Demolishing MSU Smokestack for Environmental Reasons?

Although I personally didn't attend Michigan State Univesity, one of my parents did, and over the years I have gone to many football games and basketball games there and sort of 'adopted' MSU as my favorite college. MSU has a really big campus though, and I quite frequently get lost walking around it, so I always found it really helpful to navigate using the big smokestack for the old powerplant. The MSC smokestack (Michigan State College changed its name in 1955) has been serving as a guiding landmark for disoriented students on the campus since its construction in 1948.

But now it is going to be torn down because the tower is deteriorating and runs the risk of falling over, the university said. Recent inspections have found that the mortar joints in the tower's top 35 feet have deteriorated and apparently it now runs the risk of falling over, according to MSU officials. They have installed a wire cage around the top to keep the bricks anchored and built a fence around the base of the tower for safety, but feel that the risk is now too great.

At least, that is the reason that is given- I really hope it is this and not another reason... from the Detroit News:

English major Terri Pozehl, 21, a senior, supports tearing it down. "MSU is really making a push to 'Go Green' and support sustainable practices and the smokestack represents anything but clean energy," Pozehl said. "Right now as it stands, it's kind of an eyesore and becoming more and more dangerous."

There is the future, ladies and gentleman, and a product of years of schooling, and I hope that Pozehl's opinion was read and then laughed at when University officials heard it, and that this student's teachers immediately went to work trying to educate this person.

Imagine a world full of Pozehl's, who look around and in the name of 'going green' would tear down all of our power plants, would stop all drilling or mining projects, and in the name of destroying 'eyesores' that once marked progress would drag our society backwards to poverty and misery (sans smokestacks).

I wonder- is Pozehl related to Obama at all?