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The Library
Posted on 10/14/11 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 10/14/11 at 2:13 pm
AKA The South Endzone. Who remembers when they used to call it that. Ive been sitting in the South Endzone for 20 years and have always called it this but dont know when it started.
Posted on 10/14/11 at 2:17 pm to South Endzone Warrio
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The next big enlargement might be the most entertaining. In 1950
LSU needed money for their New Orleans med. school and for a new
campus library. Some Tiger boosters were pushing for another
stadium expansion. A bill was passed in the state's legislator
that would give 6 million dollars towards the three projects.
T.P. Heard, by this time the schools A.D., somehow got the bill's
sponsors to put the three projects on the bill in order of
priority. When the bill was finally passed. The med school was
listed as priority one and the stadium number two ahead of the
library. The med school got over half of the $6 million, with
the stadium expansion getting the second biggest share, a
whopping 1.5 million (The Korean War was in full swing and hiked
up the price of steel). The library was issued only $800,000
(the estimated cost was around 4 million). Heard got his new
seats, but in 1954 the university relieved him of his duties. To
this day some still refer to the South endzone as the library.
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Posted on 10/14/11 at 2:19 pm to jturn17
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