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September 13, 2005
Sorin Hall gets colorful rennovations and other upgrades
This year, dozens of first-year students have a fresh and updated place to call home. Sorin Hall was completely renovated this summer, including new paint, wireless routers and fresh carpet in the hall and rooms. The staircase has also been refurbished, with multi-colored carpet squares and new rubberized step coverings, as well as dent-resistant panels on each landing to prevent wall batterings on move-in days.
Handicap accessibility has also been greatly improved, with the addition of push button access to several of the rooms, as well as the bathrooms. A full function card access elevator is now also in place, to make coming up and down from handicap-accessible rooms a much less daunting experience. A sprinkler system complete with new heads in every room was also installed to increase the fire safety of the entire building.
On to the aesthetics. The all-male second floor has a more muted brown and green theme, while the third and fourth floors boasts color combinations of teal, red, tan, blue, and green. Down the hallways, a geometric half-stripe runs down the building floor in sharp contrasting colors. The ceilings have also been painted in matching shades, bringing all of the changes together for a distinct color scheme for each individual floor.
And the changes seem to be greatly appreciated by the new students, especially by those who were able to get a glimpse of what Sorin used to look like. First-year and third floor resident Natalie Crooks said,
“Having the new lounge is a good thing, and the paint colors really brighten up the whole [dorm] atmosphere. It looks much better than it did when I toured it.”
One little extra that seems to be greatly appreciated is the addition of permanent matching dry-erase boards on every door. The idea behind this new feature is to prevent damage to the doors from tape and other hanging apparatus put on each year by student after student.
Then again, there are other, less obvious reasons to be thankful for the changes made. Third-floor resident Paula Cortez summed up her favorite thing about the changes by saying “I really like that there is no funky smell.”
Posted by msveum at September 13, 2005 11:45 AM