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     COMMEMORATING THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Senate Resolution 179, a 
resolution to commend the University of Tennessee on its bicentennial 
submitted earlier today by Senators Sasser and Mathews, that the 
resolution be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider laid upon the 
table, and that the preamble be agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the immediate 
consideration of the resolution?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I rise today to submit a sense of the 
Senate resolution commemorating the bicentennial of the University of 
Tennessee. It is with great honor that I join my colleague from 
Tennessee, Senator Mathews, along with all of the university's student, 
faculty, staff and administrators, past and present, and distinguished 
alumni, to honor UT on the occasion of this historic milestone.
  The University of Tennessee is a great institution with a richly 
textured heritage and a long record of outstanding achievements. From 
its founding 200 years ago as Blount College in Knoxville, to its 
status today as a major university with 42,000 students on four 
campuses, UT has built and maintained a tradition of excellence, 
innovation, ingenuity and public service. When I ponder the many 
reasons I'm so proud to hail from the Volunteer State, the University 
of Tennessee, its people and its proud past come swiftly to mind.
  A great institution of higher education affords many gifts to the 
citizens of its host State. To be sure, the greatest wealth flowing 
from the University of Tennessee is represented in its graduates. As 
former university president Thomas Humes said back in 1879, 
``Tennessee's brightest jewels have been and will be its upright sons 
and virtuous daughters, trained in mind and heart and body for their 
work in life.'' For 200 years, our State has indeed been blessed with 
an abundance of such jewels--polished with great care and diligence at 
the University of Tennessee.
  Mr. President, there is much I would like to say about the University 
of Tennessee--its history, its personalities, its accomplishments. All 
of the campuses in the UT system, young and old, have played an 
invaluable role in providing our State and Nation with leaders in 
government, science, medicine, agriculture, and the arts. They are each 
full partners in a noble tradition and heritage.
  But instead, I would like to share with my colleagues the wisdom 
found in the University's bicentennial commemorative publication, ``The 
Vision Lives On.'' I believe all who read it will understand why all of 
us with roots in Tennessee feel so strongly about its flagship State 
university. I ask that the text of ``The Vision Lives On'' be printed 
in the Record immediately following Senator Mathew's remarks.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. MATHEWS. Mr. President, I rise today to join my colleague Senator 
Jim Sasser in commemorating the bicentennial of the University of 
Tennessee.
  The University of Tennessee was founded in 1794, 2 years prior to the 
creation of that State of Tennessee. Since that time, the history of UT 
has been intertwined with the history of our great State. Its first 
board of trustees was comprised of three future Governors of Tennessee, 
as well as both of Tennessee's first U.S. Senators, William Blount and 
William Cocke.
  The University of Tennessee is renowned for its tremendous research 
performance. Spending for research exceeds $100 million annually, and 
the university has achieved numerous technological and agricultural 
advancements. The University of Tennessee is also recognized for its 
outstanding programs in the areas of business, education, nursing, 
pharmacy, engineering, communications, social work, and law.
  The university maintains an outstanding research and library holding 
which includes the presidential papers of Andrew Jackson, James K. 
Polk, and Andrew Johnson; as well as the papers of the Pulitzer price 
winning author of ``Roots,'' the late Alex Haley.
  Since its founding, the University of Tennessee has been at the 
forefront of education and leadership. The alumni rosters exceed 
270,000, while distinguished graduates included former Senators Estes 
Kefauver and Howard Baker, Jr.
  For 200 years, the University of Tennessee has enjoyed the 
designation as the academic flagship institution for the State of 
Tennessee, influencing and enriching the quality of life of all 
Tennesseans. Therefore, it gives me great pleasure today to recognize 
the rich history and outstanding achievements of the University of 
Tennessee. I would like to extend congratulations to the students, 
alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators of this distinguished 
institution, and offer my best wishes as they enter into their third 
century of academic excellence.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                          The Vision Lives On


          the university of tennessee bicentennial--1794-1994

       There is a timelessness here, a lingering presence that 
     hovers over stone stairwells and filters through leaded glass 
     panes, stirs the branches of an ancient magnolia, catches the 
     edge of a yellow page and turns backward, then leafs ahead.
       Standing on the Hill, you sense it: histories intertwined, 
     new branches on the old tree. A young women glides up the 
     steps from Cumberland, her ascent slow but steady. She 
     carries a backpack. Her spiritual ancestors made the same 
     journey, dressed in white lawn carrying parasols. They 
     trained as teachers, as homemakers; this woman is a law 
     student, perhaps, or an architect, or an engineer.
       South College, brick mellowed by a century of seasons, 
     holds its own secrets. Once it was a dormitory a warren of 
     tiny student rooms where gas light flickered and coal burned 
     in grates. Scientists work there now, eyes fixed on the 
     future, on a universe of dazzling possibilities.
       Once the road below was a muddy track that led from a 
     frontier outpost on the edge of the unknown. Once cannon fire 
     echoed from nearby Fort Sanders; once soldiers camped on this 
     hillside. Lives changed forever on this rise of land. Once, 
     two hundred years ago a handful of pioneers decided their 
     fledging school had a future. They looked beyond the unpaved 
     streets and the uncharted forest and envisioned the possible: 
     a stronghold of knowledge, a proving ground for new 
     generations of leaders, a steady beacon of light in the 
     wilderness.
       It was a vision sustained by courage, wisdom, often sheer 
     force of will in the years that followed. The college, 
     lacking leadership and funds, closed for 11 years in the 
     early nineteenth century; the Civil War closed it again 
     between 1862 and 1866. Designated Tennessee state university 
     in 1879, UT would wait another 24 years before the state 
     legislature offered any financial assistance. Two World Wars, 
     the Depression, the upheaval of the sixties, the economic 
     uncertainties of the present, have offered new challenges at 
     every stage of the University's development.
       And at every new visionaries have appeared, each with a 
     clear picture of all that could be, all that must be. Their 
     presence lingers, their timeless voices blend: now stubborn, 
     now strident, exhorting compelling. The ascent, slow but 
     steady, continues. The muddle tract widens; the forest 
     recedes. From the Hill top, the view expands.
       The vision lives on.


                  light in the wilderness (1794-1840)

       Knoxville in the late eighteenth century was a frontier 
     town edged by montains and forests where Indians still 
     roamed. Amenities were scarce for the few hundred 
     inhabitants, although the settlement boasted seven taverns. 
     By 1794, it also had a college.
       Blount College, an outgrowth of the seminary Presbyterian 
     minister Samuel Carrick had started in his Knoxville home, 
     was chartered on September 10 of that year. Named for 
     territorial governor William Blount, the institution was open 
     to ``Students of all denominations.'' Tuition was $8 per 
     session. The syllabus was classical, with an emphasis on 
     Latin and Greek.
       The college's early history is a study in pioneer spirit. 
     James White, Knoxville's founder, provided a lot for a new 
     building at the corner of Clinch and Gay Streets in 1795.
       Governor Blount's daughter, Barbara, was enrolled in 
     classes there in the early 1800s, and she was joined by four 
     other young women, Polly McClung, Jenny Armstrong, and Mattie 
     and Kitty Kain. Though the girls probably studied in the 
     preparatory department, their presence has led some 
     historians to name Blount the first coeducational college in 
     the nation.
       Carrick himself was a rare blend of courage, wit, and 
     energy. He had founded two churches before opening his 
     school. Legend has it that he left his wife's burial to repel 
     an Indian attack. He taught all the classes, ran the 
     struggling college on a shoestring, and in 1803 turned an 
     attempt to close it down into an impromptu fundraiser. He 
     netted $1,000 and kept the doors open, skimping on his own 
     salary. When he died in 1809, the college owed him $87.82.
       Carrick's death left East Tennessee College, as it had been 
     renamed in 1807, without leadership and on shaky financial 
     ground. The college closed until 1820. It reopened under the 
     guidance of Reverend David Sherman and operated in 
     conjunction with Hampden-Sydney Academy. In 1826, as fortunes 
     gradually improved, 40 acres were purchased west of town, and 
     by 1828, East Tennessee College had moved to the Hill.
       The Reverend Charles Coffin, former president of 
     Greeneville College, led the school until 1833. He was 
     replaced briefly by James H. Piper, who resigned after one 
     year.
       The expanding college had its critics, chief among them 
     local politicians like John Gunn, a candidate for the 
     legislature in 1829. He hoped to win votes from the rural 
     poor by condemning ``that building for the rich man's son * * 
     * this tomb of extravagance--this wild goose scheme * * *.''
       The vision of another charismatic leader shaped this era in 
     UT history. Joseph Estabrook, named president in 1834, 
     brought stability as well as innovation to the college. He 
     organized the curriculum into regular classes, hired new 
     faculty members, built dormitories, and published the first 
     catalog. The first meeting of the Alumni Association was held 
     during his tenure. Under his leadership, East Tennessee 
     College became East Tennessee University in 1840.


                      a growing flame (1840-1879)

       Estabrook looked to the day when the newly minted 
     university would be truly worthy of the name. He worked 
     tirelessly to raise academic standards, both for students and 
     faculty. He dreamed of abolishing the Preparatory Department 
     and founding a medical school.
       The course Estabrook charted, with new emphasis on science 
     and on the training of teachers for the state's emerging 
     public education system, wavered after his resignation in 
     1850. The perennial problems of sporadic leadership and 
     inadequate funding plagued the University through the next 
     decade. Four presidents--W.B. Reese, Reverend George Cooke, 
     Reverend William Carnes, and Reverend J.J. Ridley--served 
     brief terms between 1850 and 1862.
       The outbreak of the Civil War closed the University's doors 
     again in 1862. Confederate troops occupied the campus until 
     1863, when the Union army took up positions on the Hill in 
     the Battle of Fort Sanders.
       Thomas Humes, who assumed the presidency in 1865, struggled 
     to restore the ravaged campus. Students helped to fill in 
     wartime trenches and to plant the trees which shade the Hill 
     today.
       Seeds of academic change were also taking root. The Morrill 
     Land Grant Act of 1862 provided federal funds for at least 
     one college or university in each state whose primary object 
     was the teaching of agriculture and ``the mechanical arts.'' 
     In 1869, East Tennessee University was named Tennessee's land 
     grant institution.
       Meeting the stipulations of the Morrill Act occupied the 
     attention of administration and trustees in the decade that 
     followed. In keeping with the provision for military 
     training, the University was organized along military lines. 
     Cadets wore uniforms, lived in barracks, and drilled on a 
     parade field.
       In the classroom, the classical syllabus yielded slowly to 
     the ``scientific study of agriculture'' and mechanics 
     mandated for land grant universities. But curriculum reform 
     had become a priority for many trustees. By 1879, agriculture 
     and ``mechanical philosophy'' had separate chairs, with a 
     provision for additional faculty and equipment. The trustees 
     also approved the establishment of medical and dental 
     departments through affiliation with the Nashville Medical 
     College and authorized the granting of advanced degrees. East 
     Tennessee University, now the University of Tennessee, was 
     poised for growth.


                      A VISION DEFINED (1879-1919)

       The stirring rhetoric of the University's inauguration in 
     1879 heralded ``a new era'' both for the state and its chosen 
     school. The immediate outlook, however, was not so promising. 
     Growing opposition to President Humes, criticized as an old-
     line classicist and one-time Union sympathizer, came to a 
     head with his forced resignation in 1883. Once again, the 
     University was without a strong leader. It would be four 
     years before a new president was found.
       Charles W. Dabney, named UT's 11th president in 1887, saw 
     clearly the path that would lead the University into the 
     twentieth century. Former director of the agricultural 
     experiment station in North Carolina, he had recently 
     completed a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of 
     Goettingen, in Germany. He was 32, energetic, and convinced 
     that the future of Tennessee depended on the education of her 
     youth ``in the sciences and the useful arts.'' Dabney 
     reorganized the curriculum to stress science and 
     engineering, replaced much of the faculty, and abolished 
     the Preparatory Department and the military regime. The 
     entire University was opened to women in 1893, and any 
     objections were silenced with Dabney's succinct 
     pronouncement: ``The ladies have not only come to the 
     University, but they have come to stay.''
       Dabney's achievements were dramatic and far-reaching. The 
     first direct appropriation of funds from the state 
     legislature to the University was make during his 
     administration. He oversaw the founding of the law school and 
     a summer school that was the largest teacher training 
     institute in the South, tripling of enrollment, and the 
     building of dormitories, a library, and a gymnasium. His 
     national reputation as an administrator and agriculturist won 
     him the appointment of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 
     1894, a post he filled while continuing as UT president. When 
     Dabney left the University in 1904, it bore little 
     resemblance to the small, shabby college he had inherited. 
     The promised ``new era'' had truly begun.
       Brown Ayres, Dabney's successor, built on this strong 
     foundation. He recruited experienced faculty and 
     administrators like Harcourt Morgan to head the Agricultural 
     Experiment Station and Theodore Glocker to run the new School 
     of Commerce. He raised admissions and academic standards and 
     gained accreditation from the Association of American 
     Universities. Both enrollment and faculty size tripled during 
     his tenure. The Medical and Dental Colleges were moved to 
     Memphis and merged officially with the University.
       But it was Ayres' vision of a state university supported by 
     state funds that resulted in the most significant achievement 
     of his administration. Marshalling the persuasive talents of 
     his colleagues Philander Claxton, later U.S. Commissioner of 
     Education, and Seymour Mynders, State Superintendent of 
     Public Instruction, he lobbied the state legislature to 
     increase appropriations for the University and for all public 
     schools in Tennessee. UT received its first $1 million 
     appropriation in 1917, and began a building campaign that 
     included the landmark Ayres Hall.


                     the beacon widens (1919-1969)

       Harcourt Morgan, Ayres' successor, worked to increase 
     legislative funding and to extend the University's statewide 
     presence. Hall-Moody Institute, later UT Martin, came into 
     the UT family at this time. A graduate school of Medical 
     Sciences was established in Memphis.
       Morgan won the support of gubernatorial candidate Austin 
     Peay in a famous 20-minute meeting that stretched to an 
     entire day. Peay remained a forceful ally during his three 
     terms, garnering $2,500,000 in building funds for UT.
       Despite the severe cutbacks of the Depression, Morgan kept 
     the University moving forward. Agricultural experiment 
     stations increased in number, as did agricultural extension 
     offices. A division of continuing education offered evening 
     courses, correspondence courses, and library and audiovisual 
     aids. When Morgan resigned in 1934 to become a director of 
     TVA, his vision of a statewide university had begun to 
     take shape.
       James Dickason Hoskins, who guided the University through 
     the latter years of the Depression and World War II, brought 
     the fierce loyalty of a native son to the job. An 1891 
     graduate of UT, he had served as professor and dean before 
     becoming president.
       Hoskins' organization of alumni was one of the key 
     achievements of his administration. Encouraged by the 
     president's enthusiasm, alumni secretary Victor M. Davis 
     worked to build a strong base of alumni support that 
     continues through the present day.
       The University that President C.E. Brehm inherited in 1946 
     was experiencing growing pains. A wave of returning veterans 
     had swelled enrollment to an all-time high of more than 
     10,000. Expansion of the physical plant and development of 
     the academic program were urgent priorities. Brehm, former 
     Dean of the College of Agriculture, set about finding the 
     money to meet these pressing needs.
       Legislative appropriations increased dramatically during 
     Brehm's administration. New building burgeoned on each of the 
     three campuses. Knoxville added McCord Hall, Glocker, Claxton 
     and Taylor buildings, Carolyn P. Brown University Center, and 
     UT Hospital, which opened in 1956. Martin built its 
     Administration and Agriculture buildings, and Memphis added 
     new facilities for dentistry, cancer research, and pathology. 
     Graduate programs were expanded and new academic departments 
     created, including fine arts, journalism, and special 
     education. The Tennessee School of Social Work in Nashville 
     became part of the University in 1951. In the public service 
     arena, the Municipal Technical Advisory Service was created 
     to provide specialized help to cities throughout the state.
       The land grant college mandate to provide education to all 
     qualified students regardless of race or color had been an 
     issue since the nineteenth century. African-American students 
     in the past had been offered ``separate but equal'' 
     facilities through arrangements with Fisk University and 
     Knoxville College and later at a second land grant college, 
     Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial, created in 1912. 
     Partial integration at UTK was achieved in 1952 with the 
     enrollment of African-American students in graduate programs; 
     Lillian Jenkins was the first to receive a degree in 1954.
       Extracurricular activities, both athletic and cultural, 
     thrived. UT football, nationally prominent in the pre-war era 
     under General Robert Neyland, again took the spotlight with a 
     national championship in 1951. The Carousel Theatre, a joint 
     effort of the University and the community, opened the same 
     year.
       Brehm presided over a period of record growth and change in 
     UT's history. Enrollment doubled during his administration, 
     state appropriations increased 210 percent, and alumni 
     membership quadrupled. But the wave had not yet crested. 
     The Baby Boom generation was about to enter college, and 
     new challenges lay ahead.
       Andrew D. Holt, UT's 16th president, was well matched to 
     the task at hand. He had served as UT vice president under 
     Brehm and was former president of the Tennessee Education 
     Association. Holt had traveled the state raising grassroots 
     support for UT and had cultivated a network of advocates 
     among alumni and legislators alike. As president, he 
     assembled a strong management team and encouraged his 
     deputies to ``spread their wings.''
       The results were impressive.
       Academic Vice President Herman Spivey urged an expansion of 
     graduate programs and research. Ties with Oak Ridge National 
     Laboratory were strengthened with the help of a grant from 
     the Ford Foundation. Distinguished professorships were 
     created on all campuses. Graduate enrollment quadrupled; the 
     number of master's degree programs grew from 79 to 117. 
     Research dollars skyrocketed to an all-time high of more than 
     $11 million by 1970. The Space Institute at Tullahoma was 
     founded in 1964. A definitive benchmark in this period of 
     academic improvement was the long-awaited founding of a 
     chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in January 1965.
       Another building boom was under way, led by Vice President 
     for Development Edward Boling. A major urban renewal 
     acquisition of 135 acres west of the campus provided land for 
     new buildings including Hodges Library, McClung Tower, and 
     the Communications and Extension Building. Boling lobbied 
     successfully both for vastly increased state funding and for 
     a new level of private gifts. Tom Black Track, Stokely 
     Athletics Center, and Clarence Brown Theatre were funded in 
     large part by private donors.
       Statewide expansion of the University culminated with the 
     merger with the University of Chattanooga and the formation 
     of the University of Tennessee System in 1968. Primary 
     campuses at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Martin, and Memphis were 
     each to be headed by their own chancellors and unified by a 
     central statewide administration headquartered in Knoxville.
       The Holt era also marked the end of segregation on UT 
     campuses. The first black undergraduates enrolled in 1961. An 
     equal opportunity employment policy was established in 1965.
       Early in Holt's administration, the University participated 
     in a self-study designed to target areas for improvement and 
     set goals for the future. The study's results were published 
     in a 300-page document entitled Reaching for Greatness. As UT 
     celebrated its 175th birthday in 1969, the reach seemed less 
     daunting than ever before.


                     focus on excellence f1970-1993

       President Edward Boling's 18-year administration began on a 
     stormy note. The student-faculty protest over his appointment 
     centered on the Board of Trustees' autonomy in making such 
     decisions without consulting the faculty. But it was 
     symptomatic of a nationwide spirit of dissent and challenge 
     of authority. The Vietnam War was raging; on other campuses, 
     like Kent State University in Ohio, protests had tragic 
     consequences.
       Boling initiated meetings with faculty and students in an 
     attempt to improve communication and suggested that the Board 
     admit students to non-voting positions on various standing 
     committees. In 1974, Governor Winfield Dunn signed 
     legislation providing for a voting student member of the 
     Board of Trustees.
       The dream of establishing a Nashville campus was realized 
     in 1971, when the Nashville Extension Center became the 
     University of Tennessee at Nashville. It would operate as 
     part of the statewide system until 1979, when it merged with 
     Tennessee State University.
       Growth and change on all campuses continued under Boling's 
     leadership. The Institute for Public Service was founded in 
     1971, incorporating many of the services the University has 
     provided to city and county governments as well as business 
     and industry into one centrally administered entity. At 
     Knoxville, a College of Veterinary Medicine was founded, as 
     well as a School of Nursing. A College of Community and 
     Allied Health Professions was established at the Medical 
     Units in Memphis; clinical education centers opened at 
     Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Jackson. Following the enactment 
     of the Governor's Better Schools Program, the first Center 
     and Chairs of Excellence were created.
       Boling's reputation as a fundraiser reached new heights in 
     1980, when the ``Tennessee Tomorrow'' campaign concluded with 
     more than $57 million, far exceeding its $35 million goal. 
     The campaign, organized by Vice President Joseph Johnson, was 
     the first major development effort the University had ever 
     undertaken. A significant portion of the money raised was 
     earmarked for improving academics, attracting and retaining 
     high quality faculty, and increasing student aid.
       Former Governor Lamar Alexander succeeded Boling in 1988. 
     Improving public education had been a priority during his 
     governorship. As University President, Alexander lobbied 
     vigorously for aggressive recruiting of Tennessee's brightest 
     students and for the innovative programs and scholarships to 
     retain them. A five-year plan was developed in 1990 with 
     special emphasis on educating the work force of the new 
     decade. The Whittle Scholars Program, funded by UTK alumnus 
     Chris Whittle, was inaugurated in 1990. The full scholarships 
     with an additional stipend for a year of study abroad now 
     attract the cream of Tennessee's high school graduates 
     each year.
       The Academy for Teachers of Science and Mathematics, co-
     sponsored by the University, Martin Marietta, the U.S. 
     Department of Energy, and the Tennessee Department of 
     Education, was founded during Alexander's administration.
       UT received national recognition for its academic and 
     research programs. The University ranked among the top 50 
     research institutions in the United States in 1989. In 1990, 
     UT was listed for the first time in the prestigious Fiske 
     Guide to Colleges.
       Alexander resigned when he was appointed to serve as 
     Secretary of Education by President George Bush in 1991.
       The appointment of Joseph Johnson as UT president in 1991 
     was the crown of a long and distinguished career with the 
     University. A 1958 graduate, Johnson had served as special 
     assistant to Andy Holt and later as vice president for 
     development and as chancellor at Memphis. He had helped to 
     design the statewide system and had participated in an era of 
     unprecedented growth at UT. His encyclopedic knowledge of the 
     institution and personal acquaintance with much of its vast 
     population made him a leader uniquely equipped to guide the 
     University into its third century.
       The faltering economy of the early 1990s presented a 
     formidable challenge to Johnson and his administration. Like 
     many of his predecessors, he was confronted with the task of 
     doing more with significantly less.
       While working to cut costs and to reallocate resources, 
     Johnson and his staff focused on specific initiatives to 
     serve students better, help the state's local governments and 
     businesses, improve public education at every grade level, 
     and to increase the University's efficiency.
       As UT enters its bicentennial year, progress toward these 
     goals continues. The signs of achievement are evident on 
     every campus and in the institutes.
       At Knoxville, a new science and engineering building, 60 
     percent of which will be designated for research and 
     laboratory use, is scheduled for completion in 1995. The new 
     graduate program in business has been ranked in the nation's 
     top 12 percent. The Academy for Teachers of Science and 
     Mathematics received national recognition. The College of 
     Education was awarded a grant from Philip Morris Inc. and a 
     mandate to provide a national model for training teachers and 
     administrators. This innovative project is now in its final 
     phase.
       At Memphis, the colleges of medicine and pharmacy were 
     ranked in the top ten of ``America's Best Graduate Schools'' 
     by U.S. News and World Report. UT Memphis was selected as one 
     of 16 medical centers to conduct a national study of women's 
     health problems. The college of Pharmacy received a U.S. 
     Public Health Service grant for a Minority Center of 
     Excellence to attract and retain black students.
       At Martin, the new Children's Center, a state of the art 
     childcare facility, has opened. Graduation rates rose by five 
     percent, enrollment increased, and a new addition to the 
     library has begun. The NASA Regional Teaching Resource 
     Center, the first in Tennessee, opened.
       At Chattanooga, the Fellowship of Southern Writers 
     established its archive in UTC's Lupton Library. This 
     distinguished organization includes such luminaries as Eudora 
     Welty and Shelby Foote. Minority enrollment increased, and a 
     number of innovative programs aimed at reaching prospective 
     students and retaining undergraduates were established and 
     developed.
       The UT Space Institute continued its groundbreaking 
     research in such areas as energy technology and laser use in 
     outer space.
       In the Institute of Agriculture, the future of farming is 
     the focus of the Agri-21 Farming Systems Program. Developed 
     by the Agricultural Extension Service, the program will use 
     40 farms in Tennessee as test sites for experiments in 
     sustainable agriculture over the next decade. Construction is 
     due to begin soon on a $38.5 million research complex on the 
     Agriculture campus. The College of Veterinary Medicine's 
     efforts to recruit more in-state students resulted in a 24 
     percent increase in Tennessee applicants.
       The Institute for Public Service and Division of Continuing 
     Education introduced new interactive classrooms to four 
     Tennessee cities. Environmental issues were emphasized in 
     programs designed to help leaders in government and industry 
     reduce hazardous waste.


                         a light to the future

       The expanded view now visible from the University's 
     campuses did not simply materialize over the centuries. The 
     horizon cleared slowly, often painfully, and at great cost. 
     The five pupils who made their way to a wooden house on Gay 
     Street in 1794 took the first faltering steps on an epic 
     journey, an odyssey that the University's 42,000 students 
     continue today. The pioneers who chartered Blount College and 
     willed it into life share a certain kinship with those who 
     guide UT into the next century. Financial hardship, 
     competition, a new set of challenging questions link today's 
     leaders with the Carricks and the Blounts, the Estabrooks and 
     Dabneys. Their lingering presence evokes struggle and 
     strength, continuity, progress. Their voices speak of a 
     rickety little schoolhouse with a future, a light to be 
     nurtured, a vision undimmed by the passage of years.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution.
  The resolution (S. Res. 179) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution with its preamble is as follows:

                              S. Res. 179

       Whereas, under a succession of able leaders including its 
     current president, Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, The University of 
     Tennessee has become one of the nation's major institutions 
     of higher education in endowments, research funding, and 
     library holdings; and
       Whereas, the University has produced distinguished alumni 
     who have achieved national fame in the arts, sciences, 
     medicine, nursing, pharmacy, education, engineering, 
     business, communications, social work, librarianship, law, 
     the military and sports; and
       Whereas, those alumni include in their numbers one Nobel 
     Laureate, six Rhodes Scholars, four Pulitzer Prize winners, 
     two National Book Award winners, one justice of the U.S. 
     Supreme Court, nine U.S. senators, and one chief of staff to 
     the President of the United States; and
       Whereas, in the field of athletic competition, the Lady 
     Vols basketball team has won three national championships, 
     the Vol track program three national championships, and the 
     Vol football and swimming teams one national championship 
     each; and
       Whereas, 1994 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding 
     of Tennessee's flagship state university: Now, therefore, be 
     it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--this 
     distinguished body, recognizing the rich history and 
     tremendous achievements of The University of Tennessee over 
     the past 200 years, extends heartiest congratulations to the 
     students, alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators of this 
     great institution on the occasion of its bicentennial, and 
     offers best wishes for continued success in its third 
     century.

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