Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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Tubbs
accepts position as
By CYNTHIA SHIELDS
of the UP staff
Everyone goes sooner or later, and
i Lamar head basketball coach Billy Tubbs
has literally gone “Sooner.”
The University of Oklahoma Regents an-
nounced Monday in Norman that Tubbs
will leave the Cardinal basketball squad to
become the Sooners’ new cage boss.
Tubbs succeeds Dave Bliss who resigned
his post at Oklahoma on March 6 to take
over the reins at Southern Methodist
( University, Dallas.
The regents met in a two-hour special
session Monday evening before an-
nouncing that Tubbs had accepted a five-
year contract with the Sooners.
The Oklahoma contract calls for an an-
nual salary of $46,000, with a yearly ex-
pense allowance of $3,000.
In addition, Tubbs’ income can be sup-
plemented with revenue from a summer
camp and television show, bringing his
earnings to an estimated $90,000.
The Oklahoma position was offered to
Georgetown, Washington, coach John
Thompson. Thompson announced his
decision to remain at Georgetown Satur-
day.
Other hopefuls for the OU position were
Joey Meyer, assistant coach at DePaul,
Chicago, and Ted Owens of the University
of Kansas, Lawrence.
Lamar athletic director J.B. Higgins
said the university hopes to name a new
basketball coach by Sunday.
“We will be moving immediately in a
compressed period of time to select and in-
terview quality candidates,” Higgins said,
“from whom we can choose a coach in
time for him to contact our top recruits
prior to the April 9, national letter of intent
signing date.”
“Our goal is to reach a decision by Sun-
day,” he said.
A search committee has been formed to
screen applicants, Higgins said. Three to
five of the top candidates will be selected
for interviews with the committee, Lamar
President Dr. C. Robert Kemble and the
regents athletic chairman Bob Montagne.
The committee is expected to begin its
interviewing Saturday.
. “There just isn’t time for a lengthy
period of interviews,” Higgins said. “The
president will need to make the decision on
a new coach as soon as it is practical, with
congnizance of the board of regents.”
Higgins will serve as the search com-
mittee's chairman.
Also serving on the committee will be
Dr. Ed Eveland, chairman of Lamar’s
faculty athletic committee; George
McLaughlin, vice president for student af-
fairs ; Jack Martin, director of placement
and former head basketball coach; Win-
ston Guillory, Student Government
Association president; Johnny Walker
Alumni Association president and John D
Riedmueller, Cardinal Club president.
The 45-year-old Tubbs led the Cards to
an unprecidented three consecutive
Southland Conference crowns, and com-
piled a 75-46 record in his four years as
LU’s head coach.
Tubbs coached the Cardinal cagers to
their second NCAA playoff series with the
22-11 Redbirds getting into the final round
. of 16 in March.
In the first two rounds of the playoffs is
Ogden, Utah, Lamar defeated 17th-ranked
Weber State, • Ogden, 87-66, and fifth-
ranked Oregon State, Corvallis, 81-77,
before falling to Clemson University, 74-66
in Tuscon, Ariz.
BILLY TUBBS
Weather Word
Mostly cloudy and mild to-
day with a slight chance of
light rain or drizzle, becoming
fairer tomorrow. Daytime
highs in the upper 70s and
nighttime lows in the low 60s.
LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Good Morning!
Wednesday, April 2,1980
Vol. 56, No. 40
Serving the Lamar community for 56 years
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Photo by ROBERT GARRETT
By BRETTTHACKER
of the UP staff
Lamar University and the Department
.of Communication will host the annual
spring convention of the Texas In-
tercollegiate Press Association April 10-12.
Members of the association, made up of
48 colleges and universities from around
the state, will be converging on campus
and points around Beaumont for contests,
seminars and workshops in the fields of
print journalism, advertising, public
relations, photo journalism and broad-
casting.
i Keynote speakers for the convention are
Tom DeFrank, White House correspon-
dent for Newsweek magazine; Dave Cam-
pbell, editor and creator of Texas Football
magazine and sports editor of the Waco
Tribune-Herald; and Dick Crew, national
executive producer for Westinghouse’s
syndicated TV programs PM Magazine
and Evening Magazine.
Lamar president Dr. C. Robert Kemble
will also address the convention.
Conducting workshops and seminars
lt with more than 300 delegates registered at
press time, include Herschell Mathews,
president of Vance-Mathews Inc. of
Beaumont, advertising and public
relations; Campbell, print sports; and
John Dennis, KAYC-rKAYD news direc-
tor, broadcast news.
Others are DeFrank, print magazines;'
Crew, and John Walls and Leeza Gibbons,
co-hosts of KFDM-TV’s PM Magazine,
broadcast magazines; Mike Parker,
Josten’s American Yearbook, yearbooks;
Stu Hayes, director of Lamar’s
Photographic Services, and Roy Bray,
Beaumont Enterprise-Journal staff
photographer, photography; and Richard
Stewart, Enterprise-Journal feature
writer, feature writing.
Two delegates from TIPA member
schools will be announced as recipients of
the Frank Buckley Scholarship Awards at
one of the major banquets of the con-
vention. An adviser-of-the-year award,
won last year by Howard Perkins, director
of student publications at Lamar, will also
be presented.
Live contests in print journalism and -
broadcasting will be held on campus. All
major gatherings will be at Lamar, with
several smaller meetings held at the con-
vention motel, the Ramada Inn.
At last year’s convention, hosted by the
University of Texas at El Paso, Lamar
University Press-Cardinal staffers won 22
individual awards in general magazine
and newspaper competition.
LU also took first-place in overall
general magazine and general magazine
sweepstakes with the Cardinal.
Perkins is TIPA program chairman for
the convention. He is assisted by Greg
Hale, University Press editor, Tim Meece,
University Press business manager, and
the University Press-Cardinal staff.
R.H. Wilkerson, assistant professor of
communication, is in charge of live com-
petition in print.
Charles Butt, instructor of com-
munication, is in charge of live com-
petition in broadcast.
Jeff Henderson, adviser to student
publications at Southwest Texas State
University in San Marcos, is chairperson
of the Buckley Scholarship Awards Com-
mittee, and Wilma Wirt, head of the
Department of Mass Communication at
the University of El Paso is chairperson of
the Adviser-of-the-Year Award Com-
mittee.
Mike McBride, head of the Department
of Mass Communication at Western Texas
College, Snyder, is president of the Texas
Intercollegiate Press Association Advisers
group, and Pat Hammond, editor of the
University Star at Southwestern Texas
State University, is president of the TIPA
students association.
The convention’s press room will be un-
der the direction of Lamar’s news services
office, Joe Lee Smith, director.
Photography for the convention will be
handled by Lamar’s Photographic Ser-
vices, Hayes, director, and the University
Press photography staff.
Second annual Birdfeed
Lamar to host campus-wide picnic
Gentry nominees named
LU to host state convention
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
By SUSAN MARLOW
of the UP staff
Eight senior women have been
nominated for the Bess Gentry Award, ac-
cording to Jacque Placette, director of
student organizations.
Nominees are Thelma Arthur, Houston
December graduate; Cynthia Carter,
I Bridge City senior; Jan Dickerson,
| Beaumont December graduate; and Lisa
Ferguson, Beaumont senior.
Also, Betty Jacob, Beaumont senior;
Barbara Johnson, Fayetteville, N.C.,
December graduate; Angela Romano,
Orange senior; and Terry Wilson,
Beaumont senior.
Arthur, a special education and
sociology major, is a member of Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority, Alpha Lambda
Delta and Phi Kappa Phi. She also served
as chairperson for the Cap and Gown
program and Black Leaders’ Coalition
committee.
Carter, an ocean engineering major, ser-
ved as Alpha Lambda Delta president, and
Cap and Gown reporter. She is also a mem-
ber of the Lamar Geologic Society, the
Lamar Oceanographic Society and the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
Dickerson, a nursing major, served as
president of Baccalaureate Student Nur-
ses Association and as president of the
Student Nurses Association. She was also a
member of Delta Zeta sorority.
Ferguson, a management-marketing
major, served as president of Alpha Chi
Omega sorority, Leadership Lamar
steering committee co-chairperson and
Cap and Gown second vice president. She
was also in Order of Omega and Student
Government Association.
Jacob, an English major, is president of
Cap and Gown and chairperson of the Set-
zer Student Center Governing Board. She
.was also the editor of Pulse magazine in
1978-79 and SGA vice president for that
same year.
Johnson, nursing major, served as
corresponding secretary of the Bac-
calaureate Student Nurses Association,
legislative representative for the Student
Nurses Association and a member of Phi
Kappa Phi, Phi Lambda Pi, Alpha Lamb-
da Delta and Cap and Gown.
Romano, elementary education major,
served as president of Gamma Phi Beta
sorority. She was a member of Order of
Omega, Texas Student Education
Association, and Panhellenic Association.
She was also a Miss Greek Lamar
nominee.
Wilson, an accounting major, is first
vice president of Cap and Gown, and
treasurer of the SSCC. She is a member of
the Accounting Society, Phi Kappa Phi and
Students for Free Enterprise.
The award is sponsored by the five
organizations which Bess Gentry, former
dean of women, founded at Lamar. The
organizations are Alpha Lambda Delta,
Cap and Gown, Lamar University
Hostesses, Lamar Panhellenic Association
and Physical Education Professionals.
The Bess Gentry Award Banquet will be
Thursday, April 10, 7 p.m., eighth floor,
Gray Library, according to Placette.
Tickets are available at the SSC check
cashing booth at a cost of $6 each.
The Bess Gentry Award is given an-
nually to an outstanding senior woman
who has exemplified high standards of
character, leadership, contribution, and
scholarship while a student at Lamar,
Placette said.
UP deadlines set
There will be no University Press
Friday, as classes will be dismissed in ob-
servance of Good Friday.
The UP will publish again Wednesday,
April 9. There will, however, be no UP on
Friday, April 11, as staff members will be
acting as hosts for the annual spring con-
vention of the Texas Intercollegiate Press
Association, to be hosted by Lamar
University and the Communication Depar-
tment.
All copy for the Wednesday, April 9,
edition should be submitted to the UP of-
fice by tomorrow afternoon.
The following week, the UP will publish
Wednesday, April 16, and Friday, April 18.
However, regular deadlines" will be ad-’
vanced as most staff members will be
traveling to the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, to participate in the annual
spring convention of the Southwestern
Jounalism Congress, April 17-19.
All copy for the Wednesday, April 16,
edition should be submitted to the UP of-
fice by Monday morning, April 14. All copy
for the Friday, April 18, edition should be
submitted to the UP office by Tuesday
morning, April 15.
The last edition of the UP for the spring
semester will publish Wednesday, April 23.
All copy for the edition should be sub-
mitted to the UP office by Monday mor-
ning, April 21.
By DAVID HARRINGTON
of the UP staff
Lamar will host the second annual Bird-
feed all-school picnic Wednesday, April 9,
from 4:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. in Cardinal
Country Park, according to Ann Shaw,
dean of student development.
Birdfeed is intended to be a fun-time
event to improve virtually every aspect of
the campus community, Shaw said.
During the picnic, campaign speeches
jvill be given by candidates for the
presidencies of the Student Government
Association, Setzer Student Center Coun-
cil, and Residence Hall Association, ac-
cording to Shaw.
“This will give people the opportunity to
meet the candidates first-hand and to
know their election platforms,” Shaw said.
Picnic-style food, including hamburgers
and hot dogs, will be served by SAGA Food
Service from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m., ac-
cording to Shaw.
Students with valid Vali-Dine cards may
eat free of charge, Shaw said. Cost for
other diners has been tentatively set bet-
ween $2.50 and $3.30.
The exact cost for those dining at the pic-
nic was to be determined at a meeting
Tuesday afternoon, and was unavailable
at press time.
Picnic games and other entertainment
will also highlight the picnic, Shaw said.
Live entertainment will be provided for
the Birdfeed, according to Karen Nichols,
SSCC president.
The group “The Shipper Family” is
scheduled to perform from 4:30 p.m. until
5 p.m.
The group “Pearl River” will perform
from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m., Nichols said.
Cardinal Country Park is located next to
the YMBL Athletic Pavilion on University"
Drive between Iowa and Georgia Streets:—
In case of rain, the event will be held in-
McDonald Gym, according to Jeanne
Webb, Birdfeed committee spokesperson.
Birdfeed is sponsored by the Student
Government Association, Setzer Student
Center Council, Residence Hall
Association, Panhellenic, Interfraternity
Council, and the University Press.
ItSMl Cheerleaders—
Twelve cheerleaders and two alternates have been selected to the
new, cheerleading squad. Top row (1. to r.) Mark Rees, Groves
freshman; Vicki Adkins, Evadale senior; Gary Hebert, Port
Neches graduate; Mary Wilson, alternate, Arlington junior; and
Mike Killings worth, Beaumont senior. Middle row, (1. to r.) Teri
Halcomb, Beaumont sophomore; David Stephenson, alternate,
Vidor freshman; Cindy Madden, Beaumont sophomore; Bubba
Collins, Beaumont sophomore; Tamerla Chavis, Beaumont
freshman; and Darrell Bryant, Dallas freshman. Bottom row (1.
to r.) Stephanie Gaspard, Groves freshman; Paul Cady, Orange
junior ; and Julie Woods, Groves sophomore.
Photo by FERNANDO PRADO
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