Macdougall Assures Campus Housing by Semester End by Cindy Mcafee Two-Mile Distance to Drake Inn
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The YWCA building downtown presently houses the female overflow from UTC housing. See related story on page 3. MacDougall assures campus housing by semester end by Cindy McAfee two-mile distance to Drake Inn. The number of trips has semester. According toSMacDougal, the women will Ix also been cut down. Now, students get back and forth to reimbursed for the difference per night UTC students dorming at the YWCO on liighth Strict and from campus on a one-round-trip-an-hour bus "Anyone who wants to move from the YW( O to Drake will be allowed to move to Drake Inn this week. service which runs from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m according to can," siad MacDougal, "But the YWCO has been very according to Associate Dean of Students Richard MacDougal responsive to the university and to the students MacDougal. Despite the cost of busing students from off-campus However, there really have been no problems reported "All of the mwill be on campus somewhere by the end housing, MacDougal doesn't feel that the university wil to us or to the Y. of the semester, there's no doubt on my mind," he said lose money by dorming students off-campus Basically, 1 think the complaints printed in The Echo "They will be moved on campus before they leave for "Our budget in Housing is based on a °H percent last week were from people who are dissatisfied and Christmas." occupancy level," he said "If we have KM) percent were pointing at things that could or have happened The women were moved tro the YW(X) at the first ol occupancy we then have an extra margin which makes We're working on the roadies but I think that people the month from the REad DHousc According to up for the extra money spent." have emotional react urns to roaches The chipping paint 7 MacDougal, the YWCO was the first alternative method Despite rumors that the university spends only S" on was not reported to us. The YWCO s kitchen was clean of acceptable off-campus housing the UTC Student YWCO housing per student per week, MacDougal says and the bathroom had old fixtures bu: it was clean, too AFfairs office found to replace the Rliad House. that the rent is closer to Si 5 a week. The rent per night Of course, sometimes places can look clean and still be "Wefelt that itwasthebestite.il we had found," he said averages out to 12.19 pet night compared to the 13.1 ^ infested. That's why we're still looking for pockets ol "It was closer than other places, approximated a dorm the women paid for housing at the beginning of the roaches." setting and had good security." However, the women moved to the YW(.() are not allowed any visiting hours and have expressed dissatisfaction with their temporary dewlling, basically YWCA residents moving to Drake; due to an alleged lack of cleanliness at the YWCO The male students who had roomed at the Rliad House- by Tom Robinson hope that some arrangement might be made whereb) were moved to the Drake Inn several weeks after the they could receive transportation back to the motel at a women moved to the YWCO. According to MacDougal. The housing shortage at UTC is still keeping some later hour. rooms at Drake Inn include a television, a telephone and students in outside accomodations. At present these These students were moved to the Drake Inn from the a private bath in the room, compared to the communal accomodations are the YWCO for the girls and the Read House earlier this semester where, as resident facilities at the YWCO. Drake Inn Motel lor the boys. Although some assistant Doug Howard points out, they didn't have Although The Echo received a complaint that the complaints have been raised about the YWCO, the telephones or color televisions as they do now Howard YWCO did not provide adequate security, MacDougal Drake Inn enjoys only praise from its collegiate described the students as well behaved and "pretty co feels that security at both the YWCO and at Drake Inn is teneants operative " This opinion was echoed by the manager of good. One student housed there, Johnny Mathis. relates, "I'd the motel, Robert Jones, and the owner's wife, Mrs Student safety at the YWCO is the responsibility of the rather stay here than on campus. We call it the Linda Budiselich The only complaint they registered YWCO, according to MacDougal. He said that UTC has penthouse!" Only two regrets were expressed by any of was that a few of the boys weren't as tidy as they could be, some moral responsibility to the students but that it had the students. One of these was that the rooms lacked but most of them were "doing really well" according to no (direct legal responsibility. cooking facilities. This condition also exists on campus, Mrs. Budiselich. "But we made a moral decision that the YWCO is safe however, in the Stadium Dormitory. With two of these students being moved into the We have a bus right to the door. You'd have to work hard The other complaint was related not to the motel itself Stadium dorm the number remaining stands at 25. to jeopardize the safety of that building," he said. but to the transportation UTC is providing for the As resident assistant Howard noted, that number may With the reduction of the number of students dorming students. The latest transportation leaving the rise soon, however, as the university is presently off-campus, bus service has been cut down to one vehicle. university on the weekends departs at 10:25 p.m. which arranging to have any girls who so desire moved from However, the one bus has added mileage because of the some of the students feel is too early. They expressed the the YWCO to the Drake Inn. 2 THE UNIVERSITY ECHO November 2, 1979 editorials Students need evaluation access to choose best classes It's about that time of year again. planning their schedules- The administration problems, with individual professors, students Faculty evaluations will be handed out again has, in the past, countered student requests who are paying money to take classes from in November. For those not yet acquainted to see the evaluations with comments to the them should at least know ahead of time with this practice, faculty evaluations are effect of "you wouldn't want us to what they .'re in for. Forewarned is completed by the students in each class publicize your grades, would you?" Ah, but forearmed, and open evaluation results would during the fall semester. Part of the the students, grades don't affect other be much better forewarning than gathered ^valuation is in question-and-answer- form students' grades. Poor instructors do. random comments from one's friends. (check the appropriate box) and the rest It's very frustrating, both educationally While most of the UTC faculty is a credit consists of student comments on the course and economically, when one gets four weeks to the campus and community, no such instructor. into the semester only to realize that he's large group can be totally without a few If the annual student-administration battle not learning a darned thing from his deadbeats,. crackpots and/or incompetents. over closure of the evaluation files follows teacher. Perhaps that teacher is an expert in The realization that the number of people the usual form, SGA members will ask once his field, but just can't get things across to taking their classes might change when more that students be allowed to see the other people. Perhaps he has an students are allowed to see what previous results of the evaluations, and the powers indistinguishable manner of speech. Perhaps stvidents thought of them might wake up a that be will, in turn, refuse that right. I say he grades haphazardly, or even unfairly. Or few of the less-effective faculty and "right" because students deserve to know perhaps he uses the classroom as a soapbox. encourage them to do a little better at what they and we are supposed to be concerned* what kind of faculty they have to choose Whatever the problpms, or alck of from when with--education. Letters to the editor WYRG WMOP RfiAHV WIRON Dear Editor, 'KG RPORS., AMAIIN6,, OUR In response to the letter published in the October 12th CUOTHeS,, issue of Echo about nuclear power plant safety, we'd like / to make a few points. The author of the letter, L.I.. Hall, claimed to have attended the anti-nuclear rally at Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday October 7th. If I..L. Hall had actually been at the demonstration he/she would never have described the group as "a bunch of screaming anti- nukes,"' for never was a scream let out, not even from any of the children attending. Instead, the group consisted of wKaep ANPSHciM NUNS,,. peaceful members of the community representing every TORfiCToRY rWIlM&TO I THINK age group. As described by both the Chattanooga Times 5fb"Ri25$„ and the News Free Press the group was "quiet and W«N0BtiL we'w«ep peaceful." Another point is that no one cried out "They won't let us into the plant because they are hiding something," for raize, there was never any intention of going into the plant. Out intention was to hold the demonstration at the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant site and that is what we did. We would have no use forgoing into the buildings.