Garver Hall is the place to be, fun for you and fun for me! Garver is a traditional style residence hall that houses 130 men and 130 women and is split up by wings: guys on one side, girls on the other. The hall was named in honor of former professor and dean, Earl S. Garver, and there is a large mural of him in the lobby area. A large variety of people tend to live in Garver, so everyone fits right in! Hall council is a great way to stay involved and have an opinion in what happens in the hall, and they host fun activities for the residents to do! Some Garver activities include:

• Homecoming Competitions – All halls decorate for Homecoming and are judged to decide which is the best. Garver has always been a hall leader in the competition!
• Haunted Garver – Community children come trick or treating at a few of the halls a couple days before Halloween, and everybody has a great time decorating the halls! Garver’s theme is always haunted and if you live in Garver, you get to participate in it and scare your fellow classmates!
• All Hall Picnic and Shoe Throwing Ceremony – Every year, right before summer break, Garver Hall Council throws a picnic party with lots of food, and any seniors who lived in Garver all four years get to throw a pair of their shoes up into a tree outside of Garver where they live forever. It’s a fun, longstanding tradition!!
• Doughnuts for Finals – Ugh, this is the best activity of all! Every year right before finals week begins, Garver Hall Council buys a bunch of donuts for the whole hall. It is such a great little thing to break up your intense studying.
• Various Hall Council Food Meetings – Every so often, hall council will have a meeting that provides awesome food like homemade smoothies or wings from Pizza Hut!

In addition to the awesome activities offered throughout the year, Garver also has great amenities:

• Ping-pong tables
• Pool tables
• Air hockey table
• Vending machines and an ice machine
• Small kitchen on ground floor
• Microwaves on each floor
• Two laundry rooms, one on each side of the res hall
• And AIR CONDITIONING IN EVERY ROOM!!!!

All the residence halls are great, but Garver is the best (don’t tell the other halls I said that)! Plus, it’s the closest to the gym and the food hall, so you can’t really get much better than that!