Certain guidelines and standards concerning room care and safety aspects have been established by Residence Life. Be sure to read this section as residents are responsible for the following information:

• The only furniture that should be stacked in your room are beds that are either bunked or lofted and bookshelves that are placed on top of desks or dressers. Stacking other furniture could result in serious injury to students and/or damage to the furniture.
• Do not disassemble any furnishings, or detach them from the wall or floor (such as removing closet doors, detaching sinks, removing the hardware that anchors wardrobes to the wall, etc).
• Residents may request to have their beds bunked or lofted. SUBMIT A LOFT/BUNK REQUEST
• Residents are responsible for all of the furniture that is currently in their room/apartment. Under no circumstance will Residence Life remove and/or store any furniture from the facilities. 
• Lounge and lobby furniture is meant to be enjoyed by the residence hall community as a whole, and should not be moved into student rooms. Violators may face disciplinary action, a charge for removal of the furniture, or both.
• Waterbeds or other water filled furniture is not allowed. 
• Exercise caution and good judgment in the decoration of room windows, as this area is considered public and visible to both University and non-university community members. We reserve the right to ask you to remove from public view any signs or objects deemed offensive to others or prejudicial to the overall goals of the university.
• At the time of check-out students are expected to leave their rooms in the same condition as when they moved in.

Purpose

Policy

• Accessing another student's computer without permission
• Installing software on a lab computer
• Illegally downloading copyrighted files

Residents share in the responsibility of maintaining a safe and secure living environment. With this in mind, students are encouraged to close and lock their door whenever they leave their room. Students may not give their room/apartment key(s) or student ID to any other person. Please take your room key when you leave the room. Never leave your keys or valuables out in the open. If you become locked out, go to the front desk to check-out a 1-hour loaner key. Residents may check out this key two (2) times each semester at no cost. Thereafter, residents will be assessed a $25.00 charge for each additional time that they check out the lockout key. If a resident needs a loaner key after 10:00 pm they must contact the hall RA on duty. The loaner key must be returned within 1 hour. Failure to return the key within 1 hour will result in an immediate lock change. The cost of the lock change will be assessed to the student’s account. If a resident loses a key, they are required to obtain a temporary replacement key (a loaner key) immediately from the front desk. A work order will be submitted to change your lock for security reasons. The cost of the lock change will be assessed to the student’s account. New keys can then be obtained at the Front Desk.

Painting of student rooms is prohibited. Residents wishing to paint public areas (e.g., floor lobbies and hallways) should submit a proposal to the Assistant Director of Residence Life for Facilities that includes a drawing, colors, dimensions and purpose. If approved, the proposal will be referred to the maintenance staff for consideration. Upon final approval, painting public space is subject to general guidelines and supervision of the maintenance staff.

Lounges are designed for the use and enjoyment of all residents. As such, no common area furniture may be taken from the lounges or designated areas and placed in student rooms or moved to other locations. Students found responsible for removing lounge furniture will be referred to disciplinary actions and charged the cost to repair or replace damaged or missing furniture.

Residents are restricted from accessing unauthorized areas of buildings (i.e. elevator shafts, roofs of buildings, mechanical rooms, other non-public areas, etc.) where they are not clearly and willfully allowed. Students who enter these areas will be subject to disciplinary actions as this is considered trespassing and places their safety in jeopardy.

Room entry and safety inspections will occur periodically. The university balances the right to privacy of the resident students with the responsibility to maintain a safe environment for all students and staff in the residence halls. The university will take all reasonable steps to ensure the residents of a room receive adequate notice prior to entry by university personnel for the purposes of verifying occupancy, repair, inventory, construction, and/or inspection. The university also reserves the right to enter a residence room without notice for responding to real or reasonably perceived health and safety emergencies, and/or to ensure evacuation during fire alarms, during vacation period and/or to respond to situations where there is a reasonable suspicion that a violation of the law or university policy is occurring or has occurred inside a particular room. Under such circumstances, it is not necessary that the room’s resident(s) be present; nor will a resident’s refusal, either verbal or physical, prevent an entry or inspection. By entering into the Student Housing Agreement, the student consents to the room entry and inspection under those circumstances indicated.

Sprinklers have been installed in the majority of our residence halls to provide maximum protection from fire. It is imperative that this equipment be properly respected and maintained. A student tampering with sprinklers, which includes hanging things from pipes or sprinkler heads, places the residence hall at risk and these situations are taken seriously. Students found responsible for tampering with sprinklers may be subject to a disciplinary fine and additional disciplinary action will be taken. Students are responsible for any damages that may occur from tampering with a sprinkler system.

The supplied appliances in student rooms/apartments are for the convenience of the residents. Because of the damage that occurs to these appliances and for the safety of the residents, appliances may not be disassembled or taken apart in any manner. Disassembling appliances will result in minimum of a $100 fine.

Removal of windows, screens, and window safety devices is prohibited. Individuals are restricted from entering or exiting a room or building through windows/balconies, even with the consent of the resident residing in said room. For health and safety reasons, nothing may be thrown into or out of windows (see Breaking the Plane, Article II, Section 202, Item 4 of the Loyola University Chicago ). Removal of window screens or window safety devices will result in applicable charges to cover labor, materials, etc. and the student will be in violation of the university Community Standards.