Senior Walk

I'll first preface this post for those unfamiliar with Senior Walk at the University of Arkansas. Senior Walk is a listing of the graduates (about 140,000 total currently) for each year etched in the sidewalks going across the campus in Fayetteville. It's rather unique.

Earlier this week, reporter Chris Branam and I went out to the campus to talk with officials on the deterioration and planned solutions for the older sections and the story ran in today's paper.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JASON IVESTER --08/18/11--
Senior Walk on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, east of the Old Main entrance



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JASON IVESTER --08/18/11--
A crack cuts through names listed on the 1880 Senior Walk on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, including John N. Tillman (center), the first graduate to serve as president of the university.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JASON IVESTER --08/18/11--
Jay Huneycutt, campus planning and capital programming director, looks over the 1896 Senior Walk on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, outside Old Main.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JASON IVESTER --08/18/11--
Cracked concrete separates the 1907 and 1908 Senior Walk on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011.