South Hall
South Hall is our Second Year Experience Hall, and it houses our Sophomore's Queer Affinity Space. South Hall is an exterior style building featuring Suite-style units, where two bedrooms are connected to and share a full bathroom.
Each Fully-Furnished Bedroom Offers:
- Two residents
- An average size of about 11.5 feet by 20 feet
- Two twin-XL beds
- Two desks with chairs
- Two dressers
- Two side tables
- Two ethernet ports
- A walk-in closet
- A sink / vanity area
South Hall Offers:
- Two laundry rooms
- One on the first floor and the other on the 3rd floor.
- Five lounges
- Two DirectTV-broadcast system lounges on the 1st and 3rd floors
- Two study lounges on the 2nd floor and one on the 3rd floor
- One computer lounge on the 2nd floor with a free printer
- A housing capacity of 165 residents
What is the Queer Affinity Space?
The Queer & Ally Affinity Space is an inclusive community intentionally focused on supporting, educating, and celebrating queer identifying students. Such students will engage in educational experiences that highlight their personal identity development, queer history, the context of being queer in STEM, and how to serve as a leader in a hegemonic field.
We use the term “Queer” as an umbrella term that includes all members of the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, and +) community. As such, all room assignments and restrooms will be classified as ‘Gender Neutral,’ meaning anyone, regardless of their biological sex, their gender identity, and their gender expression, may room with whomever they like and use the restroom on the hall.
For more information on the various terms encapsulated within our definition of queer, please visit NYC’s Gay Center (called “The Center”): https://gaycenter.org/about/lgbtq/
Non-queer identifying students are welcome to live in the Queer & Ally Affinity Space as an ally. We define the term “Ally” as non-queer identifying folx who are accepting of queer identifying folx and are willing to support and advocate for queer identifying folx.
To learn more about how to be an Ally and/or the queer community at large, please visit the various websites listed below:
- Allyship: https://gaycenter.org/about/allyship/
- Gay and Lesbian Against Defamation (GLAAD): https://www.glaad.org/programs
- Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG): https://pflag.org/
- It Gets Better Project: https://itgetsbetter.org/
- NYC’s Gay Center (“The Center”): https://gaycenter.org/