🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1onjb0INNak@chaplin.cs.ubc.ca> krywolt@cs.ubc.ca (Russell Krywolt) writes:
>  Could someone enlighten me as to why UBC is planning to bulldoze the
>rose garderns by the faculty club and put up a building
>of some sort? Why do they insist on destroying nice areas on campus
>for this sort of thing? Why not raze one of the B lots, build a nice
>10 storey building with 5 levels of underground parking, and move in there?
>Anyone else out there feel that the people who authorized this should
>be kicked a few times, if not shot outright?

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."
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