(07-03-2020 12:56 AM)baker-13 Wrote:  

(07-01-2020 08:20 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 12:45 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 12:28 PM)WRC1975 Wrote:  Those developments occurred in the East Lot, not the West one.


Well parking in west lot has slowly been developed into other things (tennis stadium, opera house, continuing studies) while the student body has grown. So we need more parking and a garage is a good way to do that.

Well it’s known as “West Lot”. The one west of the stadium is Greenbriar lot.

I really wish Rice would rename West Lot to something less likely to cause confusion. "Stadium Lot" has a nice ring to it.

Then again, one of the serveries near the east end of campus (the one just east of Abercrombie Lab) is called West Servery. :(

To be fair, that servery is west of what was briefly East Servery. It just doesn't seem like it because we think of campus on the main axis of the loop, which isn't actually true east-west. (Source: I overthought this way too much at the time and finally pulled out the map to figure it out.)

Of course, the most accurate naming would be renaming the current south servery West, the current West Servery North, and the current North servery East. But that's neither here nor there.

About 10 years ago, I submitted a thoughtful proposal to give each server a distinctive name that reflected the colleges it served. Obviously it was not acted on.