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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Spring Move-In When you arrive to campus, you should Pre-Arrival proceed to the welcome desk at your To prepare for arrival, please review all assigned housing accommodation. When additional documents that are included you check in with the welcome desk in your Notice of Assignment email. These attendant, you will be required to show additional documents include your parking photo identification. If you currently have pass for move-in as well as instructions on a Panther Card, you will update your card how to view your housing assignment online. with the welcome desk attendant for access to your spring housing assignment. If you submitted an ID photo online, you will be able to pick up your new Panther Card at your welcome desk. If you do not Arrival yet have a Panther Card, you will receive RESIDENCE HALLS a temporary card at your residence hall. Residence halls open on Monday, January This temporary card will allow you to access 2, 2017, at 2 p.m. University classes begin on your accommodation while you move in. Wednesday, January 4, 2017. Once you have completed your move-in, please take the temporary card to Panther Central in order to obtain your Panther Card. Please bring a photo ID with you. You will need to show proof of identification to be issued your Panther Card. APARTMENT-STYLE ACCOMMODATIONS Bouquet Gardens Residents: Please report to the Bouquet Gardens Building J Welcome Desk upon arrival. The welcome desk attendant will have an envelope for every new student which will include your PIN code for your door, as well as a temporary card for students who do not yet have Panther Cards. If you submitted an ID photo online, your new Panther Card will also be in your envelope; you can begin using it with your PIN code right away. Spring Move-In Centre Plaza Residents: You will receive your room keys at your building’s welcome desk upon arrival. Furniture Forbes-Craig and Ruskin Hall Residents: and Furnishings Please follow the procedures for residence RESIDENCE HALLS halls. Each bedroom contains the following furniture: • Single bed with an extra-long twin mattress Unloading Areas • Desk and chair Attached you will find a parking pass that • Chest of drawers and closet or allows you to park for up to one hour at wardrobe the designated unloading area for your • Carpeting and window blinds or accommodation. Please put it on your curtains dashboard when you reach campus so that we may easily direct you to your The following items are not provided: accommodation. The parking passes are valid in designated areas on Monday, • Pillows, sheets, pillowcases, towels, bed- spreads, and blankets January 2, 2017, through Tuesday, January 3, 2017. • Lamps*, Televisions**, and MicroFridges+ Temporary Parking: • Telephones are provided in rooms upon request; each building has hallway Ruskin Hall (Ruskin Ave) • phones for student use. • Bouquet Gardens (SN Lot) • Trash cans Litchfield Towers A&B (The Quad) • *Please do not bring high-intensity quartz lamps, particularly the torchiere type. Quartz lamps generate high • Litchfield Tower C (BQ Lot) heat and are a fire hazard. • Sutherland Hall (U Lot) **Televisions are provided in Bouquet Gardens Building J living rooms and in Nordenberg Hall bedrooms. • Nordenberg Hall (University Place) + MicroFridges are provided in Nordenberg Hall,Panther Hall, and Pennsylvania Hall. • Forbes Hall (Forbes Ave) • Lothrop Hall (Lothrop Street) APARTMENT-STYLE • Schenley Quad (The Quad) ACCOMMODATIONS On any other date or at any other location, If your accommodation is in Forbes-Craig, a permit or payment is necessary. Bouquet Gardens, Centre Plaza, or Ruskin Hall, you will be residing in apartment-style housing. Each apartment includes a kitchen and a living/dining room area. Each kitchen is Spring Move-In equipped with a refrigerator, dishwasher, RESIDENCE HALLS stove, and microwave. Each living room There will be carts for residents of Towers (excluding Centre Plaza, which contains a and Schenley Quad in the Towers Lobby. two-seat sofa) is equipped with a sofa, a Carts are also available at the welcome love seat or chair, and a coffee table. All desks of Lothrop, Nordenberg, and Forbes apartments have either a dining table with Halls. Carts in the Sutherland Hall Lobby are chairs or a counter area with stools. for Sutherland residents, as well as residents of Pennsylvania Hall, Panther Hall and the Each bedroom contains the following Fraternity Complex. furniture: • Single bed with an extra-long twin mattress APARTMENT-STYLE ACCOMMODATIONS • Desk and chair There will be carts for residents of Bouquet Gardens at the Bouquet J Welcome Desk. • Chest of drawers and closet or Carts are also available at the welcome wardrobe desks of Centre Plaza, Forbes-Craig and • Carpeting and window blinds or Ruskin Hall. curtains The following items are not provided: • Pillows, sheets, pillowcases, towels, bed- spreads, or blankets Security All residence halls and most apartment-style • Televisions** buildings are staffed 24 hours a day, seven • Kitchen accessories days per week, throughout the academic • Toilet paper and shower curtains year. Valid Panther Cards are required for • Trash cans (only provided for Bouquet residents to enter their facilities. Visitors can Gardens and Ruskin Hall) be scanned in by building residents only if they present photo identification. *Please do not bring high-intensity quartz lamps, particularly the torchiere type. Quartz lamps generate high Bouquet Gardens Buildings A–H, and the heat and are a fire hazard. Fraternity Complex are patrolled regularly **Televisions are provided in Bouquet Gardens Building J living rooms and in Nordenberg Hall bedrooms. by University Police. Valid Panther Cards are required for residents to enter their + MicroFridges are provided in Nordenberg Hall,Panther Hall, and Pennsylvania Hall. facilities. Visitors may only access the facility if permitted by the student residents. The Student Code of Conduct and judicial procedures will be distributed shortly after Carts your arrival. Carts will be available on Monday, January 2, 2017 from 12 p.m.– 8 p.m. and Tuesday, January 3, 2017 from 8 a.m.– 8 p.m. to help move into your building. You must have your Panther Card in order to sign out a cart; you are required to return you cart to the cart station when you are finished with it. Spring Move-In Mail Services Cable Television Student Mail Services maintains seven High definition Comcast digital cable mail centers located in or near each on- television, including basic channels, is campus housing building. Resident students provided in each bed-room in every on- are assigned a mailbox in order to receive campus accommodation and in the living U.S. and campus mail. Student mail center areas of suites and apartments. hours will be posted at each location. To receive your mailbox combination, visit your If you are planning to bring a television to building’s mail center. campus, your television must be equipped with a QAM or Clear QAM digital tuner in Letters and packages mailed to you should order to be compatible with the Comcast be addressed as follows. Please be sure to digital cable provided on campus. You will tell your relatives and friends to use your need to check your owner’s manual and/ nine-digit zip code! It is essential for fast mail or the manufacturer’s website to determine sorting. if your TV is equipped with the QAM or Clear QAM digital tuner. If you determine that Make sure the following information is your TV is not equipped with the QAM or included on mail and packages: Clear QAM tuner, you will need to purchase a digital converter box from your local Student’s Name electronics vendor. Building, Room, and Bed number Street Address City, State, and Zip Code Please visit pts.pitt.edu/mailserv/ Telephone mailing/15213.html for your specific building Telephones are available in the hallway address and mail center location. of each building, rather than in individual rooms. However, students may request that telephones be installed in rooms by submitting a Maintenance Request at Dining Services pc.pitt.edu/housing/maintenance.php. The spring term meal plan will begin on Monday, January 2, 2017. If you still need a meal plan for the spring, visit pc.pitt.edu/publications.php and download the meal plan application form. Spring Move-In Panther Card Panther Central Your Panther Card is the only card you WE’RE AT YOUR SERVICE. need on campus. Use your Panther Card to: All of our staff would like to welcome you and wish you success at the University! • Access your housing accommodation and meal plan. For more information on housing, dining, • Borrow books from the library. and Panther Card services, visit Panther • Access computer labs and fitness Central at pc.pitt.edu or centers. call 412-648-1100. • Ride fare-free on and off campus on buses and shuttles. • Get free or discounted admission to some of Pittsburgh’s most popular attractions. Visit pc.pitt.edu/card/funds.php for more information on • Use as a “stored value” card to make Panther Funds. purchases. It’s simple: You load Panther Funds onto your Panther Card, then you can use it to make on-campus purchases like meals and snacks, books, event tickets, Pitt merchandise, and parking services. You can even use Panther Funds in campus laundry, vending, and copy machines. Panther Funds also are accepted at more than 40 off-campus merchants, such as restaurants, grocery, and drug stores. Litchfield Towers Lobby • 3990 Fifth Ave • Pittsburgh 15260 412.648.1100 • www.pc.pitt.edu.