To the editor:

Bill Getz wrote a recent (Jan. 8) entertaining letter regarding Rock Chalk Park. He used terms such as horror, albatross, coming apart at the seams, dubious reassurance and fiasco. He even maligned used car salespersons. Good job, Bill. Maybe a newly elected city commission will stop anything from being built. One city candidate’s platform includes the Rock Chalk Park “disaster.”

I occasionally jog on the Sports Pavilion’s indoor track. One Saturday I suffered Armageddon as two women were walking in the running-only lane! I later toured the rest of the facility, which was mobbed with screaming teenage girls and their parents participating in an all-day volleyball tournament occupying all of the indoor courts.

I mentioned the Sports Pavilion controversy to a parent from Kansas City. He told me no facility in Kansas City is nearly as nice as Lawrence’s Sports Pavilion, and he wished they had this “problem.” That ignoramus totally missed the fact that the Sports Pavilion is “coming apart at the seams.”

Last week, 40 members of the New Generation Society of Lawrence were full of praise after touring the Sports Pavilion and the three adjoining Kansas University sports arenas.  

Mr. Getz, did your grandfather become apoplectic when the Allen Fieldhouse albatross was constructed? Have you experienced the horror of the new library?

Errors were made during the building of Rock Chalk Park, and an audit is underway. However, please, tour the new facility. It is a jewel, even with some concrete cracks that do not affect its functionality. The enemy of good is perfect.