 Welcome to the 2018 New York home live tour of Gibson Hall. My name's Josiah Prok. I'm a junior here from Russellville, Arkansas. I study communication. I want to go to law school. So Gibson Hall is a great dorm. It's actually the second oldest residence hall on campus. The first oldest is Carnal Hall, which is now a hotel. So it's located in Central Campus. It's a really convenient location. The Chai Omega Greek Theater is right behind us. We also have classrooms in Kimpo Hall. We have the Founders Residence Hall and Eating Area. That all includes slim chickens, things like that. We have Starbucks, as well as the Bruf dining hall right here. Behind us is Gregson Hall. And together, staff and students affectionately like to call Gibson and Gregson G-Unit. They're very similar in style, so that's why. Also, the same seven resident assistants handle both halls as well as the same CRE. Could you talk a little bit about Class Plus? Yeah, so at the bottom of Gregson Hall is Class Plus. It's a tutoring service. You can get writing help and things like that. It's always better to be proactive about things like that before you actually need it. So that's what's really convenient about that. And they have Club Red right around this corner, which is really nice. Could you tell them what that's about too? Yeah, so Club Red is basically like a convenience store for the university. You can use your dining dollars and flex dollars to buy things there. So that's really convenient. It's basically like any standard gas station convenience store. Awesome. Can you introduce yourself? Yes, my name is Courtney. I'm about to be a sophomore here at the university. I'm a nursing major and I'm from Fayetteville. So if you need any advice about good places to eat or hang out, you can shoot us any questions. Also, if you have any questions about Gibson, just let us know below. We'll try to answer those to the best of our ability. Also, Gibson is located on the top of the famous Dixon Street in Fayetteville. There's tons of restaurants and fun things to do. So yeah, let's get to it. Where do you like to eat, Courtney? Oh my goodness. On Dixon Street, if you like sushi, there's Tokyo Sushi. It's amazing. Wasabi is really good too. And then comfort food, I would say ham and trees is really awesome. It's grilled cheeses and soups. So you can't really go wrong over there. Do you mind passing the camera to him for just a second so you can introduce yourself? Yeah. This is Courtney. Hello. I'll be behind the camera. So if you have any questions, just let us know. Head inside this way. So actually, they're currently doing renovations on the central part of this building. So we're not going to be able to go up to the front desk and the laundry room and things like that. But we're still going to talk about it and give you all the details. Also, the really nice thing about this residence hall is it's located so close to all the good food on campus. The union's also really close, which is where we have a lot of good restaurants. It's a really good spot to be in. It is. You're dressed up. What do you do for us? I'm actually a senior conference ambassador for university housing. Over the summer, we just kind of coordinate all the summer conferences and things. And this is just a fun addition to the job. I love the university of Arkansas. So here's the hallway in Gibson. We're just going to walk this way. You can kind of see it's really nice, fresh painted walls, cool lights on all of the walls. So actually down this hallway is where the front desk is located. That's where you'll receive mail and things like that. You'll have a personal mailbox as well as any package. They'll just email you whenever your package gets here. There's also a lot the laundry room is this way. And the University of Arkansas actually includes laundry in your student fees. So you don't have to pay these machines or anything like that. The only thing is you have to bring your own detergent. It also we also offer a cool service called laundry alert. You basically download an app and it'll tell you where your laundry is in the process and when it's finished, it'll alert you. So that's a really handy thing that students like to utilize. The fun thing about living in a dorm is since there's students all needing to do laundry, you kind of have to figure out a good time to wash your clothes. I always like to do mine on like three o'clock on a Monday afternoon, just when no one would think of doing their laundry. That's when I would like to do it because the weekends can get crowded and crazy. So yeah. This is a 1930s building. So it has a sort of wide hallways. And that's a fun feature in this building is since it's from the 1930s, it has that old style feel. But a lot of renovations have taken place. It actually includes the same hardwood floors that it originally had. And in 2015, we rent they renovated and refurbished these hardwood floors. So we'll go ahead and take a look at a corner room in here. One of five. Yes. So the corner room is just a little bit different. You actually have two unique bookshelves over each bed that are attached to the walls. We'll have these desks which you can move. Every room comes with two chairs. And there's also built in cabinets on the wall drawers. Right here, as well as a lighted sink in the mirror. And we can take a look at a closet if you'd like. Also, a sink is so nice to have. I'm super jealous. So here's a closet. There's also some additional storage space up top. You know, look in there. Where did you look for it? I looked in Reed Hall, which is on the other side of campus, but I absolutely loved it. I missed it already. So yeah, those closets are nice. They're a lot bigger than they let built-in drawers. Are we getting any questions? Are they coming in? I don't believe so. They're not yet. Let me just hit this button just to make sure. So Gibson is actually an all-female dorm. It's mostly reserved for upperclassmen. Some freshmen may be able to live here. That makes it really nice because you won't have to worry about any awkwardness or anything like that. These rooms come with ceiling fans as well, which is really convenient. As well as high ceilings and wide walls, so it really makes the room feel open. And these windows are also a nice touch. So the corner rooms have two sets of windows. A standard room will just have one set of windows. Could you tell them a little bit about lofting? Sure. So you are able to loft these beds if you would like. However, you can ask the university to do it for you on a first-come, first-serve basis before July 31st. That's a lot easier if you don't want to loft it yourself, but it just kind of depends on how quickly you get on it because they only have so many sets. And the way to do that is to go to housing.ur.edu or slash fixit, which is our maintenance request. And you can just put in your room number and request that they loft your beds. Also, every room come with a cable box. It includes HBO as well, so that's really nice. We're going to look at the bathrooms. I think that's the major renovation. And one of the reasons we can't show you the central area right now is because it's being renovated. The bathrooms, and so we'll show that off. This one was renovated last year. So this is what the newly renovated bathroom will look like as well as this end of the hall. So the main renovations are these showers are now single stall showers, personal space. You have your own personal changing space in here as well as the shower. And so you can actually shut the door if you would like to make it more private. Go in there a little bit. Just give a look at what the shower looks like. See if there's light in here. Here we go. Yeah. So it used to be where you had all of the faucets coming out from the wall. So they had these just sort of curtains between the different people and they were showering. Now you have your own full length door to give you that space. A nice little changing area. Yeah. Awesome. There's hooks. So we're going to go up this way. Here are your stalls as well in the bathroom. I don't think we'll need to show you that. There are three stalls. Three stalls, two showers. All right. So now we're just going to take a look at a more standard room that you can expect to find in the majority of the building. The main difference is like I said that bookcase and it shapes just a little bit differently. I think we're going to look at one of the seven. So here's the standard room. It just has a single bookshelf above the desk area and there's one set of windows instead of two. Everything else is pretty much the same. You've still got your sink and the two closets. Beautiful hardwood floors and these walls are actually the original plaster walls from the 1930s. So that's really that's a nice addition too. Everybody gets their own little bedside table and I'm pretty sure you can walk those doors if you want to. So that's really nice. Got some people tuning in. Laurie just shared our page. Thanks. She said I love these videos. So one thing we like to do is measure at least the mattress. So if you don't mind I've got a tape measure. We'll measure anything in the room and now is the time if you want specific measurements for anything in the room. Although you can always go to the housing website under Gibson Hall and find measurements we're happy to do it here as well. So the width of the mattress is 36 inches. It's about three feet. And I'll measure the length. It's about 79 inches. That's it's going to be 80 I think but like 79, 80. Okay great. So here once again you have your own personal sink with a small cabinet space under the sink as well as a light over the mirror so that'll help when you're getting ready in the mornings and things like that. It's really nice to have your own space just so you don't have to battle over a sink space in the restroom or anything like that. They have cool little storage days above the closets too so. I'll kind of drill tend to have a classic old feel. I remember one of my first apartments was in the 30s and has a very similar kind of wood structure there. I want you to open up a couple of the cabinet drawers so people can see what kind of space you get in there. So you're just your standard drawer bedroom. So we had someone ask if we could go to their room but basically all the rooms look the exact same way. What's the room number? Um she's still watching she could tell us. Okay. So I doubt but just thought I'd ask. Unfortunately because we're doing so much renovation in here that'll all be done by the time you arrive this fall. We're kind of limited to the first floor this wing right now. So but yeah this is a very typical you've seen basically the two configurations. You've seen a corner room and now you've seen a room that's in the hallway. Yeah so I'm sorry. So it's about 28 inches long 18 inches wide or I don't know if I did lengthen with either way. The nice thing about this hall as well is there are some common spaces where you can study and hang out but like Chris said it's currently under renovation so we can't get to those. That's just another cool feature in this hall. The chairs I guess could you show me a little cheer trick? So the fun thing about all the chairs in these residence halls is you can actually take them apart and it's kind of like turns into two chairs. So let's see if I can get this off. But yeah I'm a spot. If not let's see. It might be a little like handle you pull up and it detaches. It's been a while since I've done that too. I know it's easy. I've definitely done it on accident before. Here we go. So the chair you can set it on the floor like that and it'll rock back and forth which is nice and this also can turn into like a little stool if you like that. So every chair in the residence rooms will be like that. It's a cool feature. It smells like mid-fact. Yeah I guess we have any more questions for us about this hall? No. She has mentioned that she's in room 326. Awesome 326. Yeah third floor. I think there's I'm not sure how many floors there are. I think it's just three. So you're at the top. Yes and I know there's no elevator right? It's kind of awesome. That's honestly a good thing. Three fours is sort of that area where you're like okay I could still definitely do this and no worries. We get up to five six eight that's maybe not great. We have another tour today. So this afternoon we're also going to be touring Founders Hall at 2 p.m. So we'd love for you guys to tune in then as we showcase that door as well. And if this wasn't you know the dorm you're living in we're gonna go through others so just keep watching and we'll let you know what we're gonna end up showing. They can go to the Facebook page and find all of the calendar events right here. Awesome. Well sign us out. All right we appreciate you guys joining us this morning. Once again this was Gibson Hall. I'm Josiah. Thank you Courtney for all of your help. If you guys have any questions please just let us know and we appreciate you stopping by.