Four-week Summer Session in Progress: The four-week summerschool session began May 11, and goes through June 8. Approximately 25players are in Lexington in order to work out in the weight room, beginsummer jobs, and/or begin taking summer school classes. The eight-weeksummer school session begins in mid-June. Most of the players will bein Lexington during the eight-week period.

May Recruiting Period in Progress: The May recruiting period, atime of academic and athletic evaluation of high school prospects,continues through May 26. The UK coaches may visit high schools, meetwith principals, teachers, coaches, and counselors, gather transcripts,visit athletic combines, and evaluate athletic competition, such asspring football practice, baseball games, track meets, etc.

Commonwealth Stadium Construction Update: Construction crewshave completed the installation of structural steel and most of theconcrete work on the upper concourses is complete. The aluminum seatingis approximately 75 percent complete. Wall framing continues on bothends and drywall work has begun on the east end. Precast concretepanels have been installed on the east end and are in progress on thewest end.

Both ends of Commonwealth Stadium are being enclosed. Theproject will add about 10,000 seats, bringing capacity to approximately68,000. Up to $27.6 million may be spent on the stadium expansion,which is expected to be ready for the opening of the 1999 season.

Watch the Stadium Construction: Fans may view photographs of thestadium expansion on the internet site www.uky.edu/stadium. A camerahas been mounted in the press box and is pointed toward the west(Nicholasville Road) end zone. Photographs are updated every fiveminutes.

John Soward of UK Computing Services handled the technicaldetails of the stadium camera, with assistance provided by Russ Pear, UKAssistant Athletics Director for Facilities, and Chuck Ham of the UKPublic Relations Office.