It has come to my attention
that our unique and lovely
Lambeth Field stadium is most
likely to be razed to the ground,
and (can this be true?) a high-rise
apartment house for students
constructed in its place. This is an
outrage! I can vividly picture the
same sadistic architect responsible
for the brick monstrosity on
Jefferson Park Ave. known as the
"new medical building" fiendishly
designing yet another eyesore to
replace one of the last vestiges of
classic beauty apparent on the
grounds.
While I fully realize the need for
more student housing, I feel sure
that if the kingpins here at the U.
put on their thinking caps, they
could certainly come up with
another suitable site for the
building. If I might make a
suggestion (perhaps unfeasible and
certainly provocative), I would say
that the cemetery across the street
from Gilmer Hall would be a far
better location. Although the
descendants of these bygone
builders of the University might
oppose any such attempt, I believe
that if the actual inhabitants of the
cemetery could cast their vote, they
would overwhelmingly decide to
sacrifice their own resting places in
order that the University they so
dearly loved could grow and
flourish without obliterating all of
its beauty and tradition.
The sudden appearance of
tennis courts in the Dell over the
summer has wiped out one of the
few remaining patches of green.
The proposed high-rise will
eliminate all of Lambeth Field from
Route 29 to (and probably
including) the stadium itself. What
would Mr. Jefferson say if there
were no more grassy expanses on
which one could exercise or frolic?
Beware, Cavaliers! If this inexorable
encroachment of the concrete
jungle continues, we might wake up
one morning and find that the
parking problem has been solved by
paving the Lawn and creating a
giant parking lot in its place.
