MEDIA ADVISORY


	The University of Virginia athletics department will give
$75,000 -- nearly half -- of its $164,579 Independence Bowl earnings
to the fund that supports the CavaliersŐ Distinguished Teaching
Professorship.

	The endowed chair, established at the suggestion of student
athletes to recognize professors who excell at teaching, was created
in 1991 with a $200,000 gift from the departmentŐs proceeds from the
1990 Sugar Bowl.  The chair is currently held by economics professor
Kenneth G. Elzinga.  The remaining money from this yearŐs
post-season game will go to undetermined facilities improvements,
according to interim athletic director Craig Littlepage.  In recent
years, the department also donated $325,000 to improve the telephone
course-registration system and computerized information searching
services in the University library.  

	For more information, call associate athletic director Kim
Record at (804) 982-5100.

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February 2, 1995