I have noticed that, over time, plants that died around the new residence halls has not been replaced. The dead plants were just removed. All of the landscaping along McKinley placed around the Baker and Huger halls has been removed. It's just grass and they mow it. I haven't checked in the courtyards lately but I drive by on McKinley often. Many of the plants along University against Corona and Bonin have also been removed after they died. I suspect they will be mowing that in the next couple of years. We shall see what happens with the landscaping around the student union. I figured that would happen. They have the money to build but not maintain. If you walked into the Dr. Maggards office and were writing a check for one million dollars I doubt much if any would go to landscaping. I suspect they have bigger priorities than landscaping at the complex.
.... just in time for the presentation to the AAC ....
We are seeking millions of dollars in donations to athletics. We are also wanting to move up in conference. We will only get one chance to make a first impression with any new donors, with visiting conference commissioners or potential conference schools that we might play, and any visitors to our complex. We need to make the right impression when they visit our athletic complex. Relating this to Real Estate terms, we have Class A interiors to our facilities (which nobody sees), but Class B exteriors and grounds, and in some buildings Class C. A lot will change when something is done with the Cox Building, but who knows when that till occur. UL is looking at 2 options with that building (1) tear it down and rebuild elsewhere, or (2) renovate and put a 2nd story on it. I would argue that UL can't afford to not landscape and make the complex as attractive as possible. There are a couple of things UL can do. (1) Find a landscaping company as a major sponsor of athletics who will handle the landscaping for us and (2) get creative, for example, by utilizing the agronomy department to provide each year a senior class project to work on the athletic campus landscaping in conjunction with the landscaping sponsor.
UL cannot afford to overlook the details that will make for a great athletic campus to match our now beautiful academic campus that Dr. S has done a remarkable job with. We are attracting more valedictorians than ever to UL. When students and their parents visit, they want to see a beautiful, vibrant campus. If you want to attract wealth (economic and academic), look wealthy. Quit operating like we are USL. We are the University of Louisiana. Invest in it. Act like it. Look like it.
Interesting, realated recent article in the Verm.
https://www.thevermilion.com/news/ne...1c49a63a5.html
Green space is pretty much complete, and I think it turned out to be a great addition to the campus:
This is a view from Buchanan taken right before the construction was completed, and that was posted on the UL Housing FB page.
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