- 32 - NSU Office of Residence Life Lofts An extremely popular residence hall student request is to loft the bed for sleeping and to aid in room storage. To help provide guidelines in this area, the Office of Residence Life has adopted the following set of regulations: Loft renting is currently available to any resident that lives in a room where a newer model of bed has been placed (Kramer, Steele & Briscoe). If you are interested in lofting these beds Residence Life has a small amount of loft kits available for rent on a first come first serve basis for $75 per semester. Talk to your Hall Staff if you are interested. Lofts must not be constructed across an exit way. Students are not allowed to build their own lofts. 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. Practice rooms can be found in the Johnson Fine Arts Center and Spafford Hall. 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. Should students have a noise complaint, they must first approach the room where the excessive noise is emitting from and respectfully ask the residents to quiet down BEFORE they ask a CA to respond. 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
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