Laundry rooms also have been repainted and retiled. The most dramatic changes, however, occurred in Harter Hall. Closed last year for extensive renovations, the oldest residence hall on campus reopened this fall with accent colors of blue and burnt orange, wood chair rails and blue-gray tweed carpeting in all hallways and lounges. Harter also has a new heating system, plumbing, windows, electical wiring and fluorescent ceiling lights. Student rooms have replastered walls, new tile floors, drapes and oak furniture.
Bathrooms have colorful mosaic tile walls, ceramic tile floors and shower stalls and new fixtures.
All Harter rooms are wired for telephone, cable TV and Ethernet data service. Students in this residence hall contract directly with TCI Cablevision for cable TV and request activation of their data lines through Computer Network Services. Sharp rooms-doubling the number from six to 12. The marble and brick Kent Hall staircase was rebuilt. New room door locks were installed in Lane, Thompson and the Harrington complex and freshly painted walls greeted students in six Pencader buildings, the Gilbert complex and the lower floors of Christiana West.