By BRIAN TYNES

News Editor

Real estate is all about location, location, location. Where you live says a lot about ... well, where you live.

Men's residence halls on campus for the fall quarter will be Neilson, Hutcheson, Cottingham and Graham. Tyring to figure out where you want to call home? Current residents in these halls are about to break it down: the good and the bad.

HUTCHESON

Landon Remedies, a Hutcheson resident and sophomore architecture major, said the location is the best part of living on campus.

"[I like] the convenience of having everything as close as it is," Remedies said. "I have to go to Hale Hall hours upon hours and study, and I can be anywhere in 10 minutes."

"Hut," as many of the residents refer to it, will have private rooms on all floors except for the 2nd and 3rd floors, which will have double occupancy.

The hall, with four floors, does not have elevators and has the capacity to hold around 200 residents.

NEILSON

Thomas Marshall, a sophomore basic and career studies major, lives in Neilson and agrees that the proximity to campus is the No. 1 reason to live in a residence hall.

"You're close to your classes and it doesn't take much time to get there," Marshall said. "And you don't have to go very far to meet a friend because they live next door."

But dorm life is sometimes not all fun and games.

Remedies, who previously lived in Neilson, said theft can sometimes be a problem.

"Whenever you wash your clothes, you have to worry about people taking them," Remedies said.

Neilson holds around 760 males. Each room is double occupancy. There are 11 floors, and there are elevators available, but many residents do complain of them not working properly some of the time.

COTTINGHAM

Zane Cook, a freshman electrical engineering major, lives in Cottingham and said theft is not a problem in Cottingham because it has a community atmosphere and everybody is friendly to one another.

He said Cottingham is the best hall, though he has not lived in any others.

"Everyone that is in Cottingham likes it here," Cook said. "I know seniors that lived off campus and prefer it here because it's a really friendly environment and nothing is ever really wrong."

Cottingham is a double-occupancy honors residence hall and has the capacity to hold 90 residents on two floors.

GRAHAM

The fall quarter will provide a new experience for some male residents on-campus. Because of Caruthers being unavailable, Graham, a current womens' residence hall, will be a male hall.

"Graham is an OK dorm to live in," Amber Flournoy, a sophomore elementary education major, said. "For the most part, the bathrooms stayed clean, but some of the girls were nasty so they would dirty things back up."

Flournoy said the space was a little cramped.

"The rooms are not that big," Flournoy said. "You don't really feel like you have that much privacy in that room because there's not a lot space to yourself."

One thing that Graham has though, is a bit more storage.

"I have seen some of the closets in the other dorms and I think our closets are a lot more spacious than theirs," Flournoy said.

"I think the dorm needs a lot more upkeep," Flournoy said. "Some of the areas look really old and dirty. Some of the girls have even nicknamed the dorm 'ghetto Graham.'"

OVERALL LIVING

On-campus living is quite the experience for some male residents. One of the most complained about thing in the male residence halls is the noise level.

"I like to get my rest, and our neighbor is extremely loud," Marshall said.

Remedies said some noise exists, but significantly less than in Neilson.

"Noise can sometimes get irritating but that's why I like Hut because it is so much quieter," Remedies said. "But every now and then you still have some idiot running up and down the hall."

No matter where one lives, it is inevitable that every resident will find the pros and cons of each hall.

News editor Brittany Wall contributed to this report.