The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1969 Page: 1 of 12
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Vol. 19 No. 17
Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, Texas 77705
Dr. Setzer Asks Solons
For $2,002,015 Budget
Appropriation Increase
Feb. 14,1969
President Richard W. Setzer
appealed for a $2,002,015 budget
increase to members of the House
Appropriations Committee in
Austin, Saturday.
Dr. Setzer urged that this
year’s budget of $7,454,237 be
increased to $9,456,252 for the
year beginning next September
and $7,789,904 for the year be-
ginning Sept. 1, 1970. The legis-
lature had recommended that
Lamar get $8,263,353 and
$8,291,250 for the two coming
years.
Going through the budget item
by item to urge approval of the
requested amounts, Dr. Setzer
said the additional money is nec-
essary because of increased en-
rollment and the necessity for
faculty and staff members’ salary
increases.
Dr. Setzer told the committee
that Lamar is trying to stress
quality education and under-
graduate teaching.
He said it is difficult to employ
effective people in Beaumont at
frozen state salary levels
Men’s Spirit Group
To Mark Anniversary
By Kathy Williams
Redbird News Editor
The Cards, men’s spirit or-
ganization, will celebrate their
fifth year as promoters of school
spirit in April.
The main tenet of the organ-
ization is to ‘develop and aid the
spirit of Lamar Tech through
active support and participation
in school functions and athletic
functions,” according to Jay
Hankamer, president.
Originally the Cards had 13
members called Spades. Mem-
bership now is based on the num-
ber of cards in ai deck and will
not exceed that number of 52.
Officers consist of the pres-
ident or ace; vice president, king;
secretary, Jack of spades; treas-
urer, Jack of clubs; and croup-
ier, chip or pledge trainer.
Membership is by invitation.
Prospective members are guests
of the organization from three to
four weeks and at the end of that
time are voted on as a chip.
The chip serves a pledgeship of
one semester.
‘Under our system of honorary
membership, two faculty mem-
bers are elected every year for
outstanding support of Lamar
athletics. To date, honorary
members are Pres. Richard Set-
zer, Dr. Ted Skinner and Anne
Harmon,” Hankamer said.
continued on page 3
CLASSES DISMISSED
Classes will be dismissed to-
day from 12 until 1 p.m. for apep
rally in McDonald Gym, Dr.
Frank A, Thomas, vice president
of academic affairs, reports.
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FORUM SPEAKER--Dr. Charles A. Siepmann, a visiting lecturer
supported by a grant from the Danforth Foundation, spoke on
campus Monday and Tuesday. Here he is shown with Bill Hamilton,
student chairman of the Forum Committee, which sponsored his
appearance on campus Monday. In addition to his Monday lecture,
in the Lamar Theater, Dr. Siepmann addressed various classes
Tuesday. (Staff photo by Harry Kingston)
because industrial salaries are
going up seven per cent per year
in the area.
He stressed the importance for
more money for building main-
tenance, saying that new federal
minimum wage laws must be met
by the colleges. He pointed out
that Lamar will have four new
buildings in use this fall which
will require at least $21,000 for
new custodians. The growth in
enrollment in engineering,
science and business administra-
tion forces the requests for
$65,000 per year for new
computer equipment.
Group Buys
Spirit Bell
Alpha Phi Omega, national ser-
vice fraternity, Wednesday night
completed arrangements to pur-
chase the Lamar Spirit Bell which
rings after scoring plays by La-
mar football teams in Cardinal
Stadium.
The bell, which has been used
since the beginning of the 1967
football season, was purchased
from the Neches Brass Works,
Bill Boyd, APO president, said.
It cost $250.
Boyd explained that his organ-
ization obtained the bell after the
Southland Conference prohibited
firing of Big Mac, the cannon,
at grid games. “We wanted some-
thing to help maintain the level
of spirit,” Boyd said, “so the
bell was selected.”
Speaker Says
WINNINGEST COACH—Lamar basketball coach Jack Martin holds
a plaque presented for winning his 300th victory Tuesday night
The Cardinals downed the University of West Florida 84-76 to
bring the season’s record to 17-1. Ed Dittert, radio station K*YC
sports caster, presented the award. The victory brings Martin’s
career record to 300 wins and 218 losses and makes him the
winningest active basketball coach in Texas. (Staff photo by Bobby
Dickinson)
California Professor
Will Speak Monday
Dr. Donn S. Gorsline, pro-
fessor of marine geology and re-
search associate, Allan Hancock
Foundation at the University of
Southern California in Los An-
geles, Calif., will speak on the
“Origin of Submarine Canyons*
Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Sci-
ence Auditorium.
Dr. Gorsline received his PhD
from USC in 1958. He joined
the faculty of the Oceanographic
Institute at Florida State Univ-
ersity -as assistant professor in
1958 and associate professor in
1961. He became acting director
in 1961, then joined the faculty
of the Department of Geology at
USC in 1962.
In addition to this appointment,
he is on the staff of the Han-
cock Foundation for Marine Re-
search at USC and serves as
consultant to local and state ag-
encies and industry. Dr. Gorsline
has consulted for local Navy Re-
search Labs and has participated
continued on page 3
Death Preferable to Thinking
By Linda Hime
“Eighty per cent of the people
in this country would rather die
than think,” Dr. Charles Siepmann
told a newspaper reporting class
Tuesday.
Dr. Siepmann, a communica-
tions consultant, writer, lecturer
and broadcaster, spoke before
the class taught by R. H. Wil-
kerson in the Biology building. He
was on campus as lecturer for
the Forum Committee and made
an address in the Lamar Theatre
Monday morning.
The speaker said that people
see only what they want to see
and during Monday’s talk con-
ducted an experiment with signs
printed on cards to prove his
point.
According tg Dr. Siepmann, two
thirds of the people in the world
are growing up on a diet so
insufficient that sooner or later
they will be ruined in body and
mind. This is due to the fact
that in 13 years, the U. S, pop-
ulation will comprise 10 per cent
of the world and yet will be con-
suming 70 per cent of the ma-
terial wealth.
He also said that no one in
the world has a life expectancy
over 1,000 breaths, for that is the
time it takes a missile to go from
point A to point B anywhere in
the world.
‘There are stock piles of 100
tons of TNT for every person
on the earth,” he said. Automation
in the last 40 years raises the
problem, ‘What are we going to
do with the superfluous humans?”
Dr. Siepmann feels that pos-
sibly 100 years from now, people
will not be working. They will
be given an income check at birth.
Machines will do all the work.
He said that in 1950, 4,000 people
were hired to take the national
census. In 1960, only 50 people
were hired because machines did
most of the work.
‘Communication is the only
way to bring modern man and the
modern world together,” he sta-
ted. He said there was nothing
anyone could do about reality but
face the facts and draw conclu-
sions.
‘If newspapers continue to re-
flect parochial life, they’re blind
to reality,” he added. The word
press has changed through the
years. It used to be applied only
to the newspaper. Now it includes
radio, television, news magaz-
ines, and other various forms of
mass media.
Dr. Siepmann stressed the fact
that radio serves the advertiser,
not the public as it is supposed
to do under an act of congress.
He expressed his view that edu-
cation is to teach people from
being ignorant, not because it
will get them a better job.
A question and answer period
was conducted after the lecture.
One of the questions raised
was about the “credibility gap*
and which way it was running.
“We have facts,” Dr. Siepmann-
said. “It was being rigged.”
He discussed a televised inter-
view with three journalists from
Saigon. One was a liberal, one
was a middle-of-the-road, and
the other was a conservative.
All three expressed a difference
continued on page 3
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Williams, Kathy. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1969, newspaper, February 14, 1969; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499266/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.