DATE: Friday, August 1, 1997                TAG: 9707310562

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Education 

SOURCE: - Matthew Bowers
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   30 lines

NSU WALK OF FAME IS FILLING UP

People are paying to get walked on at Norfolk State University. Clubs and other groups are paying, too.

They're calling it the ``Walk of Fame.'' It's at the west end of the new 30,000-seat, $12.2 million, football and track stadium opening this fall.

For $125, you can get your name engraved on a brass plate set into a brick paver outside the stadium. The money goes to the Norfolk State University Athletics Foundation for athletic scholarships.

They've sold 258 bricks so far, raising $32,250.

``It's going pretty good,'' said Malverse A. Nicholson assistant to the president for legislative and public affairs. ``And we're still selling them.''

The same type of project raised money at Catholic High School in Virginia Beach and the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton. Old Dominion University across town has a Wall of Fame, but Nicholson said NSU didn't want to do the same thing as the other college.

The first area designated for NSU's ``Walk of Fame'' has about 650 spots. Once they're sold, the walk can expand, Nicholson said.

``It's almost an unlimited number that we could do,'' he said. ``We'll find a place to put them.''

He laughed. ``Pave over the playing field?''

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