Fake Stuff at Fullerton

The Apocalypse is here. I hear that Emory & Henry is going to install artificial turf on its football field. That's bad enough, but that's not all. When the turf is installed, Fullerton Field will double as a soccer field. Ahhhhhhhhh! Cue REM because it is "The End of the World as We Know It!" An article in Thursday's Bristol Herald Courier about renovations to E&H's Wiley and Byars halls also mentioned about $4 million would be spent to upgrade athletics facilities at the college. The article did not go into specifics, but after some poking around I learned that part of the improvements – if you can call artificial turf an improvement – would be to install turf at Fullerton and possibly construct a field house for indoor tennis and indoor practices for other athletics teams. The athletics upgrades are expected to be completed by 2010, according to the BHC article.