The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1975 Page: 3 of 12
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Merle Haggard to appear Sunday
A concert by the original “Okie From
Muskogee,” Merle Haggard, will end a
long list of Homecoming activities in Mc-
Donald Gym Sunday at 8 p.m.
Appearing with Haggard will be Leona
Williams, Nashville recording artist, and
Ronnie Reno, “king of the five string ban-
jo,” according to John Stofan, Setzer Cen-
ter programs director.
Stofan hopes for a crowd of 4,000. He
reports that over 600 tickets had been sold
by the Tuesday before the concert.
Tickets cost $4.50 with ID, $5.50 general
admission and $6.50 at the door. Stofan
said that the bleachers in the gym would be
pulled out of the way and the floor will be
covered with chairs.
Haggard has lived the life he sings
about. Bom the son of a dustbowl Okie
migrant, he lived his early life in the
“Hoover Camps” of the Great Depression.
From the time Haggard was 14 until he
was almost 20, he wandered mostly in and
out of trouble-reform school, stolen cars,
truck-driving, pitching hay, suspicion of ar-
med robbery, working oil fields and
honkey-tonks.
In 1975, the nomadic spree ended. “Me,
two, three other guys got to drinking,”
says Haggard. “A couple of us had been
out of work for a few weeks. Well, we
decided to burglarize this cafe. We
were kinda juiced up or we wouldn’t
have even thought of it.
Letters to the editor
In his two years and nine months at San
Quintin, Haggard earned a high school
equivalency diploma and played in the
warden’s country band. When he was
paroled in 1960, he said he was a “better
man because of it. I wouldn’t trade the
experience.”
Haggard entered the entertainment
business with a wealth of experience to
draw on. He started out on Tally Records,
a small country label.
In 1965, his “All My Friends Are Gonna
Be Strangers” fared well on the national
charts and landed him a contract with
Capitol Records.
Haggard was writing and singing
material like “Momma Tried” from his
depression childhood, "Branded Man” from
his years in prison, and “White Line
Merle Haggard
Fever” from the times he spent on the
road.
New opponents suggested
Pageant discrepancies ?
Dear Editor:
I enjoyed reading David Bost’s
suggestions for improving our football
team, but I feel a much simpler solution is
- available. The reason the University of
Texas always has such a good season is
that they schedule such patsies as Arkan-
sas, A& M and Oklahoma. If Lamar were
to schedule a few “softer” teams, we too
could build an impressive win-loss record
in a few years. I have done considerable
research and scouting and have come up
with several schools willing to fit LU into
*" their seasons.
1. Sammy Davis Jr. High-a small
but talented group of youngsters;
team nickname: the Candy Men.
2 Texas M& M -real losers; ac-
cording to past opponents they melt
in your hands.
3. Absorbine Jr. College - do not
have a very good win-loss record,
but they have very few injuries.
4. Miami of Oklahoma - very
weak against the pass; they per-
fected the “twilight zone defense.”
5. Texas Women’s University -
should be an easy win, but if you get
them mad, they will scratch your
eyes out.
6. Quaker State - for religious
reasons they oppose all forms of
violence and warfare; therefore,
they never use the shotgun, blitz, or
the bomb.
After carefully reviewing the available
statistics, my roommate, the fames od-
ds maker from Jasper, Nick the Hick, has
promised me Lamar has a good chance of
breaking even if we could work these
teams into the line-up. After several years
of good seasons, Lamar will be known as
the powerhouse of southeast Texas. Then
we can work some of those tough teams we
play now back into the line-up. Fur-
thermore, there is no need to abandon the
present ad campaign, “Big Red Goes Big
Time.” Simply insert the word “in” bet-
ween “Big” and ‘Time.”
S incerely yours,
Randy Hawkins,
Box 10485 LU Station
Dear Editor:
I now have the prevailing belief that
Lamar University (of all places in the
wprld) is guilty of practicing
discriminatory measures. I’m sure that
the idle rumors now circulating on campus
about the selection of the Homecoming
court are unfounded because it just isn’t
possible at our perfect little school.
However, it was rumored Monday
that someone overheard in Mrs. Alice
Wray’s office that the five Homecoming
Queen finalists had already been selec-
ted. I personally was told by a student
24 hours before the official pageant who
the exact five young women would be.
Now how in the hell can this be idle
gossip!
Looking at it from a black perspective, it
was common knowledge among black
students that LU would not have a blade
Homecoming Queen this year. But going
to such lengths as to pre-select the
homecoming court prior to the end of the
official pageant is downright crappy, to say
the least. We are aware that the odds
were heavily against us and I’m not at all
against having a white Homecoming
Queen, but the tactic used this year has got
to go (if it is true).
It is becoming quite apparent that con-
tests such as this are merely farces. I am
not against honoring a young lady because
she possesses physical beauty and all the
other criteria necessary to garner such an
honor, but if Lamar is so unfair as to prac-
ticesuchmeasurss, then why not change
the Homecoming Queen’s title to “Crap
Queen?,” or better yet, stop the (expletive
deleted) altogether. But as we all know,
every dog will have its day, and the good
people who pulled this stunt will surely
have two.
Ralph Wilson
Letters to the editor-are welcomed by the University Press
staff. Letters must be signed, under 250 words or they will be
edited to meet this limit. They should be submitted to the
University Press before 5 p.m. on Tuesday. University Press of-
fices are located in the Activities Area of the Setzer Center.
4UP’ advertising, editing blasted
Dear Editor:
I would assume that you, as editor,
either wrote and published or read and
approved for publishing, the editorial in
last week’s paper, “We Reserve the
Right....” I would like to know who you,
as editor of a large university
" newspaper, think you are responsible to
when editing articles for our
newspaper.
I can say “our newspaper” because
seventy four and some odd per cent
(74.14 to be exact) of the University
Press’ budget is funded from Student
Service Fees. (The fact is, any student
*■ who pays the $30 Student Service Fees
♦ automatically funds the newspaper
$.85.) Only 24.86% of the UP’s money
comes from commercial enterprises
(that is, advertisements). However,
this ratio was not evident in the Novem-
ber 14,1975 issue of the UP.
There were (count with me): two full
page ads, four pages with ads filling up
. at least three quarters of the page, four
pages with at least one half of the page
taken up by advertisements, and two
pages with about one fourth a page in
ads. There was also a full page layout
(five pictures and two sentences) on
motocross. That’s nine pages total of
advertising and one page of special in-
•*' terest. Fifty six and one quarter per
cent of the newspaper was given to
commercial advertising, 6.25% to
special interest and a whopping 37.5%
of news of student concern.
Now you might argue that ad-
vertising is a student service. I agree
wholeheartedly. However, when ar-
ticles that would inform the student
community are cut (or edited) to make
room for ads, I feel that you, as editor,
are not being responsible to your con-
tributors. (I am referring to articles
like the speakers from UT Austin that
received a full five paragraph
coverage, the Women in Public Life
convention in Austin-that wasn’t even
covered—and the various Greek
organization reports that are cut and
edited to death week in and week out.)
The truth is, the UP is not a com-
mercial newspaper, it should not be run
as a commercial newspaper, and it is a
disgrace to the student body that it has
continued to run for so long as a com-
mercial newspaper. I would like to see
the UP become more responsible to the
student body. The students who have
complained to me would also like to see
this. Come on, editor, no more excuses
for past mistakes.
Signed,
Vicki Bowers
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Goode, Diane Richie. The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1975, newspaper, November 21, 1975; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499792/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.