"Let one hundred flowers blossom; let one hundred schools of thought contend." The Student INSIDE Echo Awards: A Must Read P.3 Ervin On Suttles P. 7 Birthday Party P.9 Shorts On Sports P. 13 Volume 82/ Issue 26 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga April 14, 1989 AN ESSAY Obear: New Phone System Next Fall vendors. After all the quotes are returned, By Brian Hicks administration and faculty ("the business A View on Pro- a final decision will be made. end of the campus," Obear said), and one The Student Echo i-r/"> Obear said replacing the phone system for the residents. But Obear said that was Students and faculty returning to UTC is no longer an option, it is a necessity. just one option, and still just one idea. Choice Rally next fall will find a new phone system in He said Solid State Systems, the current place, Chancellor Frederick Obear said Obear said several options for the system's service company, has informed Wednesday. system are being looked at, but cost administration that "sometime in 1990, In an interview Wednesday night with restrictions will have the final say in any By Angela F. Hawk parts for (UTC's) system will no longer be The Echo, the Chancellor said a decision extras a new system may carry. However, Special to Ihe Echo available." has been made to implement a new Obear stressed that no matter what the On Sunday, April 9, 1989, I was initiated phone system over the summer. "We've got to make a change," Obear new phone system will consist of, at least into a world of national social consciousness. said. "We can't continue to just patch and a large part of it will be installed when On Tuesday, I reentered the world of UTC to Although a selection process has not yet encounter apathy, indifference, and ignorance begun, Obear said the first two weeks of replace." students and faculty return to classes in about world and national affairs. May will be spent comparing seven to 10 Obear said planning is still preliminary mid-August. Marching with over half a million people in major phone system vendors. After the and nothing is definite beyond the fact "Change is in the works. Who it will be Washington, D.C. to suppoort a woman's vendors deemed best suited to fit the that a new system will be installed One (what vendor) is not yet determined, but right to control her own body was option the administration is looking at is a major portion of it will be installed by overwhelming. I was made painfully aware of university's needs are selected, requests my own complacency and that of my fellow for quotations on prices will be sent to the buying two different systems: one for mid-August," he said. "Definitely." students. While apprehensive about my first venture into social activism, 1 felt compelled to express outrage at those who would take away my Commission overturns decision on referendum freedom to control my own body. Along the allocating $900 for a dedication plaque way I met a group of fifty students from By Beth Spears sponsor of the referendum bill, said he Appalachian State University who were also apologizes on behalf of the SGA for the to honor Dr. Littleton Mason, $893 for headed for the march in Washington and my The Student Echo confusion concerning the bill. He also a reggae party to be held April 15 for fears became less important. As 1 stood on the The referendum concerning the dorm students, $800 for the Circle K Club lawn in front of the Washinton monument emphasized that the final decision about waiting to begin the march, my fears began increase in the activity fee and the the increase was not the senate's but, to go to an international convention and to give way to a wave of patriotism and maintenance fee was approved by the according to state rules, must go through $150 to help fund the Consumer Affairs strength in my conviction. SGA after the spring elections the chancellor and the UT Board of Club trip to Boston, Mass. Also, the SGA All around me were people who cared commission overturned their previous Trustees before becoming official. appropriated $1,644 to send its new enough to speak out. I stood next to a woman decision. executive officers to a leadership in a wheel chair who carried a sign that said. In other action, the SGA approved bills "I'M NINETY-ONE AND PRO CHOICE." I The elections commission ruled after conference in the summer. marched beside mothers and fathers pushing elections that the referendum failed strollers with signs that said things like because it did not achieve a two-thirds "MOTHER BY CHOICE" and "MAKE majority vote. It missed the two-thirds EVERY CHILD A WANTED CHILD." mark by one percent. Later, Dean We were all bonded together with a deep respect for freedom. As I approached the Charles Renneissen and Vicki Guthrie of capitol, the center of democracy, I heard the Student Affairs realized the ruling was not encouraging voices of Whoopi Goldberg and correct. The commission had treated the Cybill Shepherd. I gathered strength from their fee proposal as a constitutional change words, realizing that they wre putting their when it was actually a fee change. Under fame and popularity on the line. My fears suddenly seemed trivial and insignificant. I state financial policy rules, the became overwhelmingly grateful to live in this referendum needed only a majority and nation that considers my individual freedom not a two-thirds vote. So, the referendum a national priority. passed by a 65 percent majority. I am frightened by the complacency and According to the fee proposal lack of knowledge exhibited on campus at UTC. Democracy demands informed referendum, the activity and the participation. It is especially important for those maintenance fee will both be increased by of us in the academic community to put our one dollar. The increase in the activity fee minds and our talents to work for a better will go to the SGA for the amphitheater society. We must exercise our right to speak project and other student projects and the and our democratic responsibility in order to preserve and protect it. increase in the maintenance fee will go to student organizations who have not been funded in the past. Jf SU|MI TaJ/Studcnt Echo Vice-President Randy Wood, the Mary Alice Crowe and J.C. Hierholzer of UTCs Conservation Club plant trees near Holt Hall See story on page five. 2 Student Echo/April 14, 1989 Clippard On Anxiety 25 awards given out at By Mike Merritt to re-assure the individual." The Student Echo "If you must move away after school, students leadership banquet Graduating seniors face the same find out as much as you can about the transitional problems that freshmen face area you are going to live in." Clippard Pi Kappa Alpha was chosen as the most as they enter the university for the first urges students to gather as much By Janiece Johnson time. improved organization for "improvement in in'ormation about the places as possible. The Student Echo scholarship, campus involvement, and Nina Clippard, a counselor at UTC, The library has access to newspapers and community service," Dean Charles said many spring graduates will end their regional publications, as well as the Over twenty-five awards were given out to Renneisen said. Renneisen gave the award senior year with the same anxieties they telephone directories for most cities. students and student organizations at the for outstanding contribution to a student had when they arrived at UTC. "If these solutions don't work," Leadership Banquet Tuesday night in hopes publication to Faith Johnson, assistant news "Students entering the career market Clippard said, "try to be honest about of recognizing some of their outstanding editor for the Echo, and the award for efforts, according to the banquet's speakers. deal with obvious anxieties," Clippard your feelings. There is nothing wrong with outstanding honor society to Beta Tau Vicki Guthrie, assistant to the dean of said. "They're concerned with questions feeling anxious during life's changes. Try Sigma, the engineering honor society. like; Will I be able to get a good job? Will students, and Garry Atkins, housing Two awards were presented in the category to share your thoughts with friends or management coordinator, were the masters I be able to live independently? Am I family. Hearing ourselves talk about our for outstanding new organization. The two of ceremonies at the banquet which, Guthrie recipients were the Littleton H. Mason ready to be an individual?" problems often brings solutions." said, had over two hundred people in Clippard said that new found self- Singers and Sigma Alpha Epsiion. Small doses of anxiety are a healthy attendance and over fifty groups represented. Dr. Roger Thompson, the head of the sufficiency often contains its own element part of life's experiences, according to Jim The "grand finale" of the evening.Guthrie criminal justice department, was selected as of anxiety and fear. Brown, a clinical psychologist. said, was the awarding of the ten leadership the outstanding organizational advisor for his "Students move away to a strange new "Students should learn to recognize merit awards by Chancellor Frederick Obear. work in the Pre-Law Club, along with the environment, a different city, and they are changes in life cycles and attitudes and The recipients of the awards were David ACE advisor Kathy Alday. forced to break the same type of ndjust accordingly," he said.