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MSC CnM€Rfl COMMITT€€ General Meeting Monday, March 4 Room 410 Rudder 7:00 p.m. Officials protect rights to use stadium Feoturing: •Slide show on "Careers in Photogrophv - An expanding LUorld" •Information on photo studio seminar with Ron Blond •Solon Photo Contest inPormotion, March 30 •Darkroom dosses information Associated Press EL PASO — The Sun Bowl stands empty about 225 days a year, yet the University of Texas at El Paso con sistently nixes attempts to make use of the stadium with non-football events, frustrated businessmen and -SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES- AT -CAMP GRADY SPRUCE- A BRANCH OF THE YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS Openings for Men and Women at 3 sites on POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE For More Information^ See Us On Campus: MONDAY, MARCH 4 601 N. AKARD DALLAS, TEXAS 75201 university supporters say. Among the events the university has said “no” to are a World Gup soccer qualifying match, a Rolling Stones concert and a Minnesota Vi- kings-San Diego Chargers exhibition football game, The El Paso Times reported Sunday. El Paso voters passed a $1.75 mil lion bond issue in 1960 to build the stadium. But in return for donating 62.8 acres of land, the university got a 99-year lease on the stadium at $1 a year. It has the option to renew the lease for another 99 years. The lease gives the university complete control over the county- owned stadium. It also subjects the Sun Bowl to strict Xiniversity of Texas System regulations that pro hibit the use of its buildings for out side profit. “It is not right for a publicly owned facility to be used for private gain,” UTEP President Haskell Monroe said in a written statement to the Times. That policy, which also applies to the city’s largest indoor arena, the university’s 12,()00-seat Special Events Center, is keeping large-scale entertainment and sports events out of El Paso, say several frustrated civic boosters. The next largest arenas, the Civic Center grand hall and the decrepit county Coliseum, can hold only about 8,000 people. “There are a lot of big promoters who won’t even consider the Col iseum, and we have nothing larger,” said Jean Kahn, chairwoman of the Greater El Paso Civic, Convention and Tourist Center. “Several groups in El Paso want to bring in big con certs, and they just haven’t been able to do it.” Sports promoters have the same problem. El Paso businessman John Kettle, who headed a long-shot effort to bring the United States Football League’s San Antonio Gunslingers to the Sun Bowl, contends the uni versity could earn $1 million a year through agressive use of the Sun Funl Bowl and Special Events Center * mz^ said the money could help of[J state-mandated cuts in the univer ty’s budget. The university’s budget coi plaints “are akin to the little boy»i| I c i ies wolf,” Kettle said. “They’re! ling on their facilities. They con generate a tremendous amount money if they would onlyallowtl to be used. “And the irony is that the tax ers have footed the bill for all tl Kettle said. climbi ihear - IW7PAL Actually, the university looted^ even largei bill — $6.5 million- 1981 to expand the stadium j 51,000 seats from the or™ 82,000. X/fc? 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