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It's Friday
November 5, 1982
Vol. 59, No. 20
A rf
Good
V*- Morning!
LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 59 years
LUPA, LU-O deans to be named provosts
System status for university established as goal
System status for Lamar University and
its branch campuses has been established
as a future, but not immediate, major goal
by the university’s Board of Regents which
also approved a related administrative ad-
justment, C. Robert Kemble, university
president, said Wednesday.
Kemble said the adjustments still have
to be approved by the legislature.
Although composed of three campuses,
six bachelor-level colleges, a graduate col-
lege, and an internal “community college”
(the College of Technical Arts), plus a ma-
jor affiliated operation in the John Gray
Institute, Lamar is not a system by state
designation even though Lamar is a larger
and more complex operation than some
current state systems.
The administrative change will have the
two branch campus executives, Dr. Joe
Ben Welch of LU-Orange and Dr. Sam
Monroe of LU-Port Arthur, reporting to
the president of the university. Their titles
will be changed from dean to provost.
Kemble said the realignment was to fur-
ther “streamline” the administrative
organization. Previously the deans have
reported to the vice president for
academic affairs.
Administrative, logistical and budgeting
operations will typically be directed to the
president through the executive associate
to the president with recommendations by
the appropriate university staff agency
prior to action by the president.
On matters related to academic cur-
ricula, programs, functions and instruc-
tions, direct requests and recommenda-
tions will be directed to the president
through the vice president for academic
affairs.
The school’s two branch campuses are
among the largest, and oldest, in the state.
The seven-year old LU-Port Arthur center
is the state’s largest branch campus in
both headcount (1,221) and semester
credit hours, and the 13-year old LU-
Orange is the third largest.
The Lamar branch campuses are the on-
ly lower-division centers in Texas. They
were established and continue to serve
primarily as feeder campuses to the main
campus and to provide off-campus credit
or non-credit courses authorized by the
parent institution.
LU-Orange and LU-Port Arthur do not
have independent roles and, despite the
growth of the centers, they still operate
under the original Coordinating Board
guidelines that state “administrative
structure will be limited to a coordinating
office under the direct management and
control of an appropriate official or
department of the parent institution.”
The centers also continue to operate
under the restrictions that their facilities
should be of no cost to the state. However,
due to the generosity of their communities
• i
I News Briefs
King to appear in Ballroom
Martin Luther King in will speak on the topic
“Challenges of the Future,” Wednesday, at 8 p.m., in
the Setzer Student Center Ballroom.
King, son of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther
King, will address current issues and the need for voter
registration.
King is a guest speaker for many organizations,
universities and churches throughout the country. He is
currently working on fund raising drives for the King
Center.
Tickets for the lecture are $1 for Lamar students, 81.50
for high school students and senior citizens and $2 for the
public.
King is being sponsored on campus by the SSC Forum
Committee. r
Deadline extended
Who’s Who application deadline has been extended to
noon, Monday, Nov. 8, Ann Shaw, dean of student
development, said.
Slight increase in grants
Total Pell Grant payments to Lamar University
students for 1982 will probably equal or slightly exceed
the 1981 total, according to Jim Rush, director of student
aid.
The Pell program has now been funded at a level to
fulfill the maximum payment schedule allowed by law,
a maximum of $1,800 for each eligible applicant.
Maximum qualifying dorm students are currently
receiving $1,400 per year, an increase of $100 to $200 per
student over the last fiscal year. Non-dorm residents are
receiving a maximum of $1,000 per year, an increase of
$25 to $50 over last year.
New funding levels will reinstate veterans who were
terminated from Pell eligibility in the past, and will in-
crease the payments by $10 every semester. The new
funding will not affect students receiving Social Security
educational benefits who are no longer eligible for Pell
scholarships.
Lamar has processed 1,666 Pell Grants during the first
five weeks of this fall semester, compared to 1,883 dur
ing the first three months of the 1981 fall semester.
Elimination of students receiving social security and
veteran benefits along with validation requirements im-
posed upon all Pell applicants applying during the peak
sign-up period make it difficult to compare last year’s
applicants to this year’s.
SGA to help families
The Student Government Association is sponsoring
“Feed-A-Family,” Nov. 15-19.
SGA members will be collecting non-perishable foods
in the Setzer Student Center Arbor Monday through
Thursday for Some Other Place, a local charitable
organization.
The project will conclude with a jamboree Friday,
John Spell, spokesperson, said.
The jamboree will be held in the SSC quadrangle from
noon until 6 p.m., and will feature entertainment. Local
radio station KZZB-95 will be broadcasting live from the
quadrangle.
Spell said the jamboree will be the highlight of the col-
lection activities.
Inside
this issue
Fromholz to appear
Steven Fromholz brings his "good times" music to
the Setzer Student Center Perch for a performance
today at 8 p.m. Fromholz is sponsored by the SSCC
! Coffeehouse Committee. See story, page 2.
FreebieCon scheduled
FreebieCon '82, Lamar University's first science fic-
| tion convention, will debut Nov. 13 in the Setzer
Student Center Ballroom. Dr. Lane Roth, associate
professor of communications, and Keith Cockrell,
l adjunct instructor of communications, are
scheduled guest speakers. See story, page 4.
Cards to face Runnin' Indians
After facing the Southland Conference's top pass-
ing team in Northeast Louisiana (Monroe) last
week, Lamar will play the top rushing team in the
conference, Arkansas State (Jonesboro) Indians.
The game is set for Cardinal Stadium at 7 p.m.,
Saturday. See story, page 5.
m r f • I ? • Model of the new gymnasium-auditorium was presented at the Board of
llGW bUllding-Regents meeting, Wednesday.
Photo courtesy PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES
Regents approve gymnasium;
Foster gets nod for position
By JOHN TISDALE
UP Editor
The Board of Regents approved Wednesday the ar-
chitectural design for the new $11 million gymnasium-
auditorium building and the appointment of Pat Foster to
athletic director, effective June 1.
The plans are to locate the building at the north end of
the football stadium. The building is designed to be a
three-level rectangular structure with an octangular
arena. The design was developed by Goleman & Rolfe
Associates of Houston.
Kemble said the Texas Legislature allocated $10.7
million for the project during last spring’s special session.
Contigent upon voters’ repeal of the state ad valorem
tax Tuesday, the appropriation has been held up until the
Texas attorney general’s office rules on whether Lamar
must receive approval.
Approval would have to come from the Coordinating
Board of the Texas College and University System to
undertake the project.
The building will have physical education classrooms, a
running track, office space for the football and basketball
programs, seminar rooms and a 1,200-square foot recep-
tion area. The reception area is located on the building’s
south side, overlooking the football stadium.
Construction for the 70-feet-high and 100,000-square-fejt
building is scheduled to start next spring and plans call fo*
it to be ready in time for the 1984 basketball season.
The arena, which will replace the Beaumont Civic
Center as the home court, will seat 8,188 and the running
track above the seating area will permit placement of
1,800 movable seats. The arena has the capability to hold
10,000.
The basketball court, with the removal of seats, will be
able to have two full-size practice courts. Also, a protec-
tive covering can be placed over the hardwood court and a
portable stage erected for performances.
The arena floor will be located on the ground level, with
the seated area rising angularly to the second level. The
classrooms, offices, reception area and seminar rooms
will be located on ground level, under the arena’s seating
area.
On the third level of the arena, a running track will be
placed along the circumference of the arena’s third level.
Regents also approved the issuance of $4 million in
bonds. Proceeds of the issue will go toward construction of
student activity centers at the Orange and Port Arthur.
Kemble said the bonds will be retired over a 17-year
period from money generated from student fees.
To pay off four outstanding bond issues, the board plac-
ed $3.5 million in escrow. The money will be invested in
government securities.
and Lamar bond monies, the two cam-
puses now represent $6 million in facilities
and equipment on 32 acres.
Oscar Baxley, vice president for finance
and personnel at Lamar, said the branch
campuses were badly underfunded for
their own operations and for Lamar’s
general support operations before the cur-
rent biennium because of inadequate
general state funding to the university.
The current budget allows adequate fun-
ding without straining the university’s
overall financial and supportive systems.
“I agree that a formalized ‘system
status’ for Lamar ought to be an
objective,” Kemble said. “There is no in-
tention, now or in the long-term future,
that these centers be separate from the
parent organization and campus, or, that
they become four-year, bachelor-level in-
stitutions.
“The Coordinating Board rules and
guidelines relating to the branch cam-
puses, are, indeed, dated. They need to be
reviewed and adjusted in order to conform
more basically with current conditions
while still maintaining the legislative in-
tent in its creation of the campuses and
providing appropriate controls and state
and university levels.”
Coordinating Board approval for the ad-
ministrative adjustment will be sought.
The target date for implementing the in-
ternal realignment is prior to the end of
1982. The period from January through
August will be an operational test period.
Board indicates drop
Despite long range projections by the
Texas College and University System
Coordinating Board indicating an enroll-
ment decline, Lamar University has been
experiencing a pattern of record growth
during the past three years.
With a record 14,568 enrollment for the
current fall semester, Lamar easily ex-
ceeded the CB’s projection while
establishing a new head count record for
the eighth consecutive semester, school of-
ficials said this week.
Projections by the CB for Lamar in
1982-83 called for a total of 12,367 students
on the school’s three campuses.
The forecast was for 10,564 students on
the main campus compared to the actual
12,372 head count. LU-Port Arthur has
1,221 students, 26 percent above the
predicted 968 figure, and LU-Orange’s
total of 975 is above the 835 projected.
“The point commonly missed in the
public reporting of enrollments is that
Lamar University has far exceeded Coor-
dinating Board projections,” Lamar
President Robert Kemble said. “While
some other state universities have grown
more, they were expected to grow because
of area population pressures and other fac-
tors. Lamar has grown at a time when it
was not expected to do so.”
Lamar is leading the state in the percen-
tage of increase with its 18 percent growth
rate above the CB’s projections. Only two
schools, the University of Texas at Austin
and Texas A&M University, have actually
increased more in total student population.
Ten other state-supported colleges and
universities have increased enrollments
above projected figures while seven have
slipped below predicted levels.
The trend indicates that schools located
in or near urban areas are increasing in
enrollment while those institutions in non-
urban locations are suffering declines.
Among those other urban area schools
showing major increases are North Texas
State and the University of Texas at Arl-
ington in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex,
the University of Houston and Southwest
Texas State, sandwiched between Austin
and San Antonio.
Based on the CB projections, Lamar
would be on a flat level or no-growth level
until 1985 with a slight dip until 1990 when
enrollment would start increasing slightly.
The projections by the CB were based on
a county-by-county demographic analysis
and percentage of college going students.
KVLU presents series
Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum and Bill Evans
are just some of the legendary artists
featured this month on National Public
Radio’s “Taylor Made Piano: A Jazz
History with Dr. Billy Taylor.”
Four programs from the 13-part series
examine modem jazz piano styles from
the steady rhythmic pulse of the ’30s swing
to the impressionistic statements of cool
jazz in the ’50s. The hour-long programs,
hosted by Dr. Billy Taylor, pianist, com-
poser and educator, can be heard on
KVLU-FM (91.3) on Mondays at noon, with
a repeat broadcast each Sunday at 6 p.m.
“These four programs put on view the
bare bones of the modem jazz piano,” said
Fred Bourque, producer. “Billy’s ex-
amination of this glorious ivory structure
reveals how the monument was built. His
presentation of this material is pro-
vocative.”
On Monday’s program, Taylor glides in-
to the swing era with a medley of recor-
dings by pianists Teddy Wilson, Billy Kyle,
Mary Lou Williams and Mel Powell. Or-
chestral innovations, such as the expanded
harmonies of swing, are illustrated by
Duke Ellington’s “Koko,” Don Redman’s
“Chant of the Weeds,” and Fletcher
Henderson’s “Stealin’ Apples.” Listeners
will also hear the Count Basie classic,
“Jumpin’ at the Woodside.”
The next program looks at new ideas of
the transitional pre-bop period. Taylor ex-
plains how the music was progressing
from swing into the bebop. Vintage recor-
dings by Art Tatum, Nat “King” Cole, Bil-
ly Strayhora, Errol Gamer and Hank
Jones illustrate this music’s rich har-
monies and intricate melodies. The pro-
gram also explores Milt Buckner’s “lock-
ed hands” piano style and other pre-bop
technical innovations.
The following week, Taylor discusses the
bebop explosion of the ’40s through recor-
dings such as Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in
Tunisia” and Charlie Parker’s “Sho
’Nuff.” Bebop’s demanding harmonies
and melodies are highlighted in Bud
Powell’s rendition of “Parisian
Thoroughfare” and Thelonious Mon’s per-
formance of “ ‘Round Midnight.’ ”
The month closes with an intimate look
at the phrasing of cool, third stream and
progressive jazz. Taylor analyzes the
statements of Miles Davis, and presents
recordings by pianists Tadd Dameron and
George Shearing. John Lewis’ “Django,”
a third stream fusion of European
classical music and jazz, is followed by the
progressive experiments of pianists Lenny
Tristano, Dave Brubeck and Bill Evans.
“Taylor Made Piano” is based on Dr.
Billy Taylor’s new book, '“Jazz Piano: A
Jazz History,” by William C. Brown Com-
pany Publishers. The series is produced by
Fred Bourque. Karen Kearns is the
associate producer.
Fraternity schedules
Service Day, Saturday
n 7 * * Dr George McLaughlin, vice president for student affairs, presents Alpha
Proclamation_Plli 0me8a president David Green and APO Service Day chairman Sam
"*■ * * Mize with a proclamation.
Photo courtesy PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES
Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity will
hold a service day Saturday, David Green,
president, said.
The fraternity will concentrate on four
projects.
The day is the fraternity’s National Ser-
vice Day and members have received pro-
clamations from Dr. George McLaughlin,
vice president for student affairs, and
from the city of Beaumont. The proclama-
tion from the city was issued during the ci-
ty council meeting Tuesday.
“Last year we had the pow wow under
the pavilion,” Green said. “We discussed
the idea (of the four events) and I thought
it could be done and Sam (Sam Mize, Ser-
vice Day chairman) took the ball and ran
with it.”
“We planned the day to go along with the
four C’s of service for APO,” Mize said,
“campus, community, country and
chapter.”
For the chapter, the fraternity will paint
and repair the cannon that is fired at the
football games, Mize said. For campus,
the group will sell programs at the football
games, instead of parking cars which has
been the usual task of APO.
For community, in cooperation with Sue
Brubaker of the Clean Community Com-
mission of Beaumont and the Lamar
Methodist Center, the fraternity will clean
up an elderly lady’s yard in Beaumont.
The city of Beaumont will provide a
truck and tools for the job, Mize said, and
APO will provide the manpower and hot
chocolate.
“The event was suggested by
Brubaker,” Green said.
For country, APO will have its annual
Bathtub Pull at the Gateway Shopping
Mall, with contributions going to the
American Heart Association.
“Last year we raised $375 from the
pull,” Green said. “We will pull an old
fashioned tub through the shopping mall
and ask for donations.
“Next year, we hope to expand to more
organizations (on campus),” Green said.
“We would like everyone to be aware of
and to do some type of public service,”
Mize said.
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