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be greater than the rest of the colleges.
At UF, the cheapest room will cost $722,
; and the most expensive will be $2,220. The aver
• age rate, however, will be $ 1,303, according to As
sistant Director of Housing Sharon Blansett. Rates
will increase about 7 percent from this year’s.
A double or higher occupancy room at UNC
will cost $1,310, the least expensive on campus.
A single air-conditioned room in Whitehead Res
idence Hall will cost $2,135, the most expensive
on campus. Rates will.increase about 7 percent
from this year’s. i
USC’s least expensive room will cost $1,004
next year, and the most expensive will be
$2,000. Rates will increase an average of 4 per
cent, according to Director of Housing Gene Lu
na.
Clemson students will pay as low as $885
and as high as $ 1,420 for a room next year. The av
erage cost will be about $1,110, according to Di
rector of Residential Halls Gary Campbell. Rates
will increase 5.8 percent from this year’s.
A variety of rooms at UGA will cost $1,353,
the cheapest price for 2000-2001 students. The
most expensive room rate will be $1,663. Rates
will increase about 6 percent from this year’s.
The cheapest room at UT will cost $ 1,000 next
year, and the most expensive room will cost $ 1,400.
The most common price will be $1,050, accord
ing to Associate Director of Housing Tim John
son. Rates will increase just below 4 percent John
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Buildings
USC has the most undergraduate residence
halls with 31. UNC has 29, Clemson has 28, UGA
has 17 and UT has 13. UF has 23 complexes, which
can include one or more buildings.
Comparing all universities, no one style of res
idence halls seems to be the most common, al
though there are fewer high-rises. Coed halls, how
ever, seem to be more prevalent.
Cuiy Clemson and USC offer air conditioning
in all rooms.
There’s great variety in the number of com
puter labs, kitchens and laundry facilities offered
for all the universities’ residence halls.
At Clemson, there are three high-rises, and
Campbell said there’s a good balance of tradi
tional halls, suite-style halls and apartments. He
also said there’s a good mix of single-gender and
coed halls on campus. In traditional halls, there’s
a kitchen on every floor, and in suite-style halls,
there’s one or two in the building. All but eight
halls have laundry facilities, and next year there
will be seven computer labs in residence halls.
At UF, traditional halls are more common, as
are coed halls. Halls are coed by floors more so
than by wings or rooms. All but three halls have
AC. Kitchens are on all floors, and laundry facil
ities are in all halls. There aren’t any computer labs
in the residence halls because since June, 1998 all
students are required to have access to a comput
er.
UF also has a unique policy regarding visita
tion guidelines. Most halls on campus are desig
nated as visitation vote areas. These halls start
out with visitation plan A, 11 a.m. to midnight Sun
day through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday
and Saturday. Students can choose to change this
policy with a two-thirds vote. Most of these hj|(ls
then become open visitation halls, Blansett saicf'
At UGA, traditional halls are more common,
and all but one have AC. Thirteen hails have no
more than four stories, leaving four high-rises. Five
halls have computer labs. There are kitchens on
about every other floor, and laundry facilities in
all halls.
At UNC suite style halls are more common,
and there are 25 halls with no more than four floors,
leaving four high-rises. The high-rises are the on
ly halls not to have lull AC; about 40 percent of
the halls have it. The high-rises are also the only
halls to have kitchens on every floor; other
buildings have only one. Seven halls have com
puter labs, and 18 have laundry facilities.
Rebecca Casey, assistant director of housing
and residential education, said UNC residence halls
are moving towards coed. Currently, there are five
all male halls, 10 all female halls, 10 coed-by-floor
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At USC, Luna said there’s an even split be
tween traditional halls and suit-styles, and more
halls are coed. Eight halls are above seven stories,
and seven have computer labs. There’s a kitchen
on every floor, and all halls have laundry facilities.
Luna said USC was unique because of its auto
mated telephone service, Laundrimate, which al
lows students to call and check on washer and dry
er availability. He also said the trial run this year
has been a success and the university is looking in
to installing it in all halls, as well as installing
Web cameras in the laundry rooms.
“I think it will be [made available in all
halls.] This way, students can save a lot of time.
It’s a convenience factor for students,” Luna said.
' At UT, syite styles are more prevalent. John
son said buildings range from four to 15 floors.
Three hallS'ftren’t completely air-conditioned,
which equals about 488 rooms. Only some halls at
UT have computer labs.
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Rooms
All but UGA offer each person an Ethernet
connection to the Internet. Clemson is the only
school to offer two phone jacks per room be
cause of a party line system.
Other than UNC and UT, cable is included in
room rates. At UNC, rates differ per package,
and at UT, it costs $77.50.
The availability of micro-friciges for rooms dif
fers from college to college.
Smoking policies differ among universities, but
a majority of them permit smoking in rooms.
At Clemson, students can order micro-fridges
from the university, but none are provided in rooms.
Campbell said residence halls are subtly changing
to smoke-free. Currently, there are five nonsmoking
halls.
“We still look at it as a right that people have
if they want to do it. We try to give people a choice,”
he said.
All universities except UF allow students to
have on# fish as pets. At UF, students can order
micro-fridges from an authorized vendor in most
halls; some suites come with them. Students can’t
smoke in rooms because of the Florida Clean In
door Air Act of 1992 that declared a nonsmoking
policy in state-owned buildings.
UF’s pet policy is unique because it allows stu
dents to bring a variety of pets, including guinea
pigs, dwarf rabbits, turtles, lizards and salamanders,
chinchillas and non predatory birds. Residents can’t
have more than two birds, mammals or reptiles and
must follow other regulations on sizes and cages.
“It’s probably one of the most liberal pet poli
cies in the U.S. It’s another example of where we
let students make as many decisions as possible.
Another example of doing what students want,”
Blansett said.
At UGA, each student can connect to the In
ternet, although the means to do so differs from
building to building. One new building uses an Eth
ernet connection, four use cable modems and the
rest use phone lines to connect. Students must or
der their own micro-fridges or bring their own mi
ni-fridges. Students can’t smoke in rooms because
the Residence Hall Association approved a ban on
smoking in residence halls.
“I would assume it was because of health fac
tors. It seems to be embraced by a majority of
students,” said Scott Anderson, manager of con
tracts, assignments and summer conference ser
vices.
At UNC, students can rent micro-fridges, but
none are provided. Students may smoke in rooms
with their roommate’s approval. The university,
however, asks students not to smoke on balconies.
At USC next year, Luna said there will be an
upgrade to a switched 100 Internet connection for
quicker access.
“We’ll have one of the fastest connections in
the country,” he said.
About 1500 rooms come equipped with mi
cro-fridges, and students can also rent or purchase
their own micro-fridges. Rooms are designated as
nonsmoking, but students can smoke with the
approval of their roommates.
At UT, starting in the fall, all rooms will come
with micro-fridges. For about nine years, Housing
has been working on this plan.
“We’ve been doing a lease program in the past
and equipping some residence halls along the way
with micro-fridges. The money we got from the
leases this year will finish out all the residence
halls,” Johnson said.
- Smoking at UT depends on the room. Smok
ers are matched with other smokers to make things
easier Johnson said.
Security
Each university handles residence hall entrance
access in a variety of ways, although card access
seems to be more common.
At Clemson, students enter all halls, not apart
ments, at night by swiping their ID cards. During
the day, however, the buildingsTiousing fraterni
ties and one hall housing about 800 men do not ac
tivate the system. Security officers man desks from
midnight until 7:30 a.m., and students are desk as
sistants at other times.
At UF, about half require card access to build
ings, although Blansett said there are ongoing ren
ovations to equip the rest with it. There are also
locked entrances to all floors. A security staff mans
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At UGA, students swipe their ID cards and
then place their hand in a hand reader to gain en
trance to the hall. This is installed at all but one
residence hall, which Anderson said is run like a
hotel.
“We wanted to be the best in the Southeast
Conference. We wanted the top-rate system. This
is the best you can get,” Anderson said.
At UNC, all exterior entrances are locked, and
the Marlock system is used. Students insert a flat,
square key into a slot to open the doors, which will
set off an alarm if open for more than four seconds.
At USC, students either swipe their ID cards
or show their key to have access to their rooms.
Next fall, nine halls will have card access. There’s
always someone at the hall desk, according to Lu
na.
At UT, all halls have card access on exterior
doors. There are cameras at all main entrances,
which Johnson said desk attendants monitor 24
hours a day.
Special Housing *
At Clemson, special housing includes first-year
programs in two residence halls, learning com
munities for freshman business and engineering
majors and a wellness program called Tiger Fitness,
which occupies four floors in one residence hall.
Sororities have floors in three residence halls, and
fraternities have sides of buildings in five residence
halls. There are 100 apartments available for fam
ily and graduate housing. ^
At UF, three facilities are set aside for honon
housing. There are also wellness floors, commu
nity service floors, quiet floors and freshman ex
perience floors. Sixteen of 22 sororities have on
campus houses, and 19 of 26 fraternities have
on-campus housing.
At UGA, there are recommended halls for hon
or students, but nothing exclusive. There is also a
transfer-student hall and foreign-language com
munities for French- and Spanish- speaking stu
dents. Fraternities and sororities have off-campus
housing. There are 579 apartments for graduate
and family housing. :
At UNC, there is no special housing for hon
or students. There are, however, nine special houw
ing areas. They are: Academic Enhancement, Fira
Year Initiative, Health Sciences, French Language
House, Spanish Language House, German Lan
guage House, Substance Free, Women’s Perspec
tive and UNITAS, where students are paired be
cause of their differences
At USC, freshman honor students reside in
Maxcy College and an area in Capstone. Sopho
mores live in Capstone areas as well, and juniors
and seniors have about 220 rooms on the historic
Horseshoe. Fraternities and sororities have then
own residence halls on campus. There are two res
idence halls for graduate and family housing.
Special housing includes the global community
NADA, wellness floors, engineering, premed and
teaching-fellows communities and Preston resi
dential college. USC is the only university of
six to have a residential college.
“Wfe were looking at ways to enhance students’
living experiences. One way to do this was to have
faculty and students interact. This is a classic way,”
Luna said.
At UT, honor students can register for hous
ing before other students can. UT has only three
learning communities for freshmen. It is, howev
er, third or fourth in the nation in the number of
rooms available for graduate and family housing,
according to Johnson. It has 1,690 apartments for
single graduate students, married students and non
traditional undergraduates, who are 21 years or
older.
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