Food Plans/Kitchen Facilities Food Plans/Kitchen Facilities
Since CroMem has no cafeteria, you have the freedom of choosing your own meal arrangements. CroMem residents have the following options for your food needs:
Cook for yourself
If you choose to cook for yourself, you may use the CroMem kitchen which is
located in the ground floor. A deposit will get you both a kitchen key and also
space in both the refrigerator and freezer. The kitchen refrigerator spaces
are small (about 2 square feet). You may want to rent or buy a small refrigerator
for your room if you require additional refrigerator space. Since the cooking
space is limited, if many people apply to use kitchen, a lottery has to be drawn
in order to decide who can use the kitchen and public refrigerater. For more
information about kitchen, please see kitchen document
for details. We have a limit of 50 kitchen members. There is a deadline for
the kitchen application at the beginning of every academic year. That is for
the big kitchen assignment at the very beginning. However, you can still apply
throughout the year as long as there are open spots. Simply contact Rhea at
rhea.liu@stanford.edu for details.
If you want to say something to other kitchen users, you can send email to cromem-kitchen@lists.Stanford.EDU. (Note: If the information you are sending out is only related to the kitchen users, please use this cromem kitchen email address instead of the big cromem email address for the whole dorm, because most people in the dorm are not using the kitchen.)
University Food Service
Residents of CroMem can use the University Food Service in any dorm. For more
information, please check university
dinning.
Toyon Eating Clubs
Another very good option for food are the Toyon Eating Clubs. Because Toyon
Hall has no cafeteria, the Eating Clubs provide Toyon residents with meals.
Besides Toyon residents, the Eating Clubs also allow other Stanford students
to join if they have room. Each of the 4 clubs have about 100 members. Besides
providing meals for their members, the Eating Clubs also have social events
ranging from Friday afternoon Happy Hours to a Spring Formal. In addition, the
clubs each have a television lounge complete with satellite TV.
The eat clubs typically offer four plans: Full Board, Lunch & Dinner, Dinner only, and Lunch only. If you have the full board plan, you also get a key that lets you access the Eating Club kitchen 24 hours a day in addition to a continental breakfast. The Eating Clubs do not provide a Saturday evening dinner, so you can either eat out or fix your own meal in the Eating Club kitchen.
There are 4 Eating Clubs: Los Arcos, El Cuadro, El Toro, and Breakers Co- op. The prices for the first four are about the same, but the prices for Breakers is significantly lower because they require members to do some of the cooking and cleanup. The Breakers Co-op is almost entirely a graduate student eating club. If interested in the Eating Clubs, during the first week of school you can purchase individual meals at the door. At the end of the week, if you join the clubs, the amount you spent during the week is deducted from your meal plan bill (you will get a card at the start of the week which will be stamped for each meal purchased). If you have any questions, you can call the Toyon Eating Clubs main office at 723-3103. For more information, please check Stanford Eating Clubs.
Co-ops
Co-ops are student residences in which residents and
nonresident eating associates manage the house meal service and prepare all
meals themselves. Eating associates at co-ops are required to work two to five
hours per week planning, preparing, and serving meals. Because students prepare
all meals, co-op board plans cost less than other meal plans at Stanford. The
seven co-ops are Chi Theta Chi, Columbae, Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Hammarskjöld,
Kairos, Synergy, and Terra. Students interested in becoming an eating associate
at a co-op should contact the houses' kitchen manager.
More Information about Eating
Please check graduate students' dinning options.
If you want to park your car in the CroMem parking lot, you must buy an East parking sticker (EA). This parking sticker is available at the Stanford Parking and Transportation Office.
It is important to note the following section from the Stanford Parking Policy: A resident student permit does not guarantee availability of a parking space in the parking lot closest to a particular dormitory, but does allow parking in any of the resident student lots in that area of campus. This should be remembered as the CroMem/Toyon lot tends to be very over- crowded.
If you join one of the Toyon Eating Clubs, you can get a parking permit to park your car in their lot. Since the Eating Club lot is very close to CroMem, it allows you to park in a less-congested parking lot.
If you have guests that will be staying for a short period of time that want to use the CroMem parking lot, you can purchase daily parking stickers for small fee per day at the Stanford Parking and Transportation Office. If your guest comes during the weekends or in evenings, he/she can park the car in the Encina hall "A" parking lot, which is free from 4:00 PM to 6:00 AM on weekdays, Saturday and Sunday whole day.
For questions about parking, call the Stanford Transportation Programs at 723-9362 or check their website.
You can activate phone & cable TV services through AXESS. For more information, please check Information Technology Systems and Services (ITSS).
Pay Phone
There is a pay phone on the ground floor near outside the entrance near the
TV lounge (entrance 2).
Campus Information
To find the telephone number for any Stanford office, professor, or student,
dial '0' from any campus phone. From non-campus phones, the Stanford Information
number is 723-2300. Directory information can also be found using the 'whois'
command on a campus network computer (e.g., cardinal) or search on "Stanford.who?".
Each year Stanford publishes a student/staff directory which undergraduates can pick up from the CroMem office and graduates can pick up at their department office. The directory is usually published early in fall quarter.
Telephone Directories for Surrounding Area
For phone books for San Francisco, San Jose or any other areas, call Pacific
Bell at (800) 848-8000. (After asking for your telephone number, Pacific Bell
may tell you that they have no record of your number. Tell them that you live
on campus at Stanford.) Pacific Bell will mail white pages free of charge, but
they may charge shipping for yellow pages.
You have two options for receiving your mail: having it delivered directly to CroMem or renting a mail box at the White Plaza post office. A box at White Plaza costs about $35 per year, while the CroMem box is absolutely free. The advantage to having a box at White Plaza is that if you stay at Stanford for a while, you can keep the same address even if you change residences.
A CroMem Address:
Your Name
Crother Memorial Hall
621 Escondido Road, Apt. xxx (your room number)
Stanford, CA 94305
PO Box address in post office:
If you have packages mailed to you, the post office will give you a package locker key or a claim slip. The package locker key will open one of the package lockers outside the White Plaza. These package lockers can be accessed 24 hours. The claim slips must be brought to the front desk of the Post Office during post office hours to claim the package. The White Plaza Post Office is open weekdays from 9 am-5 pm. For more information, call the Stanford Post Office at 322-0059.
UPS/Federal Express Service
If you have a Federal Express or UPS package shipped to you, it will be delivered
to your door, unless it requires your signature or the delivery man cannot get
into the building. In that case, they'll leave a yellow slip on the entrance
door.
To arrange for pickup, call UPS at (800) 222- 8333 or Federal Express at 877-9000 or (800) 238-5355 for more information on pickup delivery, and rates. You can also just go to the post office on White Plaza.
Please do not dump your personal trash in the garbage cans in either the lounges or the bathrooms. When your trash is full, bring it to the trash dumpster near the service doors on the Encina side of the dorm.
The Stanford Recycling Center coordinates the recycling of many types of materials, many of which are collected at CroMem. The green recycling barrels are at two places at CroMem:
The Stanford Recycling Center is located near the Credit Union on Pampas Lane just off Serra Street between Campus Drive and El Camino. The hours are M-F 8am-5pm and Sat 9am-5pm. For information, call the Stanford Recycling Center at 723-0919.
Newspaper
Please deposit newspaper with any color ink, newsprint, glossy inserts, and
time schedules. Please do not deposit phone books, books, magazines, or paper
bags.
Glass
Please deposit bottles, jars, and drinking glasses of any color. Please do not
deposit frosted glass, plate glass, Pyrex, or mirrors. When recycling glass,
please throw away the lid and rinse out the container. Since this glass will
be hand-sorted, do your best not to break the glass.
Metal
Please deposit clean aluminum foil and aluminum, steel, and tin cans.
Plastic (#1 and #2)
Although there are many types of plastic, only two types are currently recycled
by Stanford - PETE (#1) and HDPE (#2). PETE is most commonly used to make plastic
soda bottles, and HDPE is used to make plastic milk jugs, yogurt containers,
shampoo and detergent bottles, and other similar containers. If you are not
sure what type of plastic an object is, look for the triangular recycling symbols
on the bottom of the object. If the number inside the triangle is not a 1 or
2, the object is made of a type of plastic that is currently not recycled by
Stanford.
When recycling these plastic containers, completely empty the container, remove the cap, and squash the container (to save space).
Junk Mail
Please deposit junk mail, glossy paper, FAX paper, ink jet computer paper, magazines,
envelopes with plastic windows or gummed labels, paper with gummed labels, tape,
staples, or metal paper clips, all other grades of non-newspaper which goes
in no other barrel, neon and fluorescent paper, ream wrappers, paperboard, paper
bags, butcher paper, self- adhesive stickers, paperback books, phone books.
Please do not deposit hardback books, food-contaminated items, napkins or tissues,
rubber bands, and plastic paper clips.
Cardboard
Stanford Recycling accepts corrugated cardboard only. Put the cardboard in the
cardboard recycling dumpster outside Crothers (on the Encina side). Paperboard
(e.g., cereal boxes) is recycled as junk mail.
White Paper
CroMem does not have any recycling barrels for white paper, but white paper
barrels can be found on the second floor of Sweet Hall and the Stanford Recycling
Office at Pampas Lane.
Motor Oil
Although the Stanford Recycling Center does not take used motor oil, the Palo
Alto Recycling Center at the Palo Alto Landfill does accept it. The Palo Alto
Recycling Center is located near the Bay at the end of Embarcadero. The hours
are Monday 9am-1pm and Tuesday-Sunday 9am- 5pm.
If there is something broken either in your room or in a dorm common area, fill out a fix-it form online. Facilities will fix the problem. If there is an emergency, please call 725-1602.
CroMem has a limited amount of storage for suitcases, boxes, etc. You should store only items you will not need until you move out of the dorm. Since storage space is limited, no beds, bed frames, refrigerators, or other furniture can be put in CroMem storage. If you do not want to use your bed frames you must either store them in your room or arrange for some type of off-campus storage. In past years, for economic reasons, groups of people have gotten together and rented a storage space off campus.
You are not allowed to store anything in the hallways. RMO (Residence Management Office) periodically makes sweeps through the hallways and removes anything stored in the hallway. They will be very intolerant of objects left in the hallway this year because of past fires in student housing in Berkeley and San Jose State. If you store your bed frame in the hall and it is removed by RMO, you will be billed for the replacement cost when you move out.
CroMem has washers and dryers in the laundry room on the ground floor across from room 338. You can open the door with your room key.
If you don't have a car, keep Stanford's free Marguerite shuttle in mind. These shuttles go around campus, as well as to downtown Palo Alto, several shopping areas, movie theatres and to the train station. Restricted hours on the weekends. You can look up the schedule on-line.
There are a couple of bike shops on El Camino near campus. Keep in mind that the bikes has to be registering because they do get stolen, and be sure to buy a Kryptonite U-Lock and lock it to something immobile if you plan to leave your bike unattended.
If you do have a vehicle, don't forget to buy a parking permit. Stanford tickets heavily, so just do it!
There are retail stores (Sears, Target, Mervyn's, Walmart) and grocery stores (Safeway, Alberson, Milk Pail Market, and Trader Joe's) at Antonio Shopping Center in Mountain View, which is only about 10-15 minutes drive away (take a right turn on El Camino Real as you drive from Serra street).
Safeway and Trader Joe's also have stores in Menlo Park, which are closer to Stanford than the ones in mountain view.
Several drug stores (e.g. Walgreen's, Rite Aid) are also on El Camino Real.
Fry's electronic store, on Portage Avenue, which is very close to campus. --take a right turn on El Camino Real as you drive from Serra street, past Page Mill Road., at the fourth intersection, turn left to Portage Ave.
There are also many restaurants, bars, and smaller stores (including drug stores, bookstore, stationary stores, health shops) on University Avenue (10 min bike distance from cromem).
The Stanford Shopping Center, which is pretty close to Stanford campus (10-15 min bike distance), contains several large department stores (e.g., Macy's, Nordstrom's), smaller clothing and gift shops, restaurants, hair salons etc…
The Town and Country Village (apx. 5-10 min bike distance from Crothers Memorial) is a smaller mall with a few restaurants, hair salons, specialty grocery stores and the like. California Avenue, also very nearby, has many small shops and some great places to eat.
During certain hours, you can take free Stanford shuttle-- Marguerite to many of these locations (see "transportation" above).