Utah State University Student Newspapers | 2007-04-04 | Page 8

WE/TERN WAT/ Western Wats has increased wages and we are still willing to work around your schedule. We still offer weekly pay, a fun work environment and we'll give you time off for school events, tests and holidays. Call Cody at 753-1303 or stop by 80 Golf Course Drive, Suite B {behind Wendy's on the south of Logan). Apply online: surveynetwork.com/application. * l hool jear! ^MOVING OUT : A . ' From page 6 ~ ' said it will be sent directly to collections. Changing addresses: Forwarding personal mail can be • taken care of bf filling out a change of address form. Often times, these forms can be found in main apartment areas such as clubhouses, laundry rooms or mail rooms. Change of address forms can also be picked up on campus or at any local post office. This form has a place forfilling^outthe exact date to begin forwardin^your mail from the old apartment to tHe new location. Also, make sure to contact any magazines or newspapers to inform them of any address change. Addresses can also be updated and changed online at moversguide.usps.com. - . '."% Canceling cable bill: "•• ' ' "£-£.,:* The person whose name is on the cable bill should call the cable company to cancel service. Before canceling, inquire about possible early cancellation fees or penalties. If continuing cable service, call the company to notify them of a forwarding billing address if necessary. ' Ryan Bates, a senior in exercise science, said Oakridge takes care of cable, gas and utility bill canceling since the complex pays their residents' bills each month anyway. "It's a perk about living here, you don't have to worry about all this," the Oakridge employee said. For most complexes, however, canceling these bills is up to the resident. - Mixing School Turning off the gas: ing out. If the gas company is not contacted to turn gas usage off, the gas bill will go unpaid and could possibly go to collections. The name on the bill will be charged for any future gas charges not taken care of. Consequently, the person whose name is on the gas bill should call the gas company to shut off gas since they may be the main party legally representing the apartment. Like utilities, calling in a moving-out date a week or two before may help ensure everything runs smoothly. Cleaning checks: A cleaning check can often be the most important thing to do before leaving. Each roommate is usually assigned to deep clean a particular part of their apartment. Leaving this responsibility to the last minute can make life pretty difficult since proper deep cleaning takes a good amount of time. Missy Ryan, manager of Old Farm apartments, said students most often forget to clean everywhere,, especially in the small spaces. If a student fails his or her cleaning check, money from that student's deposit may be taken out to pay someone else to clean the area. Cleaning checks usually require heavyduty cleansers. Ryan said to check with the apartment managers before buying cleaners - some managers already have heavy-duty products for use. Products such as a floor stripper and wax are available in Old Farm's office during this time, and Ryan said the products can be bought by the cup. Buying products through the office can save a trip into town. ' Contact the gas company to ensure Check balances: the gas will be turned off after mov- • , v . Most apartment complexes keep a MATERNITY INSURANCE • Costs as little as $75 - $175 / MONTH • Pays out as much as $5000 • $7000 • Must be in effect 10 months BEFORE you deliver • Works great with other health insurance policies • Great prices on all Life, Health, Auto & Renters Cache Valley Insurance, Inc. 94 South Main, Logan [phone] Ask for Quent Casperson or Curtis Craig current balance of any money a student might owe before leaving. Sometimes a student can forget a random item charged to them such as paying for a lock-out or paying for the last month of rent. Make sure to call the main apart- ± ment office well in advance to clear '•' balances before leaving. .Oakridge, for example, requires any unpaid balances to be taken care of the day you turn in your key, Bates said. If residents do not realize they have an outstanding balance to pay, Bates said this can often be a surprise for some and an inconvenience. If the balance is not paid that day, he said the bill has the possibility of being sent to collections. Calling before moving out of the complex may help avoid added stress. - Returning parking permits: Apartment complexes differ on preferred ways to return a parking permit. Most managers, however, require an apartment key and a parking permit to be turned in at the same time before 3 leaving. This step is usually the last and' may easily be forgotten in the process of packing. A few weeks before the semester ends, Ryan said Old Farm sends out letters to each apartment that discuss the consequences of not turning in parking permits and keys. # Besides being fined, Ryan said stu-f; •dents' initial deposits will not be given'" back until the materials are turned in. ?; Oakridge apartments do not require > parking permits to be returned since Bates said new permits are issued each year. ^W*#t Make sure to check with apartment managers since policies can differ. Also, be aware of correspondence from the managers left on your doors a few Hey! Did you just fort? In the course of my crosscampus travels the other day, I came across a man who smelt like mashed potatoes. Now it may be because I'm a guy, and as such feel the need to compete with all other males, it may have been because I'm from Idaho and to me the potato is a religious symbol, or it may have just been because I was PINNACLE APARTMENTS PINNACLE APARTMENTS 764 N. 700 E. OFFICE LOCATED AT: 135 S. 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A snow. the kids always have the most thousand aromas I tried to build amazing tree houses. These flooded my nose; my own summer things made the Swiss Family none of them were fort, but I lacked the Robinson's place looking like potatoes, mashed manual dexterity to a freaking birdhouse. Geek Beat or otherwise. we^.^ join two pieces of I hang out with a lot of wood together. For people who take classes All in all it was some reason, the about today's media, with a very disappointonly tool I knew how to use ifs portrayal of women as ing experience. This got me thinking about at that age was a handsaw, big-chested, long-legged, airother disappointing experi- and there's only so much brained sex objects, set unrealistic expectations for real ences I've had in my college wood you can cut. career which naturally led So basically, for nine girls. me to recall my various living months out of the year, I was This may be true and may arrangements, pretty much forced to spend all the time be a real problem for young all of which sucked. I should have spent in my women, but I think an even When I started college life, fort, crouching in a hole that bigger problem is how yesI was convinced that my dorm I dug. I was even worse off terday's media set unrealistic room would be the ultimate than the other hole-fort kids expectations for kids about place to live. It was supposed because I didn't even have a their tree houses, and that is to be a base of operations for plywood roof (I sawed it into just not fair. all the crazy adventures I was too many pieces). I just felt like I wasn't up going to have. In my mind, it But those days should be to snuff with my two boards was going to be somewhere behind me. This was sup- and a sheet in the tree in my between the Bat Cave and the posed to be college, my backyard. jungle gym at McDonald's. chance to leave such crappy In fact, I still don't. What I wanted was a place living situations behind and I shouldn't have brought I could hide from bullies, have a fort that I lived in all this up. shirk my responsibilities and day long. I'd better *sniff* get going. pretend to be a pirate. What I got was cramped You guys go ahead and geek Basically, I wanted a fort. living space full of broken on, I'm going to go have Not a Fort Lauderdale sort doors and weird roommates some cocoa. of fort - although that'd be who were paranoid that I cool too - I'm talking about would shave their knees. Steve Shinney is a the forts that we had as kids. I only have a few weeks senior in computer science Not me so much, I never left. I have projects to code who has torn his bed and was able to make anything and final tests to prepare for, couch apart to make a "really cool enough to reach the but while I still have the cool fort" in his living room. lofty realm of being an actual chance, I'm going to take His wife is not amused. Send fort. I had a couple noble the time to live the American comments to him at attempts, mind you, but dream that I feel I have [e-mail]. ROOMMATES From page 6 man majoring in public health and international studies, said dishes have been a big problem in her apartment since she moved in. "When my roommates ran out of dishes, instead of washing some of them, they would just go out and buy more dishes. The night before our cleaning checks, it took them seven straight hours to finish all of the dishes that they had left in the kitchen." Velyupek said although the dishes were a problem, the biggest problem was the parties full of drunken people that her roommates would have in her on-campus apartment. "The boys that would come over were always very drunk. Once they were so drunk that they couldn't walk up the stairs to our apartment, and my roommate's drunk friends tied the doors to our apartment at 3 a.m. and then pulled the fire alarm so we would try to get out but be stuck inside." Velyupek said some of the problems with her roommates last semester got so bad that one of the girls in the apartment had to move out. This roommate had a problem with all the drunkenness and dirty dishes, so she tried to solve the problem by holding a meeting with all the roommates, Velyupek said. "They didn't like that she was upset with them, so they decided to be upset with her. They made life hell for her. The RA was practically forced to remove her from the apartment," she said. Horror stories like these don't have to happen. Web sites like www.roommateclick.com allow potential roommates to post profiles in hopes that they can find their "perfect roommate." So if the roommate situation was unbearable this year, there is always hope for next year. [e-mail]