Welcome to September!
Let’s Talk About Community Door Handles
This past week, we’ve noticed that two community door handles have come loose. To help prevent further damage, please be mindful of how much force you’re using when opening hallway, exterior, and fridge doors:
When entering through an exterior door, always tap your card to gain access before pulling the door open. This helps protect the integrity of the door hardware and ensures proper access control.
As you continue building connections and friendships, please remember to follow our guest policies. Only residents and their guests should be entering the building. It might feel awkward to ask someone at the door if they live here, but doing so helps prevent “piggybacking”—when someone waits outside and follows another person in without tapping their own card.
If you’re hosting guests, you are responsible for their behavior and actions. Guests should remain with their host resident at all times while in the community.
If you notice any facilities concerns, please submit a service request or reach out to me or your RA directly.
Thank you for helping keep our community safe and well-maintained!
Fire Drill Follow Up
Each semester, we conduct unannounced fire drills in partnership with Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S), as required by the City of Ithaca and New York State. These drills help ensure everyone knows how to safely evacuate in case of a real emergency.
During any fire alarm—drill or not—everyone must:
- Exit the building immediately.
- Follow instructions from residential and emergency staff.
- Stay outside until given permission to re-enter.
Failure to evacuate during a fire alarm will result in a conduct referral, as outlined in the Cornell Community Living Standards and Student Code of Conduct.
Thank you for your continued commitment to safety!
Community Living Standards reminders -
Our facilities and building care team are noticing a couple of Community Living Standards issues so I wanted to share some reminders. It you haven't already, please make sure that have looked over the Community Living Standards page. The concerns of late include -
Items begin stored in the pod bathrooms and hallways.
When items (such as bathmats, shelves, towels, personal, hygiene items) are left in bathroom, building care is not able to clean the space. Similarly, items left in the hallways poses a egress issue and prevent our Building Care team from properly cleaning and maintain out community.
Please be sure to look over your space and address any outstanding violations you may have.
Every night, our RAs complete community walks to engage with our community and ensure safety. Know that they will knock on bathrooms as they complete their walks and enter all bathroom spaces. Please do not be alarmed. All we ask is that you respond when you hear a knock. Our RAs will enter each bathroom to check for safety and security concerns and facilities issues that may need attention.
About our Trash Chutes:
With our Trash Rooms open, it is important to note that Barbara McClintock has 3 Trash Rooms in the Community. There is one trash room on each floor. There are located on the beginning of each floor toward the Appel Entrance. Our trash rooms have a trash chute and recycling:
- Only bagged trash can go down the trash chute. When using the chute, please press the "ready" button and turn the lever to send trash down the chute. Please make sure the chute is closed properly to allow others to use it as well. You will know when it is closed correctly when you see the green light.
- When taking out recycling, please read the signage of what can be recycled. Also, large items and boxes must be flattened before going into the blue bins.
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