What are quiet hours?
Noise can quickly become a problem in the residence halls, because many people live and study together in a relatively small space. Quiet Hours have been established to ensure that students can sleep and study during evening hours. The definition of Quiet Hours can be found on page 28 of the Residence Hall Handbook. Quiet Hours are 9:00pm-8:00am Sunday through Thursday, and from 12:00 midnight to 8:00am on Fridays and Saturdays. During final examination periods Quiet Hours are in effect 24 hours each day. Please also be aware that Courtesy hours are also in effect 24 hours a day.
The hours from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. everyday, including weekends are established as “Quiet Hours”. Residents have many different schedules and lifestyles, but you will find life a lot easier if you respect each other’s right to study and sleep. Stereos, radios, televisions and any other noise which tends to disturb an adjoining suite/apartment, whether next-door or above or below, will subside during quiet hours. Suite balconies, outside walkways and the courtyards are subject to quiet hours. “Courtesy Hours” exist 24 hours a day, every day, and will be enforced. Reasonable quiet is expected at all times during the day and night. Students with stereos are encouraged to bring and use headphones. The University reserves the right to require students to remove stereos after violations of this policy. The right of a student to sleep or study will always override any other student’s right to make noise. As a general rule of thumb, if sound can be heard from outside of a room, it is in violati
| Back to top. Quiet hours are in effect from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. on weeknights and 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, so you and your neighbors may study and sleep. Residents have many different schedules and lifestyles, but you will find life a lot easier if you respect each other’s right to healthy habits. If other students in your hall are bothering you with noise, you have the right (at anytime of day or night) to ask them to be quieter. If trouble persists, feel free to notify your RA, who has the option and authority to set disciplinary procedures in motion. Students are encouraged to keep the volume of their stereos low. As a rule of thumb, residents are encouraged to have no more than three guests per resident visiting their room at any one time, in order to maintain courtesy quiet hours.
Quiet hours have been established to help create an environment that is conducive to sleeping and studying. Quiet hours are 8 p.m. to 10 a.m. on weekdays, and midnight to 10 a.m. on weekends. At all other times, residents are expected to be considerate of their neighbors, and noise from the room should not enter the corridor.
