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Facilities

St. Jerome’s residence consists of a Community Centre and 2 residence buildings, JR Finn for men and Sweeney Hall for women.

What a room looks like!

The graphic below shows a typical layout for a double room:

The residence facilities at St. Jerome’s offer a number of features designed to help you feel right at home. These include:

• fully furnished rooms, which include desks, dressers, book shelves, beds and bulletin boards
• small refrigerators in each room
• a sink and built-in vanity in each of the rooms in Sweeney Hall
• ResNet, high speed wireless internet access
• wireless telephone service
• coin operated laundry facilities
• games room
• TV lounge
• quiet study areas
• a self-serve pantry open for evening snack program
• a handicapped accessible floor and common area in each residence
• cleaning of all common areas.

Students are required to provide their own towels, bedding, personal effects, and are responsible for their own housekeeping.

Accessibility

Students with disabilities often want to participate in campus life similar to their peers. Do not hesitate to request, in advance, housing that will accommodate your disability. You might find it helpful to arrange a tour of the various residences before determining which residence will best meet your needs.
In order to increase your chances to access specific types of housing, please do the following:

1. Contact the Office for Persons with Disabilities with your request for housing accommodations upon admission to the University of Waterloo.
2. Apply to on-campus housing that would suit your specific needs. (If in doubt of the type of housing that you require, the Disabilities Office and/or staff at the specific residences can help).
3. Apply to the Independent Living Centre of Waterloo Region if you require attendant services. The Office for Persons with Disabilities will assist with this.
4. Submit information outlining the rational for your specific housing request, accompanied by documentation supporting your particular request for housing from a medical professional, clinician, etc.

The Office for Persons with Disabilities staff will work in collaboration with all Housing Departments in an attempt to meet your needs. Therefore prior notice of your circumstance is appreciated and required by the University in order to best support you in your transition to campus and to accommodate your needs in a timely fashion.

ResNet and Telephone

St. Jeromes provides an integrated voice and data wireless network.

ResNet

St. Jerome’s residence is in the process of upgrading and enhancing our internet solutions. As of September 1st, internet will be provided by UW ResNet and will be a fully wireless network in residence at St. Jerome’s. For more information about the network, suggestions regarding computer hardware, virus and spyware protection, use and misuse and download limits, please continue to check our website in the coming weeks..

Telephone

Telephone service is not provided as part of your residence package. UW and St. Jerome’s are committed to providing an evolving communications environment in all residences and understand our students use a variety of technologies to communicate. Research has shown a majority of students use personal cell phones in residence, as well as various VoIP solutions such as Skype.