Prepare to be floored in Christiana East!

This summer, we removed the old worn carpet in the first floor short hallway of Christiana East Tower and replaced it with a new rubber floor. The rubber floor is a new surface for the campus that should be easier to take care of and keep clean as this is a major traffic area for folks entering and exiting the East Tower. The best part was that the flooring was free to UD as part of a promotion from the manufacturer. If the new flooring is a success, we plan to put it in the short hallway on the third floor of Christiana West, which also gets a lot of traffic from people coming in and out from the parking lot.

"Addressing" dresser issues in Dickinson Complex

Last fall, Dickinson E and F residents moved in to new dressers in each room. The dressers they replaced were more than 20 years old and smaller than any other dresser on campus. The primary reason that the smaller dressers were purchased many years ago was to give residents more room by taking up less space. When a decision was made to replace the dressers as their life cycle was up, Residence Life and the Dickinson Complex Community Council were contacted to see what the current residents would like for a new dresser style. We gave them some samples to try that were more in line with what was supplied in other areas. The feedback resulted in the model that we selected for Dickinson, which was 6" wider than the old dresser, but about the same height. Residents seem pleased with the new model so this summer we purchased enough new dressers from the same supplier to "complete" the Complex from A through D. The old dressers were removed from Campus in June by a liquidator that intends to re-use them. In the photo, the new dressers are lined up in the Dickinson C/D tubeways awaiting delivery into the rooms.