 Good morning. Welcome to our your home live tour of Yocum Hall. My name is Courtney Soulsby. I'm a student here at the University of Arkansas. Good morning, Courtney. Good morning. I'm about to start my sophomore year as a nursing major. I'm super excited. I'm actually from Fayetteville and feel free to ask us any questions today as we go to the building about the University or this building in particular or Fayetteville. To point out some of the stuff that's surrounding Yocum, we are right close to the business college. So if you are across the street, if you're a business major, this is the perfect place to me. We're right next to Kimple and Comfrey's is right here as you can see. Over here is Founders, which is really cool to be next to because in the bottom of Founders they have Slim Chickens and where the Walgreens are and Rocket Taco, which are all restaurants that you can use your meal trade for at night and just use a swipe and eat there for dinner. Starbucks as well. Starbucks is right around the corner and Gruff. Gruff is a really good dining hall to be close to. It has a lot of options. It's open all day so that's super convenient and you're also really close to the stadium. You can't see it right now because it's on the other side of the building but you have a really good view of it. We are going to go up to the 10th floor and give you a little bit of a look see from that advantage. Let's get inside. Let's walk into Yocum. Yocum is actually named after a former member of our Board of Trustees. It houses 527 students. I'll point out real quickly we have some bike racks here too it looks like. Do you feel like bringing your bikes to campus? We've got those and it's kind of a picnic area. This is a nice area to hang out with your friends. I said Nate thanks for tuning in. We've got about 9 or 10 people watching right now. Awesome. Let us know where you're from. We're always curious. So we do have a bopping system for security which is really nice. Hello, my name is Cole. I'm the CRE of this building means I'm here to help you guys with whatever you need help with. Maintenance request. We do a lot of academic programming here so we'll have different events that you can come to. We give away a lot of free food throughout the year. Nice. Yeah this is also Miss Debbie. She's our desk admin. Hi Miss Debbie, how are you? She's been here a long time now and she knows everything about this campus so if you ever have to come to the desk and ask her a question she for will for sure know the answers. Sure and why would someone be coming to the desk typically? There's a variety of reasons. Your packages you'll pick them up here. Different things like if you lose your fob Miss Debbie can help you out with that with getting you a new fob. Do you have anything that else they just particularly come to you? Can people check out, I heard they can check out things here like games maybe? Sure, so we have these closets back here. They're full of board games and pool sticks for the pool tables downstairs, ping-pong paddles, foosballs, all sorts of things that you can check out. Yeah vacuums for your rooms, brooms, different cleaning supplies. Great. What do you think, do you think there's anything that makes the Yocum community a little bit different? Yeah there's a lot of different things. We have a few different programs that we do throughout the year that are just specific to our building. One we're actually going to introduce this year is a Mardi Gras program and that will take place between Arhall and Humphreys Hall which is actually right next door. Yes. But it's going to be a really big event. We're going to make it a week long event where we'll build floats and we're going to have a lot of different Cajun foods. It's going to be a really big cool event. So I'm excited for that. Fantastic. That really does sound very cool. Yeah. Great. Well so let's let's just take a tour I guess. Sure let's do it. And Cole will you join us? Yeah let's go. Thank you. Thank you Miss Debbie. Thank you. All right. Walking here on the first floor. Yeah so right through here is just our first floor lounge. Let's point out also the recycling water bottle that you have here. Yeah. So let's see what the number is. Right 20,000. 2429. Do you find that a lot of the students bring their own water bottles or? Yeah we see a lot of Nalgene bottles that come through here because we have these all over campus. I don't think we have any residence halls without one of these water bottle stations now. I don't even know if there's a building on campus without one at this point. So yeah we want to save on plastic bottles so bring your own. Absolutely and then I like this presentation right here home on the hill. Yeah. That's kind of a cool thing. Did you put that together? I did not. So that's part of our summer programming. So we have different camps that come through the summer and so it's a lot of information about Fayetteville that we just put out but we'll have a brand new pretty board up there once school starts. Wait for the pretty board. Yeah. We have a huge TV back there and then here's all the mailboxes. So this is where you'll pick up letters, different things like that. Again your packages will be in the office but these are the individual mailboxes for different rooms. Sure. So everyone be assigned one of these. And I believe you'll get through email your combination walker. Correct. Yeah. Be sure and check your, check your email. Sure. All right. They'll also notify you when you have a package at the front desk so you'll know when to go pick something up. Right. And then when you mention the big TV, let's go take a look at the big TV. Yeah. Absolutely. All right. This is a big space right here. Yeah. It's a huge space. This is all those programs I mentioned earlier taking place in this area. It's convenient for everyone. Yeah. So you've got all that space right there. Do you watch movies pretty regularly or do you watch movies here? There's a lot of different residents who watch movies down here. So we'll just hook up their laptops, your HDMI cables and can plug up whatever. I'm missing Xboxes down here. Like tournaments? Oh, yeah. Fortnite tournaments? Or not. We usually do the Fortnite stuff downstairs because those guys get a little louder. Yeah. But yeah, they're welcome to bring their Xboxes and plug them up downstairs, get some port not going. Absolutely. Right on. All right. So let's continue through. Probably head downstairs. And where are you from? I'm actually from Elkins, Arkansas. Which is just slightly outside of Fayetteville. Sure. Shout out to Elkins. Yeah. I've been in this area my whole life. If you're staying here next year and you're from Elkins, come let me know. I can see all my offices. I'd love to talk to you. You bet. See if any of my old teachers are still there. Nice. Yes. Connect on the Elkins. Yeah. Tip. I'm from El Dorado in Courtney's, Florida. Fayetteville. So, we're from all around this. Yeah. We're going down the stairs to the basement area now. My office is at. So, right there if you ever need anything, please come and let me know. I'd be glad to assist you with that. Is this about you? That's not what it is. Yeah. I don't know if I'm going to put any one of those up before school starts or not. We'll see. Sure. See how much time goes there. Right over here. So, this is the laundry room. Those of you who don't know laundry is free here. So, if you're a resident here, then you can actually it's it's covered within your fees. Okay. Perfect. So, yeah, it's already built in as in you don't have to come down here with the SAG reporters like your parents probably did when they were in college and feed these machines. As we have a lot of different washers and drawers down here. We have a big ice machine we just got put in the last couple of years. So, you can come down and get ice as needed. Nice. A little TV over there for viewing the laundry. Two years ago, Abby Weedner at the time lived here and she told us that she spent quite a bit of time at that table watching Netflix and for her laundry to get done. And these are also really cool. They will send you an alert when your laundry is done. So, you can download an app and once your laundry is finished, the app will notify you. Hey, your dryer, your washers finished and you can come down status. So, if you feel comfortable leaving your laundry down here, like a lot of residents do, you can set that and it'll tell you when you're good to go. Sure. And I understand it also lets you check it to see. Yes, it could tell you availability down here. So, you don't have to come down and check and see if there's anything open. It has that information for you. And again, it tells you when your clothes are ready. So, you don't have to come down and check it or stay and sit with it like I'm sure people used to. So, it's really convenient. Laundry alert is really cool. And you can find out more information about that at housing.ur.edu forward slash laundry. Awesome. Okay. Let's move on right along. Sure. There's some recycling. Yeah. Is this the main recycling station? No, we have recycling stations all over the building. Yeah. I would say our main one is out in this area by the vending machines. Last year, we actually hosted a recycling event through Pepsi and Yocum won that event. We get to another hall. Congrats, Yocum. Yeah, for collecting the most recycling. So, we're pretty green friendly here. Sure. This will be our main recycling station. And we usually have some located on the floors as well. Couple bins that are for recycling. So, this is the vending machines. You can spend all your money down here. And they take Apple Pay. Uh-huh. Which is really cool. Hey, right from your phone or from your watch, huh? Have you used it yet? I haven't used it. I have used it. I've used it on that machine right there. Uh-huh. I like my cheez-its. Yeah. Kind of have some guilty pleasures. Yeah. So, uh, even though it's locked, we should at least call out that this... You may have never seen something like this before. These are our antiques of the building. These are old phone booths. So, when your parents went to school here, they could come in here and pick up a phone, call home, have all their communications. We're actually looking into renovating these spaces. I don't know how long that's gonna take or if it'll be this year next. We're looking to turn them into something perhaps like a study look or a library that you can take books in and out of. If you have any ideas, please let us know. Yeah. And we would love to take any suggestions you have for what we could use these little spaces for. But we're gonna put something here eventually. It sounds great. So, who knows? There's a kitchen area over here. So, there is a stove top and an oven and a microwave and sink. So, this would be a really good spot to, you know, make cookies or snacks and hang out in this cool area behind you while you're doing it. And do we, in Yolkham, can we loan them cooking supplies? Yeah, we do. We have different pots and pans that we can lend out. We also have like toasters and hot plates and things like that that we can lend to you because you're not allowed to have your own here. But we have different things like that that you can rent from us and use quick down in the kitchen and then bring them back to us. And yeah, so just don't bring your own hot plates of any kind, please. Gotcha, gotcha. Fire hazard. Yeah. A nice fridge here. That's a nice fridge. Another water station. Yeah. Pool table. Again, you can get the pool sticks and stuff for this upstairs in the office with Ms. Debbie. There's two fools, two balls of table over there that's stacked up because we were cleaning the floors. Okay, but they'll be ready for action when they get here. They'll be ready to go. Cool, yeah. These chairs are really cool. They actually have outlets on them. Really? Yeah. That's kind of cool. I didn't know that. This is the game room area. This is the game room. This is where because it gets a little bit louder maybe. Sure. Where you do your Xbox tournaments or play some PS4. Sure, and they can do that upstairs. They just see them congregate here more because no one's is likely to complain about them being loud down here. No residents live on this floor. This is all just a usable space. You have a trash room on the other side where you can bring your bigger trash items and then there's trash shoots located in the building that you can drop some of your trash down. So if I live on the ninth floor then the way I'll get rid of trash is I'll go to the chute and shoot it down. Drop it down, correct, yeah. Drop it down. As long as it'll fit in our trash chute you can put it down. We ask you don't put cardboard particularly boxes in there because it'll stack up and we can't keep the chute clean with cardboard stacked in it. That makes sense. Yeah. Great. So these are the common areas in Yocum. We also want to be sure we show the bathrooms that they'll have and then residents rooms. So anything else in the common areas we want to show? I don't think so right now. If anybody has any questions we'd be happy to answer them but I think that's it for the common areas right now. Yeah. Be sure and tell us where you're from. We'd love to uh to know. Let's go ahead and I guess hit the elevator. Sure let's do it. And head up to the 10th floor of the Yocum high rise. Now when we get on the elevator just based on years past the connection might get a little bit a little bit wonky but we'll be back here. We'll come back very soon. No worries. Of course you said you're from Fayetteville. Yes. We have students arriving from all kinds of states who may be only been to Fayetteville for a few days in the past. They may have never been here overnight. What advice would you give them for learning about Fayetteville? Let me just quickly say Juliana from Kansas City, thank you. Hello. What advice would you give someone arriving in Fayetteville? I would definitely suggest you know taking advantage of the uniqueness that is Fayetteville. There's a lot of things that we have that aren't in other locations. For example we have a drive-in movie theater. It's just really awesome. It's like my favorite thing to do. We have really good restaurants. Dixon Street has really great restaurants. You can't really go wrong there. Mount Sequoia is one of my favorite spots. That's unique to Fayetteville. It's a really good lookout. They have a courtyard actually on one side of it. That's a great place to have picnics. Bring a coat because it gets pretty cold when you're walking to your classes in the winter. Do you have a favorite restaurant or did you tell us? Well I'm a big sushi person so Tokyo Sushi is fantastic on Dixon Street which is basically on campus. Okay. So of course we can just take you and this whole suite. Oh yeah. So there's one of these on every floor which is a really good place to do you know group study sessions. There's a whiteboard if you need to use that which will definitely come handy in your classes. Which is a good place. I personally use my study room on the hall. I live in Reed Hall but we had study rooms on every floor as well and I definitely took advantage of it. It saves you the time of walking to the library or if you're like me and study really late at night. This is a really good option for you. So definitely take advantage of this space. Yeah. We have a couple people tell us where they're from and we've got Liz who's telling us she's from Dallas. Emily from St. Louis. Jill from Houston. McKayla from Greenwood. Thanks Greenwood. I think so. Bulldogs. And Kirsten from Katie, Texas. And then Lori from Austin and Wendy from Kansas City. So we have several people tuning in. We're thrilled to have you. Okay so let's take a look at the bathroom. Yeah. I think we're gonna go down here into the room. Explore Fayetteville. Yeah. It's really creative and cute. I think it'll help me. Sure. And Amy from Minden. It's a co-ed dorm. I believe it's every floor different. So this would be a female floor. Yes. And just on floor 10 is an all-female floor. But we do have co-ed floors. It just depends what floor you're staying on. So this floor does have more than one women's bathroom and then other floors will have a man and a women's bathroom. Just depending on what floor you're on. Okay well let's head inside then. This is a really good space. There's a big mirror right here. And of course if you get right in here you choose to... There's how many stalls? There's two stalls and two shower stalls. So two stalls there, two shower stalls. There's two banks of two banks of bathroom. Right. There's multiple. Let's go ahead and go and take a look in the shower. So this is cool that you have a door in a nice little changing area instead of just having the shower. You have that front room area where you can kind of put your stuff in there. If you... It goes back further to the direction. Okay. Oh yeah. It goes back there a good ways. You have a shelf right there. And so yeah. I would recommend you know the shower catties are really convenient just for holding on your stuff. Shower shoes. Most people bring shower shoes. Just get you a cute cheap pair of flip-flops somewhere. Sure. Old Navy. Yeah Old Navy. That's my spot. Oh maybe see I'm starting to sponsor you guys. Jill asked is floor eight co-ed. I would say that I don't know off hand whether it's co-ed but we can come back and answer that unless you just happen to know cold. Off the top of my head I don't know because our assignments are not done yet for this semester but in the past it has been a co-ed floor. Send me if you want to send me an email. Well I'll actually respond to you as well. Okay sure we'll send you an email but we'll get back to you. We will because Courtney is going to answer our questions for us and we appreciate it. So we're going to go on to 1017. Yes. Now this is an example of what's called a lofted room. I want to be sure we point out this. You can know which ones are lofted on the website but we'll also try to post them in the comments here. I believe there's four on each floor. So the difference here is going to be that it comes with a TV and just part of the wall jets out which isn't in the other rooms so you have two movable closet areas. This one I believe doesn't move but they're just a little bit different than the built-in closets in the other rooms. A good storage space for sure. Shall we get in there and give them a look? You could also of course you know storage or store things on top of it. I know I got little containers storage containers from Target or Walmart and that would go great on top of there. If you need any extra space they also have these which are really convenient under your beds. Sure. A lot of space for clothes and of your desk. So we want to be sure you're aware that these are what are called the lofted rooms and they have an area of the wall that jets out and then there's a television on top there. But let's go look at a more typical room now maybe take some measurements. This is a great time to be leaving room 1017. This is a great time to ask us to measure anything in the room and we're happy to do that for you. So we're going into let's see room 1021. Yes a basic common room. It's style. Let's take a minute to call out that view though. Yeah this is like my favorite part. Our campus is honestly if you get a view like this it's one of my favorite things. I'm big on stuff like that. There's a great view of the sunset. Definitely from this floor we're on the 10th floor. Almost looks like the wall in from here. Oh yeah and there is razorback stadium you can see right there and yeah you've got a pretty good view on it right there. Also back to previous question. Sure. It is a co-ed floor. Okay. So I can confirm that that is co-ed. Nice nice. Excellent. Okay well let's show off some of the features of this room. Yeah so you're gonna have these built-in drawers as a set for each of you. This big mirror which I love it comes in handy when you're getting ready. Your outlets of course. Every room comes with a table box and a remote so if you do choose to bring your own TV we have that for you. That includes HBO and several other services. You can go to housing.ur.edu forward slash cable and find out more information about that. Yes above that area is another storage space for you to use. Definitely yes those stores just slide open. Super easy very convenient. I definitely use that space in my room and you also have a lot of space in your closet. You can of course bring you know your own type of storage baskets or drawers if you choose to and then there's more over here. Jill said thank you to you for getting that answer for her. She also asked what size carpet would you suggest between beds four by six or like a five by seven. Why don't we go ahead and do a measurement. Do you mind helping her out with with that measurement. Sure we want to go wall to wall here. Let's go in between beds. That's usually what they're at. Usually with the questions about. So that's going to be about 90 inches in between. Yeah in this configuration but of course these beds are movable so technically you can do really whatever you want with them. Some people don't know if these would stack on top. I don't think you bunk these but you can definitely loft them. Right now they're kind of against each wall and against each wall is 90 inches around. You can also request to have your bed lofted for you. So this is obviously in a low position but if you do choose to move it up you that gives you more storage space under your bed. Housing will do that for you if you put in a request on our website and they'll put it wherever you choose so that's always a good option if you do need more storage space. And that's done through like I'm calling out these websites pretty repeatedly. Housing.ur.edu and then forward slash fix it. F-I-X-I-T. This bed is going to be 36 inches. Maybe I could hold this one for you. Thank you. Not so good. I believe it's going to be about 75 inches. I know it's also going to be 36 inches wide. Or about 78 inches. That's probably going to be the 80. I think the door side is going to be your 75. It's finally shorter just for you know the purpose of the door having space. Yeah that's the reason is so that we can actually close the door so you got a 75 on that side and an 80 on this side. There's also these little hooks for most people use them for your shower towels. It's a good place for them to dry when you're done. You can find all the mattress sizes at movein.ur.edu. We've got them all posted there. And we have a question from Kayla. She asks how would you recommend hanging a curtain over the closet? Would we need to bring our own metal rod to hang a curtain? Yes. So just a regular curtain or like window. Tension rod? Yeah tension rod. We recommend tension rods. Yeah get them at Walmart and hang your own. A lot of people hang them from the top. Do we want to go ahead and give her that measurement if we can? Sure. I think that's a useful one. About 47 inches? 47 inches. 46 and a half. Okay yeah so anything that can apply tension you probably something to see something in the range of like I don't know 30 to 50 inches. Yeah. And if it's a tension rod like that you should be able to put it there and create the tension to hang something. Absolutely. We ask that you don't you know use any nails or use anything that's going to leave any permanent marks because these rooms you know get used for years and years and years and so yeah yeah so pay it forward in that way. All right let's see if there's anything else we want to point out. I guess did we go through the little cabinets here? Maybe we did I can't remember. This is always where they're supposed to be so I definitely took advantage of these drawers and used them however you'd like. We each have a set and you know these bookshelves are really convenient and nice too. They're fun to decorate if you choose to do that. Mm-hmm. Jill asks how far from the desk to the dresser? This nice. Yeah okay. And these are fixed pieces so this is a this is a fixed 91 inches okay. Got a few more questions coming in here. Candy asks what is the length of the closet 46 by what was it do you remember? Oh from 46 and a half was this. Yeah. She wants to know from top to bottom? So the width is going to be 46 and a half 47 right over there. The height which are the yeah it depends on how we describe it but yes the top to the bottom let's go ahead and get that one here. It's going to be about 92. 92 right there okay. So 92. Amy asks is there any wall space between the closet and the window and there is a little bit of a recess. Let me try to show that off. So the width of this window seal right here. So you can see there's like a lip there between that so let's go ahead and just for funds go ahead and give them that those dimensions. Yeah so there is a little space back there. 17 and a half inches. 17 and a half inches is the space between the window and the built-in dresser. And there's an outlet back here so okay is it a four or two? It's a two. A two okay good deal. Julianne asks what is the height from the bottom of the top shelf in the closet space to the floor? So from the bottom of the top shelf of the bottom of the top shelf. It seems to be about 75 inches. 75 inches is what that is okay um yeah Jill we're happy to do this this is what we we want to do this for you this is this is that um and then Jill asks how big is the wall space over the wall bed like if you want to do a wall hanging so the wall the how big is the wall space over the wall bed these things are fixed here these cork boards but you can cover over them that's fine we don't mind that yeah let's do that let's do that how big is the wall space over the wall bed like for a wall hanging eight inches is the width there and then you know the height is I you know what five four four five feet I would say yeah from there um yeah give a lot of room to you know decorate and make it whatever you like absolutely um Wendy asks in the lofted room bureau how tall were the shelves on the bottom would like some containers there so let's um let me put a pin on this one and we'll come back to it um I think there's a way to do this in the interface even if not we'd have to go to the lofted room which we will do we will do um what about curtains for the window curtain rod with command hooks um we recommend the tension rod although you know anything with command hooks is totally legit with us so if you want to use command hooks that's fine too you'll need a very long tension rod to do the window yeah that's a very long one people do it though absolutely so if you want to put a tension rod across the entire window you'd be looking at this is going to end up being about 126 inches okay so 10 feet a little over 10 feet 126 inches um let's see can the beds be lofted to put storage under them in the regular rooms absolutely yeah so right now we haven't actually flipped upside down so we have camps that come through with older individuals who stay here so we try to keep them low so they can get in and out of beds easily um but these can actually be flipped and you can have your bed probably up to about this well this height because this will rise up over it so it'll sit about right here at its full height and that gives you plenty of space to put oh yeah even people sometimes put like a food time down here sure whatever whatever you want to drag up here and put in uh you do have to take it up 10 stories so that's fine you if you want to get a food time right here but yeah we have you have an elevator it's likely not a walk-up but at the same time moving is a chaotic time um everybody's moving in it's very controlled so be mindful of that um uh liz asks how many outlets are there and we'll give a quick estimate here there's five total in there um five sets of two five sets of two so that's 10 10 outlets at least okay um I always bring I know I brought um extension cords and things like that in case you need more we asked that you bring you know the the extension cords that have power breakers in them because we want you to protect your your your expensive gear your computers and everything like that that's really important um Amy asked is that a bulletin board of the beds is it actually functional you know what it is a bulletin board and it is functional yeah I believe so so feel free to use it or cover it over students do different things um Danielle asked will there be a live tour for Pomfret Pomfret's under construction right now so unfortunately we're not going to be doing a live tour however there are previous tours uh for 2017 and 2016 that you can look at and um we can link those here in the show notes as they say let's see so if there's no more questions here let's go back to the uh lofted room bureau let's go ahead and go back there let's give them that thing and then we'll kind of sign off after you now when I do mention Pomfret it will be ready to go um in august when you arrive it's just that we there's so much construction happening so fast right now that we wanted to uh not do that okay so let's see the question was in the lofted room bureau from Wendy how tall were the shelves on the bottom we'd like some containers there so underneath the bed the lofted room bureau yeah I'll talk about the shelves on the bottom I think this maybe she found another actual dress here is I think I think so I think so okay we give her the we'll give a few measurements yeah I'll talk about the shelves on the bottom so the actual hat like dresser our desk excuse me is about 30 inches and then if we go all the way up to the bottom of the bed right 33 and a fourth okay so 30 inches is the height of the of the where that station now underneath yeah to the desk the top of the desk in the top of the dresser and then a little higher and we probably recommend in this configuration that you go ahead and take the bed up um a little bit so that you can have a functional desk space there and this is again adjustable just like in the other rooms if you want to go higher here you can bring all this little notches so people know sure you technically can lower them down but in these specific rooms there's not really many places to move your desk or a dresser mm-hmm because again these are a little smaller but we try to compensate for that as you can see these are nicer floors in this room so we have nice wooden floors in here we provide you with the tv things like that so we try to make up for this slight um loss of square footage mm-hmm Liz asked can the bulletin board be taken down it cannot Liz but you're welcome to put things over it as long as you don't damage the property um and Wendy says the tall closet please so she's actually looking at the wardrobes I think right here and Wendy I said does that bed go higher yes that bed does go higher mm-hmm so let's open it up I guess and look at let me see shelves on the bottom would like some containers there so she wants to put some containers down there sorry thank you for explaining we were just we're almost there but you helped us get the rest of the way so the space in between is about 10 inches okay 10 inches and are both of those 10 inches um I believe there yes okay they are both 10 inches height right there uh Jill asked what is included in the cable tv package and please go to housing.uart.edu forward slash cable and that'll detail the program listing but basically it includes you know all the cable channels that are used to HBO's a couple different versions of that sec network which is a lot of our residents are happy about so you can watch all the razor wire games that they put on sec or sec network um so that's a nice addition there's a different I think they have the sports package like FS1 and different things like that Fox board too okay well um hey thank you everybody for your questions yeah I think we're uh going to go ahead and sign off and be glad that you're here in the August in August uh any uh party words you want to say to your incoming new residents uh we're just looking forward everyone moving in um please come see me down in my office down on the ground floor and if you have any questions I'd be glad to answer them or assist you in any way you need throughout the year all right you might sign us off thank you guys for watching be sure to watch our tour of Humphreys at 2 p.m. today um and talk to friends that's what they're living um again thank you for watching and if you have any questions feel free to comment them even after the video is posted and I will go back and answer this for you guys so