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University of Texas eyes bigger stadium
AUSTIN (AP) — The University of Texas,
which already is preparing to expand the Big 12
Conference’s largest football stadium, is dream
ing of even bigger things: a 115,500-seat arena
with 200 luxury boxes.
A college football stadium that size would be
the nation’s largest.
It also would cost far more than the nearly $92
million in Royal-Memorial Stadium renovations
and other UT athletics projects now under way.
In a story published Monday by the Austin
American-Statesman, UT athletics officials said
the dream, outlined in a stadium master plan,
is merely a vision for the future. The package
doesn’t even have a price tag yet.
“We haven’t put pencil to paper,” said
Doug Messer, senior associate athletics di
rector in charge of finances.
Austin Gleeson, a physics professor and
chairman of the campus master plan commit
tee, said he had heard various estimates —
ranging from $130 million to $150 million.
He said it was his impression that the ad
ditional, expansion would begin when the cur
rent projects are completed, in 1999. But ath
letics department officials said there is no
formal timetable.
“Our children might not see this happen,”
Messer said. But he added, “I’m optimistic that,
probably, we can.”
At present, UT is focusing on a stadium ex
pansion project that will seat up to 85,000. Roy
al-Memorial currently seats 75,512. The ex
panded stadium will include 66 new luxury
skyboxes. The UT Board of Regents has ap
proved those projects.
The rest of the master plan — expansion to
115,500 seats and other amenities — has been
accepted in principle only.
“We certainly don’t have the wherewithal
... to do that (now),” said DeLoss Dodds, UT
athletics director.
The stadium expansion and other athletics
projects have been a lightening rod on cam
pus in recent months.
Some professors say sports already are
overemphasized. They argue that the fund-rais
ing priorities should be on academics.
“I call it the edifice complex,” said Karl Galin-
sky, a classics professor who serves on the cam
pus building committee.
Galinsky said that while most of the current
projects probably could be justified, he worries
about public perception. “It’s costing us credi
bility,” he said.
The 10,000 new stadium seats, along with
I call it the edifice
complex. It’s costing us
credibility.
Karl Galinsky
Member of UTs
campus building committee
on fund-raising priorities
improvements to concessions, restrooms and
other interior space, are part of a $91.57 million
athletics construction program. That latest es
timate is up from $71.3 million last year.
UT has installed a $1.25 million natural
grass field in the stadium and spent $1.3 mil
lion on a soccer-football practice field. It is
moving on a $9.2 million renovation and ex
pansion of the Neuhaus-Royal Athletic Com
plex in the stadium’s south end zone, and on
a new $12.2 million track and soccer stadium.
The grandstand renovations and skyboxes are
estimated at $51.6 million.
Revolution-era boat discovered
FERRISBURG, Vt. (AP) — A Rev
olutionary War gunboat, part of a
small fleet commanded in a strate
gic battle by Benedict Arnold be
fore he turned traitor, has been
found nearly intact on the bottom
of Lake Champlain, officials said
today.
No decision has been made yet
on whether to leave the ship in
place or to raise it, said Art Cohn,
head of the Lake Champlain Mar
itime Museum. The ship’s exact lo
cation in the 115-mile-long kike and
its depth were not released.
The 54-foot vessel, whose name
is not yet known, is “in an excellent
state of preservation, sitting up
right on the bottom, its mast still
standing over 50 feet high and its
large bow cannon still in place,”
Cohn said.
It was found in early June during
a sonar survey of the lake bottom,
he said.
Only four vessels survived out
of the 15-ship squadron led by
Arnold in the Battle of Valcour Is
land in 1776.
Cohn told reporters today he
went down on the first dive to the
ship. His attention was focused on
the complicated dive procedure!
he said, but “at the same
there was a voice screaming in ra
head ‘Oh my God, this is the gin
boat! Benedict Arnold probaW W
walked on this deck!”’
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because it matches another ofli
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was found in 1935 and is atli,
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Museum of American History.
Peter Barranco, the historiano
the discovery team, said hews
sure what they had found assoc
as he saw it on the sonar. “Even ^
thing was crystal clear even on tlii,
sonar image. There was neveraii
doubt in my mind that it wsi
there,” he said.
“This could prove to be themes
significant maritime discovery ii
American history in the last
century,” said Philip Lundeberg,cu
rator emeritus of naval history attlt
Smithsonian’s American Histon
Museum. “The apparently exceUeis
condition of the gunboat is
unusual for an artifact this old an!
is one of the reasons the discoven
is so significant.”
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