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Upgrade to Stadium Starting Soon
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Staff Report
We will upgrade the old
Sports Complex and its
going to tie right in with
Capel Arena.
What we are planning to
do is move the visitor side
to the west side and the
home side will be on the
east side. The same side as
Capel Arena.
We are looking forward
to seating 10,000 people.
Our stadium now sits 5,000
to 6,000 people.
So we want to upgrade
that so we can seat 10,000
people in the stadium. It
will be from the ground up
and under the 1 level of
bleachers. We will have
locker rooms for the
coaches, offices, restrooms
and also an eating area.
We will do the same
thing on the west side for
the visiting teams. There
will also be room under the
bleachers for locker rooms,
restrooms and an eating
area.
The 2"‘‘ level on the
home side will have an
other set of bleachers.
Right above those will be
the VIP viewing lounge.
The chancellor’s suite will
be in there.
There will be restrooms
for both men and women.
On S'"* level we will have
the press box. There will be
rooms for the coaches to do
their work, in conjunction
with the ball game. The
off-field coaches and
visiting coaches will have
scouting rooms and
restrooms. We anticipate
having an elevator to carry
us up to those levels.
We are also going to do
some work in the end
zones.
We’re going to put in
new bleachers in the end
zones areas also. We
anticipate being able to seat
2,000 to 3,000 people in
our end zones.
So it’s going to be an
outstanding arrangement.
We are going to fence in
the stadium with rough iron
and brick so it will look
like a stadium.
We are looking forward
to this. This project is
supposed to start the end of
2003 football season, which
is next year. We hope our
first home game will be in
the stadium in 2004. It will
be a completely new
State Budget Crunch
Taking Toll On FSU
By Talia Higgs
Staff Writer
Budget crunches and state
cutbacks have hit the
American economy hard
and now Fayetteville State
University students are
feeling the tight squeeze.
State fianding for the univer
sity has been reduced and
students have faced a raised
in tuition with another
possibly in the near future,
according to SGA President
Deon Winchester.
Students see little
evidence of the benefit
behind such actions. Many
students, including Win
chester, are asking, “What
are you doing with our
money?” He reported asking
for $85,000 from the
school’s budget for SGA,
but was only given $57,000,
most of which he says is
spent on school spirit
promotion.
There are also depart
mental cutbacks as profes
sors and instructors com
plain of lack of funding for
simple tasks such as having
tests for students printed at
the print shop. While the
school is trying to make
improvements — such as
the construction taking place
behind the Student Center
and Collins Building and
the renovation of Geralds
Stadium — many students
would like to money go
towards improving condi
tions of current facilities.
Freshmen residents of
New Residents Hall have
concerns as to furniture
upkeep and maintenance.
Harris Hall residents have
concerns about living
conditions — the basement
has flooded twice in Octo
ber and residents residing
therein had to be moved.
Renee Jones, a flood
victim, suffered a loss of
close to $200. She is having
difficulty replacing many of
those items. She says,
“Administration is still
processing my claims.”
Nicholas Howell of
Honors Hall has concerns
about technology and getting
computers fixed. “I’ve put
in at least four work or
ders,” he says. Regina
Locust, the Resident Direc
tor of Honors Hall, says
new computers should be on
the way.
The problems continue
to pile up. So the students
are asking, “Where exactly
is our money going?”
Winchester says, “We are
looking to make sure there
is no misappropriation of
fijnds.”
We students do not
believe that these problems
will go away easily. Our
hope is that the incoming
chancellor, whoever he or
she may be, will be finan
cially savvy and good at
fundraising.
stadium. It will have a
completely new audio
sound system, new lights
plus new bleachers. It’s
going to be a complete re
vamping of the football
stadium. We feel real
Title
fortunate to have this
opportunity to do this.
We are going to have to
move, in 2003, our last two
football games on the road.
So we will start immedi
ately after our home season.
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inquiring just what the
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don’t usually do.
Steven Ivory is a Los
Angeles-based journalist.
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