Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1980 Page: 4 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2, 1980*4
LU Briefs)-
Deadlines
Deadline for filing for the Student Government
Association and campus elections is Monday, ac-
cording to Winston Guillory, SGA president.
Positions for the SGA are president, eight mem-
bers-at-large, eight class representatives and nine
college representatives, he said.
Campus election positions are Setzer Student Cen-
ter Council president, Residence Hall Association
president and vice president, governing board
chairman, and two governing board represen-
tatives, according to Guillory.
Plant sale
Beta Beta Beta Biology Society will hold a plant
sale, Wednesday and Thursday in the Setzer
Student Center, according to Angela Dolce,
spokesperson.
The sale will begin each day at 8:30 a.m. and con-
' tinue throughout the day.
A great variety of plants will be available, Dolce
said.
Promotions
Promotions for five Lamar University staff mem-
bers have been approved by President C. Robert
Kemble, according to Joe Lee Smith, director of
public relations.
The promotions will become effective in August
for the 1980-81 fiscal year.
Library personnel promoted are Ruth Jacob and
Patsy Smith to the rank of library technical
assistant I, and Genevieve Dupre to the classified
rank of secretary III.
Attaining the rank of secretary II are Sarah Grif-
fin of the health and physical education department
and Laverne Gilligan of the art department, Smith
said.
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. has donated 20
dozen dyed eggs to Durham Elementary School as
its service project, according to Pam Narcisse,
spokesperson.
The dyed eggs have been donated to the school for
its Easter Egg Hunt, Narcisse said.
Phi Kappa Phi
/
Dr. Keith Hansen, head of the chemistry depart-
ment, has been elected president of Phi Kappa Phi
honor society, according to Dr. Blaine Thomas,
director of library services.
Other officers are Howard Perkins, director of
student publications, vice president in charge of
programs; and Dr. Betty Coody, professor of
education, vice president in charge of fellowship.
Elected vice president in charge of publicity was
Dr. William Nylin, director of systems procedures
at the Computer Center.
Thomas was reelected secretary-treasurer.
Perkins will represent Lamar as its voting
delegate at the 1980 Triennial Convention of Phi
Kappa Phi at Texas A&M University, Aug. 10-14.
Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha has pledged ten men to the frater-
nity and ten women to the Little Sister organization,
according to Kyle Fox, president.
The spring pledge class includes Mark Clem-
mons, Tyler freshman; Mike Ellis, Frankston
junior; John Jerry LaBarbera, Beaumont
sophomore; Todd Maraist, Port Arthur freshman-;
Mike Marlow, Arlington sophomore; and Glenn
Rose, Nederland freshman.
Also, Todd Shellhammer, Hamshire freshman;
Mark Swinney, Beaumont freshman; Chris Towry,
Corpus Christi freshman; and Daniel Webb, Port
Arthur freshman.
New Little Sister pledges include Teri Holcomb,
Beaumont sophomore; Lisa Hooks, Nederland
sophomore; Billye Hooper, Baytown freshman;
Susan Kattleman, Sour Lake freshman; and
Lorrilea Kennedy, Sour Lake freshman.
Also, Susan Kobrin, Beaumont freshman; Lori
Michalka, Sour Lake sophomore; Beth Mitchell,
Baytown freshman; Tina Rainbolt, Vidor fresh-
man; and Tammy Stroud, Texas City freshman.
Good Friday
Observed as year’s solemn feast
By DENNIS MILES
of the UP staff
From very early times,
Good Friday has been ob-
served by Christians
everywhere as the most
solemn feast of the year.
It is a day of penitence
and mourning, when the
Passion and Death of Oiir
Lord is remembered in
countless churches by ser-
vices.
Its various names, both
those still in use and those
that have become obsolete,
all stress its supreme
religious importance.
In English-speaking
countries it is Good Friday,
which is usually thought to
be a corruption of God’s
Friday.
Good Friday is an official
I holiday in numerous coun-
tries, including Great
Britain and some parts of
the United States.
For many it has become
an escape from jobs into
the bright springtime
world.
Even among the least
devout, there is often a
deep-rooted feeling that
this is a day apart from all
others. One commoi)
manifestation of this
feeling was, and still is in
some instances, a reluc-
tance to do customary
work on Good Friday,
either from genuine
respect for the religious
festival, or from super-
stitious fears that to do it
will somehow bring misfor-
tune.
Until very recently,
miners refused to go down
into the pits on Good
Friday, believing that
some disaster in the mines
would follow if they did.
Blacksmiths, in the
heyday of . their trade,
would not shoe a horse, or
work in any other way with
nails, because of the dread-
ful use to which nails had
once been put on Calvary.
In the Isle of Man,
householders never used
iron tools in the home on
Good Friday for much the
same reason. Fire irons
and griddles were all put
away beforehand; and if
the fire needed poking, it
was done with a rowan-
wood stick instead of the
poker.
KVLU to air
two programs
Two special Easter
weekend music programs,
featuring performances by
the Handel and Haydn
Society of Boston will be
aired on KVLU-FM (91.3),
according to Joanne Scar-
borough, development
director.
A performance of Bach’s
“St. John Passion,” broad-
cast live by satellite from
Symphony Hall in Boston,
will be the first program,
scheduled for 7 p.m. on
Friday, Scarborough said.
Featured soloists will be
Charles Bressler,
evangelist; Daisy
Newman, soprano;
Pamela Gorem, alto; Jon
Humphrey, tenor; David
Evitts, baritone; William
Parker, baritone (Jesus);
and Sanford Sylvan,
baritone.
Thomas Dunn, artistic
director of the society, will
conduct the performance.
The second program, to
be aired Sunday, beginning
at 1 p.m., will be a digitally
recorded performance of
Handel’s “Messiah,”
originally taped at Sym-
phony Hall last December,
Scraborough said.
Singing lead roles will be
Jeanie Omerle, soprano;
Pamela Gore, alto; Jon
Humphrey, tenor; and
David Arnold, baritone.
Each program is ap-
proximately three hours
long and will preempt
“Evening Classics” on
Friday, and “Grand
Piano” on Sunday, Scar-
borough said.
Phi Alpha Theta
schedules banquet
Initiates of Phi Alpha
Theta, national history
honor society, will be
honored at a banquet
today, 6:30 p.m., eighth
floor, Gray Library.
Dr. Robert Divine, a
scholar in the field of
diplomatic history and a
member of the UT Austin
faculty, will be one of the
guests at the banquet,
sponsored jointly by the
history department and
Phi Alpha Theta.
At 8 p.m. Dr. Divine will
deliver an address on
Eisenhower and the Cold
War in the Spindletop
Room. The public is invited
to attend that lecture.
Awards for the 1979-80
outstanding students in the
fields of American history
and Texas history will also
be presented during the
banquets.
The American history
award is sponsored each
year by the American
National Bank, and the
Texas history award is
sponsored by the history
department.
Incoming members of
Phi Alpha Theta are
Sheilah Mills, Beaumont
senior; Richard
Derryberry, Beaumont
sophomore; Robin
Caillouet, Bridge City
sophomore; and Grace
Lichey, Silsbee junior.
Also, Carolyn Harbour,
Nederland sophomore;
Michapl Huddle, Groves
sophomore; and Betty
Thibodeaux, Port Neches
sophomore.
rThe Setzer Student Center Council, in conjunction with Michael Tour*, announce* an
End-of-Semester Trip
to
Orlando, Fla.
May 12-17
$315, Quad Occupancy
$355, Double Occupancy
Includes:
•Airfare to and from Houston
•Five nights hotel accommodation
•Two days admission
to Walt Disney World
tJ;
, •Admission to Sea World
•One day at Daytona Beach
•Ground transfers
•Applicable taxes
Sign up SSC Check Cashing
Farmers did not work
with horses; and along the
coasts, fishermen stayed
ashore, considering it both
impious and ill-omened to
put to sea on that day.
A very widespread
belief, by no means extinct
yet, was that it is ex-
tremely unlucky to wash
clothes or linen on Good
Friday. Legend says that
whoever does so will find
the water stained with
blood, or the clothes hung
on the line spotted with it,
and that misfortune of
some kind, perhaps a death
in the family, will follow.
Probably no one believes
that, but a vague tradition
of ill luck still clings about
Good Friday washing, and
older housewives usually
avoid doing it themselves
and are faintly shocked if
they hear of any one else
doing it.
On the other hand, their
husbands, if they are keen
gardeners, choose that day
£or planting. Country
tradition says that seeds
put in the earth on Good
Friday will always thrive,
because on that one day of
the year the soil is
redeemed from the power
of Satan.
In some southern areas
of the United States, there
is a Good Friday legend
about the dogwood tree,
usually in bloom this time -
of the year.
It is said that the
dogwood was once a great
tree like the oak, and that
its wood was so strong that
it was used for the making
of Christ’s Cross.
Legend says thht
because of the tree’s regret
and pity at being used for
this purpose, Christ told the
tree, as he hung dpon it,
that the dogwood tree
would never again grow
large enough to be used as
a cross.
Instead it would become
slender and bent and
twisted. Its blossoms would
be in the form of a
cross—two long and two
short petals. In the center
of the outer edge of each
petal there would appear
nail prints, brown with rust
and stained with red. In the
center of the flower would
be a crown of thorns, and
all who saw it would
remember.
TERR Y BACKS BIG RED
TERRY’S LIQUOR STORE
Student and Faculty Ducttunlx
Theresa Fertitta
Owner
3290 Highland
835-2005
CANCER
CAN BE BEAT.
American
Cancer Society
Fyler’s Big Thicket
Canoes
Fifteen minutes from Village Creek
10% Discount
to Lamar Students
Silsbee
385-6689
Friday and Saturday
Only
All You Can Eat
Fish and Shrimp Dinner
Includes: JUSt $0*75
•Hush Puppies
•Cole Slaw 4655 Port Arthur Road
§ •French Fries (University Inn)
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The Setzer Student Center Council
is now taking applications for
1980-81
Chairpersons and Officers
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FREE
PREGNANCY TESTS
622-2170
• Immediate Appointments
•Confidential Counseling
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West Loop Clinic
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•Vice President
•Secretary
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•Concert
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•Social
•Recreation
•Performing Arts
•Coffeehouse
•Classic Film
•Contemporary Film
•Video Productions
•Travel
•Video Tape
Apply 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the
Activities Area, 201 Setzer Student
Center
Interviews to be held April 21 - 25
Lamar Freshmen and Sophomores:
Earn Two Years of Army ROTC Credits
in a Special Six-Week Off-Campus Summer Course
and Get Paid to Attend
Beginning in Fall 1980, the newest department at Lamar —Army ROTC—will be offering some
new elective courses to Lamar students.
As a freshman or sophomore, you have probably missed taking the first two years of Army
ROTC courses. But because there is a two-year Army ROTC program, you can earn the basic course credits in a special six-
week off-campus course this summer. And you'll be PAID to attend!
Then in Fall 1980, if you choose to continue in Army ROTC at Lamar, you can earn $100 per
month to help you through your last two years in college.
There are many more benefits and advantages to the Army ROTC Two-Year Program. Ask me
about them —call me collect for an appointment at (318) 477-3723.
Capt. Daniel Ruiz, Jr.
Lamar Army ROTC
Enrollment Officer
Learn
What it Takes
to Lead
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