SOP III participants. (Freshmen and transfers) are scheduled for check-in Tuesday, August 26, between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Freshman move-in. Freshmen who participated in SOP I and II should arrive Wednesday, August 27, between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.
The "Focus on First Year" program begins Wednesday, August 27, with convocation. All freshmen and new students are highly encouraged to participate.
Upperclass student move-in. Upperclass students will not be allowed to return to campus housing before Friday, August 29, without special advance approval from Residential Life. Requests should be based on the guidelines listed below. Special living conditions (temporary space) and a $35-a-day, early-rent charge will be in effect in exchange for early move-in privileges. Students who do not qualify for early move-in will have to secure other housing (hotel, motel, etc.) until University housing opens. All requests should be made by August 9 to be given strongest consideration, although guarantees are not possible. Priority will be given as follows:
1. Students who the University deems necessary to perform specific, essential duties for University move-in, orientation, and pre-opening functions.
2. Students enrolled in formally organized University programs that start before the open move-in date--athletic teams, for example.
3. Students enrolled or employed in formal University activities or programs that are not directly related to the academic year opening program but that require participation in training programs or performance of specific duties before the regularly scheduled move-in date for their housing group.
4. In years when the halls open in September, students with private housing leases that expire on the last day of August, leaving them without a suitable housing alternative until their scheduled move-in date. Students with leases expiring earlier generally must secure alternate housing elsewhere. Requests must be accompanied by a photocopy of the lease agreement.
5. Lowest priority for early move-in will be given to applications based on personal inconvenience that results from the opening schedule.
To receive an early move-in application, contact the Office of Residential Life, Room 20, Gates, Susan B. Anthony Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. 14627; (716) 275-3166; fax (716) 442-7941.
Upperclass student check-in dates and times are: Friday, August 29, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, August 30, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, August 31, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Monday, September 1, 2-5 p.m.; and Tuesday, September 2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
For check-in after September 2, contact your area office.
Check-in locations for all: Quad--Zornow, Faculty Road entrance; Anthony--service desk, first-floor lobby; Towers--service desk, basement; Hill Court--Multipurpose Room (Kendrick basement); deKiewiet--service desk, first-floor lobby.
All area check-in locations are open Labor Day weekend (August 30-September 1). The Office of Residential Life will be open 11 a.m.-1 p.m. each day during the holiday weekend.
Students who plan to live off campus should begin their search for housing at least three to four weeks before they would like to move in. If possible, plan a special "housing trip" to Rochester and include a visit to the University's Community Living Information Center (CLIC) located in Room 20, Gates, Susan B. Anthony Hall. CLIC maintains rental listings, maps, general information on leases and apartment mates, and telephones for making housing inquiries.
For more information, call (716) 275-1081, or e-mail offcampus@reslife.rochester.edu.
All rooms in the River Campus residence hall system and at the Eastman Student Living Center are equipped with ROLMphones. In addition to providing voice service, these telephones are equipped with a voice messaging service and can be individually equipped to provide data communications to both on campus and off campus terminals and hosts. The University is in Phase II of the residential networking (ResNet) project. Upon completion of ResNet, all River Campus residence halls, fraternities and Eastman School residences will be wired for high speed computer network access. This service allows students to use their computers in their residence rooms to access the Internet worldwide. Students also have access to on-campus information services like electronic mail, course descriptions and schedules, lecture notes, grades, and the library's state-of-the-art Voyager system. Students will need to equip their computers with Ethernet 10Base T Network Interface Cards and line cords to connect to this service. The University's Computer Sales department will be stocking line cords, the 3COM EtherLink
III 3C509B card for PCs, and Dayna and Focus Ethernet adapters for Macintoshes. University Computer Sales is located in Fauver Stadium.
The ROLMphone data feature will continue to be available on all ROLMphones on request. This feature allows students to connect their personal computers through an RS 232 C connector on the back of the ROLMphone and gain access to other such computers, to the University's computer systems, and to computer networks outside the University. Users will be able to conduct voice and data calls simultaneously without interference. Communications protocols for the various University mainframe computing facilities and access guides for computing utilities will be published by each of these service centers. Students who bring a PC to campus wanting to make data connections should make sure their PCs are equipped to use an RS 232 C interface. The data interface will be configured for 9600 bps with no parity. (Students may modify these parameters according to their needs.) A variety of interface cables can be purchased from University Computer Sales.
Students who live off campus may connect to the University backbone network for text-based connectivity by using a modem and dialing 256-7000. For complete details, obtain a Modem Pool and ROLM/ELAN Bridge User Guide by calling (716) 274-4357 and leaving your name and address. All River Campus and Eastman School of Music student telephones are equipped with PhoneMail, a voice messaging system that allows callers to leave messages. Each PhoneMail box can store up to five messages. Additional message capacity is available at an additional cost to the requesting student, and may be obtained by completing the appropriate section in the student telephone contract available in the Residential Life and residence halls offices. Instructions on the operation of the PhoneMail feature will be placed in rooms before students arrive on campus. Complete information and instructions on all aspects of the ROLM system will also be available in the front of the new student directory. Conventional telephone answering machines will not work on the University's ROLM telephone system.
Special equipment and services are available for students who are hearing impaired. For information about amplification, strobe light indicators, and the use of TDD equipment, call the University Telecommunications Division at (716) 274-4357.
University Directory Assistance is available weekdays (except University holidays) from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Calls placed to the University operator at all other times will be answered by an automated attendant that will provide information only on reaching critical departments and services. Students who wish to take advantage of the University's low cost long distance service need to obtain a UTD Student Services issued telephone authorization code. This code is valid from any University Rolmphone. Once issued, this au
thorization code will be valid for the duration of the student's stay at the University. The charges for calls placed using the authorization code will be billed directly to the student via the term bill from the Bursar. A telephone statement, itemizing those charges, will be mailed to the student's CPU box each month. Any student also may make private arrangements with another long distance carrier. There will be no University charge for access to these alternate carriers. However, the service provided by the University may prove to be the easiest to use, and competitive with other carriers' rates.
Telephone service contracts for the freshman class were mailed in early summer.
During the last week of August, University authorization codes will be delivered to the campus mailbox (CPU) of those freshman students who have returned their signed contract to Telecommunications, and who are registered for fall semester classes.
During the school year, telephone service contracts for mail in registration will be available in the Residential Life and residence halls offices. Students must be registered for classes before an authorization code is assigned. Once registration status has been confirmed, authorization codes will be delivered to the requesting student's campus mail box within three days of receipt of their signed contract in the Telecommunications Office. Eastman students may obtain student contracts at the Eastman Living Center reception
desk.
All University of Rochester students receive an ID card. These cards are required for access privileges to the library, athletic facilities, and residence halls as well as for accessing dining plans. Incoming freshman and transfer students obtain their initial ID cards during the orientation programs. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors will use their cards from the previous year.
All ID cards are encoded with an identification number and a lost card code. The lost card code is printed on the front of each card. As card are replaced, the lost card code is changed for security purposes.
Lost Cards. If your card is lost or stolen, report it immediately to the ID Office, (716) 275-3975, to disable your key account, or to the Corner Store, (716) 275-0223, after 7 p.m. Disabling your key account protects the account from fraudulent use. Also report the missing ID card to Security, (716) 275-3333. There is a $10 replacement fee for lost, stolen, or damaged ID cards.
Location and Hours. The River Campus ID Office is located on the first floor of the Susan B. Anthony Hall (location of former Hillside Restaurant). The office is open Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call (716) 275-3975.
The Medical Center ID Office, in Room G-6037, is open Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call (716) 275-4524.
Care and use of your card. Help extend the life and appearance of your ID card. Protect your card from any physical abuse. Don't punch holes in it or attach it to your key chain. Avoid running cards through washers and dryers. Don't fold or bend the card. Cards worn from normal usage can be replaced at either of the ID offices at no cost.
Key account deposit procedures. Deposits to key accounts can be made at the River Campus ID Office, Room 25, Hollister, Susan B. Anthony Hall, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The ID Office will accept payment in the form of cash, check, Visa, or MasterCard. The minimum deposit is $20.
Key account deposits may be made at any dining location. Ask any cashier for details.
Lockers. Lockers for books, jackets, and other belongings may be rented for the academic year at the ID Office. The fee of $25 includes a key/lock deposit of $15. (A refund of $15 will be issued if key/locks are returned by academic year's end.) Lockers are located in the tunnel at Rush Rhees, Hoyt, Morey, and on the fifth floor at Wilson Commons. Full-length lockers are also available in the Morey Hall and Rush Rhees tunnels.
Questions. Questions regarding the University ID Office may be directed to either office (see above) or to id@services.rochester.edu.
Danforth Dining Center will be open the week of August 24 for students required to be on campus. The academic year schedule begins Tuesday, September 2.
Weekdays: Douglass: 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Danforth: breakfast, 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; lunch, 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; dinner, 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hutchison Cart, 10:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday. Danforth: breakfast, 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; brunch, 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; dinner, 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The Common Ground Coffee House, 8:00 a.m. to Midnight, Monday through Friday. Saturday & Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to Midnight. The Corner Store, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. daily. Library Cart, 7:30 a.m. to Midnight daily. Blimpie's, 10:30 a.m. to Midnight, daily. Gepetto's Pizza, served in Douglass from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Delivery available 5 p.m. to Midnight, daily; call (716) 275-7583.
Three dining plan options are offered: A, B, or C. The option you choose determines the maximum number of meals at the discounted rate available to you in the dining centers.
The dining plan has two parts:
Option A (lunch and dinner): $2,860 (includes 199798 dining plan fee of $1,505 and minimum initial key account deposit of $1,355). Option A offers additional benefits, including a 20 percent discount in a la carte operations.
Option B (lunch or dinner): $2,092 (includes 199798 dining plan fee of $1,118 and minimum initial key account deposit of $974).
Option C (lunch, weekdays only): $1,045 (includes 199798 dining plan fee of $658 and minimum initial key account deposit of $387).
Breakfast is available to all options but is not included in the key account deposits shown above.
The following rates (including tax) apply:
Breakfast (available at Danforth only): cash price, $2.95, discounted dining center price, $2.50,
lunch, cash $6.15, discounted price $3.13, dinner, cash $7.85, discounted price, $3.89.
Dining plan changes. Students who are not required to be on a dining plan may change their option only from August 27 through September 19 or December 22 through January 30. A $10 accounting fee is charged and your dining plan credit will be pro-rated based on the cancellation date.
Dining Plan A is required if you are a freshman living on campus or you live in a residence hall that is not equipped for full meal preparation. These include Burton, Crosby, Gilbert, Hoeing, Lovejoy, Tiernan, Quad Annex, Fairchild, Munro, Slater, and Kendrick.
Students may purchase additional meals for themselves or their guests using their key account or cash. Supplemental deposits may be made during the year at the Customer Service Center. Any remaining key account balance at the end of the academic year will be refunded to students in the form of a credit to the term bill.
Students who have not already done so should enroll in a dining plan as soon as possible. Questions about the meals or plans are welcome at the Customer Service Center or call 1-800-661-1118 or (716) 275-8756.
Kosher meal plan. Kosher entrees for this plan are prepared in a certified kosher kitchen. The entrees, to be reheated by students in a designated microwave oven, will be available in Danforth Dining Center only to kosher meal plan participants. Students may supplement the kosher entree with unlimited selections from the salad bar and may choose side dishes, beverages, and desserts that are offered to all customers.
This modified kosher meal plan is a six-meal plan (three lunches and three dinners each week). The student chooses which days to eat those meals. The nonrefundable fee for the academic year kosher meal plan is $2,554, with a minimum initial key account deposit of $676. Total cost: $3,230.
Sign up for a kosher meal plan contract in the Customer Service Center, Susan B. Anthony Hall. The student's term bill will be charged accordingly.
The River Campus Post Office is located in the lower level of Todd Union.
Postal windows are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, from September through May; Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., June through August. The Campus Post Office sells stamps, money orders, and can register, insure, certify, or express mail.
Packages mailed to students' CPU boxes via UPS, RPS, Airborne, or Federal Express are accepted at the CPU. Mail is sorted throughout the day. All first-class letters, newspapers, and morning express mail are in the CPU boxes by 2 p.m.
The packaging store, also located in Todd Union, sells the services of RPS and Airborne Express, packaging supplies and fax services. The fax number is (716) 271-4981.
A meal plan is available to help meet the needs of off-campus students who want the convenience of eating on campus. The commuter meal plan allows easy access to the following dining operations and Eastman dining centers: Wilson Commons Snack Bar, Douglass, the Common Ground Coffee House, the Orchestra Pit in the Eastman Student Living Center, and the House of Six Nations. This plan works in the same manner as a declining balance. The price of each meal purchased is subtracted from current available funds. The unlimited menu prices are: breakfast, $2.73; lunch, $5.70; dinner, $7.27. These are the dining center regular cash prices, less tax. A la carte prices are debited accordingly. The plan is nonrefundable to the student term bill only.
Residential student dining plans are available also to commuter students:
In order to participate in the commuter meal plan or any dining plan option, students should come to the Customer Service Center in Susan B. Anthony Residence Hall. Students may charge the initial plan deposit to their term bill; subsequent deposits may be paid via check, credit card, or cash. For more information, call (716) 275-8756 or (800)661-1118.
The hours for the University Health Service offices will remain the same for the 1997-98 academic year. The UHS office in the Medical Center is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. weekdays throughout the year (except Tuesdays when the office opens at 9 a.m.) The UHS offices on the River Campus and the Eastman School will be open for the academic year, except during school vacations. The UHS River Campus Office, located in Susan B. Anthony Hall, will be open from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., every day, and the UHS office
at the Eastman School will be open weekdays.
All new full-time students must complete two forms and submit then to UHS before the start of classes. The health history form asks for the student's immunization history, required by New York State. All students must complete the health insurance options form each year, indicating a student's insurance coverage. For information about the health history form, call (716) 275-0697. For more information about health insurance and completion of the options form, call (716) 275-2637.
For students who are unable to complete the immunization requirement before coming to campus, an immunization clinic will be held on Thursday, August 28, from 1 to 3 p.m., in the UHS River Campus Office. There will be a $25 fee for the visit, in addition to the cost of the immunizations.
Betsy Cox will join the UHS physician staff on August 1, replacing Catherine Gracey. Cox received her medical degree from the University's School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed her residency in the University's Primary Care Program in Internal Medicine.. Cox was a fellow in general pediatrics and adolescent medicine and has completed a fellowship in advanced biopsychosocial studies. Members of the University community are welcome to choose Cox, or any other physician at UHS, as their primary care physician.
For more information, call (716) 275-2638.
The University Computing Center (UCC), founded in the 1950s, is one of the oldest university computing centers in the United States. The Computing Center is a serviceoriented organization offering a diverse range of computing support. New technologies are researched and implemented in order to support the changing needs of students, faculty, and staff.
The Computing Center comprises four main service groups that provide computer consulting support, training, help in using instructional computing facilities, and computer equipment repair.
The Computing Library and Resource Center (CLARC), one of the Computing Center's largest facilities, is a cooperative effort of the University Computing Center and the River Campus Libraries. Located on the ground floor of Rush Rhees Library, it is open to all University of Rochester students, faculty, staff, and alumni. CLARC provides answers to computerrelated questions and has a large collection of resources that includes numerous technical books, manuals, and periodicals. The library's CD ROM databases and on-line catalog, Chester, can also be accessed from work stations in CLARC. It offers members of the University community a place where they can study and perform academic computing tasks.
CLARC has a number of different computer systems available for its customers: Macintoshes, IBM PC compatibles, email terminals, scanning stations (for scanning text and graphics), multimedia stations, and several high speed laser printers.
The Help Desk at CLARC is a valuable resource available to clients for answering their computer-related questions. Highly trained student consultants assist clients on the phone or in person regarding questions on the PC, Macintosh, UNIX, and VMS environments. This includes file conversions, disk recoveries, Internet access, and printing support.
During the academic year, CLARC is open from noon Sunday until 9 p.m. Friday and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. During breaks, holidays, and summer recess, CLARC's hours vary.
Network access accounts are offered at no additional charge to all undergraduate students of the College. These accounts allow you to send messages to friends and faculty at the University, friends at other schools, and parents. Your accounts will also give you access to the Internet and thousands of electronic discussion groups. Faculty members incorporate the use of these accounts in their courses. Free classes in how to use your network access account will be offered in September. The schedule for these classes will be published during Focus on Freshmen Week. Network access accounts are available to be picked up during orientation or by stop
ping by Taylor Hall on the River Campus.
The University Web, www.rochester. edu, provides information from a variety of departments and student organizations. Students can access course descriptions, class or course schedules, and phone directories for students, faculty, and staff. Access to library catalogues, databases and other information sources from around the world is also available.
For more information bout the University Computing Center, you can visit Taylor Hall or CLARC or call (716) 2752811.
Take a voyage from home. New and returning students can try out or get re-acquainted with Voyager, the Libraries' state-of-the-art, online catalog system, from home computers. On the web, the address is groucho.lib.rochester.edu. For Telnet users, the address is groucho.lib. rochester.edu, with library for login and password. Voyager, launched in January 1997, provides desktop access to information resources within the University and worldwide. At library workstations or their own dorm or office computers, University students, faculty, and staff can move quickly and easily from the University catalog to journal citation databases, full-text electronic journals, reference sources like the online Encyclopedia Britannica, and Internet resources. Take an exploratory Voyage now, and then join a Voyager training session the first week of classes (see "Library Tours and Voyager Demos" below) to help you take full advantage of all the special features.
One-stop shopping. With all the electronic resources available through the Libraries--online journal article indexes, full-text databases, networked CD-ROMs, non-networked CD-ROMs, electronic journals, etc.-- students sometimes get confused about what's available and where and how to get it. A good starting point is the "One-Stop Shopping" page attached to Voyager. It's a complete A-to-Z listing of each electronic source the Libraries offer: what it covers, what format it has, whether it's in-library only or accessible from your desktop, and how to reach it--with hot links to the desktop-accessible ones. (Note: Some of the links won't work if you're searching from your home town; if it's a subscription database, the system admits only UNIVERSITY-affiliated searchers.) Don't know the names of specific databases? Click on a subject division like "Humanities" and browse descriptions of all databases in that group.
To reach the One-Stop Shopping page from Voyager on the web, click on
"Databases" at the yellow Voyager screen, then on "One-Stop River Campus Electronic Databases."
FirstSearch grows to 59 databases.
In its first three semesters on campus, FirstSearch has been a life-saver for many students writing midnight term papers from their dorm rooms and needing journal article citations. Now the Libraries' FirstSearch subscription has tripled in size. Last spring there were 19 databases; the new total is 59, and some are full-text (the whole article instead of just the citation or the abstract). Newly available databases include Biography Index, Book Review Digest, Environmental Sciences & Pollution, GPO Monthly Catalog (for government publications), MEDLINE (medical publications), World Almanac, and many others. Full-text articles are available in Wilson Select Full-Text, covering more than 400 journals. To reach FirstSearch from a UNIVERSITY computer (including your own computer in your dorm), just choose "Databases" at the yellow Voyager screen, then click the FirstSearch tab. FirstSearch links are also available from the One-Stop Shopping page, or from the "Search Resources Online" button on the Libraries' home page.
Dow Jones news retrieval. Just how does the Jerusalem Post report the Middle East peace talks? Where can I find transcripts of last week's Face the Nation? I need the full text of an article from the journal Tikkun and the issue is not on the shelf at the library. Where else can I find it?
Dow Jones News Retrieval Service, a newly available online service at the Libraries, can answer all these questions. It's a comprehensive source of newswires, newspapers, journals and transcripts. You can search the whole database at once--the full text of 35 million articles from more than 1900 publications. Or search a single title or group of titles. The easy-to-navigate graphical interface allows clear, concise searching limited to a specific date range, geographic region, or subject.
You can search the Dow Jones News Retrieval Service at three locations in Rush Rhees Library: Central Reference, Government Documents/Microtext Center, or Management Library. It's also available at Carlson Library. Just ask at a Reference Desk for an introduction.
Library tours and Voyager demos. Take a one-hour tour of Rush Rhees Library (humanities and social sciences) or Carlson Library (sciences and engineering), or attend a Voyager demonstration session any day of the first week of classes--Tuesday through Friday, September 2 through 5. Exact times are not yet set; ask at the Central Reference Desk at Rush Rhees, or the Carlson Reference Desk, as soon as you arrive on campus.
Rush Rhees extends Friday hours. In response to student requests, Rush Rhees Library will now be open until 7 p.m. on Friday nights when classes are in session. Enjoy an extra hour of study and research, and pat yourself on the back before heading out for Friday night fun at 7.
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