Earth Day should be every day in your "crib"

Today our residence hall furniture participated in an Earth Day celebration in the Trabant Multi-Purpose Room. The display was put together by Residence Life and was entitled the "Green Crib," and included items available at the bookstore that can help "green" your room. The most important action you can take in your residence hall room to celebrate Earth Day doesn't cost anything...just turn off lights when possible and anything plugged into an outlet that you aren't using.

UGA floors to finally "disappear"

This summer a hallway carpet replacement project will transform the three former University Guest Apartment floors on 16-14 back to the appearence of the rest of the floors of the West Tower. The University Guest Apartment floors were created in the mid-1990's as a way to offer a comfortable and convinent apartment style hotel experience to guests traveling to the University. Housing transformed the traditional Christiana Apartments to Guest Apartments by replacing the standard UD dorm furniture with "hotel" furniture. The planning for and subsequent building of the Marriott Courtyard Hotel at Laird Campus meant that the University Guest Apartments were no longer needed and the apartments were transitioned back to regular student use. However, the hallways were never transformed back to the typical appearence of a West Tower floor. The carpet lasted for more than the standard life cycle of 7-10 years so in fact beat the average wear expected in a residence hall prior to replacement. The photos show the red color scheme of the previous UGA floors in the bottom photo, compared to the blue color scheme of the current 13th floor of West Tower in the top photo.

New carpeting in the Commons

Just before Spring Break the Dickinson A/B, Dickinson C/D and Dickinson E/F Commons Lounges received new carpeting. In addition to the new flooring, we are in the process of reupholstering all the furniture pieces in each of these lounges.