Spartans show off dorm rooms
No-preference sophomore Matt Shumate hangs out in his man cave Wednesday night at West Holmes Hall. He hopes he can win LiveOn’s My Spartan Space Contest. Aaron Snyder/The State News.
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Kinesiology freshman Amanda LaPres and advertising freshman Kailey Cox are roommates with impressive living quarters.
“When I have friends come up to visit, they think that all dorm rooms at MSU are this nice,” Cox said.
And LiveOn’s My Spartan Space Contest, which runs until Feb. 24, is giving them the opportunity to show it off.
Cox said what makes their East Wilson Hall dorm room unique are its homelike features, including huge shag carpets, which she considers to be just as suitable for a fancy apartment or loft furnished with pillows.
“My dad built our loft, and we have a whole upstairs with beds where we can hang out and chill,” Cox said. “It’s not about the money — we are (participating in the contest) because we want to show people how cool our room is.”
MSU students living in all MSU residence halls, Spartan Village or the University and Van Hoosen apartments currently have the chance to enter LiveOn’s My Spartan Space Contest. Contestants must post photos of their unique living area to LiveOn’s Facebook page, and the photo with the most “likes” by 5 p.m. Feb. 24 will win $300 Spartan Cash equally divided between all the roommates.
The contest is meant to target two groups: high school students who are thinking about attending MSU, and MSU students who currently live on campus and never get the chance to see others’ spaces, said Nicole Lycos, brand manager for Campus Living Services and Residence Life.
“We added it to our marketing plan this year as a way to show that it’s not just a residence hall room,” Lycos said. “It’s showing off your space, it’s where you live, (and) it’s showing more than just a stale room.”
Prenursing freshman Natalie Hoff, premedical freshman Samantha Bekkala and hospitality business freshman Allison Capili said their Armstrong Hall room always looks as good as the pictures they submitted.
“We worked hard to make it the way it is and make it home,” Capili said.
The three girls sleep in lofted beds, each covered with a different color of duct tape, Capili said.
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities freshmen David Ward and John Nowak said their Phillips Hall room decoration allows them to look back on another time and place.
“Everything we put up on the walls has its own story — our posters we put up from game day or ticket stubs, or we have a door full of newspaper clippings,” Nowak said.
Nowak said the highlight of their room is a youthful Matchbox car city carpet.
With the competition underway, students have been pulling out all the stops, entering more than a standard picture — posted on LiveOn’s Facebook page are photos that feature text and collages.
“We have seen other types of universities doing things like this, and we thought it might take off, but we weren’t positive,” said Lycos. “We’re very pleased with how excited the students seem to be about it and wanting to show off their space.”
