Student Issue, 1977—Pedestrian Bridge to the Agriculture Campus

Agriculture students intensified pressure for construction of a pedestrian bridge linking the main and agricultural campuses in 1977, following the Louisville and Nashville Railroad’s demand that UT install a fence blocking passage to a large steam pipe that spanned Third Creek and connected the two areas. L&N officials termed the common practice of scooting across the pipe “trespassing.” UT built the fence. Dr. O. Glen Hall, dean of the College of Agriculture, indicated in an article in the Daily Beacon that he had sought to have a pedestrian bridge constructed since 1972, but although UT system campus planner Henry Morse was looking at the possibilities, cost would be a major problem since the clearance above the railroad tracks would have to be 22 feet.