So my name is Camden Carter I'm a sophomore sociology major here at
Coastal with the criminology concentration and I'm from Minden,
Louisiana. So the building that we're currently standing outside of is gonna
be Baxley Hall. So inside of Baxley, we do have a lot of different offices and
resources that students can utilize. Those are gonna be our Office of
Admissions, the Registrar's Office, student accounts, financial aid, Graduate
Studies, and also our CINO Card office. So with the CINO card office, CINO is going to
stand for Coastal Is Number One, because here at Coastal not only do we think
that, we pretty much know it for certain. So with this card you will have this
availability to use this card throughout the entire campus in a lot of
different ways, so it'll be able to get you into your residence halls, it's gonna
have your meal plan on it, it's also gonna be how you're gonna get into a lot
of different student activities here on campus as well. And you do actually do
get two free replacements with this card. So we're currently standing outside
of the Department of Public Safety here at Coastal. Inside of our Department of
Public Safety we do employ over 105 uniformed police officers that are
patrolling our campus 24/7. With this we do have a lot of different initiatives
here on our campus; one is going to be our emergency call box system here all
around our campus. So with this we do have over 138 located all around us. With
these call boxes it's really great if there was ever an emergency situation
you're just gonna press the button in the very center and you're immediately
contacted with a dispatcher here on our campus and then in under 60 seconds we
can have our officers to any location on our campus. Another great thing is
gonna be a CCU text alert system. So with this system here if there was an
emergency you're gonna immediately see through text message letting you know
exactly what's happening, what they want you to be doing, and what they're gonna
do to fix the issue. The good thing with this is parents, students, teachers,
whoever wants to be along with this can actually sign up so you're always
included and always in the know. Another thing here on campus through our public
safety is that we do have over 1,400 cameras scattered throughout our entire
campus. We also have 12 tag trackers all around our campus. With those tag
trackers, if somebody was to enter campus with a warrant, Public Safety is
immediately notified so that way they can get that person off of our campus.
Another thing here on campus is that all of our parking is going to be on the
exterior of campus so with that we are a very pedestrian-friendly campus. So as
you're walking around you don't have to worry about those vehicles
interrupting your commute throughout the day. With that parking, our parking passes
do also only cost students $75 for the entire year, and this is a great resource
that we can offer to our students. And freshmen, you can bring your cars to
campus too. All right, so this building here is gonna be our Student Health Services.
So with this there are going to be professionally trained medical staff
that are here for our students. They're gonna be here all throughout the regular
week and they do also have a 24-hour call-a-nurse hotline.
So with this hotline you can always reach out to those consultants and also
get that advice you're looking for from a medical professional. With this service
we do also have a lot of great things that they can offer for students as far
as treating minor sprains and bruising, treating minor illnesses, as well as
doing physicals and immunizations. And if something was to range outside of their
expertise, we do have Conway Medical Center that is located right down the
road from us here on campus. With this service, our public safety can transport
you there if that need does arise. Also inside of this building we do have what
is called our Counseling Services, so with this it is going to be a free
service that is going to be available to all students, and with this service we do
have a broad array of specialties that we can offer and we can also call an
outside specialist if that's something that is needed as well.
So we do also have shuttles here on our campus. Our shuttles do run 24/7 all
around our main campus. They also take trips to our East Campus as well as our
upperclassmen housing. A couple other things that our shuttles do is they do
take daily trips to Walmart in the afternoon and they do will also take you
to the airport or train station during long breaks and holidays such as
Thanksgiving or Christmas break. Another service that we do offer for our
students is going to be Zipcar, which is a car rental service here on campus.
So if you want to grab one of those to take a weekend trip to the beach it's
always an option for you as a student.
This building here is going to be our Lib Jackson Student Union. Inside of here
we do have a lot of different resources that are going to be available to our
students. One of those resources is going to be right inside as you walk in which
is going to be CHANT411. So CHANT411 is gonna be an information
service for our students and pretty much if you have any question about anything
Coastal you can text them, call them, email them, or social media DM them with
those questions and they can reach out and give you those answers to them.
Another great thing that we do offer inside is gonna be our CINO Grille,
which is going to be one of our dining locations here on our campus. So with the
CINO Grille it does have its side salad and soup bar, also has a sushi option, we
do have sandwich grab-and-go options. There is also going to be Chauncey's
Queso Corner in the back left corner and then we do have in right next to that
our Grill Works along with Freshens and our Chick-fil-A. This is going to be one
of the main dining halls here on campus, but we do actually have other ones
located all around, one of those will be Hicks Dining Hall, which is gonna be a
buffet location located in the center of all of our housing. Another one will be
our Chauncey's Choice, which is gonna be our healthy dining option here on campus.
We do also have our UP Cafe, which is another buffet style, and then we do
also have our Hackler Grill located on our campus as well. So a couple other
offices inside of the building are gonna be our Office of Student Life as well as
our Live Well office, our CINO Pantry, and also our SORC office, which are all
going to be located upstairs. A couple more will also be our Career
Services, which is going to be available for students, helping them get resume-
building workshops and also along with mock interviews that we can provide for
those students, and then we do also have our game room. That game room is going to
be pretty cool because you have all sorts of different gaming consoles you
have pool tables, ping pong tables, foosball, air hockey, pretty much any
table sport you could possibly imagine inside. You can also
rent out card games, board games, pretty much any way that you could have fun as
a student you can check that out and you'll keep it inside there while you
use it. So we're standing outside of our Bryan Information Commons in Kimbel
Library. The entire thing as a whole is known as the Kimbel Library to all
students here at Coastal. With this building, it is going to be a 24/5
resource that's going to be available to all of our students. With
that being, said we're open five days a week, 24 hours, and then on the weekends
we're open from 8 a.m. to midnight. With this we do also have two different
floors on our library, so with this the entire bottom floor will be a community
study area so you can go down there with friends and you can get group projects
done. And then if you go to our second floor, you do have our silent study. So
with the silent study we do have nice cubicle areas and also study rooms that
are available. Another thing that we do offer inside of our library is going to
be our Starbucks location. With Starbucks it is going to be open till midnight
during the regular school year and 2 a.m. during final times so you can get
that extra boost of caffeine. Another thing with our library will be that our
printing services is going to be located inside. So with printing services every
student here at Coastal automatically gets five dollars of printing money
every semester on their CINO Card. So with this it is only gonna cost you five
cents for a page of black-and-white and thirty-five cents for color, so with this
it's really nice you have the availability as a student to print from
any location on our campus because we also have them in all of our academic
buildings and also our residence halls, as well. Another thing with our library
is that on our second floor we do have over 150,000 books and resources so with
all of these if for some reason we didn't have one that you were
specifically looking for, we can actually contact any other library in our state
through a Pascal program. We can have those resources shipped here free of
charge to you; as a student you get to use those for 30 days and we can
actually ship it back for you as well.
We're currently standing on Prince Lawn, which is gonna be the heart of our
campus here at Coastal. It intersects all of our major academic buildings. So
directly behind me we do have our Prince Building which is home to the Spadoni
College of Education. To my left we have our Edwards Humanities and Fine Arts
Building. To my right we have our Gupta College of Science, and back across the
bridge we have our Wall College of Business. So out here we do have a lot of
different events that occur throughout the school year. One of those is going to
be Organization Kickoff Day.So with this day, all 160 of our clubs and
organizations come out here, they set up tables and booths showing students
exactly what they have to offer and what they can get involved in. So some of
those clubs are going to be ranging from all sorts of different things from
Equestrian Club to Saltwater Anglers. We even have a Coastal Criminal Justice
Club, which I'm a proud member of myself. Another thing out here with the clubs
and organizations is as a student you have all sorts of different options for
you. Another thing that you can do is you can actually create your own club or
organization. With only nine other members and a faculty advisor, all you have
to do is go in, sit down, fill out some paperwork, and you can have your very own
club. With this it's really great in bringing students together and having
that close-knit community that we have here at Coastal. Another thing that
occurs out here throughout the year is gonna be farmers markets; we do have two
farmers markets every semester and we do also have a dollar thrift shop that sets
up out here on occasion. Another thing that we do have will be our CINO .
So this day is going to be for pretty much all of our students to come out
here and enjoy themselves. So with this everything is free, they have fair rides,
there's gonna be free T-shirts, free food, free buttons, fanny packs, they might even
have some fried Oreos, so this day is going to be really great for you as a
student to enjoy all the great things that we can offer you to bring you
together as a student body. Another thing that we do have throughout the entire
campus is going to be Teal Tuesday. So every Tuesday everybody wears teal and
you can also get a free teal T-shirt for wearing that teal on campus.
All right so we're currently in our TD Sports Complex. Here we do have our
Chauncey statue sitting right here next to me. So Chauncey is going to be a fairy
tale character from the book "Canterbury Tales." Fun fact with this is that we are
the only school in the entire United States with a fairy tale character as
our mascot. So with Chauncey, he is gonna be the most
mystical and crafty rooster that is known to man so with this it's also
really nice that we do have our colors of teal, black, and bronze. So teal does
stand for the water, bronze does stand for the shore, and the black actually has
a pretty neat purpose. So our live Chanticleer bird Maddox the rooster is
actually a black rooster, but when the sun hits him just right, that teal color
reflects out really nice. While we're standing here at our TD Sports Complex, I do
want to talk about our athletics here at the University. So we do have over 19
Division I sports here at Coastal and another thing with this is that we are
in the Sun Belt Conference, so a couple of those being our baseball, our softball,
and our football facilities that are right here inside of the complex. We do
also have numerous other sports that we do offer here at the University. With our
baseball team, we were the 2016 collegiate World Series champions. "3-2
coming to Ryan Hogg... He got him! And it's all over! Coastal Carolina rules the roost and
wins the championship!" Another thing is going to be that our
football field was recently renovated last year to now hold over twenty
thousand, seven hundred people in the stands.
Another great thing with this is while you're here at Coastal you can also see
that teal turf, and yes believe me it really is teal. If you ever have a chance
to go out there, it is really bright and it looks like a swimming pool if you
ever fly over it. But out here it is gonna be really nice with all of our
athletics. Any athletic event you go to here at Coastal, you're actually gonna be
able to get into it for free, so all you have to do is use your CINO Card, you
swipe at the gate, you go in and have a seat, and enjoy the game. Another thing
with this is you can actually use your meal plan at the concession stands, so you
bring your CINO Card, you swipe it to get in, you swipe it to get your meal at
the concession stand, and there you go. You have a really great time. So this
building here is gonna be our HTC Student Recreation and Convocation
Center. Inside of here we do have our HTC Arena, which is gonna be home to our
basketball as well as our women's volleyball. Another couple things that do
happen inside one will be our graduation ceremonies and the other is actually
some concerts that have happened inside from people like Lee Brice, Phillip
Phillips, and even Darius Rucker. Another thing inside of the building will be our
bookstore. So with the bookstore on the entire bottom floor we do have all sorts
of different Teal Nation gear that you can get, from mom and dad stickers from
grandparents' shirts ... all that's available for you inside. We even have our
bookstore located upstairs with the books you can buy or rent new or used
textbooks and even purchase ebooks. We do also price match with third-party
vendors like Amazon because we are partnered with Barnes & Noble. So our
entire second floor is going to have all sorts of different things as far as
working out with. So this workout equipment will be state-of-the-art; we do
have weightlifting equipment, we also have cardio equipment. All cardio
equipment does have built-in touch screen TVs, so while you're upstairs
working out you can watch your favorite episode on Netflix or even your entire
series. Another thing with this is we do have a ninth of a mile indoor track
upstairs that students can utilize. Also we do have on our bottom floor different
studio classes, so if you want to go and take a yoga class,
Pilates, if you want to do Zumba, you can even do a "Bachelor" spin class, so if you
like watching "The Bachelor" you can spin at the same time while you do it.
We do also have our 38-foot-tall rock climbing wall right in the very center.
So if you're like myself and you like to climb and you like to be up in those
high areas, you can definitely climb that rock wall
while you're here at the University. Another thing with the inside of there
is going to be our outdoor equipment rental. So that outdoor equipment rental
will be really great because you can get kayaks, canoes, tents, all things that you
could pretty much take on a camping adventure, and you can rent those out
from the University. We also have Coastal Cycles, which is a free bike rental here
on campus. All you have to do is swipe your CINO Card and with that you get a
bike, a helmet, and a lock for up to 30 days at a time. And at the end of those
30 days, they ask you to bring it back so they can check your tire pressure, your
brakes, and make sure there's no rust on the bike. And lastly inside we do also
have Pie by Night. So Pie by Night is gonna be another one of our dining locations
on campus. It's gonna be our pizza place. So with this you can get the cookie
pizzas, the wings, and all that can be delivered to your residence hall anytime
after 7 p.m. All righty, guys, thank you very much for
coming on tour with us here at Coastal. We do really appreciate you coming out.
If you do have any additional questions, always feel free to reach out to our
Office of Admissions and talk to your specific admissions counselor, or even go
to coastal.edu for any of those additional questions about the specific
departments. Thank you guys very much, and always remember: Chants up!