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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jul 19, 2005 14:12:45 GMT -5
I think the taking away the student gym problem could be dealt with as long as renovations are completed in a timely fashion. Students have to pay to use Yates anyway: just offer them a year membership at WSC instead and run a GUTS bus down there.
I think the two REAL problems are:
a) McDonough is way too small to be a student gym without a major expansion.
b) You would have to do both renovations at the same time. If you do Yates first, the students have no gym for the length of both projects. If you do McDonough first, the basketball team has nowhere to practice for the length of both projects (we'd probably have to pay rent for a practice facility elsewhere). Does the administration have the cash and/or willpower to shut down the west side of campus for a year or two?
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jul 19, 2005 14:28:49 GMT -5
How about this for a plan?
Step 1: Renovate McDonough into 10,000 seat Convocation Center
Step 2: Level current McDonough parking lot. Level existing tennis courts. Forget about the softball field. Build new student gym on far southwest corner of campus. Yates remains operational until opening.
Step 3: Level Yates. I mean LEVEL it. Make the entire hill flat. Voila! Georgetown has open space on campus. Even if we rebuilt the tennis courts and softball field in this space there would be plenty of room left over.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jul 19, 2005 14:39:47 GMT -5
But what about the TRACK???
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2005 14:40:41 GMT -5
I don't think McD is too small. You could easily fit inside the courts, weight room and exercise studios of Yates. The only thing you couldn't would be the indoor tennis courts, track, and racquetball courts. There's gotta be a way. If you knocked out McD to its exterior walls, I bet there'd be a lot more room than we think. Remember, there's a bit hill on the north end of McD we could build into.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2005 14:42:16 GMT -5
Never fear, Nevada. In the BuffaloHoya master plan, the old track on top of Yates becomes a state-of-the art facility, with a nice new little structure at the south end bordering that nice mini-park outside the observatory.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2005 14:49:43 GMT -5
Another wild and crazy plan:
Know how we have all that underground parking over at the SW Quad now? Well why not replicate that over on the north side of campus? Know that stupid parking lot that the old Darnall cafeteria looked out onto? Gone.
Why don't we build a student activities building there? I'm talking from where it starts near resevoir all the way back to that building between the lot and Leavy. Say, four or five stories, more rooms for student activities groups, meeting spaces, bowling alleys, a signature restaurant or two, student health club (we're talking two stories, state of the art... could even outsource it to Golds or Wash. Sports Clubs or something), mini-movie theatre, Georgetown University Museum, move Hoyas over there freeing up the OLD Hoyas to become the faculty club... the possibilities are endless.
And the parking spots you'd lose? Move them underground... you'd only need to dig a story or two down to replace those 100 or so spots.
Come to think of it, I've got about a dozen or so crazy G'Town construction ideas. The Yates-McD swap and the Student Center are just the tip of the ice berg.
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Post by 1227 on Jul 19, 2005 15:14:14 GMT -5
Where would the re-constituted pub go? That's the most important part, isn't it? That's what's missing from campus.
Pre-pub: Hoya Paranoia. Post-pub: not so much. Coincidence?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2005 15:17:48 GMT -5
The new pub and signature restaurant would be on the ground floor, along with the "Strike! Georgetown" bowling alley. Second floor could be all that other stuff I mentioned, with the health club on the third and fourth (its gonna be huuuuuuuuge). The mini-movie theatre (work out a deal with Landmark or some other indy flim house?) could have the entrance on the second, taking up the third and fourth floors at one end of the building - the health club getting the rest of those two floors (we're talking weights, cardio, studios, Nautiluseses, all that... with big glass windows to look out on Resevoir, the street between the student center and Darnall, the hospital, whatever.
Gimmie a few million (and neighborhood approval), people, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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Post by CAHoya07 on Jul 19, 2005 15:23:06 GMT -5
Think the source was the guy next to NCCT at the Tombs last night. 15,000-20,000 on-campus arena? Approximately how many beers did he drink? Even if it were feasible, I don't think we'd even want something that big. 10-12K sounds about right to me, but 7-8K is probably more realistic. Gotta say though, I like these wacky, outside-the-box ideas. Some of them actually make good sense. I wish our administration thought more like this. EDIT: Buffalo, you are amazing. Get this man a job in Healy 2.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2005 15:38:15 GMT -5
Buffalo, you are amazing. Get this man a job in Healy 2. Hey if one were available, I'd apply... I got some decent credentials (plus, I'll be one of those dorm advisors in the meantime - not an RA, those folks who "run" the whole hall... they can pay me once to do both jobs, I don't mind). Imagine the force HoyaTalk would have on campus then, between myself workin' the administration-dorm angle and the rest of you psychos crushing with Hoya Blue? Wow.
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Post by DuddingtonHoya on Jul 19, 2005 18:06:04 GMT -5
The parking lot of your dreams... the one between Darnall, Kober-Cogan, and the Hospital... is controlled by MedStar. But perhaps they could be bought out in return for guarantees of parking spaces underneath like with Leavey.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2005 18:43:13 GMT -5
That's the whole point, wsrrules... to move the parking lot underground and create even more spaces than are above ground. DUH!
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Post by JimmyHoya on Jul 19, 2005 19:04:24 GMT -5
Stop it stop it stop it. You're gettng me too excited for something that's never going to happen (soon anyway).
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Post by lichoya68 on Jul 19, 2005 19:36:19 GMT -5
15000 to 20000 what you all been smoking folks there is no way no way no way wish it were true but remember how many students came to the san jose state game on campus no way noway wish it were true but no.. go hoyas ps i beleve yates is so bad it will need to be torn down but 15-20 stop taking whatever it is your taking .. ;D
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Post by lichoya68 on Jul 19, 2005 19:39:30 GMT -5
ps i hope that robert novak did not go to georgetown id think of giving up my diplomas ouch hope its just a dfw funny hope so please tell me pat buchanan is enough to deal with although rumor had it he dinot graduate cause he was arrested in a drunken brawl before graduation but thats just rumor.. go hoyas hopefully not including novak
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Post by Cambridge on Jul 19, 2005 20:18:53 GMT -5
he actually attacked a police officer after he was pulled over for drunk driving...
For the record, Mr. Buchanan was cited for a misdeameanor for roughing it up with two local officers, but it was for a traffic stop and not drunk driving. Since it involved an off-campus incident, Buchanan was suspended for his senior year (59-60) and he finished with an A.B. in 1961. Suspensions were more common at GU in those days and many such suspensions returned to finish school.--Admin
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jul 19, 2005 20:29:57 GMT -5
But I heard he still graduated because daddy made some phone calls.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 19, 2005 21:15:31 GMT -5
Another wild and crazy plan: Know how we have all that underground parking over at the SW Quad now? Well why not replicate that over on the north side of campus? Know that stupid parking lot that the old Darnall cafeteria looked out onto? Gone. Why don't we build a student activities building there? I'm talking from where it starts near resevoir all the way back to that building between the lot and Leavy. Say, four or five stories, more rooms for student activities groups, meeting spaces, bowling alleys, a signature restaurant or two, student health club (we're talking two stories, state of the art... could even outsource it to Golds or Wash. Sports Clubs or something), mini-movie theatre, Georgetown University Museum, move Hoyas over there freeing up the OLD Hoyas to become the faculty club... the possibilities are endless. And the parking spots you'd lose? Move them underground... you'd only need to dig a story or two down to replace those 100 or so spots. Come to think of it, I've got about a dozen or so crazy G'Town construction ideas. The Yates-McD swap and the Student Center are just the tip of the ice berg. Or ... we could put the entire arena under ground ...
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Post by YB on Jul 19, 2005 21:22:46 GMT -5
I'd actually prefer a center of 8-11 k seating... .a more intimate atmosphere, easy to cheer, make it loud....
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 19, 2005 21:27:47 GMT -5
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