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•'?_r* The V& GO Student Echo Volume J85/ Issue No. 10 University Of Tennessee at Chattanooga October2 5,1990 University Must Return Funds to State Again By Mary Thompson while, in fact, the University is not fully The academic units of the University are The first recommendation made was to The Student Echo funded, Riley said. responsible for returning $300,000 of the decrease the proportion of the impoundment The state is able to do this based on a total impoundment. coming from the academic units and to The state of Tennessee has ordered an specific educational funding formula, Riley At the Provost's request, the Budget and place it on the administrative units, Riley impoundment totalling $828,700 on UTC said. Economic Status Committee made said. funds. The state provides funding to all UT recommendations as to how the various See Impoundment p. B6 This is the second consecutive year that system schools through the Tennessee departments will share the cost, Riley said. the state has placed an impoundment on it- Higher Education Commission formula, funding to the University, Neal Riley, Riley said. The THEC formula is based on chairman of the Budget and Economic Status any number of criteria square footage of Committee said. Last year's impoundment facilities covered by maintenance, totaled around $600,000 Riley said. enrollment or credit hours offered, Riley The state issued the impoundment, Riley said. said, because of its overall budget problems If one of these changes or the state's and inability to balance its books. budget fluctuates, Riley said, the state is Terry Zivney, of accounting and finance, able to seek a return of its funding. said the state does not have enough money The impoundment on UTC is three to pay its bills and is taking back money it percentof the $27 million provided by state granted to the University. funding. Even though the state has placed UTC The cost of the impoundment is to be under an impoundment order, it is still able divided by the academic and non-academic to claim that it fully funds the University units of the University, Riley said. Student Engineers Design Automated Rope System By Tim Cox approximately $15,000. The Student Echo Tuesday, seniors Danny Kirkendoll and Ronnie Baker presented detailsof the project UTC's senior engineering project is the to students. Mocs Automated Rope System or MARS. Kirkendoll displayed transparencies of Students in the senior design course are pi richer- like hooks holding and cutting rope. redesigning the rope packaging device at Baker spoke about using sensors to Bevis Rope Co. in Rossvilie. "If all goes trigger various steps along a conveyor line. well this will be installed at Bevis by the For example, electric eye sensors could be summer," said Ginny Palmer, one student used to trigger a heated knife which would manager of the MARS project. cut the rope into lengths. Bhaskar S. Ponnapula, spokesperson for In last year's senior project, student- the project, said the final design would be designed a polymer extrusion experiment Lupton Library is evacuated Wednesday night as firefighters search for the cause chosen by the end of the fall semester. to be performed on board a NASA space of a suspicious odor throughout the building. Firefighters believe the smell was Actual construction will begin next semester, shuttle. However, NASA has had difficulty created by a burnt belt in the central heat and air system. Photo by Sujeel Taj Ponnapula said. launching its shuttles and the project has Dr. Michael High, professor of yet to go up, Johnson said. Measles Vaccinations Mandatory engineering and the Miller chair of excellence for management and technology, chose Bevis for this assignment. For Freshmen, TVansfer Students This system will revolutionalize Bevis By Carol Malone documentation should be taken to the by speeding up the packaging of rope nearly Echo News Editor Student Affairs office after January, 1991, six times its current rate. said Dean Charles M. Renneisen, vice "This is terrific experience for the The national increase of measles outbreaks chancellor for student affairs. students," said Dr. Terrance Carney, has resulted in the mandatory vaccination of This is an attempt to maintain a healthy professor and director of the program. all new UTC students entering in the '90-'91 campus environment, Renneisen said. Carney said the students have worked all academic year. Carolyn Robinson, director of Student semester on getting a workable system The UT System has implemented a Health Services, said there was a 380 percent conceived for possible implementation. mandatory policy for new students born after increase in the number of measles cases in "Our next goal includes creating working 19S6 and students that have not been the United States from 1988 to 1989. drawings of the system and ordering parts. vaccinated since Jan. 1,1980. Students who "UTC is trying to encourage all students By next spring, we will have something have been innoculated since 1981 must who do not meet the immunization built," said Ron Johnson, another manager furnish appropriate documentation. Also, of the project. Senior Danny Kirkendoll presents his students who have had the disease should See Vaccinations p. A3 Carney said the project will cost group's ideas. Photo by Jeff McBray er furnish proof to avoid the innoculation. This A2 The Student Echo/October 25, 1990 SGA Discusses Freshman Seminar, Vietnam Day By Chad Hendrix Tackett, a veteran who is hitchhiking and hope that senators who don't have a Sen. Nancy Rucker said that the bill The Student Echo walking across the country trying to get schedule conflict would be mature enough could set a precedent of requiring senator support for the project to come," Sen.Rachel Freeman said. attendance at SGA sponsored events. The SGA had a busy meeting Oct 23. The bill was called to a vote, but Freeman's assertion was quickly refuted Eventually, the bill was called to a There were only four bills on the docket, passed unanimously. by Sens. Nicole Griffin, Mario Ross, and vote and passed 12 to eight with one but with a guest speaker and much Next, the senate quickly approved the Keith Green. Green noted that the abstention. contention over one of the bills, there was constitution of the History Club. Leadership Forum held recently was The final item considered by the senate more activity than expected. There was much debate over a bill that announced three months in advance, and was a bill to excuse the absence of Sen. Verbie Prevost, associate professor of • would require the senators to attend the still was not attended by some senators. Teresa Morgan. English and coordinator of the freshman Race Relations Forum, which will be held Griffin, Ross and Green all felt that many There was some debate on the issue, seminar program, spoke to the SGA about in November. The bill inflicted a one-half senators were not mature enough to attend but in the end, the bill was passed 19 to the freshman seminar. The SGA senators absence on any senator who did not attend. the Race Relations Forum without the two. will soon be visiting freshman seminar All exceptions to the rule would have to .threat of a penalty. classes to explain to students the role of be approved by the Social Issues the SGA. Committee. The first bill considered by the senators Hands were raised all over the room STUDENT gave the SGA's official support for the when the floor was opened up for "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Holiday: A questioning on the bill. GOVERNMENT Day of Peace" project. The bill was 'This is like we're in class and are sparked by a visit to UTC by Col. Charles being required to do something. I would ASSOCIATION Col. Charles Tackett speaks to SGA. Sujeel TajIStudent Echo Health Service Battles Cold and Flu Season By Catrenia D. Washington testing, provides free condoms and family Students, Faculty, Staff and Community Echo Asst. News Editor planning to male and female students. Student health service is located in Are Invited To October begins the cold and flu season, Frist Hall, 520 Oak St., on the second however, UTC student health service is floor. available to help students combat these A doctor is available Mondays, illnesses. Wednesdays and Fridays at 1 p.m., "Gaining People, Losing Ground" Carolyn Robinson, registered nurse and however, students are advised to arrive director of the student health service, said about 12:30 p.m. The nurse is on duty by that the most common illness that Monday-Friday, from 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. students are plagued with are upper Werner Fornos respiratory infections. These infections are caused by viruses President of the Population Institute that are transmitted from person to person by direct contact or through body fluids, in Washington D.C. "so try to avoid people with colds because they are easy to catch," she said. "There is no cure for the common cold Thursday, November 1,1990 but I would recommend plenty of rest, plenty of fluids and a good diet," 1:45 p.m. Robinson said. "If you eat a good diet you won't need Chattanooga Room vitamins," Robinson said. She said that sore throat is also University Center common for this time of year, "It is usually caused by post nasal drainage that drips down your throat." Throat lozenges Sponsored By: provide relief of sore throat and gargling SGA Speakers and Special Events with warm, salt water helps also. Robinson encourages sick students to For More Information Call utilize the student health service. It is free The SGA Office, 755-4296 to all resident students and $10 per semester for commuter students.