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The coaches are also very
pleased with the new facilities,
particularly since they all have
increased office space.
"I love having my own
office," Venera J. I'lores,
volleyball and softball coach and
assistant athletic director, said.
Dick Strockbine, athletic
director, said the new fitness
center is a "great improvement.
Everybody's kind of in awe:'
Latour said he hopes students
will be patient with the fitness
center team as it opens the
facility.
"We're still training the staff,"
he said.
Student Life also will
continually monitor the needs of
students to see if any
improvements in the gym prove
necessary, such as larger locker
rooms. For now, though, Latour
is pleased with the result.
"The center truly reflects the
needs of the university... where
it is now and where it is headed,"
he said.
Above left: A rack filled
with weights lines a
mirror in the free weight
portion of the Maher
Fitness Center. Below
left: A row of eliptical
machines forms only part
of the Cybex equipment
at the fitness center.
Other machines include
treadmills, stair steppers,
stationary bikes, and
weight machines.
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Meghan Kuckelman/University News
Top: Sophomore Matt DeFusco lifts weights at the Maher
Fitness Center. Above: Students learn to work the ma-
chines from a fitness trainer. All students must go through
a fitness center orientation before using the machines,
Father Charles Latour, associate dean of students, said.
acilities department gives campus subtle makeover
by Lincy George
Asst. News Editor
The facilities department kept
itself busy this summer, renovat-
ing everything from the cafete-
ria and some computer labs to
the loading dock and a cracked
building. Several other campus
improvement projects are still
underway.
Cost of renovations and im-
provements to the campus was
in excess of $750,000, Robert
Galecke, senior vice president of
finance and administration, said.
Funds collected from bonds
the university issued in 1997 and
1999 paid for the renovations
and repairs, Galecke said.
"We did bond financings in
1997 and 1999. All [the funds]
have gone into repairs since
1997," he said.
UD facilities replaced refrig-
eration in the Haggar kitchen
with a new walk-in refrigerator
upstairs and a new walk-in
freezer downstairs.
"We tore out all the old refrig-
eration and put it in the new,"
John McRae, food service direc-
tor, said.
Facilities also added another
store room for the kitchen and
extended the exhaust system for
additional kitchen equipment,
John Russell, director of facili-
ties, said.
The additions significantly
increased the kitchen's storage
capacity and enable the kitchen
to be more cost and time effi-
cient.
Pointing out the increase in
storage capacity, McRae said,
"We probably doubled the ca-
pacity in the cooler and almost
tripled the capacity in the
freezer."
Russell explained how the
increased storage space would
help save money and time.
"They had to have deliveries
every single day. Now they can
have less frequent deliveries.
They can buy in bulk," he said.
Though no new kitchen
equipment has been added, the
kitchen production capacity has
increased, McRae said.
The kitchen was not built to
prepare the number of meals it
prepares now, said McRae, ex-
plaining the main reason for the
additions to the kitchen.
"When the facility was built,
they were feeding a couple hun-
dred meals a day. Now we're
feeding a thousand meals a day,"
he said.
The increased storage also
enables the campus dining ser-
vice to better implement the con-
cept of Real Food on Campus
that was introduced to the menu
last year.
"Real Food on Campus is
geared towards a lot more fresh
vegetables, and we needed ad-
ditional storage to help with
that," he said.
McRae explained that his
staff would benefit from the
more efficient kitchen, which
would in turn improve service to
the students.
"The more efficient we are in
the back, the more we are able
to add new things or experiment
with different types of con-
cepts," he said.
Unlike last year's cafeteria
improvements, however, the stu-
dents may not see much differ-
ence this year in the cafeteria,
McRae said.
"To the customer, the changes
won't be as noticeable. Last
year, everything was done out in
the front. This summer it's all in
the back," he said.
Students, however, may no-
tice new chairs in the cafeteria
and new lighting in the Haggar
foyer and cafeteria entrance.
Manufacturing delays pre-
vented the installation of new
lighting over the food serving
areas. Temporary lights will be
used till the new lights arrive and
are installed by the end of Sep-
tember, Galecke said.
"The manufacturer sent one
set of lights. [The rest] are to be
shipped Sept. 17, so they should
be installed by the end of Sep-
tember," he said.
Facilities also modified
Haggar's loading dock to facili-
tate deliveries by large trucks,
Russell said.
"We have made an angled
dock for large trucks," he said.
The garbage dump previously
under the loading dock is now
moved to a screened area to im-
prove sanitation and the appear-
ance of the area, Galecke said.
"From a sanitation stand-
point, we needed to separate the
garbage dump and the loading
dock for fresh food. We have
enclosed the dumpster," he said.
Facilities expects to complete
all the minor work on these
projects by mid-September,
Russell said.
Seven students working for
Larry Harm an. structural and
crafts supervisor for Facilities,
painted parts of the campus over
the summer, Jerry Haba, assis-
tant director of facilities, said.
"[The students] painted the
interior of Jerome Hall, interior
and exterior of Haggar, 22 stu-
dent apartments, interior of
Anselm, classrooms in the Sci-
ence Building, and offices in
Modern Languages depart-
ment," he said.
Galecke praised the quality of
the painting work done by the
students and indicated that the
student workers helped save the
university money.
"The students worked hard in
hot weather. We've saved a lot
of the university's money, and
they did an excellent job. I mean
that sincerely," he said.
Facilities also found and re-
paired a crack in a pier of the
Haggar building near the music
department, Galecke said.
"It was major to the building
but not financially expensive,"
Galecke said.
Though the summer has
ended, renovation and construc-
tion work continues on campus.
A patio will be built outside
the Rathskellar on a previously
unusable area and will resemble
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