Campus Living Guide
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Campus Living Guide 2006-2007 From the Director Welcome to Clemson University Contents housing! The staff of the University 2 Where Do You Fit In? Housing office is committed to doing 4 The Big Move Instant celebrity! everything pos 9 The Clemson Family elcome Home sible to make your 11 You Can Count on Us W Fame! Clemson years the best they can be. 13 Hall in a Day’s Work Please call on us if 15 Common Ground Bragging rights! we can help in any 16 Roommates: Respect Is way. the Key (and cool prizes) 19 At Your Service Verna G. Howell 24 Food for Thought Executive Director of Housing 26 Beds Aloft? All this can be yours. 27 Fish Tales 29 Play It Safe University Housing Mission 33 That’s the Rule But you have to enter the third annual Best Room on The mission of University Campus contest to win! Housing is to provide students with 37 Coming to Campus safe, clean, well-maintained, reason 40 Campus Map Make plans now, and look for details in September. ably priced housing where academic 44 Call Us! success and personal growth are pro Back cover Checklist moted. Additional information is available at our Web site: www.housing.clemson.edu Keep this guide in a handy place! You’ll want to bring it to campus when you come. Note: The 2005-2006 winners are featured on the cover. 1 College may seem like a mystery to you right now. But remember, it’s brand new for everyone else in your class, too. You’re about to join a great group — the Clemson family! And you’ll have the time of your life as you find your place in the Clemson com munity. If you’re nervous about having a roommate, don’t worry. Some students have never shared a room with anyone, but it’s not as hard as you may think. You can have a great time! At Clemson, you’ll get to know many different kinds of people — that’s a good thing. Learning to live with other students is as much a part of your college education as anything you’ll learn in the classroom. We’ve included your housing assignment in this package with the name and address of your roommate. You may want to contact him or her before you arrive at Clemson. Students tell us that the letters, phone calls and emails they ex changed before coming to campus took a lot of pressure off their first day here. So, start getting to know each other and then relax. We know you want to fit in here. And, at Clemson, we’re in it together! Where Do You Fit In? If your last name begins It’s a good idea to pick up your key with: Try to move in: as soon as you get on campus. Just go to A-I 8:00-9:00 a.m. or the front desk of your assigned residence 12:30-1:30 p.m. hall or apartment to get it. Be sure to J-R 9:30-10:30 a.m. or have a picture ID with you. 2:00-3:00 p.m. Getting Settled S-Z 11:00 a.m.-noon or Ship Shape 3:30-4:30 p.m. If you want to ship trunks or large boxes, send them to University Station, We know that everyone may not be Clemson University, Clemson SC 29632. able to follow this plan because of travel Your name and box number must appear or other complications, but using this on all items. Pickup hours are from schedule will help. You can check in 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays. The each day until 10:00 p.m. If you want to Clemson University Post Office is on the avoid the biggest crowds, you might con lower level of the University Union. For sider moving in on Monday or Tuesday. your convenience, the University Post For the spring semester, residence Office will be open 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. halls and apartments will open on both days of move-in weekend, August Sunday, January 7, 2007, at 8:00 a.m. 19-20, 2006. Get Ahead of the Pack Keep It Legal! If you live fairly close to campus Be sure to carefully review your (within a two- to three-hour drive), it’s copy of the University Housing Con best to pack only the things you really tract for all applicable rules, regulations need, including clothes to last 14 days. and policies concerning your new home The Big After a couple of weeks, you can go and community. Many of these are also home and get the rest of your belong discussed in this guide on pages 26-36. ings. By then, you’ll have a better idea Remember, the contract you signed is for of what you need and what will fit into the entire academic year (both fall and Move your room. spring semesters). What a Load! All new students (those who have never attended Clemson University) may When you move in, we’ll have cer move in beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 19, 2006. All returning students tain areas that you can use to unload may move in beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 20, 2006. Arrivals prior to these your things, but you can’t leave your car dates and times are NOT possible because residential areas are still being prepared, and or truck unattended in these spots. After staff are not yet in place. unloading, please move your vehicle to We want to make things as easy as possible for you and your parents, so we’ve set up a nearby parking lot. If it rains, we’ll this suggested schedule for Saturday and Sunday to help minimize long lines and traffic change the plans to allow residents to jams. We strongly recommend that you try to arrive according to this schedule. put their things in the nearest dry area (such as a porch or lobby). If you have a hand truck, bring it with you. President and Mrs. Barker 4 volunteer at move-in. 5 • Small vacuum cleaner Roll Out the Carpet! • Trash can If you want the feel of carpet between your toes and you plan to live in Johnstone, DIRECTV Benet, Young, Cope, Geer or Sanders, you Basic DIRECTV service is available in may want to consider bringing room-size all housing areas, and it’s already included carpet from home because these areas are in your semester housing fee. If you’re a re not carpeted. You can also buy a remnant ally big movie fan, you can buy additional at numerous local stores. Be sure to check premium packages directly from the out the room measurements and floor plans DIRECTV company at 1-800-610-0797. online at www.housing.clemson.edu. Bring Your Laptop! Cool It! Internet access can put you in touch You can keep a refrigerator in your with the four corners of the earth, and room if it’s no larger than 3.6 cubic feet. Clemson University can take you there A combination microfridge multipliance is Before After from the comfort of your own room! All also available for rent. This unit includes of our residence halls and apartments are a microwave (the only microwave allowed fully wired through a campus-wide network in residence halls), a refrigerator and a The Personal Touch season. Remember that you have to find a called ResCom (Residential Computing). zero-degree freezer. New and used units are Just picture it — a place that shows off place for whatever you bring to the room. Each student has a dedicated, high-speed available. Student Government and Col your personal taste and interests. It’s a little Soft luggage can be folded and easily stored, data port, which is separate from the phone legiate Concepts provide this service, and bit of “you.” That’s what your room will be, and many students find that footlockers line. they can have it delivered to your room. once you and your roommate dress it up. are easy to use for transporting and storing As an added bonus to living on cam Just go online to www.collegefridge.com or Remember, it won’t look that way when things in the room. pus, all residence halls have wireless access call 1-888-929-0806 for more informa you first walk in! Most residence halls have refrigerators in all the common areas. This means you tion or to place an order. All University A lot of our students get in touch with and microwave ovens available for your use, can use your laptop while doing laundry or apartments have full-size refrigerators, and their roommate before they come to cam either in the hall kitchen or lounges. You just sitting around waiting on your friends. microwaves are also available in Lightsey pus so they can start the decorating process might also want to consider renting a The freshman halls have wireless cyber Bridge I and II. together — color schemes, posters — what Microfridge (combination microwave/ re lounges that give you a place to sit and ever it takes. Talking together ahead of frigerator-freezer). If so, see the “Cool It!” work in comfort or you can meet with other time also helps you decide what to bring so section on page 7. Some other things you students to work on group projects.