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INTELLECTUAL LIFE MISSION FIND OUT MORE 6__COLLEGE HOUSE LIFE STATEMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION ON COLLEGE HOUSE PROGRAMS AND STAFF 7__ FACULTY AND STAFF Office of College Houses and Academic Services 5 8__ PROGRAM COMMUNITIES THE COLLEGE HOUSES Stouffer Commons 9__ SPOTLIGHT PROGRAM ARE RESIDENTIAL 3702 Spruce Street COMMUNITIES FOR PENN Philadelphia, PA 19104-6027 UNDERGRADUATES PHONE 215.898.5551 RELATIONSHIPS THAT: 12__BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS FAX 215.573.6789 13__ROOMMATE RELATIONSHIP • Connect the academic EMAIL 11 17__HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCES life of the University [email protected] with the residential URL experience. www.collegehouses.upenn.edu PARTICIPATION 20__WAYS TO GET INVOLVED • Develop smaller, FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ROOM ASSIGNMENTS, 22__SIGNATURE PROGRAMS intimate communities BILLING OR BUILDING SERVICES Department of Residential Services 19 that students call Stouffer Commons COLLEGE HOUSES home and from 3702 Spruce Street 26__Du BOIS which they can more Philadelphia, PA 19104-6027 27__GREGORY comfortably navigate PHONE 28__LAUDER the complexities of 215.898.8271 29__STOUFFER a large university. FAX 215.573.2061 30__FISHER HASSENFELD • Provide academic EMAIL 31__HILL and personal support [email protected] 32__KINGS COURT ENGLISH to residents. URL 33__RIEPE www.upenn.edu/housing 34__WARE • Promote social 35__HARNWELL interaction, The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, faculty and staff 36__HARRISON engagement, from diverse backgrounds. The University of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis 37__RODIN 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 IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR RESIDENTS 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 40__COLLEGE HOUSE COMMUNITY STANDARDS and backgrounds 19104-6106; or (215) 898-6993 (Voice) or (215) 898-7803 (TDD). 40__COLLEGE HOUSE POLICIES AND SERVICES FOR CAMPUS of the population. 39 43__COLLEGE HOUSE BEHAVIOR 51__COLLEGE HOUSE CONDUCT PROCESS 54__SERVICES FOR RESIDENTS 56__RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INFORMATION 59__RENT SCHEDULE 60__CAMPUS MAP 61__HOUSE CONTACT INFORMATION

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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 HOUSE DEAN COLLEGE THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE UNIVERSITY. COLLEGE HOUSE The House Dean is the single GRADUATE HOUSE LIFE • Residents are exposed to a range of disciplines and backgrounds FACULTY most important administrator in ASSOCIATES through the Faculty Director, House Fellows and House Dean. To the residential community. House learn more about their diverse fields of study and expertise see AND STAFF Deans serve as academic advisors, (GAs) & RESIDENT College House residents do far www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/staff/expertise. active participants in group events, more than eat, sleep, play, and NEIGHBORS ADVISORS (RAs) • We provide group tickets for campus events and renowned speakers. and trusted friends. House Deans study. They learn. Each House • Academically-themed Program Communities within the Houses have direct the House office and hire and Each House has a diverse team of provides countless occasions Every College House has a live- supervise the GAs, RAs, and House links to such distinguished departments as the Fels Institute, Film graduate students, or Graduate for residents to get to know the in team of faculty and staff who Managers. Many of the Deans hold Studies, Civic House, Weiss Tech House, Perry World House, and the Associates (GAs), selected faculty, staff, and student leaders work to keep the life of the advanced academic degrees and Greenfield Intercultural Center. from the University’s doctoral who are their neighbors in the House community engaged in provide leadership by serving on and professional programs. House. By living in a College House WE CREATE THE ATMOSPHERE OF A the intellectual and social life key committees across the campus. of the University as a whole. GAs bring their experiences as our residents have opportunities SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE WITHIN to collaborate with other residents; These scholars and their families advanced students to the life of improve their language, writing, THE UNIVERSITY’S EXCITINGLY LARGE become part of the College House HOUSE the community and also offer math, and other skills; plan and lead RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT. community and enrich the life of all special expertise in their fields COORDINATOR of study. GAs sponsor or join House activities; write newsletters • Our College House faculty, often pre-eminent in their fields, are their residents. Each House office is staffed by a and market House events; attend nevertheless approachable and enjoy engaging with their residents. in the numerous academic and full-time non-resident Coordinator co-curricular activities of each in-House performances; oversee • Student researchers receive guidance from House faculty on writing who supports the operation of the program budgets; manage a a research proposal and can apply for House research fellowships FACULTY DIRECTOR House. Equally important is the House and provides invaluable student IT team; or mentor their of $1,500. The Research Fellows present their work in symposia and The Faculty Director of each undergraduate team of Residential assistance to the Dean and all of peers. For those who participate in other forums, and in turn advise other residents about Penn’s research College House is a prominent Advisors (RAs) who advise the residents. their College House communities, opportunities. professor appointed by the Provost and support the programming initiatives of the community. The learning just happens; it’s the • Emphasis on community building in each House helps create a sociable to live in residence. As neighbors inevitable result of the daily home base. of students, these professors offer peer support offered by an RA can interaction of residents and immediate contact with Penn’s be a wonderful resource for new engagement with the activities WE SUPPORT OUR RESIDENTS, renowned teachers and scholars. students looking for guidance from around them. This sort of informal ACADEMICALLY AND PERSONALLY. Faculty Directors provide academic someone close in age and outlook. leadership for the House. learning is an intentional outcome • The Tutoring Center offers help in several Houses with Math, Econ, of our mission. Here are some of Chemistry, Biology, and other subjects each semester. the ways we do it. • Houses provide advice on graduate and professional schools, HOUSE FELLOWS internships, careers, and fellowships, and House Deans provide College House Fellows are in-House academic advising. appointed to live in the College • Group study and technology spaces encourage students to learn Houses to strengthen the together. connections between the Houses BREAK- WE FOSTER LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY, and the intellectual life of the University. Members of the standing OUT OF ALL BUT ALSO CIVIC-MINDEDNESS, TEAMWORK, AND or adjunct faculty of one of Penn’s RESIDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO COLLABORATE. twelve schools, or members of BY CLASS • Awards such as the Lucid Award and the Du Bois Endowed Scholarship Penn’s senior academic staff, they are bestowed on residents with notable academic achievements and have regular teaching, advising, community-mindedness. and mentoring relationships with • Houses with a Board of Managers have a strong leadership team undergraduates. overseeing every aspect of the House, from oversight of cafés to the First Year Students 47% creation of science competitions. Sophomores 25% • House Councils or Steering Committees play different roles across  Juniors 14% the Houses – advising staff on the allocation of funds, the creation of programs, intramural activities, and more. Seniors 14%

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OPEN PROGRAM TO FIRST OPEN TO OPTIONAL YEAR UPPERCLASS ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES LIST STUDENTS STUDENTS CREDIT WORLD CULTURES AND LANGUAGES PROGRAM Ancient Studies ● FISHER HASSENFELD HOUSE SPOTLIGHT: COMMUNITIES Cultures Collective ● Living Cultures Residential Program ● WENDY AND LEONARD GOLDBERG MEDIA & Modern Languages Program ● ● ● For many students the idea of COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM AT GOLDBERG HOUSE Zulu in Residence ● ● ● living with a smaller community of The Wendy and Leonard Goldberg Media & Communications Program, nestled in the westernmost end ARTS & LETTERS people who share a culture, lifestyle of Fisher Hassenfeld College House in the Quad, is open to students in any major or academic field and ● or interest is very appealing. At Arts House provides ample space to live and work. The program is physically situated at the heart of a complex of Creative Minds, Creative Souls: Penn, designated floors or sections ● buildings surrounding the beautiful Bluestone Courtyard – Foerderer, McKean, Baldwin, Class of 1887, and Music and Arts Community of the Houses are called Program Craig – known collectively as Goldberg House. The beautiful Foerderer archway marks the entrance of Film Culture ● ● ● Communities. The potential for an the program, and the nearby Goldberg Media Lounge serves at the principal public space. Named for film Front Row Theatre and the Arts ● enriched residential experience producer Leonard Goldberg and his wife, Wendy, the program draws members who share an interest not Goldberg Media and is limitless with so many topics ● Communications Program only in film, but for all forms of communications media, including broadcasting, publishing, journalism, to explore together. Students Music and Social Change ● ● digital media, marketing, and public relations, and political communication. This program is designed apply for these communities Perspectives in the Humanities ● for students who have a broad academic interest in mass media and communications, ranging from the when completing their housing advertising and mass media industries to television and film portrayals of particular groups to the ways in The Rodin Arts Collective (TRAC) ● application; most require essays at which digital media impact society. Residents in this program work together to design a media campaign the time of application. Information SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING & MATH that they envision and execute with the goal of generating a positive impact in their residential community. about applying to upperclass Biosciences Community ● The campaign may include creating videos, writing a newsletter, designing advertisements, developing Program Communities is available Biosphere: The Active Experience ● a blog, and/or other media-related activities. The program also includes communications-themed social Eco-House: Environmental at https://www.collegehouses. ● activities, like movie nights and attending Residential Program upenn.edu/life/upperclass. events in the Philadelphia area. Science and Technology Wing (STWing) ● Scientific Adventures ● GOALS: This program provides interested Study of Infectious Diseases ● students with an opportunity to engage in critical thought around the issues of mass Women in Computer Science ● media and to think about and discuss the ways HOUSE Women in Science ● in which media affect individuals’ thoughts, SPOTLIGHTS IDENTITY & SELF attitudes, and behaviors as well as our society 2XP: The Second Year Experience ● as a whole. AND TRADITIONS Arts and Well Being ● Balanced Living Community ● Some Houses have traditional First Generation, First Step ● programs that are informal or club- FYI: First Year Innovation Community ● like in their relaxed approach to Jewish Cultural Studies Program ● bringing people together. No essay Muslim Life Residential Program ● or application is required and the LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT groups are not necessarily based Kings Court English Upperclass Programs ● on a floor or cluster of rooms. Four Mentors Program ● examples include: the Du Bois ● OUR STORY mentorship program, Penn Women in Leadership ● Du Bois Cultural Production and Policy, Politics and Social Change Political Power, Harrison’s Reading Policy, Politics and Social Change Part II ● Community, and the Knitting Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship ● Circle at Ware, which are open Rodin Leadership Program ● to all House residents, and are PENN COURSE COMMUNITIES typically led by an enthusiastic, Benjamin Franklin Scholars Residential ● ● knowledgeable RA or GA. Community Huntsman Program for International Studies ● ● and Business

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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 sophomore, junior, or a harmonious living arrangement. senior in one 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 Visit upennwellness.com for these and other resources:

The college academic year will expose you to a whole new set of challenges. From the intensity of meeting hundreds of new people during move-in and COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES (CAPS) 215-898-7021 orientation, to the possibility of spending major holidays away from your Free, confidential, individual and group therapy and advocacy, including for stress reduction. family for the first time, to ending the academic year and saying goodbye to friends who have become your family, the year will bring many different STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES (SHS) 215-746-3535 new experiences your way. At Penn, you will feel that you will be in a Affordable, accessible primary, preventative, and specialty health care for all students. constant state of mid-terms – that will be your reality! You should recognize that during your most challenging week in the semester, your roommate STUDENT INTERVENTION SERVICES 215-898-6081 may have an easy week, and vice versa. The most important reminder is to Support, referrals, and case management for critical matters or emergencies involving safety and wellness. continue being respectful to your roommate during this time. If you think about the academic year chronologically, you can recognize some of the OFFICE OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG PROGRAM INITIATIVES 215-573-3525 stressors that might be most impactful: Non-judgmental, confidential interventions regarding drug and alcohol use and concerns.

• Move-in and Orientation (it’s stressful to meet hundreds of people!) ACADEMIC SUPPORT • Classes begin (it’s likely you’ll be a bit more busy than you’ve ever been One-on-one advising and assistance in each of the four undergraduate schools. before) • The College of Arts and Sciences | 215-898-6341 • MID-TERMS! • Wharton | 215-898-7608 • Finding new friend groups and clubs (as you find who you are at Penn, • Engineering and Applied Science | 215-898-7246 you and your roommate could grow apart, or you could grow closer) • Nursing | 215-898-6687 • Thanksgiving (for many students, this might be the first major holiday away from family) OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIN 215-898-8456 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 • Pan-Asian American Community House | 215-746-6046 • MID-TERMS! • Penn Women’s Center | 215-898-8611 • Winter in Philly (it can feel like it lasts forever…) • Spring Break (finally) HELP LINE 215-898-HELP (215-898-4357) • More MID-TERMS! 24/7 assistance from the Division of Public Safety for time-sensitive help navigating Penn’s health and wellness resources. • Spring Fling, Hey Day, and the end of school (it’s a great social time, but you still need to be thinking about your academics) REACH-A-PEER LINE (RAP LINE) 215-573-2RAP (215-573-2727) • FINAL EXAMS! Peer support, information, and referrals from students to students, nightly from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. or online. • Move out (it can be stressful too… and it’s hard to say goodbye, but you made it through your year at Penn!) WEINGARTEN LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER 215-573-9235 Provides instruction on improving academic skills and provides services to students with disabilities of all kinds. An academic year for a college student seems like it might be long, but it goes by quickly. Continue respecting your roommate and keep the lines of FIRST GENERATION LOW INCOME PROGRAM 215-898-3358 communication open. If you do this, you’re sure to have a great year! Assistance for first-generation and/or low-income students, including Penn First, a student-run support organization.

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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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SEM RA P O Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House to the program the following year live together based on a variety of ER AD MELI abreast of what’s on the table in the coming days, whether the goings-on IN 2018-19* as Managers—selecting the films interests: Science and Research, SE A are tailored for your individual hall, for a residential program, for the entire Kings Court English College House M R Riepe College House PE LIO New College House R AD ME for a weekly screening series and Media and Communications, Policy House, or even as part of a campus-wide initiative; for example, you can join co-hosting the post-screening and Politics, Music and Social *updated numbers for 2019-20 not available due to disruption caused by COVID-19 conversations with the Dean or Change, and First-Generation Rodin College House Ware College House your Housemates to compete in the College House Cup, or enter your own Stou er College House masterpieces in the Penn Student Film Festival. The College Houses are not House Fellows. But we make Identity. PC involvement is just an Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House sure even our newest students added bonus to living in a First- meant to be generic dorms, to feel like impersonal apartment buildings; they have some opportunities to hit year community! In Fisher we take SEM RA PER AD MELIO are vital, thriving communities, and to take full advantage of them you can’t the ground running when they pride in providing our residents a be passive. Your first step is to venture out to see what’s happening—we arrive, and in Penn’s First-Year place where they can feel at home guarantee you there’s a lot. Communities like Hill, where all the while interacting with a diverse students are in their first year, such group of peers. You only get your Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House immediate involvement is par for first year of college once, and the course. what better way to start than in a College House? — DR. CHRISTOPHER DONOVAN Gregory College House Dean — EBONISH LAMAR Fisher Hassenfeld House Dean

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SIGNATURE ACT II: THE COLLEGE HOUSE MUSIC IN THE FILM AND COLLEGE PROGRAMS SECOND YEAR RESEARCH HOUSES CINEMA HOUSE CUP PROGRAM In addition to the huge variety If you’re starting your second year The College House Music Program In addition to the Film Culture Residents of the College Houses is a joint initiative of the College residential program housed in can compete alongside their of events each individual College at Penn, it can sometimes feel like At Penn, undergraduates do Houses and the Department of Gregory College House, every housemates in events like football, House hosts every semester, the you’ve been left to drift on your research too! Each College House Music that provides partially year the College Houses host the soccer and volleyball, testing their Office of College Houses and own. Charting your own course as selects a College House Research subsidized private musical three-evening Penn Student Film skill and athleticism against teams Academic Services supervises a a sophomore can be exciting but Fellow who is given academic instruction to undergraduate Festival featuring short films by from other Houses. Additional quintet of programs that span the it can also come with a big dose and monetary support to pursue students while bringing professional student filmmakers from across events include intellectual entire College House system. These of anxiety. The College Houses an 18-month research project of performances, master classes, and the University and capped off competitions like Penn Quizzo “Signature Programs” are open are committed to making your their own design. Under the active other musical events of the highest with a gala screening of the and challenges of skill like last to students in every House, and second year incredible by linking mentorship of their House faculty, quality to the Penn community. top films. Penn students in the year’s Cake Wars, Super Mario participation is solicited during the you to the resources you need to the Research Fellows also present Combining the exceptional musical Cinema Studies Program as well tournament, and Escape Room school year, so you don’t have to keep yourself healthy, happy, and informal research events in their talents of its instructors with the as those from other disciplines Challenge. These contests at Penn make a commitment before you’ve connected. The University and Houses and present their findings convenience and community of are welcome to submit their work culminate in the year-end awarding had a chance to settle in. Whether CHAS offer a variety of exclusive at Penn’s Annual Undergraduate the College Houses, the program each year in any genre, and the of the coveted College House you’re more comfortable combing opt-in events and activities to help Research Conference during also sponsors College House Music winners are judged by a panel of Cup to the House that emerges the library to prepare for a research you achieve your goals, make a Quaker Days. presentation, practicing for the meaningful transition from a first- Fellows, undergraduates who cinema experts. The top three films victorious. flute concerto you’re planning to year to an upperclass student, undertake a musical project on win cash prizes and an audience share with the House community, provide opportunities to mentor behalf of their House community. favorite is awarded as well. This My name is Ivana Kohut and I am The Beginning wrapping up the final edits on first-years and get guidance from year’s top film, majoring in Medical Anthropology by Dennis Sungmin Kim, and At Stouffer College House, the your short film, or spiking the ball juniors, seniors and grad students and minoring in Chemistry and all the rest of the festival films College House Cup is taken over the net for the last point, the as you move toward your junior Hispanic Studies. My research seriously. We field teams for every Being a College House Music work today is an analysis of Cuban can be viewed online at www. intramural sport and face off College House Signature Programs year, and a chance to get special Fellow required a lot of time healthcare and culture, specifically collegehouses.upenn.edu/filmfest. against other College Houses for offer plenty of opportunities to class gear to celebrate your second and energy, especially since the ethics, use, and efficiency of intramural championships. Whether this semester was the busiest share your talents, creativity and year at Penn. the Maternal and Primary Care it’s ultimate frisbee, football, one during my time at Penn, flair with your friends, neighbors, systems delivered to women in volleyball, or any other sport, we but it has been worth it in so Cuba. leave it all on the field. Our team and the Penn community. many dimensions. It has been captains, who are just students The resources and people in the an opportunity to rekindle my that have shown interest in leading College Houses have definitely somewhat faded passion for teams for a specific sport, rally been helpful to me in my research. classical piano, as I found it the troops on game day and lead Thanks to the funding and support, difficult to find time for lessons the team on the pitch. Win or I have been able to travel to or chamber sessions while lose, there’s no better bonding Cuba twice to conduct research performing my military service. It experience than forming a team for several weeks at a time. If it has also been a new opportunity with your friends and competing were not for Penn I would not to play side-by-side with a violinist, for your House. Different sports have been able to visit Cuba. In which is something I had not draw different people, and many addition to the financial support, done before. The preparation, friendships are forged over the Penn has also given me a lot of marketing and logistics of course of the season. intellectual support and has truly creating the College House helped me learn how to not only performance is what especially Besides the school-wide IM league, devise successful projects but differentiated this concert from I make sure that we have plenty also how to analyze data, how to previous concert experiences of sports-related activities in the conduct ethical research in the and has instilled me with a new House as well, including Stouffer’s field, and how to tell stories in such perspective on performances. annual Super Bowl party, weekly a way that the telling gives justice boxing, and more. to the interviewees — SIMON OH, and their realities. W’17 EAS’17 — NICOLO MARZARO, C’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 Lauder 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 and air alumni. This pride is evidenced in the physical environment of the conditioning in student rooms in 2020. House, in the spirit of the residents, and in the generosity of alumni Gregory is a unique mix of the private and the social; all residents who still consider Du Bois their “home away from home.” THE FACTS have plenty of breathing space when they need it, but no community THE FACTS • Focus on African American Du Bois hosts an annual series of events highlighting current issues offers as many opportunities for students to hang out with their • International language scholarship and culture pertinent to the Black community and provides leadership with neighbors at regular social get-togethers. In the piano lounge of and film programs that • Strong connection to the West community service initiatives like the ASE program, through which Du Van Pelt Manor you will likely see students dining with a visiting offer academic credit Philadelphia community Bois undergraduates have mentored local sixth and seventh graders faculty member; like all events at Gregory, these are intimate, casual • Private bedroom space for • Private bedroom space for the past seventeen years. Our residents don’t stop serving the get-togethers, an entirely different experience than in a classroom. all residents; all suites have for all residents community once they graduate, either: through the Black Alumni Next door our state-of-the-art Cinema Lounge will be showing a their own bathroom Kings Court English College House Association (BAS), our alumni have made generous donations to the New College House classic film or contemporary blockbusterRiepe College House on its giant screen, with • Full social calendar and Kings Court English College House House, including an endowed scholarship that financially supports a staffNew College Housemember on hand for follow-up discussion.Riepe College House Meanwhile, over opportunities for all classes ROOM TYPES four students each year. in the Class of 1925 building, participants in our Modern Languages in the House to mix Mostly apartment style, with Du Bois College House offers every resident the opportunity to learn Program will be conversing animatedly in Spanish, French, German, efficiencies, 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom about cultures other than their own. We celebrate and recognize the or Mandarin in our spacious greenhouse or yoga studio, or in Spanish ROOM TYPES apartments with living room, while making plantains and arepas in the adjacent kitchen… and then 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 everyone will switch back to English try out their green thumb in the with microfridge units and private spirited, traditional spring Pow-Wow, and Makuu’s annual Kwanzaa Gregory greenhouse or take a break for free coffee, cereal night, or bathrooms HOUSE AMENITIES Celebration. Sunday Sips at the Darkroom Café. SEM RA PER A MELIO 4 floors, library, seminar These studentsD areSEM a mix of allRA years and backgrounds, and they 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 come together at weekly gatherings like Tuesday Bring Your multipurpose room, 2 lounges Own Mug and Sunday brunch, do some collective cooking for the 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 International Dinner or Progressive Dinner, cheer or boo at the Oscar 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 and Super Bowl parties, bond through adventure while hiking Valley with grand piano and television; weight training room, recreation Love, such as movie and theater outings, trips to restaurants and Forge or riding Kingda Ka at Six Flags, and never experience a night smart study spaces; billiards room Rodin College House Stou er College House Ware College House room, art gallery Rodin College House where they cannot find company. Ware College House with adjoining kitchen; extensive museums, and tickets to concerts and sporting events. Stou er 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

SEM RA PER AD MELIO

Kings Court English College House Rodin College House Ware College House New College House Riepe College House Stou er College House

LAUDER STOUFFER

lauder.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 Lauder House College House, Ware College House morning and feeling that carpeting under your feet as you head off to you get to answer these questions and more as you join a community the shower. On your way to the bathroom you check in with Dylan to in the first College House built on campus since 1972. find out about the study session tomorrow. Your new year in LCH 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 LCH. 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 fourth year, students You may even be learning about your new neighbors in 2XP, our first- year – funny how Stouffer College House is actually two buildings. The • Ten-time College House Cup are still shaping the House’s ever Program Community specifically for sophomores! Finally, on 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 Move-In Day, you enter your spacious suite and meet your suitemates, • Only College House with a vibe in this weird maze that is Stouffer-Stouff… as everyone calls it. • Faculty in residence offer taking special care to set up your single room just the way you want it. 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; Class of 2000 Parents Fisher Hassenfeld blends fun, learning and conversation in a relaxed lounges, and study rooms; Garden; Bluestone Courtyard; and friendly community. Join us in Fisher Hassenfeld, where we help outdoor terrace; fitness room pool table; multiple lounges to develop the talents and interests of our students!

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 program communities: STWing, cooked and catered comfort food dinners, study breaks, Sunday Biosphere, PIH, Huntsman and WICS. These communities have a brunches, pancake breakfasts, and outdoor picnics and barbecues. profound impact on the House identity, drawing some of Penn’s most Prof. Ralph Rosen and his wife Ellen host Sunday Espresso hours, diverse students. When not studying or engaging in extracurricular THE FACTS featuring home-roasted coffee, espresso and cappuccino. Dr. Amy THE FACTS activities, students can be found meeting and discussing with Penn • Adjoining low-rise buildings Stornaiuolo and her husband Vincenzo, a chef from Sicily, host regular • Offers a very popular medical faculty in the dining hall, gardening and planting flowers outside, with a garden courtyard pasta dinners and occasional cooking lessons. Dr. Marilynne Diggs- school information series and green roof participating in cultural performances in our common spaces, and Thompson, House Dean and Anthropology lecturer, and her staff are • Famous for incredible perhaps most importantly, taking part in their very first family at the • Bright, attractive famous for hosting weekly comfort food study breaks, picnics and home-cooked meals, in-House dining room University. Kings Court English College House is a safe “playground” full seasonal theme dinners. picnics, barbecues of possibilities for fun, friendship, peer learning, and leadership skills. It • High-tech Media Room Riepe residents also participate in many off-campus events. Last • Surrounds the peaceful Baby also constitutes a laboratory that fosters debate, knowledge integration, provides common space with year’s line-up included tickets to the opening night concert of the Quad and the Oval Garden multimedia capabilities and intellectual 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 Program Community, Arts House Program Community and Eco-House: startup, the friend you’ll name your child after, or the first person to Environmental Program Community, we feature a wealth of artistic break your heart. and inviting endeavors and a House calendar filled with engaging activities. WARE — You’ll have some of the most fun you’ve ever had. Whether its hanging out in a friend’s room, shooting pool in MoBo, or hanging a Our Rooftop Lounge (RTL) is a premier space on campus where we THE FACTS hammock on the lower quad, you’ve found a great place to relax and host our House traditions, such as weekly Probasco Family Dinners, THE FACTS • The most residential programs as well as our annual Sapphire Ball and Casino Night. The RTL is also • Facilities support every kind enjoy your new life. And you’ll find no shortage of organized activities SE A geared toward women home to resident-led programming, such as yoga, fitness bootcamps, MP IOR as well, from our weekly Dinner With Interesting People to Ware Night- of activity (dance gallery,ER AnineD M EL and study breaks. On our mezzanine, you will find the Café du Soleil, pianos, theater space, lounges) • The only College House with Ins to Sunday Night Sundaes. And you’ll have plenty of chances to step and the Library and Computer Lab, both located on the first floor, offer a mascot: the Warewolf beyond the gates too, with trips to shows, museums, theme parks, • Café du Soleil provides the options of cozy study nooks with quick access to computers and coffee and more in-House, • Home of McClelland Café ballgames, and more. tech assistance. A versatile basement called the “Dungeon” serves as giving you all the creature comforts at home WARE — You’ll learn how to live on your own. College House life is a small gallery and recreation room, while also housing two practice ROOM TYPES rooms – one of which boasts a recently reconditioned Steinway piano. • Home to dynamic program a new experience for you and just about everyone around you. If Rodin College House Ware College House You can find eight more pianos throughout the House, along with a Stou ercommunities, College House some of the Traditional hall style, with singles, something is confusing you or even scaring you, we guarantee there’s dance gallery and an a capella practice room. 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 for help and support. You also might make some big, big mistakes. But, Beyond the building, our home is defined by its people. Intelligence, ROOM TYPES HOUSE AMENITIES hey, mistakes are how we learn. We have rules here, and you might integrity, and initiative are the hallmarks of not only our residents, but also RAs, GAs, and Managers. Their dedication and kindness set the Mostly apartment style, with 5 floors; library; computer lab; break one or two. We only ask that you take responsibility for your tone for our caring community. Our Intramural team, the Harnwell 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 Bowties, exemplifies House spirit – Bowties have more fun! With a maturity and a desire to grow. We don’t bite. Honest. bath, and most with kitchen or Tower Lounge with kitchen; dynamic Senior Staff at the helm, unique opportunities to interact with kitchenette Friedman Fitness Center; elevator WARE — You’ll learn about yourself. From little things like “what’s my residents abound – such as providing research guidance, extending favorite hoagie at Wawa” to big questions of sexuality, politics, identity, invitations to dine in faculty apartments, and surprising residents with and how you relate to the world around you, you’ve begun a journey pop-up events. HOUSE AMENITIES that will change your understanding of who you are and what you’re What does it mean to live well at Harnwell? It means becoming part of Rooftop Lounge with kitchen; doing on this planet. If you walk out of Ware the same person you were a House that’s a home, where you can grow and contribute holistically Class of 1921 Lounge on the when you walked in, well... one of us is doing something wrong. as you pursue your intellectual endeavors at Penn. Live well. Live well Mezzanine (with café, and large screen TV); lounges on every at Harnwell. 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

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HARRISON RODIN

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“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 Collegethe 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 program communities • Café Prima, the best • Annual Program Community 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 Rodin Leadership 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 Technology, 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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through the maintenance of clear organizations wishing to host COLLEGE HOUSE boundaries for appropriate and COLLEGE HOUSE conferences or special events safe behavior. These boundaries are should consult with College Houses COMMUNITY important because they encourage POLICES AND & Academic Services. STANDARDS predictable environments and SERVICES FOR ensure that individual behavior CAMPUS RESIDENTIAL EVENT PHILOSOPHY ON does not interfere with the legitimate rights of other members ACCESSIBILITY AND STUDENT BEHAVIOR IN of the community. Students can ACCOMMODATION COLLEGE HOUSES The following policies are gain personal insight and learn the general College House POLICY responsibilities of citizenship by Residential communities are guidelines and a point of The University of Pennsylvania being held accountable for their an integral component of the reference for using space or seeks to ensure that students own behaviors. educational mission of the engaging with the House and guests with disabilities have University of Pennsylvania. College communities. All University of Pennsylvania appropriate access to events Houses provide an opportunity students and guests are expected hosted in the College Houses, for Penn students, faculty and to adhere to the College House CHALKING POLICY regardless of sponsor. College staff to live and learn together as Policies and Terms of Occupancy, Residents and student groups are Houses are committed to this goal a community of scholars. It is the as well as all University rules and permitted to advertise via chalk art and are available to work with any responsibility of each member Lauder: 11 regulations that students and on flat horizontal surfaces at the program event sponsor or student. POSTING AND • of the community to observe Riepe: 24 guests are charged to know and entrances to the College Houses FLYERING POLICY • standards of conduct that permit College Houses working with the Rodin: 27 observe. No system of standards (sidewalks, steps, patios, etc.) with • other residents to live in and Weingarten Learning Resource This policy covers posting within Stouffer: 13 can fully address in specific the following restrictions: • maintain a safe, secure environment Center employ a variety of ways to the Penn College Houses. Posting fashion all possible situations that • Ware: 25 that is conducive to academic and provide accessibility to residence elsewhere in the University is arise. When these standards do • All chalking must occur in personal success. hall events. Some methods of covered by the University Poster Option #2 not address specific behavior, uncovered locations only so accommodation include provision Policy. Posting on floors or in Bring 235 posters to the CHAS students are expected to conduct rain can serve as a cleaning College Houses are actively of technology, personal assistance, lobbies requires the approval of Central Office in Stouffer Commons themselves with a spirit of social agent. engaged in the process of or, where programs or activities each House Office. Postings and for dissemination to all House responsibility and respect for • All vertical surfaces are off encouraging the development of initially are scheduled in physically notices in these areas are reserved Offices. The front desk will pass on the rights and needs of others. limits for chalk art (including responsible citizens and healthy inaccessible locations, by relocation. for the College House, CHAS, the items. Behavior that violates the spirit of such spaces as upright walls, communities. Responsible When scheduling an event, please Residential Services and Facilities. College House Policies and Terms brick exteriors, or University Option #3 membership in a community contact the specific College House Any exceptions to this may only be of Occupancy may be addressed, signage.) Open posting by students and – citizenship – requires that all office to ensure that the space you granted by College House staff. as appropriate to the context and groups is available only in certain members of the community learn are using will meet the needs of circumstances of the behavior. locations and on designated public to express their individuality as CONFERENCE those needing accommodation. If interested in posting on floors well as to understand and consider HOSTING POLICY or in lobbies, you have three boards: A complete listing of College House the impact that expression has Individuals seeking options: Policies and Terms of Occupancy Due to the academic and personal • Du Bois: Upper lobby bulletin on others. A positive sense of accommodations in order to appears in a variety of printed and needs of residential students, Option #1 board community develops only when participate in a College House web-based materials produced College Houses only permits Bring the following number of • Kings Court English: Boards individuals assume responsibility event, or who have questions about by College Houses & Academic overnight guest hosting for events flyers or posters to the appropriate facing mailboxes on first to work towards the successful the accessibility of a College House Services and the Department sponsored through University House Office for posting by staff: floor; board near bike rack; participation of all members. event, should contact the College of Residential Services. These of Pennsylvania offices. As an boards on ground floors Essential to this process is each House where the event is scheduled materials include but are not limited example, the Office of Admissions • Du Bois: 5 facing elevators resident’s responsibility to openly or the sponsor of the event. They to the College House Resource may host prospective students • Fisher Hassenfeld: 24 • High Rises (Harnwell, communicate with other members are encouraged to provide as much Guide, Residential Handbook, web- overnight in April each year and • Gregory: 12 Harrison, and Rodin): of the community. advance notice as possible so that based materials and the Penn Book. athletic recruiting overnights • Harrison: 24 Residential floors including there is sufficient time to provide • Harnwell: 27 College House staff provides A summary of existing regulations throughout the year. These roof top lounge on the accommodation or to relocate an • Hill: 24 support through relationships that appears in this section. New or events may extend over a two designated side of the event. • Kings Court English: 16 focus on care and concern and modified rules will be publicized as to three-day period. Other elevator bays warranted. University departments or student

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• Lauder: Dining Center RESERVING COLLEGE or apartments are considered part bulletin 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 • Leafleting under doors and Outdoor Spaces for living on campus in Penn’s University 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 • Hall Sports and copies of a poster may be lawns, walkways and green spaces those published in other University, Roughhousing placed on an open board and that surround and/or are adjacent College House and Residential • Noise should be promptly removed to the College Houses where Services communications and • Posting and Flyers when information is outdated residents may expect a reasonable websites. • Privacy • Posters should not exceed amount of noise control, requires • Solicitation and Use of The Residential Handbook provides the size of 11 x 17 inches permission of the central College Space for Business the policies, rules and regulations • Posters may not be placed on House office (CHAS). • Vandalism required for living safely and top of existing posters ** Unauthorized posters may, To seek permission to stage productively in a Penn residential Substances: • Posters must clearly identify LAUNDRY POLICY at the discretion of residential outdoor events in these spaces, community. These policies are • Alcohol Related Behavior the organization or event • Laundry rooms are for staff, be removed. In all cases, the contact the CHAS Space designed to ensure a pleasant, safe, • Drugs sponsor resident use only; keep above policy will be implemented Reservation Committee at and equitable residential living • Smoking and Tobacco • Posting is not allowed in entrance door closed at all within the framework and spirit 215.898.3131 and ask for Lisa Harris experience. stairwells and elevators times. Non-residents found of the Code of Student Conduct, ([email protected]). You can also • Do not attach to walls in any using House laundry rooms In the list of residential policies, Safety and Security: which defines the general rights see a map of available green spaces way that causes damage to could be fined up to $250 spaces are defined as follows: • Access to Residences and responsibilities of student at www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/ the paint or surface or be banned from the • Endangering Behavior citizenship in the Penn community, greenspace. Fire and Emergency Safety and where appropriate, the Charter House for the duration of the College Houses • * Think before you post. College Guests and Visitors of the University of Pennsylvania academic year. *Note: Contact the appropriate Any university owned and operated • Houses defend the right of free PennCard Student Disciplinary System, • While on the Penn Network, House Office to reserve outdoor residential facility defined as a • speech and expression on campus which sets forth the processes for residents can monitor their spaces directly attached to a House College House. and actively promotes the civil Prohibited Items: disciplinary action against students laundry’s progress either like the courtyard in the lower exchange of ideas. In the spirit of • Firearms, Weapons, and and organizations. Pursuant to in person or online at Quad, Stouffer patio, lifted-lawn at the latter aim, students are urged to Common Areas Volatile Substances the Code of Student Conduct laundryalert.com. Remove Lauder, or Mayer backyard. reconsider creating and distributing Any area in a College House • Appliances and Equipment (Sec. III.d), “the content of student all clothes from washers posters or flyers containing outside of a student room, suite • Candles, Open Flames, and speech or expression is not by itself and dryers as soon as they material or language that could or apartment such as: community Flammable Items a basis for disciplinary action,” and are finished. Clothing left in be construed as malicious toward machines may be removed bathrooms, kitchens, lounges, study no posters shall be prohibited or Facility Related: or dangerous to other responsible by residents or staff. The areas, program specific areas, restricted solely on the basis of • Common Areas and Usage members of the University House is not responsible for hallways, stair towers and elevators. their content, except when they • Electrical Circuit Overload community. these items. may violate other applicable laws or • Fixtures and Locks • Clothing left for an regulations. Student Room • Residential Duty Officer unreasonable length of time Includes bedroom and living (RDO) Rooms (10 days or more) may be areas within a room or suite or • Resident Room Access confiscated by the House and apartment. Kitchen, bathrooms and Responsibility donated to charity. living rooms associated with suites

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• Room Cleanliness and duties (including House Deans Noise and Consideration who violate an individual’s privacy and federal laws regarding use of smoking devices (e-cigarettes, Upkeep and Faculty, RA, GA, desk staff, of Others by entering their room without alcohol and other drugs. e-cigars, e-pipes) and hookah- • Unauthorized Access to custodial or Facilities staff or permission or invade their privacy smoked products. All on-campus residences adhere to The consumption of alcohol in Spaces Residential Services staff). within bathroom facilities will 24-hour Courtesy Hours. Courtesy building common areas is also • Unauthorized Movement of Hours serve as a reminder to all face disciplinary action that may Residents are expected to provide strictly prohibited without prior Furniture residents of the primary rights to result in their removal from their SAFETY AND SECURITY honest and accurate information approval from the House Dean or • Window Stops sleep and study within residential residence. POLICIES in their interactions with University Sansom Manager. communities. Residents are Animals in Residence: staff members. Access to Residences expected to exercise courtesy when Solicitation and Use of Space • Emotional Support/Service The security of our communities playing music or participating in for Business Drugs Animal All residents are expected to show is central to the comfort and Disruptive Behavior other activity that may disrupt other Residents, visitors, guests, and • Pets support for community members academic success of our residents. No resident should engage in residents and/or interfere with the campus organizations may not behavior that interferes with or by addressing concerns that may Security, however, is a shared Policies in the Residential attempts of others to study. conduct or solicit commercial compromises the personal safety arise from substance use/abuse. responsibility. Residents must play Handbook have been designed business in the residential buildings. or well-being of another. Behavior Quiet hours are in effect at the College Houses and Residential their part by observing security to address concerns specific Solicitation is defined as any unsuitable for residential living, following times: 11:00 p.m until 9:00 Services support and expect procedures and practices, in to residing in a College House. activity designed to advertise, including, but not limited to, any a.m. on weekdays (Sundays through adherence to established University consideration of their neighbors The College House system and promote or sell any product or practice that limits residents’ rights Thursday) and 1:00 a.m. until 9:00 policies, as well as state and federal and classmates and in order to Residential Services adhere to and/ commercial service or encourage of equal use and access to room/ a.m. on weekends (Friday and laws regarding use of other drugs minimize personal harm or loss. or refer when necessary to the support for or membership Saturday). Quiet hours are in effect and narcotics. Abuse of security staff, vandalism suite/hall facilities, is not permitted. in any group, association or following University policies: at all times during reading days and of security equipment, and misuse Residents should also not engage organization and includes door- • Alcohol and Drug – includes finals. of exterior building doors and locks in conduct that is disorderly and/or to-door canvassing. This includes Smoking and Tobacco Medical Amnesty will not be tolerated and will result negatively impacts community and leafleting under room doors and All smoking and tobacco use • Code of Student Conduct in disciplinary action. academic success. Posting and Flyers similar unapproved marketing (including the use of smokeless • Code of Academic Integrity All notices and signs posted in efforts. Soliciting/selling includes tobacco) is prohibited in all • Discrimination Email Communication College Houses and Sansom Place conducting a business in a University buildings and facilities, Endangering Behavior • Fire Safety and Emergency Email is one of the main must clearly state the name of the University residence such as baby- including but not limited to any Any action of a Penn student, Services methods used by College Houses responsible organization and be sitting, beer distribution or selling meeting rooms, community areas, resident or guest that may lead to • Hazing and Residential Services to posted only on designated bulletin such items as food, raffle tickets, performance venues and private physical harm to oneself or others • Information Systems & communicate with residents. boards. No such notices should be magazines, candy bars, etc. residential space within University is considered endangering behavior Computing (ISC) Residents are expected to check placed on interior or exterior doors, of Pennsylvania housing. Finally, and will typically result in removal • Sexual Violence, Relationship their Penn email of record on windows, or elevators. Flyers may smoking and the use of tobacco from housing, disciplinary action Violence and Stalking Vandalism a frequent basis and, when not be placed under student room products is prohibited on any (including cost of repair and/or • Sexual Harassment Residents, visitors, and guests are prompted, respond to University doors. Any student or organization University of Pennsylvania property, cleaning) and/or criminal charges. Tobacco-Free Campus responsible for all costs related to • found in violation of these policies including but not limited to outdoor This includes the careless use of officials by email in the timeframe intentional or negligent damage https://www.hr.upenn.edu/ may face fines and disciplinary spaces within any College House, appliances or materials, tampering established by that official. A daily of University property within policies-and-procedures/ action. Additional posting policies as well as parking lots, paths, with internet hard wired or wireless email check is recommended. residential buildings. policy-manual/other- and information are posted on each fields, sports/recreational areas, devices, and installation of partitions policies/tobacco-free- College House website and the and stadiums. Where University of or lofts. Throwing any object from Hall Sports and campus Sansom Place website. Pennsylvania buildings are adjacent windows, roofs, ledges, etc. is Roughhousing SUBSTANCES POLICIES to public sidewalks or streets, dangerous and also prohibited. Indoor sports or recreational Alcohol Related Behavior smoking and the use of tobacco CONDUCT POLICIES activities that may cause damage to Privacy All residents are expected to show In situations when an individual or All residents are encouraged to products is prohibited on those property or disruption or injury to support for community members group poses an immediate threat Compliance with communicate clearly their needs public sidewalks and streets within others are not permitted. Activities by addressing concerns that may to the health, safety or property of University Staff regarding privacy matters with twenty (20) feet of the entrance to include (but are not limited to) arise from substance use/abuse. others or of oneself the individual All Penn students and their roommates and floor mates. All the building. tossing, bouncing or kicking of balls College Houses and Residential or group may be relocated or guests are expected to adhere to residents should respect personal or objects, and the use of water Services supports and expects The tobacco policy covers all removed from housing prior to requests made by any University privacy within their student rooms guns or water balloons. adherence to the University Alcohol smoking methods, including but a hearing to address the specific staff member performing his/her and bathroom facilities. Students and Drug Policy, as well as state not limited to the use of electronic behaviors.

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Fire and Emergency Safety or visitors and will face those Dining facilities. • Stun guns and tasers • Extension cords, outlet • Strobe lights Residents are expected to comply disciplinary action if their guest • At no time may guests or • Explosives of any kind, adapters, and splitters. Note • Smoke/fog machines and familiarize themselves with or visitor violates College visitors sleep in a common area including fireworks and that surge protectors are • Music amplifiers the Fire and Emergency Safety House, Residential Services, within a College House. sparklers allowed and encouraged, • Any item used for door procedures of the University. or University policies. Hosts • Hazardous substances but they should never be propping (wedges, etc.) (including but not limited to: overloaded, nor used in tandem Compliance includes properly should familiarize their guests PennCard gasoline and other flammable- Halogen Bulbs These items are prohibited in all evacuating, following the or visitors with community Residents are required to carry • combustible liquids, solvents, Air Conditioners except where non-kitchen units: instructions of emergency expectations. Visitors are also their University of Pennsylvania • personnel, and not damaging, responsible for their actions degreasers, lab chemicals, provided by Residential ID Cards (PennCard) at all times • Toasters tampering with, or blocking fire and are subject to disciplinary mercury, acids, and alkaline Services per University policy. PennCards • Toaster Ovens safety equipment or signs. Banners, action. materials, etc.) • All large appliances (including are used to access College Houses • Instant Cookers (like • Guests and visitors are allowed • Other dangerous materials but not limited to: non- flags, nets, holiday lighting, and also serve as electronic key Instant pots) cable wire, and hangers cannot to visit in a student room, suite, (such as automobile batteries) University stoves, washer access to assigned rooms. A • Countertop Grills such as panini or apartment for a period not or other potentially lethal and dryers, dish washers, be installed in such a way as to PennCard should not be transferred makers, George Foreman grills, to exceed three days and two devices that explore or refrigerators over 4.1 cubic feet, interfere with the operation of any to anyone other than the owner. sandwich makers fire safety equipment (i.e. sprinkler nights during a two-week deflagrate and can propel etc.) Residents should be aware of the • Electric Skillets and Kettles heads or smoke detectors). No period. projectiles weapons • Space Heaters except in whereabouts of their PennCard • Hot Plates items may be installed on or • Visitors are unable to sign into • Any weapon not listed situations where they’ve been at all times. A PennCard used by • Waffle Irons suspended from the ceilings residential buildings between installed by Facilities Staff anyone other than the owner will It is also a violation of this policy to • Popcorn Poppers nor should non-flame-resistant the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 8 • Power tools such as saws, dills, be confiscated. use an item with a lawful purpose • Convection Ovens, Deep Air decorations be hung on room/suite a.m. Hosts will need to sign drill presses, and jack hammers (i.e. scissors, baseball bat) in an act Fryers and Oil Fryers doors or hallway bulletin boards. in all visitors during this time Confiscated PennCards may (unless used by Facilities staff) or threat of violence. • Any items with an exposed period. be picked up at the PennCard • Hoverboards, electronic Additionally, residents should not heat producing source or • A guest or visitor may not Center, located in the University scooters and skateboards place furniture or items in any halls, Prohibited Items – element (i.e. immersion coil) occupy a student’s room when of Pennsylvania Bookstore, during • Water filled devices like pools fire exits, or otherwise block any Appliances and Equipment All appliances must have a the student is not present and business hours of 8:30am to of any size, hot tubs, or water other means of egress. Residents Possession, storage, and/or use of manufacturer’s label that shows a resident may not supply a 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. beds who fail to comply with any of the items below are prohibited in all the electrical ratings and listing room key to gain access to the Lost Penn Cards must be promptly • Surveillance cameras and the above are subject to fines and rooms/apartments: by a nationally recognized testing room or their PennCard to gain reported to the PennCard Center equipment disciplinary action. laboratory (e.g., ETL, UL, etc.). access to the building. as well. For more information and • Lava lamps • Guests must sign-in with policies on PennCards, please visit Guests and Visitors a photo ID and must be the PennCard website. Guests are defined as individuals accompanied by a host at all who are not currently enrolled times. This host must carry University of Pennsylvania students. Prohibited Items – a valid PennCard and guests Visitors are defined as currently Firearms, Weapons, and must keep their ID with them at enrolled University of Pennsylvania Hazardous Materials all times. students who are not assigned to Possession, storage, and/or use of • Each visitor must present his the room, suite, or apartment that the items below are prohibited in all or her own valid PennCard. they are visiting. rooms/apartments: Visitors may not sign in other • Hosts must check with their visitors or guests at any time. • Firearms (including but not roommates, suitemates, or • Visitors may sign-in guests in limited to: air rifles, air soft apartment mates for approval Hill College House, Kings Court guns, paint ball guns, pellet before inviting a guest or English College House, and guns, pistols, ammunition, visitor to the room. If the other Lauder College House for the gunpowder, etc.) occupants of the space do not purpose of dining together in • Dangerous Weapons (including approve, the guest or visitor the Penn Dining Halls of those but limited to: clubs, knives cannot stay in the room. buildings. Visitors cannot sign not intended for kitchen use, • Hosts are responsible for in guests to those buildings swords, martial arts weapons, the actions of their guests outside of the open hours of bows & arrows, etc.)

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Prohibited Items – • Common area furniture and as a means to further protect potentially put any roommates or legal responsibility for any student, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, Open Flame and equipment must remain in in electrical equipment. neighbors with chemical allergies guest, visitor, or property as a result or other mental disability. Service Flammable Items the common room. at risk. of such actions. animals may accompany its owner Possession, storage, and/or use • All individuals who use anywhere in the residence halls. Fixtures and Locks Residents are also expected to of candles, incense, incendiary common areas are expected to Residents are encouraged to keep return their rooms to a broom Unauthorized Movement An ESA provides comfort to an devices, and fire producing items keep these spaces reasonably their exterior room or apartment swept and reasonably clean of Furniture individual with a disability upon the (including but not limited to: clean and orderly for doors locked at all times. Residents condition similar to the state at Residents are required to keep recommendation of a healthcare fuel burning stoves, fuel burning community use. are not allowed to damage, hinder check-in when they move out, all assigned room furniture within or mental health professional. An lamps, heaters, grills, torches, Out of consideration for all the proper use of, or make changes including disposing of all trash and their rooms for their period of emotional support animal does charcoal, lighter fluid, and propane residents, any individual using to any locks or fixtures associated non-university furniture from their occupancy. Missing furniture or not assist a person with a disability cylinders) are prohibited. Residents common areas such as kitchens, with their rooms or apartment. spaces. furniture found in the hallway, a with activities of daily living but are allowed, however, to possess lounges or recreational space is Residents cannot add fixtures or lounge, a common space, or any rather its role is to live with a matches and small cigarette Residents who fail to properly expected to return the space to locks to any doors, walls, or other other space other than its original student and alleviate the symptoms lighters. maintain, clean, or clear their the condition in which it was found. surfaces within their apartment. room or apartment will result in of an individual’s disability to apartments or rooms will be subject fines and potential disciplinary Holiday decorations, such as cut This includes cleaning up after provide equal opportunities to use to disciplinary action, including proceedings. Furniture removed trees, wreaths and other live preparing and serving food, putting Residential Duty Officer and enjoy residential life at the fines and cleaning costs. from halls, even by the University, decorations are also not permitted. away food items by storing them (RDO) Rooms University. ESAs must remain in the will be treated as “missing” for Visit here for more information: securely in pest-proof containers, RDO rooms are set aside for short Residents will be assessed fines owners assigned room at all times. the purposes of post-move-out https://www.publicsafety.upenn. returning furniture to its proper term emergency situations; an for any damage that occurs in charges. Student room furniture Important rules and responsibilities edu/files/Guideline-8._Holiday- location and set up, and properly average stay is 2-4 days. Residents their rooms during the school year, cannot be “stored” elsewhere or on owner care and handling: Tree-and-Decorations.pdf disposing of trash. Residents should are required to follow instructions including any damage done to walls otherwise placed into lounges. also not dispose of room and food regarding move-in and move-out of in the hanging of decorations within • The ESA should reside in Furniture placed in lounges is Special exception requests to waste in common bathrooms. these spaces. Residents should also their spaces. All roommates are your bedroom and not any subject to being removed by the use candles for religious or Residents should not leave not expect a permanent relocation held responsible for the condition space shared with another University and will be treated as ritual observance should be unattended items in public spaces. into an RDO room. of all of the space within their resident (such as the bathroom “missing” for the purpose of post- referred to the House Dean or Unattended items left in these rooms or apartments. or kitchen) or outside the Resident Room Access move-out charges. Sansom Manager. Visit here spaces are subject to disposal by residence hall. The ESA is not Responsibility for more information: https:// the University. permitted in common spaces in Residents are responsible for their Unauthorized www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/ Window Stops your building (such as lounges), Although they are University own PennCards and, when issued, Access to Spaces files/2014/07/Guideline_10._ Residents may not tamper with other residences, dining halls, buildings, the College Houses and their brass keys. They should not Any resident, visitor or guest Religious-Candle-lighting-in- window stops where they exist. academic buildings, or any Sansom Place residences and their share keys or PennCards with found within unauthorized areas college-houses.pdf other space outside of your common spaces, amenities, etc. another individual or duplicate (student rooms in which they room, with the exception of are first and foremost intended for their keys for any purpose. are not either a resident or an ANIMALS IN RESIDENCE when being taken for a walk the use by on-campus residents. Residents should be aware of accompanied and welcomed guest, FACILITY RELATED or transported off campus, as This includes on-campus residential the whereabouts of their keys (if mechanical rooms, housekeeping POLICIES Emotional Support/Service noted below. laundry facilities, which are to applicable) and PennCards at all closets, steam tunnels, etc.), found Animals • If your roommates cannot or be used solely by on-campus times. using emergency exits for any Common Areas and Usage When and after approval by the do not wish to have an animal residents. reason other than an emergency, Office of Student Disability Services The use of residential common Room Cleanliness or found on any roof, portico or in their residence, the Housing and in order to provide reasonable areas is restricted to the residential and Upkeep any other architectural feature Assignments Office will work Electrical Circuit Overload accommodations and in compliance community occupants, their guests/ As responsible members of a larger not designed for recreational or with individuals to relocate Residents found to be consistently with federal law, students may have visitors, and University affiliated community, residents are expected functional use will be subject to the ESA owner or a roommate overloading circuitry (tripping one Service or Emotional Support groups and organizations that have to maintain reasonable standards fines, assessment for any damages or roommates and place breakers) through use of appliances Animal (ESA) in the residences. reserved the space. of cleanliness and order within their caused and disciplinary action. whomever is relocated to a or other electrical equipment similar residence. • Students, Guests, and Visitors rooms as a means to discourage Residents, visitors, and guests are A Service Animal is individually will be required to reduce their • If the ESA is in the room when may not sleep overnight in pests. Over the counter pesticides not permitted to place any items trained to do work or perform tasks electrical usage. Residents are also you are not in your room, the common areas. do not solve pest issues. They only in any unauthorized area. The for the benefit of an individual with encouraged to use surge protectors ESA must remain in its crate/ move the pests elsewhere and University assumes no financial or a disability, including a physical, fishbowl/cage/or similar

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product to allow for safe be required to remove the ESA is learned that you have left the entry of University personnel from the residence. animal unattended in violation who may need to enter your • Your ESA must be house of the above paragraph, the apartment for maintenance or trained, which includes litter ESA will be removed from safety purposes. box training and/or trained the building and boarded • The ESA must comply with all to relieve itself outside. Any elsewhere at the ESA owner’s applicable laws, as well as all accidents must be cleaned expense. PA licensure and vaccination immediately using appropriate • You are responsible for all requirements. A current license cleaning products. Litter boxes, damages or injuries to either and vaccination record for crates, kennels, and any other property or person(s) resulting your ESA will be required prior device in which the animal is from your ESA. Damages to moving into the residence kept must be cleaned daily. in your room or residence with ESA. This information Waste must be bagged in hall resulting from an ESA must remain current during plastic bags and securely tied. may result in charges to your the period of this approval and Waste must be disposed of in account. be presented to the Housing outdoor trash receptacles or • If you decide you no longer Assignments Office. trash chutes when available in will have the ESA in residence • The ESA is not to leave the the residence (or as directed you must notify the Housing Pets Students can expect fairness residence except with you for, by a building administrator). Assignments Office who will Pets are not permitted in RESIDENTIAL and due process from staff in as applicable, walks, visits to Litter of any type may not be also notify the Office of Student residences, except for fish of a size addressing alleged violations. the veterinarian, etc. While on disposed of anywhere in your Disability Services. that can be appropriately kept in CONDUCT They can also expect to be active University property, the ESA residence, such as in a trash • If you wish to replace the an aquarium not larger than 20 PROCESS participants in the process of must be under your control at can, or in toilets or drains. ESA with a different animal, gallons. All roommates must agree addressing their alleged behavior. all times, whether in your room • You may not leave your animal (such as replacing a cat with upon the presence of an aquarium. The Offices of College Houses & Failure to comply with a sanction in the residence or outside. in the residence if you leave a dog) you must reapply Other pets are not permitted for Academic Services and Residential will be considered as a further When transporting the ESA the residence for 24 hours or through the Office of Student several reasons: they pose potential Services support and expect violation of standards and may outside, you must use a leash more. For example, the ESA Disability Services for a new health problems; they can cause adherence to the University of result in additional, extended or or carrier. may not remain in residence accommodation. destruction of University property; Pennsylvania Code of Student more severe sanctions. • If the ESA leaves the residential if you leave your room for an and they can be disruptive to other Conduct and to all local, state and Individuals other than the owner Violations of standards or other facility and is not in a crate, extended period, such as: (1) for residents. “Visiting” pets are not federal law, as well as, regulations should never touch or handle an misconduct should be reported to kennel, or any other device in longer than a day of classes, (2) permitted. Violations of the policy related to residential living. A House animal unless invited to do so. the College House or Sansom Place which the animal is kept, the a trip which will last overnight will carry the following potential Dean or Sansom Place Manager Individuals other than the owner staff for investigation and follow- ESA must wear a collar, which or longer, and (3) during sanctions: will most likely address possible should not feed the animal, startle up. The authority to investigate must include your contact break periods. The ESA has residential policy violations or other the animal, attempt to separate the • Residents will have 48 hours and to respond to violations is information, at all times. been approved to live in the behavior harmful to individuals or animal from the owner, or inquire from first being contacted delegated to College House and • The ESA must not pose a residence with you. As a result, the community. Addressing these for details about the owner’s by a University official to Residential Services staff. In all threat or disruption of any ESA sitting is not permitted. possible violations may include disability or reason for having permanently relocate the cases an attempt will be made kind to roommates or others You cannot leave your ESA an informal conversation, a more a Service or Emotional Support animal to an off-campus to resolve a dispute or alleged in the residence or the Penn with other students in the formal administrative hearing, Animal. violation by reaching voluntary community. If the ESA poses residence or have anyone else location. or referral to a House Discipline agreement. Repeated misconduct, a threat, injury or disruption come to your room with the College Houses & Academic • Residents will incur a $50 per Committee. E-mail should be used serious offenses and offenses by of any kind, (1) the ESA may intent to take care of the ESA. Services and Residential Services day fine each day beyond the only for logistical purposes and non-residents may be referred to be removed from the building If you are not able to bring the reserve the right to exclude or first 48 hours. should not be used as a substitute the Executive Director, Directors (either permanently or ESA with you, you are expected remove any animal that poses for meeting and discussing an of College Houses, Director of temporarily) and/or boarded to find an off-campus location • Repeat offenses will result in a direct threat to the health or alleged violation with a staff Residential Services, or to the elsewhere at the ESA’s to provide care for the ESA the immediate and permanent safety of others or creates an member. Any of these means of Office of Student Conduct. In owner’s expense and/or (2) while you are away. loss of housing privileges and unreasonable and unmanageable addressing a violation may result addition, criminal activity in the the Office of Student Disability • If an ESA is found unattended the forfeiture of any potential disturbance to the community. in application of sanctions to be College Houses and Sansom Place Services may revoke the in a residence (except during rent refund due under the completed by residents. is subject to criminal prosecution. accommodation and you may your time in classes, etc.) or it normal rent refund policy.

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CONDUCT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I’M DOCUMENTED? SANCTIONS Fines Referral to the Office of Fines will be imposed for some Student Conduct (OSC). PROCESS OUTLINE The following sanctions are violations as deemed appropriate The College House conduct system See chart to right normally issued separately or based upon circumstance. is designed to be internal to the in combination for violations; • Staff person becomes aware Behavior is House system. When situations sanctions are accumulative and of a possible violation of Documented Restriction of Privileges advance in severity, a House may apply to a student’s length of stay standards. Some situations may warrant a refer a case to OSC. Cases opened in College Houses: • Student is notified via email restriction of privileges, such as by OSC may result in serious that they are potentially in guest privileges or restriction from outcomes attached to a student’s violation of a standard and a Informal Warning entering a specific College House. permanent record at Penn. OSC meeting is requested. This is a low level, introductory may also remove a student from House Dean Referral to a University • Meeting is held to hear the sanction for use in first violations housing. student’s perspective and to Reviews and/or policy education. Resource Office ascertain responsibility. Report Students who need additional • Student is notified via Residential Warning professional assistance may NOTE: In situations when an email of determination of This sanction is typically imposed be referred to any number of individual or group poses an responsibility and sanction, if for minor violations. A warning University offices or resources. immediate threat to the health, appropriate. basically puts a student on notice safety or property of others or Parental Notification Follow-up I Meet with and provides an opportunity to oneself the individual or group may address and/or change behavior in Some situations warrant a call to be 1.) relocated on an interim or RIGHTS AND Email House Dean a parent or guardian to discuss OBLIGATIONS future situations. Repeat behavior permanent basis; 2.) restricted from could then result in additional and a student’s behavior and the College Houses; or 3.) removed A student against whom an retroactive sanctions. impact of that behavior upon other from University housing prior to allegation of violation is made has residents. a hearing to address the specific the following rights and obligations: Educational Sanctions behaviors. The decision to remove Residential Probation Educational sanctions are used or relocate rests with the Executive • The right to be notified within Based on This sanction is typically imposed for students in situations where Director of College Houses or in his/ a reasonable time of the Severity, for more serious violations of I am not I am they would benefit from further her absence one of the Directors complaints against them. standards, as well as for repeated Responsible Responsible I am referred learning about their behavior or of College Houses or, for Sansom • The obligation to cooperate or multiple minor violations. to the Office from completing a project that Place, the Director of Residential with any investigation of for Violating for Violating Probation includes the potential for allows them to engage positively Services. complaint, including the Policy Policy of Student restriction of various College House Conduct with their community. Examples of obligation to appear to such sanctions include: community privileges and serves as a final be interviewed by College service, organizing a program, notice wherein future violations House administrative staff, doing a survey, attending a could result in removal from Residential Services staff or presentation, or similar projects. housing. other University officials or boards. Required Move Removal from Housing Removal from housing is a sanction • The right to know the nature I am Assigned Some situations may warrant of any pertinent information I am Assigned that typically is used for serious Educational moving a resident to a new against them. a Warning location, either for their own benefit violations of standards including Sanctions endangering behavior, theft, and • The right to privacy of or Probation or for the benefit of their residential and/or Other significant damage to property information. Status community. • The right to appeal any Outcomes and for students who repeatedly procedural concerns (i.e. due Restitution violate policies and show no signs process, new information) Residents who cause damage of changing behavior. with a Director of College or vandalize University property Houses or Residential will typically be expected to pay Services. restitution.

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night hours, and over 40 additional COLLEGE HOUSE Breaking bread together helps movies, and even films that MAINTENANCE AND SERVICES FOR collaborative learning spaces using INFORMATION CENTERS create a sense of community and Penn professors use as part of HOUSEKEEPING the latest technologies in every comfort. Bon Appétit, Penn’s their curricula. Additionally, all RESIDENTS House supported by a professional The Information Centers in each food service provider, takes great on-campus residents have access to Housekeeping is provided seven staff. Computing spaces are House – usually in the reception care to cook food from scratch the core XFINITY on Campus digital days a week (excepting holidays) equipped with the most-up-to-date areas – are operated by the with fresh seasonal ingredients, streaming service from Comcast. for all common areas in the COLLEGE HOUSE software and hardware, including Department of Residential Services. serve a wide variety of menu For technical specifications and Houses, such as corridors, lounges, TECHNOLOGY wide-screen monitors, multimedia They are a vital part of each College items at each meal, create great other information on Penn Video lobby areas, laundry rooms, and software, 100MB connections, high House, and offer daily services tasting and nutritious food with Network, visit the website at www. shared bathrooms. Maintenance Every College House is linked to the quality scanners, and laser printers. including guest passes, assistance vegetarian, vegan, Halal, and Jain upenn.edu/video. is provided to individual rooms Internet by a high-speed network with access issues, vacuum cleaner options, provide friendly customer and public spaces as requested, connection. Both wired and Many students find tablet style and moving cart loans, and support service and a warm, welcoming as scheduled by the University, wireless connections are available devices to be an easy way to with maintenance issues. It is a environment, all while making GREEN LIVING or in response to emergencies. in all student rooms and House take notes and to check email. 24-hour emergency center and To request routine repairs to socially responsible purchasing The Green Living Certification, public spaces. The enthusiastic Although the capabilities of these a useful hub of information for your room or floor, use the work decisions regarding produce, offered through Penn Sustainability, College House Technology staff mobile devices continue to improve residents and guests. order website (AiM) at www. meat, seafood, eggs and coffee. In provides all College House residents hires and trains students to provide they should not be considered collegehouses.upenn.edu/request. addition to the six residential dining with an opportunity to reflect on helpdesk support for their fellow as a replacement for a desktop Contact your information center cafés (including Kosher options their environmental impact and residents, and can help with or laptop computer. You will find DINING for follow-up on requests and at Falk Dining Commons), Penn to recognize the importance of almost any computer question, that completing your academic for additional help. Emergency While first-year and transfer Dining offers a wide variety of retail their daily, individual decisions from diagnosing hardware work will require more than the facilities issues should be called in students are required to have a locations including Gourmet Grocer on the University’s Climate problems to software support and tablet device can offer. If you have 24 hours a day at 215-898-7208. Dining plan, Penn Dining believes and Starbucks in 1920 Commons; Action Plan. Students can apply getting computers and devices questions regarding what device that food service is much more than Houston Market in Houston Hall; to receive their Gold, Silver, or connected to the network. For all may be best for you please consult simply providing sustenance. Dining Pret-a-Manger in Wharton’s Bronze certification by filling out technology support requests, visit your School or Department to find OTHER SERVICES AND cafés are gathering places for Huntsman Hall; Accenture Cafe the Green Living survey, which support.housetech.upenn.edu. out what they recommend for AMENITIES students and faculty and an integral in the Towne Building; Joe’s Cafe asks students questions related to There are currently 11 residential students in your area of study. part of the campus experience. in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall; Micro- • Free washers and dryers for computing labs, some with late recycling, energy, waste, water, markets in the ARCH Building transportation, purchasing, and resident use, with the ability to and Van Pelt Library; and the involvement at Penn. Certified check the status of your laundry campus Farmer’s Market. For more students earn a sticker to post via the internet information, visit www.upenn.edu/ outside their room and rewards to • Mail and package service are dining. local campus restaurants. provided in-House by Residential Services PVN CABLE TV HOUSING ASSIGNMENTS • All College House rooms are NETWORK AND ROOM CHANGES furnished by the Department of Residential Services Penn Video Network, the The housing assignment process, University’s closed-circuit campus including room changes, is television system, gives College managed by the Department of House residents the best of basic Residential Services. Special room Standard and HD programming, change periods are scheduled with over 60 channels accessible throughout the year. Room change in each student room and lounge. information can be found at PVN also offers two 24-hour movie www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/ channels that show the latest roomchange. releases, original independent

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TERMS AND • Always lock your bicycle to one roommates making that same in arrivals, students are assigned RESIDENTIAL CONDITIONS FOR of the storage racks and register request. If you select Gender a move-in time slot, which is your bicycle with Public Safety. Inclusive Housing you may or may communicated to them early in the SERVICES UNIVERSITY HOUSING not be assigned with a student of summer. It may be helpful to know • Provide insurance coverage By accepting admission to Penn a different gender identity or sex that all of our College Houses with INFORMATION for your items either through you are agreeing to live on campus assigned at birth; the assignment the exception of Harnwell, Harrison, family homeowners insurance or your first four semesters and abide is made gender-blind. If a gender and Rodin, close for winter break through renter’s insurance. by the Terms and Conditions for inclusive assignment cannot be the day after the last scheduled FIRST YEAR STUDENT University Housing. Rent and made, students will be matched final exam. Our dining facilities are HOUSING & DINING College House fees will be charged DISABILITY- according to their sex assigned at closed during Thanksgiving and POLICY and payable each semester through RELATED HOUSING birth (trans and intersex students, Winter Break and operate on a The College Houses are unique your Student Financial Services ACCOMMODATIONS please refer to the next section.) reduced schedule during Fall and residential communities for Penn account. Please review the Terms Students who are requesting While Gender Inclusive Housing is Spring Breaks. undergraduates that connect the and Conditions available at www. disability-related housing an option available to all students, academic life of the University upenn.edu/housing. Scheduled accommodations due to a anyone under 18 years of age to the residential experience. room change periods will be disability or medical condition are prior to moving into housing must BEYOND THE They foster smaller, intimate available throughout the year. are eliminated, fire equipment is encouraged to self-identify with submit written parental consent. FIRST YEAR communities that students call maintained and established fire Student Disabilities Services (SDS) Gender Inclusive Housing also For students who are just thinking home and from which they are procedures are followed. Students by completing the disability-related allows you to request a specific HEALTH AND SAFETY about starting their college supported in pursuing their who by the virtue of their behavior housing accommodation request friend of a different sex assigned experience, it may seem early academic goals and in navigating The safety and security of all toward themselves or other form at www.collegehouses.upenn. at birth or gender identity as a to think about second-year the complexities of university students in residence is of utmost residents show an inability to live in edu/har. If a student is approved roommate. Both students must housing. The fall semester is filled life. The College Houses provide concern to the University and it is a group setting, refuse intervention, for a disability-related housing request Gender Inclusive Housing with making friends, adjusting academic and personal support expected that all residents adopt and/or endanger themselves or accommodation, their room will and follow the instructions on the to academic expectations, and to residents and promote reasonable safety habits. As a result others in any manner may be be assigned based on medical application. discovering all Penn has to offer. social interaction, engagement, of this concern, the University asked to leave the College House need and may not meet personal However, by mid-fall, you will accountability and leadership within has taken a number of actions. community immediately. preferences. Students requesting begin hearing about next year’s a setting that honors the diverse Security personnel monitor entry disability-related housing TRANSGENDER AND Room Selection process and needs and backgrounds of the Penn to all College Houses twenty-four accommodations are encouraged INTERSEX STUDENTS you’ll need to start thinking about community. The College House hours each day during building IMPORTANT to self-identify as early as possible Penn values diversity and what is next for you, especially if experience is a central component occupancy. All residents and guests SAFETY TIPS to ensure adequate time for SDS’s recognizes that transgender you have spent your first year in of a student’s successful transition must pass through a security portal • Keep the door to your room, suite documentation review process. and intersex students may have a first-year House and will need to and mastery of the rigors to gain access to residential areas. or apartment locked at all times. Please contact Student Disabilities particular needs in their living to select a living option in an of university life at Penn. To All live-in College House staff If your lock does not work, report Services with any questions or environment. Students are welcome upperclass or four-year House. support our undergraduates members undergo training in safety it immediately to the House concerns. SDS can be reached by to contact the Housing Occupancy Upperclass students may also in their academic and personal and security policies and support Information Center. email ([email protected]) or Team to discuss available options consider applying to be a Resident endeavors, and to engage them the efforts of the Department of phone (215-573-9235). that best support their need for Advisor, a highly rewarding • If you live in a ground floor room with each other and the larger Penn Public Safety to educate students a safe and comfortable housing experience which includes room keep your window closed and community, we require all students in-residence about campus safety. arrangement. and board. Information about locked when you are not in your to live on campus and participate in Members of the Department of GENDER INCLUSIVE the Room Selection process is room. If your window does not a dining plan during their first four Public Safety conduct a number HOUSING posted online toward the close work properly, report it to the semesters of enrollment.* of residence hall safety programs PLANNING AHEAD: of the fall semester. There are House Information Center. Gender Inclusive Housing is throughout the year from regular numerous information sessions *Students who are enrolled in the available in all College Houses. This MOVE-IN, WINTER fire drills to programs that discuss • Do not leave your personal and informational e-mails before College of Liberal Studies or in the option allows students to indicate BREAK, MOVE-OUT crime prevention and crime belongings in any common areas. and throughout the process. We Penn Nursing BSN Second Degree that they prefer to be assigned All occupancy dates, room change, reporting procedures. strongly encourage you to discuss Program, or are married, living with • Report any suspicious activity or without regard to sex assigned at move-in, winter break, and move- options and costs with your a dependent, or in a University- As members of a community, person to your RA, GA, the House birth or gender identity. Students out information can be found at parents prior to room selection. recognized domestic partnership, each individual has a responsibility Information Center or Campus who request Gender Inclusive www.upenn.edu/housing. To Penn’s housing selection process are exempt from this policy. to ensure that safety hazards Public Safety. Housing will be assigned with facilitate the large volume of move- has three sequential options, all

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of which are completed online at myhomeatpenn.upenn.edu early in the spring semester. Students can W.E.B. DU BOIS, GREGORY, STOUFFER AND LAUDER COLLEGE HOUSES apply with their friends to live in a Four-Year Communities Program Community (including the GREGORY* STOUFFER Second Year Experience program W.E.B. DU BOIS* (VAN PELT AND LAUDER* (STOUFFER AND MAYER*) in Lauder), return to their same CLASS OF 1925) College House, or move to another $11,014 per year $11,014 per year $11,014 per year $15,418 per year $11,014 per year College House. For those already ($5,507 per semester) ($5,507 per semester) ($5,507 per semester) ($7,709 per semester) ($5,507 per semester) in Four-Year or Upperclass Houses, Single Room Single Room Single – Efficiency Double Apartment Double-2BR/LR Double (2 BR/Cooktop/Fridge) Double (2 BR) Single Room (Stouffer)  (2 BR/LR/Kit) Triple-3BR/LR  returning to your same College Triple (3 BR/Cooktop/Fridge)  Quad (4 BR)  Double Room (Stouffer)  Quad-4BR/LR  House offers the best opportunity Quad (4 BR/Cooktop/Fridge)  Quad (4 BR/LR) Double Apt (1 BR/LR/Kit) 5privateBR/LR/2Bath  to secure housing and a preferred 6privateBR/LR/2Bath  room type within that House. *All units in Du Bois, Gregory, Mayer and Lauder have private bathrooms For those in First-Year Houses  First-year students may only select these room types. or who are simply interested in moving to a new House, the inter- House process provides variety. In each case, students apply and select their room themselves, FISHER-HASSENFELD, HILL, KINGS COURT ENGLISH, RIEPE, giving them greater control over AND WARE COLLEGE HOUSES specific location and room type. First-Year Communities While housing is not guaranteed, FISHER HASSENFELD HILL KINGS COURT ENGLISH RIEPE WARE (KINGS COURT AND ENGLISH) Penn makes every effort to All room types are $11,014 per year ($5,507 per semester) provide housing for all students Single Room  Single Room  Single Room Single Room  Single Room  who want it. Students who are Double Room  Double Room  Double Room  Double Room  Double Room  flexible with their housing choices Triple Room Triple Room can be accommodated. After (3 rooms)  (2 rooms)  your four-semester on-campus  First-year students may only select these room types. housing requirement, we strongly encourage you to continue living in the College Houses, enjoying the rich community environment and convenience of on-campus HARNWELL, HARRISON, AND RODIN** life. Many students who do Upperclass Communities continue living on campus assume HARNWELL, HARRISON AND RODIN leadership positions in their Houses $11,014 per year $15,418 per year and may find more meaning and ($5,507 per semester) ($7,709 per semester) appreciation for their relationships Single Room (Harrison & Rodin) Single Apartment (1 BR/LR/Kit) with faculty and staff who are Double (2BR/LR) (Harnwell only) Double Apartment (2 BR/LR/Kit) their neighbors. For third- and Double (2 BR) Triple Apartment (3 BR/LR/Kit) Double Apartment (1 BR/LR/Kit) Quad Apartment (4 BR/LR/Kit) fourth-year students who decide to Quad Apartment (3 BR/LR/Kit) move into the local neighborhood, **All units in Harnwell, Harrison, and Rodin have private bathrooms Penn’s Office of Off- Campus Services provides resources and assistance with the housing search. Information and an online listing of NOTES available apartments and houses SINGLE: 1 occupant DOUBLE: 2 occupants TRIPLE: 3 occupants QUAD: 4 occupants KIT: Kitchen LR: Living Room BR: Bedroom are available at www.upenn.edu/ College House fee: $240/year/person ($120/semester/person). This fee will not be prorated nor removed once a resident moves in. offcampusservices. 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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KINGS COURT LAUDER ENGLISH HOUSE HILL CONTACT t. RODIN W.E.B. DU BOIS

38th St. 36th St. INFORMATION 34th S NEW COLLEGE HARNWELL St. 33rd HOUSE WEST W.E.B. Du Bois College House (opening 2021) Chestnut St. House Office: (215) 898-3677 [email protected] Sansom St. Fisher Hassenfeld College House House Office: (215) 573-4295 Walnut St. [email protected]

Gregory College House House Office: (215) 573-5171 Locust St. [email protected]

Harnwell College House House Office: (215) 573-3497 [email protected] Spruce St. 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 HARRISON [email protected]

GREGORY / CLASS OF 1925 Lauder College House GREGORY / VAN PELT MANOR House Office: (215) 898-3350 [email protected]

STOUFFER / Riepe College House MAYER HALL House Office: (215) 898-2855 STOUFFER / [email protected] PLEASE NOTE STOUFFER HALL Rodin College House For additional campus views House Office: (215) 573-3576 see the Facilities & Real [email protected] Estate Services Maps at GOLDBERG HOUSE www.facilities.upenn. RIEPE Stouffer College House edu/map.php. Click on House Office: (215) 573-8473 Student Housing. [email protected] WARE Ware College House House Office: (215) 898-9531 FISHER HASSENFELD [email protected]

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PRESIDENT HISTORY DR. AMY GUTMANN PROVOST PROF. WENDELL E. PRITCHETT Penn has been building a vigorous on-campus community since it was VICE PROVOST FOR EDUCATION PROF. BETH WINKELSTEIN founded more than two centuries ago. After the Civil War, Penn moved FACULTY DIRECTOR, COLLEGE HOUSES AND ACADEMIC SERVICES to its present campus in West PROF. LISA LEWIS Philadelphia, and under the visionary direction of Provost Charles Custis SENIOR DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION Harrison, a vast, turreted complex of MARTIN W. REDMAN interlocking dormitories called The DIRECTOR OF FIRST-YEAR HOUSES Quadrangle began to be constructed DR. LICINIA BARRUECO KALIHER on Spruce Street. The present-day DIRECTOR OF FOUR-YEAR HOUSES Quad, an architectural and historical WHERE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTICIPATION MATTER RYAN J. KEYTACK landmark, comprises three College DIRECTOR OF UPPERCLASS HOUSES Houses: Fisher Hassenfeld, Riepe, DR. JANINE WEAVER-DOUGLAS and Ware, all bearing the names of Penn’s distinguished alumni. In the DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES GINA MARZIANI post-World War II era of expansion, Penn turned to the famous Finnish DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE HOUSE COMPUTING DANIEL L. THOMAS III architect Eero Saarinen to design a dormitory for women at 33rd and PHOTO CREDITS GREG BENSON Walnut Streets which today is the CHRISTOPHER DONOVAN co-ed Hill College House, which BRYAN KARL LATHROP TOMMY LEONARDI received a complete renovation in SUE SMITH 2017. The buildings that are now JJ TIZIOU called Stouffer College House and ADAM WEAVER Kings Court English College House DESIGN were also built or acquired at this ANNE MARIE KANE time, and vehicular traffic was EDITORS banned in the so-called “super block” CHRISTOPHER BOGS RYAN J. KEYTACK stretching from 38th to 40th Streets between Walnut and Spruce Streets. ONLINE VERSION This enabled the development of a O 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 Lauder College House, the first residential complex designed from the start University of Pennsylvania to accommodate the broad scope Stouffer Commons of intellectual, cultural and social 3702 Spruce Street activities that are the hallmarks of the Philadelphia PA 19104-6027 College House communities.