Hill sidewalks are a headache
By RICH LOVETT
This is a sidewalk. It is gray. It is good for skateboarding and sometimes walking. It is a headache.
"When new buildings pop up on campus, we like to put walks around them as soon as possible," says Alton Thomas, campus landscape architect. "But knowing where to place them is a big problem."
"Walking patterns are very funny," he said. "When a student can see the place he's headed toward, he will walk in a beeline.
"If there is a row of small bushes in his path, he may go around them, but if someone crops the bushes, a path may suddenly develop through the plants and they are trampled."
THOMAS CITED the bicycle rack in front of Marvin Hall as causing a shift in walking patterns. Before the rack was built, he said, there was a row of bushes at the northeast corner of Marvin.
When the rack was built, the bushes were removed and "suddenly a path developed from the front door of Hoch Auditorium to the front door of Marvin."
"There is psychology involved in getting someone to follow a walk," the architect said. "You can hide the entrance to a building, or place obstacles on the lawns, or the walk may be laid in a long curve. Then the student doesn't know exactly where to start cutting off and he will follow the walk."
When a new building is built, he said, the tendency on many campuses is to wait and see where paths will appear and then build walks over them.
AT KU THE PLANNERS like to anticipate where people will walk and build sidewalks as soon as possible.
Such decisions, he said, involve slopes, grades, size of plant material and other obstacles, whether steps will be used, whether the walk will be lighted, and other factors.
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Sidewalks can become "obsolete," said Thomas. If a new building is built, pedestrian patterns may shift and an existing walk will not be used, or in another case the walk may prove too narrow for increased traffic.
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Another problem is to lay a sidewalk that will withstand heavy Building and Grounds trucks and snow removal equipment. Thomas said KU walks must be reinforced more heavily than ordinary city walks and must be considerably wider.
CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI)—The first missile launches at the moonport here occurred 3,000 years ago.
They were flint arrowheads that archeologists estimate were made by primitive Indians who lived before 1000 B.C.
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NEW MARKET, Va.—(UPI) A permanent memorial is being constructed near here to honor the cadets of Virginia Military Institute slain while fighting Union forces in the Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864.
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