About the Halls

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Hall Policies

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General Hall Information

Room Rates

Proposed Rates for the 2008-09 Academic Year:

Double Room: $2730
Single Room/Chancellor's Hall: $3880

Furniture

All the residence hall have loft furniture installed. Lofts provide the flexibility of 101 configurations, including bunks, lofts, one bed up/one down, and both beds down. Housing personnel are available to assist with furniture arrangements all year. You can submit a online loft/furniture request with the maintenance department. More specific information can be found on our website's furniture page.

Decorations

Pictures, pennants, posters and other decorations should be attached to bulletin boards only. The use of tacks, nails or tape on walls, doors, ceilings or floors is prohibited. Masking tape may be used with care on unpainted surfaces. Electric lights should be kept away from bulletin boards and other flammable materials such as crepe paper because of the danger of fire.

The original design of walls, ceilings and floors may not be covered. Rugs on the floor are permitted. If bringing carpet, a 12' x 15' piece is recommended. University furniture may not be removed from the room at any time. If a person is injured because of a change or modification made by a student to his or her room or furnishings, the University cannot be held liable.

Work Requests

You are responsible for maintaining your residence hall room. If the furnishings provided by the University need to be repaired, you should contact either your RA or your Hall Director immediately. They will help you complete a work request.

The Housing and Residence Life Office will then send a skilled professional or a trained member of its work study staff to repair the problem you have reported. If you are responsible for the damage, you will be charged. It is your responsibility to report any problems as soon as possible. The following is the online Maintenance Request Form.

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Common Facilities

Laundry Facilities

The laundry facilities in the halls consist of washers and dryers, washtubs and counters. To activate a washer, use your Blugold Card. (You must have money in your Blugold Account.) The cost for each load is $1.75. Dryer use is free. You can add money to your account at the Value Transfer Stations, online (see Blugold section), or at the Blugold office.

Computer Labs

The Housing Computer Labs are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Printing is also standard in the labs with students providing their own printing paper. More specific information can be found on our Housing Computer Labs page.

If there is ever a hardware or software problem with a computer in the labs, call ResCom Help Desk at 55-4271 or use Report a Problem. If needed, the technician on duty will notify the lab management crew so that the repair can be carried out expediently.

Front Desks

In the main lobby of each residence hall is a reception desk. The reception desk serves as an informational center for each hall. It has the name and phone number of all residents living in the hall. The reception desk can also be a resource for on-campus as well as emergency numbers.
Reception desks are staffed 24 hours a day for sales operation, and offer a wide variety of sandwiches, soda, bottled water, pizza, popcorn, ice cream and milk products. Some of the halls supply other items, such as sports equipment, games, etc. which can be checked out there.

Front Desk Phone Numbers:

	Bridgman	855.4910		Putnam	855.4600
	Chancellors	855.2614		Sutherland	855.4667
	Governors	855.4401		Thomas	855.4726
	Horan	855.4469		Towers North	855.4727
	Murray	855.4531		Towers South	855.4727
	Oak Ridge	855.4598

Kitchens

Many halls and hall councils have a supply of kitchen stuff that students can use if they purchase a hall council activity sticker for that hall.
Various cooking equipment such as pots, pans, utensils, and silverware may be checked out at the halls' front desk for use in the hall kitchens. Major appliances, including a refrigerator, freezer, stove, oven and microwave, and yes, even the kitchen sink, are available for use in most residence halls kitchens.

Social Rooms

Social rooms are located in six of our residence halls: Horan, Towers, Oak Ridge, Murray, Thomas and Governors. Social rooms are open to all members of the residence halls and their guests. The rooms are used for dinner parties and other events as approved by Hall Directors. The social room kitchens are equipped with modern appliances including a microwave oven. China, crystal, and linens are available. About 1,000 students use the social rooms each month for events such as dinners, pizza parties, and educational programs.

Fitness Areas

Most of the residence halls have exercise areas located in their basements. Universal fitness equipment is installed, along with stationary bicycles and rowing equipment, in most of the exercise areas. We hope you will take advantage of these facilities for your routine workouts.

Lounges

The main lounge of each residence hall is equipped with chairs, couches, tables, lamps, and, in some cases, television sets and pianos. All residence halls feature several study lounges furnished with chairs, desks and couches. Several of the residence halls also have a TV lounge with a big screen TV for resident use.

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Room Connections

Telephone Service

Students can request an activiated land line for their residence hall room. There is a per semester charge for this activation. The request forms can be obtained in the Housing Office, Towers 112.

Cable Service

Each room has a TV/FM outlet. Cables for the outlets are distributed at the beginning of the year. Numerous commercial stations and foreign language broadcasts are available through the cable system lineup, including ESPN, MTV, The Weather Channel, C-SPAN and CNN, to name a few.
In addition, the University has its own television channel and broadcasting studio, TV10, and its own radio station, SRI . They are both completely student-run organizations.

Network Access

All residence hall rooms are wired for Ethernet, which requires an Ethernet card to establish a connection. All residence hall rooms are equipped with at least 1 activated port per student. You'll find that all odd-numbered ports are activated \ (meaning ready to use) in all the Residence Halls.

Additional information on the necessary software all student owned computers must have installed to keep it protected and clean, including instructions on setting up your computer on the network, refer to the ResCom Help Desk.

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Hall Policies

Alcohol Policy

The alcohol policy at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire states: students 21 years or older may consume alcoholic beverages in their rooms. No alcohol is allowed outside student rooms, and group parties are not allowed in student rooms. Students should be cognizant of the legal liability inherent in providing alcohol to any person who is not of legal age.

Substance-Free Rooms

A substance-free area is one where smoke and alcohol are not permitted. Horan, Oak Ridge, Bridgman, Towers North and Towers South each have designated substance-free wings. These wings are designed for students who choose to live a substance-free lifestyle.

Smoking

Cigarettes, cigars, and pipe smoking in student rooms is prohibited in all residence halls and campus buildings. Campus law requires smokers to be at least 25 feet away from the halls even in bad/cold weather.

Illegal Drugs

The use and/or possession of illegal drugs is strictly prohibited in University buildings or on University property. Possession or use will lead to civil, as well as University disciplinary action.

Fire Equipment

Fire-fighting equipment is located throughout each residence hall for the protection of residents. Tampering with fire hoses, fire extinguishers or fire equipment will be just cause for dismissal from the residence hall and the University.
People placing false alarms, interfering with the proper functioning of the fire alarm system or interfering with the lawful efforts of fire fighters are subject to prosecution under Wisconsin Statutes, Chapter 941. Penalties specified are fines up to $500, imprisonment up to one year, or both. Open flames of any kind, including candles, halogen lamps, and incense, are prohibited in the residence halls.

Visitation

Visitation is the privilege of having members of the opposite sex in residence hall rooms during designated hours. During the first month following the opening of school, students in the residence halls will have an opportunity to vote on a policy of 24-hour visitation.

United Hall Council requested that students be given the option of voting on one of the following weekday hours of visitation: midnight - midnight (24 hour visitation) or 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. (17 hour visitation). If 75% of residents in a hall vote for 24-hour visitation for either weekends or during the entire week, the residents of that hall may have guests stay with them on a given night with the approval and consent of both roommates.

Roommates have the right to deny extended visitation as well as deny an overnight guest on a particular evening whenever that visitation or overnight guest has a negative impact on their right to sleep and/or study. An overnight guest is defined as any person who is not assigned to live in the room by the Housing and Residence Life Office.

In cases where roommates cannot agree, the right of a person to occupy his or her room without the presence of an overnight guest shall take precedence over the right of a roommate to host overnight guests. All guests must abide by university and residence hall regulations. Students are responsible at all times for behavior of their guests. The staff of Housing and Residence Life reserves the right to require any guest to leave at any time. No guest may spend more than two consecutive nights in the residence hall.

Please note that students have the right to live in an area where no 24-hour visitation is permitted. Students who desire to have a 17-hour maximum visitation option may apply to live in Oak Ridge or Horan Hall where limited visitation floors will be set aside for those students who desire this option.

If you wish to live in the 17-hour visitation area (Oak Ridge for women, Horan for men) please note this under Residence Hall Preference on the On-Campus Housing Application.

Quiet Hours

During quiet hours there should be very little visiting in the corridors and no TV or stereos heard outside the doors of the rooms. Doors should be closed and students should refrain from loud talk and noisy activity in the hallways.

Quiet hours are observed from 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m. or 10:00 p.m. (to be voted on by residents in the fall) Sunday through Thursday and begin later on the weekends. Courtesy hours are observed when quiet hours are not in effect as a courtesy to students wishing to study or sleep.

Firearms

All firearms, ammunition, bows and arrows, and weapons are prohibited in residence halls. All firearms must be registered and stored by University Public Safety.

Pets

For many reasons, including health and sanitation, pets are not permitted in the residence halls. Small fish are the only exception.

Room Damage

Each student signs a room inventory card shortly after checking in at the residence hall. All damages in the room upon arrival will be noted on the form. When damage occurs or repairs are needed, they should be reported to the resident assistant as soon as possible. Costs for damage to any hall property will be charged to the person responsible.

Students should not give out their combination and should shut their doors when leaving their rooms since they are responsible for the contents of their rooms, even in their absence. Nails, tacks and tape of any kind can be particularly damaging to the furnishings and must not be used. Screens must not be unfastened in any way at any time. A service charge will be made to replace damaged screens and windows.

Cooking

Cooking is NOT permitted in the residence halls except in kitchens. Due to fire and safety concerns, heating and cooking appliances such as toasters, frying pans, space heaters, hot plates, waffle irons and grills are prohibited. The only appliances permitted are irons, coffee makers, corn poppers, personal computers, small refrigerators, and small microwave ovens. The Housing and Residence Life Office reserves the right to remove unauthorized or dangerous appliances.