In the 1970s, the West Gate was going to be pulled down to make way for a road widening scheme, but thanks to the efforts of the university's president Lo Yun-ping, in the end the gate was moved east to the NCKU campus.
一九七○年代因道路拓寬，小西門面臨拆遷，經當時成大校長羅雲平奔走，才將小西門自西區遷移至東區的成大校園內。