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HISTORY INTELLECTUAL PRESIDENT Penn has been building a vigorous DR. AMY GUTMANN on-campus community since it was LIFE PROVOST founded more than two centuries PROF. WENDELL E. PRITCHETT ago. After the Civil War, Penn moved to its present campus in West VICE PROVOST FOR EDUCATION PROF. BETH WINKELSTEIN Philadelphia, and under the visionary direction of Provost Charles Custis FACULTY DIRECTOR, COLLEGE HOUSES AND ACADEMIC SERVICES Harrison, a vast, turreted complex of PROF. LISA LEWIS interlocking dormitories called The EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COLLEGE Quadrangle began to be constructed HOUSES AND ACADEMIC SERVICES on Spruce Street. The present-day MARTIN W. REDMAN
Quad, an architectural and historical WHERE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTICIPATION MATTER DIRECTOR OF FIRST-YEAR HOUSES landmark, comprises three College DR. LICINIA BARRUECO KALIHER Houses: Fisher Hassenfeld, Riepe, DIRECTOR OF FOUR-YEAR HOUSES PARTICIPATION and Ware, all bearing the names of RYAN J. KEYTACK Penn’s distinguished alumni. In the DIRECTOR OF UPPERCLASS HOUSES post-World War II era of expansion, DR. JANINE WEAVER-DOUGLAS Penn turned to the famous Finnish DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE HOUSE COMPUTING architect Eero Saarinen to design a DANIEL L. THOMAS III dormitory for women at 33rd and PHOTO CREDITS Walnut Streets which today is the GREG BENSON co-ed Hill College House, which CHRISTOPHER DONOVAN received a complete renovation in BRYAN KARL LATHROP TOMMY LEONARDI 2017. The buildings that are now SUE SMITH called Stouffer College House and JJ TIZIOU ADAM WEAVER Kings Court English College House were also built or acquired at this DESIGN ANNE MARIE KANE time, and vehicular traffic was RELATIONSHIPS banned in the so-called “super block” EDITORS CHRISTOPHER BOGS stretching from 38th to 40th Streets RYAN J. KEYTACK between Walnut and Spruce Streets. This enabled the development of a ONLINE VERSION WWW.COLLEGEHOUSES.UPENN.EDU park-like setting presided over by a trio of skyscraper dormitories — Harnwell, Harrison and Rodin College Houses — with low-rise buildings, W.E.B. Du Bois and Gregory College Houses, framing the surrounding lawns. In 2017, Penn opened New College House, the first residential complex designed from the start University of Pennsylvania WWW. to accommodate the broad scope Stouffer Commons COLLEGEHOUSES. of intellectual, cultural and social 3702 Spruce Street activities that are the hallmarks of the Philadelphia PA 19104-6027 UPENN.EDU College House communities. TABLE OF CONTENTS CAMPUS MAP
KINGS COURT NEW COLLEGE HOUSE INTELLECTUAL LIFE ENGLISH 6__COLLEGE HOUSE LIFE HILL
7__FACULTY AND STAFF RODIN W.E.B. DU BOIS 37th St. 37th 38th St. 36th St. 8__RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS 34th St. 5 St. 33rd HARNWELL 9__SPOTLIGHT PROGRAM Chestnut St.
RELATIONSHIPS Sansom St. 12__BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS Walnut St. 13__ROOMMATE RELATIONSHIP 11 17__HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCES Locust St. PARTICIPATION 20__WAYS TO GET INVOLVED 22__SIGNATURE PROGRAMS 19 Spruce St. COLLEGE HOUSES 26__Du BOIS 27__GREGORY 28__NEW 29__STOUFFER 30__FISHER HASSENFELD
31__HILL HARRISON 32__KINGS COURT ENGLISH GREGORY / CLASS OF 1925 33__RIEPE GREGORY / VAN PELT MANOR 34__WARE __HARNWELL 35 STOUFFER / 36__HARRISON MAYER HALL STOUFFER / 37__RODIN STOUFFER HALL
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR RESIDENTS 40__COLLEGE HOUSE COMMUNITY STANDARDS PLEASE NOTE GOLDBERG HOUSE RIEPE 40__COLLEGE HOUSE POLICIES AND SERVICES FOR CAMPUS For additional campus views 43__COLLEGE HOUSE BEHAVIOR 39 see the Facilities & Real WARE 50__COLLEGE HOUSE CONDUCT PROCESS Estate Services Maps at 52__SERVICES FOR RESIDENTS www.facilities.upenn. FISHER HASSENFELD . Click on 54__RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INFORMATION edu/map.php Student Housing. 57__RENT SCHEDULE 58__HOUSE CONTACT INFORMATION 59__CAMPUS MAP
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STATEMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION ON COLLEGE HOUSE PROGRAMS AND STAFF Office of College Houses and Academic Services THE COLLEGE HOUSES Stouffer Commons ARE RESIDENTIAL 3702 Spruce Street COMMUNITIES FOR PENN Philadelphia, PA 19104-6027 UNDERGRADUATES PHONE 215.898.5551 THAT: FAX 215.573.6789 • Connect the academic EMAIL life of the University [email protected] with the residential URL experience. www.collegehouses.upenn.edu
• Develop smaller, FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ROOM ASSIGNMENTS, intimate communities BILLING OR BUILDING SERVICES Department of Residential Services that students call Stouffer Commons home and from 3702 Spruce Street which they can more Philadelphia, PA 19104-6027 comfortably navigate PHONE the complexities of 215.898.8271 a large university. FAX 215.573.2061 • Provide academic EMAIL and personal support [email protected] to residents. URL www.upenn.edu/housing
• Promote social interaction, The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, faculty and staff engagement, from diverse backgrounds. The University of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis accountability and of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected class status in the leadership within a administration of its admissions, financial aid, educational or athletic programs, or other University- setting that honors administered programs or in its employment practices. Questions or complaints regarding this policy should be directed to the Executive Director of the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal the diverse needs Opportunity Programs, Sansom Place East, 3600 Chestnut Street, Suite 228, Philadelphia, PA and backgrounds 19104-6106; or (215) 898-6993 (Voice) or (215) 898-7803 (TDD). of the population.
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Penn has had individual College Houses for almost 50 years, but it wasn’t until 1998 that every undergraduate residence hall was converted into the living-and-learning model that students who lived in places like Du Bois College House and Van Pelt College House (now part of Gregory) had been thriving in for years. From its inception, the foundational idea of the College House system has been intellectual engagement: extending the WHERE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTICIPATION MATTER active “life of the mind” that Penn fosters beyond the classroom and into living rooms. In the College Houses, intellectual life matters. Here’s how we do it. COLLEGE HOUSES
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WE CONNECT THE HOUSE COMMUNITIES TO Deans serve as academic advisors, COLLEGE COLLEGE HOUSE active participants in group events, THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE UNIVERSITY. and trusted friends. House Deans HOUSE LIFE • Residents are exposed to a range of disciplines and backgrounds FACULTY AND direct the House office and hire and through the Faculty Director, House Fellows and House Dean. To supervise the GAs, RAs, and House learn more about their diverse fields of study and expertise see STAFF Managers. Many of the Deans hold College House residents do far www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/staff/expertise. advanced academic degrees and more than eat, sleep, play, and • We provide group tickets for campus events and renowned speakers. Every College House has a live- provide leadership by serving on study. They learn. Each House • Academically-themed Residential Programs within the Houses have in team of faculty and staff who key committees across the campus. provides countless occasions links to such distinguished departments as the Fels Institute, Film work to keep the life of the for residents to get to know the Studies, Civic House, Weiss Tech House, Perry World House, and the House community engaged in faculty, staff, and student leaders Greenfield Intercultural Center. the intellectual and social life HOUSE COORDINATOR who are their neighbors in the of the University as a whole. Each House office is staffed by a House. By living in a College House WE CREATE THE ATMOSPHERE OF A These scholars and their families full-time non-resident Coordinator our residents have opportunities SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE WITHIN become part of the College House who supports the operation of the to collaborate with other residents; community and enrich the life of all House and provides invaluable improve their language, writing, THE UNIVERSITY’S EXCITINGLY LARGE their residents. assistance to the Dean and all of math, and other skills; plan and lead RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT. the residents. House activities; write newsletters • Our College House faculty, often pre-eminent in their fields, are and market House events; attend nevertheless approachable and enjoy engaging with their residents. FACULTY DIRECTOR in-House performances; oversee • Student researchers receive guidance from House faculty on writing The Faculty Director of each program budgets; manage a a research proposal and can apply for House research fellowships College House is a prominent of $1,500. The Research Fellows present their work in symposia and student IT team; or mentor their professor appointed by the Provost GRADUATE peers. For those who participate in other forums, and in turn advise other residents about Penn’s research to live in residence. As neighbors ASSOCIATES their College House communities, opportunities. of students, these professors offer learning just happens; it’s the • Emphasis on community building in each House helps create a sociable immediate contact with Penn’s (GAs) & RESIDENT inevitable result of the daily home base. renowned teachers and scholars. ADVISORS (RAs) interaction of residents and Faculty Directors provide academic engagement with the activities WE SUPPORT OUR RESIDENTS, leadership for the House. around them. This sort of informal ACADEMICALLY AND PERSONALLY. Each House has a diverse team of graduate students, or Graduate learning is an intentional outcome The Tutoring Center offers help in several Houses with Math, Econ, • Associates (GAs), selected of our mission. Here are some of Chemistry, Biology, and other subjects each semester. HOUSE FELLOWS from the University’s doctoral the ways we do it. Houses provide advice on graduate and professional schools, • College House Fellows are and professional programs. internships, careers, and fellowships, and House Deans provide appointed to live in the College GAs bring their experiences as in-House academic advising. Houses to strengthen the advanced students to the life of Group study and technology spaces encourage students to learn • connections between the Houses the community and also offer together. and the intellectual life of the special expertise in their fields University. Members of the standing of study. GAs sponsor or join BREAK- or adjunct faculty of one of Penn’s WE FOSTER LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY, in the numerous academic and twelve schools, or members of OUT OF ALL BUT ALSO CIVIC-MINDEDNESS, TEAMWORK, AND co-curricular activities of each Penn’s senior academic staff, they RESIDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO COLLABORATE. House. Equally important is the have regular teaching, advising, BY CLASS • Awards such as the College House Deans Integrated Knowledge undergraduate team of Residential and mentoring relationships with Award, the Lucid Award, and the Du Bois Endowed Scholarship are Advisors (RAs) who advise undergraduates. bestowed on residents with notable academic achievements and and support the programming community-mindedness. initiatives of the community. The • Houses with a Board of Managers have a strong leadership team HOUSE DEAN peer support offered by an RA can First Year Students 45% overseeing every aspect of the House, from oversight of cafés to the be a wonderful resource for new The House Dean is the single Sophomores 27% creation of science competitions. students looking for guidance from most important administrator in • House Councils or Steering Committees play different roles across someone close in age and outlook. Juniors 14% the residential community. House the Houses – advising staff on the allocation of funds, the creation of Seniors 14% programs, intramural activities, and more.
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RESIDENTIAL OPEN FISHER HASSENFELD HOUSE SPOTLIGHT: RESIDENTIAL TO FIRST OPEN TO OPTIONAL YEAR UPPERCLASS ACADEMIC PROGRAMS PROGRAMS LIST STUDENTS STUDENTS CREDIT WENDY AND LEONARD GOLDBERG MEDIA & WORLD CULTURES AND LANGUAGES For many students the idea of COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM AT GOLDBERG HOUSE Ancient Studies ● living with a smaller community The Wendy and Leonard Goldberg Media & Communications Program, nestled in the westernmost end Cultures Collective ● of people who share a culture, of Fisher Hassenfeld College House in the Quad, is open to students in any major or academic field and ● lifestyle or interest is very Living Cultures Residential Program provides ample space to live and work. The program is physically situated at the heart of a complex of appealing. At Penn, designated Modern Languages Program ● ● ● buildings surrounding the beautiful Bluestone Courtyard – Foerderer, McKean, Baldwin, Class of 1887, and floors or sections of the Houses are ARTS & LETTERS Craig – known collectively as Goldberg House. The beautiful Foerderer archway marks the entrance of called Residential Programs. The Arts House ● the program, and the nearby Goldberg Media Lounge serves at the principal public space. Named for film potential for an enriched residential producer Leonard Goldberg and his wife, Wendy, the program draws members who share an interest not Film Culture ● ● ● experience is limitless with so only in film, but for all forms of communications media, including broadcasting, publishing, journalism, many topics to explore together. Front Row Theatre and the Arts ● digital media, marketing, and public relations, and political communication. This program is designed Students apply for these programs Goldberg Media and ● for students who have a broad academic interest in mass media and communications, ranging from the when completing their housing Communications Program advertising and mass media industries to television and film portrayals of particular groups to the ways in application; most require essays at Integrated Living Program ● which digital media impact society. Residents in this program work together to design a media campaign the time of application. Information Music and Social Change ● ● that they envision and execute with the goal of generating a positive impact in their residential community. about applying to upperclass The campaign may include creating videos, writing a newsletter, designing advertisements, developing Perspectives in the Humanities ● residential programs is available a blog, and/or other media-related activities. The program also includes communications-themed social The Rodin Arts Collective (TRAC) ● at https://www.collegehouses. activities, like movie nights and attending upenn.edu/life/upperclass. IDENTITY & SELF events in the Philadelphia area. BL(o)C: Balanced Living Community – ● GOALS: This program provides interested “Wellness Community” students with an opportunity to engage in Jewish Cultural Studies Program ● critical thought around the issues of mass HOUSE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING & MATH media and to think about and discuss the ways Biosphere: The Active Experience ● in which media affect individuals’ thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors as well as our society SPOTLIGHTS Eco-House: Environmental ● AND TRADITIONS Residential Program as a whole. Science and Technology Wing (STWing) ● Some Houses have traditional Scientific Adventures ● programs that are informal or club- Study of Infectious Diseases ● like in their relaxed approach to Women in Computer Science ● bringing people together. No essay Women in Science ● or application is required and the groups are not necessarily based PENN COURSE COMMUNITIES Huntsman Program for International on a floor or cluster of rooms. Four ● ● examples include: Du Bois FIT, Studies and Business Du Bois Cultural Production and Integrated Studies Program ● ● Political Power, Rodin’s Sophomore LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Surge, and the Knitting Circle at KCECH Upperclass Programs ● Ware, which are open to all House ● residents, and are typically led by Leadership Residential Program an enthusiastic, knowledgeable RA Mentors Program ● or GA. Penn Women in Leadership ● Policy, Politics and Social Change ●
Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship ●
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For most students, the Penn experience is the first time they’ve lived away from home. For some, it’s the first time they’ve lived so close to so many other interesting people: fellow students studying everything from developing economies to the art of the Tang Dynasty, faculty and professional staff from across the University’s range of disciplines, and the families that those faculty and staff bring with them into WHERE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTICIPATION MATTER the Houses. Our residents are not left to drift alone in the sometimes overwhelming world of academia: in the College Houses, relationships matter. Here’s how we build them. COLLEGE HOUSES
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BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS ROOMMATE RELATIONS
GET TO KNOW YOUR RA OR GA HOW TO START OFF RIGHT Your first and best point of contact with your College House staff is your A year in a College House goes fast, but there is plenty of time to build a RA or GA. Every floor, section, or hall in the College Houses has a Resident strong relationship with your roommate(s), whether to lay the foundations Advisor or Graduate Associate assigned to live there and serve as a resource of a lasting friendship or simply develop the stable partnership necessary for to the residents they are responsible for. An RA is a junior or senior in one a harmonious living arrangement. of Penn’s undergraduate schools, and a GA is a graduate or professional student from one of the graduate schools at the University. Finding out where they are coming from, both literally and figuratively, is an excellent place to start. Where is home? How did they spend their Regardless of whether you have an RA or a GA, this person has been trained summer? What do they intend to study, and what extracurriculars might by College Houses & Academic Services to serve as a resource person, they participate in this year? What are their hobbies or passions, their advisor, counselor, and community facilitator for all the residents of their favorite music, films, books, food, games, or sports teams? Where have House. RA/GAs know when and how to refer students who need specific they traveled, or where would they love to go? With some comfort level, help to appropriate University services. They can help you resolve issues you might discuss family, religion, or past or current relationships. In the or problems with a roommate or other person on your floor or hall. They process, you might discover that you have much in common; but do not can help you figure out ways to balance your academic life with all the be surprised—or alarmed!—if there is a great difference as well. Penn other aspects of your Penn experience. RA/GAs create programming in the students are from all over the world, from very different backgrounds; your Houses, facilitating educational, cultural, social, and recreational activities. roommate might be of different ethnicity or faith, and their lifestyle, dietary They can also help you create events you want to see happen in your own habits, and working hours might be markedly distinct from yours. One of House. the best aspects of University life is that you are exposed to a wide range of people, and one of the most important learning experiences you can have at Penn is learning to co-exist with those who seem different from GET TO KNOW YOUR ROOMMATES you—a key life skill you will need after graduation! After covering some big AND FLOORMATES picture items, be sure to discuss matters that will impact your day-to-day life: comfort level with guests (particularly overnight); sleeping schedules; Even in the most private communities like the high-rise apartment-style interest in sharing food items, supplies, and technology; plans for keeping Houses, you won’t be living alone at Penn. Your House will house hundreds the room clean. of other Penn students, and forming good relationships with them will make your time in College Houses a much better experience! Your RA or GA will arrange events and opportunities to get together with the other residents, and taking advantage of these low-key, fun events is a great way to meet ROOMMATES = BEST FRIENDS? your neighbors and keep life in your area fun, friendly and smooth. And if NOT NECESSARILY you have an idea for a fun activity that can bring your floor, hall or section It is important to keep your expectations in line with reality. Successful together, suggest it to your RA or GA. You won’t regret taking the time to relationships of any kind do not require nor do they hinge on individuals get to know your fellow residents and to build community, whether it’s over within those relationships to become best friends. The same is true with cookies, TV or late-night board games. roommates. It is highly likely that a majority of students would not identify their roommate as a best friend and yet still consider their relationship to be a very positive experience. This is often because roommates have invested time in learning about each other’s background and interests and build upon this foundation by exhibiting respect for each other’s needs. Keep in mind that you and your roommate(s) have the freedom to decide who your best friends will be, and if it is not each other that is perfectly fine!
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IT’S IMPORTANT TO NEGOTIATE CLEAR AND OPEN COMMUNICATION EXPECTATIONS EARLY IN THE IS OF KEY IMPORTANCE ROOMMATE RELATIONSHIP After you have shared ideas about the living arrangement in your room, the next step is to consolidate the plans you have made in a form of a ADOPT A “WIN-WIN” STRATEGY roommate agreement. The purpose of a roommate agreement is to keep It is important and even imperative to start early to think about negotiating open your lines of communication about issues and concerns as they arise an accommodating and comfortable living space for you and your in your living space. It is a tool that allows you to make use of the university roommate(s). One has to keep in mind that a win-win strategy for sharing a policies to work out compromises for comfortable living and for preserving a space with others is the best insurance for successful living. Here are a few lasting relationship with your roommate(s). A few tips to keep in mind: pointers on how to proceed: • Ask your RA/GA for a roommate agreement form to start the process. • Make your own list of all the factors that would make your living • You RA/GA should keep a copy of the agreement and could serve as a arrangement with others harmonious. Arrange the items on the list by coordinator of the process and when needed as a mediator to find the order of importance to you. best compromise. • Suggest to your roommate(s) the same idea and ask them to make up • Don’t discuss your roommate problems with others when you have not their own list. discussed them with your roommate first. • One has to be thoughtful, respectful, and sensitive to others’ living • Don’t direct accusations towards your roommate based on an arrangement needs in order to establish a trusting relationship with assumption or hearsay before inquiring about it directly with your roommates. roommate. • Remember that you have a lot of support in your College House. Use the RA/GA, the House Dean, the Faculty Director, and the numerous resources on campus.
APPRECIATING DIFFERENCES AND BEING OPEN TO THE EXPERIENCE
Living together involves blending lives and lifestyles. You may be living with a roommate who has very different traits, values, and habits. Your roommate most likely grew up in a different family, was educated in a different school, formed a different set of friends, and developed a set of values, beliefs, opinions, and habits that are different from your own. Living with a roommate gives you the opportunity to learn from someone very different from yourself. You should look at your living experience as another chance to learn about negotiation and compromise. It’s likely that you’ll learn a great deal about yourself while learning about someone new. Be open to the background and life experiences of your roommate, and be willing to share who you are in return. Living with someone new is not always easy, but who says it has to be hard?
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ANTICIPATING STRESS THROUGHOUT HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCES THE ACADEMIC YEAR
COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES (CAPS) 215-898-7021 The college academic year will expose you to a whole new set of challenges. Free, confidential, individual and group therapy and advocacy, including for stress reduction. From the intensity of meeting hundreds of new people during move-in and orientation, to the possibility of spending major holidays away from your STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES (SHS) 215-746-3535 family for the first time, to ending the academic year and saying goodbye Affordable, accessible primary, preventative, and specialty health care for all students. to friends who have become your family, the year will bring many different new experiences your way. At Penn, you will feel that you will be in a STUDENT INTERVENTION SERVICES 215-898-6081 constant state of mid-terms – that will be your reality! You should recognize Support, referrals, and case management for critical matters or emergencies involving safety and wellness. that during your most challenging week in the semester, your roommate may have an easy week, and vice versa. The most important reminder is to 215-573-3525 continue being respectful to your roommate during this time. If you think OFFICE OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG PROGRAM INITIATIVES Non-judgmental, confidential interventions regarding drug and alcohol use and concerns. about the academic year chronologically, you can recognize some of the stressors that might be most impactful: ACADEMIC SUPPORT • Move-in and Orientation (it’s stressful to meet hundreds of people!) One-on-one advising and assistance in each of the four undergraduate schools. • Classes begin (it’s likely you’ll be a bit more busy than you’ve ever been • The College of Arts and Sciences | 215-898-6341 before) • Wharton | 215-898-7608 • MID-TERMS! • Engineering and Applied Science | 215-898-7246 • Finding new friend groups and clubs (as you find who you are at Penn, • Nursing | 215-898-6687 you and your roommate could grow apart, or you could grow closer) • Thanksgiving (for many students, this might be the first major holiday OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 215-898-8456 away from family) Pastoral support, guidance, informal advising, counseling and referrals. • FINAL EXAMS! • Winter Holidays (many students will visit family for the first time in the CULTURAL RESOURCE CENTERS year…this may cause added stress) Advocacy, support, and academic, cultural, and social programming at: • Spring semester begins (it can be difficult to readjust to life back • Greenfield Intercultural Center | 215-898-3358 at Penn) • The Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina | 215-746-6043 • Fraternity/sorority recruitment (maybe you join the same organization, • Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center | 215-898-5044 or not… or neither of you join one. Regardless, it can be a stressful time) • Makuu: The Black Cultural Center | 215-573-0823 • Making housing decisions for next year • African-American Resource Center | 215-898-0104 • MID-TERMS! • Pan-Asian American Community House | 215-746-6046 • Winter in Philly (it can feel like it lasts forever…) • Penn Women’s Center | 215-898-8611 • Spring Break (finally) • More MID-TERMS! HELP LINE 215-898-HELP (215-898-4357) • Spring Fling, Hey Day, and the end of school (it’s a great social time, but 24/7 assistance from the Division of Public Safety for time-sensitive help navigating Penn’s health and wellness you still need to be thinking about your academics) resrources. • FINAL EXAMS! • Move out (it can be stressful too… and it’s hard to say goodbye, but you REACH-A-PEER LINE (RAP LINE) 215-573-2RAP (215-573-2727) made it through your year at Penn!) Peer support, information, and referrals from students to students, nightly from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. or online.
An academic year for a college student seems like it might be long, but it WEINGARTEN LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER 215-573-9235 goes by quickly. Continue respecting your roommate and keep the lines of Provides instruction on improving academic skills and provides services to students with disabilities of all kinds. communication open. If you do this, you’re sure to have a great year!
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You have to try hard to get bored at Penn, given the huge variety of activities on offer. On any given evening on campus, you’ll find dozens of speakers, club activities, social events, concerts, sporting events and a host of other ways to keep yourself active and engaged with the Penn community. You’ll discover that many of these events take place right at home, sponsored and hosted by members of the House communities WHERE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTICIPATION MATTER we build every year. In the College Houses, participation matters. Here’s how we make opportunities to get involved. COLLEGE HOUSES
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Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House BY THE NUMBERS WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House
Gregory College House Each of Penn’s 12 College Houses has distinctive attributes that set it Fisher Hassenfeld College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House apart from the rest—unique facilities, philosophies, traditions. But on Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House a fundamental level, they are all communities where students not only 12 live alongside faculty and administrative staff, but take an active role in COLLEGE HOUSES
Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House utilizing those facilities, deepening those philosophies, and maintaining
Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hillthose College House traditions… while building new ones, of course. The College Houses Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House are not strictly top-down organizations, where the elder statesmen make
Kings Court English College House New College House Riepe Collegeall House the decisions, but rather interactive neighborhoods in which residents Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House 39 Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House of any class year passionate about their new homes away from home can FACULTY MEMBERS
Harnwell College House Hill College House make their mark, now and for the future. The leadership opportunities vary Harrison College House
Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House IN RESIDENCE W.E.B. Du Bois College House Harnwell College House Hillfrom College House House to House, as befits the way each has evolved over the years; Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House Harrison College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House
Kings Court English College House Riepe College House SE A some have House Councils, in which students are elected by their peers as New College House M R PER AD MELIO spokespeople for their hall or suite; Stouffer has a steering committee that In Gregory, a diverse group of In Hill, we care deeply about Kings Court English College House New College House meetsRiepe College House regularly to oversee the budget and make decisions on programming; managers runs weekly social integrating first year students into Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House and New College House offers a number of House Collectives, in which events, invites guest faculty a community that will ultimately Gregory College House RodinF isherCollege Hassenf Houseeld College House Stou er College House Ware College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House 211 students can share (and debate!) ideas around topics like research, in for dinner conversations, launch them into a successful Harnwell College House RAs AND GAs Kings Court English College House Hill College House New College House HarrisonRiepe College College House House SE A MP IOR and hosts film screenings and career at Penn, and beyond. We ER AD MEL sustainability and diversity. Kings Court English College House Riepe College House discussions as part of our Film live in a space that was quite New College House
SE A Culture Residential Program. literally built to connect people MP IOR Harnwell College House ER AD MEL Harrison College House Hill College House Kings Court English College House If running House events is not your thing, there are plenty of other We are always surprised to find to one another, and we take that New College House Riepe College House
Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House opportunities to be active and present in the community. Each House has that the most popular manager very seriously. We also have a lot Harnwell College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House Harrison College House Hill College House SEM RA positions are those that involve of fun in the process! When we PER AD MELIO an Information Technology Advisor team, who staff computer labs, loan out 5,810 the most work—particularly in the welcome our new group of first- Kings Court English College House Rodin CollegeRiepe CHouseollege House S Stou er College House Ware College House New College House EM RA EVENTS WERE PER ELIO laptops, get new students online and help with tech issues. Some Houses AD M kitchen, baking up scrumptious year students to Hill College House, have cafés where residents serve up much-needed caffeine at all hours; desserts for our weekly study it gives us the perfect opportunity OFFERED IN Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House
Kings Court English College House Riepe College House Rodin College House WaNewre College House SE A Stou er College House MPE IOR others have office staffs, where residents lend out equipment, manage breaks and Bring Your Own Mug! to expose our students to the R AD MEL THE COLLEGE get-togethers. It makes sense; bright lights of Penn and a once-in- Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House facility reservations and answer all sorts of questions from their peers. the fastest way to get to know a-lifetime chance to go behind the HOUSES IN 2017-18 S Kings Court English College House EM RA Riepe College House PER AD MELIO New College House everyone in the House is to be scenes, to look at what the city of Not that you need to have such a prominent and potentially time-consuming Rodin College House Ware College House the bringer of sweets! As we are Philadelphia has to offer through Stou er College House
Harnwell College House Hill College House role in your House to play your part; the easiest way to get involved, to get Harrison College House a Four-Year Community, Gregory our four pillars: SEM RA Empower. Explore. PER AD MELIO Kings Court English College House New College House Riepe College House to know your housemates (including the faculty and staff) and to familiarize structures our student involvement Engage. Express. We cannot Rodin College House Ware College House Stou er College House yourself with your surroundings is simply to participate in the endless over the long haul. For example, stress enough that this is the year S the students who were the for Hill to continue defining itself 113,478 Kings Court English College House EM RA Riepe College House P IO New College House ER AD MEL assortment of events happening every week. Check out the calendar Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House most active and enthusiastic and build its already towering TOTAL ATTENDEES on your House website, or track down the GA or RA on your hall to stay participants as freshmen in our legacy. All we ask is that our AT HOUSE EVENTS abreast of what’s on the table in the coming days, whether the goings-on Film Culture Program may return students join the community and
SEM RA P O Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House to the program the following year help us make history! ER AD MELI are tailored for your individual hall, for a residential program, for the entire IN 2017-18 as Managers—selecting the films SE A House, or even as part of a campus-wide initiative; for example, you can join — DEONA HATLEY Kings Court English College House M R Riepe College House PE LIO New College House R AD ME for a weekly screening series and Hill College House Dean your Housemates to compete in the College House Cup, or enter your own co-hosting the post-screening conversations with the Dean or Rodin College House Ware College House masterpieces in the Penn Student Film Festival. The College Houses are not Stou er College House meant to be generic dorms, to feel like impersonal apartment buildings; they House Fellows. But we make Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House sure even our newest students are vital, thriving communities, and to take full advantage of them you can’t have some opportunities to hit SEM RA PER AD MELIO be passive. Your first step is to venture out to see what’s happening—we the ground running when they guarantee you there’s a lot. arrive, and in Penn’s First-Year Communities like Hill, where all the students are in their first year, such Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House immediate involvement is par for the course. — DR. CHRISTOPHER DONOVAN Gregory College House Dean
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SIGNATURE THE SOPHOMORE COLLEGE HOUSE MUSIC IN THE FILM AND COLLEGE PROGRAMS YEAR RESEARCH HOUSES CINEMA HOUSE CUP PROGRAM In addition to the huge variety If you’re starting your second The Blutt College House Music In addition to the Film Culture Residents of the College Houses Program is a joint initiative of residential program housed in can compete alongside their of events each individual College year at Penn, it can sometimes At Penn, undergraduates do the College Houses and the Gregory College House, every housemates in events like football, House hosts every semester, the feel like you’ve been left to drift research too! Each College House Department of Music that provides year the College Houses host the soccer and volleyball, testing their Office of College Houses and on your own. Charting your own selects a College House Research partially subsidized private musical three-evening Penn Student Film skill and athleticism against teams Academic Services supervises a course as a sophomore can be Fellow who is given academic instruction to undergraduate Festival featuring short films by from other Houses. Additional quintet of programs that span the exciting but it can also come with and monetary support to pursue students while bringing professional student filmmakers from across events include intellectual entire College House system. These a big dose of anxiety. The College an 18-month research project of performances, master classes, and the University and capped off competitions like Penn Quizzo and “Signature Programs” are open Houses are committed to making their own design. Under the active other musical events of the highest with a gala screening of the challenges of skill like last year’s to students in every House, and The Sophomore Year incredible mentorship of their House faculty, quality to the Penn community. top films. Penn students in the Cake Wars. These contests at Penn participation is solicited during the by linking you to the resources the Research Fellows also present Combining the exceptional musical Cinema Studies Program as well culminate in the year-end awarding school year, so you don’t have to you need to keep yourself healthy, informal research events in their talents of its instructors with the as those from other disciplines of the coveted College House make a commitment before you’ve happy, and connected. The Houses and present their findings convenience and community of are welcome to submit their work Cup to the House that emerges had a chance to settle in. Whether University and CHAS offer a variety at Penn’s Annual Undergraduate the College Houses, the program each year in any genre, and the victorious. you’re more comfortable combing of exclusive opt-in events and Research Conference during also sponsors College House Music winners are judged by a panel of the library to prepare for a research activities to help you achieve your Quaker Days. presentation, practicing for the goals, make a meaningful transition Fellows, undergraduates who cinema experts. The top three films flute concerto you’re planning to from a first-year to an upperclass undertake a musical project on win cash prizes and an audience At Stouffer College House, the share with the House community, student, provide opportunities to behalf of their House community. favorite is awarded as well. Last My name is Ivana Kohut and I am year’s top film, Coffee Breakby College House Cup is taken wrapping up the final edits on mentor first-years and get guidance seriously. We field teams for majoring in Medical Anthropology Amanda Prager, can be viewed your short film, or spiking the ball from juniors, seniors and grad and minoring in Chemistry and every intramural sport and face online at off against other College Houses over the net for the last point, the students as you move toward your Hispanic Studies. My research www.collegehouses. Being a College House Music for intramural championships. College House Signature Programs junior year, and a chance to get work today is an analysis of Cuban upenn.edu/filmfest. healthcare and culture, specifically Fellow required a lot of time Whether it’s ultimate frisbee, offer plenty of opportunities to special class gear to celebrate your the ethics, use, and efficiency of and energy, especially since football, volleyball, or any other share your talents, creativity and second year at Penn. the Maternal and Primary Care this semester was the busiest sport, we leave it all on the field. flair with your friends, neighbors, systems delivered to women in one during my time at Penn, Our team captains, who are Cuba. but it has been worth it in so just students that have shown and the Penn community. many dimensions. It has been interest in leading teams for a The resources and people in the an opportunity to rekindle my specific sport, rally the troops on College Houses have definitely somewhat faded passion for game day and lead the team on been helpful to me in my research. classical piano, as I found it the pitch. Win or lose, there’s no Thanks to the funding and support, difficult to find time for lessons better bonding experience than I have been able to travel to or chamber sessions while forming a team with your friends Cuba twice to conduct research performing my military service. It and competing for your House. for several weeks at a time. If it has also been a new opportunity Different sports draw different were not for Penn I would not to play side-by-side with a violinist, people, and many friendships have been able to visit Cuba. In which is something I had not are forged over the course of the addition to the financial support, done before. The preparation, season. Penn has also given me a lot of marketing and logistics of Besides the school-wide IM league, intellectual support and has truly creating the College House I make sure that we have plenty helped me learn how to not only performance is what especially of sports-related activities in the devise successful projects but differentiated this concert from House as well, including Stouffer’s also how to analyze data, how to previous concert experiences annual Super Bowl party, weekly conduct ethical research in the and has instilled me with a new boxing, and more. field, and how to tell stories in such perspective on performances. a way that the telling gives justice — NICOLO — SIMON OH, to the interviewees MARZARO, C’17 and their realities. W’17 EAS’17 — IVANA KOHUT, C’18
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FOUR-YEAR FIRST-YEAR UPPER-CLASS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES Du Bois, Gregory, Stouffer Fisher Hassenfeld, Hill, Kings Harnwell, Harrison and and New College Houses in Court English, Riepe and Ware Rodin Houses each provide many ways represent the ideal Houses are predominantly residential opportunities for College House experience. populated with first-year approximately 800 sophomore, Residents have a much greater students ranging in size from junior and senior students; chance of getting to know one 350 to 540 residents: what each of these high rise Houses another on a deeper level, of many consider to be traditional enjoy apartment-style living building lifelong friendships style first-year residence halls. arrangements. High-rise and forging closer bonds with The House architecture varies apartment living tends to be the residential faculty because greatly; however, all offer more independent, though their resident populations new students a tremendous faculty and staff here are range from 180 to 350 and opportunity to create new nothing short of miraculous include members from all four friendships and to engage with in hosting events that bring academic years. the House faculty and staff. the community together both intellectually and socially.
Each College House contains many common areas available to all residents for casual interaction, study, and a variety of other purposes. In general each House contains: multiple lounges, computer labs or smart study spaces, community printers, exercise/fitness/gaming rooms, library or dedicated study spaces, meeting rooms and larger multipurpose rooms, film or television viewing areas, and mail delivery areas.
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W.E.B. DuBOIS GREGORY dubois.house.upenn.edu gregory.house.upenn.edu
“CELEBRATES ITS RICH MOSAIC “ONE OF THE SMALLEST AND COZIEST OF ENGAGED STUDENTS” HOUSES”
Established in response to student demands in August 1972 amid Gregory College House is a time-tested and proudly idiosyncratic Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House protests and accusations of self-segregation, Du BoisHarnw Collegeell College House House alternative to the larger College Houses. As the first House to Harrison College House Hill College House has persevered and thrived in its mission to support students of incorporate live-in faculty, to offer academic credit for living-learning the African Diaspora by serving as a hub for activities that promote programs, and to organize student-run computer support and African and African American scholarship and culture. Its unique student-spearheaded event calendars, Gregory is old in tradition but history and legacy instills a sense of pride in both its residents and new in condition, having received a full renovation in 2015. alumni. This pride is evidenced in the physical environment of the Gregory is a unique mix of the private and the social; all residents House, in the spirit of the residents, and in the generosity of alumni have plenty of breathing space when they need it, but no community who still consider Du Bois their “home away from home.” THE FACTS offers as many opportunities for students to hang out with their THE FACTS • Focus on African American Du Bois hosts an annual series of events highlighting current issues neighbors at regular social get-togethers. In the piano lounge of • International language scholarship and culture pertinent to the Black community and provides leadership with Van Pelt Manor you will likely see students dining with a visiting and film programs that • Strong connection to the West community service initiatives like the ASE program, through which Du faculty member; like all events at Gregory, these are intimate, casual offer academic credit Philadelphia community Bois undergraduates have mentored local sixth and seventh graders get-togethers, an entirely different experience than in a classroom. • Private bedroom space for • Private bedroom space for the past seventeen years. Our residents don’t stop serving the Next door our state-of-the-art Cinema Lounge will be showing a all residents; all suites have for all residents community once they graduate, either: through the Black Alumni classic film or contemporary blockbuster on its giant screen, with their own bathroom Kings Court English College House Association (BAS), our alumni have made generous donations to the New College House a staff member on hand for follow-upRiepe College House discussion. Meanwhile, over • Full social calendar and Kings Court English College House House, including an endowed scholarship that financially supports in Newthe College Class House of 1925 building, participants inRiepe our College HouseModern Languages opportunities for all classes ROOM TYPES four students each year. Program will be conversing animatedly in Arabic, French, German, or in the House to mix Mostly apartment style, with Du Bois College House offers every resident the opportunity to learn Mandarin in our spacious greenhouse or yoga studio, or in Spanish efficiencies, 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom about cultures other than their own. We celebrate and recognize the while making plantains and arepas in the adjacent kitchen… and then ROOM TYPES apartments with living room, everyone will switch back to English to take a break for free coffee bath, and most with a kitchenette. diversity of our residents with annual events such as the Chinese New Mostly suite style, 1-4 bedrooms Year Celebration, the African Cultures Celebration, Natives at Penn’s and a ping pong match at the Darkroom Café, or to gather for The with microfridge units and private spirited, traditional spring Pow-Wow, and Makuu’s annual Kwanzaa Walking Dead in the TV lounge. bathrooms HOUSE AMENITIES Celebration. These students are a mix of all years and backgrounds, and they SEM RA PER A MELIO 4 floors, library, seminar come togetherD atSE Mweekly gatheringsRA like Tuesday Bring Your The smallest of the College Houses, Du Bois provides a close-knit PER ELIO rooms, computer lab, 1 large AD M HOUSE AMENITIES community. This sense of intimacy is maintained through the many Own Mug and Sunday brunch, do some collective cooking for the multipurpose room, 2 lounges International Dinner or Progressive Dinner, cheer or boo at the Oscar Van Pelt Manor: showcase with large screen TVs, music house-wide events put on by the House Council and House staff. cinema lounge; seminar room and Super Bowl parties, bond through adventure on paintball and practice room, 2 pianos, kitchen, We also place priority on offering our undergraduates off-campus with reading library; Piano Lounge cardiovascular exercise and activities that will enhance their knowledge of the City of Brotherly whitewater rafting trips, and never experience a night where they with grand piano and television; weight training room, recreation cannot find company. smart study spaces; billiards room Love, such as movie and theater outings,Rodin Ctripsollege House to restaurants and Ware College House room, art gallery Stou er College House with adjoining kitchen; extensive museums, and tickets to concerts and sporting events.Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House DVD loaning library; dumbwaiters; air-conditioned public spaces with ample tables for work and play Class of 1925: 4 floors; “Greenhouse” Lounge with kitchen and Isaiah Zagar mural; TOTAL STUDENT TOTAL STUDENT smart study and meeting rooms; additional kitchen lounge; ping POPULATION POPULATION pong, foosball and pool tables; air-conditioned public spaces
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Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House
Kings Court English College House Harnwell College House Riepe College House Harrison College House Hill College House New College House
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Kings Court English College House Rodin College House Ware College House New College House Riepe College House Stou er College House
NEW COLLEGE HOUSE STOUFFER
new.house.upenn.edu SEM RA stouffer.house.upenn.edu PER AD MELIO
“A COMMUNITY OF CITIZEN SCHOLARS” “NOTHING COMES CLOSER TO HOME”
If you could write a page in Penn’s history, what would you include? What is Stouffer College House? Stouffer is waking up one fall WhatRodin College Housestory would you tell? As a residentStou er of College New House College House, you Ware College House morning and feeling that carpeting under your feet as you head off to get to answer these questions and more as you join a community in the shower. On your way to the bathroom you check in with Dylan to the first College House built on campus since 1972. find out about the study session tomorrow. Your new year in NCH begins even before you arrive on campus, when One shower later, you’re back at your room and you see that TJ wrote you receive electronic greetings from the faculty, staff, and student a message on your dry erase board. TJ’s your new friend and the only leaders of NCH. You soon realize how many resources are available person you’ve ever met who has the exact same Netflix queue you to you as you prepare for Move-In: Meliora Ambassadors, who help do, though you’ve had plenty of Red Sox vs. Yankees arguments and to welcome and support freshmen; RAs and GAs; and the faculty debates about whether David Tennant or Matt Smith was the best THE FACTS members and house office staff who help you navigate life at Penn. Doctor. You’re thinking you’ll try to get a suite together in Mayer next THE FACTS • Now in its third year, students Finally, on Move-In Day, you enter your spacious suite and meet your year – funny how Stouffer College House is actually two buildings. The • Ten-time College House Cup are still shaping the House’s suitemates, taking special care to set up your single room just the way idea of your own bathroom, kitchen, and common room is appealing, intramural champions traditions and culture especially if TJ’s chili is as good as TJ claims. But you would miss the you want it. In New College House, you’ll have a balance of personal • Only College House with a vibe in this weird maze that is Stouffer-Stouff… as everyone calls it. • Faculty in residence offer space and community living in your “home away from home.” patio; four year House with air- access to research opportunities Once you’re dressed, you check your email. As always, it’s a ton conditioned student rooms and a global perspective Venturing out of your suite, you soon discover plenty of spaces to of messages from Stouffer- Announce, the House listserv that any • One of the highest year-to- • First LEED-certified hang out with friends or study. In the dining hall, you look for a place resident can post to. Looks like the Steering meeting is tonight! You year retention rates among College House reduces the College Houses to sit and Faculty Director Cam Grey invites you to join him and his go every week to listen to the ideas the other residents have for trips, environmental impact family. As you sit with Cam, his wife Ann, and their children, you learn projects, and other spending proposals. You have a pretty good idea about Cam’s expertise in Roman history and some of the newest you think you’ll pitch next week. Stouffer is the only College House ROOM TYPES undergraduate research. Cam tells you about some upcoming house that allows residents that much say in how money is spent and you ROOM TYPES Mayer Hall: Mostly apartment 3-to-6 person units, each with events, like a Research Symposium, architecture tour of Old City, and really like that. After Steering, maybe you’ll just hang out in the style, with efficiencies, 1 and/or single occupancy rooms that workshops on time management, study skills and healthy living, and lounge—a couple of Stoufferites are planning a late night Settlers of bedroom apartments with living share a bathroom and common you know you’re about to be a part of some cool opportunities in your Catan session. room, bath, and most with kitchen room or kitchenette new home. Huh, you think, this is exactly what you were hoping college would be like. Stouffer’s motto is “Nihil Domo Similius” — “Nothing comes closer Stouffer Hall: Traditional While hanging out with some friends in the House living room, an RA dormitory style, with singles, HOUSE AMENITIES to home.” Sure, they borrowed that from the frozen food company, but who’s returning from orchestra rehearsal stops by, which gets the doubles, or triple rooms Lounges on each floor; music still, it sounds about right. This isn’t just your House. This is your Home. group talking about their different musical talents. You suggest getting rooms; Multimedia Room; seminar It’s Stouffer. rooms; in-House dining hall; green a group together to jam in the practice room. Everyone thinks it’s a HOUSE AMENITIES roofs; private courtyard great idea. Empowered and motivated, you are full of ideas for the Mayer Hall: 7 floors, seminar next chapter in the story of your new home at Penn. room, computer lab, 3 TV lounges, piano, exercise room, pool table, ping pong table, foosball table Stouffer Hall: 2 floors, study rooms, computer lab, darkroom, 6 lounges including 3 TV lounges, piano, shared kitchenettes with TOTAL STUDENT TOTAL STUDENT microwaves and stove tops, pool table, foosball table, air hockey, POPULATION POPULATION basketball court, hammocks
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Harnwell College House Gregory College House Fisher Hassenfeld College House Hill College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House Harrison College House FISHER HASSENFELD HILL
fh.house.upenn.edu hill.house.upenn.edu
“BE PREPARED TO PARTICIPATE”” “THE MOST SOCIAL HOUSE”
Head down any of the historic hallways in Fisher Hassenfeld and you Hill House is a vibrant residential community with a special
Kings Court English College House are bound to run into a lively group headed to the lounge for snacks commitmentNew College House to first year students. The RiepeHouse College House Dean, Faculty
Harnwell College House and a movie, a faculty resident, or studentsHarrison on College their House way over to say Hill College HouseDirector, House Fellows, Resident Advisor and Graduate ‘hi!’ Around here, we are known for our care and concern for one Associates are dedicated to providing residents with personal and another, our ties to the surrounding Philadelphia community, and our professional assistance to successfully transition to University life shared interest in leaving the world better than we found it. both intellectually and socially. Internationally renowned architect Eero Saarinen, whose design concept was grounded in the idea Fisher Hassenfeld is home, where you will make lifelong friends and of a small village, self-sufficient, inward-focused and protected, learn new things about yourself and others. What makes FH so special designed Hill House with spaces that foster communication, are the diverse and energetic people who choose to live here and THE FACTS collaboration and community. Students are drawn to this THE FACTS SEM RA participate as curious and respectful community members. Residents PER A MELIO • Outdoor grilling and relaxing community for the senseD of belonging and personal relationships • Completely renovated in 2017 can feel at home by throwing a frisbee or kicking a soccer ball around in the Bluestone Court fostered by the architecture. in the upper Quad, or stopping by their RA/GA’s room to seek advice • Ideally located near major • Weekly study breaks academic buildings, libraries, or eat a late-night snack. hosted by House faculty At Hill College House, we care deeply about integrating first-year retail shops, and athletic fields students into a community that will ultimately launch them into • The quietest of the three In Fisher, we explore famous, hidden aspects of Philadelphia together, • Unique architecture fosters Quad Houses thanks to its a successful career at Penn, and beyond. We live in a space that close-knit community and we encourage you to push yourself out of yourRodin College comfort House zone. Stou er College House Ware College House architecture—but the only Kings Court English College House was quite literally built to connect people to one another, and we We truly believe in becoming active globalNew citizens, College House while also making Riepe College House house with a drum kit! take that very seriously. We also have a lot of fun in the process. positive contributions to the community around us. Be sure to take ROOM TYPES advantage of our many excursions which center upon experiencing Hill rests on four pillars: Empower. Explore. Engage. Express. Traditional style, with singles, ROOM TYPES the cultural, historical, and recreational riches of Philadelphia. These pillars drive the programs and events we offer inside doubles, and large singles Traditional dormitory style, with and outside of our house, on and off campus, that define You will come to experience many aspects of life at Penn, but singles, doubles, and triple rooms our community. And to our incoming community, we say: residents of the Fisher Hassenfeld community always look forward congratulations on getting admitted to Penn, and we look forward HOUSE AMENITIES to coming home after a busy day of classes and campus activities. to welcoming you to Hill College House! 5 Floors; in-House dining facility; HOUSE AMENITIES Whether it’s outdoor movies, weekend brunches, Affinity spaces, elevator; private dining room; SEM RA 4 floors; library; computer lab; bonfires with s’mores ‘n more, seasonal BBQs, math or biologyPER A D MELIO computer lab; music practice seminar room; 2 music practice tutoring, or writing help from our faculty-in-residence “Paper Doctor,” room; large screen TVs; game rooms; piano; Goldberg Media room; communal kitchens, Lounge with kitchen; Class of Fisher Hassenfeld blends fun, learning and conversation in a relaxed lounges, and study rooms; 2000 Parents Garden; Bluestone and friendly community. Join us in Fisher Hassenfeld, where we help outdoor terrace; fitness room Courtyard; pool table; multiple to develop the talents and interests of our students! lounges
Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House
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Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House
Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House
Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House
Kings Court English College House New College House Riepe College House Kings Court English College House New College House Riepe College House
KINGS COURT ENGLISH RIEPE
kcech.house.upenn.edu riepe.house.upenn.eduSE A SE M A R M PER OERLIO PER AD MADEL MI
“A RICH, FULFILLING EXPERIENCE” “GOOD FOOD, GOOD COMPANY”” Penn Alumni frequently reminisce about their fond memories of Kings Veritas et Honestas, which translates as “Truth and Honor,” is the Court English College House, one of the University’s best-kept secrets. official Riepe College House motto; however, “good food, good Rodin College House Ware College House Tucked snugly away in one of the campus’sRodin College House most vibrant corners, Stou erStou er College College House Housecompany” has become its unofficialWare College House motto. At Riepe, social and KCECH offers students a rich, fulfilling experience fostered by the caring intellectual pursuits are skillfully integrated into everyday life. and close-knit members of its community. In fact, Riepe faculty and staff pride themselves on their welcoming • spirit. Our event calendar always features a nice mixture of home- KCECH houses five remarkable residential programs: STWing, Biosphere, cooked and catered comfort food dinners, study breaks, Sunday PIH, Huntsman and WICS. These programs have a profound impact brunches, pancake breakfasts, and outdoor picnics and barbecues. on the House identity, drawing some of Penn’s most diverse students. Prof. Ralph Rosen and his wife Ellen host Sunday Espresso hours, When not studying or engaging in extracurricular activities, students THE FACTS featuring home-roasted coffee, espresso and cappuccino. Dr. Amy THE FACTS can be found meeting and discussing with Penn faculty in the dining • Adjoining low-rise buildings Stornaiuolo and her husband Vincenzo, a chef from Sicily, host regular • Offers a very popular medical hall, gardening and planting flowers outside, participating in cultural with a garden courtyard pasta dinners and occasional cooking lessons. Dr. Marilynne Diggs- school information series and green roof performances in our common spaces, and perhaps most importantly, Thompson, House Dean and Anthropology lecturer, and her staff are • Famous for incredible taking part in their very first family at the University. Kings Court • Bright, attractive famous for hosting weekly comfort food study breaks, picnics and home-cooked meals, in-House dining room English College House is a safe “playground” full of possibilities for seasonal theme dinners. picnics, barbecues fun, friendship, peer learning, and leadership skills. It also constitutes a • High-tech Media Room Riepe residents also participate in many off-campus events. Last • Surrounds the peaceful Baby laboratory that fosters debate, knowledge integration, and intellectual provides common space with year’s line-up included tickets to the opening night concert of the Quad and the Oval Garden multimedia capabilities growth. Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Phillies baseball at Citizen’s Bank Park, a Philadelphia 76ers basketball Join in regular House-sponsored activities such as Sunday brunches, ROOM TYPES game at the Wells Fargo Center, tickets to the New Jersey Adventure ROOM TYPES cultural dinners, Penn faculty talks, language tables and study breaks, Aquarium and Philadelphia Flower Show, and several local soccer Traditional dormitory style, with Traditional dormitory style, cultural exhibitions, student concerts, trips, and intramural games. Our singles, doubles, or triple rooms matches. with singles and doubles students take the lead in generating and running most of the events such as the Rube Goldberg Competition, Robotics Fair, Lecture Series, However, for many Riepe-ites it is simply their life at “home” that makes their first year experience so warm and so much fun. There HOUSE AMENITIES HOUSE AMENITIES Penn Author Forum, Garden and Library Clubs, and Tech Times. In our House, follow your passion and you will make a difference! are House social events such as midnight brunches during Reading 5 floors; Ashhurst Seminar Room Library; Class of 1972 Computer Days and final exams and long-standing house-wide traditions such and Lounge; Provosts’ Tower Lab; seminar room; Bluestone KCECH consists of two separate houses, English House and Kings Court, as the late summer Baby Quad picnic and the Holiday Foods Fest— Lounge with kitchen; Finkelstein Courtyard; Class of 1938 Media Lounge with TV; Oval Garden; Room; roof top terrace; game connected by our award-winning courtyard, one of the community’s along with yummy study breaks and a myriad of other “pop-up” student-run convenience store; room; roof top lounge; kitchen; most beautiful and historic green spaces. Adorning its outdoor walls are events. Whether it is achieved through casual exchanges, at-home pool, ping pong, and foosball study space; elevator murals by the world-renowned artist, Isaiah Zagar, known for his vibrant get-togethers or organized study groups, Riepe has a social ease that tables; elevator; computer lab; and colorful mosaics. On the rooftop, KCECH hosts one of Penn’s first helps residents bond and thrive. music practice rooms green roof projects and a cozy café and lounge for students to relax and interact with their peers.
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Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House
Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House
Kings Court English College House New College House Riepe College House
SEM RA PER AD MELIO
Harnwell College House Hill College House Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House Harrison College House
WARE HARNWELL
ware.house.upenn.edu harnwell.house.upenn.edu
“WELCOME TO THE WAREWOLF PACK” “LIVE WELL AT HARNWELL”
Welcome Warewolves! This is it! Your home for the next year! Named after Gaylord Probasco Harnwell, Penn’s president from 1953- 70, our high-rise College House cultivates friendly, open communities Kings Court English College House WARE — You will meet your first friends on campus! A stroll through Riepe College House in which cultural and intellectual exchange is balanced by civility and New College House Butcher/Speakman or out on the Lower Quad might take you past the mutual respect. Enriched by the Cultures Collective, Ancient Studies future maid of honor at your wedding, your partner in that next great Residential Program, Arts House Residential Program and Eco-House: startup, the friend you’ll name your child after, or the first person to Environmental Residential Program, we feature a wealth of artistic and break your heart. inviting endeavors and a House calendar filled with engaging activities.
WARE — You’ll have some of the most fun you’ve ever had. Whether Our Rooftop Lounge (RTL) is a premier space on campus where we its hanging out in a friend’s room, shooting pool in MoBo, or hanging a host our House traditions, such as weekly Probasco Family Dinners, THE FACTS hammock on the lower quad, you’ve found a great place to relax and as well as our annual Sapphire Ball and Casino Night. The RTL is also THE FACTS • The most residential programs home to resident-led programming, such as yoga, fitness bootcamps, • Facilities support every kind enjoy your new life. And you’ll find no shortage of organized activities SE A geared toward women and study breaks. On our mezzanine, you will find the Café du Soleil, MP IOR as well, from our weekly Dinner With Interesting People to Ware Night- of activity (dance gallery,ER AnineD M EL and the Library and Computer Lab, both located on the first floor, offer pianos, theater space, lounges) • The only College House with Ins to Sunday Night Sundaes. And you’ll have plenty of chances to step the options of cozy study nooks with quick access to computers and a mascot: the Warewolf beyond the gates too, with trips to shows, museums, theme parks, • Café du Soleil provides our ITAs. A versatile basement called the “Dungeon” serves as a small coffee and more in-House, • Home of McClelland Café ballgames, and more. gallery and recreation room, while also housing two practice rooms giving you all the creature comforts at home WARE — You’ll learn how to live on your own. College House life is – one of which boasts a recently reconditioned Steinway piano. You ROOM TYPES can find eight more pianos throughout the House, along with a dance • Home to dynamic residential a new experience for you and just about everyone around you. If Rodin College House Ware College House Stou erprograms, College House some of the Traditional hall style, with singles, gallery and an a capella practice room. something is confusing you or even scaring you, we guarantee there’s oldest in CHAS history doubles, and a few triple rooms someone near you who feels the same way. So don’t be afraid to ask Beyond the building, our home is defined by its people. Intelligence, for help and support. You also might make some big, big mistakes. But, integrity, and initiative are the hallmarks of not only our residents, but ROOM TYPES HOUSE AMENITIES hey, mistakes are how we learn. We have rules here, and you might also RAs, GAs, and Managers. Their dedication and kindness set the tone for our caring community. Our Intramural team, the Harnwell Mostly apartment style, with 5 floors; library; computer lab; break one or two. We only ask that you take responsibility for your Bowties, exemplifies House spirit – Bowties have more fun! With a efficiencies, 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom multiple seminar rooms; two actions, and your choices, and that you face the consequences with apartments with living room, music practice rooms; Memorial dynamic Senior Staff at the helm, unique opportunities to interact with maturity and a desire to grow. We don’t bite. Honest. bath, and most with kitchen or Tower Lounge with kitchen; residents abound – such as providing research guidance, extending kitchenette Friedman Fitness Center; elevator WARE — You’ll learn about yourself. From little things like “what’s my invitations to dine in faculty apartments, and surprising residents with favorite hoagie at Wawa” to big questions of sexuality, politics, identity, pop-up events. and how you relate to the world around you, you’ve begun a journey What does it mean to live well at Harnwell? It means becoming part of HOUSE AMENITIES that will change your understanding of who you are and what you’re a House that’s a home, where you can grow and contribute holistically Rooftop Lounge with kitchen; doing on this planet. If you walk out of Ware the same person you were as you pursue your intellectual endeavors at Penn. Live well. Live well Class of 1921 Lounge on the when you walked in, well... one of us is doing something wrong. at Harnwell. Mezzanine (with café, and large screen TV); lounges on every Welcome home, new neighbor! Let’s have a great year! floor; Dungeon performance/ rehearsal space; dance gallery; computer lab; library; exercise room; meeting rooms; two music practice rooms; 2 grand pianos and 7 uprights; seasonal TOTAL STUDENT TOTAL STUDENT air conditioning; open for winter POPULATION POPULATION break; elevators
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Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House
Fisher Hassenfeld College House Gregory College House W.E.B. Du Bois College House
Kings Court English College House New College House Riepe College House
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Harnwell College House Harrison College House Hill College House Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House
HARRISON RODIN
harrison.house.upenn.edu rodin.house.upenn.edu
“A BIG HOUSE WITH A BIG HEART” “TO BE RATHER THAN TO SEEM”
Harrison College House brings Penn home to its residents to effect the From top to bottom, Rodin is full of opportunity. At the top of Kings Court English College House seamless integration between education inNew Ctheollege House classroom and the life Riepe College Housethe high rise, our Rooftop Lounge hosts event and study space beyond. The house with the largest number of residents and student surrounded by a view that can only be described as breathtaking. staff, Harrison is a big house with a big heart, waiting to partner with Downstairs in the House Office and Rodin Resource Room, you will student groups throughout Penn’s campus. find helpful student staff along with a host of amenities to make your life in Rodin more comfortable. Throughout the building are quiet Through the regular Dinner and Conversation series, Harrisonians invite study spaces for individuals or groups to utilize, and the basement their favorite members of Penn’s faculty into the house to meet students level hosts two music practice rooms. in a relaxed, convivial setting. Table Talk Conversations, organized through Penn’s International Affairs Association, invite faculty members SE A Rodin offers a variety of opportunities for students to engage with THE FACTS MP IOR THE FACTS for discussions and debates on topical issues. Departments EthroughoutR AD MEL interests beyond a classroom setting. Our Residential Programs • Café Prima, the best • Annual Residential Program campus partner with Harrison to showcase the work of their students coffee house and include TRAC (The Rodin Arts Collective), Jewish Cultural Studies, Performance Showcase commissary on campus and foster a greater sense of collaboration between students and Leadership Residential Program, and the Balanced Living Community. • Programming designed to faculty. • Harrison Saturday Night offers You could take part in a discussion hosted by a Rodin faculty enhance the sophomore social events every weekend member. A popular past event was “Research Roadmap: Learn R in year experience Harrison Saturday Night events provide opportunities for Harrisonians an Hour” hosted by Prof. Daniel Gillion, Faculty Director of Rodin. • Dinner and informal whoRodin College wish House to stay close to home on anyStou er given College HouseSaturday night a low- Ware College House • Active House Council organizes conversation with 35-40 The #rodinCARES team provides programs to support balance events and implements pressure opportunity to socialize with events ranging from Quizzo faculty members each year in the life of our residents such as yoga, meditation, and outings House improvements hosted by the House Dean, arts and crafts, dance lessons, and laser across Philadelphia. Another great way to get involved is House tag. Through the Harrison Friday Night movie series, students select Council, a student governing board that works to improve the Rodin ROOM TYPES either a cult classic or a newly released film to watch together. The ROOM TYPES experience. Mostly apartment style, with Harrison Anime Club also meets every Friday evening, as it has since Mostly apartment style, with efficiencies, 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom 2001, to welcome all with a shared interest in all things anime. Once a The Rodin staff works hard to provide experiences that will appeal efficiencies, 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom apartments with living room, month Harrison hosts house-wide brunches, bringing the broad array of apartments with living room, bath, and most with kitchen or to any interest. Every other Tuesday, stop by the lobby for Tower bath, and most with kitchen or kitchenette Harrison residents together through their shared love for bagels, fruit, Hour, our bi-weekly study break filled with fun and food. Join us for kitchenette and yogurt. Rodin_24, a dinner and discussion series. Keep an eye out for other great Rodin activities such as Sunday Brunch, Sophomore Snacks, If you can imagine it, you can build it in Harrison. Harrison boasts the HOUSE AMENITIES and Monday Morning Mirth. HOUSE AMENITIES Heyer Sky Lounge with kitchen largest staff of student workers ready to help all bring ideas for social Rooftop Lounge with baby grand and baby grand piano; Robinette interaction into reality. Residents are encouraged to work with staff to We cannot wait for Rodin to be a part of your University of piano; mezzanine lounge; DVD Lounge; TV lounges on even- create programs of their own design, to present their research through Pennsylvania story. library; yoga mats; meditation numbered floors (2-16, 20); Harrison’s Academic Work-in-Progress series, create a partnership pillows; extensive board game Café Prima; 24-hour computer selection; seminar rooms and lab; exercise room; pool tables; between Harrison House and the various groups and activities in which study spaces; study lounges on multimedia classroom; DVD/ they participate to co-sponsor events. all floors; computer lab; movie video library; wide screen TV; screening room with plasma music practice room with several TV and state-of-the art sound upright pianos; seasonal air system; underground lounge conditioning, elevators; open with two music practice rooms; winter break pool table; open for winter TOTAL STUDENT TOTAL STUDENT break; elevators; seasonal air POPULATION POPULATION conditioning
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The College Houses are actively engaged in developing responsible citizens and healthy communities. With a commitment to appropriate behavior on the part of our residents and with the support of the staff of the College Houses, College House Computing, Penn Video Network, and Dining Services, we create a high-quality living environment that encourages intellectual and social pursuits. WHERE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTICIPATION MATTER COLLEGE HOUSES
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important because they encourage student organizations wishing to COLLEGE HOUSE predictable environments and COLLEGE HOUSE host conferences or special events ensure that individual behavior should consult with College Houses COMMUNITY does not interfere with the POLICES AND & Academic Services. STANDARDS legitimate rights of other members SERVICES FOR of the community. Students can CAMPUS RESIDENTIAL EVENT Residential communities are gain personal insight and learn the an integral component of the responsibilities of citizenship by ACCESSIBILITY AND educational mission of the being held accountable for their The following policies are ACCOMMODATION University of Pennsylvania. College own behaviors. general College House POLICY guidelines and a point of Houses provide an opportunity All University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania reference for using space or for Penn students, faculty and students and guests are expected seeks to ensure that students engaging with the House staff to live and learn together as to adhere to the College House and guests with disabilities have communities. a community of scholars. It is the Policies and Terms of Occupancy, appropriate access to events responsibility of each member as well as all University rules and hosted in the College Houses, of the community to observe regulations that students and CHALKING POLICY regardless of sponsor. College standards of conduct that permit guests are charged to know and Residents and student groups are Houses are committed to this goal other residents to live in and observe. No system of standards permitted to advertise via chalk art and are available to work with any maintain a safe, secure environment Kings Court English: 16 can fully address in specific on flat horizontal surfaces at the program event sponsor or student. POSTING AND • that is conducive to academic and New: 10 fashion all possible situations that entrances to the College Houses FLYERING POLICY • personal success. College Houses working with the Riepe: 22 arise. When these standards do (sidewalks, steps, patios, etc.) with • Weingarten Learning Resource This policy covers posting within Rodin: 24 not address specific behavior, the following restrictions: • College Houses are actively Center employ a variety of ways to the Penn College Houses. Posting students are expected to conduct • Stouffer: 13 engaged in the process of provide accessibility to residence elsewhere in the University is themselves with a spirit of social • All chalking must occur in • Ware: 25 encouraging the development of hall events. Some methods of covered by the University Poster responsibility and respect for uncovered locations only so responsible citizens and healthy accommodation include provision Policy. Posting on floors or in Option #2 the rights and needs of others. rain can serve as a cleaning communities. Responsible of technology, personal assistance, lobbies requires the approval of Bring 234 posters to the CHAS Behavior that violates the spirit of agent. membership in a community— or, where programs or activities each House Office. Postings and Central Office in Stouffer Commons College House Policies and Terms • All vertical surfaces are off citizenship—requires that all initially are scheduled in physically notices in these areas are reserved for dissemination to all House of Occupancy may be addressed, limits for chalk art (including members of the community learn inaccessible locations, by relocation. for the College House, CHAS, Offices. The front desk will pass on as appropriate to the context and such spaces as upright walls, to express their individuality as When scheduling an event, please Residential Services and Facilities. the items. circumstances of the behavior. brick exteriors, or University well as to understand and consider contact the specific College House Any exceptions to this may only be signage.) Option #3 the impact that expression has A complete listing of College House office to ensure that the space you granted by College House staff. Open posting by students and on others. A positive sense of Policies and Terms of Occupancy are using will meet the needs of CONFERENCE If interested in posting on floors groups is available only in certain community develops only when appears in a variety of printed and those needing accommodation. HOSTING POLICY or in lobbies, you have three locations and on designated public individuals assume responsibility web-based materials produced Individuals seeking options: boards: to work towards the successful by College Houses & Academic Due to the academic and accommodations in order to participation of all members. Services and the Department personal needs of residential • Du Bois: Upper lobby bulletin participate in a College House Option #1 Essential to this process is each of Residential Services. These students, College Houses only board event, or who have questions about Bring the following number of resident’s responsibility to openly materials include but are not limited permits guest hosting for events • Kings Court English: Boards the accessibility of a College House flyers or posters to the appropriate communicate with other members to the College House Resource sponsored through University facing mailboxes on first event, should contact the College House Office for posting by staff: of the community. Guide, Residential Handbook, web- of Pennsylvania offices. As an floor; board near bike rack; House where the event is scheduled based materials and the Penn Book. example, the Office of Admissions • Du Bois: 8 boards on ground floors College House staff provides or the sponsor of the event. They A summary of existing regulations host Quaker Days in April each • Fisher Hassenfeld: 24 facing elevators support through relationships that are encouraged to provide as much appears in this section. New or year and athletic recruiting • Gregory: 12 • High Rises (Harnwell, focus on care and concern and advance notice as possible so that modified rules will be publicized as overnights throughout the year. • Harrison: 24 Harrison, and Rodin): through the maintenance of clear there is sufficient time to provide warranted. Normally, these events extend • Harnwell: 24 Residential floors including boundaries for appropriate and accommodation or to relocate an over a two to three-day period. • Hill: 17 roof top lounge on the safe behavior. These boundaries are event. Other University departments or designated side of the elevator bays
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• New: Dining Center bulletin RESERVING COLLEGE or apartments are considered part board HOUSE SPACES COLLEGE HOUSE of the student room. • Quad (Fisher Hassenfeld, Riepe and Ware): All exterior Indoor Spaces BEHAVIOR courtyard bulletin boards To reserve spaces within the RESIDENTIAL College Houses such as seminar The Office of College Houses & HANDBOOK POLICIES There is no open posting at this Academic Services (CHAS) and rooms, rooftop lounges, dance www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/ time in Gregory, Hill, and Stouffer the Department of Residential and/or music practice rooms, handbook College Houses. contact the individual House Services collaborate to produce an Conduct: Offices directly. annual Residential Handbook. The Public Posting Guidelines: Residential Handbook is a reference • Compliance with University • Leafleting under doors and Outdoor Spaces for living on campus in Penn’s Staff soliciting are prohibited Usage of Hamilton Village outdoor residences. It is not all-inclusive • Disruptive Behavior within all residences spaces (for small and large-scale and often refers to established • Email Communication • No more than one or two events), including courtyards, rules of the University, including • Noise and Roughhousing copies of a poster may be lawns, walkways and green spaces those published in other University, • Privacy placed on an open board and that surround and/or are adjacent College House and Residential • Solicitation and Use of Space should be promptly removed to the College Houses where Services communications and for Business when information is outdated residents may expect a reasonable websites. • Vandalism • Posters should not exceed amount of noise control, requires The Residential Handbook provides the size of 11 x 17 inches permission of the central College the policies, rules and regulations Substances: • Posters may not be placed on House office (CHAS). required for living safely and • Alcohol Related Behavior top of existing posters To seek permission to stage productively in a Penn residential • Drugs • Posters must clearly identify ** Unauthorized posters may, outdoor events in spaces near the community. These policies are • Smoking and Tobacco the organization or event LAUNDRY POLICY at the discretion of residential College Houses, contact the CHAS designed to ensure a pleasant, safe, sponsor Laundry rooms are for staff, be removed. In all cases, the • Space Reservation Committee at and equitable residential living • Posting is not allowed in resident use only; keep Safety and Security: above policy will be implemented 215.898.3131 and ask for Lisa Harris experience. Access to Residences stairwells and elevators entrance door closed at all • within the framework and spirit ([email protected]). You can also Endangering Behavior • Do not attach to walls in any times. Non-residents found In the list of residential policies, • of the Code of Student Conduct, see a list of available green spaces Fire and Emergency Safety way that cause damage to using House laundry rooms spaces are defined as follows: • which defines the general rights at www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/ Guests and Visitors the paint or surface could be fined up to $250 • and responsibilities of student outdoor-reservation. Hall Sports and or be banned from the • * Think before you post. College citizenship in the Penn community, College Houses Roughhousing House for the duration of the *Note: Contact the appropriate Any university owned and operated Houses defend the right of free and where appropriate, the Charter • PennCard academic year. House Office to reserve outdoor residential facility defined as a speech and expression on campus of the University of Pennsylvania • Prohibited Items – Firearms, • Residents can monitor their spaces directly attached to a House and actively promotes the civil Student Disciplinary System, College House. Weapons, and Volatile laundry’s progress either like the courtyard in the lower exchange of ideas. In the spirit of which sets forth the processes for Substances in person or online at Quad, Stouffer patio, lifted-lawn at the latter aim, students are urged to disciplinary action against students Common Areas • Prohibited Items – Appliances www.laundryalert.com. New, or Mayer backyard. reconsider creating and distributing and organizations. Pursuant to Any area in a College House and Equipment Remove all clothes from posters or flyers containing the Code of Student Conduct outside of a student room, suite Prohibited Items – Candles washers and dryers as • material or language that could (Sec. III.d), “the content of student or apartment such as: community and Open Flames soon as they are finished. be construed as malicious toward speech or expression is not by itself bathrooms, kitchens, lounges, study Clothing left in machines may or dangerous to other responsible a basis for disciplinary action,” and areas, program specific areas, be removed by residents Facility Related: members of the University no posters shall be prohibited or hallways, stair towers and elevators. or staff. The House is not • Emotional Support/Service community. restricted solely on the basis of their content, except when they responsible for these items. Animal may violate other applicable laws or • Clothing left for an Student Room • Common Areas and Usage Includes bedroom and living regulations. unreasonable length of • Electrical Circuit Overload time may be confiscated by areas within a room or suite or • Fixtures and Locks the House and donated to apartment. Kitchen, bathrooms and • Pets charity. living rooms associated with suites
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• Posting and Flyers in their interactions with University effect at all times during reading SUBSTANCES POLICIES Pennsylvania buildings are adjacent any object from windows, roofs, • Residential Duty Officer staff members. days and finals. to public sidewalks or streets, ledges, etc. is dangerous and also (RDO) Rooms Alcohol Related Behavior smoking and the use of tobacco prohibited. All residents are expected to show • Resident Room Access products is prohibited on those Disruptive Behavior Privacy support for community members In situations when an individual or Responsibility public sidewalks and streets within No resident should engage in All residents are encouraged to by addressing concerns that may group poses an immediate threat • Room Cleanliness and twenty (20) feet of the entrance to behavior that interferes with or communicate clearly their needs arise from substance use/abuse. to the health, safety or property of Upkeep the building. compromises the personal safety regarding privacy matters with College Houses and Residential others or of oneself the individual • Unauthorized Access to or well-being of another. Behavior roommates and floor mates. All Services supports and expects The tobacco policy covers all or group may be relocated or Spaces unsuitable for residential living, residents should respect personal adherence to the University Alcohol smoking methods, including but removed from housing prior to • Unauthorized Movement of including, but not limited to, any privacy within their student rooms and Drug Policy, as well as state not limited to the use of electronic a hearing to address the specific Furniture practice that limits residents’ rights and bathroom facilities. Students and federal laws regarding use of smoking devices (e-cigarettes, behaviors. • Window Stops of equal use and access to room/ who violate an individual’s privacy alcohol and other drugs. e-cigars, e-pipes) and hookah- suite/hall facilities, is not permitted. by entering their room without Policies in the Residential smoked products. Residents should also not engage permission or invade their privacy The consumption of alcohol in Fire and Emergency Safety Handbook have been designed Residents are expected to comply in conduct that is disorderly and/or within bathroom facilities will building common areas is also to address concerns specific and familiarize themselves with negatively impacts community and face disciplinary action that may strictly prohibited without prior SAFETY AND SECURITY to residing in a College House. the Fire and Emergency Safety academic success. result in their removal from their approval from the House Dean or The College House system and POLICIES procedures of the University. residence. Sansom Manager. Residential Services adhere to and/ Email Communication Access to Residences Compliance includes properly or refer when necessary to the Email is one of the main The security of our communities evacuating, following the following University policies: Solicitation and Use of Space Drugs methods used by College Houses is central to the comfort and instructions of emergency for Business All residents are expected to show • Alcohol and Drug – includes and Residential Services to academic success of our residents. personnel, and not damaging, Residents, visitors, guests, and support for community members Medical Amnesty communicate with residents. Security, however, is a shared tampering with, or blocking campus organizations may not by addressing concerns that may • Code of Student Conduct Residents are expected to check responsibility. Residents must play fire safety equipment or signs. conduct or solicit commercial arise from substance use/abuse. • Code of Academic Integrity their Penn email of record on their part by observing security Additionally, residents should not business in the residential buildings. College Houses and Residential • Discrimination a frequent basis and, when procedures and practices, in place furniture or items in any halls, Solicitation is defined as any Services supports and expects • Fire Safety and Emergency prompted, respond to University consideration of their neighbors fire exits, or otherwise block any activity designed to advertise, adherence to established University Services officials by email in the timeframe and classmates and in order to other means of egress. Residents promote or sell any product or policies, as well as state and federal • Hazing established by that official. A daily minimize personal harm or loss. who fail to comply with any of commercial service or encourage laws regarding use of other drugs • Information Systems & email check is recommended. Abuse of security staff, vandalism the above are subject to fines and support for or membership and narcotics. Computing (ISC) of security equipment, and misuse disciplinary action. in any group, association or • Sexual Violence, Relationship of exterior building doors and locks Noise and Consideration organization and includes door- Violence and Stalking of Others Smoking and Tobacco will not be tolerated and will result Guests and Visitors to-door canvassing. This includes All smoking and tobacco use • Sexual Harassment All on-campus residences adhere to in disciplinary action. Guests are defined as individuals leafleting under room doors and (including the use of smokeless 24-hour Courtesy Hours. Courtesy who are not currently enrolled similar unapproved marketing tobacco) is prohibited in all Hours serve as a reminder to all University of Pennsylvania students. efforts. Soliciting/selling includes University buildings and facilities, Endangering Behavior CONDUCT POLICIES residents of the primary rights to Visitors are defined as currently conducting a business in a including but not limited to any Any action of a Penn student, sleep and study within residential enrolled University of Pennsylvania Compliance with University residence such as baby- meeting rooms, community areas, resident or guest that may lead communities. Residents are students who are not assigned to University Staff sitting, beer distribution or selling performance venues and private to physical harm to oneself or All Penn students and their expected to exercise courtesy when the room, suite, or apartment that such items as food, raffle tickets, residential space within University others is considered endangering guests are expected to adhere to playing music or participating in they are visiting. magazines, candy bars, etc. of Pennsylvania housing. Finally, behavior and will typically result in requests made by any University other activity that may disrupt other smoking and the use of tobacco removal from housing, disciplinary • Hosts must check with their staff member performing his/her residents and/or interfere with the action (including cost of repair Vandalism products is prohibited on any roommates, suitemates, or duties (including House Deans attempts of others to study. and/or cleaning) and/or criminal Residents, visitors, and guests are University of Pennsylvania property, apartment mates for approval and Faculty, RA, GA, desk staff, charges. This includes the careless Quiet hours are in effect at the responsible for all costs related to including but not limited to outdoor before inviting a guest or custodial or Facilities staff or use of appliances or materials, following times: 11:00p.m until intentional or negligent damage spaces within any College House, visitor to the room. If the other Residential Services staff). tampering with internet hard wired 9:00a.m. on weekdays (Sundays of University property within as well as parking lots, paths, occupants of the space do not or wireless devices, and installation Residents are expected to provide through Thursday) and 1:00 a.m. residential buildings. fields, sports/recreational areas, approve, the guest or visitor of partitions or lofts. Throwing honest and accurate information until 9:00 a.m. on weekends (Friday and stadiums. Where University of cannot stay in the room. and Saturday). Quiet hours are in
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• Hosts are responsible for buildings. Visitors cannot sign Prohibited Items – • Power tools such as saws, drills, (including but not limited to: fuel individual with a disability, including the actions of their guests in guests to those buildings Firearms, Weapons, and drill presses, and jack hammers burning stoves, fuel burning lamps, a physical, sensory, psychiatric, or visitors and will face outside of the open hours of Volatile Substances (unless used by Facilities staff) heaters, and grills) are prohibited. intellectual, or other mental disciplinary action if their guest those Dining facilities. Possession, storage, and/or use of • Hoverboards Residents are allowed, however, disability. Service animals may or visitor violates College • At no time may guests or the items below are prohibited in all to possess matches and small accompany its owner anywhere in These items are prohibited in all House, Residential Services, visitors sleep in a common area rooms/apartments: cigarette lighters. the residence halls. or University policies. Hosts within a College House. non-kitchen units: Special exception requests to An ESA is an animal that should familiarize their guests • Firearms (including but not • Toasters use candles for religious or ritual provides comfort to an individual or visitors with community Hall Sports and limited to: air rifles, air soft • Toaster Ovens observance should be referred with a disability upon the expectations. Visitors are also Roughhousing guns, paint ball guns, pellet • Crock Pots to the House Dean or Sansom recommendation of a healthcare responsible for their actions Indoor sports or recreational guns, pistols, ammunition, • Panini Makers/George Foreman Manager. or mental health professional. An and are subject to disciplinary activities that may cause damage to gunpowder) Grills emotional support animal does action. property or disruption or injury to • Dangerous Weapons (including • Electric Skillets not assist a person with a disability • Guests and visitors are allowed others are not permitted. Activities but limited to: clubs, knives • Hot Plates FACILITY RELATED with activities of daily living but to visit in a student room, suite, include (but are not limited to) not intended for kitchen use, • Waffle Irons POLICIES rather its role is to live with a or apartment for a period not tossing, bouncing or kicking of balls swords, martial arts weapons, • Popcorn Poppers student and alleviate the symptoms to exceed three days and two or objects, and the use of water etc.) Emotional Support/ of an individual’s disability to nights during a two-week guns or water balloons. • Explosives of any kind. All appliances must have a Service Animals provide equal opportunities to use period. • Hazardous or volatile manufacturer’s label that shows When approved by Student and enjoy residential life at the • Visitors are unable to sign into PennCard substances (including but not the electrical ratings and listing Disability Services and in University. ESAs must remain in the residential buildings between Residents are required to carry limited to: solvents, accelerants, by a nationally recognized testing order to provide reasonable owners assigned room at all times. the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 8 their University of Pennsylvania degreasers, certain lab laboratory (e.g., ETL, UL, etc.). accommodations and in compliance a.m. Hosts will need to sign ID Cards (PennCard) at all times chemicals, etc.) with federal law, students may have Important rules on owner care and Prohibited Items – in all visitors during this time per University policy. PennCards • Other highly flammable one Service or Emotional Support handling: period. are used to access College Houses materials or other lethal Candles and Open Flames Animal (ESA) in the residences. Possession, storage, and/or use • A guest or visitor may not and also serve as electronic key weapons • ESAs may not leave the owners of candles, incense, incendiary A Service Animal is any animal that occupy a student’s room when access to assigned rooms. A room, with the exception of Prohibited Items – devices, and fire producing items is individually trained to do work or the student is not present and PennCard should not be transferred taking the animal to relieve Appliances and Equipment perform tasks for the benefit of an a resident may not supply a to anyone other than the owner. Possession, storage, and/or use of room key to gain access to the Residents should be aware of the the items below are prohibited in all room or their PennCard to gain whereabouts of their PennCard rooms/apartments: access to the building. at all times. A PennCard used by • Guests must sign-in with anyone other than the owner will • Extension Cords. Note that a photo ID and must be be confiscated. surge protectors are allowed accompanied by a host at all and encouraged. Confiscated PennCards may times. This host must carry • Unprotected or unshielded be picked up at the PennCard a valid PennCard and guests Halogen Bulbs and Blacklights Center, located in the University must keep their ID with them at • Air Conditioners except where of Pennsylvania Bookstore, during all times. provided by Residential business hours of 8:30am to • Each visitor must present his Services 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. or her own valid PennCard. • All large appliances (including Lost Penn Cards must be promptly Visitors may not sign in other but not limited to: non- reported to the PennCard Center visitors or guests at any time. University stoves, washer as well. For more information and • Visitors may sign-in guests in and dryers, dish washers, policies on PennCards, please visit Hill College House, Kings Court refrigerators over 4.1 cubic feet, the PennCard website. English College House, and etc.) New College House for the • Space Heaters except in purpose of dining together in situations where they’ve been the Penn Dining Halls of those installed by Facilities
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itself outdoors and must not reserve the right to exclude or the use by on-campus residents. by a University official to another individual or duplicate and welcomed guest, mechanical create a disturbance while the remove any animal that poses This includes on-campus residential permanently relocate the their keys for any purpose. rooms, housekeeping closets, owner is away from the room. a direct threat to the health or laundry facilities, which are to animal to an off-campus Residents should be aware of steam tunnels, etc.), found using • ESAs are prohibited from safety of others or creates an be used solely by on-campus location. the whereabouts of their keys (if emergency exits for any reason common areas and dining unreasonable and unmanageable residents. • Residents will incur a $50 per applicable) and PennCards at all other than an emergency, or centers. disturbance to the community. day fine each day beyond the times. found on any roof, portico or first 48 hours. any other architectural feature • Service animals and ESAs must Electrical Circuit Overload Repeat offenses will result in Room Cleanliness not designed for recreational or be under the control of the Common Areas and Usage Residents found to be consistently • the immediate and permanent and Upkeep functional use will be subject to owner at all times (examples The use of residential common overloading circuitry (tripping loss of housing privileges and As responsible members of a larger fines, assessment for any damages include use of a carrier, harness areas is restricted to the residential breakers) through use of appliances the forfeiture of any potential community, residents are expected caused and disciplinary action. or leash). community occupants, their guests/ or other electrical equipment rent refund due under the to maintain reasonable standards Residents, visitors, and guests are • Owners of a service animals visitors, and University affiliated will be required to reduce their normal rent refund policy. of cleanliness and order within their not permitted to place any items or ESA will maintain a clean, groups and organizations that have electrical usage. Residents are also rooms as a means to discourage in any unauthorized area. The healthy, and odor free living reserved the space. encouraged to use surge protectors space. pests. Over the counter pesticides University assumes no financial or as a means to further protect Posting and Flyers • Owners of a service animals • Students, Guests, and Visitors do not solve pest issues. They only legal responsibility for any student, electrical equipment. All notices and signs posted in or ESA are responsible for may not sleep overnight in move the pests elsewhere and guest, visitor, or property as a result College Houses and Sansom Place cleaning up animal’s waste common areas. potentially put any roommates or of such actions. must clearly state the name of the and should carry sufficient and • Common area furniture and Fixtures and Locks neighbors with chemical allergies responsible organization and be appropriate equipment to clean equipment must remain in in Residents are encouraged to keep at risk. posted only on designated bulletin Unauthorized Movement up after the animal. Waste the common room. their exterior room or apartment boards. No such notices should be Residents are also expected to of Furniture must be bagged and discarded • All individuals who use doors locked at all times. Residents placed on interior or exterior doors, return their rooms to a reasonably Residents are required to keep in waste receptacles located common areas are expected to are not allowed to damage, hinder windows, or elevators. Flyers may clean condition when they move all assigned room furniture within outside of the residences. keep these spaces reasonably the proper use of, or make changes not be placed under student room out, including disposing of all trash their rooms for their period of • Owners of a service animal or clean and orderly for to any locks or fixtures associated doors. Any student or organization and non-university furniture from occupancy. Missing furniture or ESA must assure the animal community use. with their rooms or apartment. found in violation of these policies their spaces. furniture found in the hallway, a doesn’t interfere with the daily Residents cannot add fixtures or may face fines and disciplinary lounge, a common space, or any routine or activities (ability to Out of consideration for all locks to any doors, walls, or other Residents who fail to properly action. Additional posting policies other space other than its original sleep, enter or exit the hall, residents, any individual using surfaces within their apartment. maintain, clean, or clear their and information are posted on each room or apartment will result in study, etc.) of residents. common areas such as kitchens, apartments or rooms will be subject College House website and the fines and potential disciplinary • The owner of the animal is lounges or recreational space is to disciplinary action, including Pets Sansom Place website. proceedings. Furniture removed expected to return the space to fines and cleaning costs. financially responsible for any Pets are not permitted in from halls, even by the University, the condition in which it was found. damage caused by the animal. residences, except for fish of a size will be treated as “missing” for This includes cleaning up after Residential Duty Officer Residents will be assessed fines This includes bodily injury or that can be appropriately kept in the purposes of post-move-out preparing and serving food, putting (RDO) Rooms for any damage that occurs in property damage. an aquarium not larger than 20 charges. Student room furniture away food items by storing them RDO rooms are set aside for short their rooms during the school year, gallons. All roommates must agree cannot be “stored” elsewhere or Individuals other than the owner securely in pest-proof containers, term emergency situations; an including any damage done to walls upon the presence of an aquarium. otherwise placed into lounges. should never touch or handle an returning furniture to its proper average stay is 2-4 days. Residents in the hanging of decorations within Other pets are not permitted for Furniture placed in lounges is animal unless invited to do so. location and set up, and properly are required to follow instructions their spaces. All roommates are several reasons: they pose potential subject to being removed by the Individuals other than the owner disposing of trash. Residents should regarding move-in and move-out of held responsible for the condition health problems; they can cause University and will be treated as should not feed the animal, startle not leave unattended items in these spaces. Residents should also of all of the space within their destruction of University property; “missing” for the purpose of post- the animal, attempt to separate the public spaces. Unattended items not expect a permanent relocation rooms or apartments. and they can be disruptive to other move-out charges animal from the owner, or inquire left in these spaces are subject to residents. “Visiting” pets are not into an RDO room. for details about the owner’s disposal by the University. Unauthorized permitted. Violations of the policy Resident Room Access disability or reason for having Access to Spaces Window Stops Although they are University will carry the following potential Responsibility a Service or Emotional Support Any resident, visitor or guest found Residents may not tamper with buildings, the College Houses and sanctions: Residents are responsible for their Animal. within unauthorized areas (student window stops where they exist. Sansom Place residences and their own PennCards and, when issued, • Residents will have 48 hours rooms in which they not either College Houses & Academic common spaces, amenities, etc. their brass keys. They should not from first being contacted a resident or an accompanied Services and Residential Services are first and foremost intended for share keys or PennCards with
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violation of standards and may RIGHTS AND COLLEGE HOUSE result in additional, extended or OBLIGATIONS more severe sanctions. CONDUCT A student against whom an PROCESS Violations of standards or other allegation of violation is made has misconduct should be reported the following rights and obligations: to the College House or Sansom The Office of College Houses & Place staff for investigation • The right to be notified within Academic Services and Residential and follow-up. The authority to a reasonable time of the Services supports and expects investigate and to respond to complaints against them. adherence to the University of violations is delegated to House • The obligation to cooperate Pennsylvania Code of Student staff (House Deans, Sansom Place with any investigation of Conduct and to all local, state Manager, Residential Advisors, complaint, including the and federal law, as well as and Graduate Associates) at the obligation to appear to regulations related to residential direction of the Executive Director, be interviewed by College living. Behavior that violates these Directors of College Houses, House administrative staff, standards, laws and regulations Residential Services staff or and the Director of Residential learning about their behavior or Referral to a University violate policies and show no signs may be grounds for disciplinary other University officials or Services. In all cases an attempt from completing a project that Resource Office of changing behavior. action by the College House Office boards. will be made to resolve a dispute allows them to contribute positively Students who need additional or Residential Services. A House • The right to know the nature or alleged violation by reaching to their community. Examples of professional assistance may Referral to the Office of Dean or Sansom Place Manager of any pertinent information voluntary agreement. Repeated such sanctions include: community be referred to any number of Student Conduct (OSC) will most likely address possible against them. The College House conduct system misconduct, serious offenses and service, organizing a program, University offices or resources. residential policy violations. offenses by non-residents may be • The right to confidentiality of doing a survey, attending a is designed to be internal to the Addressing these possible referred to the Executive Director information. presentation, or similar projects. Parental Notification House system. When situations violations may include an informal and Directors of College Houses, Some situations warrant a call to advance in severity, a House may conversation, a more formal Director of Residential Services, or Required Move a parent or guardian to discuss refer a case to OSC. Cases opened administrative hearing, or referral to the Office of Student Conduct. SANCTIONS Some situations may warrant a student’s behavior and the by OSC may result in serious to a House Discipline Committee. In addition, criminal activity in the The following sanctions are moving a resident to a new impact of that behavior upon other outcomes attached to a student’s Any of these means of addressing College Houses and Sansom Place normally issued separately or location, either for their own benefit residents. permanent record at Penn. OSC a violation may result in sanctions is subject to criminal prosecution. in combination for violations; or for the benefit of their residential may also remove a student from being issued to residents. sanctions are accumulative and community. Residential Probation housing. This sanction is typically imposed The Executive Director, Directors apply to a student’s length of stay Restitution for more serious violations of of College Houses, or Director of CONDUCT PROCESS in College Houses: Residents who cause damage standards, as well as for repeated NOTE: In situations when an Residential Services may hear cases OUTLINE or vandalize University property or multiple minor violations. individual or group poses an that are more serious or are specific • Staff person becomes aware Residential Warning will typically be expected to pay Probation includes the potential for immediate threat to the health, to their areas of responsibility. of a possible violation of This sanction is typically imposed restitution. restriction of various College House safety or property of others or In most instances, e-mail should standards. for minor violations. A warning privileges and serves as a final oneself the individual or group be used only for logistical • Student is notified via email basically puts a student on notice Fines notice wherein future violations may be relocated or removed purposes and should not be used that they are potentially in Fines will be imposed for some and provides an opportunity to could result in removal from from University housing prior to as a substitute for meeting and violation of a standard and a violations as deemed appropriate address and/or change behavior in Housing. a hearing to address the specific discussing an alleged violation with meeting is requested. future situations. Repeat behavior based upon circumstance. behaviors. The decision to remove a staff member. • Meeting is held to hear the could then result in additional and Removal from Housing or relocate rests with the Executive student’s perspective and to retroactive sanctions. Restriction of Privileges Director of College Houses or in his/ Students can expect fairness Removal from housing is a sanction ascertain responsibility. Some situations may warrant a her absence one of the Directors and due process from staff in that typically is used for serious • Student is notified via Educational Sanctions restriction of privileges, such as of College Houses or, for Sansom addressing alleged violations. violations of standards including email of determination of Educational sanctions are used guest privileges or restriction from Place, the Director of Residential Failure to comply with a sanction endangering behavior, theft, and responsibility and sanction, if for students in situations where entering a specific College House. Services. will be considered as a further significant damage to property appropriate. they would benefit from further and for students who repeatedly
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visiting our website and clicking the COLLEGE HOUSE Bon Appétit, Penn’s food service information on Penn Video Network, routine repairs to your room or floor, SERVICES FOR ‘Wireless Setup’ link. Please contact us provider, takes great care to cook visit the website at www.upenn.edu/ use the work order website (AiM) if you are unable to connect or need INFORMATION CENTERS food from scratch with fresh seasonal video. at www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/ RESIDENTS further assistance. The Information Centers in each ingredients, serve a wide variety of request. Contact your information House – usually in the reception areas menu items at each meal, create center for follow-up on requests Free Software: Students have free TECHNOLOGY – are operated by the Department of great tasting and nutritious food GREEN LIVING and for additional help. Emergency access to programs such as Microsoft Residential Services. They are a vital prepared especially for vegetarian, facilities issues should be called in 24 The Green Living Certification, We strive to provide the most robust Office 365 and Symantec Endpoint part of each College House, and offer vegan and international diners, provide hours a day at 215-898-7208. offered through Penn Sustainability, level of technical support for the College Virus Protection. Other supported daily services including guest passes, friendly customer service and a warm, provides all College House residents House community and to build relation- products are also available free of assistance with access issues, vacuum welcoming environment, all while with an opportunity to reflect on ships with Faculty, Staff, and students to charge to all students of the University. cleaner and moving cart loans, and making socially responsible purchasing their environmental impact and to OTHER SERVICES AND serve their technological needs. support with maintenance issues. It decisions regarding produce, meat, Labs and Spaces: There are 14 recognize the importance of their daily, AMENITIES is a 24-hour emergency center and a seafood, eggs and coffee. In addition We offer phone support Monday – residential lab and collaborative spaces individual decisions on the University’s useful hub of information for residents to the six residential dining cafés, • Free washers and dryers for Friday between 9am–5pm by dialing available to students 24 hours a day. Climate Action Plan. Students can and guests. (including Kosher options at Falk resident use, with the ability apply to receive their Gold, Silver, 215-266-3869. You may also submit a They provide access to educational and Dining Commons) Penn Dining offers to check the status of your or Bronze certification by filling out ticket on our support site or meet with multimedia software, as well as high- a wide variety of retail locations, laundry via the internet the Green Living survey, which asks a friendly tech support agent at one resolution scanners and color printing. including kosher options at Falk DINING students questions related to recycling, • Mail and package service of our convenient helpdesk locations Dining Commons; Tortas Fronteras Streaming and Cable: Comcast Xfinity While freshmen and transfer students energy, waste, water, transportation, are provided in-House by within your College House from in the renovated ARCH building; On Campus streaming service and are required to have a Dining plan, purchasing, and involvement at Penn. Residential Services Sunday-Thursday between 4pm–12am. Starbucks and Gourmet Grocer in Penn Video Network cable television Penn Dining believes that food service Certified students earn a sticker to • All College House rooms are For more information about our 1920 Commons; Beefsteak, Pure Fare, are available to all students who live is much more than simply providing post outside their room and rewards to furnished by the Department services or to receive support, please and Houston Market in Houston Hall; in the College Houses. Coax cable is sustenance. Dining cafés are gathering local campus restaurants. of Residential Services visit collegehouses.upenn.edu/tech. the newly renovated Mark’s Café in available to students free of charge in places for students and faculty and an Van Pelt Library; Pret-a-Manger in Penn Connections: Step by step all residential labs/printing areas. For integral part of the campus experience. Wharton’s Huntsman Hall; Accenture instructions for connecting devices to more information, please visit upenn. Breaking bread together helps create Café in the Towne Building; Joe’s Café HOUSING ASSIGNMENTS the campus network can be found by a sense of community and comfort. edu/video. in Steinberg- Dietrich Hall; and the AND ROOM CHANGES campus Farmer’s Market. For more The Housing Assignment process, information, visit www.upenn.edu/ including room changes, is managed dining. by the Department of Residential Services. Special room change periods are available each September, PVN CABLE TV November, and January. Room NETWORK change information can be found at www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/ Penn Video Network, the University’s roomchange. closed-circuit campus television system, gives College House residents the best of basic Standard and HD programming, with over 60 channels MAINTENANCE AND accessible in each student room and HOUSEKEEPING lounge. PVN also offers two 24-hour Housekeeping is provided seven days movie channels that show the latest a week (excepting holidays) for all releases, original independent movies, common areas in the Houses, such and even films that Penn professors use as corridors, lounges, lobby areas, as part of their curricula. Additionally, laundry rooms, and shared bathrooms. all on-campus residents have access Maintenance is provided to individual to the core XFINITY on Campus digital rooms and public spaces as requested, streaming service from Comcast. For as scheduled by the University, or in technical specifications and other response to emergencies. To request
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TERMS AND your window does not work GENDER NEUTRAL www.upenn.edu/housing. To facilitate the large volume of move in arrivals, RESIDENTIAL CONDITIONS OF properly, report it to the HOUSING House Information Center. students are assigned a move in UNIVERSITY HOUSING SERVICES • Do not leave your personal Gender Neutral Housing is available in time slot, which is communicated to all College Houses and Sansom Place. By accepting admission to Penn you belongings in any common them early in the summer. It may be INFORMATION This option allows students to indicate helpful to know that all of our College are agreeing to live on campus your areas. freshman year and abide by the Terms that they prefer to be assigned Houses with the exception of Harnwell, • Report any suspicious activity and Conditions of University Housing. without regard to gender. Students Harrison, and Rodin, close for winter or person to your RA, GA, the FIRST YEAR STUDENT Rent and College House fees will be who request Gender Neutral Housing break the day after the last scheduled House Information Center or will only be assigned roommates that HOUSING & DINING charged and payable each semester final exam. Our dining facilities are Campus Public Safety. make this same request. If you select closed during Thanksgiving and Winter POLICY through your Student Financial Services account. Please review the • Always lock your bicycle to Gender Neutral Housing you may or Break and operate on a reduced The College Houses are unique Terms and Conditions available at one of the storage racks and may not be assigned with a student of schedule during Fall and Spring Breaks. residential communities for Penn www.upenn.edu/housing. Fall room register your bicycle with a different gender; the assignment is undergraduates that connect the change applications are available Public Safety. made gender-blind. If a gender neutral academic life of the University to the on September 20-21, 2018; mid-year • Provide insurance coverage roommate assignment cannot be BEYOND THE made, students will be matched with residential experience. They foster change applications are available on for your items either through FIRST YEAR smaller, intimate communities that November 8-9, 2018. someone whose birth gender is the family homeowners insurance For students who are just thinking students call home and from which same as theirs if they are cisgender or through renter’s insurance. about starting their college experience, they are supported in pursuing their (trans and intersex students, please it may seem early to think about academic goals and in navigating the As members of a community, refer to the next section.) While HEALTH AND SAFETY second year housing. The fall semester complexities of university life. The each individual has a responsibility SPECIAL Gender Neutral Housing is an option is filled with making friends, adjusting College Houses provide academic The safety and security of all to ensure that safety hazards available to all students, anyone under HOUSING NEEDS to academic expectations, and and personal support to residents students in residence is of utmost are eliminated, fire equipment is 18 years of age prior to moving into Students who are requesting medical discovering all Penn has to offer. and promote social interaction, concern to the University and it is housing must submit written parental maintained and established fire accommodation because of a However, by mid-fall, you will begin engagement, accountability and expected that all residents adopt consent. Gender Neutral Housing also procedures are followed. Students serious condition or disability should hearing about next year’s Room leadership within a setting that honors reasonable safety habits. As a result allows you to request a specific friend who by the virtue of their behavior complete and submit the Request Selection process, off-campus options, the diverse needs and backgrounds of this concern, the University of a different gender as a roommate. toward themselves or other for Housing Accommodation form. and Greek life, and you’ll need to start of the Penn community. The College Both students must request Gender has taken a number of actions. The form is available online at http:// thinking about what is next for you. House experience is a central residents show an inability to live in Neutral Housing and follow the Security personnel monitor entry www.vpul.upenn.edu/lrc/ sds/ We highly encourage sophomores component of a student’s successful a group setting, refuse intervention, instructions on the application. to all College Houses twenty-four cs_documentation_guidelines. to live on campus and to continue to transition to and mastery of the rigors and/or endanger themselves or hours each day during building php. Accommodation decisions are enjoy the rich community environment of university life at Penn. To support others in any manner may be occupancy. All residents and guests made by Student Health Services offered by our College Houses. our undergraduates in their academic asked to leave the College House TRANSGENDER AND and Student Disabilities Services. Typically, 65% of the sophomore and personal endeavors, and to must pass through a security portal community immediately. If approved, assignments will be INTERSEX STUDENTS class chooses to do so. During the engage them with each other and the to gain access to residential areas. based on medical need and may not Penn values diversity and recognizes junior and senior years many students larger Penn community, we require All live-in College House staff necessarily accommodate personal that transgender and intersex students assume leadership positions in the all first-year, transfer and exchange members undergo training in safety IMPORTANT preferences. Students with disabilities may have particular needs in their House and may find more meaning students* to live on campus and and security policies and support SAFETY TIPS are invited to self-identify and should living environment. Students are and appreciation for their relationships participate in a dining plan during their the efforts of the Department of do so early to provide sufficient time welcome to contact the Assignments with faculty and staff who are their first year of enrollment. Public Safety to educate students • Keep the door to your room, suite or apartment locked at to accommodate needs. If you wish to Office to discuss available options that neighbors. Sophomores, juniors, and in-residence about campus safety. self-identify or have questions, contact best support their need for a safe and seniors may apply to be a Resident *Students who are enrolled in the all times. If your lock does not College of Liberal Studies or in the Members of the Department of the Office of Student Disabilities comfortable housing arrangement. Advisor, a highly rewarding experience work, report it immediately Penn Nursing BSN Second Degree Public Safety conduct a number Services, Weingarten Learning which includes room and board. to the House Information Program, or are married, living with of residence hall safety programs Resources Center, 3702 Spruce Street, Information about the Room Selection a dependent, or in a University- throughout the year from regular Center. Suite 300, Philadelphia PA 19104-6027, PLANNING AHEAD: process is posted online toward the recognized domestic partnership, are fire drills to programs that discuss • If you live in a ground floor 215-573-9235 (Voice); 215-746-6320 MOVE-IN, WINTER close of the fall semester. There are room keep your window (TDD); 215-76-6326 (Fax). exempt from this policy. crime prevention and crime BREAK, MOVE-OUT numerous information sessions and reporting procedures. closed and locked when informational e-mails before and you are not in your room. If All occupancy dates, room change, throughout the process. We strongly move-in, winter break, and move- encourage you to discuss options and out information can be found at costs with your parents prior to room
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selection. Penn’s housing selection process has three sequential options, all of which are completed online at W.E.B. DU BOIS, GREGORY, STOUFFER AND NEW COLLEGE HOUSES myhomeatpenn.upenn.edu early in the spring semester. Students can apply Four-Year Communities with their friends to live in a Residential GREGORY* STOUFFER W.E.B. DU BOIS* (VAN PELT AND NEW* Program, return to their same College (STOUFFER AND MAYER*) CLASS OF 1925) House (In-House process), or move $10,200 per year $10,200 per year $10,200 per year 14,284 per year $10,200 per year to another College House (Inter- ($5,100 per semester) ($5,100 per semester) ($5,100 per semester) ($7,142 per semester) ($5,100 per semester) House process). For those already Single Room Single Room Single – Efficiency Double Apartment Double-2BR/LR in Four-Year or Upperclass Houses, Double (2 BR/Cooktop/Fridge) Double (2 BR) Single Room (Stouffer) (2 BR/LR/Kit) Triple-3BR/LR returning to your same College House Triple (3 BR/Cooktop/Fridge) Quad (4 BR) Double Room (Stouffer) Quad-4BR/LR offers the best opportunity to secure Quad (4 BR/Cooktop/Fridge) Quad (4 BR/LR) Double Apt (1 BR/LR/Kit) 5privateBR/LR/2Bath housing and a preferred room type 6privateBR/LR/2Bath within that House. For those in First- Year Houses or simply interested in *All units in Du Bois, Gregory, Mayer and New have private bathrooms First-year students may only select these room types. moving to a new House, the inter- House process provides variety. In each case, students apply and select their room themselves, giving them greater control over specific location FISHER-HASSENFELD, HILL, KINGS COURT ENGLISH, RIEPE, and room type. While housing is not guaranteed, Penn makes every effort AND WARE COLLEGE HOUSES to provide housing for all students First-Year Communities who want it. Students who are flexible FISHER HASSENFELD HILL KINGS COURT ENGLISH RIEPE WARE with their housing choices can be (KINGS COURT AND ENGLISH) accommodated. For those students All room types are $10,200 per year ($5,100 per semester) who decide to move into the local Single Room Single Room Single Room Single Room Single Room neighborhood, Penn’s Office of Off- Double Room Double Room Double Room Double Room Double Room Triple Room Triple Room Campus Services provides resources (3 rooms) (2 rooms) and assistance with the housing search. Information and an online First-year students may only select these room types. listing of available apartments and houses are available at www.upenn. edu/offcampusservices. HARNWELL, HARRISON, AND RODIN** Upperclass Communities HARNWELL, HARRISON AND RODIN $10,200 per year $14,284 per year ($5,100 per semester) ($7,142 per semester) Single Room (Harrison & Rodin) Single Apartment (1 BR/LR/Kit) Double (2BR/LR) (Harnwell only) Double Apartment (2 BR/LR/Kit) Double (2 BR)† Triple Apartment (3 BR/LR/Kit) Double Apartment (1 BR/LR/Kit)† Quad Apartment (4 BR/LR/Kit) Quad Apartment (3 BR/LR/Kit)†
**All units in Harnwell, Harrison, and Rodin have private bathrooms † First-year students in Harrison's Freshman Experience program will be assigned to these room types.
NOTES SINGLE: 1 occupant DOUBLE: 2 occupants TRIPLE: 3 occupants QUAD: 4 occupants KIT: Kitchen LR: Living Room BR: Bedroom College House fee: $240/year/person ($120/semester/person). This fee will not be prorated nor removed once a resident moves in. Access current rent schedules and policies at: http://cms.business-services.upenn.edu/residential-services/room-rates-and-policies/policies-forms.html
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CONTACT INFORMATION
W.E.B. Du Bois College House House Office: (215) 898-3677 [email protected]
Fisher Hassenfeld College House House Office: (215) 573-4295 [email protected]
Gregory College House House Office: (215) 573-5171 [email protected]
Harnwell College House House Office: (215) 573-3497 [email protected]
Harrison College House House Office: (215) 573-3539 [email protected]
Hill College House House Office: (215) 898-5237 [email protected]
Kings Court English College House House Office: (215) 898-2530 [email protected]
New College House House Office: (215) 898-3350 [email protected]
Riepe College House House Office: (215) 898-2855 [email protected]
Rodin College House House Office: (215) 573-3576 [email protected]
Stouffer College House House Office: (215) 573-8473 [email protected]
Ware College House House Office: (215) 898-9531 [email protected]
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