Orientation addresses many [[Frequently Asked Questions|frequently asked questions]], but may leave other important questions unanswered. If you==== What is the WiFi password? ====Our WiFi're new to Escher, you may be wondering..s password is guffinternet.

==== The internet is spotty in my suite. How do I get help? ====Submit a [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeadGygL4eYuLNZI6kayMGLlFcpBWDeWqhP-qNz1ex-ZwklMg/viewform tech RFA form]. A member of the tech team will respond to any tech-related issues. ==== How do I use the printer? ====I wish I knew. I'll update here if I ever figure out its mysteries. You can beat me to it by reaching out to the [[Technology Advisor]] for any and all questions about house electronics. ==== My room's ____ is broken. How do I get help? ====Submit a [https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB-HW38ydNSNMaD_84L0EXOAahsmmsXSMedSvderASJ3-hLA/viewform Maintenance RFA] and a member of the maintenance team will respond and address the issue. ==== The house's ____ is broken. How do I get help? ====Submit a [https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB-HW38ydNSNMaD_84L0EXOAahsmmsXSMedSvderASJ3-hLA/viewform Maintenance RFA] and a member of the maintenance team will respond and address the issue. It is everyone's responsibility to report issues when they are discovered so they can be resolved quickly. For most things, using a sticky note to show that an RFA has already been submitted is helpful since it saves your fellow housemates time. If a TOILET IS FLOODING, or you discover a similarly urgent issue, send a message in the [Discord|https://discord.com/invite/Xf7eHskmN7] with @MaintenanceManager and @MaintenanceTeam to get immediate assistance. If response there is not quick enough, contact the [[Maintenance Manager]] directly. ==== What are all my responsibilities exactly? Am Will I about to get in trouble for not doing something I didn't even know I was supposed had to do? ====

==== I was fined by an officer, and I think the fine is unfair/incorrect. How do I appeal it? ====Email the [[President]] with a statement explaining why you think the fine is unfairundeserved. The President will call for a [[Judiciary Committee]] meeting, where you and the officer involved are encouraged to explain and answer questions in person. In clear-cut cases (for example, a car accident or sudden illness preventing a member from reaching their kitchen shift on time), the vote is effectively just a formality. If you believe the fine to be incorrect, say, you have attended all your shifts, it is likely a mistake, so reach out to the [[President]] and other relevant officers and they will rectify it without the need for a hearing.

==== My room door/smoke detector/suite kitchen sink/etcI need to move. is broken -- how do How can I get helpout of my contract? ====Submit the The ICC handles all contract release requests. See [https://docsicc.google.comcoop/formshousing/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBicc-contract-HW38ydNSNMaD_84L0EXOAahsmmsXSMedSvderASJ3release-hLAinformation/viewform RFA this form]for getting started with that process and reach out to info@icc.coop if you have any questions. In general, and you'll have a member of the maintenance team will respond and address the issuemuch easier time getting one granted if you can find someone to replace your contract.

==== The internet is spotty in I can't make my suitework shift this week. What How do I doavoid a fine? ====Submit Read the [https://docs.google.com/formsdocument/d/e1aqH7VDvwtfjFJ2epVMWzB3gpHMyYrHAxTlox8mWS1JM/1FAIpQLSeadGygL4eYuLNZI6kayMGLlFcpBWDeWqhP-qNz1ex-ZwklMg/viewform tech RFA formedit?usp=sharing Member's Guide to Work at Escher]! It is crucial that you understand how to request a swap and under what circumstances you may submit for a [[Release Requests|work release]]. As a reminder, when you filled out the [[Work|Work Survey]] you checked a box stating you read and understood that document. Make sure this is true so you don't rack up any fines! ==== I can make my kitchen shift, but I do have a cough. Should I go? ====No. If you have new symptoms, it is a member health code violation to work in an industrial kitchen. Please let the [[Kitchen Manager]] and your shift leader know of the tech team your absence as soon as possible and you will respond and address the issuebe excused from your shift.

A fairly minimal set of house rules is set forth in the [https://icc.coop/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Escher-House-Constitution.pdf constitution]. It is fairly difficult to amend the constitution, but it is certainly possible provided a clear majority of the house feels strongly in favor of the change. Most day-to-day operations at Escher are governed by [[Standing Rules|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jDMF9yDc_RRIKP4mNqlXKZHvgLX307uxrvUTnzw9KYE/edit standing rules]], which are voted on at [[House Meetings|house meetings]]. Any member may propose a standing rule, and a simple majority is sufficient to enact it. Some changes are more about purchasing things than making rules. If you would like for the house to purchase a non-consumable thing that everyone can use (e.g. a projector, a video game console, plants), put together your best estimate of the cost and bring this proposal to the house. The house may vote to use the [[House Budget|amenities fund]] to make the purchase you request. ==== When is dinner? ====During the Fall and Winter semesters, dinner is served seven days a week from 6-7pm except for during [https://ro.umich.edu/sites/default/files/calendar/pdfs/Cal_2022-2023.pdf University of Michigan holidays] (to include study breaks). Over the Spring/Summer semester, dinner is served only on weekdays, also excluding holidays. If you can't make the 6-7pm window some nights, just fill out a 'save meal' card located by the silverware and insert it in the appropriate slot on the industrial kitchen door's organizer (available in both kitchens). For more info on save meals and other dinner-related topics, click [[Food|here]]. ==== What am I allowed to take/eat from the main kitchens? ====Members are allowed to use reasonable quantities of some items that our chef stores in the kitchen pantries and [[guff]] fridges. For example, taking a cup of sugar, making a sandwich or two, or borrowing a bowl and spoon. Note that all dishes should be returned to the dish bins (to be cleaned for you by daily shifts) within 24 hours; hoarding is uncooperative and results in shortages for everyone. Food and cookware in the main kitchen, where food prep takes place, should only be handled by [[Chef Giselle]] and those on kitchen shifts. When in doubt, ask [[Chef Giselle]] or the [[Kitchen Manager]].

Some changes are more about purchasing things than making rules. If you would like for the house ==== What am I allowed to take/eat from my suite kitchen? ====Feel free to purchase a non-consumable thing that everyone can use (ethe pots and pans in your own suite kitchen.gYou may even borrow pots and pans from other suite kitchens, provided you return them. If a projectormember's name is on an item, or the item is in a bin or on a shelf with a video game console, plants)member's name, put together your best estimate of the cost and bring this proposal to the house. The house may vote to do not use the [[Amenities Fund]] to make the purchase you requestit without their permission.

==== What am I allowed to take from the suite kitchen? ====Feel free to use the pots and pans in your own suite kitchen. You may even borrow pots and pans from other suite kitchens, provided you return them. Most consumable items in suite kitchens and refrigerators belong to a particular member. If a memberThese should be labeled, but to be certain refrain from eating food that doesn's name is on an item, or the item is in t clearly have a bin or [[guff]] label on a shelf with a member's name, do not use it.

==== What am I allowed to take from the main kitchensreally liked tonight's dessert. Where can I express my gratitude/ask for a recipe/request it more often? ====Members are allowed The chalkboard near the door to use reasonable quantities of some items that Chef Lynn stores the industrial kitchen area in the O'Keeffe kitchen pantry. Taking Keefe is a cup or two of sugar is finegreat place to leave comments for [[Chef Giselle]]. Any food You can also chat with her in person whenever she's in the walk-in refrigerator is probably required for an upcoming dinner, so do not take things from there. When in doubt, ask Chef Lynn house or email the [[Kitchen Manager]].

==== Why do the meals have processed foodWhat are my guests allowed to take/eat from either kitchen? ====Chef Lynn has a great deal of experience with cooking large quantities of Guests are generally not allowed to consume guff food. She does her best in conjunction with the Student Buyers Association to obtain fresh and local ingredients within the constraints of the house budget and often unskilled kitchen workers. If there is a specific ingredient you would like To learn more or less of, feel free to ask her either in person or by writing on see the chalkboard near the door to the industrial kitchen area[[Guest Policy]].

==== How do I run for a house officer position? Why do we have four different milk alternativesmight I want to run? ====House [[officers]] [[https://wwwwork]] in running the house counts as their house labor.youtubeElections take place by default at the start of the Fall contract period for Fall and Winter and the start of Spring-Summer for Spring-Summer, but elections also take place whenever there is a vacancy in one of the essential positions.com/watch?v=xz6OGVCdov8| BecauseIf you want to run in one of these elections, submit a statement to the [[President]]and plan to attend the House Meeting so you can answer your housemates questions.

==== Why do we You might run for any or all of the following reasons:* To have whole milk and chocolate milk rather than, say, skim? ====a more flexible scheduleEscher has made multiple changes * To boost your resume* To make improvements to the kinds house* Because you prefer the type of milk we put work to other house labor like kitchen cleaning* To serve those around you in the milk dispensers. The house voted to replace 2% with whole, and to remove skim. More members preferred whole milk, and some skim milk drinkers were okay with making their own skim milk using whole.a big way!

==== Why do so many of Where can I store my stuff over the vegetarian meals contain soysummer? ====Soy is often used The [[Trunk Room]] provides deep storage to members in vegetarian meals because it's accordance with our Trunk Room policy (see the [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzfIIXgFbHwNa1BNUW9NRk5ZYlk/view?usp=sharing standing rules]. This large room has enough space for a complete protein that's widely toleratedtypical member to store all their belongings, sometimes celebratedwhich enables a convenient pattern: move everything to the trunk room in May when school lets out, then return to Escher in the fall and often inexpensivemove everything back in. For some peopleIt is secured by a door code known only by house officers, so if you need access, going and staying vegetarian can test one's willpowerreach out on in the #ask-an-officer thread on the [https://discord. We do our best to support our members by occasionally offering meals containing soy-based "meat substitutes" meant to help bring back a bit of comfort and ease any transition one may be trying to make from meat to vegetablescom/invite/Xf7eHskmN7 Discord server].

==== What is EscherFest? ====[https://www[EscherFest]] is a music festival hosted by our coop (almost) every semester.health24Organized by the social chair, EscherFest brings popular local bands to the comfort of our [[Rec Room]].com/Diet-and-nutrition/Healthy-foods/3-myths-about-soy-that-you-should-stop-believing-right-now-20180226| 3 Myths about soy you stop believing right now]This event is open to all, so feel free to invite your friends!