off? They are not removable. No. They are built into the wood. Yes. That's what keeps the bed up. It's the part of the bed. Yeah but people do decorate them. Definitely. You don't have to decorate it or put a headboard in front of it, whatever you'd like to do. Why Christmas lights are a thing? Yes. There's a lot of options. I've seen some very cute rooms. Stacy wants to know if there's a rod above the window? There is. So there is one up there? There is not. This was probably a modification from a student last year. So we are still going through the rooms and making sure they're good to go for all of you. So typically there's not a curtain rod but if you want to add one with a command strip that's really fine just be very careful of the paint. And then tension rods are commonly used. I don't think that one would accommodate a tension rod too. There is a little panel on top but if you, I mean maybe, probably not though. But then you did read where we have those slats as well. They have, sorry, lines. Yes. Did you have any issues with sleeping and sunlight coming in? I really didn't. My bed was right next to the window. We never got curtains. We just used the blinds next time. So not a necessity. Julie wants to know the measurement from the desktop to the bottom of the overhang shelf. Okay. Overhang shelf. That's not in here. There's a lip here that's probably four inches. In Meredith we are in a four person suite right now with a loft. So behind this little lip it's one foot and ten inches but if I go to it where's my laser? It's one foot seven inches. One foot seven inches. From here to here. Including the lip. Yes. Okay. We had a couple questions about the bathroom. Can we go in there really quick? The shower. Yeah. Thanks. And again it will depend on which suite you have. So sometimes those two person suites they have a little bit more room but you do have a nice spacious walk-in shower right here. It does have a built-in shelf. Yeah. I would recommend you get a shower caddy though because you will be sharing it with several other people. Right. It does come with a shower curtain as well. So just make sure at the end of the year it stays here as well. And then here is the toilet. And then there are some towel racks over here as well. One for each person. So that's nice. And you have room for a little shelf right here or if you want to put something on this side right by the toilet for towels or any other little necessities. You have room for that. This is a very typical bathroom right? Yes. I would say about yeah about more than half have this style. Typically when you have a two person suite you have a little bit more room to work with but there's not a lot of variation between them. And on the second I guess on the first floor we have our showroom. Do you know if we have any two person suites on this floor? The showroom should be a two person suite. Okay. Do you know if we have any on here on the floor floor? Yes definitely. Yeah definitely. I can show you one. Thank you so much. Sherri wants to know who cleans the bathroom. Yeah. Which is good because it's a great way to become independent, learn about you know what it means to live in an apartment if you decide to do that you know after college or as a sophomore. So yeah you will be expected to keep the space clean and that is a challenge for some of our residents but our arrays are here to help you. We also have cleaning supplies at the front desk that you can use. Awesome. We had a question about the measurement in this space right here. Okay sure. All right. I think they want to know this little cubby back here for shelving like maybe like this width so maybe like from here to the yeah yeah that'd be perfect. And then if I go from the end of the wall that's about two feet deep. Two feet deep. Okay awesome. Hope wants to know if you change out the shower curtain is it a special size? Any standard shower curtain should fit. You can just have a little extra room if you get like a larger one but it shouldn't be a problem. If you do decide to use your own just make sure to fold this and put it somewhere so you can put it back up at the end of the year. That way you don't get charged for the shower Good idea. That's a great question. Thank you for all the good questions. Yeah I think we're caught up. Okay. Want me to go look at that two person? Yeah definitely. And if for some reason we didn't get to your question we will be going back after the video and answering the questions that we didn't get to. Right here. Yeah this is going to be a two person this week. This is 418. And just as a reminder the rooms in east and west are identical so although we're showing the rooms in east just know that west is going to look literally the same. There we go. We're moving around here we can kind of get the idea. So like I said the second person that you draw a little bit more space to work with You kind of see how this little dooper here. Yeah. Are we going in here? Okay. Yeah. Make sure to see how you can move these wardrobes anywhere you want. Yeah. That's pretty moveable. I love these little corner rooms. They're really nice. You have two windows. Yeah good lighting here. Yeah. And again like I said you have a little more room in the two person suite that you don't have in the four person. Chase wants to know what about the maple south rooms. Will they be the same? Yes they're the same as well. Sorry I forgot to add that. All the maples are designed to be identical. Now some of the layouts of the floor is a little bit different. So in south you have a long hall and then short holes on the end whereas in east and west you have like it's like perfectly like three proms if that makes sense. So the hallways are a little bit different but the rooms are identical. Okay well it's so much to know if we can measure the distance between these two beds in here. Yes I got it. It's six feet and four inches between these two beds. Nice. Any other measurements? Not right now. Well let us know. Yeah you can always go back and comb it like we said and be sure to go through and look at those and get them answered for you. Yeah it takes a little time because we're going through all the questions from the beginning of the York home live series but eventually we'll get here and we'll go back and answer those questions even if we answer them by voice. Bring less than you think you need because sometimes we do see students they get in and they're like I don't have room for anything so I would just say just bring less than you think that you need and if you want to decorate or bring more things you can always run home and get stuff on the next time you go home like if you go home on the weekend or we have lots of great furniture stores you can teach you math or just like that so if you want to buy a little something through your room that's a good option. Fable funky? Sure yeah it's a little other store. I just want to say like get excited and get, I'm putting my word but get pumped for the area. Yeah. I get decided to learn more about your roommate and campus and everything else that comes with living on campus and have an open mind to be willing to meet people. A week is going to be amazing so definitely like don't miss out on the events go to as many events as you can get to know your RA that's going to help you as a student and you're going to feel like you're really home while you're here. Yeah don't be afraid to go to your RA if you have any questions that's going to help you and make you feel welcome here. Make lots of friends because I really love you guys. It's awesome. I love all your fans. Yes. I have a question here so much and yeah it's just it's like a link you know. Oh yeah. Do you feel like you just started? Yes. I just started it's crazy but I'm glad that I can show you guys around. Thank you for tuning in and be sure to check our website for our schedule for the other tours we're going to be getting. Yeah. Thank you.