The Common Room sponsors a number of contests during the school year.
The Common Room Speaking Up Contest offers prizes to U-Hall residents who leave comments on the site. Prizes are awarded at the end of the year and include iPods and other fun gear. Every non-anonymous comment left on the site constitutes an entry in this contest. Every post submitted to the Common Room and accepted for publication on the site counts for ten entries!
During the fall term, the site offers a weekly Fun Facts Contest. Every Sunday morning a question about some aspect of New York or NYU history is posted. Correct answers submitted to the Fun Facts e-mail address by Wednesday night at 11:00 p.m. are entered into a raffle. One lucky winner receives a $25 gift card to a neighborhood establishment such as Trader Joe's, Barnes and Noble, or one of the movie theaters. Winners are announced on the site on Friday mornings. And each entry in the Fun Facts Contest -- right or wrong -- constitutes an entry in the Speaking Up Contest!
The first Fun Facts question will be posted on September 6.
The spring term features both Fun Facts and the Fun Food Contest, in which you are asked to identify a restaurant pictured -- enigmatically -- on the site.
So be sure to visit the Common Room often, and submit those entries. Residents who are interested in submitting posts for the site should contact either FFIR Cyrus Patell or RHAD Jamia Wilson.