UNIVERSITY OF Panther Central

SPRING MOVE-OUT GUIDE Residence Halls, Apartment-Style Accommodations, and Fraternity Complex

As another academic year draws to a close, we’ve Moving Carts prepared this newsletter to help you move out of your Residence Halls on-campus housing accommodation. Moving carts will be available to help make your move-out experience as stress free as possible. In order to rent a cart, you must complete a cart form and return your cart to the cart station Official Closing when you are finished. Please read further for cart station locations All on-campus housing accommodations will officially close at noon and times. on Sunday, May 1, 2016. The Pittsburgh Marathon is also Sunday, Locations and Times May 1 and will result in several street closures in the area. It Where: (Towers Lobby), (Lothrop is highly recommended that you make arrangements to vacate your Main Lobby), Schenley Quad (Towers Lobby), and Sutherland Hall residence no later than 24 hours after your final exam. Your entire (Sutherland Main Lobby) living area must be clean and vacant at that time. Graduating seniors When: Thursday, April 28 – Saturday, April 30, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 7 may stay in their rooms or apartments until noon on Monday, May 2, p.m. and Sunday, May 1, 2016, from 9 a.m. to noon 2016. Seniors must inform Panther Central if they plan to stay this extra night. All other residents’ key cards will be deactivated after Apartment-style Accommodations Bouquet Gardens Residents: Carts will be available in the Bouquet noon on Sunday, May 1, 2016. Gardens J lobby Thursday, April 28–Saturday, April 30, 2016, from Cleaning Your Room or Apartment 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 1, 2016, from 9 a.m. to noon. University residence hall and apartment-style accommodations Centre Plaza, Forbes Craig and Residents: Carts will be are used during the summer for conferences and other programs. available in the lobby of each building Thursday, April 28–Saturday, Because of this, you may not leave any personal items in your room April 30, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 1, 2016, from 9 or apartment over the summer. Please Note: If you currently live in a.m. to noon. Tower A or C and previously completed a Summer Recess Housing Application, you should follow the instructions Panther Central Wristbands provided to you. If you are uncertain about your summer recess Wristbands for guests will be issued at all cart stations for move-out. status, please email Panther Central at [email protected]. Please Please Note: You must accompany your guest to the cart station and remove all personal belongings, including furniture and trash. If provide your Pitt ID in order for your guest to receive a wristband. you live in a residence hall, sealed bags of dry trash and flattened These wristbands are only valid for the times the stations are staffed. cardboard boxes may be left in your room. Any items that are left All other times, guests must be signed in by the resident. behind in your room will be considered trash and will be discarded. All wet and food-related garbage must be placed in the appropriate trash Parking rooms before you leave. If you live in an apartment, you must take your Beginning on Thursday, April 28, 2016, University Police will be on trash to the trash area of your building. Refer to the checklists in this duty to direct you to available parking areas for loading purposes only. brochure for specific cleaning instructions. You must leave your room The following parking areas are available Thursday, April 28– or apartment in a clean and orderly condition. Saturday, April 30, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, May 1, 2016, from 9 a.m. to noon: Microwave and Refrigerator Collection: If you rented a MicroFridge, it will be picked up after you have vacated *Due to the Pittsburgh Marathon, this area will NOT be available on your room. Please remember to clean your MicroFridge and leave Sunday, May 1. it plugged in before leaving. Should you have any questions, please Residence Hall Parking Area call the Melvin Group at 1-800-525-7307. Schenley Quad Halls SQ Lot (Schenley Quad) Room Inspection Towers A and B* LT Garage (Towers)* We will inspect all rooms and apartments after they are vacated on Tower C* BQ Lot (Bouquet Street)* Sunday, May 1, 2016. You may be assessed for any damages incurred or extraordinary cleaning required. We will immediately discard Lothrop Hall Lothrop Street any personal articles left behind, and you may be charged for the * Forbes Avenue disposal costs. (front entrance) If you reside in Ruskin Hall or the Forbes-Craig Apartments, be sure Sutherland Hall Sutherland Rear Entrance to leave your cable box and remote in your room. For Centre Plaza (loading in the front residents, please leave your cable box, remote, and Internet modem. circular driveway is All students will be assessed a charge if these items are removed not permitted) from their rooms. Panther and UD Lot (University Drive) Halls Ruskin Hall Ruskin Avenue If you need to park your car for an extended period, please contact the Parking Office at 412-624-4034. • Litchfield Towers and Lothrop Hall: Key Bicycles envelopes will be delivered to your room The University will be repairing bicycle racks this summer. Please prior to finals week. All triple and quad take your bicycle when you leave campus. Any bike that is not residents should place their room keys in removed will be considered abandoned and will be disposed of by the a key envelope and provide the envelope Parking Office. to the Welcome Attendant of their corresponding building before Mail leaving campus. If you live in a residence hall, Bouquet Gardens, Forbes Craig, Ruskin Hall or Fraternity complex, remember to submit your • House 5: Key envelopes will be delivered to your room prior to forwarding address online at www.pts.pitt.edu/mailserv/student/ finals week. All residents should place their room keys in a key mailforwardrequest.php. If you live in Centre Plaza, you should envelope and provide the envelope to the Pennsylvania Hall complete and mail a forwarding address form. You can obtain a form Welcome Attendant before leaving campus. at the local post office or the Litchfield Towers mail room. You also • Lothrop Hall: Key envelopes will be delivered to your room prior can go to any post office or www.usps.com to fill out a forwarding to finals week. All quad residents should place their room keys address form. in a key envelope and provide the envelope to the Lothrop Hall If you do not leave a forwarding address, your mail will be returned to Welcome Attendant before leaving campus. sender. We will not hold mail in mail rooms. • Centre Plaza: Key envelopes will be delivered to your apartment prior to finals week. Before leaving campus, please place your Key Return apartment and room keys in the key envelope and provide Students currently using University IDs to enter their living the envelope to the Centre Plaza Welcome Attendant. If you accommodations do not have to return their IDs upon departure. currently have a Centre Plaza parking permit or garage key, Please keep your student ID, as you will need it when you return to please place those items in the key envelope as well. campus next term. • Forbes-Craig Apartments: Forbes-Craig residents with parking All residents should lock their rooms and/or apartments when permits, garage keys and/or garage transmitters should drop exiting. them off to Panther Central before leaving campus. If you have been issued a room, apartment, or mailbox key for your You will be assessed a $20 fee for each key not returned, including residence hall or apartment-style accommodation, consider the keys to rooms, apartments, mailboxes, and garages. You also might following: be responsible for a lock change fee of $50.

Residence Hall/Fraternity Complex Departure Checklist • Remove all personal belongings • Turn off faucets tightly (if applicable) • Clean MicroFridge/microwaves • Turn off lights • Leave refrigerators and MicroFridge plugged in. • Lock windows and doors • Dry trash and flattened cardboard boxes may be left in your room • Clean all mirrors • Take wet and food-related trash to your trashroom • Sweep and vacuum floors • Turn in key to University personnel (if applicable) • Remove all personal items • Contact resident assistant to report any room damages • Keep air conditioning on (if applicable) (fraternity and sorority residents contact Panther Central) Apartment-Style Accommodation Departure Checklist • Kitchen: • General: - Clean countertops, sinks - Clean all mirrors - Wipe out cabinets, wash exteriors - Sweep and vacuum floors - Sweep, mop floors - Remove all personal items • Defrost and clean refrigerator - Dispose of trash properly • Stove: - Turn off all lights - Clean burners, under burners - Lock windows and doors - Clean burner rings, drip pans - Place keys and parking passes in marked envelopes; deposit in - Clean oven, broiler pans designated locations - Clean grease from surrounding walls - Keep air conditioning on (if applicable) • Bathrooms: • Centre Plaza, Forbes Craig Apartments, and Ruskin Hall: - Clean tub and faucets - Leave cable box, remote, and cable together in an - Clean sink, faucets obvious and noticeable place within the apartment - Clean toilet - For Centre Plaza residents ONLY: Please leave your modem behind as well in an obvious and noticeable location.

Farewell, graduates. May fortune smile on you. And we hope all the returning students have a safe, enjoyable, and productive summer. See you in the fall! ! PANTHER CENTRAL WE’RE AT YOUR SERVICE. Whatever questions you have about campus services, from arugula to zip codes, turn to Panther Central first. Call, stop in, or log on. We’re the place for answers. Panther Central Litchfield Towers 412-648-1100 www.pc.pitt.edu E-mail: [email protected]

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