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SEP r \-j\ THE STUDENT ECHOI UBR* Volumes/Issue No. 5 University of Tennessee al Chattanooga September 28, 1989 Con Artists Score on UTC Student By Candy Corneliussen to Hamilton County police and told the $1,000, the student insisted on talking Echo Editor studentshe would have to come along as with the woman's boss. The woman told a witness. her she would have to pass through a A 22-year-old UTC finance student "He said, 'You are a witness, you metal detector and that she needed to was robbed of $1,000 in cash and have to go.' At that point I believed remove her jewelry. As they boarded the approximately $2,000 in jewelry from them. She was well-dressed and appeared elevator, the doors closed on the student professional con artists last Wednesday in to be [at UTC] on business. The man was and the woman remained outside with what officials call a "pigeon drop." wearing a badge," she said. her money and jewelry. The international student, who has After the three left in the man's car, "Itall happened very quickly, I felt requested anonymity, said a black female the woman said she needed to stop at the it was forced on me," she said. approached her in front of the library on First Tennessee Bank downtown and tell Dr. Rod Fowler, UTC professor of Vine Street Wednesday about 1 p.m.and her boss that she would be late returning educational psychology and special produced a purse full of $ 1,000 and $ 100 from work. education and consultant to the bills which she said she had found in the When the woman returned to the Chattanooga police department, advised parking lot beside Grote Hall. There were car, she was carrying bank documents the studcntfollowingthe incident. Fowler two notes in the purse, one written in and said her boss had told her the police said he suspects they were looking for a English, the other in Arabic. The woman would come to the bank and had foreign student as their victim. asked the student if she could read the explained that if they put the money in a "They can identify people who are Arabic note and asked her where the safety deposit box and it went unclaimed submissive. They dazzle them with their information desk at UTC was. afteramonth, they could split the money. speech and movement and begin to take Su)rel Taj/Student Echo As they were having the discussion, a She then explained that they would have control," Fowler said. The Sam Brothers Five play on black male wearing a suit with a badge and to post a $ 1,000 bond in order to do so. He said he understands the student's campus last week. For more photos of carrying files offered assistance. He told "When they started talking about confusion and feeling of helplessness. recent campus entertainment, see page the student he worked for UTC my bank account, I didn't understand a 11. administration. single thing," the student said. Although See CON page 5 He said the purse would have to be taken she did make a bank withdrawal of City and UTC Disagree On Vine Street's Future By Charlotte McNair would be advantageous for the The Student Echo university to close the street." City Traffic F.ngineer Jack C. Vine Street may soon be a one-lane Marcellis said the city commission "serpenune" road, winding around Decs continues to oppose the closing. It and flowers. icch it is important to keep the street This is the plan Chattanooga proposes open as a public thoroughfare for to compromise with UTC in the people outside UTC to commute continuing battle over Vine Street. through that area, he said. UTC officials want Vine Strcctcloscd Also, city officials believe closing from the intersection of Douglas to the the street would reduce "open-eye" lower entrance of the library parking protection, Marcellis said. It is their garage. opinion that as long as the street is Richard Brown, assistant vice open to through traffic and in the public chancellorof administrative affairs, said eye, less crime is likely to take place, the street should be closed because, "In he said. theareaofVineStreet,youhaveconstant Brown.however.saysdifferent. "As street crossing of students, faculty and security director, I can definitely tell staff. As security director, during hourly you that the crime problems comes peak times, I have a uniformed police from open accessibility to the public." officer there to stop the traffic to make Another concern of UTC is the traffic it a bit more safe. But we're finding as speed. The city has already tried to Students and motorists clash daily in front of the University Center on Vine the university grows in terms of improve this problem by lowering the Street, both attempting to make it to class or work on time. population, that crossing becomes speed limit on Vine Street in front of almost constant. So, I think that it See VINE page 5 2 Student Echo/September 28, 1989 New SGA Senator Defines Goals By Janiece Johnson Court. With a more respected Honor j only one person in his district ran for Echo Asst. News Editor Court, UTC will have "a better reputation, senator in last year's election, and his be a belter school and attract better frus jation helped him decide to join S( i A, The SGA filled another empty senate students," Goodgamc said. yet many things about the senate upset seat this week with the appointment of His approach to the Honor Court will him. Greg Goodgamc to a District II, spring be through the faculty. "We need to find "Voter turnout is appallingly low at this senate seat. out why the professors aren't involved college," he said, "and I think it's real Goodgame, a student at UTC for the last with the cheating program," he said. sloppy the way it [SGA] is run." three semesters, is a senior economics Goodgame thinks opening the Honor He also said that he feels that the major who transferred from UTK. Court to the public is a bad idea because students aren't going to follow, or even Goodgame says he plans to work he feels professors would be even less pay attention, "if our leaders aren't towards having teacher evaluations likely to send students there with the leading." published, making the Honor Court more greater humiliation. All of his goals are going to be part of a respected and creating a better name for Another goal is to improve UTC's "long-term process" which he hopes to gel UTC. image with other schools inside and someone else "fired up" about before he He says his first step will be to talk to outside the UT system. graduates next May. Provost Sandra Packard about the "UTC is a great institution, people just In other business, the constitution for publishing of the faculty evaluations. don't know about it," he said. the UTC Ad Club passed SGA's approval Seeing the evaluations public at other "I think the attitude of UTK stinks, they this week, making the club an official schools has given him incentive to consider themselves the only school in the organization on campus. provide the students with information that system," Goodgamc said. The SGA also voted to give $75 toward can help prepare them or warn them, he With UTC student Chris Bridges on the Homecoming activities at Hamilton Place said. Board of Trustees, UTC should be able to Mall. The money will be an award for "I know it's been done at other colleges gain some attention, but Goodgame thinks spirit during the pep rally on Oct. 18. Sujeel T»| Echo and would like to see it done at UTC," that UTC needs to start by "making The money is "more incentive to get the Goodgame said. improvements on the campus." students involved during Homecoming New senator Greg Goodgame He also feels strongly about the Honor Goodgame said he was "pretty upset" week," senator Audri Chesky, said. Nutt Begins out the questionnaires, Pinder said. He said he hopes their help will produce an Marketing 80 to 90 percent return rate. Lecture Series The first part of the marketing survey involves a series of questionnaires sent to the participating students. Included are the University five to seven questionnaires, each containing 50 multiple choice questions. The Student Echo Students will use a computer tabulated card to record their responses. Dr. Ronald Nutt will present the first He said the more UTC understands the By Greg Worth The questions are designed to of a series of Distinguished Lectures in factors that go into the process of The Student Echo immediately find out where the students Entrepreneurship Wednesday, Oct. 4 at choosing a university, the better it can arc in their university process and what, if noon and at 5:30 p.m. "fine tunc" its advertising and promotional UTC is conducting a marketing anything, they are doing about it, Pinder Nutt will discuss his experiences in efforts by matching programs with survey to better understand what factors said. starting two high-tech ventures, one of students' interests. influence high school and junior college He said he hopes the survey will which ended in bankruptcy and the other Patsy Reynolds, director of students when choosing a university. reveal whether or not the students are which is currenUy worth in excess of $100 admissions, said the marketing survey The survey is currently being talking to their guidance counselors or million.

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