There is quite a difference in price. Laying brick is much more complicated. You've got to lay it down so that someone won't trip over it. We made up a petition and had 10,000 signatures in 36 hours. Angry letters flooded the pages of the Daily .
Progress is certainly wonderful.
Board of Control Member Norm Dicks, '63, '68, now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, co-sponsored a resolution demanding brick pathways. On April 18 a protest rally was held as workers tried to remove some of the bricks. Suddenly President Charles Odegaard walked up to address the throng. While he applauded the students' concern for their campus, he said the cost of laying down brick and ripping it out again was just too much. Someday, after all the work was done, the asphalt would be taken out and the bricks would come back, he promised.