The Daily Texan 2019-06-25

“I Couldn’t Stay” What happens when a professor has to leave midsemester.

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COVER STORY After sociology professor Penny Green had to leave midsemester, her department was left to pick up the pieces.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019

CITY COUNCIL

City relaxes homelessness laws

Students, parents voice safety concerns after City Council decision.

By Tori May @toricmay

ity Council members voted on June 20 to loosen Austin’s homelessness ordinances, prompting safety concerns from UT students and their parents.

Under the new rules, city policies prohibiting camping, lying down and sitting in public places are only enforceable if such actions present a safety issue or prevent use of public facilities. Additionally, panhandling will be prohibited only in circumstances deemed violent or aggressive.

“Now, it is no longer a criminal act to sleep in your car,” City Council member Greg Casar said during the meeting. “It is no longer a criminal act to ask for money at 7:30 at night. This ordinance is an important piece in moving from dealing with homelessness in the jails to dealing with homelessness through housing and service.”

Several UT students and their parents, including members of safety advocacy nonprofit SafeHorns, voiced concerns about the ordinances at the meeting. Opponents of the proposed changes said off-campus

eddie gaspar | the daily texan staff At a meeting on June 20, the City Council passed ordinances loosening Austin’s homelessness policies. The proposed changes drew criticism from some UT students and parents.

areas, such as West Campus and North Campus, can be dangerous for students because of the large number of homeless individuals there.

“I have significant concerns regarding the proposed changes to the camping ordinance,” business sophomore Cole Cunov said during the meeting. “Even with the current camping ordinance, there is already a great general feeling of uneasiness or anxiety around West Campus. It is important that City Manager (Spencer) Cronk carves out

areas in which camping is still outlawed, especially now as we begin freshman orientations and prepare for students to come back to school.”

Cunov said he has walked multiple friends to their destinations in West Campus because they felt uncomfortable walking alone due to the homeless population.

Some community members and students, such as Lauren Cebulske, an international relations and global studies sophomore, spoke in support of the

proposed changes.

“The current ordinances in Austin are not only inhumane in nature but also enforce the idea that homeless people require policing,” Cebulske said during the meeting. “They perpetuate the fallacy that any homeless person is a degenerate to society. Currently, the homeless population lives their lives criminalized in Austin.”

Before 3 a.m. on Friday, after several hours of testimony from community members, council members voted on the ordinance. The camping ordinance passed 9-2, with members Kathie Tovo, who represents West Campus, and Alison Alter voting against. Changes to the so-called “no sit/no lie” ordinance and the panhandling ordinance passed unanimously.

“We have much work still to do in service of the goal of making homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said in a statement. “But as Mayor, I’m committed to preserving the coalition of community partners and maintaining a focus on constructive results.”

But even though the City Council passed the ordinances, Gov. Greg Abbott said the state reserves the right to override the changes.

“If Austin — or any other Texas city — permits camping on city streets it will be yet another local ordinance the State of Texas will override,” Abbott said in a tweet Sunday. “At some point cities must start putting public safety & common sense first. There are far better solutions for the homeless & citizens.”

CAMPUS

Don’t have a cow: A guide to Mooov-In for freshmen

By Nicole Stuessy @nicolestuessy

As incoming freshmen select dorm rooms, find roommates and buy furniture, there are additional steps they can take to ensure a

smooth move-in experience.

During Mooov-In on Aug. 2324, thousands of students and family members will fill residence halls. Resident assistant Dillon Gentry said because resources such as carts and supplies to loft beds are scarce during this time,

students should look into bringing their own.

“It helps if you can maybe bring in a rubber mallet or dolly,” said Gentry, an electrical and computer engineering junior. “It isn’t required, but it can really streamline the whole process.”

Students should also consider bringing their items in sturdy containers, Gentry said.

“I saw students moving, and their containers were not secured on their cart, and all of their stuff fell over in the street,” Gentry said.

“It’s already an emotion-packed

day, so you want it to be as smooth as possible.”

Justin Samuel, assistant director for residence life at University Housing and Dining, said because most dorms have Twin XL mattresses, students need to buy

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019

COLUMN

School of Architecture must alleviate material costs

By Sanika Nayak Associate editor

The average UT student pays thousands of dollars for their education. However, for students in the UT School of Architecture, whose degrees span five years, tuition bills are accompanied by additional material costs each semester. Architecture majors may have to spend up to an extra thousand dollars per year purchasing materials for projects and paying for their toolkit.

Because of these additional costs, architecture students have to manage their finances and worry about money more than the average UT student.

Due to steep material costs in an already-expensive major, the School of Architecture needs to find a way to make materials more cost-effective by providing more scholarships or financial aid to its students.

Architecture sophomore Jacob Levy said he spent around $250 in his first semester on materials on top of purchasing a $700 toolkit that is needed for projects throughout the degree.

“I’ve spent $30 on cardboard alone for each project, and I spent $80 on my final project first semester,” Levy said. “The costs really add up. As for abriella corker | the daily texan staff the $700 (toolkit), not everyone has that kind of money, but you absolutely need the tools. Even if we can afford it, it’s still a lot of money that any student could use help with.”

Levy said in his second semester, he began skipping smaller assignments in order to avoid paying materials fees. Students should not have to choose between spending money and completing assignments, as this can affect both their education and ability to create projects.

“It was mostly the assignments where we were

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remaking certain aspects of our projects,” Levy said. “I was careful about it so that it didn’t hurt my grade, but it’s really unfortunate that I had to make that choice in the first place.”

The School of Architecture does provide the materials exchange, a place students can go to donate leftover materials for others to use. However, Levy said this exchange has proved inefficient since it only provides students with leftover scraps.

“There’s never full sheets of material there, so it’s only good if you’re in a pinch and need something small,” Levy said. “But if you actually need anything substantial, you have to go out and purchase it.”

When reached for comment, The School of Architecture said the school is aware of the financial issues that extra materials pose, and claims to be working to make the program more affordable by providing students with employment opportunities. However, employment can take time away from studying or other responsibilities.

The school should find a more direct way to help students, such as providing commonly used materials like cardboard in bulk for all students to use.

“As an out-of-state student, it’s a lot of money,” Levy said. “I just wish that some of the money the school is given is used to help the students with the extra costs. It would be one less thing I had to worry about.”

Architecture majors should not have to worry about funding their assignments on top of their workload and extra year of tuition.

The School of Architecture needs to help alleviate these costs so that architecture students can better focus on their education instead of worrying about extra financial burdens.

Nayak is a communication sciences and disorders sophomore from Austin.

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CAMPUS

UT course focuses on intersection of race, education in Austin

By Natalie Venegas @nataliezz_24

A new approach to a UT-Austin course is helping students learn about the history of American education by studying the intersection of race and education in Austin.

Luis Urrieta, a professor of cultural studies in education, has taught the course “Sociocultural Influences on Learning” since the fall semester of 2006. After recent restructuring to the class, the course now allows students to interact with local communities and schools in addition to reading textbooks and having discussions. This spring, Urrieta’s students engaged with Austin elementary school students.

As part of the course, Urrieta takes his classes on a “caminata” — a walk through the East Austin community and Austin ISD’s Zavala Elementary.

“One of my colleagues first introduced me to ‘the walk’ nine years ago, and I saw how valuable the walk was for the students, so I decided to incorporate it in my class,” Urrieta said. “I have since encouraged my graduate students to incorporate it into their curriculum and for the multiple sections for this course.”

The walk is a way for students to visit local communities and see Zavala Elementary, a once-segregated school that opened in the 1930s for Mexican-American students.

“This course not only focuses on Mexican-American and African-American experiences in education, but because we are in Austin, there is a particular focus on Austin communities,” Urrieta said. “This focus helps expose students to critical issues in education and help them navigate education within a sociocultural landscape.”

Urrieta’s classes this past semester read about and discussed topics relating to the surrounding community with a second grade class.

“I have wanted my students to be able to have a good role model and for them to be exposed to university students,” said Belinda Jimenez, a second grade teacher at Zavala Elementary. “But for the UT students, the benefit for them is so that they get a real world, hands-on experience with a community like Zavala and the east side of Austin.”

Jimenez said teachers and students should be exposed to different types of communities, especially because of the large population of English language learners in Austin.

Ashley Deñó, a youth and community studies and African and African Diaspora studies senior, participated in the walk and said visiting Zavala was a reminder of the history of racism in Austin.

“Being able to see this physical reminder of segregation was powerful,” Deñó said. “But the location of Zavala in what we picture now when we think of East Austin is very important. Austin was heavily segregated by design, and the displacement and removal of African Americans and Latinxs from West Austin was intentional.”

Deñó said this course is important because it allows teachers and students to learn about the history of racism and other forms of oppression in education. She also said it promotes listening to and understanding the experiences of minority students.

“This class only further emphasized something I already knew, which was that minoritized students, especially black and Latinx students, have value and are coming into the classroom with their own valuable experiences and cultural wealth, even if it doesn’t resemble the cultural wealth that tends to have value in the United States,” Deñó said.

copyright luis urrieta, and reproduced with permission UT students participate in a community walk with Belinda Jimenez’s second grade class at Zavala Elementary School as part of professor Luis Urrieta’s Sociocultural Influences on Learning course.

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UNIVERSITY

‘I couldn’t go back. I couldn’t.’

pedro luna | the daily texan staff Sociology professor Penny Green had to leave UT after she had to have emergency surgery and her husband of 46 years died.

What happens when a professor has to leave midsemester?

By Savana Dunning @savanaish

Penny Green n her 18 years of teaching sociology full time at UT, senior lecturer Penny Green rarely missed a class. That remained true until the Thursday before Spring Break this year, March 14.

It was the early afternoon, and Green was walking across campus to her second class of the day. As she walked, she started to notice something was wrong. She needed to go to the emergency room.

“I didn’t realize how serious it was, but I knew I couldn’t see them right then,” Green said.

Green dismissed her class, saying she ex-

pected the issue to be cleared up by the afternoon, then went to a hospital nearby. There, she discovered she needed major emergency surgery, was relocated to another hospital and then moved to an intensive nursing facility. What Green expected to last a couple of days turned into a process that took over four weeks.

Green still planned on returning to campus, but just a week after being admitted to the second hospital, her husband of 46 years died unexpectedly at home.

It was then she decided she couldn’t return to class for the rest of the semester.

“You don’t want to do it, but I couldn’t go back. I couldn’t,” Green said. “At UT, you have to be able to hit the ground running, and I could walk, but I could not hit the ground running.”

Sick Leave A Texas statute gives state employees such as UT faculty and staff eight hours of paid sick leave for every month they work. These hours accumulate, which means the longer they work at the University, the more hours they accrue.

Green accumulated over 40 weeks of paid sick leave during her time at UT, equivalent

to an entire school year. She never used them until last semester.

If an employee or their immediate family member is suffering from a “catastrophic” condition requiring long-term care that would “exhaust all leave time earned,” that employee would be eligible to use the Sick Leave Pool, according to UT policy.

The Sick Leave Pool is created through donated sick leave hours. Employees can receive up to 720 hours, or about four and a half months of work, from the pool.

“You know, in this case, you’re contributing to your fellow coworkers, and you know a lot of people are of the belief that what goes around comes around,” said Adrienne Howarth-Moore, the associate vice president and chief officer of UT’s Human Resources Department.

Thirty employees used the paid sick leave pool in the spring, totaling 7,676 hours. The pool currently has 2,090,575 hours available, Howarth-Moore said.

Employees can also donate their accumulated time to others directly. After those resources are exhausted, the University is required to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid sick leave through the Family Medical Leave Act. “We allow you to exhaust all your leave options, then we have to start thinking about whether or not it’s feasible for you to return to work,” Howarth-Moore said. “At some point, we do have to make decisions that, if you’re just unavailable for work, maybe separation from employment is the next phase.”

What Happens to The Classes Once news of Green’s situation reached campus, it became the department’s job to handle her three courses: an introductory sociology course, an undergraduate seminar and an honors course. Sociology department manager Julie Kniseley and department chair Robert Crosnoe were in charge getting a replacement instructor as quickly as possible.

That required asking other faculty members to take on more work.

“I’ve been working at UT for almost 10 years, and we’ve had several faculty members become ill, and we’ve always found someone,” Kniseley said. “People are very generous and willing to help in these situations.”

Mehdi Haghshenas, a senior lecturer in the sociology department and close friend of Green’s, was one of several faculty members

who took over her classes while she was gone.

On top of his own three classes, he managed her honors seminar for the rest of the semester and helped with the introductory course.

“Even though I had three other courses and other responsibilities, I felt this was a very great duty,” Haghshenas said. “I take this kind of responsibility really seriously.”

Haghshenas and others handled her classes for a few weeks before the department eventually canceled lectures for Green’s introductory course and undergraduate seminar. Green also made changes to the grading policy and dropped the last exam and writing assignment to ensure students got credit for the course.

Bringing in a new lecturer proved difficult for the introductory course. Teaching assistants are not allowed to teach courses by themselves, so the four TAs in Green’s introductory course helped the replacement lecturers, making sure they did not stray from the syllabus.

Chen Liang, one of the assistants, said in an email the TAs’ workload increased significantly, and they had to do tasks they traditionally don’t do, such as writing exam questions.

“The whole issue was the department didn’t foresee the possibility of someone leaving or ending the class in the middle of the semester,” Liang said.

Green said her department was crucial during the recovery process. Haghshenas was among the first people she called when she was hospitalized. Green said faculty delivered the necessary paperwork to and from her recovery bed.

While she was in the hospital, her colleagues visited her and filled her hospital room with flowers.

“My God, my room looked like a florist’s,” Green said. “The amount of support I received from my department was unbelievable. They were absolutely wonderful.”

Green has now fully recovered. She returned to campus for the first two days of exam week to attend an honors colloquium where her students presented their findings.

With no summer classes scheduled, she said she will spend her days relaxing and traveling.

“I just cannot speak highly enough of the way I was treated by my department,” Green said. “It went as smoothly as a very yucky situation could have gone.”

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BROOKE SJOBERG LIFE&ARTS EDITOR @THEDAILYTEXAN

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019

FILM REVIEW

‘Child’s Play’ remake is gory fun

By Noah Levine @ZProductionz

Alexa, please don’t kill me.

“Child’s Play” is a reimagining of the 1988 horror classic of the same name. The remake, helmed by director Lars Klevberg, revolves around the bloodshed that surrounds a single mother (Aubrey Plaza) and her son (Gabriel Bateman) after he receives an artificial intelligence-enabled toy (voiced by Mark Hamill).

The film succeeds in its ability to reinvent the source material and bring to life a fun, yet morbid, tale of friendship and parenting.

The cast anchors “Child’s Play.” Bateman plays Andy, an independent teen who’s acclimating to his new life after moving. He portrays the character very honestly and adds a witty charm to this rendition of Andy by speaking his mind and displaying a strong bond with his single mother.

Plaza is a scene-stealer as Andy’s mother. She’s going through the motions, doing whatever it takes to support her son, yet has an irresistible edge that works well comedically. She comfortably embraces her situation and even pokes fun at it. The two characters work well together, creating a heartfelt mother-son pairing that adds a backbone to their arcs.

The supporting cast is sufficient as well, with Brian Tyree Henry playing a reassuring detective and David Lewis playing a cheating boyfriend who practically begs people to hate him. Hamill taps into his creepier side with his voicework for Chucky himself. It’s not quite the iconic dialect of Brad Dourif, but it certainly is unsettling in the way it borders the line that separates cute from

copyright orion pictures, and reproduced with permission The original Chucky was more supernatural compared to the remake’s AI-powered antagonist, which has a different sort of intelligence.

menacing. Absolutely wonderful puppeteering work aids his performance by emphasizing the uncanniness of a lifelike moving doll.

While the original film depicted Chucky as a once-immobile doll that becomes possessed by a serial killer, the remake grounds the story further into reality.

Chucky is an artificially intelligent “Buddi” toy programmed to move, talk and monitor other technology connected to cloud storage. By allowing Chucky to be lifelike from the start, the

film is able to play a bit more with the concept of having a doll as a best friend. Surprisingly, it recalls shades of Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” and makes for some cute and heartfelt sequences between Andy and the mobile Chucky.

Once things turn evil, Andy and his gang of friends work together to stop the killer doll.

There’s lots of dark humor, and the film practically oozes blood. The finale will certainly put a guilty smile on any horror fan’s face.

Something that the film struggles with is the way it attempts to present Chucky’s morality. At first, the doll’s hit list comprises horrible people, so there’s a bit of a guilty pleasure in seeing them dismembered. But he targets a few innocents who are killed for pure shock value. Yes, this is a slasher film where good people die, but when many of the main characters killed are bad people, the killing of a morally innocent character feels like a tonal shift.

“Child’s Play” isn’t trying to

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be the next arthouse film or a revolutionary horror flick that takes large strides to convey a powerful message. It’s simply a deliciously gory, fun and diabolical tale that serves as a reminder of how technology is evolving frighteningly fast.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019

WNBA

Former Longhorns seize opportunity, raise WNBA profile

By Stephen Wagner @stephenwag22

Since the start of the WNBA season on May 24, Texas has had three former stars appear in WNBA games. The former Longhorns Brooke McCarty-Williams, Imani McGee-Stafford and Ariel Atkins have all had opportunities to add to their teams’ efforts through the first month of the WNBA season.

While they’re best remembered for their contributions to Karen Aston’s 2014-15 and 201516 Texas squads — two of her best since arriving at Texas in 2012 — they’re recognized today for their performances at the highest level of women’s basketball.

Here’s a rundown of the three Longhorns in the WNBA: Ariel Atkins It’s pretty hard to beat Ariel Atkins’ résumé.

Atkins capped off a stellar

career at Texas by being drafted No. 7 overall in the 2018 Draft by the Washington Mystics, becoming the third-highest drafted player in program history.

Following a stellar rookie season capped off by powering the Mystics to their first WNBA Finals appearance, Atkins has picked up where she left off.

The second-year guard has been nothing short of stellar through Washington’s first 10 games. Atkins has steadily emerged as a rising star by averaging nearly 24 minutes per game while ranking third on her team in scoring behind superstar Elena Delle Donne and veteran Kristi Toliver, thrusting the Mystics into second place in the Eastern Conference.

Assuming Atkins remains healthy, the Mystics are in prime position to return to the WNBA Finals.

Imani McGee-Stafford Now in her fourth year in the WNBA and first with the Dallas Wings, the 6-foot-7 sister of NBA center JaVale McGee has shown that family genetics carry over.

Much like her brother, McGee-Stafford has spent her professional career as a role-playing big. Despite the change in scenery, her game early on this season hasn’t been any different.

Although McGee-Stafford’s averages have declined in most major categories (points, rebounds and blocks per game) throughout her career, the young season sprouts hope for McGee-Stafford to blossom into the player the Chicago Sky

GOOD. CLEAN. FUN.

juan figueroa | the daily texan file Former Texas guard Ariel Atkins drives in the paint during the Longhorns’ 81-65 loss to Baylor on Jan. 25 in Waco, Texas. Atkins was drafted the following summer by the Washington Mystics.

envisioned when they drafted her 10th overall in 2016.

The Wings, who are last place in the Western Conference, have shown new faith in the former Longhorn, now reunited with Brooke McCarty-Williams.

McGee-Stafford has started three of Dallas’ eight games this season, playing more than 15 minutes in four of them.

Although the Wings aren’t as competetive as McGee-Stafford’s former team, the Atlanta Dream, they offer her the opportunity to play — one Atlanta wasn’t able to provide.

Brooke McCarty-Williams At this time last year, McCarty-Williams’ professional future was unclear. Undrafted out of college, McCarty-Williams was invited to the Los Angeles Sparks 2018 training camp but didn’t make the final roster.

Determined to have a professional career, McCarty took her talents to Europe, where she spent the year overseas with Peli-Karhut of the Finnish Korisliiga. McCarty-Williams shined in the Finnish league, averaging 17.5 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.

Her play caught the attention of the Wings, who have given her

a chance in the spotlight.

With star point guard Skylar Diggins-Smith out on maternity leave, McCarty-Williams has received generous amounts of playing time, though she hasn’t made the most of it. McCarty-Williams is averaging more than 21 minutes per game through Dallas’ first eight games of the season, but has struggled from the field, shooting just over 26% to go along with 3.9 points per game.

McCarty-Williams’ poor start could lead to a reduction of minutes considering she currently has the worst shooting percentage on the team.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019

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Pride or profit: LGBT students discuss Pride Month branding

By Sandra Torres @sandy_graci

The month of June — Pride Month — brings an array of emotions to the LGBT community, including pride, love and possession. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 marked the beginning of marches for equality and acceptance of the LGBT community.

Store windows and advertisements showcase rainbow-themed items such as flags, shirts and signs. This support comes with a variety of reactions from Longhorns who are part of the LGBT community.

Accounting junior Claire Levinson is president of the Gay Business Student Association, which promotes LGBT

representation in the corporate world. Levinson said she only buys merchandise from LGBT creators and artists during Pride Month.

“A lot of corporations … come off as trying to profit off us by sewing a rainbow on a T-shirt … saying ‘love is love’ … selling it for a profit and not giving much back to the community,” Levinson said.

Levinson said she shops for Pride merchandise in January and February.

“I try to avoid commercial products in June unless I know it’s coming from an LGBT-run business or they’re giving 50% or more (of profits) to an LGBT organization,” Levinson said.

History and anthropology senior Bailee Ufert, member

of the LGBT community, said there are benefits and consequences to corporations using Pride Month to introduce Pride merchandise.

“It can be a good thing for stores to show their support for the LGBT community,” Ufert said. “I’m all for normalizing the LGBT community, but we must be careful about these companies,” Ufert said.

Forbes reported that nine different corporations that sell Pride-related merchandise in June donated millions to anti-LGBT politicians. Among those corporations, the biggest donations were from AT&T ($2,755,000), UPS ($2,366,122) and Comcast ($2,116,500).

Many businesses launched campaigns to celebrate equality. According to the H&M website, their campaign “Stay True, Stay You” will give 10% of global sales from the collection to the United Nations’ Free & Equal campaign. Additionally, Target’s campaign spreads support through the #TakePride hashtag and with a $100,000 donation to GLSEN, an organization that works to create safe and affirming schools for all children in K-12 education.

Mark Bejemino, accounting senior and Gay Business Student Association vice president of finance, said he knows there is concern within the LGBT community about corporate involvement in Pride. Bejemino said he borrowed his pridewear from a friend because some of the

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Pride-themed merchandise was too expensive.

“To a certain extent, they are using our community to earn a quick buck,” Bejemino said. “But it’s very endearing to know that a lot

of corporations support the LGBT community.”

Bejemino said the best way for businesses and corporations to approach Pride merchandising is to give back to the LGBT community.

| the daily texan staff

“Especially now, with the political climate, it’s very important for us to be heard,” Bejemino said. “We need all the support we can get, even if that involves selling a couple of shirts.”

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mike mcgraw | the daily texan file During Mooov-In on Aug. 23-24, thousands of students and family members will fill residence halls. Hanging lights, candles, toasters and other appliances with heating elements are not allowed in dorm rooms.

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sheets that will fit.

“Students can also bring in a futon or a mattress pad, or if they even want to bring a mattress, they can,” Samuel said. “However, they can not take the dorm furniture out of their room, so if they’re bringing something in, they just need to realize that.”

Any lamps students bring need to have compact fluorescent or LED lightbulbs, Samuel said.

“We have found that incandescent lightbulbs burn out quickly, they use up a lot of energy and the heat from the bulbs can start a fire,” Samuel said. “Because of that … we have now fully endorsed compact fluorescent lightbulbs.”

Hanging lights, candles, toasters and other appliances with heating elements are also not allowed in dorm rooms. Resident assistants will check rooms twice every semester for potential fire hazards, Samuel said.

“We like to educate our residents and make sure that their environment is a learning environment, so we actually

provide a quiz for students to take during their first violation,” Samuel said. “But if they’re a second violator, then you could pursue a fine.”

Samuel said students should look at the dorms during orientation to get an idea of how much space they will have.

“Make sure you look around to see what we provide you already in the room, and then if you bring your basics when you move in, you can always bring more stuff later,” Samuel said. “And then talk to your roommate, because you don’t want to both bring rugs or TVs.” Resident assistant Alex Jackson said he recommends students also talk to their roommates about living preferences before moving in.

“Talk about when to take out the trash, if you want to go to bed early on school nights and if you are comfortable with having people over, stuff like that,” mechanical engineering junior Jackson said. “This can help prevent conflicts later in the year.”

University Housing and Dining provides a full list of prohibited items along with more information on their websiteand in the Residence Hall Manual.

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