 Hi everyone, my name is Abigail Asambaya. I'm one of the conference ambassadors here over the summer. I will be giving you guys a tour of Duncan and its apartments. Monitoring our camera, we have Henry. Hey y'all, I'm gonna move this around a little bit. My name is Henry, I'm working for Housing this summer and yeah, I'll be recording this session today and if you have any questions feel free to put them in the chat and I'll be sure to ask Abby about them and yeah, also be sure to let us know where you're tuning in from City and State. But Abby, where are we going to first? We're gonna go to the left, we're going to come into the great room of the Duncan apartments which is located in Duncan B. Gotcha. Well over here we have one of our CREs. Hi. Hi, I'm Jackie, I am CRE for a doki. However, I did live here for a year when I was a graduate student here at the University of Arkansas. So I'm pretty familiar with this space. I enjoyed my time living in Duncan so much and it's in such a unique part of campus and there's so many great spaces for meeting new people, hanging out with friends and overall I just love my time in Duncan. So where we're at now is actually the community building, it is the building of Duncan. So this is typically where some of our programs happen. Our program is basically an event that is planned by the staff that work here. There's probably gonna be food, music, all kinds of fun things, games. So a lot of events are happening here. I know in the winter we love to do a hot chocolate sort of event here which is really nice. But we also really like to utilize the outdoor space here. It is such a unique area of campus to be able to experience the outdoors. It's a really nice setting. Awesome, cool. Well y'all be sure to let us know what questions you have in the chat about Duncan. We're gonna move on now. Abby, where are we heading to next? We're going to go up. Cool. Abby, what's your major? And everyone in the chat, let us know what your major is as well. So I'm an International and Global Studies major. I've just changed my major so I will be taking all the classes in the fall. I also have a minor in Spanish as well. Oh, super cool. Are you excited for your classes or not really? Yeah, I'm actually enrolled in a lot of classes that I'm really looking forward to. So while many people dread starting the fall, I'm personally really excited to get started in the fall. It's always nice to be excited about your classes and not dreading them. Yeah, this is the face of first time since I started in the University of Arkansas. But I think it's because I'm finally following a career that I'm excited for. So that's definitely the important thing is you'll enjoy it for years. And y'all, we may have lost connection a little bit. And again, we just regained connection after being in the elevator. So where are we at now, Abby? So this is the gym area. This is located on the second floor of Duncan Beach, which is right above the desk area. So once you're into the front desk, if you go to the elevator, it'll take you up to the second floor. All the gym equipment here is free. It is included in your tuition of your dorm. So when you pay for your housing, you're paying for this gym as well. As you can tell, there are a lot of equipment. Anything here that is, anything that is here can be used. We ask that you please just don't take it out of the room. Yeah, that about sums up the gym. If anyone has any questions, please put them in the chat. All right. So how many buildings is Duncan composed of? Duncans? Mm-hmm. We have Duncan A, which is apartments, Duncan B. We have Duncan D, which is down here. And then we have Duncan E, which is at the very end of the street. Gotcha. So this right here is a parking garage. And then that building over there is Champions Hall, one of our academic buildings for the university. Gotcha. And we lost a little bit of connection there. Could you explain what this garage is for? Yeah, so this is a parking garage. It's called Harmon Garage. It's available to the residents. You can buy a parking pass for this garage. There are certain floors dedicated to residential parking. So when you get your parking pass, just keep an eye out for which floor you can park in. And then you can park there across the street and then come to your apartment. Awesome. Good deal. So where are we headed to next? And our CRE Jackie will give you guys a more in-depth explanation of that. Yeah, so typically what happens, most residence halls, your mail comes to a central desk in the building. And then you will receive your mail that way. Here it's a little bit unique because USPS, Amazon, all of those places have access to this area. So if your package and your paper mail will fit in these mailboxes, it will go here. But if it is something that is too large to fit in these boxes, it'll get delivered to the front desk during business hours. And then you will receive an email from University Housing that you have packaged, which is really exciting. We love packages. Yeah, that's kind of how mail works here. Awesome. Good deal. All right. All righty. So now we're going to go on the Greenway. And we're going to go down to like a little outdoor patio that is available in the Duncan apartment. So what year are you, Abby? So I'm currently a sophomore. I'm a little bit ahead. So I'm about a semester ahead of what a normal sophomore has got. So I came in with a lot of credit. So it's a little interesting to see how. You're credit is accumulating in your book years. A lot of AP classes. Yeah, I did some concurrent classes in high school, which if you did that, you're going to be very, very thankful you did that because it takes you out of all those basic courses, which sometimes can just be a pain. If you didn't, that's totally fine, too. It's a good jump start coming into high school and to college is a good way to just get back into that gear of starting to learn education again. Gotcha. So this is the Duncan apartment patio. We have a grill, a little patio. It's called a canopy where we have a picnic table. You're more than welcome to bring your own chairs out here and sit down. And then we have our fireplace, fire pit right here, which is a good place to hang out, roast some s'mores, come read a book at night once it gets a little bit colder. It's a little hot right now. But if the hot stir thing, you're more than welcome to come out here. I'm more of a winter person, so I would be out here in the winter reading my book. Definitely. All right, well, y'all, let us know if you have any questions about this outdoor space or about Duncan in general. And I believe we're going to go see a room next. So you said you're a sophomore. What was your favorite thing, your freshman year? Favorite thing about freshman year? I really enjoyed my first few weeks as a freshman. I was super involved in A-week, which will we go over a little bit more later. As well as I was involved in Leigh Hogs, which is a freshman program. Some of you may be enrolled in. Those were two of my favorite parsley hogs lasted throughout the whole year, so I was able to. Oh, there's one space. Sorry, we're going to look at one space really quick. It's some outdoor storage that Abby will show us. Uh-huh. It's a hard tool. You got it? There we go. I would recommend putting anything that is durable outside. Bicycles, a lot of times, would be good. Bicycles, if you place boards, you can put your soccer balls out here. If you like to go swimming, like deep diving, you could put anything out here. I believe you need your own lock, right? Yes, you will need your own lock. Gotcha. I'll lock the door and keep it safe. Gotcha. So we're going to go upstairs and head to look at this park. And you were talking about a week in Leed Hogs? Yeah, so Leed Hogs is a program available to freshmen. I will be one of the representatives of Leedmore, so I might see a few of you if you're enrolled in Leed Hogs. But it was super fun getting to work with residents that lived in my dorm, but as well as the staff, because the RA staff of the dorm will be super involved. Gotcha. I would definitely keep a lookout for any programs that they host, because it is really, really fun to be in. But we have reached 205 hour rooms. So we'll go ahead and step in five. Awesome. What was your room number? I think it was 205, but in what? Oh, wow. What a coincidence. 205 in another building. Yeah. All right, so talk us through what's going on in here. So this is, I guess, a typical living room slash hangout area, so you have our living room. You can put up a TV, you have your chairs, and then over here we have a kitchen. There is a microwave, a stove, an oven, a dishwasher, and a fridge, all which work and come included in every single apartment that is in this complex. You have a storage area, so you can cut. What's the main distinction between two types of rooms in the dumpkin, do you know? So what I have come to understand in the May difference between the dumpkin rooms is the living rooms of the bedrooms of stairs. Only two of them have a balcony and one will not. But all dumpkin apartments have this similar layout of the kitchen. I think the only major difference would be that as well as the style of the bathroom. And we just got a question from Hailey Sullivan is, can we look in the fridge? Yeah. We didn't look at it before, let's look in there. Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. All right. So this is the fridge, got some plenty of space there. Everything's clean. And this is the freezer. So this is how much space you all have for food. All right, thank you. Good question. And let us know any other questions you have. Jackie, do you have anything you want to add? Just to clarify a little bit about the differences between the apartments. Just a little bit more. You can see the diagram of the layout of the apartment on housing.york.eu if you go to dumpkin apartments. But the main thing is that there are two bathrooms in the lower story dumpkin apartments. There'll be one on the first floor and one on the second floor. Two bedrooms will be downstairs and two bedrooms will be upstairs. And I want to say that the laundry room is also upstairs in those first level apartments. And then we have second level apartments. All four bedrooms will be upstairs. Two of those will have a balcony. That'll be your A and B room. C and D room do not have a balcony. And then the other big difference is that the second story apartment only has one bathroom that is shared between the four students living in that space. Gotcha. Yeah, that's dumpkin. Awesome, thank you. We just got another question about measurements of the living room area. So do we have that measure over here? So they weren't, let's, I would say probably, Christopher, you think we start like from this countertop over there? What are we measuring exactly? They didn't specify. So let us know what specifically you want us to measure and we'll get that down. And they're also on our website, but we're in the process of updating the measurements on our website at housing.york.edu. So it may not be 100% exactly accurate, but it would give you a rough idea. Are we measuring in the bathroom? Yeah. Are we waiting? So we'll go ahead and get that. Each of these doors is a toilet area. There are two sinks that are in there. Gotcha. And then this is the shower area. We don't have showers. And we just did, we got two questions from a relevant to the living room, Jackie. Could you explain what's behind the white door downstairs? That locked one? Yeah, that's a great question. So those are locked in every single apartment. That is maintenance space. It is not accessible to you living in Duncan. But about once a month, facilities, our university housing facilities will come in and replace the air filter. So we have nice, clean, fresh air. So that is what that space is. It should always remain locked, and you will not have access to it. Gotcha. And we did get our measurements for the living room. They were asking about the couch area, please, for a rug. So do we want to go down there downstairs? Yeah, we could not get out now, because then we will be able to finish the bedrooms. Gotcha. Great question. What was the question about the couch specifically? Was that right? Yes, let me see. Couch area, please, for rug. So we can measure the couches and the chairs. Give them from here to here, and just kind of give them the general. Go up to the wall. That is 11 feet and 5 inches. And then you should be able to remember. Maybe the width is well. So going from this stairwell over to there as well. That is 6 feet and 9 inches. So 11 feet by 6 feet and 9 inches, you said, for this little couch area. OK. And then should we measure the couch as well? We can. We have those measurements on the website, and it will be correct very soon. Gotcha. But let's go ahead and do the couch real quick. And then if you want, I'm going to show them those now. Do you need me to put my hand out there? Yeah, pretty sure. I probably want to get it from the edge there. So it is 4 feet and 8 inches. Gotcha. And then you can probably get it from the edge right there down. 2 feet and 9 inches total. Gotcha. And then you can probably get one more. And I think the person who asked the question, I think they said, all right, go ahead, yeah. 2 foot and 11 inches, we'll say 3 feet. Gotcha. And it looks like we answered that question. All right, so now let's go back upstairs for bedroom. And then we have a question for Jackie about the walls. Hey, Jackie, are you in here? Yes. We have a question about the walls. Are the walls in the bedroom drywall or concrete? Would you happen to know drywall? OK, gotcha. All right, then let's see a room. And a balcony, too. Yeah. You have a chest, a tall dresser, a desk, a bed, and a little nightstand. The beds are twin XL, so any twin XL sheet, a twin XL mattress topper, which I highly recommend. You have one. Those will all fit on this bed as well. This is a typical taller mattress. So a twin might even work better if you would like to have the corners of the sheets fully tucked under the bed with a twin XL. It might tend to come off a little bit. So if you don't mind simply tucking, pulling the fitted sheet back over the ends, you should be fine. But if that would be hassle to you, a twin XL should fit on the bed just fine. Gotcha. This door and this room leads to the balcony, to the little overview view into the forest. You can bring chairs out here. You could have a patio, a small patio table or something out here, a rug, anything to hang out with. And then this door will lead to the bedroom next door. And so these are the two rooms that we'll have without. Can you move the other two rooms in the house? OK. Surprise. Oh, wow. You actually showed up just in time because we had questions for you. Yeah, what's up? Yeah. So can we use nails on the walls or command strips only to hang things? Command strips only. And be really cautious. Don't get any off-brand versions of that. I would stick with the 3M command strips. Those do the best whenever you go to pull them off. Pull very slowly. Otherwise, you will leave a big chunk of paint missing from the wall. And we do charge $41 per paint chunk. And that can add up kind of quickly. And that'll be the same for any holes in the wall. We've got $41 per damage. So keep an eye on that. Gotcha. Enter all the beds, twin Excel. To my knowledge, yes. Does our fact sheet say anything different? Try out. On moving that new identity, they can find all of the mattress sizes and the lofting ability of each of the beds. And I know you're also able to put in a fix-it request. If you happen to have a shorter mattress in your room, you're wanting the twin Excel or vice versa, you can put in a fix-it request. And we usually try to accommodate that. OK, gotcha. Let's go back into this room. And we'll give another look. And be sure y'all to ask us any questions about anything you have about the room or about Duncan in general. Abby, do you have any advice for the freshman coming in? Any words of wisdom? I guess my big one would be make sure you pack enough. My first mistake was I did not pack enough because I figured I would overpack, but I ended up underpacking. So try and find a good medium. As you can see, we'll go ahead and open these up. Because this would be nice to see. Oh, yeah, for sure. You can see how much space you have. You also have these chest drawers. So especially for our ladies out there, I know we like to bring a lot, a lot of clothes. So just keep an eye out for how much clothes you bring. This is about how much things you have. You can always buy standalone closets as well if you really like to have a lot of clothes. I have had some friends that made that work. Again, try and see how much clothes you can bring. But I think that would be my major advice. Don't be afraid to decorate your room. I know a lot of people prefer not to just because it's a hassle. But me personally, I like my room to be homey, so I will always decorate my room to where I feel comfortable being in it. Gotcha. And Jackie and Christopher, we had a question. Can we go into all the rooms or should we just stay in this one? I know they'll be all the same layout. We can go into the other two rooms in this apartment. Unfortunately, we have people staying here, so we can't look at every apartment. But we're certainly going to visit these other rooms because they should all be a similar layout. Oh, also, we didn't show off, I don't know if we showed the laundry. There is a washer and dryer in every apartment. Yeah. But these are what the other rooms look like. Like we said, very similar layout. And then once I need to adjust my camera, we had a question. Are the doors magnetic to hang things onto? It looks like it's just wood. Actually, it kind of looks like metal. Yeah. I don't think they're not magnetized, we might be metal. And someone asked, are there ceiling fans? Yes, in every room, I believe so. And then Abby, could you come back into this room and measure the ceiling? Yeah. Yeah, so you just, or the ceiling, so you can just like put it down there. Is it registering? It's eight feet and five inches. Eight feet and five inches. About seven extra inches just there. Gotcha. All right, we had another question. Is there Wi-Fi? Yes, so when you get here, you will connect to the UR Wi-Fi. You will, a lot of you should already have your email address. You will just sign in with the email address and it will automatically connect with wherever you are on campus. Gotcha. And then someone just asked, measurements for under the bed? Okay. So, using from one in the bed frame to the other. So, three feet and three inches. Okay. And then six feet and nine inches, this way so seven feet. Gotcha. And then could you also measure how tall, since these aren't loftable? One foot and seven inches. Gotcha. All right, and I'm going to check through all the questions again, make sure we answered them. What is the inside of the smaller window in the other bedroom? The smaller window in the other bedroom. The apartment that we're in, this is actually a corner unit. So it's on the very end of the building. So this smaller window that is present here, you are not going to have that in every single apartment. But what you will have are these two windows in the C-room. So that's the standard right there? This, yeah, this is pretty standard. Only the side or end units have an additional window like this. Gotcha. All right. Here in the end unit, there does seem like one small window right there, but that's typical also. Yeah, and it's always, the C-room is the one that has like the really elevated ceiling like this. And it'll say on top here, the letter of the room you're assigned to, okay. We have another question. Are any of the Duncan beds loftable? No, they are not loftable. I'm trying to rack my brain and remember if that is something that you can request. At this time, I don't think it is. But definitely check on the housing website. That would be where you're going to get the most accurate information. I would say that if you're wanting a loftable bed in here, you can always turn in what's called a fix-it request. And so that, do you know how to get to fix-it? Yeah. It's, I want to say uark.fixit.net. Housing. Housing. Okay, I lied then, I don't know. Housing.uark.edu forward slash fixit, F-I-X-I-T. Okay. And that'll lead you to a maintenance request form that you can request anything. You can tell us that your water's not working at the moment, which probably will never happen to you. But that's something, so we're there to fix that any time. Gotcha. One other thing to note with this being one of the only spaces where an apartment has its own kind of outdoor space on the balcony. Sometimes you do get wasps or dirt daubers. So if you ever experience that, you can also put in a fix-it request for that. That's pretty common in Duncan. Gotcha. All right, y'all. Be sure to let us know. Any questions, any more questions you might have. But, sorry, I was thinking, Jackie, could you say more about what a CRE is and what it stands for? Oh my goodness, yes, I didn't explain that earlier. So my role is coordinator for residence education. And essentially, what that means is I'm here to support your growth to help you get connected to resources on campus. And I also supervise resident assistants. So there are resident assistants in every residence hall across campus, including Duncan. And a resident assistant is someone that you can go to almost like a big brother or big sister in a way, or if you are struggling to get connected on campus or you may be dealing with roommate issues, which are really common. And that's just another person that's closer to your age, most likely closer to your age, that will be able to help you navigate some of those issues, especially if that's not something you've dealt with before. So I supervise those staff members and help guide them and guide you if that makes sense. And I also oversee a lot of the facilities of the building and making sure that everything stays safe, creating events, planning, social media posts, all kinds of things. I wear a lot of hats. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, y'all, this is the last call for questions. Looks like we're not getting any yet. But Jackie, could you give any words of wisdom for our freshman coming in? Yes. The two pieces of advice that I always give you is have a way to manage your time and manage all of your obligations. So one place to report, this is where I need to be at this time, have your class schedule and your calendar, so you don't have to rely on your memory all the time. Also writing down a planner or something of that nature, any assignments or projects you have, whenever your registered student organizations are meaning, or RSOs as we call them on campus, just recording all of your obligations, whether that's time obligations or projects that you need to complete. I would also say check your email every day, at least twice a day, because if a class gets canceled at 8 a.m. and you forgot to check your email, then you walked all the way to class, and now you have to walk all the way back and be really sad about it. But yeah, check your email. And then the third thing that I would say, in Duncan, because you are in your own room, that is super nice, but it can be a little isolating sometimes. But it can also kind of be a comfort zone for you, so it's really easy to spend a ton of time in your room and not really get out and not engage with others on campus. And that's the best way that you're gonna grow is by getting out, meeting new people, challenging yourself, going to new events, learning all kinds of new things that maybe you've never been exposed to before. But that's how we grow, just good. Gotcha. And this is, we do have one last question before Abby signs us off, and this could be either for you, Abby, or you, Jackie. Do you have any move-in day tips? Drink? Yes. It's gonna be hot. It's gonna be very hot. Drink, water. I would say any issue, oh, here's a good one actually. When you move in, you are going to hear about a room condition report. This is essentially what you are going to use to document any damage that is already in the room when you move in. When you move out at the end of the year, we go through all of these rooms, and any damage that hasn't been logged, it becomes your responsibility unless you have proof that it was present before you moved in, unless you have proof that you didn't do it. So go through with a fine tooth comb, write down everything, and you'll be able to do that yourself and take pictures and document all of that. But I think that's something that's really good practice for you in the future. Perhaps next year you might have a lease off campus. Not everyone can be as flexible as we are sometimes with some of our damage billing, but definitely work on noting all the damages that might be in your room, hopefully there's none. That would be awesome, but obviously sometimes we miss things, so that is my biggest advice to save money in the long run. Gotcha, and I know I said there was a last question, but we had one more. Since the beds are not loftable, can bed risers be used? Because it's not damaging the flooring. I know you can get those plastic ones that are four little platforms that you can put underneath the bed. As long as it's not scratching the flooring, as long as you're mindful of the walls and everything, I don't see that being an issue. But if you have something specific that you're wanting to use, you can always run that by your RA once you get here or your CRV, and that way you don't get fined for anything that could potentially not be allowed. But I don't see that being an issue. Awesome, thank you so much. All right, Abby, sign us off. Yeah, well real quick before we do that, I was wanting to go over a few events that we have coming up when you move in, I will go over Pick One and Henry will go over something we have called A Week. So pretty soon, if you haven't already, you should receive an email about something called Pick One. It is an opportunity to sign up to be involved on campus. There are multiple things that you can register for. I personally, when I was a freshman, did the UREC one. So we did a tour of the Hyper, which is where a lot of those activities will take place, they were able to do the Hyper, we saw the gyms, the racquetball courts, we saw everything that goes on. So that is one of the Pick Ones that you can do. There are also, if you are in Greek life, there is a Greek life one. If you are into any outdoor activities that will fall under UREC. If you like painting, there isn't painting, there are so many that are available. So you can pick your top three. And then if your top one is still available, you will be enrolled in that one. If not, you will drop down to your second or third one. I would definitely look into that. That was really, really fun to be in. I made some of my friends that I currently have now were in the UREC that I'm in there in. We would go down to the Hyper, we would go swimming. One of my friends had actually enrolled in one of the cycling classes, which was really fun. So if you are outdoors, the UREC also has any mountain biking stuff that you like to do. I personally like biking. So that was something that I was interested in as well. So anything activity-wise can be looked at will fall under that one. So that is definitely something to look into if you haven't already received the email. And then Henry, do you wanna explain to us what Awe is? Yeah, for sure. And I'm gonna try and give this to you. Yeah, there we go. So Awe, oh you got it? Yeah. So Awe is kind of a series of programs that we put on a week before classes start. So it'll be right after you move in. And there are just so many different programs and events for everyone on campus to get together and have fun. Some of them are educational, some of them are as simple as like a bingo night. But some of our big ones, Chocolate Wasted is one of our big ones, which is learning about alcohol while also getting chocolate. That's okay, I got it. Actually, let me go ahead and hold it. One second, y'all. It's okay. All right, I think this works. Perfect. Okay, I think y'all can see me. So Chocolate Wasted is a big one. We may also be doing Taste of Fayetteville this year where all the, a lot of restaurants, food trucks, et cetera around Fayetteville come to the Greek theater. And they just give out free samples and all that. And there's just so many different events and I would highly recommend going to them, especially if you're a freshman, because that's a great way to meet new friends and start building those memories with your friends and can't recommend it enough. What's the website? Is it aweek.uark.edu? Yeah, so aweek.uark.edu. So go there and there will be a schedule. And also I believe when you move in, we'll put calendars onto your doors and it will give you a schedule of events. But all right. So that concludes our apartment, dining apartment tour. If you have any questions, you can go to housing.uark.edu and you can find any information on there. You are also more than welcome to call. You can find the phone number on there. Thank you all so much for tuning in. Can't wait to see you guys on campus. Awesome.