REPORT DOES NOTSUPPORT DENY PENALTY by Bill Walker and Kem Morgan Echo Staff The biracial committee charged with suspension was not made on a racial respect, one of the grievances of the attend to a muscle spasm. The investigating greivances of football basis. We did not address the decision boycotting players, that of a lack of committee recommended that the Head players found that Coach Morrison had in terms of severity. That is something communication and understanding Trainer check each bus to insure proper the right to take disciplinary action that Drinnon, Wilkes, and the athletic between the coaches and the black coverage in the future. against the twenty-five black football department will have to deal with." team members, was substantiated. The committee also stated that there players. However, the report, released Meeting for 51 hours and interviewing Other grievances which were was segregation on the buses. However, earlier this week, did not support or 41 individuals that included players substantiated included the lack of conduct of coaches and players during deny the actual»suspension. (suspended, reinstated, and those not trainers on all buses, segregation on the games. During the course of the Gordon Johnson, a UTC senior and involved with the boycott), coaches, team buses, conduct of coaches and committee's investigation it was found .committee member, said, "I thought trainers, and team physicians, the players during games, the lack of black that during games the conduct of essentially what we were saying is that committee found discrepencies in athletes graduating, players and coaches left something to the chancellor should not override the testimony, founded and unfounded In regard to the lack of a trainer on be desired. However, the committee decision. We did not say anything allegations. all buses, the committee found that on stated that there were no racial about whether the penalty (to suspend According to committee findings , the at least one occasion this year there overtones involved in these outbursts. the players) was right or wrong." boycott by the the black members of was not a trainer present on both But, the committee advised that the Arnold Williams, also a member of the the team was prompted by a lack of buses. This happened on the return trip coaches and the players should both be three black-two white committee, said, communication by both the coaches from the Furman game of October 21 aware that they are on public display "The only thing we found was that the and the boycotting players. In the when a trainer was not available to November 17, 1978 Volume UXVTTl No. 12 UniversityV inside... Record/Movie Reviews Basketball Preview ECHO Steve Barbara Martin Walters published weekly by the students of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Southern Prison Ministry Denounces Capital Punishment bhyv Lyni vnn Williams a# Echo Editor The United Methodist Student Center Lozier is "cold--blooded killing," the states with the highest homicide rates. Lozier went on to explain that the presented Mr. John Lozier, State "grotesque taking of human life" and Capital punishment is death penalty is irrevocable, that Director of the Southern Prison disproportionately applied to we as humans are "not fit to innocent people have been executed Ministry Wednesday to the largest minorities, claims the TADP. They feel condemn or judge others." and will continue to be executed as crowd in the nine year history of The Southern Prison Ministry has that it is used primarily against two long as capital punishment is used. "Hotseat". Mr. Lozier initiated his talk helped launch a campaign with The groups of people: the poor and the by explaining the Southern Prison Tennesseans Against the Death Penalty non-white. Ninety-one percent of the The second major focus of the Ministry's two primary foci. people on death row in America today Southern Prison Ministry is prison in Tennessee and other southern states overpopulation. State prisoners must be The first is the opposition to capital in an effort to do away with capital had court-appointed lawyers. Had they leased to county jails at the present punishment. He felt that the death punishment. The group states that the been able to pay their own attorneys, time because there isn't enough room penalty is an "ineffective" measure death penalty is not a deterrent to they most likely would have received in state penitentiaries. "against crime and the prevention of crime and studies show that states with some sentence less than death, crime." The death penalty according to the death penalty are consistently the according to the TADP. The Tennessee Department of Correction has attempted to remedy this situation by building regional prisons. The regional concept, 1 developed by the DOC as a response to overcrowding in its adult institutions, is based on the belief that prisoners must Senate Victors not be isolated from families and communities. The prisoners and the With a sparse showing of student community are supposed to benefit if, voters, ten Student Government during the course of imprisonment, a Association Representatives were prisoner has access to vocational chosen in elections held earlier this training, work opportunities, schooling, week. and counseling that involve the prisoner The new senators from District I are Martha Easley and Gary Wanat. in the life of the surrounding Jose Mera and Lonny Seiler were communities. Regional prisons must be elected in District II. situated in areas that can be reached District III representatives are Phil easily by many of these resources. But Kramer and John Tracy. these regional prisons have been stuck James C. Franklin and Dale Jenkins in mostly rural and isolated parts of will serve in District IV. the state in Lake, Morgan, and Bledsoe Mark Northern and Tommy Thompson are the newly elected from counties. This, according to the District V. Southern Prison ministry, is a most The group began their terms in the ineffective solution, "will undermine meeting held this week. ilu> purpose of the regional prisons and doom for this nnr J overcrowding.'' C P3naCea f°' Mrmbervfthe The University assooaTeo Virgets Supporters Speak Out coueoaTe pRessi Dear Editor, A few weeks ago an article was written sponsor. Tom Virgets Jiad this objective ECHO to the editor which questioned the in mind when he agreed to sponsor a EDITOR Lynn Williams MANAGING EDITOR Karen Masiulis right of an intramural director to team in hope that other independent FEATURES EDITOR Kem Morgan SPORTS EDITOR Mark Northern sponsor his own team in the women's teams will join the program next CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Sewell PRODUCTION MANAGER Bill Walker A division. The article seemed to be semester or next fall. FACULTY ADVISOR Arnold Williams BUSINESS MANAGER Diane Widmer written to defend the sororities on In regard to Virgets favoring his team campus and let us first state that we over other women's teams, it would REPORTERS: Robin Boletnan, David Gomien, Lisa Huggins, John Merritt, Lynn Wilkins, Libby Woodlee. appreciate his concern, but we want to be ridiculous to say that he did not help coach his team in hope that they The opinions expressed in THE UNIVERSITY ECHO are expressly those of the individual state our feelings on the matter. We are writers and do not reflect the opinions of the personnel of the University of Tennessee at will win the A division but he in turn Chattanooga. The publication is a student newspaper published weekly during the school not writing this letter to say whether year with tne exceptions of holidays and examination periods. Founded in I 900 as the stu­ we feel it is right for Tom Virgets to offers each team an opportunity to dent newspaper of the University of Chattanooga, THE UNIVERSITY ECHO subscribes to the College Press Service (CPS), the National Educational Advertising Service (NEAS), CASS sponsor a team but to say that we are have a coach from the Health and advertising, and the United Features Syndicate. in agreement with his reason for Physical Education department. Tom ECHO Telephones Virgets is also more than willing to Advertising.and Production: 755-4452 organizing a team and to make it clear Editorial, News, Photo, Features, and Sports: 755-4451 rearrange scheduled events if there is a that the sororities welcome the conflict with two sorority functions competition. which is one major reason that the Intramurals are for the entire campus sororites support the program which is and Virgets has stated quite a few times the success that it is so far this year. his desire to get the independent students involved in the program, but it Intramural Managers, is hard for these students to organize a Jana Jordan - Pi Beta Phi team that will stay involved in the Janet Abel - Chi Omega SGA Represents....? entire program without the help of a Kathy Kolankiewicz - Alpha Delta Pi Even though fall Student Government Association elections have never been a great enticement for voter turnout, the number of voters this year seemed much smaller than usual. Is this an Indication of general apathy by the students or is it a nation-wide /&£L /v<r wo silent protest against what the SGA actually stands for? The University of Texas at Austin was one of the first schools in the country to reject its student government. An organization called the Coalition to Retire Aspiring Politicos (CRAP) cited fMTHv ' non-representation, lack of power, and misappropriation of funds as reasons for complete abolition of its student government. *$ UT's Student Association was beset with problems common to many student governments in the country. Is UTC's SGA following the example of these other student govern in cuts? Our SGA is definitely non-representative, in last week's election in which half of the senate seats were filled, there were c) men.