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    Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Ruston Daily Leader article on the future of Wyly http://www.rustonleader.com/top_news


    Reason here



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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    I don't guess I could convince any of yall this represents an irreplaceable loss ...

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    I don't guess I could convince any of yall this represents an irreplaceable loss ...
    I hear ya. Don't think the options to save it are feasible though.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    I don't guess I could convince any of yall this represents an irreplaceable loss ...
    We won't have any tall buildings to gaze at from our seats at Joe Aillet.
    Good old Memorial Gym

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tech77 View Post
    We won't have any tall buildings to gaze at from our seats at Joe Aillet.
    Harper will be the last high rise. I can't remember if we could see it or not. With Nielsen, Carruthers and now Wyly gone you might be able to see it from the stadium.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Sorry, but i'm too sentimental. I'm guess. Pretty soon there will be nothng left from when i was there. Oh, well, Just so the new library fits in and doesn't look like some of the newer stuff they've put here and there--bird beak roof apartments and space ship looking intramural center, for examples. I hope they give the new lbrary the old traditional look of Keeny, Bogard, the refurbished university hall, etc., since it will be right there in the quad area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CutiePie72 View Post
    Sorry, but i'm too sentimental. I'm guess. Pretty soon there will be nothng left from when i was there. Oh, well, Just so the new library fits in and doesn't look like some of the newer stuff they've put here and there--bird beak roof apartments and space ship looking intramural center, for examples. I hope they give the new lbrary the old traditional look of Keeny, Bogard, the refurbished university hall, etc., since it will be right there in the quad area.
    So very true.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Quote Originally Posted by CutiePie72 View Post
    Sorry, but i'm too sentimental. I'm guess. Pretty soon there will be nothng left from when i was there. Oh, well, Just so the new library fits in and doesn't look like some of the newer stuff they've put here and there--bird beak roof apartments and space ship looking intramural center, for examples. I hope they give the new lbrary the old traditional look of Keeny, Bogard, the refurbished university hall, etc., since it will be right there in the quad area.
    Quote Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS View Post
    So very true.
    Read the plan.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    What an unfortunate waste.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Only 50% of the building has windows. That's pretty amazing. I'm hopeful that the new design will be top notch.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Quote Originally Posted by Tech77 View Post
    We won't have any tall buildings to gaze at from our seats at Joe Aillet.
    Or have something to spot easily while flying in Ruston.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    I don't guess I could convince any of yall this represents an irreplaceable loss ...
    I found you some old infrastructure local to you that they're giving away. Check twitter.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Quote Originally Posted by CutiePie72 View Post
    Sorry, but i'm too sentimental. I'm guess. Pretty soon there will be nothng left from when i was there. Oh, well, Just so the new library fits in and doesn't look like some of the newer stuff they've put here and there--bird beak roof apartments and space ship looking intramural center, for examples. I hope they give the new lbrary the old traditional look of Keeny, Bogard, the refurbished university hall, etc., since it will be right there in the quad area.
    Wyly wasn't there when I was there. The newest class room building were Madison and Niethken. Since I left they have torn down Old Lomax Hall, Kidd, Hale, Old Business Building, Carruthers, Nielsen, Men's Old Gym, and Women's Old Gym.
    Maybe one more that I can't remember. What's scaring me is that they tore down buildings built while I was there -- the three high rise dormitories. Not that they didn't deserve it. Now they're tearing down a building built after I left. I'm not really nostalgic about any of them.

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    While I will miss Wiley Tower's magnificent presence on the Tech skyline, I do believe the new facility will likely be much more useable for students. Wiley Tower always has seemed a bit unapproachable.
    Good old Memorial Gym

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    Re: Wyly Tower to be demolished

    Where will folks take their drunk friends if they can't take them to pass out on the 16th floor?

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