In the 1980s, due to increased traffic to the southwest portion of the campus, primarily Royal University Hospital, a new road entrance was built to the west.

The gates remain, with the remnant of University Drive passing through them renamed Memorial Crescent.

The gates are now primarily used by pedestrians, though the roadway is open to vehicles.

University of Saskatchewan These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War 1914–1918 and gave their lives that we might live in freedom Memorial Gates erected 1927 a.d.

The memorial gates etch the University of Saskatchewan alumni who have fallen in the great war into the stone work.