How it works
During quiet hours, if someone in the hallway can hear your music, TV, or conversation, it's too loud. Courtesy hours are lighter: normal daytime life is fine, but if a neighbor is sleeping off a night shift or studying and asks you to turn it down, you do. RAs enforce both, and repeat noise complaints go through the conduct process.
Making it livable
Talk to your neighbors early so a knock isn't the first contact. Use headphones after hours. If noise from a neighbor is a recurring problem and a direct ask hasn't worked, tell your RA — that's what they're for, and it's better than resentment.
In and around Porter Falls
Day-to-day life at Porter runs between Founders Union, the residence halls on the south quad and North Campus across the Riverfront Trail. The Porter Loop shuttle and a compact footprint mean most students can get anywhere on campus in under fifteen minutes on foot.
The practical details
Quiet hours: Set times (typically 10 or 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. on weeknights, later on weekends) when noise must stay inside your room. Courtesy hours: All other times — keep noise reasonable, and honor any request to quiet down. Finals: 24-hour quiet hours for the last week or two of each term. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Dean of Students Office (Founders Union, Room 200). Call (715) 555–0182 or email deanofstudents@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.