UL tags 3 buildings for demoliton

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  University of Louisiana officials have requested permission to demolish the Nursery Lab School which burned down during Hurricane Gustav. The fire has left the school open and accessible, which is a hazard.

Two 40-year-old University of Louisiana dormitory buildings riddled with extensive infrastructure and mechanical problems are on the campus’ demolition list.

The university has requested permission from the University of Louisiana System to demolish Denbo and Bancroft halls and its nursery lab school which was burned in an electrical fire during Hurricane Gustav.

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By MARSHA SILLS
Advocate Acadiana bureau

[BrockMeaux]

I lived in Bancroft the last semester it was open. Yikes.

[RaginCajun77]

Denbo and Bancroft, good times when they were girls dorms when I was first in school.

[Cajunbander]

Yeah, they should use the space currently occupied by the twin towers to renovate and expand upon our band field. Construction could include a full size field, with a simulated tunnel (to work on pregame of course), a press box (so we can get our horn angles right), artificial turf (so we can be good even if it rains) and a second band room. They could also build a new band tower, with an elevator so that I won't get stuck up there again.



Or, they could just make a bigger parking lot, and make it so that us band kids can have priority parking there. That's pretty much what it is now, just we park there illegally. The parking nazi does not scare me!!!!

[HelmutVII]

I was in fourth and fifth grade at then F. M Hamilton Lab School when they were built. I never thought I would live to see them torn down. They drove piling in the spring when I was in fourth grade. Kind of hard to have class with al that noise. I could hardly hear my teacher. I remember it was a Raymond pile system (one of my good friends was named Raymond and it was pretty easy to remember. They are still in existence today.) After that it was pretty neat to watch them construct the buildings.

We were upset because they took our playground away. It was an old time playground not like the ones you see today. There was a nursery school at the corner of Tulane and Taft. The big Sycamore tree on the side of Denbo Hall still has a little bit of a bulge about five or six feet off the ground. That is where the tree house was attached to the tree.

[CajunKate]

My sister lived in Denbo. It was through visiting her that I decided there was no way I was living in one of those sardine can rooms. I ended up in Baker-Huger. The rooms were huge, but there was no AC. The first night of Freshman year, my roommate and I looked at each and agreed we should have taken the sardine AC room over the huge sweltering sweat lodge room. Good times, good times!

[geo_cajun]

I hope they build more dorms and not more legacy park type housing. That is what this campus needs to sustain campus life is more, decent, on campus housing. Personally I think you should have to be an upper classmen to get into legacy, just because kids miss out on the experience of being forced to live with and very near other people they may not know or like. And learning to adapt is a handy life skill. In these apartment they can just separate from everyone else, which is the antithesis of what college life is about.

[shof]

_ I hope they build more dorms and not more legacy park type housing. That is what this campus needs to sustain campus life is more, decent, on campus housing. Personally I think you should have to be an upper classmen to get into legacy, just because kids miss out on the experience of being forced to live with and very near other people they may not know or like. And learning to adapt is a handy life skill. In these apartment they can just separate from everyone else, which is the antithesis of what college life is about. _

I agree. I know several schools "require" freshmen and sophomore students to live in "dorms". Had to go thru that for a couple years with my son while at TX Tech. He learned to like it!

[shasta]

as a former student employee of the housing departments maintenance crew, I can say without any doubt that tearing those two down is way past due

[skankinCajun]

I lived in Bancroft when it was first made the move to house guys. Broken elevators on moving day, rooms that were wasp infested, and climbing 7 flights of stairs drunk as hell; those were 3 years well spent there.

[RaginFan2]

_ as a former student employee of the housing departments maintenance crew, I can say without any doubt that tearing those two down is way past due _

Maybe so, but then we need to build more to restore the lost rooms for on-campus living. How can you have a campus community if most everyone lives off-campus? I think we've been losing potential students because of this situation. Most schools with a majority of off-campus students are referred to as "commuter schools". And that is not usually a term of respect.

[cjr3888]

The parking nazi does not scare me!!!! _

ALL HAIL THE PARKING NAZI!!!!!

I plan on being on campus when he becomes the first parking nazi ever to have his little ID badge retired by the university. That will be a very emotional day for me. After one semester on campus, we figured out his route and would park accordingly so we wouldn't get tickets.