Two big stadium projects announced in recent weeks include non-sports spaces, which made me wonder if the tight economic times might lead to more tie-ins between athletics and the broader campus. The University of Central Arkansas said this week that it is adding 12 luxury boxes to a new dormitory being built behind the visitors’ stands of its football stadium. The boxes—which will have private entrances, reserved parking, and a separate lobby and elevators—will lease for $25,000 a year. Eight are already taken, athletic director Brad Teague tells the Log Cabin Democrat.
Last month the University of Nebraska proposed a $55-million upgrade to its football stadium. In addition to adding 30 skyboxes and other premium seating, the facility’s plans include a 20,000-square-foot academic research center. The space will be used in part to conduct brain-injury research, a natural partnership given how susceptible football players are to concussions.
7 Responses to New Stadium Projects Include an Academic Twist
jffoster - November 30, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Long, and I do mean Long, Huey P to be precise, ago LSU did this. Was hard to get appropriations from the Assembly General for a football stadium but much easier for dormitories. Hence one of the best stadia in collegia, also dormitoris. Stadium dormitories built right into the outside walls all around Tiger Stadium.
Laissez les bons temps dormir.
Jeau
cirencester - December 1, 2010 at 8:05 am
We had this arrangement at The Ohio State University when I was a freshman there in 1947!
goxewu - December 1, 2010 at 8:28 am
“The University of Central Arkansas” and “luxury boxes” in the same sentence?
crunchycon - December 1, 2010 at 10:22 am
Intellectual or geographical bigotry, goxewu?
goxewu - December 1, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Una chiste.
You’d think one would have to call himself “softylib” to be offended–”bigotry”?–at that little thing.
This from a rah-rah book on the history of the Southeastern Conference:
“How many people does it take to change a lightbulb in Arkansas?
“None. There’s no electricity in Arkansas.”
Sheesh. (Or rather, “Sooey!”)
bfrank1 - December 1, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Yeah, I lived in Huey’s dorm. By the ’70′s, no one would stay there except freshmen and foreign students, who didn’t know any better. What a pit. The room was on an un-air-conditioned western exposure, and under where the band practiced (try doing calculus homework in 100 degrees with that overhead!). On fall weekends, it was almost impossible to get in and out, there were drunks all up and down the halls giving up their precious bodily fluids, and the noise was unbearable. The hallways were long and curving, so you felt like you were on a spaceship, very disorienting, especially in the night when you had to find your way to the few gigantic communal bathrooms where (did I mention game days?) almost anything could be happening. I don’t think they have used the stadium dorm rooms in quite a number of years at LSU, last I heard they were trying to get people to donate money to “save a window” or some such. Please! Can they stoop any lower? What a rotten idea, from beginning to end. The designers should be forced to live there. Or maybe the coaches and their families.
jffoster - December 1, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Howdy Goxewu (2nd up),
There ain’t no electricity in Arkansas (butcept lightnin of course) because we’re optimists and are positive we don’t want nothing negative.