Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1977 Page: 1 of 16
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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar Community for 54 years
Good Morning!
Friday
Vol. 28, No. 4
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Gary Hebert
will be new
cheerleader
Gary Hebert, freshman
marketing major from
Port Arthur, prepares to
give cheerleader Cindy
Lafitte, Groves elementary
education major, a lift
during the tryouts for
cheerleader Wednesday.
Hebert was chosen
to fill a male vacancy in the
cheerleading squad.
Applicants were required
to have a minimum 2.0
grade point average and be
under no scholastic
probation.
Each participant was re-
quired to perform ju mps,
three single stunts and two
stunts with a partner in
addition to a full-length
cheer with a partner.
Judges for the tryouts
were members of the staff.
Staff photo by Robert Wade
Men charged with trespassing,
possessing marijuana Sunday
By PHYLLIS HENRY
of the U.P. staff
Three Beaumont men were
arrested at Plummer Hall
early Sunday morning. They
were charged with possession
of marijuana and with
trespassing on university
property.
According to university
police, the three men were
refused entrance to a dance in
Wing C of Plummer Hall.
They created a disturbance,
and university police were
called at 1:40 a.m. Police
asked the men to leave since
they are not students at
Lamar.
About 15 minutes later, two
of the men were found sitting
in their car on the parking lot
of Plummer Hall. Officers in-
vestigated and found two bags
of marijuana.
At 2:05 a.m. Wilford Wat-
son, Jr., 23, was arrested and
charged with possession of
marijuana, class B, and
trespassing. Gary Rideaux,
Enrollment climbs
to record number
Lamar’s 1977 Fall
enrollment has climbed to a
record number, according to a
preliminary headcount issued
by the Office of Admissions
and Records.
Until this semester,
Lamar’s largest enrollment
was in Fall 1977 when 12,723
students attended Lamar.
As of Wednesday evening,
the total enrollment at Lamar,
including Orange and Port Ar-
thur campuses and field cen-
ters, was 12,725.
On the main campus 10,933
undergraduate and graduate
students are attending Lamar.
Orange has 811 enrolled, while
Port Arthur has 826 students
attending. Field center
classes have drawn 155
students.
On Sept. 12, the twelfth class
day, official class rolls will be
made up and the official
enrollment for Fall 1977 will
be announced.
Setzer Center closes
check-cashing booth
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22, was charged with
trespassing.
While inventorying the car
before tow, police found three
more bags of marijuana in the
trunk. This resulted in the
arrest of the third man when
he returned to the car a few
minutes later.
Floyd Gramlin, 23, and
owner of the car, was arrested
and charged with trespassing
and posession of marijuana,
class A.
Students wishing to cash
checks on campus will have to
find some place other than the
check cashing booth at the
reservations desk in the Setzer
Center to do it.
The check-cashing service
has been closed upon recom-
mendation of George
McLaughlin, vice president of
student affairs. McLaughlin
said that he recommended
abolishing the check-cashing
service because it duplicated
the service available around
the corner in the bookstore.
Another major factor that
McLaughlin said prompted
him to recommend ending the
check-cashing service was
that the full-time employee
who manned the check
cashing booth was not a
student but was being paid
with student assistance funds.
Though the recom-
mendation was not made as a
way to save money, the $5,400
per year savings could be used
elsewhere, McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin offered the
alternative of using part-time
student help to man the check-
cashing booth, but this alter-
native was rejected by Larry
Markley, dean of activities.
Markley said that with
several people handling the
money there is more chance
Pep rally
first yell
of season
The Cardinals will start
flapping their wings today
from 10:50 a.m. until 11:25
a.m. in the quadrangle in
front of the Setzer Center.
Feathers will be flying
for the first pep rally of the
year, to kick off school
spirit for the first football
game of the season. The
game will be tomorrow
night at 7:30 p.m. against
Northeastern Louisiana.
‘Gate’s Express’ to perform
Gatemouth Brown and “Gate’s Ex-
press” will appear in the Setzer Center
Ballroom on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
The concert is presented by the Con-
cert Committee of the Setzer Student
Center Council (SSCC) and is the fourth
in their Midget Sound Series.
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown was
born in the state of Texas, where he
became famous at an early age as the
innovator of “Swing Guitar” and as a
highly accomplished jazz-blues singer.
More recently Gatemouth has
regularly toured Europe, where his
concerts and eight record albums have
received high critical acclaim.
“Gate’s Express” is a young band
that forms an accompaniment for
“Gatemouth” Brown’s performance on
the guitar, violin, viola and harmonica.
The band, from Baton Rouge, handles
Gatemouth’s styles with ease and
precision. The band has been ^together
about nine months working both on
their own and with Gatemouth Brown.
Performing with “Gate’s Express”
are Leon Medica on bass, Jeff Pollard,
guitar; Rod Roddy, piano; David
Peters, drums. Bobby Campo plays
trumpet, flugelhorn and flute with
vocal assistance provided by Yvonne
Ramsey.
Tickets for the event will be $2.00 for •
Lamar students, $2.50 for general
public before the event. On the day of
the event after 5 p.m. tickets for
general public will be $3.
for error. He went on to say
that students cannot be bon-
ded, and he preferred to have
bonded personnel working the
desk.
Pete Plotts, manager of the
bookstore, said that there was
no inconvenience to the
bookstore for students to come
in and cash checks. He added
that identification similar to
that required by the check
cashing booth, a Lamar ID
and a Texas drivers license,
would be needed to cash
checks in the bookstore.
Hanzel wins
free ski trip
KEVIN HANZEL
Kevin Hanzel, first baseman
for the Cardinal baseball
team, is the winner of the free
ski trip given away by the Set-
zer Student Center Council
(SSCC) to highlight their
“Helluva Week” activities.
“I’ve never been sking in
my life,” said Hanzel, a senior
accounting major from Lake
Jackson. “I had talked to
several other people and was
planning to make the trip.
This certainly helps out.”
Paul Ledet, vice president
of the SSCC, drew the winning
name from among the 50
eligible students. Students
became eligible by answering
three trivia questions posted
on bulletin boards in the Set-
zer Center.
Answers to the questions
were: ■’
1. Henry Hate
2. Linda Waggonner
3. May 2,1971
SEP 9 B77
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Cowles, Roger. Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1977, newspaper, September 9, 1977; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499682/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.