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Show Ute stadium officially redubbed at dedication athletic facilities will not be surpassed sur-passed by any other university in the nation." The ceremony ran smoothly with the one exception of Mr. Clyde referring re-ferring to President Emery as "President "Pres-ident Fletcher" after which he was heckled by the crowd. At the game the Associated Students Stu-dents of the University of Utah 'was also busy getting the opinions of students regarding block seating. Out of 878 students polled 453 were in favor of block seating and 425 were against it. The students were also asked if they knew block seating had been reinstored before they arrived at the stadium. There was 330 who were aware and 548 who said they were not aware. The students were asked if they had block seats or not. A total of 472 claimed they had block seats, but 406 said they were in independent inde-pendent seating. This could show that students were not sure if they had block seats or independent seats since only 25 per cent of the seats were block seats. In the category of those who Ute Stadium was officially redubbed re-dubbed Robert L. Rice Stadium during the half-time of the Utah-UTEP Utah-UTEP football game Saturday. During the dedication ceremony Robert L. and Joyce Rice, who donated do-nated $1 million in stocks to remodel re-model the stadium, including the addition of AstroTurf which was played on for the first time Saturday, Satur-day, were thanked for the donation by both President Alfred C. Emery and Edward W. Clyde, chairman of Institutional Council. Mr. Rice also spoke to the crowd telling them he was proud to have the stadium named after him. He told the crowd that with the Special Events Center and the remodeling of the stadium "our claimed they had block seats and were in favor of block seating, 253 were unaware block seating was reinstated while 143 were aware. Clark Campbell, chairman of Public Affairs Board, said this proves that students just don't understand block seating. There were 397 students with block seats in favor of retaining it, 76 against. Of the students without block seats 57 were in favor of it while 349 opposed it. This possibly shows that block seating is favored fav-ored by organizations rather than by students, but whether or not the students were correctly classified as with block seats or without block seats is questionable. As far as whether or not football fans are in favor of block seating or not, Mr. Campbell claims it is too close to make a decision based on the poll. |