Residential Life
Below is a list of items residents will typically bring and a list of prohibited items. Please note that the list of suggested items to bring is not all-inclusive and no item on the list is required.
What To Bring to Campus
Bedroom
- Bathroom shower mat
- Bathroom wastebasket
- Bedding: beds are Twin XL
- Cleaning supplies: dish and hand soap
- Decorations
- Foam mattress pad
- Pillows
- Toiletries
- Toilet paper
Laundry
- Coat hangers
- Fabric softener
- Laundry hamper
- Laundry detergent
Kitchen
- Broom and dustpan
- Cleaning supplies, dish and hand soap
- Countertop cleaner
- Dish drying rack
- Dishes, plates, cups, bowls
- Microwave: one per apartment to be kept in the kitchen
- Paper towels, dish towels
- Place mats
- Silverware
- Swiffer, mop
- Tablecloths
- Toaster: must have auto shut-off and be UL approved
- Toilet paper
- Wastebaskets: must be made of metal or plastic (no wicker wastebaskets)
Other items
- Air fresheners: must be UL approved
- Area rugs/ carpet: must have padding if covering hardwood floors
- Batteries
- Bicycle: must not block egress (door or window of room)
- Computer or laptop
- Fish bowl: for fish only, tank not to exceed 2 gallons
- Hair dryer/curling iron: hand-held only, must be UL approved
- Indoor/outdoor decorative lights: must be UL approved
- Iron: must have auto shut-off and be be UL Approved
- Ironing board
- Lamps desk and/or floor lamp: must be UL approved
- Pictures of family and friends
- Plug strip/surge protector: must have built-in circuit and be UL approved
- Posters/wall coverings: must not exceed 50% of wall and cannot use duct tape or nails; tacks only.
- School supplies
- Stereo: only one per apartment
- Television
Prohibited Items in Student Housing
- Air conditioners
- Amplifiers
- BB guns
- Candles (with or without wicks, including decorative candles)
- Cardboard drawer units
- Ceiling fans
- Coffee pots or makers (Keurig's are allowed to be kept in the kitchen)
- Decorations that have adhesive
- Drum sets
- Duct tape
- Electric appliances
- Electric blankets
- Electric guitars
- Extension cords (non-UL approved)
- Firearms
- Fireworks
- Fishnets and other ceiling decorations
- Flammable liquids
- Full-size sofas/couches
- Gasoline
- Gasoline-powered equipment
- Halogen (pole) lamps
- Halogen desk lamps with tubular bulbs
- Heating elements (immersion type)
- Heating units
- Hookahs
- Hot plates (including George Foreman Grill)
- Hot pots
- Instant Cooker
- Crock-Pot / Slow Cooker
- Hover boards
- Immersion cup heaters
- Incense
- Indoor/outdoor decorative lights (non-UL approved)
- Kerosene
- Knives (other than kitchen knives)
- Lamps (kerosene, oil types)
- Loft units
- Mattress from home
- Multi-outlet adapters
- Musical instruments that amplify
- Non-UL approved items
- Paint
- Paint thinner
- Paneling
- Pets (except fish)
- Plug in air fresheners
- Potpourri burners
- Table model ranges
- Space heaters
- Sterno warming cans
- Sun lamps
- Toasters (non-UL approved without auto shutoff)
- Vaporizers: (non-UL approved)
- Waterbeds
- Weapons of any kind
- Wicker waste paper baskets
- Wicker furniture
- All other burning/heating equipment or any other potential fire hazards
