LSC checks out

5/1/08

Avery Williams
Special to the Critic

With the end of the semester approaching all residents living on campus will have to deal with more than their final exams and projects. They will have the job of moving all of their belongings from their current room and follow a list of check out procedures. To insure that this will go without complications I will go over a list of instructions to make this easy for you.

You have 24 hours after your last exam to leave the residential halls. In every hall there will be a sign up board with a list of times and resident assistants on duty at that time. As the resident you will be required to sign up at least 24 hours before you leave.

When the time you sign up has arrived you will have the responsible to find the resident assistant who you signed up under. They will not come looking for you and will not drop everything they are doing if you do not arrive on time. If you miss this time the best thing to do would be to find the RA and find the next best time that would be open for a check out.

Before you go to your RA to check out you must have all of the following done. Everything that is in your room that belongs to you must be moved out. Even if this is in the suite it is acceptable. Second is that all of your furniture must be moved to the state that it was when you originally moved into your room. Nothing can be stacked or bunked, and all of the original furniture has to be in the room. This will also apply for suites where there is furniture.

The room must be cleaned, to get a vacuum talk to your RA and they will sign one out for you. All of the trash must be out of the room and put down the trash chute. Once again, if you have missed one or more of these things your RA will not do your check out and you must find a new time.

When you get through all of this you must have your room and suite keys ready. The RA on duty will bring your Room Condition Report and check your room against what it was when you moved in. After going through this you will return your keys and be moved out for the summer, if not longer.

In the Arnold/Bayley Residential halls a new check out procedure will be tried this year. The traditional version will still be an option, but for those who are interested in it there will be meetings for Bayley on Sunday at 9pm and Arnold at 8pm respectively.

Any damages that have happened to your room will be charged to you. Fines will also be given out to dirty rooms, lost sets of keys and failing to check out. All of this comes from the Student Life procedures. If there are any more questions feel free to ask your RA. Have a great summer.