Your
Room
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What to Bring - The Basics
Electrical Appliances
Prohibited Items
Most students share double or triple rooms.
Singles are assigned to students who have lived on campus the longest
(see Selection Priority)
Your room will have basic furniture including:
- Single bed frame and mattress
(mattress dimensions - 80" long x 36" wide)
- Desk and chair
- Bookcase
- Bureau
- Wardrobe or closet
Note: The only furniture allowed
in student rooms or apartments is issued by the University of Massachusetts
Amherst. The furniture must stay in that room/apartment and cannot
be stored. Overstuffed, plastic, or combustible furnishings procured
from other sources may be a safety hazard or pose an increased risk
of fire. You may be able to obtain an exception to this policy if
your furniture passes inspection by the Office of Environmental Health
and Safety (EH&S), 545-2682, or carries a label certifying it
as meeting California test TB 133.
Local
telephone service is provided, but you have to bring your own
telephone. All rooms are connected to a University
cable television system. Service includes local and regional
programming, a movie channel, a student-run station and various
satellite networks.
Below are some guidelines for what you
can and cannot bring when you move into your new campus home.
What
You Should Bring - The Basics
- Blankets
- Clothes hangers
- Desk lamp
- Pillows
- Sheets (to fit mattress 80" long
x 36" wide)
- Towels
- Touch-tone telephone* (Excluding the
North Apartments. See note below.)
Residence hall beds are 80" long
x 36" wide.
*The university provides one telephone
located in the kitchen of the North Apartments for all occupants
to share. There
is no phone
connection within each bedroom of the apartment.
Please arrange your room in an energy
efficient and/or environmentally sensitive manner. For example, please
bring compact flourescent lamps instead of incandescent lamps.
For a more detailed list of items to bring
to campus, go to Living at UMass, "What
to Bring".
Electrical
Appliances
The following electrical appliances can
be used in your room:
- CD player/stereo system
- Coffee maker with an automatic shut-off
and integrated duel safety circuit
- Computer equipment
- DVD
- Fan
- Heating pad
- Lamp (please use compact flourescent
instead of incandescent)
- Microwave/refrigerator with integrated
circuit
(For information on renting an approved unit from MicroFridge, an
authorized vendor, call 800-577-8041 or visit their website.)
- Portable hair dryer
- Radio
- Small refrigerator - 3.0 cu.ft. or
less - with a ground adapter plug
- Television set
- VCR
All appliances with exposed heating coils
or those that can become excessively hot are potential fire hazards
and are prohibited from your room.
The following items may be used in common
areas only (kitchenettes, laundry rooms, and utility rooms):
- Coffee makers that do not have an automatic
shut-off
- Corn poppers
- Electric frying pans
- Hot plates
- Irons
- Microwave ovens
- Sun lamps
- Toasters
Prohibited
Items
You may not have hazardous items in your
room at all. Possession of any items listed below violates the Residence
Hall Regulations in the Code of Student Conduct and will result in
disciplinary action.
Prohibited items include:
- Incense
- Candles*
- Air conditioners
- Electric cooking grills
- Firearms or lethal weapons of any sort
- Facsimiles of weapons
- Fireworks or explosives
- Flammable liquids
- Gas-powered equipment
- Halogen Lamps
- Laser pointers
- Lighted smoking materials
- Octopus lamps
- Pellet guns
- Pets (except for service animals and
fish in 10-gallon tanks)
- Pyrotechnic devices of any sort
- Quartz heaters
- Space heaters
- Waterbeds
*Except for religious purposes only in
designated areas as outlined in the Residence Hall Manual.
