Ryle Hall Photos

Enjoy this small photo tour of Ryle Hall!  If you have any questions or would like to see more pictures of Ryle Hall, please email the Ryle Hall Director, Liz Raine, at lizraine@truman.edu.

	Welcome to Ryle Hall!
	Behind Ryle there is a large green space that we call the "Ryle Commons".  There are picnic tables, barbecue grills, and a sand volleyball pit in the Commons.  There is also plenty of room to play a game of flag football or toss around a frisbee!
	As you enter each entrance to Ryle, there is an engraving above the doors, as is shown by this photo.  There are also entrance lights that are on all the time.
	Since Ryle hall is a "U" shaped building, there is a large courtyard in front of the building.  This is a great place to sit under trees and study!  From this side of Ryle (the west side), you can enter the building through the main lounge (on the right of the picture), or through doors located in the corners of the building on the first floor.
Amenities in Ryle Hall!
	Ryle Hall's laundry facility is being moved to the second floor off the south end of the Main Lounge.  There are both washers and driers located in the laundry room.  The washers run for approximately 40 minutes and cost $1.00 per cycle.  The driers run for approximately 45 minutes and cost 75 cents per cycle.
	Upon entering Ryle Hall from the main entrance, you can go down a short set of stairs to Ryle Hall's Cafeteria.  The cafeteria has many different food options, including hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, a full salad bar, pizza, and cold foods.
	If you instead choose to go upstairs to the second floor, you enter Ryle's Main Lounge.  The Main Lounge is host to a number of large activities within the hall.  This lounge is also available for reservation for organizations across campus.  The Main Lounge is also a great place to meet with study groups or classmates to work on group projects.  The Main Lounge features couches and chairs for seating, study tables, computer work stations, a piano, and a pool table.
	Students wishing to play pool can do so in the Ryle Main Lounge. Pool equipment can be checked out from the hall desk.
	Floors 3, 4, and 5 each have a central lounge located near the elbow of the floor.  Each floor has a TV in the lounge and a DVD/VCR player can be checked out from the hall desk.  These lounges also have computer work stations, comfortable seating and study tables.  These lounges are great for hanging out with friends, working on homework, small study groups, watching a TV series or movies, and for small programs put on by the Student Advisors and Hall Senate!
	Since Ryle forms a U shape, there are "elbows" to the building.  On the 2nd floor, there is an elbow shaped lounge.  This lounge is again great for hanging out with friends, working on homework, small study groups, watching a TV series or movies, and for small programs put on by the Student Advisors and Hall Senate!
	This is the other half of the second floor lounge.  As you can see, there is plenty of room in these odd shaped areas.  One of the most interesting things about the lounges is that students will have the opportunity to decorate the lounges with Hall Director approved designs and using designated paint.  This is a great and unique opportunity for the residents of Ryle Hall!
Resident Rooms (2, 3, and 4 person rooms)
	This is a typical set up for a resident's furniture.  Each resident has his or her own lofted bed (which can be unlofted or bunked), a bedrail, a ladder, a desk, a set of mini-drawers, and a chair.  This is how your bed and desk will look on move-in day.  Feel free to move your furniture around within the room to meet your personal needs and style!
	Each resident room also contains a chest of drawers.  Some rooms have 4 drawers, others have 3.  All residents in the room shares this chest of drawers.
	This is a view of one side of the closet that each room has.  The other side of the closet looks very similar to this.  Each resident then has one clothing rack, two shelves, and plenty of floor space in the closet.  3 and 4 person rooms have two closets per room.
	This is a typical two person room in Ryle Hall.
	This is a photograph of one of our three person rooms in Ryle Hall.
	Ryle Hall is a suite style building.  Each room then shares a bathroom with another room of the same gender.  The bathrooms include a toilet, a single shower, a sink, a medicine cabinet, and towel bars.  Bathrooms are to be cleaned by the residents of the suite.
	Another view of the bathroom shows the sink area.  The mirror pulls forward to reveal the medicine cabinet.
	This is one view of a four person room in Ryle Hall.  As you can see, these rooms are much bigger than the two, and even three person rooms.
	This is another view of a four person room.
	Since Ryle's four person rooms share a bathroom with another four person room, the bathrooms are set up a little different.  Each bathroom contains two sinks and two medicine cabinets.
	In the bathroom, the toilet is closed off from the rest of the bathroom by a stall.  This allows multiple people to be in the bathroom at one time.
	These bathrooms also contain a shower stall that is sectioned off from the rest of the bathroom.  This also helps to allow multiple people to utilize the bathroom at the same time.