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Morning!
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 62 years
It’s Friday
September 13, 1985
Vol. 62, No. 1
State cuts increase student fees
By ALAN PACE
UP news editor
Increased student service fees this
fall are primarily a result of
decreased state funding, Dr. An-
drew Johnson, vice president for stu-
dent and university affairs, said this
week.
Student service fees, which are
comprised of the combined total of
student fees and health center fees,
have been increased from $75 to $90.
The predominant reason for the in-
crease, Johnson said, is that the
legislature will no longer fund
scholarships for out-of-state athletes
or retirement benefits for auxiliary
employees.
As a result, Lamar will be paying
$217,172 more this year than last in
scholarships, and $85,414 more in
benefits, according to statistics pro-
vided by assistant vice president for
auxiliary services Bruce Stracener.
So that Lamar can meet its cur-
rent commitments to out-of-state
scholarship athletes and to its aux-
iliary staff, increased funding for
scholarships and benefits is incor-
porated into the auxiliary services
budget, which is student service fee
supported.
These new financial respon-
sibilities, Johnson said, have promp-
ted Lamar, along with a number of
other state universities, to raise stu-
dent service fees to the maximum
$90 allowed by the legislature.
Results of a survey provided by
Stracener indicate that other state
universities comparable in size to
Lamar, including Stephen F. Austin,
Sam Houston State, East Texas
State, Southwest Texas State and
1984-85
1985-86
1,000,000 Dollars:
900,000
800,000
700,000
600,000
UP
12.5%
500,000
400,000
DOWN
8%
300,000
200,000
100,000
$780,59!
$890,188
-$1,003,371
- $185,945
'will be revised after 12th class day
Texas A&I, have also raised fees to
the $90 limit.
The only school listed in the
survey that remains short of the
maximum is the University of
Houston, with a total of $80 in fees.
In spite of the student fee in-
creases, Johnson said enrollment,
estimated down 10 percent, is lower
than expected, and will necesitate
further cuts in the auxiliary services
budget, which includes all athletics,
student activities, and fine arts. Re-
evaluation of the auxiliary services
budget, he said, will begin after the
12th-class-day.
A comparison provided by
Stracener of the 1984-85 budget to the
1985-86, based upon steady enroll-
ment and therefore subject to revi-
sion, increases the total auxiliary
budget $312,312, from $2,547,787 to
$2,860,099.
The largest increase is in the
Lamar athletic budget, which is up
$320,390—mainly, Stracener said,
because of the legislative elimina-
tion of funding for out-of-state
scholarships.
When tuition tripled for Texas
students, it multiplied by 10 for out-
of-state students; and it is at that in-
creased rate, Stracener said, that
Lamar must fulfill its scholarship
commitments.
Although the number of scholar-
ships has not increased, the budget
comparison indicates that Lamar’s
financial responsibility for athletic
scholarships has increased $211,596,
from $534,957 to $746,553.
Athletic salaries increase in the
comparison $71,053, from $563,506 to
$634,559. In all areas, salary in-
creases have been restricted to
three percent.
Athletic benefits, another area of
decreased state support, increase
$62,311, from $70,935 to $133,246.
The area in which the majority of
cuts are made, in all budgets, is in
maintenance and operations. A par-
tial list of M&O expenditures in-
cludes travel, utilities, repairs, sup-
plies, postage, classified salaries,
and hourly wages.
The athletic M&O budget, subject
to further revision after final enroll-
ment figures are known, is cut
$24,570, from $792,750 to $768,180.
The student activities budget,
which includes the Student Govern-
ment Association, the University
Press, the Inter-Fraternity Council
and Panhellenic, is increased $9,170,
from $410,750 to $419,920.
Scholarship payments in the area
of student activities are shown to in-
crease $5,576, from $2,166 to $7,742;
salaries increase $25,522, from
$189,406 to $214,928; and benefits in-
crease $19,633, from $24,544 to
$44,177.
The student activities M&O
budget, however, is cut $41,561, from
$194,634 to $153,073.
The budget for fine arts, which in-
cludes the Lamar Orchestra, the
Cardinal Singers, the cheerleaders,
the band and Lamar’s public radio
station, KVLU, is cut $17,248, from
$174,889 to $157,641.
One casualty of belt-tightening in
the fine arts area, Johnson said, is
the Cardinelles pep squad. That
group’s funding has been entirely
eliminated in order to help maintain
other, higher priority budgets.
Scholarship payments in the area
of fine arts are down $2,251, from
$28,551 to $26,300.
Salaries are increased by $1,500,
from $39,201 to $40,701; and benefits
are increased $3,470, from $5,052 to
$8,522.
The M&O budget for fine arts is
nit J19.967. from $102,085 to $82,118.
Board ups admission requirements for 1987 Tuition hike adds
to enrollment drop
By MICHAEL MORRISON
UP staff writer
Tougher admission standards
which will go into effect in the fall of
1987 have been approved by the
Lamar Board of Regents for Lamar
University-Beaumont, according to
Provost David Geddes.
All students entering four-year
baccalaureate programs in 1987
must have been graduated from an
accredited high school and must
have successfully completed 14 high
school units in college preparatory
courses.
These courses will include four
units of college preparatory English,
three units of college preparatory
mathematics, two units of
laboratory science, two and one-half
units of social science and two and
one-half units of approved college
preparatory course electives.
In addition, students must place in
the top half of their high school
graduating class or achieve a com-
posite score on the Scholastic Ap-
titude Test of 700 if they graduated in
the third quarter or 800 if they
graduated in the fourth quarter.
Students not meeting these re-
quirements will be admitted only
through provisional admission, Ged-
des said.
Students admitted on a provisional
basis will be granted regular admis-
sion status at the end of the semester
in which they complete 24 or more
hours with a 2.0 grade point average
in courses taken at LU-Beaumont
and earned satisfactory grades in
English 131 and Math 1314.
Students who do not complete
these requirements will be denied
admission for one year.
These new standards will not app-
ly to students entering vocational,
technical or associate degree pro-
grams, or who are over 25 years of
age and can provide proof of high
school graduation or G.E.D. comple-
tion.
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Making ground—
Alabama Street, between the Speech and Hearing and
Liberal Arts buildings is being widened to 27 feet. The road
may be completed by November, weather permitting.
Photo by Raymond Clark
In addition to these general admis-
sion standards, Geddes said, pre-
professional programs may require
separate, more rigorous standards
communsurate with the demands of
the various programs.
The new standards will affect
transfer students as well. They must
have earned a cumulative GPA of at
least 2.0 on all work attempted. The
new policy states that “D” grades
earned at other institutions will not
count toward degrees at LU-
Beaumont.
Students transferring into a four-
year baccalaureate program at I^U-
Beaumont with fewer than 18 hours
must meet requirements of first-
time-in-college students, Geddes
said. Students with 18 or more hours
must either meet regular admission
requirements, have satisfactory
transfer grades or earn those grades
in English 131, Math 1314 or a higher
level mathematics course by the end
of the semester in which they com-
plete 24 or more hours.
“We are not trying to screen
students,” Geddes said. “Our mis-
sion is to help students by having
higher standards.”
Geddes said that the regents felt it
necessary to enact these standards
in response to national studies in-
dicating that the quality of college
and high school education has been
falling in the last 25 years.
“If Lamar retains open admission
policies,” he said, “we are not giv-
ing them (the students) an oppor-
tunity to succeed.”
Entrance requirements will be in-
creased through 1991, Geddes said.
Chief among these will be higher re-
quired SAT scores. For students
placing in the third and fourth
quarters of their graduating classes,
SAT required scores will increase 50
points a year for 1988,1989,1990 and
1991. The composite SAT score re-
quired for admission of third quarter
graduates in 1991 will be 900 and
fourth quarter graduates will be
1,000.
Reconstruction plans
include more parking
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By LISA VIATOR
UP Managing Editor
Lamar’s Beaumont campus is
planning to spend $19 million on
renovation and reconstruction, Dr.
Bill Nylin, vice president for finance
and operations, said Wednesday.
The funds will come from the Pro-
position 2 bill, private sources, hous-
ing funds, student fee bonds, and
Setzer Center reserves, Nylin said.
Currently, improvements are be-
ing made to Alabama Street bet-
ween the Speech and Hearing and
Liberal Arts buildings. Nylin said
the widening of that road to 27 feet
began in August and may be finished
by November, weather permitting.
The improvements to Alabama
Street are a cooperative effort
among the university, the city and
the county, Nylin said.
The concreting of an area at the
south end of the football stadium has
been completed with the exception
of a small bed of access, Nylin said,
and eventually the university will
concrete the entire south area.
Parking construction that has
been completed include an area near
the Beeson Technical Arts Building.
“This summer we finished a park-
ing area at the north end of the
technical arts building,” Nylin said,
“which provides additional parking
and better access to University
Drive from technical arts.
“In the areas by technical arts the
property we don’t own on the east
side of University Drive we will try
to purchase as available to provide
additional parking.”
Nylin said the Pentacostal church
on Callahan Street will be demolish-
ed to provide additional parking for
all students. With funds from the
Proposition 2 bill, the university
plans to buy homes and land on
Callahan Street to provide addi-
tional parking.
“The purchase of property for
parking areas is provided by funds
from Proposition 2,” Nylin said,
“and building and improvement
comes from student parking fees.”
Nylin said all parking im-
provements and additions are part
of the president’s master plan.
Renovations completed include
the covering of seats in Cardinal
Stadium, Nylin said. The wooden
seats were covered with white
fiberglass, and the seats on the east
side of the stadium are inset with red
fiberglass covers that spell
“Lamar."
Nylin said other improvements to
Lamar’s recreational facilities in-
clude the addition of 1,900 seats in
the Montagne Center. The seats will
be installed around the walking
track area above the seats at the top
of the stadium.
Nylin said the addition of these
seats will bring the seating capacity
in the Montagne Center to almost
10,000 and the seats will be installed
before Lamar’s first home basket-
ball game with Villanova.
See construction, page 4
By DAVID DIAZ
UP staff writer
A tuition hike, fewer 18- to 24-year-
olds and a new policy regarding
transfer students have contributed
to an enrollment decrease for the
fall semester, Elmer Rode, dean of
admissions and records and
registrar, said.
A nationwide trend indicates the
18- to 24-year-old college group has
declined by 5 percent.
Locally, about 600 fewer students
were graduated from high schools in
May.
This summer, Texas lawmakers
passed a bill increasing tuition rates
from $3 to $12 per semester hour.
The tuition increase, coupled with
increases in health fees and student
service fees, primarily affected 400
part-time students, Rode said.
“The full-time student is still at-
tending school,” Rode said, “but the
most impact was felt by part-time
students.”
Lamar has implemented a policy
with regard to transfer students,
Rode said. The policy prohibits col-
lege transfer students with less than
a 2.0 grade point average (GPA)
from entering Lamar. This accounts
for a decrease of about 200 students.
Preliminary Enrollment
Comparisons
Beaumont Campus
1985
>
10.8%
Port Arthur Campus
14.8%
1985
>
Orange Campus
1985
>
7%
Reflects through 9/5/85 as
compared to 12th class day 1984.
Preliminary figures for the Beau-
mont campus indicate a decline in
enrollment of about 10 percent com-
pared with the 1984 fall semester.
Undergraduate enrollment is down
10.8 percent from 1984 figures and
graduate enrollment declined 9.8
percent.
Homecoming week events
to include parade, picnic
The deadline to submit applica-
tions for Homecoming queen is Oct.
4, Tracy Murphy, publicity chair-
man for the Homecoming Commit-
tee, said.
Announcement of the 1985-86
Homecoming queen, Murphy said,
will be made the second day of
homecoming week at the Queen’s
Reception and Coronation.
Plans for Homecoming Week, Oct.
21-26, are now being finalized, Mur-
phy said.
Already on the Homecoming week
calendar, she said, is an Oct. 21 cake
and ice cream give-away at noon in
the arbor of the Setzer Student
Center, after an opening ceremony.
The Queen’s Reception and Cor-
onation is set for Tuesday, Oct. 22, at
7 p.m. in the Setzer Student Center
Ballroom. The entry fee is $15.
A Homecoming Carnival and
street dance, she said, will be held
Wednesday, Oct. 23, from noon to 10
p.m. in front of the Setzer Student
Center.
A “human trivia pursuit game”
will be played Thursday, Oct. 24, at 8
p.m., Murphy said. Six teams will
participate, each composed of 12
members.
The Voltage Brothers will be the
entertainment for the Homecoming
Party at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25.
The Homecoming bonfire is set for
midnight after the Homecoming
Party, she said. A parade will lead
the way around campus to the bon-
fire site behind Vincent Beck
Stadium. Alpha Phi Omega, she
said, is sponsoring the bonfire.
Activities Saturday, Homecoming
day, will begin at 7:30 a.m. with five-
kilometer and one-mile runs, Mur-
phy said.
A picnic is scheduled from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. to coincide with the
Homecoming parade, which will
start from the Setzer Center at 11:30
a.m.
The Homecoming game against
Sam Houston State will be held at 2
p.m. in Cardinal Stadium.
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