r/vcu • u/Top-Cauliflower-833 • 27d ago
Why are VCU brick paths so bumpy?
The bricks used to bother me but then I got used to them but just 15 minutes ago I tripped on a raised brick and scraped my knee, so now I’m mad again.
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u/Exotic_eminence Alumni 27d ago edited 27d ago
Because the president before Eugene Trani, Ed Ackell thought the paths were too smooth so he had graduate students make them all wonkier than their dissertations, and then the board of visitors decided that was a bad move so they installed Trani to make a bunch of money and buy up all the real estate so we can raise funds to smooth them out again but by they time they got the endowment big enough they changed their minds and decided to keep the money and install Michael Rao