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STUDENTS GET READY FOR FALL SEMESTER— Jacob S. Evans, a senior recording industry major from New Orleans, and Lucretia Robertson, from Chapel Hill, look at courses in the undergraduate catalog in the Cope Administration Building as they prepare to enter MTSU for the 2003 fall semester, which begins Aug. 18. photo by Ken Robinson

Summer tranquility turns into hectic but exhilarating enthusiasm at MTSU as the fall semester begins Aug. 18 with what university officials say will be another record enrollment, and despite state higher education budget reductions, enough faculty should be available to accommodate student needs.

An enrollment increase of approximately 2 percent is expected this fall, which would be an additional 450-500 students, said Sherian Huddleston, assistant vice provost, enrollment services. In fall 2002, MTSU had a record 21,163 students.

"It’s always a struggle when you’re in a budget cutback situation not to cut services. While there has been a diminished availability of classes, we’re not in a crisis situation," said Dr. Robert Glenn, vice president for student affairs and vice provost for enrollment management. "Most students will stay on course and get what they need to graduate."

Glenn commended the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost for an "exceptional job" in adding classes and seats to accommodate students for the fall semester.

"We’re trying to meet student needs for classes by hiring additional temporary full-time faculty members," said Provost and Executive Vice President Dr. Kaylene Gebert.

MTSU will have about 815 full-time faculty members this fall compared to 800 full-time faculty members last fall, Gebert said. Although MTSU had to cut 40 faculty positions due to state budget reductions, the university is adding 55 full-time, temporary non-tenured track faculty members to teach students.

In addition to the 815 faculty members for the fall semester, MTSU will have 275 to 300 adjunct teachers, who will teach one or two courses, Gebert said.

In addition to classes, students have a lot of activities planned by the Office of Student Development to welcome them to campus, said Becca Wilson, coordinator of student development.

The following are "Welcome" activities and other events:

Aug. 18—Fall classes begin;
"Ice Cream on the KUC Knoll," noon.

Aug. 19—Last day to register

Aug. 19-20—"Meet Murfreesboro," 10 a.m.-3 p.m., KUC Courtyard.

Aug. 21—Last day to add classes;
Fee payment deadline for Aug. 15-21, late registrants. Fees must be paid by 4:30 p.m.
"Meet, Greet & Eat," 7 p.m., Floyd Stadium

Aug. 22—Comedian Bruce Bruce, 8 p.m., Murphy Center,

Aug. 25—Regents Online Degree Program Classes Begin;
"Open Mic Night at Cyber Café," 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 26—"Volunteer Fair," 10 a.m.-2 p.m., KUC Courtyard

Aug. 27—"Student Organization Fair," 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Aug. 28—MTSU Founders Day 2003, Campus School, 1 p.m.;
First Home Football Game, Florida Atlantic, 7 p.m.

In highlighting some of the activities, Wilson said, "Meet, Greet & Eat" took place for the first time last year. It’s an event to showcase student athletes. We want our students to come to Floyd Stadium and get a feel for the ball games."

However, all athletes will be showcased as well as the cheerleaders and the band, and the event will not only be open to students, but it will be open to faculty, staff and the general public as well, she said. Concessions will be available.

"Meet Murfreesboro" introduces students to the local community. Area merchants are invited to provide handouts and coupons, etc., for the campus, Wilson said.

For information on student welcome activities, call 615-898-2454. For regular registration information, call 615-898-2111. For Regents Online Degree Program information, call 615-898-5611.




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IN BRIEF

REGENTS ONLINE DEGREE CLASSES BEGIN ON AUG. 25

Fall Regents Online Degree Program (RODP) classes begin Aug. 25.

Although the courses are primarily for students majoring in the Regents Online Degrees (currently there are 220 RODP majors), many non-majors also register for the classes to fulfill general studies or other degree requirements.

To ensure that non-RODP majors are aware of the differences between RODP courses and other MTSU courses, a registration control was added to all RODP courses for fall 2003. Now, when a non-RODP major attempts to register for a RODP course, the system instructs the student to obtain authorization from an adviser. Differences that students should be aware of are: RODP fees are computed in addition to any MTSU course fees and don’t apply to the full-time maximum for MTSU registration fees; the TBR Virtual Bookstore provides books; and RODP courses may not apply to some on-campus majors.

For information, contact 615-898-5611 or email dzeh@mtsu.edu.

PARENT WORKSHOP TO TAKE PLACE AT PROJECT HELP AUG. 29

A free workshop on "BASIC Rights: A Parent’s Introduction to Special Education in Murfreesboro/

Rutherford County" will be held at Project HELP from 9 a.m. to noon on Aug. 29.

All parents of children in special education and parents of children who might need special education are invited to attend. Register by calling 615-898-2458. Seating is limited.

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Cllick for campus map

Parking lots change at university

by Tom Tozer

If MTSU wasn’t the fastest-growing university in the state, attracting many of Tennessee's best and brightest students, campus parking wouldn't be the challenge that it can be, especially during that first week of the fall semester. However, the staff of Parking and Transportation Services will work hard to make the first week run as smoothly as possible. The staff requests everyone’s patience as another academic year begins.

First, they want to remind students to pick up their parking decals at the department's new location in the former St. Mark's United Methodist Church building at 1403 E. Main Street. Parking is available at the rear of the building, and signs will point to the entrance.

Parking attendants once again will be stationed in various parking lots on campus during those first few days to help students find parking and to indicate when a particular lot is full. When a lot fills up, the attendant will direct commuters to other parking areas.

The parking designation for the S-Curve lot (across from the co-generation plant) has been changed from green permit parking to white permit parking for the next 18 months due to the construction behind the Todd Building, which eliminated much of the white-permit parking. Signs are posted.

In addition to the traditional student parking areas, including Greenland Drive and the Tennessee Livestock Center, and those along Blue Raider Drive, two new parking lots for students have been created on Blue Raider Drive where the horse stables and barns formerly stood. There also are new lots on the east side of campus on MTSU Boulevard toward Rutherford Boulevard.

The Raider Xpress shuttles will be operating to help transport students from perimeter parking areas.

Parking and transportation officials remind everyone to heed all parking-permit designated areas and directional signs and to park in legitimate parking spaces.

MTSU officials are working on a 10-year parking plan. Visit www.mtsu.edu/`parking for answers to "Frequently Asked Questions," (FAQ at top), and click on "Regulations" to find out about parking violations, fines and fees. For information, call 615-898-2850.

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Scott

Scottish roots run deep here

Sgt. Steve Scott works in the Department of Public Safety.

When one thinks of Scotland, the first mental picture is usually of a kilt-clad piper. Some may envision Mel Gibson playing the role of the Scottish crusader William Wallace in the hit movie "Braveheart."

With his face painted blue, taunting the English army and rallying his fellow Scots, Gibson could draw you back into the history of Scotland’s bloody quest for freedom.

Now, I am a patriotic person and love the good ole United States dearly. I even get misty-eyed every time the national anthem is played at the start of an athletic event. However, I must also confess that the sound of the former anthem of Scotland, known as "Scotland the Brave," will send chills up my spine every time. I can’t recall when I first felt an attraction to the sound of the highland pipes and drums, or even why. I just know that the attraction is real, and it is strong.

"Were your ancestors Scottish?" is a question I am often asked by those who find themselves being grilled by yours truly concerning their potentially Scottish surname. My quick reply is usually, "Duh! Scott?! … Scotland?!" Followed by, "The country was named after my ancestors!" Of course, that final comment is followed by a big wink, and if the unsuspecting soul still hasn’t realized that I was merely jesting, I often will try to explain the statement in such a way that even a "Big Orange" fan can understand.

Actually, it is believed that the "Scot" in "Scotland" originated from the Gaelic word "Scoti," which means "blue man," referring to the tattoos or blue paint as worn by Gibson and his fellow clansmen in "Braveheart."

Indeed, there are many things about our own society and, yes, even MTSU, that might possibly be traced to Scottish origin. Take, for example, the blue tattoos one sees on campus. Just look around you at any Blue Raider football game, and you’ll see the blue tattoos on the faces of the cheerleaders and the fans. See the connection there? Would William Wallace not be considered a cheerleader for those he rallied to do battle with the English? Aye?

Well, you get the picture.

As for my own direct lineage, I have yet to trace an ancestor back to Scotland, but I am confident that I will, someday. With a name like "Scott" and a long list of Scottish surnames in the family tree such as Bishop, Brandon, Douglas, Gulledge and Johnson, just to name a few, ties to Scottish ancestry would be a fairly safe guess.

If you ever wondered about Scottish ancestry and have never attended a Scottish festival, you have missed an excellent opportunity to trace the origin of your family name. MTSU has been the site of the Tennessee Highland Games for the past seven years. Each year, there are representatives from as many as 60 or more Scottish clans, with information concerning genealogy and family research.

This year, the Heart of Tennessee Scottish Celebration will hold its 8th annual Tennessee Highland Games at MTSU’s Tennessee Livestock Center on Oct. 3-5 (www.hotsc.com ). Oct. 4 will be the day of the main event with Scottish food, Scottish athletics, Scottish dance competitions, Highland cattle and stock dog exhibitions, as well as entertainment—from the traditional Scottish music of Alex Beaton to the hard-driving Celtic rock sound of recording artists Seven Nations. And don’t forget that all five of Tennessee’s pipe bands will be present, too.

There will be something for everyone at this year’s Tennessee Highland Games. It will be an affordable outing for families or individuals. Students with a school ID can enjoy Saturday’s activities for just $5 per person. And for those who’ll be on campus that weekend for MTSU’s football game with Temple University, why not spend a few hours prior to the game learning about the impact our Scottish ancestors had on the formation of this country?

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GETTING READY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL–Heather Fitzgerald, 16, from Oregon gives this horse, “Rose,” a bath. She was preparing to show this horse in the juvenile competition during the International Grand Championship Pleasure Walking Horse Show, which was held Aug. 3-7 at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum.

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Founders Day planned for Aug. 28

MTSU, Campus School relationship to be celebrated

from Alumni Relations

As MTSU continues to forge new partnerships with organizations that will better its academic offerings to students, the institution will take time to look back at a successful partnership through the years and honor a special friend at this year’s Founders Day celebration, university officials said.

On Aug. 28, MTSU will participate in a joint celebration of its 92nd birthday and the 75th anniversary of Homer Pittard Campus School.

To commemorate the occasion, events will be held throughout the day at Campus School, 923 E. Lytle St., in Murfreesboro.

Tours led by Campus School students will be available from 9:30 a.m. to noon, and at 1 p.m., a program will be held on the school’s steps, featuring remarks from MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, Campus School Principal Stan Baskin and Dr. Gloria Bonner, dean of MTSU’s College of Education and Behavioral Science.

The program will be followed by the dedication of a Campus School historical marker and pep rally with the MTSU cheerleaders and pep band.

Campus School students will also provide entertainment, and the event will culminate with the cutting of the birthday cake.

The event is free and open to the public, and alumni and friends are invited to attend.

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Trentham

Women’s Center gets director

Dr. Susan Trentham begins Sept. 2

by Gina Logue

Dr. Susan Trentham will take over as director of the June Anderson Women’s Center at MTSU on Sept. 2. Trentham succeeds Dr. Carol Ann Baily, who served as interim director following the retirement of Dr. Candace Rosovsky in December 2002.

Most recently, Trentham was administrative/community services director at the Crisis Call Center in Reno, Nev. The center serves northern Nevada residents who suffer from depression, suicidal tendencies, sexual abuse and elder abuse. In her first two years there, she secured nearly $200,000 in funding, $74,000 of that in the past month alone.

"I just seem to be drawn to that area. … It just seemed like a natural progression from my past experience," said Trentham in a telephone interview.

From 1994 to 2000, Trentham was program coordinator/graduate assistant at the Women's Resource Center at the University of Nevada at Reno. Her duties included coordinating campus programming, lecturing to community groups and organizing archival materials.

The 33-year-old Trentham earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at Nevada-Reno, where she served as an instructor for women's studies courses and as a teaching assistant for a televised course on feminist theory. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees, both in psychology, at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, her hometown.

Trentham said she was drawn to MTSU's women's center, which was founded in 1977, because it has been in existence quite awhile compared to similar facilities at other universities.

"I found it very impressive that it has a long history. ... The more I was reading online, the more it seemed that the campus community is supportive of having a women's center, which I think is important," said Trentham.

The new director-to-be said her top priorities are to get an idea of what her fellow academics would like the JAWC to be and to establish partnerships that would facilitate interdepartmental collaboration.

Trentham has expressed concern that a campus survey showed that only 15 percent of the seniors interviewed knew about MTSU’s women's center.

"I think that's a common problem all across the country. Doing different types of outreach would be important," Trentham said.

She also notes that her fund-raising and grant-writing experience likely will come in handy in her attempts to enhance the programming the JAWC can provide.

"It would be nice to find some supporters in the community who want to see it thrive or are passionate about certain issues," Trentham said.

"Dr. Trentham is a woman of exceptional qualifications. I think she will provide superb leadership for the program," said Dr. Bob Glenn, vice president, student affairs, and vice provost, enrollment management.

"We're very pleased to have someone with her credentials and experience to provide leadership for the women's center," said Dr. John David Hays, associate vice president, student support services.

The June Anderson Women's Center, located in Room 206 of the James Union Building, provides information on scholarships and women's issues for students, faculty and staff. Some of the programs and events sponsored or co-sponsored by the JAWC include: National Women's History Month (March); Take Back the Night and the Clothesline Project, activities designed to promote awareness of sexual assaults against women; and periodic free legal clinics.

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THE TREATY OF TUSSAUD’S—Dr. Andrei Korobkov, left, poses with a wax sculpture of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. photo courtesy of Dr. Andrei Korobkov

Dr. Korobkov at home in variety of cultures

Professor takes students to British Isles

by Gina Logue

Whether he's escorting MTSU students to Great Britain for a study abroad program or interviewing Russians about migration patterns in the former Soviet republics, Dr. Andrei Korobkov, political science, is at home in a variety of cultures.

This year, Korobkov's excursion across the pond with students studying the British Isles took on additional significance in light of the United States' military coalition with Great Britain in Iraq. The title, "Britain: Unity and Diversity," had not only historical significance, but contemporary significance, as well.

During three weeks in June and July, the students observed the Scottish Parliament, the Glasgow City Council and, of course, Question Time in the Parliament. The House of Commons' regular grilling of the Prime Minister enabled the MTSU contingent to witness Tony Blair's domestic political balancing act first-hand.

For a touch of whimsy, Korobkov escorted his group to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, where they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with lifelike images of Adolf Hitler, French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The highlights of his trips to America's mother country are exceeded only by the importance of his visits to his own mother country. A native Moscovite, Korobkov has studied the comings and goings of former Soviet citizens from country to country virtually since the U.S.S.R. broke up in 1991. So far, he has learned that there has not been as much movement as the experts predicted, but the migration that has taken place has been motivated by economics, not politics.

"People were returning to the countryside because at least they could get food there. Now they're coming back (to urban areas) because they realize there is a limit to what they can get in the countryside and the city is a gamble," said Korobkov. "You can be very lucky, and you can be not lucky at all."

Another factor is ethnicity. Whereas all citizens were Soviets at one time, now Russians living in Armenia are minorities, Uzbeks living in Ukraine are minorities, and so on. Moscow is now as ethnically diverse a city as New York because so many people from poor former Soviet states are flocking there, settling with their own ethnic groups and seeking a more secure way of life, Korobkov said.

The United States should care about these migration patterns. Some of the former republics stand to become breeding grounds for Islamic fundamentalists because Islamic extremists' opposition to the West is considered morally pure there, Korobkov said.

"In order to get support, we ignore violations of human rights and the existence of dictatorships in many of the former Soviet republics," said Korobkov. The politics of oil also play a role. "The Caspian Sea area (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan) is potentially the largest oil and natural gas producing area in the world."

While much of the world breathes more easily knowing the iron-fisted Soviet system is no more, Korobkov says the instability of many former republics' governments makes some yearn for the certainty, however brutal, of yesteryear.

"There is … a nostalgia for a strong hand and that might mean that, in the future, … there would be the emergence of another type of political extremism in Russia," said Korobkov. "And, considering the importance of ethnic issues, migration, minority politics, and so on, it can be a right-wing extremism or some type of nationalism."

The son of academics, Korobkov earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Moscow State University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. With his wife, Maria, and oldest sons, Andrei and Kirill, Korobkov arrived in the United States in 1990, one year before the fall of the Soviet Union. His third son, Denis, was born in America, where Korobkov earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.





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GOVERNOR LEADS THE WAY—Pilot Gov. Phil Bredesen and co-pilot Dr. Paul Craig, chairman, aerospace, leave from the Nashville International Airport in a Diamond DA-40, top right, and head to Murfreesboro, above. About 10 minutes later, they land at the Murfreesboro Airport, right. The airport was the site of a ceremony to commemorate the arrival of 25 new planes for the Department of Aerospace. photo by Jack Ross

Planes Arrive

Governor, others pilot new aircraft to Murfreesboro

MEETING WITH MEDIA—Gov. Phil Bredesen meets with the media at the Murfreesboro Airport, following his ceremonial delivery of new aircraft for MTSU’s Department of Aerospace. After a brief program, spectators toured the larger Boeing 727, background, that was donated in 2002 by FedEx and is now a permanent laboratory for MTSU aerospace students. photo by Jack Ross

MCPHEE EXPRESSES GRATITUDE—MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee thanks Gov. Phil Bredesen for his participation in delivery of the aircraft at a celebration inside MTSU's H. Miller Lanier Airway Science Laboratory at the airport. photo by Jack Ross

GOVERNOR LANDS AIRCRAFT—Pilot Gov. Phil Bredesen holds a Tennessee flag as he lands one of the new Diamond DA-40 aircraft at the Murfreesboro Airport on Aug. 4. Co-pilot Dr. Paul Craig, chairman, aerospace, held the MTSU flag. photo by Ken Robinson

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Sarah Childress Polk

Concerts commemorate Polk

Music taken from Rutherford County native’s manuscripts

by Lisa L. Rollins

Rutherford County native Sarah Childress Polk, wife of the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk, will be remembered on the 200th anniversary of her birth with concerts in Murfreesboro and Columbia next month.

The concerts, which are free and open to the public, will feature secular and sacred music that was familiar to the former first lady. Primary sponsors for the concerts are the James K. Polk Ancestral Home in Columbia and MTSU’s Center for Historic Preservation (CHP) and Center for Popular Music, respectively.

The first of the two-concert series honoring Sarah Polk will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4—the actual date of her birth—at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 311 W. 7th St., in Columbia, hometown of former President Polk, who also served as governor of Tennessee from 1839 to 1841. In Murfreesboro, the First Presbyterian Church, 210 N. Spring St., will be the site of a 2 p.m. Sept. 14 concert commemorating the former first lady.

Musical selections for a segment of the concerts will be taken from a manuscript music book that was compiled by a teen-aged Sarah—then the future first lady of Tennessee and the United States—when she was a student at the Moravian Academy in Salem, N.C., in 1817-1818.

Paul F. Wells, director of the Center for Popular Music, said the manuscript was found in Polk Place, Sarah’s longtime Nashville home, following her death in 1891, then given to John W. Childress, a great-nephew, in 1910. Mr. Childress, in turn, gave it to the Polk Home in 1942, where it remains today.

"This 90-page manuscript book contains 26 pieces of music, consisting of 17 vocal items with piano accompaniment, and nine piano pieces," he said. "Sarah’s manuscript is of great importance to music historians because it is one of the few such manuscripts from this era with a Southern provenance that has come to light.

"Sarah’s book contains songs of chivalric love and courtship, pieces from musical theater, patriotic items, sentimental songs and instrumental works for piano," Wells said.

Among the songs that will be included in the concerts’ repertoire are "Blue Eyed Mary," "Dulce Donum," "Hail Columbia" and "Hail to the Chief," to name but a sampling. Vocalist Amy Jarman, a member of the voice faculty at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, and pianist Daphne Nicar, an accompanist who has worked with the Tennessee Opera Theatre, the Nashville Symphony Chorus and the Peabody College Choir, will perform the pieces from the 1818 songbook.

Additionally, a selection of Presbyterian hymns from the era will be performed by Tim Reynolds, publisher of the Harpeth Valley Sacred Harp News and an amateur musician who has been singing shape-note music for more than 30 years, and members of the Harpeth Valley Sacred Harp Singers, whose members represent a wide variety of musical experiences but share a common interest in shape-note singing.

Keith Willard, author of a brief history on shaped-note singing, has written the following on the subject: "The lively part-singing that the shape-note system supports is sometimes called dispersed harmony. In this style of composition, that harkens back to Renaissance polyphonal part writing, each vocal part—treble, alto, tenor and bass—contributes a sort of tune, occupying its own separate staff, with the parts freely crossing one another and the tenor, or third line, carrying the chief melody.”

Concertgoers at the September performances will receive a commemorative publication featuring notes on the life of Sarah Polk, and the music familiar to her will be available courtesy of the Centers for Historic Preservation and Popular Music.

In addition to the CHP, the Center for Popular Music and the James K. Polk Ancestral Home, partial funding for these events also comes from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities’ Rutherford County chapter.

For more information on the concerts, contact 615-898-2947 or the James K. Polk Ancestral Home in Columbia at 931-388-2354.

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‘Faculty Works’ art exhibit slated Aug. 18-29 in barn

by Lisa L. Rollins

Two words that describe the 2003 “Faculty Works” exhibit that will be displayed in The Barn Gallery Aug. 18-29 are "exciting" and "innovative," said Dr. Lon Nuell, art professor and gallery curator.

The free exhibit, which is open to the public and appropriate for all ages, will feature a variety of artworks created by full-time and adjunct art faculty members at MTSU. Among those artists whose works are included in the show are Barry Buxkamper, Ollie Fancher, Seth Johnson, Andrew Kauffman, Christie Nuell, David Shaul, Sisavianh Phouthavong-Houghton, Lon Nuell and additional members of the adjunct studio faculty.

"About half of our art faculty are showing in the exhibit this time," said Nuell. “And, the work that you will see in this show is fresh and exciting—definitely some of the strongest that you will see in the Southeast."

This year’s "Faculty Works" exhibit also offers art fans a "wide range of mixed media—all of which are recent works—with every artist working in his or her chosen field," Nuell said.

The Barn Gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday except when MTSU is closed for holidays or because of inclement weather. After-hours tours are available for groups upon request.

A campus picnic reception for the "Faculty Works" artists will be held at MTSU on Aug. 20. The reception will be free and open to the public, and details are still being finalized.

For information, contact 615-898-5653.

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Game day, evening classes cause parking concerns

MTSU’s first home football game will be at 7 p.m., Aug. 28, against Florida Atlantic University. Classes also will be in session that evening. A plan has been developed that should make life easier for everyone. Students and faculty need the following information in advance to plan for game day. It will help to consult a campus map.

CLOSINGS

• At noon, the Midgett Lot will be closed and reserved for media/VIP game parking.

• At 2 p.m., both ends of Faulkinberry Drive will be closed. Exiting permitted at east end.

• At 2 p.m., the following will become controlled parking lots, and only those with appropriate passes, current MTSU parking decals or who pay $5 will be admitted: 1) Woodfin, 2) Greenland Drive, 3) Tennessee Livestock Center and 4) Maintenance Lot.

• At 5 p.m., MTSU Boulevard will be closed to inbound traffic from Rutherford Boulevard.

EVENING STUDENTS, FACULTY PARKING

Enter campus from Champion Way or MTSU Boulevard. (the latter before 5 p.m.)

• Baseball Field Lot will be reserved for faculty

• Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building

• McFarland Health Services

• S-Curve Lot (across from co-generation plant)

• Founders Lane (two new lots)

• Telecommunications

• The Baseball Field Lot (faculty only)

ADDITIONAL GAME PARKING

• Lots No. 1 and No. 2 on MTSU Boulevard near Rutherford Boulevard (with two shuttles continuously running from Lot No. 2 to the corner of Blue Raider Drive/MTSU Boulevard and to the livestock center starting 5 p.m. and after game.

• Greenhouse Lot

• Lots east of McFarland Health Services

• Blue Raider Drive south of MTSU Boulevard

• Bell Street

• Available spaces on south side of campus

Students on campus should leave their cars parked and walk to the game or to class. Adjunct faculty should arrive early. Blue Raider fans will start arriving at 5 p.m. The south side of campus will be less congested for exiting.

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MTSU CLERK ALSO ADDS CREATIVITY TO CLOTHES—Darlene Waddell is a technical clerk in the MTSU Office of Admissions by day and craftsperson, occasionally, by night (and weekends). She is the first university employee to be profiled in a new feature in The Record. The profile will feature university employees with interesting hobbies or experiences.

‘Crafty’ admissions clerk

Darlene Waddell paints wearable art on clothes

by Randy Weiler

To find one of the "craft"iest people around campus, look no further than the MTSU Office of Admissions.

That is where one will find Darlene Waddell, technical clerk, by day and craftsperson, occasionally, by night (and weekends).

Waddell paints wearable art onto shirts, sweatpants, denim shirts and even shoes.

"I paint any kind of cloth," she said. "It’s wide open. You can decorate anything. I’m not an artist. I’m a craftsperson.

"It’s just an outlet for me—a stress reliever" she adds. "It’s just fun slinging paint everywhere. It’s an exercise for my sanity. It’s painting for pleasure, not profit."

But please do not ask Waddell to paint a special request.

"If you happen to like it and I’ve got a shirt your size, fine," she said. "But, I do not do special orders. I do not like the pressure."

"What the public wants is always changing," she adds. "You never know what the public is looking for. Painting festive, seasonal things, I’ve learned the public’s taste is unpredictable."

Waddell learned this after she and her husband, Herman, operated a craft shop in the 1980s.

"I don’t paint all year long," she said. "To do so would be a chore. I don’t want it to be a job, just a hobby, and have something fun and festive and silly to wear."

The twice retired Waddell, who, along with Eunice Robinson and Mary Evelyn Winsett, process transfer students into the university, plans to sell her items in the Relay for Life Fall Arts and Crafts Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 1 and also at the Lascassas Elementary School’s Christmas Treasures craft show Dec. 6. The Waddells have two grown sons, Derrick, 32, and Matt, 29.

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Football Business After Hours set

from Athletics

Blue Raider Athletics and the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce are partnering with First Tennessee Bank to host a Football Business After Hours on Aug. 28. “Food, Football and Fun” will be the theme of this event.

"This is a great opportunity for the business community to come out and support our Blue Raider football team. Partnering with great organizations like MTSU and First Tennessee Bank to bring this sort of event to our chamber membership and their families is part of what makes Rutherford County the great place it is," said chamber President Steve Benefield.

The event will take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Greenland Drive tailgate area prior to MTSU’s football home opener against Florida Atlantic University. Game time will be 7 p.m.

"We are very pleased and excited to host the Business After Hours at MTSU as we kick off the Blue Raiders 2003 football season,” said Charlie Myatt, president of First Tennessee Bank. “We ask all of our business community to come out in support of our chamber and football team by being there on Aug. 28. Both the chamber and our university are such vital parts of our business community, and we at First Tennessee are privileged to support both by sponsoring the game and Business After Hours."

Blue Raider Head Coach Andy McCollum said his program is happy to be a part of this event.

"We’re excited about teaming up with First Tennessee Bank and the chamber of commerce. We need a big crowd for this event and for our season opener against Florida Atlantic," said McCollum.

Tickets are $10 for chamber members and $15 for non-chamber members. Prices include game admission, food and beverages.

For information, call the chamber at 615-893-6565.

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GREETING THE COACH—MTSU head football Coach Andy McCollum is greeted by former Blue Raider standouts, Titans wide receiver Tyrone Calico and running back Dwone Hicks. MTSU football players and coaches went to Nashville on Aug. 4 to view the Titans.