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BJWilliams wrote:campus perspective mostly...we have North Campus/Green Hall, then Dorm 26-33 is considered South Campus, which makes the dorms off 460 East Campus...you follow me Shirley?It still is geodirectionally challenged. And don't cal me Shirley!
flamesfan30 wrote:... but so is a road that can simultaneously be marked as west(460) south(29) and east(501) at the same time.Which is why I always give directions using landmarks!
BJWilliams wrote:campus perspective mostly...we have North Campus/Green Hall, then Dorm 26-33 is considered South Campus, which makes the dorms off 460 East Campus...you follow me Shirley?...and maybe, the fact that it is the eastern-most portion of campus might play a part.
JLFJR wrote:As far as good ideas, I have to commend you chancellor on the free gym membership for staff from 5am-8am. Great way to give an incentive for healthy living not just from a monetary perspective, but from a parking one as well. Maybe you didn't have anything to do with it, but I'm so excited about this!! Being free, regardless of the early hours is great for those of us that work at LUO all day sitting in a cube, and (more relevant to this particular thread) a great incentive to get the best parking spots on that side of campus.Wilberforce91 wrote:One idea that I think would work well for Liberty, especially when the Circle dorms are replaced, is having a parking garage (two or three levels) underneath a high-rise dorm. That's the way one of the new towers at UNC-Greensboro is set up and makes sense as it gives residential students closer access to their vehicles while opening up surface spots for faculty/commuters. Here are some pics: http://hrl.uncg.edu/living_on_campus/ha ... d/spgd.php Just a thought! Side Note: First post ever! Been surfing for a while but finally broke down and registered.This might actually be the only type of parking garage that would work on main campus because, if dorm students only are using it, it won't generate traffic during peak hours that campus roads cannot handle. I knew some good ideas would come from this forum. Thank you!
bigsmooth wrote:do you realize the cost of what you are are dreaming of? its a wonderful idea, but its not needed. our campus is looking better every day and using JMU as an example was correct. the highway landscape does look better there on I-81 than 460. also LU is not a big time school...yet. JMU is a fine school so get off your high horse. Their football team is dang sure better than ours,and quite frankly academically they are better so we should compare ourselves to them to get better, which in time we will. you are the only one here crying about an "eyesore".
logic wrote:From what I've gathered of the Vision it is this...Alabama football, an overall Stanford athletics department, the academics of a Southern Cal, and the small bible college atmosphere of the school we've always been!Logic, you better get that copyrighted before someone steals it.
logic wrote:what are you smoking?? you conveniently took a conversation about our campus being an eyesore because of a highway running through it and because everyone disagreed with you, to talking about that JMU not a big time university, and your "vision". you have to crawl before you can walk and right now we need to be better than JMU not Bama, Stanford, or USC. we are not yet a big time university. we are not academically better than JMU, we are not better in football and hoops either. so get better than JMU in those aspects first. trust me i despise JMU, but facts are facts. nothing wrong with a vision or a BHAG, but you are part of the "i want it now crowd" and it simply takes time. so go back to your orginal point of the "big dig south" and improving our eyesore of a campus.bigsmooth wrote:do you realize the cost of what you are are dreaming of? its a wonderful idea, but its not needed. our campus is looking better every day and using JMU as an example was correct. the highway landscape does look better there on I-81 than 460. also LU is not a big time school...yet. JMU is a fine school so get off your high horse. Their football team is dang sure better than ours,and quite frankly academically they are better so we should compare ourselves to them to get better, which in time we will. you are the only one here crying about an "eyesore".
Because when I think of "big-time university" I always think of JMU. I would rather we emulate the athletic departments of SEC schools and the academics of the ACC/Big Ten/Pac-12. When I think of big-time schools I think of those conferences plus the best of the Big12 mixed in. From what I've gathered of the Vision it is this...Alabama football, an overall Stanford athletics department, the academics of a Southern Cal, and the small bible college atmosphere of the school we've always been! JMU doesn't factor into any of those dreams.
As Haize would say, where is your vision?
Purple Haize wrote:I think we should provide hover craft for all incoming FreshmenPit Bull hoverboards for all!
logic wrote:huh? wuhhhhhh?
Because when I think of "big-time university" I always think of JMU.
Purple Haize wrote:I think we should provide hover craft for all incoming FreshmenThey will be around by 2015. I saw it on Back to the Future!
jbock13 wrote:logic wrote:huh? wuhhhhhh?
Because when I think of "big-time university" I always think of JMU.
bigsmooth wrote:logic wrote:what are you smoking?? you conveniently took a conversation about our campus being an eyesore because of a highway running through it and because everyone disagreed with you, to talking about that JMU not a big time university, and your "vision". you have to crawl before you can walk and right now we need to be better than JMU not Bama, Stanford, or USC. we are not yet a big time university. we are not academically better than JMU, we are not better in football and hoops either. so get better than JMU in those aspects first. trust me i despise JMU, but facts are facts. nothing wrong with a vision or a BHAG, but you are part of the "i want it now crowd" and it simply takes time. so go back to your orginal point of the "big dig south" and improving our eyesore of a campus.bigsmooth wrote:do you realize the cost of what you are are dreaming of? its a wonderful idea, but its not needed. our campus is looking better every day and using JMU as an example was correct. the highway landscape does look better there on I-81 than 460. also LU is not a big time school...yet. JMU is a fine school so get off your high horse. Their football team is dang sure better than ours,and quite frankly academically they are better so we should compare ourselves to them to get better, which in time we will. you are the only one here crying about an "eyesore".
Because when I think of "big-time university" I always think of JMU. I would rather we emulate the athletic departments of SEC schools and the academics of the ACC/Big Ten/Pac-12. When I think of big-time schools I think of those conferences plus the best of the Big12 mixed in. From what I've gathered of the Vision it is this...Alabama football, an overall Stanford athletics department, the academics of a Southern Cal, and the small bible college atmosphere of the school we've always been! JMU doesn't factor into any of those dreams.
As Haize would say, where is your vision?
chisox1 wrote:I thought nothing of 460 running through the campus when I first saw it last year when we took our daughter to "Friendly Friday". Liberty has a beautiful campus with awesome improvements coming. It takes time for these things to happen. We visited many campuses in my daughters search for a university home the likes of: TCU, Texas, Baylor, Florida, Illinois, South Florida and a few others; and they all had beautiful campuses that took decades to get where they are today. And that being said they were not perfect. Like I said in another post on a thread that must have been deleted. Rome was not built in one day. You guys are still new kids on the block being only 41 years old; and yet you are already surpassing many schools three times your age.Welcome to the board but as a Cubs fan and someone who attended college and seminary outside of Chicago I find your screen name highly offensive!
I live in the suburbs of Chicago (and yes my daughter is a freshman at Liberty) and around here the universities build buildings were ever they can squeeze them in. UIC (Illinois-Chicago) in downtown Chicago is a good example. I could not tell where the campus ended and the city began. The same goes for Marquette in Milwaukee. Liberty should be thankful for 460 because it is a vital link for the university to the rest of the world. Lynchburg would have benefited greatly from a interstate coming to it or a spur off of 81 in Roanoke coming your way. That being said 460 has a interstate quality to it at times; especially near Lynchburg.
During our college search we went to the University of Texas; and there interstate 35 runs on the east side of the campus with some of the campus bleeding over to the other side. That is where the baseball stadium is located and yet no one I talked to thought anything of it. I kind of see the same thing going on with 460 splitting main campus from east campus at Liberty...
Kind of a non issue.
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