UI housing options

Wallace Residence Center

The Wallace Residence Center has four wings. Ballard and Stevenson are four stories and Gooding and Willey are six. Wallace dorm rooms are suite style, which means two double bedrooms share one bathroom. Bob’s, the only dining hall on campus, is located in Wallace along with the mailroom for Wallace and Theophilus Tower. Wallace dorm rooms come with a vanity, bunk beds, mini fridge, microwave, cable and Internet. It also comes with laundry machines in the basement of Willey, Gooding and Stevenson and on even floors of Ballard.

Ballard

1st floor – All female of any academic major

2nd floor – Coed floor for any academic major

3rd floor – Coed floor for students of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences majors

4th  floor – Coed floor for sophomore to graduate level students of any academic major

Gooding

1st floor – Coed floors that are newly renovated

2nd floor – closed for renovation

3rd 4th floor – Coed floors for students with interests in outdoor recreation with any academic major

5th and 6th floors – Coed floors for students of any academic major

Stevenson

1st floor – Coed floor for Social Justice

2nd floor – All male for any academic major

3rd floor – Coed substance-free floor for any academic major

4th floor – Coed fine arts themed community floor

Willey

1st and 2nd floors – Coed floor for first-year students of any academic major

3rd floor – Coed S.T.A.R. Leadership floor for any academic major

4th and 5th floors – Coed floor for any academic major

6th floor – Coed 24-hour quiet for any academic major

 Theophilus Tower

The Theophilus Tower is an 11-story building with academic-themed floors and encourages involvement in the college community. A requirement to live in the Tower is completing the Vandal Edge program that includes things like joining a club and going to events. There are two students per room and each student gets their own twin extra-long bed. Unlike Wallace, the Tower dorm rooms do not have their own bathrooms. Instead, each floor has its own communal bathroom and showers. The Tower is a minute-long walk from the dining hall in Wallace and the Denny’s near the LLCs.

1st, 4th and 6th floors – all-female floor for any academic major

2nd, 3rd and 5th floors – all-male floor for any academic major

7th and 8th floors – all-male floor for engineering or computer science majors

9th floor – all-female floor for students involved in the Women in Idaho Science and Engineering (WiiSE) program

10th floor – all-female floor for students in UI Honors Program

11th floor – all-male floor for students in UI Honors Program

Greek

Currently, there are 10 sororities and 16 fraternities with houses or specified floors in residence halls.

Sororities

Alpha Gamma Delta

Kappa Delta

Kappa, Kappa Gamma

Pi Beta Phi

Delta Gamma

Gamma Phi Beta

Kappa Alpha Theta

Alpha Phi

Delta Delta Delta

Delta Zeta

Fraternities

Alpha Gamma Rho

Sigma Chi,

Alpha Kappa, Lambda

FarmHouse

Kappa Sigma

Delta Sigma Phi

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI)

Phi Delta Theta

Delta Tau Delta

Phi Kappa Tau

Beta Theta Pi

Pi Kappa Phi

Lambda Chi Alpha

Theta Chi

Sigma Nu

Living Learning Communities

There are eight LLCs on campus, and they are called the CNR, Engineering, Gault, Gem, LLC 3, Scholars, Syringa and Upham. Each of these buildings have requirements to live there. Upham is specifically dedicated to first-year students. The LLCs offer single and double rooms with same gender suites with a bathroom, kitchenette and a furnished living room. Each LLC building comes with a community kitchen, study lounge, game room and a regular lounge. Due to only one of the LLCs being dedicated to first-year students, they tend to fill up fast, so applying early is a must.

CNR LLC – open to any student who is a College of Natural Resources major

Engineering LLC – open to sophomore to graduate level students who are engineering majors

Gault, LLC 3, Syringa and Gem LLC – open to sophomore to graduate level students in any academic major

Scholars LLC – open to sophomore to graduate level students in UI’s Honors Program or have a GPA of 3.3 or higher

Upham LLC – open to first-year students only

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