There Is No There There

I recently took a walk through the University of Denver campus, and found it a bit jarring that the entire north side of the Driscoll Center (the student center for the university) is now gone (as seen in the above photo), to make way for a new, improved version. When I first started working at the University of Denver Bookstore back in 1984, the store was located on two levels in the old Carnegie Library Building, and we moved into a new location in Driscoll South just before the fall semester began.  The north end of Driscoll was an entirely new building, unlike the renovated south end of the center, and there was a wall stopping you from crossing the bridge to the north end while the construction was being completed.  Kind of like now, except back then you could sneak around the barrier into the new building to have a look around, whereas now if your try that, it would be a long drop down. Ouch!  And please notice that I have not once complained in this post about DU outsourcing the bookstore to Follett Higher Education Group.  A first!