Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 23, 1977 Page: 1 of 12
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LAMAR
NOV 2 21917
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar Community for 54 years
Wednesday, Nov. 23,1977
Vol. 28, No. 24
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Frederick, Higgins given ’78 season
by LAURIE HAYNES
of the U.P. staff
Head football coach Bob Frederick
and athletic director James Higgins
will have one more season to revitalize
the football program.
That announcement by Lamar
president Dr. Robert Kemble came
Monday in a special press conference
coinciding with a Cardinal Club
meeting.
Dr. Kemble said he shared the Board
of Regents’ view that Coach Frederick
should be allowed to complete “the
usual three seasons” that are normally
allowed a coach to establish a suc-
cessfully competitive program.
He did not lay blame on any in-
dividual for the football team’s per-
formance but felt that some degree of
fault lies at every level, including his
own.
The errors that have marked the foot-
ball program in recent years were
more often efforts of omission, Dr.
Kemble said, rather than commission.
He did feel that some basis for future
progress had been made including “a
C. ROBERT KEMBLE
Lynn Sweat, LU alumnus,
will exhibit 60 oil paintings
Lynn Sweat, a 1956 graduate of
Lamar University and one of the top
free-lance artists in the nation, will
show 60 of his oil paintings at the
university’s Brown Center in Orange,
Sunday through Dec. 4.
During the same week, Sweat will be
an artist-in-residence for LU students
both on the main campus and at LU-
Orange.
“Professionally and personally, Lynn
Sweat is one of Lamar’s most out-
standing graduates,” said Charlie Sch-
mucker, director of development and
executive director of the Ex-Students
Association. “His visit will mean much
to the people of the area who appreciate
art, and to our art students.”
A native of Nederland, Sweat has
worked at all three of this area’s
television stations, and for the last 11
years has worked out of Weston, Conn.
Book covers for such paperback
publishers as Bantam, Dell, and Ran-
dom House have been Sweat’s biggest
sellers over the last several years. He
designed the covers for Red Serling’s
“Stories from the Twilight Zone” and
H. G. Wells’ “Time Machine.”
Sweat and his wife, the former
Elynor Glynn of Beaumont, have four
children ranging in age from 14 to 20
years.
“My old art instructors, Harold
Pelfrey and Myrtle Kerr, and many
others at Lamar have had a great in-
fluence on my life,” said Sweat. “It is
always fun to drop by the campus for a
while when I get in to see my parents,
and it is a real privilege to be invited to
exhibit my paintings at the Brown Cen-
ter,” he said.
nucleus of talent for a successful team
next year and making observable im-
provement in the organization and ef-
ficiency of the recruiting effort.
BOB FREDERICK
As far as athletic program funding is
concerned, he said Lamar was very
near its maximum capability and must
continue to depend to some real degree
upon private support. Although studies
made had found Lamar’s football fun-
ding to be slightly below average as
compared to comparable-size Texas
universities, Dr. Kemble felt it should
prove adequate to compete successfully
at the present level if it is judiciously
and effectively used.
He thought Lamar's record in its total
athletic program during its fourteen
years in the Southland Conference had
been by-and-large superior and cer-
tainly did not indicate general
problems. He cited the fact that Lamar
has won the Southland Conference All
Sports Trophy five times while no other
school has won more than twice.
The football team’s strong showing in
See, FREDERICK page 2
Crawford enters race
“Bo” Crawford, dean of
students, announced yesterday in
a local press conference that he
will be a candidate for state
representative from District 7-B
in the upcoming election.
Crawford will be running for the
position of representative Pike
Powers, who is not seeking re-
election.
Crawford will remain on the
faculty until the time he will take
a leave of absence from Lamar to
campaign on a full-time basis.
However, should he be elected, he
will have to resign his position
Among his major campaign
concerns will be fiscal respon-
sibility, public education, Lamar
University and higher education,
and crime and safety.
BO CRAWFORD
‘Psych’ complex
nears completion
By CHUCK CASON
of the U.P. staff
By Dec. 1, the entire Lamar
Psychology Department (classes, of-
fices, etc.) should be one step closer
toward moving into the old business
building, according to Lamar Business
Manager Pat Weaver.
Dec. 1 is the date work is scheduled to
end on the building. The work was
originally scheduled to be finished on
Sept. 1, however, a worker’s strike
delayed it’s completion.
Following the work completion, a
preliminary inspection of the building
will take place by Weaver and an ar-
chitect.
A report copy of the inspection, for
approval purposes, will then be handed
to Oscar Baxley, university vice-
president and head of Lamar finance.
He, in turn, will advise Lamar
President Dr. Robert Kemble and
University Board of Regents of the mat-
ter for their consideration at one of
their meetings sometime in December.
Dr. Kemble and the Board of Regents
have the final say-so on the approval.
“I fully expect the Regents and Dr.
See, PSYCHOLOGY page 2
He supports the 6original Carter position9
Krueger speaks on gas allocation
By TARA SHOCKLEY
of the U.P. staff
U.S. Representative Bob Krueger
from New Braunfels spoke at Lamar
Monday on what he called an “unfair”
Carter Administration bill to allocate
natural gas. Krueger, who is seeking
the Democratic nomination to the
United States Senate from Texas, spoke
as part of the Cultural Awareness
Series sponsored by the history depart-
ment and Spindletop Museum.
Krueger’s talk, before a large crowd
on the eighth floor of the Gray Library,
began with an outline of energy resour-
ces now being used, and ended with his
efforts to support a bill for less govern-
ment regulation of natural gas and oil.
The country now gets two percent of
its total energy supply from nuclear
energy, he said, and cannot • expect
nuclear energy to constitute a very
large portion of the energy supply in the
near future, because of the time in-
volved in building nuclear power plan-
ts.
“If Beaumont decided to build a
nuclear plant,” he said, “energy would
not be ready to use it until 1988.” Eight
percent of our energy comes from
firewood and hydro-electric power,
Krueger said, and 16-17 percent comes
from coal. Krueger sees the future of
coal as an energy source limited since it
is a “dirty,” highly polluting form of
energy.
“If we substituted coal for one fifth of
the natural gas we now use...10 pounds
of sulphur would be thrown into the at-
mosphere for each person in the coun-
try,” Krueger said. “We are talking
about extraordinary environmental im-
pact. Strip mining has already wreaked
havoc on the landscape.’’
Krueger added that he supported the
bill against strip mining, which also
causes lung disease and death among
mine workers.
Other problems resulting from heavy
dependence on coal, particularly on the
Gulf Coast, would be land subsidence
from draining water out of coal, and
heavy costs to consumers because of
the immense capital involved in
producing energy from coal.
This leaves 75 percent of our energy
from oil and natural gas, Krueger said,
with gas being the largest single source
of domestically produced energy.
Almost half the nation’s oil is imported
from other nations “not noted for
political stability,” he said.
Texas has traditionally been the
largest producer of natural gas in the
country, he noted, but Texas is also'
the greatest user of natural gas. Texas
industry and utilities, he said, use more
natural gas than many states com-
bined.
Krueger said almost two million jobs
were lost last winter over the natural
gas shortage, but Texas did not lose any.'
Under a Carter administration
see, KRUEGER page 2
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Cowles, Roger. Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 23, 1977, newspaper, November 23, 1977; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499699/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.