Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1979 Page: 1 of 6
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V
LAMAR
•Blood Drive benefits
all, page 3
•Cardinals to meet
McNeese, page 5
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Good, Morning!
Friday, October 12,1979
Vol. 56, No. 11
Serving the Lamar community for 56 years
Price 10 cents off campus*'
Boring professor? Late-night studying?
Too much partying?
PWtt by CINDY DOWIES
These three freshman look like college life has finally
caught up with them. Shown are (1. to r.) Scott Wilber, Gregg
Law and Bill Horst, all of the Hamshire-Fannette area.
SHEAF bill studied
Possible tax replacement
To benefit handicapped
Tech arts receives grant
By DAVID HARRINGTON
of the UP staff
A grant benefitting handicapped
technical arts students has been awarded
to the Lamar technical arts college, ac-
cording to Dr. Kenneth Shipper, dean of
technical arts.
The grant will allow acquiring special
tables for electronics and drafting studen-
ts confined to wheelchairs or crutches,
Shipper said.
“Teachers were asked this fall to assess
the greatest needs of students in their
classes who were in wheelchairs,” he said.
“Electronics and drafting were selected
on the basis that both jobs are basically sit-
down jobs anyway, and handicapped
students are physically unable to get into
the stools and use the tables provided.”
The tables on order, Shipper said, could
be Situated such that a person confined to a
wheelchair could roll himself to the table
without any trouble. The table’s height
would necessarily be suitable for working.
Wheelchair-bound students also work in
the business data processing and mid-
management segment of technical arts,
but, according to Shipper, they have no
trouble using their equipment.
There are, however, no students in
welding or diesel mechanics, he said. “The
physical demands of trying to climb into a
large diesel engine or trying a large
welding job are too much usually for those
physically impaired,” Shipper said.
There is, howeyer, at least one instance
of a physically handicapped person who is
a successful mechanic. Shipper said that a
man in the South Park area repairs
automatic transmissions for autos.
“He requires help, of course, to take the
transmission out of the car,” he said. “But
when the transmission is placed on a table
where he can work, he can repair them.”
The drafting tables are scheduled to
arrive on Nov. 14, Shipper said. The elec-
tronics tables, however, are being custom-
made and will not be ready for some time.
“This grant is hoped to help these han-
dicapped students,” Shipper concluded,
“but, moreover, we want to show that the
technical arts department is doing all it
can to help physically-impaired students
interested in the program.”
By BECKY GEE
of the UP staff
The State Higher Education Assistan-
ce Fund, designed by the Council of
Presidents to replace the ad valorem tax,
is being considered by a legislative interim
committee, according to Dr. C. Robert
Kemble, president of Lamar University.
“In the meantime,” Dr. Kemble said,
“we’re operating for capital im-
provements from residue monies that
come in from the old ad valorem collec-
tions plus capital improvement bond
monies.
“Between the two of them, we can put
together about $11 million worth of
building funds,” he added.
Two years ago, Rep. Wayne Peveto
challenged the constitutionality of the con-
stitutional amendment that provided for
the distribution of monies collected under
the ad valorem tax for 17 colleges and
universities in Texas, including Lamar.
According to Dr. Kemble, the amend-
ment was unequal and needed to be
changed. “It was clear that the collections
of the monies were unequal and, therefore,
it was unconstitutional,” he said.
However, when Rep. Peveto brought
suit, he did not anticipate any problem
concerning replacement monies for the ad
valorem tax, Dr. Kemble said.
“There is a great deal of resistance to
anything that derives new tax money,” Dr.
Kemble said. “The big problem is the
source of money. Where does the money
come from to substitute for that tax money
that has now been taken off the books?
“It is not, politically, a popular thing to
add taxes at this point and time,” he ad-
ded.
In an attempt to come up with something
that would satisfactorily replace the ad
valorem tax monies for long term plan-
ning, the Executive Committee of the
Man ordered to leave
from home in ground
Cardinal Club raises
funds for scholarships
The Lamar Cardinal Club has raised
Ayer $150,000 in membership funds this
year for athletic scholarships, according
to John Riedmueller, club president.
Membership money amounted to
151,995, according to Riedmueller.
H.M. Nix, membership drive chairman,
said this is the highest goal ever reached in
the club’s history.
“A check for the funds will be presented
to the university finance office next
spring,” Nix said. “The money will be
aed for all athletic programs.”
The Cardinal Club started in the 1969-70
school year, but real growth of the
jrganization came in 1971, Nix said.
According to the athletic business
manager’s office, membership in the Car-
linal Club is in excess of 900 members and
still growing. This is an increase from last
year’s 300 members.
Divisions within the Cardinal Club in-
clude the Varsity Club, with $25 for mem-
bership; Lettermen’s Club, $100; Cap-
tain’s Club, $250; Big Red Club, $500;
President’s Club, $1,500; and the Regent’s
Club, $1,650.
Besides fund raising, the club “creates
an atmosphere of fellowship among mem-
bers,” Riedmueller said. “We hold a lun-
cheon every Monday at the Red Carpet Inn
at noon. This continues from the first foot-
ball game through baseball season.”
There is also the “Cardinal Scramble”
golf. tournament usually held in June,
Riedmueller said. A social event, in-
cluding the members’ wives, is being plan-
ned.
The public is invited to any Cardinal
Club luncheon, Riedmueller added.
LU-O branch elects royalty
for second decade festival
ORANGE, Texas—Two Lamar Univer-
ity at Orange students were elected king
»nd queen to reign over Second Decade
Celebration activities, according to Myra
Miller, admissions secretary.
Gary Troy Johnson, Orange freshman,
nd Maria Gipson, Orange sophomore,
ere presented as king and queen at a bon-
ire held Monday night at the Navy Base
rWeather Word —
gym, Miller said.
Attendance at the bonfire was good,
Miller said. “About 90-100 students were
there.”
The bonfire was the first of the week’s
activities which included games played
between faculty and students at the Navy
Base gym on Tuesday and a hot dog lun-
cheon Wednesday.
LITTLE ELM, Texas (UPI)—Govern-
ment officials Wednesday made
preparations to bulldoze the hole in the
ground that for six years has been the
home of R. L. Hudgins.
Hudgins, 58, a one-time carpenter in
Dallas who long ago gave up “all that crud
downtown,” lived peacefully in his 5-foot
dugout in a rural area on the eastern shore
of the Garza-Little Elm Reservoir in north
Texas until government surveyors in June
found his encampment.
It was then the Army Corps of Engineers
ordered him off government land and set
an Oct. 18 deadline for him to leave.
“I never thought they’d do this,”
Hudgins said as government workers
began preparing the site for bulldozing.
But U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of-
ficials said they had no other choice, what
with the growing number of would-be
squatters appearing on government land
designated for recreational use.
“We told him back in June that he was
not allowed to stay on government land
and that he would have two months to find
other occupancy,” said Corps official
Dwight Hamilton. “Last week we gave
him until today to get relocated. We did it
at this time because we didn’t want to wait
until the cold weather to make him find
someplace else to stay.
“We just can’t let him stay here any
longer. This land is for people to hike on
and ride horseback on and it just can’t be
tied up for personal use.”
So on Wednesday, Hudgins gathered up
his few possessions and three dogs and
moved to privately owned land nearby,
saying the landowner had given him per-
mission to stay there for a few weeks.
Corps officials converged on the
homesite and began cleaning up six years
worth of beer and wine bottles and other
trash surrounding Hudgins’ hole in the
ground. They removed the roof of Hudgins’
dugout, about 25 bags worth of trash and
hoped to bulldoze the site by the end of the
week.
“He said yesterday he would have his
stuff out today and he's been cooperative
and realizes our situation, although he
doesn’t agree with it,” Hamilton said. “It's
really over now. He’s accepted it and the
roof of his dugout is off, so there won’t be
any future problems on it.”
Hamilton said Hudgins, who sports a
ragged white beard on his gnarled and
deeply lined face, told him it took 53 hours
to dig the home which was only large
enough for a mattress and a fireplace
made of a piece of tin laid over rocks. He
hung his clothing from three limbs and a
barbed-wire fence and between odd jobs,
spent his time on his “porch”—a beat-up
folding chair facing a Styrofoam beer
cooler and the piles of beer and wine bot-
tles.
“I went on a fishing trip up here with a
friend about 14 years ago,” Hudgins said.
“When it was time to leave I told my
friend, ‘you go back and I think I’ll stay
here. You think you can bring me my
paycheck next weekend?’ I’ve been here
ever since.”
Hudgins spent the first eight years living
in leased houses but built his dugout home
when a house he was staying in burned to
the ground. He said he had quite happily
spent the past six years alone, except for
his dogs and an occasional visitor. His diet
was one of squirrel, racoon and armadillo
meat and supplemented with catfish and
canned goods.
"I’m not completely decided yet what
I’m going to do,” said Hudgins. “I
guess...I’ll just have to dig out another
place somewhere else. But I really thought
I had squatter’s rights to this land.”
Another cold front will
be approaching during the
weekend and may stall
near the coast on Monday,
causing scattered
showers.
Temperatures will be in
the low to mid 80s during
the daysmans! should drop
into the 60s at night. The
outlook for the kickoff on
Saturday evening: partly
cloudy and warm.
Greek finalists chosen
for upcoming election
Mr. and Ms. Greek Lamar finalists
have been chosen for this year, according
to James Patton, Greek Week chair-
person.
Mr. Greek Lamar finalists are Donald
Citrano, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Robby Karr,
Sigma Nu; and Tony Sekaly, Phi Delta
Theta.
Men finalists were chosen by a selection
committee composed of Bryan Duhon,
president of the Interfraternity Council;
James Patton, chairman of Greek Week;
^and Bill Worsham, adviser to the In-
terfraternity Council.
Ms. Greek finalists are Melinda Moore,
Zeta Tau Alpha; Sherrie Booker, Alpha
Chi Omega; and Angie Romano, Gamma
Phi Beta, according to Patton.
The women finalists were chosen by
Jacque Placette, Panhellenic adviser;
Ann Shaw, dean of student development;
Bobbie Applegate, Setzer Student Center
program director; and Kathleen Pere,
assistant to dean of student development,
Patton said.
Finalists were required to have an
overall GPA of 2.5 and belong to at least
one organization other than a Greek
organization.
The elections will be held in the Setzer
Student Center, Oct. 15 through 17, from 8
a.m. to 1 p.m., Patton said. Voting will be
restricted to fraternity and sorority mem-
bers, according to Patton.
Council of Presidents and the Council of
Presidents as a whole, worked to come up
with a substitute proposal, Dr. Kemble
said. The results was the SHEAF bill.
“We hoped to write a bill that would up-
date the ad valorem tax program and have
the legislature pass it under the form of the
SHEAF bill,” Dr. Kemble said.
“SHEAF would establish a program of
funding for 10 years comparable or similar
to the ad valorem tax amendment,” Dr.
Kemble said.
Although the legislature did not pass the
SHEAF bill during the last session, Dr.
Kemble says he is hopeful. “The
legislature did not pass the SHEAF bill,
but they did recommend, and the governor
agreed, to appoint an interim committee
during the period between the legislative
session just past and the next one to
examine that proposition,” he said.
“I hope that the committee will look
very squarely at that source of monies
problem and come up with some kind of
recommendation,” Dr. Kemble added.
“I think the concept of a dedicated fund
has been sold. I don’t think the political
problem of where you get the money from
has been solved,” Dr. Kemble said.
Those who oppose the SHEAF*' bill feel
that the best way to handle state capital
improvements is for each university to
come back to the legislature every session
and ask for money, Dr. Kemble said.
“I am a strong believer that SHEAF is
the most efficient way to use the state
monies in capital improvement,” Dr.
Kemble said. “We’ll end up spending less
money and be more efficient.”
“I think they (legislators) have the
misimpression that it is the collective
universities’ attempt to squirrel away a lot
of money for building programs that are
not needed,” Dr. Kemble said.
“That is not it at all,” he added. “I would
rather have one-third less money, and
know at the beginning of the decade how
much I had so that I could plan in-
telligently, than get a third more money
and have it piece-mealed. The university
will get more good out of it and the state
will spend less money in the long run.” ,
L U Blood Drive
to begin Monday
The goal for this year’s Blood Drive,
which will be held Monday through Wed-
nesday, is 350 pints, according to Dale
Menefee, Blood Drive committee chair-
person.
Blood can be given from 8 a.m. to 10:30
a.m. and from noon to 2:30 p.m. each day
in- the Setzer Student Center Ballroom,
Menefee said.
The theme of the Blood Drive is “Be a
Life-Saver: Give Blood.”
“This will be the only major blood drive
that the Blood Center of Southeast Texas
will have^his month, so it’s important that
we have a good turnout,” Menefee said.
Competition among fraternities,
sororities, and independent organizations
will be held again this year, according to
Menefee.
Winners in each group will win a mixer
at Fat Dawg’s, Menefee said.
The winning organizations are those to
which the most donations are credited,
based on a percentage of their registered
membership, according to Menefee.
Students can donate blood for an
organization although they do not belong to
that group, Menefee said.
Students who donate blood receive
“blood assurance” for one year, according
to Menefee. This assures the student and
his immediate family of a free blood sup-
ply, in case they should need it from the
blood center, for a full year, he said.
“It’s really good because a pint of blood
costs around $45» If a student or a member
of his family has or is involved in an ac-
cident, he or she could easily need 14 or 15
pints,” Menefee said;
One requirement for donating blood is
that the donor weigh at least 110 pounds,
according to Carol Weatherall, head of the
blood center. Another requirement is that
if the donor is 17 or under, he must have
written parental consent.
Some common medications that are not
causes for rejection, Weatherall said, are
weight reduction pills, birth control pills
and most blood pressure medications.
People who can never donate blood in-
clude those who have had hepatitis, in-
fectious mono, epilepsy, a drug addiction
or chronic alcoholism.
Foundation awards LU
earthquake study grant
The National Science Foundation has
awarded Lamar University a $52,000 grant
for a study on how earthquakes affect
pipelines, according to Dr. Fred Young,
dean of the college of engineering.
The study, directed by Dr. Young, is en-
titled “Hydraulic Transients in Liquid
Filled Pipelines During Earthquakes.”
Assisting Dr. Young will be Dr. Andre
Delflache, professor of civil engineering,
serving as geologic seismic consultant;
and two mechanical engineering graduate
students, Jose Pardron and Ebrahim
Alipour, serving as research assistants.
According to Dr. Young, the team is con-
cerned with developing earthquake-
resistance designs in life-line pipeline
systems that provide public services such
as water and oil to particular com-
munities.
A computer study will be conducted that
will display what is believed to happen to a
pipeline during an earthquake, Dr. Young
said.
“The causes of damage to pipelines are
not known,” Dr. Young said. “We will be
looking at one possibility, hydraulic tran-
sients.
“Heavy emphasis will also be placed on
finding the causes of water and oil line
damage during earthquakes since rup-
tured lines can have a great impact on the
lives and environment of a community.”
The study may ultimately affect the
various building codes currently in use in
areas with a history of earthquakes, Dr.
Youngaaid. .
Modern Columbus
discovers problems
NEW YORK (UPI)—“Yes my name
is Christopher Columbus, and it has
caused me some problems,” said the
young man.
He is a senior at New York Univer-
sity, a film major whose name, indeed,
is Christopher Columbus. Don’t take
our word for it; he’s listed in the
Manhattan telephone directory—the
only Chris Columbus in the book.
Columbus Day used to be a problem
for this latter day Columbus, who hails
from Ohio.
“I used to get crank phone calls all
the time,” he said this week. “People
used to call my house in Ohio and ask if
the world was round or flat. I’ve been in
New York now four or five years and
haven’t gotten any calls recently. This
is the first crank call I’ve had in a
while.
“In high school I had a friend named
Danny Thomas and a friend named
Mike Angelo. We all were in the same
Spanish class and sat together.
“The first day of class the teacher
took the roll. The first guy answered,
Danny Thomas. The second guy said
Michael Angelo, and the teacher got a
little leery. Next, I said Christopher
Columbus.
And what about the poem about his
namesake?
“Oh yeah, the poem. Sure I know it:
“In fourteen hundred and ninety-two,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
“I don’t think it has a second verse.”
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