They will be replaced and added onto significantly. http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/about/news/stories/2015/march/north-…
That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing
I'm really excited about this Grove project! North campus has so much to offer and its absolutely beautiful in the fall/spring. I am a little sad to see the three tunnel/walkway go though. Definitely one of my favorite wandering spots.
They are pretty careful about what is cut and what is preserved. I'm sure there was a reason. Here is a link to the Campus Forest Mnagement Plan.
Then agian, maybe they walked off during the night.
Is that you?
Not a tree. Are the Ents at the North Campus still around?
glad to see someone else remembers that commercial. Anytime I mention the solitary sad Indian tear to people they look at me like I'm nuts. Maybe this was just a state of Michigan thing.
I have a perfect plan:
Wonder if that's how we convinced Auburn to change their mind on Moncrief?
RollDamnTide had something to do with it
Friends don't let friends go to North Campus.
Or, as the Every Three Weekly officially renamed it many a year ago, "Butt-Fucking Egypt."
By trees that'll be more enthusiastic. Those trees didn't fully embrace #EUTM.
They just sort of swayed in the wind, had horrible attitude.
Title reminded me of the fraternity that dug up a tree on north campus and dumped it on another fraternity's front lawn. THAT was a fun night in the Daily news room coming up with a a headline.
That's nothing compared to the engineering students that found a way to disassemble a hot tub, bring it up piece by piece and pass them through a window, and reassemble the entire thing (working, with water and all) on a North Campus roof.
^My god, that's the best thing ever.
Douche Bags Bothered By Douchier Bags?
Engineering alumni received an email about this project. It was only $3G to get a dedicated tree with a plaque on it. Seems cheap to have your name on campus. Some friends and I were debating going in together and dedicating a Tree to J-MO.
I will be happy to ship any number of trees to you for half that price per tree, I'll throw in shipping within the 48 contiguous states. Oh, and let me know what the plaques should say.
slacking off again I see. Harbaugh isn't going to like that.
One thousand upvotes.
I needed that this morning.
I heard about this from my brother-in-law, who works in the Duderstadt Center. It actually sounds like it will be an awesome space. Concept art from the article:
I can't wait to make use of that, "Flexible Interactive Space."
that part in the upper right of the diag looks like it says: 'ent area', so there are your walking trees for those worried they'd been chopped down.
but the high-flying rhetoric about what kind of environment it's going to create are overblown in the way that only university officials can do.
"The Gerstacker Grove is one of the most iconic and sacred open spaces on North Campus... brings U-M’s premiere arts, architecture and engineering communities together in an unprecedented interactive and visible way...creating a new destination for the arts and sciences...We expect the Grove to quickly become abuzz with a wide range of creative explorations and productions...”
The idea of creating multipurpose open spaces with areas for performance and other interactive public activities is hardly new; it's been tried in hundreds of urban and suburban locations all over the country over the last 50 years. Some are successful, and many others fail to create the sorts of activities that are invariably claimed by their planners. It takes a significant and continuous commitment of resources to maintain the level of planned activities that are the key to making such spaces truly successful.
"If you’re on central, you’re sitting next to State Street and all it has to offer,” Munson said. “You don’t have to work so hard to create community. On North, we’re spread out and we don’t have the same environment. Given that, we have to be more intentional about it... There are plenty of freshmen who live up here. I don’t feel they should have to get on a bus to join a community. I think it should be right here.”
A primary reason that central campus has the vitality and community it does is due to the fact that it's relatively dense collection of university facilities that are tightly integrated with the surrounding commercial and business areas in a way that's uncommon for many public universities. The absence of similarly close non-University entities creates a completely different dynamic on North Campus, and it's unlikely that re-arranging the spaces and trees in one spot is going to change it nearly as spectacularly as its claimed.
Way to post way out of context.
treemendous!!
They're planting Eucalyptus trees? Yay for you, Joe!
I'm sorry. What's this north campus place of which you speak?
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Yay! Maybe now North Campus won't just be full of sadness and nerds
That made me laugh