 Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the UROC home live tour of the Gladstone Ripley residence hall. My name is Courtney Soulsby. I'm a student here at the University of Arkansas. I'm about to start my sophomore year as a nursing major and I'm actually from Fayetteville. So feel free to ask us any questions as we go through the building today and you can ask me anything about Fayetteville or the university. We'll be sure to answer all of your questions. You can just leave them in the comments. Yes please comment along and well I'll try to read them out to Courtney so she can answer them. So Gladstone Ripley was actually first called Gladstone House and Ripley House before they combined the two to Gladstone Ripley and Gladstone Ripley are both two names that we got from past deans here at the university and I'll show you some of the stuff surrounding. Yeah where are we here? We are actually right next to Buchanan Drogh which is kind of you know the neighboring building sometimes they call the two together Badger it's like a little nickname so yeah if you get packages you'll pick them up from Buchanan Drogh it's just kind of your name or your frilly little neighbor over here we have Yolkham and Brees and Gregson which is really convenient for students because in the basement of Gregson they have something called Class Plus which is just help with you know school work and papers if you're ever shuggling they have resources for you in there. Behind you I noticed there's no uh grass and I think they're just doing some landscaping I figured I'd call that out a little bit of landscaping that's going on there it will be green and grassy by the time you show up here. Yeah so over here you're actually right by the football stadium which is really cool and the basketball arena is over here as well you're close to the hyper which is a gym facility that's available to all students so that is super convenient for you guys as well. Did you ever go to the hyper? I went once yeah I did go once it's really nice um I would suggest going there you know as much as you can whenever you're available um it's for fun it's a good stress reliever over here as far as food goes you're closest to um Bruff which is a really awesome place a dining hall for you guys um I didn't get to go there a lot because I lived on the other side of campus but it's super nice there's a lot of options um you're also where did you live? I lived in a creed hall. Hey do you mind saying hello to Emma and Ed? Hi Emma hey and what was the hello Ed? Ed? Hello Ed. I'm glad you guys are with us um so yeah you have Bruff you have Starbuck's which is awesome to be close to it's a good study place um Slems and where the bald greens are and Rocket Taco so those are places that are really good for mail train which you just use your meal swipes there at night and you can eat at Bruff whenever you'd like um so yeah that's that's pretty much it you're right close to a lot of buildings where classes are held so just upstairs is central just up these stairs over here is the central part of campus right and Dixon street yeah so this is like the best place in my opinion for you to be as far as location goes um you know all the business classes are right there and you're pretty close to the union so it's a really great place to be at. It's hot out here. It is hot. Well hello. Hi. Who is this? My name is James Alling. I'm the CRE of Gladstone Ripley Hall. CRE stands for Coordinator for Residence Education so we are a master's level professional that actually lives here on campus. My job is I oversee 12 RAs including the three that live here in Gladstone Ripley. My buildings on campus are Gregson, Gibson, Buchanan Drogh and Gladstone Ripley. So my primary functions are daily operations of the building overseeing the resident assistance in any way that we can help you. So are you just constantly running from building to building to building? Kind of. At times. It does happen that way sometimes. Actually I have spent half of my office hours up at Gregson Hall this upcoming year and then half of my office hours will be down here at Buchanan Drogh as well. So that way I give equal opportunity and time for these two buildings as well the two buildings a little bit further up the hill. Fantastic. Fantastic. Well on the evening you might say in specific about Gladstone Ripley. So Gladstone Ripley a couple things we'll look at downstairs. This building actually got some new furniture in the TV room as well as a brand new study room all of which was donated to us well not really donated it was actually given to us from the athletics department came from Donald W Reynolds Razorback Stadium so it's super nice furniture students have loved it it's very unique to this building there's no other building on campus that has anything like it which is awesome all right but yeah that's we're just really happy that Gladstone Ripley will be home. Fantastic. Well let's go ahead and head inside then and you can show us our handy-gandy fob security system. Thank you very much. So first we're going to show you guys where you will get your mail so you can email with your number for your mailbox and your combination and this is where you will get that and like I said earlier if you have any packages you'll pick those up in the lobby of Buchanan Drogh which is right next old school yeah right there little lockers that you get and you said you said you'll get your combination yes and an email okay fantastic and then packages go over to Buchanan Drogh. Right and you also get an email so if you get a package they will email you and let you know that they have it for you. Nice. Hey would you say hello to Alan? To Alan? Hello Alan. Alan was in Gladstone to restate his freshman year of the late 80s he loved his time here his daughter is going to start in fall at Hots. Awesome. Legacy love that. I love that. Thanks for joining us. So we're going to head down the stairs. And this is a three-story building I believe? Yes houses, 101 co-ed students. And then sometimes we get asked Jake about how we divide mail and female is it by floor here or is it by like side? Yes it's on it's by floor so the basement level floor here that we're on now is male first floor is also male and then the second floor is female. Thank you thank you so much. Okay we're heading down the basement hallway yes. There's your trash shoot which is super convenient but when you don't take your trash out every time you can just bring it here open the door put your trash in there it's very convenient. Does it shoot down from the third floor I think? Yes it does. And then over here is the kitchen area. Okay. You can use that whenever you like. You say red but really just check them out there's no cost. Of course it's free of charge but And in Reed did you do a little cooking or how that works? You know my RAs cook to offer us they're really cool they would have like pancake practices and stuff I had a lot of friends that made muffins in there, had taco night, made a lot of dinner so. Nice nice. Yes it's very it's very good to have. Oh yeah we get that light. Save some energy. Save some other things. Recycling center. This is where yes this is where your whole recycle room is cycling in every building so we're bang on that. And you ride. It bends there. Recycling. Recycling and right in here is our watcher room. So you're going to have three washers and four dryers and we have this really cool thing here that you never see working so long it's called laundry alert. There's some information about it on the wall basically you can just take a picture of these little scan your codes or you can download the app and it will tell you when washers and dryers are available so you don't have to come down here and you know buy form I know a lot of people sometimes try to wash their clothes at once so it's really nice to have that to know when you can wash your clothes also if you you know put in the app that say you're using this washing machine it will send you a message when your clothes are done so you don't have to come down here and talk about it so. How often do you typically wash your clothes when you're living with me? Honestly I would do it I would try and do it once a week but it's hard when you're living with a bunch of girls. Everybody wants to wash their clothes at one time so I would suggest you know finding a time when not everyone's trying to wash their clothes at once and sticking with that. Good advice so next. I was going to ask you said you're from Fayetteville. Where are the people who are listening? Where are you guys from? Let us know. Is there any tips or tricks you would offer about moving to Fayetteville? Things you absolutely have to check out. I have farmers markets all the time which I would totally suggest going to whenever you're free. Mount Sequoia is a really cool place to visit. It's a really good lookout. It's good for picnics. It's a good stress reliever when you're not in here studying. This is a really good study room actually so it's a good thing to have a study room so you don't have to walk to the library every time. You don't want to do homework. It's a good place to get away from your roommate if you need to and get stuff done. Every now and then you have to do that. There's these cute razor backs on every chair if you can see that. These are the ones that you were talking about is that right? Yes these are the ones that we were able to obtain from athletics when they were doing or purchasing new furniture. So these are the only piece of furniture that we have on campus within housing that actually has that logo engraved on it. Nice. Special edition. Yes exactly. What would you say that people use this space mostly for study? Yes so this room is mostly for study. This actually last year was a ping pong room. They had a ping pong table in. Students were asking for more quieter places to study so we decided to actually pull the ping pong table out of here and move it over into our recreational room in the TV room next door. We were like say able to obtain all this furniture for study so that way it's an easy place to close the door have a quiet place to work and make sure you're successful. Absolutely very good. So I guess there's another side to this. Yes we'll go check that out right now. This would also be a really good place if you you know have friends in the same classes as you to have you know group study sessions and help each other as much as you can. That'd be a great place for that. This is the fun room. It's a really good common area. There's two mini machines which take Apple Pay which is really cool. Have you used your watch yet to find anything? Yeah absolutely. It's kind of feels like the Jetsons the Futures. So that's really nice to have of course you have your ping pong table which is under repair. Okay okay it's in the shop. It's going to be going to the shop. Master your ping pong skills in here. Here this is a really good hangout spot. You've got two areas really. Yeah this one is hangout with people, meet new people. This is a good place. I would say watch movies with your friends and you know have have a space outside of your room to hang out in. I really liked the common areas. I actually met a lot of people in the common areas that I probably wouldn't have met otherwise. So I would definitely suggest coming down here and hanging out when you have time and playing games and watching movies and making friends. Did you make friends and make some friends and read? I definitely did make a lot a lot of friends and read. Some of my best friends now are people that I did not know at all before college so be social you know have fun meet as many people as you can. Here's another trash shoot. Yes okay so trash shoots on both sides. And this is one of the bathrooms as you notice there was also one on that end. These are male restaurants since this is the male floor. And in here you have precincts, a big mirror, two stalls, two showers, a nice little hook. Let's dip into that shower stall and see what's going on. I would definitely suggest you know I bought a cute pair of shower shoes and had a little shower carrier for all of your stuff. It makes it really easy. Definitely convenient. Where did you get your shower shoes? Old Navy has every color flip-flop. So just a flip-flop really? Yes that's what a lot of people do. It's just like a dollar pair of flip-flops. A dollar pair of flip-flops. It's cute any color. Great. Here's another water station. I think the bathrooms on the first floor maybe had even more showers. So there's two in there but there's four I believe. Since the capacity on the first and second floor is a lot higher of residents, those bathrooms are a little bit larger than these since we have fewer residents on the basement floor. Do you typically have upperclassmen or first-year students here? Primarily first-year freshmen. We house here, we do have some students that will return because they love the community aspect of it. But primarily we are first-year freshmen. Excellent. So now we're about to head into a room and we're going to head into 104 and offer some measurements and other things that you may want. Let's showcase some of the stuff in the room itself. So there is a people which comes in handy so you know who's not coming on your door. Here are two racks for towels. You know when you get out of the shower so those are super convenient. Both people in the room have their own thing to hang their clothes up in and it has a mirror so you don't have to worry about bringing your own mirror. Don't have to worry about that. That's super nice. Oh you got your own mirror there. We had a question from Julie who asks how many people share a bathroom? My daughter's living and I how many people on this floor? On this floor this one side there's only four residents. On the other side maybe eight, ten, twelve-ish on those sides. But upstairs we'll house the rest of the students. It is definitely bigger on that side however there's a clear divide between the two sides of the floor. Primarily the students on the left side of the one side of the building will share that one bathroom and the others on the other. As for the exact number I can definitely find out. Yeah I think upstairs at least on one side which they're the ones you're sharing about. There's probably what 10 residents on each side maybe? No it would probably be more like 25, 26. We'll actually look at that number for you. Courtney is being nice enough to answer our questions after the show so yeah we'll get there. Ed asks are the rooms carpeted and yes this room is carpeted. I think most of them are in this particular hall. There are a couple that do have some some laminate flooring in them but primarily both buildings. Gladstone and Buchanan drove are carpeted. Right so let's show off let's see. We showed the wardrobe. We showed the desk space. Each get your own desk, each get your own set of drawers and this little mini desk with a drawer on it that you can bring your own lock if you want to and lock that up if you feel the need. And something I'll point out here is there's a piece of paper on this particular one it's because a resident has said hey would you lock that for us? We don't want their bed lifted a little bit. This one's been lifted a little bit from its default height and so you're more than welcome to submit a request to have your bed lofted. Do you want to tell them how to do that? Yes you can go to ur.is it moving or housing? This one is housing.ur.edu and then forward slash fix it. Okay so yes there you can send in a request they'll loft it wherever you you would like wherever you tell them to. It's a really awesome thing to do. I personally lofted my bed for storage space I put you know my own drawers under it and it was a really good use of the space so you know you can do whatever you'd like with that and there's these add-ons which can be put on if you want. Sure sure and those take it up even further. Right. Emma is going is asking us for the inside of the closet again she'd like to see the inside of that closet. Let's go in there and check look around. Okay so I'll just go over it completely we've got a bar there and a there we go and then the mirror there and the closing door. All right Ed asks what are the measurements under the bed trying to determine if a futon will fit and at its maximum height I have I'm almost positive a futon will fit but we're happy to measure the where it is right now. Um well he might doesn't want to know you know this way for maybe how long. Oh oh right okay so the length right yeah because I'm sure he can get to a point would you mind holding that? That is about 81 inches. Yeah so the frame inside the frame is about 81 inches. Right which sounds right because this long ways is 80 inches. Actually this one yes this one. Yeah go ahead and give us the mattress measurement. So this it's about 35. It could be 36 the heavies what we got there on that one. Yes. And then yeah I can hold this side. This might be one of the scenarios this says 79. Okay it's probably 80. Yes it's not. Just to be standard on it um and I think it's going to be 80 on the other side too. Right there they should do the same. And you can't a droke because of where the door fits sometimes we have to have some 75s on the door side versus the window side. Right. Emma asks what are the dimensions under the bed that is lofted so in this case let's go ahead and give the under as well. 30 inches right now is the clearance there. And then Ed asks what are the measurements for the window curtains what is the best way to hang a curtain. Usually we recommend a tension rod. Yeah. See how there's a little bit of space up there. You can mount a tension rod there and then go over to the other side here and put it there. You're not able to drill into the walls of course because we have to take care of these facilities for a long time. But it's about 100 inches so if you do get a tension rod that should. 100 inches would do you? Yes. Yes. And that is the best way to hang curtains is through a tension rod. Definitely. Well let's see if there's anything else. Any other questions for us or for uh Jake the CRE of this area and countless others. Many many others. You wear many hats with a fan. There's also a ceiling fan in here which I want to point out because that's very nice. So you can't a droke glad to rip away or one of only three buildings on campus that have ceiling fans in the room which is very unique and nice. This one also you can run air conditioning year round. We don't decide based on our facilities what you went is available during that time. So that's also a really nice feature as well that a lot of buildings may not have. Yeah so typically some of our buildings run all hot all cold so they change over at certain times of the year when the weather gets to a point where we can trust it to be cold or hot. Exactly. Whereas here you have the ability to just dial that knob in exactly and get what you want. Ed asks about our both beds twin XL. I believe they are let's just go ahead and get a measurement on this one. They're all 36 in that dimension but let's get a length as well. This one is also about 80. Yeah so very good very good. Any more questions before we sign off? We're so glad you joined us. Again where's everybody from? I don't know if I missed that earlier in the chat feed. Also feel free to ask us questions you know after the fact you can still leave comments on the video and we'll be sure to go back and answer those for you guys. We will be monitoring even after the show. Will the dresser, Ed asks will the dresser fit under the bed the way it is lofted now? Yes. Will it sit under there currently at its current? Yes it may since this does have a little bit of a lip here. Yeah I see that. You may have to kind of lift the bed up a little bit to place it under there but it will definitely fit. Okay fantastic. Grab this room. Sure. And Ed asked can they sit in their bed when it is fully lofted? Let's see I would think when it's fully lofted there's still be enough clearance with the ceiling to sit. Absolutely. You couldn't stand and jump on it but you could sit and be like hey what's up guys? I'm king of the room. Okay well hey Ed from St. Louis and Julie from Dyers Zero Iowa. Hey very nice very nice so glad to have you coming in. Well I think we'll go ahead and sign off then and so yeah anything you want to say to your incoming residents? We are just so happy that Glidesnipley will be your home in the upcoming year. We look forward to seeing you and hoping to help you have a successful year. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. Be sure to keep up with our calendar and see you know what we're going to be doing next and tell your friends so they can watch for their specific residence halls and we're just really excited for you guys to be here next year so thanks for watching. See you in August.