Your Room
A new place to live, rearrange, and decorate the way you and your roommate want! But you have a few questions- like how big is it? What do I need to bring? Here are a few answers.
The size of your room is:
- 14ft x 11ft (Alumni & Titus)
- 15 ft. x 11ft. (Ruth Hall)
The furniture already in each dorm room is:
- two beds (loftable)
- two twin mattresses (36"x 80"- need extra long sheets)
- two- three drawer dressers
- two desks & two chairs
- two closets
- Alumni Hall's are 45" wide by 74" high (each has a shelf on the top, 14" from the top, no doors)
- Ruth Hall's are 37" wide by 100" high (each has a shelf on the top, 42" from the ceiling to bottom of the shelf, shelf height is included in the total height, no doors)
Your room also has:
- one overhead light (you might want to bring additional lamps for your desk or for reading.
- four sets of outlets that are triple pronged (two sets on each side)
Phone
Each room has a phone jack, but students must provide the phone. Local telephone and on-campus calls are free. Long distance calls may be made with a calling card.
You have your own four digit extension on campus. Your number at school is (217) 732-7788.
Internet & Computer
All dorms have wireless Internet access. If you will be bringing a PC or laptop to campus, please help us keep our network free of viruses, spyware, and other malicious programs. The steps below will help keep your computer safe as well as the campus network.
- UPDATE WINDOWS: Open Internet Explorer (web browser), click on Tools > Windows Update and install any critical or high priority updates. If you haven't run Windows update for some time you may have to run it several times since some updates won't appear until others have been installed first. Keep re-running Windows Update until no critical or high priority updates are listed.
- ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM: Install an anti-virus program on your computer and run a full scan of your computer with the latest anti-virus updates. You are required to have an antivirus program on your computer to access our network.
- ANTI-SPYWARE PROGRAM: Install an anti-spyware program on your computer and run a full scan of your computer with the latest anti-spyware updates.