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Work crews erecting
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By MATTHEW J. RUSH
The Battalion
Did you notice the heavy construction
in the west area of campus and ask your
self, 'just what is going on here?' Wonder
no more.
What the work crews have been labor
ing on is the Recreational Sports Center
and Natatorium.
Dennis Corrington, director of recre
ation sports, said the $36.4 million opera
tion to be completed and ready for use in
January 1995 at which time a new name
will be .
"It'll be a state of the art facility," Cor
rington said. "We're spending half a mil
lion on free weights and nautilus equip
ment alone."
In addition to the weight room, the
complex will house two large gymnasi
ums which will hold eight basketball
courts, 10 volleyball courts, two indoor
soccer areas, 16 badminton courts, 14 rac-
quetball courts and two squash courts.
In addition to this already impressive
list of features, there will be five activity
See Construction/Page 4
Construction on the $36.4 million Recreational Sports Center
and Natatorium on the west side of campus is temporarily
STACY RYAN/The Battalion
halted due to excessive rain. The center is expected to be
completed and ready for use by January 1 995.
Agassi's 'tomahawk chop' serve
beheads Karbacher in first round
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WIMBLEDON, England - Andre
Agassi brandished his new tomahawk
chop serve Monday at Wimbledon, rack
et cocked high and crooked with as little
backswing as most beginners.
It worked just fine for an opening-
round, straight-sets victory featuring 10
aces, his highest total ever in a match
here and one more than he had in win
ning the championship a year ago.
Agassi staged a confident comeback in
the first set Monday and got better the
longer he played.
"I didn't want to leave the court," he
said.
"It was the second best feeling of my
life," Agassi said, beaming after his 7-5,
6-4, 6-0 romp over dangerous but erratic
serve-and-volleyer Bernd Karbacher.
"The first one was winning it."
He started working on the serve just
six weeks ago to combat tendinitis in his
wrist.
"As I took the backswing it would
hurt," he said. "So I cut the motion down
to help me deal with it a little bit. Now I
think I am just 50 percent comfortable
with it and 50 percent tentative with it."
Three of his aces came in his first ser
vice game.
Agassi got distracted on his next ser-
See Agassi/Page 4
Dial 'fan' for fanatic
City leaders becoming worried by violence
following several championship sporting events
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Let's not forget the word "fan," as in
sports fan, is a shortened form of "fanat
ic."
Reminders of this have come fast and
furious recently as championship victo
ries have led to riots in such diverse cities
as Montreal, Dallas and, on Sunday
night, in Chicago.
"It could be seen as a way of allowing
fans to vent the frustrations of everyday
life," said Richard Lapchick, director of
Northeastern University's Center for the
Study of Sports in Society. "The irony is
that sports is an escape from everyday
life, from the problems and violence of
society."
The latest celebration to turn ugly fol
lowed the Chicago Bulls' third-straight
National Basketball Association champi
onship.
Two shooting deaths were linked to
the celebrations, and nearly 700 people
were arrested on charges including disor
derly conduct and vandalism.
It was the third time in as many years
that a Chicago NBA title has resulted in
violence.
See Fanatic/Page 4
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