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WSU: Students join protest over trees
'Lunch-in' on WSU campus intended as objection to Library Road project plans
By Hillary Hamm, Daily News staff writer
July 24, 2008
Adriana Solis-Black lounged in the shade of the trees as a silent protest.
The Washington State University graduate student sat under a grove of trees on the north lawn of Avery Hall with about 50 other people and enjoyed her lunch Wednesday. The ''lunch-in'' was meant as an objection to the university's plans to cut down the grove - along with about 70 other trees around Avery, Bryan and Murrow halls for the third phase of the Library Road project, slated for completion in September 2009.
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WSU Today
Library Road project
Faculty protest removal of trees
Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008
By Becky Phillips, WSU Today
Michael Hanly, professor in the department of English, was surprised when a large blue spruce next to Avery Hall -- reportedly due for trimming, was instead cut to the ground on July 2. The tree is one of many scheduled for removal as part of the Library Road project currently underway in the middle of campus.
In an attempt to get answers and perhaps preserve other trees in the vicinity, Hanly spearheaded the ''Save WSU's Trees'' effort.
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80 trees being cut down as part of university's Library Road project
By Hillary Hamm, Daily News staff writer
July 11, 2008
Michael Hanly figured crews were only trimming the trees when he saw them carrying tools to the old spruce and pine outside his office at Washington State University's Avery Hall last week.
But they kept cutting, and the trees eventually were gone.
Hanly did some digging and learned that more trees are on the chopping block around Avery, Bryan and Murrow halls during the third phase of the Library Road project, slated for completion in Sept. 2009...
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Daily Evergreen 7/14/2008
Three brief appeals for the trees around campus
Editor:
Don’t cut trees in front of Avery. It is a very nice and cozy place.
Toru Higuchi
WSU Alumus
Editor:
I am a visiting scholar from Illinois at your beautiful WSU Pullman campus this summer. It has come to my attention that one of my favorite spots on campus, the lot across from the Bookie, is in plans of being radically altered. As a visitor to your campus who has been captivated by its beauty, charm, and most impressed with its green areas, I want to join those who are pleading with you to find an alternative to the current plans to remove those beautiful (and needed!) trees from the said lot.
That particular spot on campus is surrounded by so much concrete that temperature wise, ecologically, and most certainly aesthetically, those trees are indispensable to the healthfulness and beauty of that vicinity. Thank you for your consideration.
Melba Velez
WSU visitor
Editor:
Please spare the deforestation of the beautiful space between Kimbrough Music Building and Avery Hall. Figure out a way to complete the Library Mall “beautification” project that includes the trees. Surely that is possible. It will take two to three generations to replace them.
Bill Payne
Library specialist, School of Music and Theatre Arts
Trees are treasures and compliment campus
Editor:
I’d like to add my voice to those protesting plans to remove the mature, magnificent trees in Avery Hall’s yard. Like the Hello Walk, Stevens Hall and the Bryan clock tower, these long-standing trees are our heritage. They testify to WSU’s longevity. They’re a treasure belonging not just to Cougars but also to the citizens of Washington state. I applaud the great care taken to refurbish older buildings in the campus core. Sometimes I go into Thompson, College and Bryan just to enjoy their woodwork and architectural details.
The Avery Yard trees are natural campus monuments every bit as important as our legendary architecture to our university’s historical presence. The decision to do away with these trees is absolutely blind. Please say that it’s not too late to reverse it.
Charmaine Wellington
AMS faculty coordinator
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Tree removal stirs up controversy
by Taras Zhulev
The Library Road project is in full swing this summer, but the removal of trees by WSU’s Capital Planning and Development has some WSU faculty, staff and alumni across the state concerned and outraged.
The project spans from the street between The Bookie and Avery Hall, alongside Kimbrough and Van Doren Halls, to Holland Library and Bryan Hall, extending southward toward Owen Science Library.
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Daily Evergreen 7/17/2008
We wood save these trees if we could
A bitter botanical brouhaha is brewing over WSU’s Library Road project. If the project plan is followed to the letter it will result in the destruction of the trees in front of Avery Hall, across from the Bookie. WSU’s Capital Planning and Development is in charge of the project and stands behind their decision to take the trees down. But they are under the scrutiny and scorn of some very outspoken critics, most of whom are from the English department.
The CPD released a written statement, saying they plan to ''replace and upgrade failing infrastructure'' as well as ''improve pedestrian movement and safety.'' And in a notice sent to the English department, the CPD said the plan is for the ''beautification of Library Road.'' It’s difficult to know what phrases like ''upgrading infrastructure'' and words like ''beautification'' really mean. And it is hard to understand the wording in these statements because they seem to be deliberately vague and hard to comprehend. presenting information obscurely is a classic trick employed by bureaucracies. That way, by the time people realize they are unhappy with the nebulous plan they can’t stop it since they most assuredly have to follow the correct bureaucratic channels to affect any change. Unfortunately, a large problem with the CPD’s plan isn’t the chopping of the trees; it’s their public relations. CPD project manager, Philip Wright, told the Evergreen, ''We have some very specific design parameters of this project and we have no intention to compromise on the objectives.'' So basically, if you have a problem with the destruction of the Avery trees, tough, because it’s still going to happen...
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