In the 1970s Lowry Mall was a regular street, carrying automobile traffic between Hitt and 9th Streets. While students expressed some concerns about having fewer parking spaces on campus, Chancellor Schooling claimed that lack of funds might make a pedestrian campus impossible. By 1974 sentiment for a pedestrian campus was pretty strong and the city council passed an ordinance closing certain streets while school was in session. The obvious benefits of a pedestrian campus were shown after it was put into practice. This led to the permanent closing of Lowry and its conversion to a mall, a public gathering space for the campus community.
Student activism continues today.
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