 "Photo: Erin Clark")
 "Photo: Erin Clark")
Upon returning to her room in Creighton Hall after winter break, freshman Kamila Dobrowska was surprised to find her ceiling lower than it was before she left.
“The entire corner of [my] ceiling was sunken in and looked like a giant bubble,” Dobrowska said. “It took about a week for maintenance to get back to us about the problem … then only three days to remove the paint, patch up the hole and then repaint.”
According to Mike Jurewitch, Loyola’s director of facilities, a radiator broke in a room on the sixth floor, which caused a leak in the ceiling on the fifth floor. Jurewitch pointed to old piping and radiators as the source of problems in the 95-year-old building.
Dobrowska said she and her roommate felt safe enough to stay in their room after maintenance fixed the problems. However, senior Hope Dunbar felt differently after her ceiling collapsed when she lived in Creighton her sophomore year.
Dunbar stayed in Mertz Hall with her roommate for the remainder of the semester before moving into Fordham Hall in the spring of 2008. What worried her most about what happened wasn’t where she was going to live — it was the fact that her ceiling seemed to cave in without warning.
“There were no water spots, leakage or dripping,” Dunbar said. “What if it had happened to me while I was sleeping?”
During the Fall 2009 semester, there were 6,319 submitted work requests, 185 of which came from Creighton Hall, according to Jurewitch.
“We repair the rooms as fast as we can,” Jurewitch said. While there are no present plans to remodel Creighton, the facilities department is trying to be proactive so that Dunbar’s ceiling catastrophe does not happen again.
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