Tag Archive for ‘sidewalks’
Trustees: More Decorative Sidewalks
Like the new decorative sidewalks around campus? Well, get used to them. We are getting a lot more. The UCA board of trustees has approved spending $510,000 to add another 20,000 square feet of the patterned concrete walkways. The university spent $500,000 last year building the sidewalks, which are designed to resemble bricks. The decorative [...]
The Semester of Construction
The sidewalk construction we’ve been dodging all semester is only a small part of the construction around campus. The university is spending about $4.7 million on construction and renovation this semester. It’s all money from federal stimulus programs and has to be spent by summer. The sidewalks account for only about $500,000 of that amount. Most [...]
Meadors “Never Liked Purple”
President Allen Meadors announced today that he is changing the school colors to red. “Well, it’s sort of a brick red, really,” Meadors said at the press conference. “I took a sliver from one of the new sidewalks to Home Depot and had them match the paint.” The change takes effective immediately. All sports events [...]
Administration Talks to Students
Campus administrators fielded a wide range of questions from students yesterday at a town hall meeting sponsored by the Student Government Association. President Allen Meadors and Provost Lance Grahn were joined by Larry James, the UCA police chief, athletic director Brad Teague, and Shelly Mehl. Kyle Boyd, junior class president, moderated the meeting. Topics included [...]
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