Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1981 Page: 2 of 6
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UNIVERSITY PRESS November 4,1981*2
LU Briefs
Deadline for submitting announcements for LU
Briefs is noon of the day one week prior to publica-
tion. Priority is given to upcoming events. An-
nouncements listing appointment of officers and
members of organizations will be run as space per-
mits. No exceptions. Press release forms are
available for organization reporters in the Universi-
ty Press office, 200 Setzer Student Center.
Association receives charter
The Financial Management Association has been
recently charted at Lamar University, John Raney,
president of the local chapter, said.
Purpose of the national society is to encourage
and reward scholarships for accomplishment in the
fields of finance and banking among graduate and
undergraduate students, he said.
Sorority announces pledges
Alpha Chi Omega sorority has elected their
pledge class officers for the fall semester, Kathryn
Kim, pledge trainer, said.
They are Lauri House, Lubbock freshman, presi-
dent; Michelle Sutter, Killeen, Texas, sophomore,
vice president; Becky Laughlin, Beaumont
freshman, secretary; Jan Laurent, Beaumont
freshman, treasurer; Maureen Kilpatrick, Beau-
mont freshman, warden; and Jill Liming, Beau-
mont freshman, song leader.
ASME to meet Monday
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
will hold a general meeting Monday at 1:10 p.m., in
105 Cherry Engineering Building, Susan Swendig,
spokesperson, said.
Democrats set meeting
The Young Democrats of Lamar University will
meet Thursday at 4 p.m., in 125 Setzer Student
Center, Lillie Coney, spokesperson, said.
Plans are under way for working the upcoming
campaign season. All interested students are asked
to attend, Coney said.
Pledges elect president
Abby Brown, Buffalo, N.Y., freshman, has been
named president of the fall Alpha Phi Omega pledge
class, Teddy Spurlock, vice president of member-
ship, said.
Other pledge class officers are Ray Powell,
Orange sophomore, vice president of service; Leesa
Miller, Silsbee senior, secretary; and Kathy
Clements, Orlando, Fla., freshman, treasurer.
Group gains acceptance
THe economics department has gained accep-
tance into the Omicron Delta Epsilon International
Honor Society, Dr. Sam F. Parigi, professor of
economics, said.
To be eligible for membership, students must
have junior standing or higher, and at least 12
semester hours of economics with a grade of “A.”
Members must have an overall grade average of at
least a “B,” Parigi said.
Photo orders being taken
Leadership Lamar delegates can place orders for
pictures taken at the conference, in 116 Wimberly
Student Affairs Building, Dale Tyson, steering com-
mittee spokesperson, said.
For data storage
LU buys microfiche
By ANTHONY HARRIS
of the UP staff
Several microfiche readers will be installed in
various academic departments and administration
offices on Lamar campus this spring, Dr. William
C. Nylin, director of the computer center, said.
The academic departments, administration of-
fices and students will have alleviated workloads
because of the services that the microfiche reader
will provide them, Nylin said.
Each of the microfiche readers, which shrink
pages of printed matter into microimages on sheets
of film, will be purchased from different microfiche
companies through contracted bids, Nylin said.
The microfiche readers will serve several func-
tions. “They will allow the storing of bulk media in a
compact form with the ability to reproduce hard
copy from a selected page,” Nylin said.
“The microfiche will be good for storing historical
and recent data and at the same time, they will be
more convenient than computer terminals in referr-
ing back to such data.” Nylin said. “It will be better
to record information on microfiche than on paper.”
Moreover, the need for arranging files will be
alleviated. For example, the use of archives can be
replaced by the microfiche; as a result, records
could be maintained on microfiche instead of in
files.
The microfiche reader has the ability to take out-
put pages and reduce them to microfiche size; thus,
at least 208 pages of computer output can be record-
ed on one microfiche card, Nylin said.
Also, a 2,000-word computer report may be put on
a single microfiche card.
Now, Lamar is experimenting with a microfiche
reader to learn whether it can read computer tape,
Nylin said.
The microfiche readers will be ordered for
selected departments and offices such as the
finance and student affairs offices and the computer
center, Nylin said.
In addition, the microfiche readers will be
ordered in several weeks for those departments and
offices that express an interest in them. They are
expected to arrive on campus this spring.
“We’ve been interested in microfiche for the past
two years,” Nylin said. “But in the last two months,
the interest to purchase the microfiche readers has
been seriously re-initiated.”
Lamar pledged $29,604.30,91 percent of its $32,593
goal for the 1982 United Way campaign, David Hor-
nack, associate dean of students, said.
The campus was divided into two-divisions, facul-
ty, under direction of Bert Dubose, assistant pro-
fessor of government, and administraton and staff,
under Homack.
The college coordinators were, Dr. Jed Ramsey,
professor of biology, Dr. John LeBlanc, associate
professor of music, Delilah Gregory, clinical in-
structor of nursing, and Dr. Jerry Tucker, assistant
professor of secondary education.
Other coordinators include, Dr. Boyd Lanier,
associate professor of government, Dr. Charles
Hawkins, associate professor of economics and
regents’ professor, Floyd Crum, regents’ professor
of electrical engineering, and Corinne Freeland,
library clerk.
Also included were Dr. Howell Gwin, professor of
history and director of graduate studies, and
Donald Grubbs, instructor II of welding.
The staff coordinators were Kathleen King, assis-
tant dean of student development, James Cozine,
coordinator of public service, Richard Dixon, assis-
tant director of public information, Billy Ling, pur-
chasing agent, Lester Trahan, admissions assistant
II and Darlene Graves, secretary.
The pledges ranged from $1,000 to $1. This made
an average of $47.14 for the 628 participants, Hor-
nack said.
Jones pens short biography
Dr. Kirkland Jones, associate professor of
English, has written a short critical biography of
noted Afro-American literary. figure Arna
Wendell Bontemps.
The biography, which was sent to press last week,
was commissioned to be included in one of the two
volumes of the 1982 “Dictionary of Literary
Biography.” These reference volumes each year
choose a different topic to specialize in, and the
specialty for 1982 will be Afro-American authors.
In the biography, Jones said, “I have tried to
avoid the usual string of dates and places that can
make a biography boring. While including the
necessary information, I have tried to construct a
biography that stresses a sense of who Arna
Bontemps was, a sense of his personality, especially
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as it bears on his writings.”
Bontemps, besides being a college professor, was
a historian, poet, novelist, author of children’s
books, lecturer and literary critic.
Bontemps, bom in 1902 and dying in 1973, was the
closest friend of author James Langston Hughes.
From the time they first met, during Harlem’s
“Renaissance Period” until Hughes’ death in 1967,
the two collaborated on plays, anthologies and
children’s books.
Besides drawing on material from Bontemps’
published works, Jones said he has also researched
a greater amount of over 2,400 preserved letters of
correspondence (more than 3,000 were known to be
written) between Bontemps and Hughes during
their lifetime.
Tentative meeting for administration set
By DAVID HARRINGTON
UP Managing Editor
A consortium for deans and depart-
ment heads from colleges and univer-
sities in the Southeast Texas area has
been proposed by Dr. David Geddes,
vice president for academic affairs.
Geddes said that the first seminar
has tentatively been proposed to be
held in Houston sometime around the
latter part of February, and 18 junior
colleges, colleges and universities,
both public and private, within a
100-mile radius of the Houston area,
would be invited.
The proposal was drawn up, Geddes
said, because the rising cost of travel
and lodging expenses versus the
travel budgets allowed to deans and
department heads at most schools
made attending similar conferences
elsewhere unfeasible.
“The fees to some of these con-
ferences alone, not to mention lodging
and travel expenses, nearly equal the
yearly travel budget for many deans
and department heads,” Geddes said
For example, a conference for ad-
ministrative personnel, deans and
department heads this fall in Austin
charges a $600 fee per person—nearly
equal to the travel budget for each of
the 11 academic deans and 36 depart-
ment heads at Lamar.
Another conference, scheduled iu
Maryland, charges a $250 fee, but
when travel to and from the con-
ference, plus hotel and eating ex-
penses are added, that conference
could cost nearly $1,000 per person.
Under the plan proposed by Geddes
and taken up by other schools, the
seminar would last only one day and
would be held at a central location so
that travel expenses would not be
great. Also, he said, the fee would not
be more than $15 to $25 per per-
son-enough to cover the cost of get-
ting one or two good speakers and a
lunchtime meal.
In addition, he added, the seminar
may get some financial help from
either the American Council of
Education or the Association of State
Colleges and Universities in running
these seminars.
Such a plan, Geddes said, would
make such conferences feasible for
schools who really desire promoting
development for their deans and
department heads.
For example, where Lamar might
only be able to send perhaps tw_
deans or department heads to a
faraway conference once a year for
thousands of dollars, up to 16 Lamar
deans and department heads could
travel to, say, Houston for four
seminars per year at a total cost of
less than $1,000 annually.
The proposal is chaired by one of
the deans at Stephen F. Austin
University, Nacogdoches, and Ged-
des is one of five to six members of a
steering committee for the setup that
will serve three-year terms in
assisting the chairman.
While the first seminar is tentative-
ly set in Houston, Geddes said, future
seminars could be rotated to different
college campuses or surrounding
cities.
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