University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 1988 Page: 4 of 8
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1988*4
Members work together for peace Sa,ary
PnnHniiA#! from no
By Marlene Auster
UP staff writer
“Peace -Ijteople are like
sn&wflakesr'-We’re all individually
categorized, and one snowflake fall-
ing on the limb cannot bring the limb
down, but hundreds and thousands
can,” said David Pickett, president
of Southeast Texans Organized For
Peace.
STOP is a group of area residents
and Lamar students working
together to help create a world free
of nuclear weapons.
STOP’S long-term goals include an
end to all nuclear testing while
negotiating a comprehensive test-
ban treaty, a freeze on nuclear
weapons development, and govern-
ment support of only peaceful uses
of outer space.
The group would like government
to encourage the conversion of jobs
from the arms industry to industries
that improve the quality of human
life. STOP advocates that govern-
ments seek peaceful means of solv-
ing conflicts by giving humanitarian
rather than military aid to develop-
ing countries.
STOP’S short-term goal, Pickett
said, is trying to get more people in-
volved. The organization currently
has 157 people on the mailing list and
about half are active.
“By the end of 1988, I expect to
have 1000 people in the group,”
Pickett said.'
FicKett said it’s very important
for people to get involved in things
physically as well as spiritually.
“People’s fear of failure keeps
them from trying a lot of things. If
they do fail it’s because the actions
they took were not correct. It’s not
because they didn’t try.”
Pickett said the group will be get-
ting involved in many things this
semester including a march for the
INF treaty.
“Marches are really a headtrip,”
Pickett said. “They can be hazar-
dous for a group by getting out of
hand and then we loose our stan-
dard.”
Pickett said he feels it’s important
to get peace problems at home taken
care of to be able to help the world
problems better.
“If we can solve a homeless pro-
blem here, why not in Palestine.
Whatever solution we carry out here
can be used there,” Pickett said.
Many people feel that peace peo-
ple are communist or unpatriotic,
but Pickett said it’s just the op-
posite. “We care about what hap-
pens to all the people of the world.
“We’re the kind of people who feel
terrible when animals are run over
on the highway.”
Pickett said that many people are
afraid to join peace organizations
because they associate them with
the ‘60s and feel they might get
thrown in jail.
“The people in the ‘60s protested
and they didn’t know why they were
protesting. We still don’t have all the
answers. They were just fighting to
be educated,” he said.
The organization has doctors,
lawyers, and many other respec-
table citizens in it, Pickett said.
“Peace people tend to be very
calm, mellow people. We just accept
things and let things go,” he said.
Regents
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policy is believed to have been
violated.
The student may “choose either to
accept a process through the dean of
students office or may request a for-
mal hearing before the Hearing
Committee.”
“The student shall have the right
to appeal the decision of the Hearing
Committee,” the policy says.
Regents passed a university
health policy for Lamar-Beaumont
which states that the University
Health Committee will “follow
guidelines set down by the United
States Public Health Services, Na-
tional Center for Disease Control,
Texas Department of Health and the
American College Health Associa-
tion.”
The committee was established by
Lamar-Beaumont President Billy
Franklin “to advise him on matters
of public health in the university
community.”
“There is an increasing concern,
interest and anxiety about com-
municable disease prevention and
control,” the recommendation says.
Eight Lamar-Beaumont faculty
members were granted develop-
ment leaves by the board.
Four faculty members will take
leave in summer 1988.
Jo Ann Stiles, assistant professor
of history, will conduct a study of the
ethnic history of Southeast Texas, a
press release says.
Doris Price-Nealy, assistant pro-
fessor and program director of the
associate degree of nursing, will
review 21 associate degree pro-
grams in Texas that offer the licens-
ed vocational nursing program and
recommend changes at Lamar to ac-
commodate the needs of LVNs.
Dorothy Faye Thames, assistant
professor of mathematics, proposes
to write material for remedial math
units on video tapes.
Naaman Woodland, associate pro-
fessor of history, will study the life of
Gumercindo Antonio Placetti and
the minoreans in the St. Augustine,
Fla., area:
Each of the above leaves is funded
for $4,619.
David Castle, assistant professor
of political science, and Sam Parigi,
professor of economics, were
granted leave for fall 1988.
Castle proposes to initiate a com-
prehensive major study of the
American presidential nomination
process.
Parigi plans to begin work on a
labor economics textbook and to in-
vestigate and update his knowledge
in the area of labor economics and
collective bargaining.
Christopher Baker, professor of
English and foreign languages, and
Victoria Price, associate professor
of English and foreign languages,
were granted leave for the spring
1989 semester.
Baker plans two writing projects
intended for publication and several
smaller projects which will lead to
journal articles.
Price’s proposed leave activities
are directed to writing an anthology
of English literature for non-native
students. Such a work does not now
ist commercially, the press release
says.
The recommendations were
presented to the board by Ed
Nicholson, executive vice president
for academic and student affairs.
Nicholson received recommenda-
tions on the leaves from the Faculty
Senate and various deans of the col-
leges.
The board also passed a motion to
replace the existing fixtures and
ballasts in the Gray Library. The
fixtures are 12 years old.
The project replaces all of the in-
terior light fixtures on the second
through seventh floors with new
electronic ballast and high intensity
reflectors.
“The new fixtures will increase
light intensity by 40 percent and
decrease energy consumption by 37
percent,” the proposal says.
The lowest bid was $187,095 by
Allen Power and Supply Co. of
Houston.
The regents also approved:
• The acceptance of the lowest
bid of $1,336,700 by Allco Construc-
tion Co. of Beaumont for phase B of
4160 electrical upgrade.
• The acceptance of the lowest
bid of $1,481,600 by Allco Construc-
tion Co. of Beaumont for McDonald
Gym tunnel renovation.
• The development of plans to
renovate the seventh flor of the Gray
Library.
Continued from page 1
award five faculty members who
don’t deserve it and catch that one
that does?” Pate said in asking
whether an across-the-board pay in-
crease might be better.
“With due process and the checks
we have in place,” Franklin said,
“the probabilities of that happening
are extremely low.”
Franklin said an across-the-board
raise would be insufficient incentive
for those who have excelled and
would reward those who had not ex-
celled.
“Any salary administration plan
is going to make some people unhap-
py. But it all depends on who you
want to make unhappy,” Franklin
said. The present plan would make
those who had fallen below the
criteria unhappy, he said.
Pate questioned whether depart-
ment heads had any university
courses in evaluating their fellow
faculty.
“I’m just worried that you have
one person playing judge,” Pate
said, meaning the department head.
Any faculty member could “ask
what basis the decision was made
upon,” Franklin said. “There are
plenty of available avenues to ques-
tion that basis.” ‘
Regent Ron Steinhart supported
the plan.
“I find it hard to believe that 99.9
percent of the faculty are doing a
satisfactory job,” Steinhart said,
“In a normal merit raise situation,
George McLaughlin
about 20 percent would not get the
raise so we may be compromising
too much.
“But the supervisor would be the
best judge of the work,” he said.
Other parts of the salary plan
authorize a 2 percent salary raise if
funds are approved by the comp-
troller; Lamar-Orange to raise full-
time faculty salaries 2 percent; and
Lamar-Port Arthur to raise full-time
faculty salaries 2 percent with an ad-
ditional 1 percent merit raise in
some cases.
John Gray Institute and the
Lamar system administration
received a 2 percent raise on a case-
by-case basis.
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Ford, Steven. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 1988, newspaper, February 17, 1988; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499628/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.