The Hornet Oming Quern Election Dominated the Thoughts of Many UTC Students This Week
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The hornet oming quern election dominated the thoughts of many UTC students this week. Voting m«u nines borrowed from the Hamilton ( ounk Election Commission were used for the first time in this election. Chancellor Frederick Obear is shown below with candidates Pam Yarbrough representing the BSA and Panhellenic's choice, Sue Hasting. The court, which was announced Tuesday night, included: Sue Hasting, Sue Perrigo, Michele Rose, Sandy Strunk and Pamela Yarbrough. Protest balloting was less than one percent. pholo, by Mon(y Ri?J.bv NEWS The University Echo November 5, 1981 Registration adds two locations by Lisa Huggins Lines to sign up for spring classes will form in three "The fee schedule itself is the same, but it (the usual, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, with places instead of one when the University opens a new appointment time) will come out on the schedule," no lunchtime closing during registration days. Adult Services Center and installs a registration Mills explained, stressing that students need to "hang Graduate Office registrants must register between 8 terminal in the Graduate Office. The two new on" to the yellow schedule sheets. Handouts printed a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. registration points will be open later this month in time with available fee payment times will be available at the The Adult Services Center will be open Monday for 1982 registration. registration sites. through Thursday, 12 p.m. to8 p.m., Friday 12 p.m. to Sandy Mills, assistant director of registration, said Hooper Hall registration office hours will be as 5 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday that the site of the recently closed University Center Lobby Shop will house the Services Center. Opening of the center is tentatively planned for mid- November. The center will assist primarily adult, part time Fall SGA elections set for students with registration, advisement, admissions and fee payment, but "won't do anything with grades." The center can act as "a liaison for the student with Nov. Wand 17 any other offices he needs," said Brenda Davis, director of registration. by Angela Winters Davis and Mills pointed out that the multiple During the fall SGA elections students will not only 11 at 11 am. in the Signal Mountain Room of the registration sites are primarily geared toward helping vote for senators but also for changes in the SGA University Center. His topic will be "In Retrospect." adult evening students who have problems arranging constitution and the Homecoming Queen procedures. The senate agreed to allocate up to $450 to their work schedules around those of the UTC The senate will present a referendum during the Fall underwrite $1.00 of each Chattanooga Symphony administrative officers and registration center. elections which will amend to the UTC SGA constitu ticket sold by the Music Department to students in an The Graduate Office will register only graduate tion the addition of at-large members to the SGA effort to help students save money on ticket purchases. students, but the Hooper Hall and University Center Projects and Public Affairs Committee. Another SGA Other senate allocations involved $250 to sponsor terminals will be open to students of any status. referendum will offer various alternatives for the Hiawassee Ridge, a bluegrass band which will play at Another change in the registration process student's approval concerning the Homecoming the Homecoming Blue and Gold Festival, and $125 to concerns fee payment appointment times. Students Queen election rules. co-sponsor with ACE a coffee-house performance of will be able to choose an appointment time during the To create a better balance between the election Michael Johnson. January fee collection dates at the checking terminal districts, the senate approved some district changes The Public Affairs committee also plans to start the where registration forms and personal data are made by the SGA Procedures Committee. SGA Campus Beautification project Thursday, Nov. verified. The SGA Public Affairs Committee will begin a 12 at 3 pm. in Conference rooms 2 and 3 with an Instead of receiving a separate appointment form, series titled "The Last Lecture." All speakers are address by Bob Mills to all participating organizations. the student will see his appontment time printed out asked to present their lecture as if it were the last they The senate also approved the sample ballot for the on the yellow class schedule form received at the end were allowed to give. George Conner, a member of fall SGA elections and the constitution of the UTC "»f the registration process. the English Department, will speak Wednesday, Nov. Finance Club. F"~ ^mmmmmmm • • | American Cancer Society j, NX c want rn cure cancer in your lifetime. • present's eta/QU/ American Featuring Happy Hour 2 for 1 All Day - Every Day Gigolo *•*•«»*•*»*•*- FREE Hors doeuvres 3709 Brainerd Rd. $1.50--students / $2.50-public atop Wed., Nov. 11, 8:15 pm. aov wwnwnwmiwiwiiwa aaatawriaiMMawa November5, 1981 The University Echo Page 3 Expansion of facilities to change look of campus by Vicki Brown More parking, academic facilities, housing and other expansions are in store for UTC in the next few years if the campus' requests make it through the necessary channels. Already funded are the Oak Street apartments currently under construction, the bookstore expansion and an addition to the University Center, but many more projects are in the planning stages. Included in the 1982-83 budget request are a $2.4 million land acquisition for parking around the new Colosseum and an $11 million expansion of the central energy facility. The parking lots would be located on East Fourth Street, Houston Street, Collins Street and also near the present Vine Street Auditorium. According to David Larsen, vice-chancellor of business and finance, the expansion of the energy facility would include a conversion to coal. On the list for 1983-84 is a request for a new physical plant, which would be built on an enlarged lot at its present location. Larsen stated that the present' facility is "one of the worst in shape in the UT system." Another project in the planning stages is an additional apartment housing facility to be located on Oak Street. The housing would be "very similar to the ones we have now," said Larsen. "The key to their Present UTC facilities will expand to include more additions to other campus buildings as shown on this construction," Larsen added, "is that we have to be housing and parking, another classroom building, and map of the future campus. convinced we can fill them. When you look at photo by Mark R. Merritt potential housing, you have to be sure that you'll have for the new apartments is tentatively set for 1984. certainties. Each year's requests have to follow the the demand at the price offered." The completion date The only academic building in the current plan is for same route: they are submitted to the UT system and a new engineering and business administration put in priority order, sent to the Tennessee Higher facility, which is estimated to be completed in 1988 if Education Commission, then to the Governor and Engineering the funding is appropriated. finally to the state legislature. If the requisitions can None of the requestsmade by the UTC officials are pass over all these hurdles, the projects will be started. and tech center approved Need Extra Cash??? by Tim Callaway The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees recently approved a proposal for the establishment of We can help! the Center for Applied Engineering and Technology to be located in the School of Engineering at UTC. The purpose of the center is to provide the area for experimentation of new technologies which have potential for commercial use. The center will be located in Grote Hall, but according to Dr. Ronald B. The Echo needs Cox, dean of the School of Engineering, an area with higher ceilings will be needed in the future to accomodate projects over 9 feet tall. Operating funds for the center will come from AD SALESMEN grants and contracts provided by private and governmental agencies. The funds will be used to perform market studies, technical analysis, system design, fabrication, and operation of process units. A project that demonstrates marketability will be made *-earn large commissions available for manufacture through private sources. At this time the private company will pay the Engineering School for its part of the project's development. Similar services are now being provided by the interested? School of Engineering, but more effort will be made to solicit funds from private sources. * -choose your own hours contact The center will also help to recognize the capabilities of students and faculty of the School of Engineering. According to Cox, the school faces a Mike Sutton high degree of competion from commercial industries who lure away faculty members with offers of high salaries. The center will become a mechanism for * -get sales experience Business Manager bringing recognition to faculty and students. Based on the companies now recruiting newly The university Echo graduating engineering students, Cox said, the caliber of UTC's School of Engineering is good. "Combustion Engineering, Dupont, and other industries have been 755-4298 grabbing up our pupils for years. And this past year, •-meet new people Westinghouse has begun to recruit, even though they've been hiring former UTC students for quite some time," said Cox. - Page 4 The University Echo November 5, 1981 Creation debated at Campus Ministries program by Linda Coniglio The question that many people believe had been Durham refuted the creationist argument that The Bible and evolution can be harmonized, said put to rest in 1925 with the Scopes Trial was raised evolution cannot be tested and said that the Durham, provided Genesis is not literally interpreted.