Re: Rose Garden destruction

Article View: ubc.general

Article #292

#292

From: Thomas Wong
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 18:06

15 lines
1471 bytes

In article <1993Mar23.184910.21068@sol.UVic.CA> rhorner@farad.UVic.CA (Roger  Horner) writes:
>
>I agree with your position.  Feel fortunate though.  At least you are
>getting a building out of the deal.  Here at UVic we lost our Japanese
>garden for the construction of a parking lot.  One of the people
>responsible was noted to have said something to the effect as, "Here
>at UVic we have too many gardens and not enough parking lots."

Well, here at UBC, we lost our tennis courts for a _temporary_ parking
facility which has been termed _temporary_ for a looong time. So let's
just rename that to permanent-temporary. So now we can't take strolls
around our rose garden, AND we are left to sit around and grow fat... 8(

Thomas.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1oq7ueINN1mm@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!twong

References: <1onjb0INNak@chaplin.cs.ubc.ca> <1993Mar23.184910.21068@sol.UVic.CA>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10c943,af80c30b6b25bf4f
X-Google-Attributes: gid10c943,public
X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,af80c30b6b25bf4f
X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-24 12:49:04 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!twong
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: ubc.general,bc.general
Subject: Re: Rose Garden destruction
Date: 24 Mar 1993 18:06:06 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 16
Distribution: bc
Message-ID: <1oq7ueINN1mm@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <1onjb0INNak@chaplin.cs.ubc.ca> <1993Mar23.184910.21068@sol.UVic.CA>
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

Reply to Parent Message