Residence Hall and Suite Facts

Your Hall
Cottey StudentsEach residence hall has the following areas:

  • Student suites (10 each in P.E.O. Hall and Reeves Hall and  14 in Robertson Hall).
  • Large, formal parlor area with reception area, seating, a grand  piano, and a dedicated news TV.
  • Basement recreation room with seating, a TV with digital cable,  an oven, and a piano.
  • TV/VCR/DVD room to view videos or DVDs.
  • Basement laundry area with coin-operated washers and dryers.  The cost is $1.00 to wash and $1.00 to dry per load.
  • Air-conditioned computer suite with eight–eleven IBM compatible  computers with scanners, printers, and CD burners.
  • Air-conditioned quiet study room
  • A basement storage area, known as the Trunk Room. You will be  assigned a shared trunk bin in the first full week of classes for  long-term storage.
  • Each hall is staffed with a live-in hall director and three resident  assistants. You can read about your hall staff elsewhere in this  booklet.

The Physical Suite

  • Suites include a shared living area, a small kitchen area, a common bathroom, and individual double and single student bed rooms.
  • The suite living area includes group seating (either sectionals or  sofas), upholstered side chairs, a study table with chairs, lamps,  a large wall mirror, wall art, a large suite window with a window  seat, and a reference shelf with a dictionary and other reference  books. Personal items, such as posters, pictures, furniture, etc.,  are not permitted in the suite area.
  • Kitchen items provided by the College include a refrigerator,  microwave, hot plate, ladder, shelving unit, and ironing board.  Many other various kitchen items such as irons, plates, glasses,  silverware, cooking items, etc. are in summer storage until after  the second-year students return to campus. The number and  type of stored kitchen items vary by suite.
  • The shared bathroom includes a bathtub (except for Wallace  Suite in Robertson Hall), two showers, two toilets, large wall  mirror, wooden drying rack, and a number of sinks.
  • Student bedrooms are either double or single rooms.

Suite Facts

  • Each suite is endowed by a state chapter of the P.E.O. Sister- hood, a group of state chapters, or an individual donor.
  • Public areas of each suite are cleaned each weekday by a member of the Cottey housekeeping staff. This includes daily  cleaning of the bathroom areas, weekly dusting, vacuuming, and  other general cleaning.
  • Suite size ranges between six and 14 members, with the  average suite size being 10 members. Walk-in suites each house  10 students. Walk-through suites vary in size from 10 to 14 members.
  • Almost all the suites have a mix of new and returning students,  as well as geographic diversity. Most suites will have an international student assigned to them, as well as students from  different areas of the country.

Suite Members Responsibilities
As a member of a suite, each student has some basic responsibilities. Simply, these are:

  • To keep the suite area free of personal belongings so that the  housekeepers can clean your suite for you.
  • To do your part to keep personal and suite dishes done in the  kitchen area in the manner determined by the suite at the  beginning of the year.
  • To be respectful of others.
  • To communicate openly and honestly with other suitemates  about issues and concerns.

Your Room
Double rooms contain two of each of the following; single rooms contain one of each and triple rooms contain three of each.

  • Single-size closet (hanging width varies between 35 and 49  inches)
  • Desk and desk chair
  • Dresser
  • Twin bed (standard twin size mattress)
  • Mattress pad
  • Window shade and curtain rod (window size varies–almost all  double rooms have two windows, but a handful only have one)