UTC BECEIV oflte ^Inrversity October 16,1997 V^/Volume 92 ^^ No.9 / ; 47 What's inside Playing around Finley Sports History projecting The soccer team won thier first Southern Conference records victory ever over East By Kevin Lusk Tennesee State on Echo Managing Editor Sarurday. Seepage 14. With two days to go before the opening of Finley Stadium, UTC has already set a Row to the finish new single-game attendance record with the 13th annual River City Classic Game against The UTC rowing team Tennesseee State University Saturday. finished first in the As of Wednesday afternoon, the UTC athletic department has sold 14,128 tickets Chattanooga Head Race on for the 20,000-seat stadium and expects at Saturday. Seepage 13. least 3,000 more to be sold the day of the game. News Aaron Solomon "Fan interest has been great, and I hope The key to the future it will continue to grow as the week Chancellor Bill Stacy and a volunteer help build a progresses," said Scott McKinney, associate Golden Key National Honor playground at Warner Park. Several UTC students and athletic director of promotions and public Society inducted new relations. community members also participated over the weekend. The new record surpasses the old one set members Wednesday at back in 1981. UTC faced Tennessee State Patten Chapel. See the in front of 12,003 fans at Chamberlain Field. The Mocs won the game 28-9. names of new inductees on The athletic department credits not only page 8. Maybe someday soon: the new stadium and the current success of the football team for ticket sales but other attractions as well. Becoming aware UT board will request One of the main attractions will be the Delta Sigma Theta is Tennessee State Marching Band which will sposoring several events perform at halftime. Other events planned money from legislature include football and basketball skill on breast cancer competitions and the River City Classic awareness. See page 3. By Amber Austin million for renovations to the library. parade that will take place before the game. Echo Assistant News Editor These renovations ranked low on the list "There is so much that will happen on Features and there will be an estimated four-year wait Saturday that I would encourage the fans to At the Oct. 9 and 10 UT Board of for improvements on the structure. arrive early," McKinney said. "After the Always Coca-Cola Trustees meeting in Knoxville, UTC asked Some of the big projects that rank above game, the Tennessee-Alabama game will be The art club created a for $45.4 million for new projects and UTC's projects are an Alumni Memorial shown on the big screen TV on the improvements on campus. Renovation and the Hesler Biology scoreboard, and there will be fireworks. It mural for the Coca-Cola The board agreed to part of the request renovation at UT-Knoxville. will be a super day." Company. See page 9. by agreeing to ask the state for funding for If the state decides to allocate the funds Students can receive tickets to the game a new math and computer science building to the UT system for improvements it will at the University Center Ticket Office. and for improvements on Hunter Hall. still take an estimated one to four years Students will not be able to show their ID at Get to steppin' However, the board denied a third before the money comes through to UTC the gate. They must receive a ticket to be The Greek Step Show will request to ask for funding for improvements for the projects. admitted to the game. They arc available free to Lupton Library. "Our prospects are going to be a long of charge and students may also purchase take place Saturday night The new engineering, math and shot, at best," said Chancellor Bill Stacy in one guest ticket for $6. after the River City Classic. computer science building ranked sixth on a recent edition of The Chattanooga Times. "We are selling a tremendous amount," Seepage 10. the list of projects that need to be funded. "The hope is that if we can't get the whole said Judy Krystek, University Center senior The university asked for $23.5 million acquisition money this time (for the math accounting clerk. "We are being bombarded to build the new laboratory, academic and and computer science building) we could at by students." support space. least get some planning money." A shuttle service will be provided for UTC also asked for $1.1 million for UTC had to compete with other UT students from UTC to the stadium free of improvements on Hunter Hall. campuses for money to fund these projects. charge. The building ranks ninth on the list for Each request is ranked according to Parking will be available at the stadium maintenance projects. which project gets money first. for $3. Lots will open at 9:30 a.m. Lastly, the university asked for $20.8 2 The University Echo I Thursday, October 161997 Construction coming to an end: Fletcher Hall will house classes in spring semester By Kelly Pollock 40,000 square feet. Echo Production Manager Brown said Fletcher will have the best class and lecture rooms on Construction on Fletcher Hall will be campus. completed by Nov. 1, said Richard Brown, "It is a wonderful environment. associate vice chancellor of administrative Students will benefit by the new affairs. amenities," Brown said. Currently 90 percent of the work is The architecture is designed to complete. balance the splendor of Hooper-Race "We are working on what we call the Halls and Founders Hall and blends final punch lists," Brown said. nicely with the other buildings, The final lists consist of putting in the Brown said. interior furnishings and doing site work such The building is the first on as landscaping. campus to be fully automated for Some of the occupants of the building after hour access by means of the will be able to move in as early as December Moc card. but most will move in during the Spring Students can slide the card semester. through a lock to gain access. The School of Business Administration "There is a great deal of safety to will vacate Siskin Memorial Building and (the card system)," Brown said. the mobile offices to become the primary Complete renovation and occupant of Fletcher. Brown said that the expansion of the building began in Bursars office and certain specialized Chairs February of 1996 in order to comply of Excellence will also locate in the building. with ADA regulations because it was Fletcher Hell J.O.Morgan Fletcher is now fully compliant with the impossible to go from one side of the American with Disabilities Act. building to the other. "The administration managed the project completed this year. The total cost of the It has new elevators and high tech "This was a wonderful project with great well. I also commend C & I Construction." construction was $8.1 million, classrooms. There is also an additional impact and it turned out well," Brown said. Fletcher is the third major project Senator talks about "Rule of Law" Get protected Cntmfc MMron Tennessee Senator David Fowler visited Dr. Richard Wilson's political science 233 class and the political science club at 9 a.m. yesterday In the University Center. When Fowler was an Aaron Solomon undergraduate at UTC, he was a student in Wilson's class. Lauren Delaney, Nashville freshman, gets her annual flu shot at the Fowler discussed the dangers of ignoring the basis of our Student HealthClinic. Faculty, staff and students were encouraged to government on both the "Rule of Law" and a "Divine Being." get the shots on Oct. 14,15 and 16. Students whc missed the clinic Fowler and Wilson are pictured above. days can still call to get the shots by calling for an appointment. The University Echo I Thursday, October 16,1997 3 Delta Sigma Theta promotes breast cancer awareness By Amber Austin every year. They tend to stray away from Echo Assistant News Editor medical attention because of lack of education on the disease," said LaShunda Delta Sigma Theta Sorority sponsored a Williams, Memphis senior and public breast cancer information table in the service chairperson for Delta Sigma Theta. University Center in association with Breast The American Cancer Society believes Cancer Awareness Month Wednesday. early detection is the best defense. For "Breast cancer awareness is important women between the ages of 20 and 39, the because it is a disease that many women society recommends a self-breast exam could have and be unaware of because of every month and a doctor's exam every three lack of education and information," said years. Fabayo Powell, Memphis junior and Delta Sigma Theta is also sponsoring a member of Delta Sigma Theta. breast cancer seminar at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 in Breast cancer is the number one cancer Holt Hall 124. The seminar will include women are diagnosed with in the United breast cancer education information, and States. It is a disease that can affect any will feature Kimberly Hinton-Fuqua, a woman and, in fact, most women who get it breast cancer survivor and the assistant have no family history of it. project coordinator for the American Cancer However there are risk factors that can Society in Chattanooga. increase a woman's chance of getting breast "Everyone is invited and encouraged to cancer. They are having a mother or sister go. Even men who might have questions ——— ctinSMiiron with the cancer, not ever having a child and relating to breast cancer, because you never Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.