To the editor:

Oh yes, it’s time for those “dilapidated, infested, rotting slum-like dwellings” on Ohio Street to be torn down, as was pointed out in the J-W’s Sept. 15 editorial. The publishers of this newspaper are clearly far more qualified to review the historic environs of properties in Lawrence than those wacky city and state historians.

How about publishing an editorial to pursue the demolition of that nasty old Spooner Hall on KU’s campus? Applaud the consistency of KU’s modernizing efforts, clearly exemplified by the university closing down a building dedicated to the study of the past. To heck with history! Promote how that old relic should be razed and replaced with a big “usable and attractive” administrative building or parking facility.

The whole town, in fact, is cluttered up with old buildings that need to be ripped out. It’s time to start a lobbying effort to tear down a bunch of those unsightly “historic” buildings downtown and replace them with some shiny new skyscrapers. After all, no one wants Lawrence to enter the 21st Century as a crumbling junk yard. Let’s block out some sunlight and make our city the modern metropolis that it should be. NOT!!!

Charles Goff III,

Lawrence