New Meeting Place

the Amiga-North-Dallas Chapter has a new home
by Richard Levine

I have reserved a meeting room for us on the main (University Park) SMU campus for the third Thursday of each month. I have been promised that the meeting room will be unlocked from 7:30 PM onward on these nights, and that the building will be open until 10 PM. Our first meeting there will be Thursday evening, Feb. 20. We can evaluate this location and either continue there or look for other alternatives.

Location:
Junkins Electrical Engineering Building, Southwest corner of Dyer and Airline Extension roads on the SMU campus. The Junkins building has entrance doors on all four sides. The name "Junkins" is cut into the stone wall of the building over some of the entrance doors.

Room:
Meeting room is the Berry Cash Seminar Room 110 on the main (ground) floor, at the east side of the lobby (east side entry doors are on both sides of this room).

Parking:
I STRONGLY recommend parking in the visitor area of the multi-floor garage building at the south east corner of SMU Blvd. and Airline Extension. Warning: Parking outside of this building is prohibited on most streets and outdoor lots on the campus without an SMU parking permit! Ticketing and towing occurs sometimes.

Map can be found in the MAPSCO book on page 35H, or at this URL.

(Note of caution regarding street names on maps: There is another road named Airline that starts two blocks north of the area of interest, but it is parallel to and one block west of Airline Extension. Note that the Mapquest map you will get from the above URL has the road name Airline incorrectly labeled on the road actually named Airline Extension on the street signs. The MAPSCO map is more accurate about road names. Try other web maps as well, they may give you a clearer labeling of street names.)

Recommended driving directions:
Take North Central Expressway (Route 75) to the appropriate exit (depending on whether you are traveling north or south), then go west about 0.3 miles on SMU Boulevard (also called Yale Boulevard). SMU Blvd. "ends" at a T intersection with Airline Extension road. Parking garage is on your left. Enter parking garage via ramps at north end of building and park inside in visitor parking spaces on your left. The Junkins building is a very short walk in the northwest direction from the parking garage, across Airline Extension road.