Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1980 Page: 3 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2,1980*3
Viewpoint
Clements
Visit provides
rare opportunity
Interested Lamar University students, faculty and staff have a
rare opportunity today—one which should not be lightly over-
looked.
Gov. William P. Clements will speak in the Setzer Student
Center Ballroom at approximately 2:30 p.m., after touring selec-
ted sites on campus.
Following Clements’ remarks will be a brief question-and-
answer period.
Ideally, this time should provide a portion of the Lamar com-
munity with an opportunity to ask questions of concern about
the state, particularly Southeast Texas and the Golden Triangle.
The questions raised, as well as Clements’ responses, should
prove interesting.
It isn’t often an opportunity materializes in this area to dis-
cuss issues face-to-face with the state’s highest elected official.
The
Doiron
Report
The best years of her life?
Preadolescent memories include sister, fleas, disease
By BONNIE DOIRON
of the UP staff
When I was 3 1/2 years old, my little
sister was born.
In 1920, babies were born at home.
The doctor, black bag in hand, came to
our house. He told me that he had a new
: baby for me in the bag.
Perhaps I picked up vibes from the
; elders who went along with the docotor's
. teasing, but, for whatever reason, I do
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remember wondering why the doctor
would lie to me.
I knew there was no baby in that black
bag.
I do not recall particularly enjoying the
new baby, but I do remember vividly the
horrible dreams I had of being chased by a
“hardy wad.”
My mother was fond of teasing me by
telling the baby that I was a "hardy wad.”
This beast frequently chased me across
a bridge over a deep ditch. Since I did not
know what a “hardy wad” was, in my
dreams it appeared as a blurred ball of
light which came spinning after me.
The first time I saw a movie cartoon of
the “Tasmanian Devil,” I recognized my
“hardy wad.”
The first song I remember was “Lord
Plant My Feet on Higher Ground.”
Overlooking the small sawmill town of
Remlig, where we lived, was a high hill
with the town’s water tower on top.
To me, that was the “Higher Ground.”
In the field behind our house there was a
spinning jenny. Not the kind used for spin-
ning wool or cotton. This was a long plank
bolted to a low stump. One kid on each end
and round and round we would go. Great
fun.
In the early 20s, silent movies were a big
thing.
My brothers, who were 8 and 9, were
allowed to sweep the movie house. They
allowed me to tag along and that’s when I
learned to listen to my elders.
They warned me not to go into the semi-
walled-off section reserved for the non-
whites, because, they said, it had fleas. Of
course, I immediately went there and was
pounced upon by thousands of fleas.
How could fleas know in which section
they were supposed to stay?
Sawmill towns were notoriously bigoted.
When I was 6, my mother decided that I
should go to kindergarten. I rebelled. In or-
der to persuade me that I would enjoy
school, the teacher would come by after
me and let me tote her big alarm clock all
the way down the sandy road to the
schoolhouse.
This was not a good idea. I loved school
and learned so well that I was allowed to
skip the first grade.
My first experience with conniving lying
came about when I needed a pair of
scissors to cut out paper dolls.
I was very clever—I thought. I went next
door and told the neighbor that my mother
wanted to borrow her scissors. She
questioned me with a slight hint of doubt,
but, nevertheless, she gave them to me.
In those days, scissors were treasured
and were not to be used carelessly.
I went around my house to a side porch
where I knew the neighbor could not see
and proceeded to my work.
After a few minutes, the neighbor came
to the fence and in a loud voice asked me
why I had not taken the scissors to my
mother.
How did she know that? She still couldn’t
see me.
I was so amazed at this feat of magic
that I returned the scissors without a word.
I often wonder if she ever reported me to
my mother.
When I was 7, the sawmill tied down the
whistle and closed up shop.
All the trees had been cut and it was time
to move to another forest of trees and
leave the forest of stumps behind.
This first of our many moves over the
next eight years was something to remem-
ber.
We arrived at our new location late at
night, and, with no dishes unpacked, ate
pork and beans from the can and drank
coffee-milk to wash it down.
No feast since has been comparable to
this kerosene lamplighted one.
Haslam was a new sawmill town with no
schools, so we had to walk two miles to the
Joaquin school.
Here I learned the terror and fear of
disease. Scarlet fever broke out at the
school. Our next door neighbor persuaded
our mother to make us wear an asafetida
bag around our necks to ward off the
disease. Ugh!
It was rumored that the little girl who
started it all had caught the fever from the
school water well.
I became a reformed
“waterholic”—never touched the stuff at
school.
Joaquin was in the midst of building a
new school and for weeks our teacher lec-
tured us concerning our future behavior in
the new school.
We were to be careful of the new desks.
We were to be careful of the new floors.
We were to be careful of the new black-
boards.
We could hardly wait for the happy
moving day.
On the first day at my new desk, I took
my newly sharpened pencil and went et-
ching round and round all over the shiny
new top.
Simply beautiful.
To this day, I can close my eyes and see
the livid rage of my teacher. She barely
managed to refrain from mayhem.
I could not understand why she could not
understand what, to me, was a natural
thing to do.
I was showing my pride in my new desk,
and here was this mad woman, ranting
and raving.
Mercifully, I do not remember what hap-
pened after that.
In a way I do. We moved again.
Childbirth book fits into almost any course
By DR. RICHARD MEISLER When she had her first hnhv Vnrmsi'c rhnnaoH Tho anal i... ,A : >»— i *i ,, — . ...
By DR. RICHARD MEISLER
Whenever I teach a course, whatever the
subject matter, I put a particular book on
the list of suggested readings. The book
says so much about the nature of good
education that it fits into almost any cour-
se. It is also fun, inspiring, and it deals
with a rather universal subject, childbirth.
The book is “Thank You, Dr. Lamaze”
(Doubleday paperback, $1.95) by Marjorie
Karmel.
It describes how training and education
produced a remarkable change in Kar-
mel’s life.
Childbirth was transformed from a
frightening and painful experience into
one of joy.
As we read “Thank You, Dr. Lamaze,”
we follow Karmel’s progress, and it is
sometimes so vivid that we feel as if it’s
happening to us. We also get a chance to
observe a model of good education, a
model that applies far beyond the realm of
childbirth training.
One of the most interesting aspects of
Karmel’s experience is its implications for
the relationship between the learner and
the teacher/professional.
When she had her first baby, Karmel’s
relationship to the doctors and nurses was
fairly conventional for American
medicine. The professionals were the ex-
“We have be-
come accustomed
to subordinating
ourselves to pro-
fessionals. ”
perts who told her what to do without
necessarily helping her to understand the
reasons.
It was almost as if the patient/leamer
was working for the teacher/professional.
This is very much like what happens all
the time on college campuses, where
students talk about writing papers for a
professor.
When Karmel moved to France and par-
ticipated in another sort of childbirth
education system, the relationship was
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changed. The goal was for her to acquire
the knowledge that would help her main-
tain control over the birth experience.
The role of the professionals was to help
and be at her disposal.
The message of one system is “Just
relax and leave everything to us. We are
the experts, even when it comes to your
body.”
The other system says, “Together, with
you doing as much as possible, we’ll get a
healthy baby into this world.”
Another beautiful part of the book is the
warmth that Karmel feels for her
teacher/professionals in France. The best
learning takes place, it is clear, when
hearts are communicating as well as
heads.
Perhaps the most inspiring part of the
book for me concerns the power of
education.
Knowledge turns pain into joy.
Knowledge is a force that improves life in
ways that are obvious in experience.
Learning is not something that is pur-
sued because it might possibly be useful in
some distant future. It is not the vague
promise of a professor who controls his
students. It is the result of the efforts of an
autonomous learner with a problem to
solve or a life to improve. The experts are
servants, not masters.
We have become accustomed to sub
dinating ourselves to professionals. W1
we go to a professor, social worker, doct
accountant or psychologist, we are
dined to put our problems into their han
In deference to the knowledge of
perts, we forfeit the education that wo
come to us from retaining control of <
own lives and problems.
We can, however, learn from the expe
while increasing our own autonomy.
- “Thank You, Dr. Lamaze” is a book tl
shows one way of doing this.
© Richard Meisler
To the Editor:
This letter is in response to a plea made
on the Larry King show on Tuesday mor-
ning March 11,1980, by the Graves family,
whose relative is a hostage in Terheran,
Iran, asking for an impartial investigation
into the allegations that the Carter Ad-
ministration is using the hostage problem
for personal political purposes.
In order that justice in this situation
should be impartial and free from political
taint in this sensitive political year, I
propose that the following procedure be
implemented.
I define justice as fairness.
Congress should pass a resolution asking
each Justice of the Supreme Court to write
to a university of his choice and ask the
faculty to choose one of its members to act
on a commission to investigate every
aspect of the Iranian hostage situation.
The commission would have the power
to subpeona all individuals and papers, in-
cluding Presidential papers, CIA
documents, papers of all Secretaries of
State since 1950, etc..., that could shed
light on the subject. The commission alone _
Readers’ Forum
would have the power to determine which
session would be open or closed, and how
long and thorough the investigation would
be.
In order to insure complete impartiality.
Congress would pass a law prohibiting any
individual in or out of government from
contacting any member of the commission
or their families for the purpose of in-
fluencing the work of the commission. A
mandatory jail sentance of five years
would be imposed upon anyone so con-
victed.
When the commission has written its
report, it should specify an exact time and
date when it would be released.
The report should be released to the
general public at the same time that it is
made available to the White House, CIA,
State Department, and the Congress, so
that there would be no possibility of distor-
ting the contents of the report by prior
denial or self-seeking interpretation.
Instead of the secrecy that has been em-
ployed by the Carter Administration until
.now, this method of open diplomacy is
based on sound philosophical princi]
that were proposed by the Jew
philosopher, Christ. “He also said to thi
‘Would you bring in a lamp to put it undi
tub or under the bed? Surely you will pi
on the lampstand? For there is noth
hidden but it must be disclosed, noth
kept secret except to be brought to ligh
anyone has ears to hear, let him listei
this' ” (Mark 4:21-23).
This method also agrees with
political principle proposed by Abrah
Lincoln when he pointed out that w
there is a decision to be made that aff<
the welfare of the nation it should be m
by the whole nation and not by a sn
secretive group.
This principle has been proven by
miscalculations made in Washington <
cerning Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietm
Nicaragua, and the Shah of Iran.
This problem could be resolved if eno
people would write to their Congressr
and Senators.
Joseph Paslnosky
Former special student
West Virginia University, Morgantown
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