Ruston Daily Leader article on the future of Wyly http://www.rustonleader.com/top_news
Reason here
Ruston Daily Leader article on the future of Wyly http://www.rustonleader.com/top_news
Reason here
I don't guess I could convince any of yall this represents an irreplaceable loss ...
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.
What an unfortunate waste.
Only 50% of the building has windows. That's pretty amazing. I'm hopeful that the new design will be top notch.
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.
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
Where will folks take their drunk friends if they can't take them to pass out on the 16th floor?