Musical Instruments Musical instruments may be played quietly in your room except during quiet hours. However, at any time such activity results in a complaint, residents are expected to stop playing Noise and Disruption Each student should have the right to sleep or study without unreasonable restriction in his/her own room at any time during the day or night. Excessive noise and disruption will not be tolerated in the residence halls. Quiet/Courtesy Hours All residents share the need and responsibility for creating and maintaining a community environment conducive to serious study and sleep. Therefore, the following quiet hours have been established to help in fulfilling residents' study and sleep needs: Sunday-Thursday: 11 P.M.-11 A.M. Friday and Saturday: 1 A.M.-12 P.M. Residents are responsible for regulation of these quiet hours by: Respectfully confronting those who violate the hours. Regularly honoring requests to discontinue disturbing noise. Abiding by the established quiet/courtesy hours. If you encounter a noise problem, ask the offenders to be quiet, if they persist, contact your Hall Staff member on-duty. Courtesy hours indicate that it should always be quiet enough so that anyone who wants to, can sleep or study by asking others to quiet down. Students are expected to respect the requests of others for quiet, and share in the responsibility for developing and maintaining a positive atmosphere in their room/suite, on their wing, floor and building. Courtesy hours are in effect 24 hours a day. Pets Students are not permitted to have pets in residence halls except for fish in aquariums and those students needing the assistance of a service animal (see Service Animal Policy). Aquarium size is limited to one 10 gallon tank per room. The residence hall environments are not designed for the proper care of pets. The presence of pets affects the health of other residents, has the potential for property damage and inconvenience to other residents. Upon receiving permission from the Director of Residence Life, the professional staff may be allowed to have a pet. Recording Devices In accordance with the Code of Student Conduct, the following behavior is prohibited and may result in removal from the university: • Making, attempting to make, transmitting, or attempting to transmit audio or video of any person(s) on University premises in bathrooms, showers, bedrooms, or other premises where there is an explicit expectation of privacy with respect to nudity and/or sexual activity, without the knowledge and consent of all participants subject to such recordings. • The use and/or possession or camera doorbells in the residence hall. • Undisclosed and unauthorized recording of other individuals and/or personal property within the University community, including but not limited to social and digital media platforms.
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