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Wednesday, February 7,1990
Serving Lamar and the community for 66 years
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Vol. 66, No. 34
Du Pont representatives talk to a Lamar student.
Photo by Bine Pressler
Career fair
NSBE hooks up employers, students
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By Steven Collins
yp senior staff writer
Hie motto for the evening might have
been called “Doing It with Style,” as ex-
pressed in a brief speech given by
Richard L. Price, associate professor in
the engineering department, as the Na-
tional Society of Black Engineers held
its reception to its long-planned Career
fair Wednesday night on the eighth
floor of the Gray Library.
t The reception was held so that
representatives from various com-
panies participating in the fair and
Ijamar administration could meet some
of the people who planned the fair, said
Valarie Brown, chairperson of the com-
mittee responsible for putting the pro-
gram together.
h Companies in attendance at the recep-
tion were Mobil Oil, Eastman Kodak,
Xmoco Oil, Amoco Chemical, Du Pont,
(Goodyear and the U.S. Navy.
Also in attendance were Lamar-
Beaumont president Billy Franklin and
Student Government Association presi-
dent Anthony Holmes.
Coordinators seemed pleased with the
turnout at the reception.
“We initially invited 150 companies
and also extended invitations for other
departments to participate,” Brown
said. “And although we were virtually
unknown this year, we figured that if
things went well this time, there would
be more participation next time.”
Seven companies and the City of
Beaumont attended in NSBE’s fair.
The goal of the fair, Brown said, was
for junior- and senior-level students to
hook-up with prospective employers.
Brown also said that this by no means
restricted the fair to those students.
“The fair will also give freshmen and
sophomores opportunities to become
better settled with their fields and allow
them the opportunity to establish con-
tacts for summer employment,” she
said.
Many of the companies’ represen-
tatives in attendance at the reception
were placed with their current
employers through the placement
center located in the Galloway Business
Building on the Lamar main campus.
Oscar Polk, of Eastman Kodak, was a
1978 industrial engineering graduate
recruited through the placement center.
Vera Beckman, representing Mobil
Oil, graduated with the class of 1983 and
was also placed through the center.
Charles Goff, of Amoco, was a 1988
graduate of Lamar who was recruited
through the program.
Goff was on the steering committee
for the first career fair and chaired the
committee for the second career fair.
Gerri Juhan, acting director of the
placement center, expressed that the
center is happy with the successful tur-
nover rate, as far as placing students.
She also said that it is in the process of
expanding the program to benefit other
majors.
“I am always profoundly amazed at
See CAREER, page 4
‘Just say no’ rule
up for examination
by Lamar regents
By Brad Wills
UP wire editor
Even non-smokers are calling it a drastic
measure.
In a proposed Lamar University no-smoking
policy, drafted by Joseph Deshotel, vice presi-
dent for administration and counsel, smoking
will be prohibited in all classrooms, labs,
meeting rooms, locker rooms, coffee areas, lob-
bies, hallways and reception areas, as well as
private offices and university vehicles.
Cafeterias and dining halls also will be
designated no-smoking areas, and smokers will
be allowed to light up only if there is a large
enough area to provide space for smoking that
does not intrude on non-smokers.
“This will be a very heated issue, and I im-
agine there will be a lot of protest,” Deshotel
said.
Formally titled the “Smoke-Free Workplace
Policy,” it is one of several changes in the 1990
Faculty and Staff handbooks that will be ex-
amined by the Lamar Board of Regents in its
Feb. 8 meeting.
“Chancellor (George) McLaughlin wants the
board to review the handbooks before they take
any action,” Deshotel said.
Other proposed changes in the handbook in-
clude a revised policy on alcohol use at universi-
ty functions and a drug-free workplace policy,
Deshotel said.
The Smoke-Free
Workplace policy has
been approved by the
Faculty Senate, the
Council of Deans, the
Council of Instructional
Departments, the Staff
Advisory Committee
and the Student Govern-
ment Association.
The Board of Regents is the policy’s last step
for approval before its adoption at Lamar.
“The policy was drafted for the Faculty Hand-
book, but if it is adopted by the board, we will in-
clude the no-smoking policies in the Student
Handbook as well,” Deshotel said.
The board will have as long as they need to
review the handbooks, Deshotel said, and will
make no decision on the no-smoking policy at the
Feb. 8 meeting.
“Even former smokers will be upset (at the
policy’s adoption),” Ruth McCauley, director of
the Setzer Student Center said.
“What impact this is going to have on functions
in the Setzer Center, I don’t know,” she added.
“I have been asked by a number of people
from around the campus to draft a policy like
is,” Deshotel said. “The Faculty Senate
Parking tops
LU agenda
By Brad Wills
UP wire editor
A proposal to ban smoking at Lamar will
not be decided on at the Board of Regents
Feb. 8 meeting.
What will be decided on, however, may be
just as important to those students who drive
to Lamar each day to attend classes.
The board will consider an approval that
will expand existing parking near the
Technical Arts complex and the security
lighting system.
There is a shortage of adequate student
parking at the north end of campus, including
a critical need for parking at the Mamie
McFaddin Ward Health Sciences Building,
the proposal reads.
Approximately .64 acres of Lamar-owned
property on East Lavaca, where two houses
now stand, will be used to expand the Tech
Arts parking lot.
The two houses, located at 865 and 875 E.
Lavaca, are scheduled for demolition or are
for sale to be moved. Lamar is taking bids on
the sale of the structures. Bids will be opened
at 2 p.m., Feb. 15.
The board will also consider for approval
the develoment of plans for reroofing the
Technical Arts HI Building and consider
authorization to solicit bids and purchase stu-
dent center furniture and kitchen equipment
at Lamar-Orange.
The board will also consider approval of
faculty development leaves at the Beaumont,
Orange and Port Arthur campuses and con-
sider approval of a policy establishing an
employee sick leave pool.
reviewed it and made some changes. The SGA
was the last to review the policy, and they made
no alterations that I can recall.”
“Everyone voted to support it,” he said. “The
Board of Regents would make it official.”
In the policy, Deshotel cited reasons why the
university should follow an effective and respon-
sible approach to safeguarding the emotional
and physical well-being of its students, faculty
and staff.
“The insurance premiums paid by university
personnel through the Employee Benefits Plan
See SMOKING, page 2
Visuals, music combine in Jordan’s ‘Rocks and Stars’
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By Kevin Brown
UP senior staff writer
* Jim Jordan combines astronomy
and geology with music and visuals
to provide Lamar with an entertain-
ing approach to space.
>■ Jordan, associate professor of
geology, is conducting Rocks and
Stars, an astronomy class for non-
science majors, for its third year.
* Jordan decided to teach at Lamar
because of the potential to start
something and get it in motion, as
Opposed to jumping into an
established program. There was a
definite challenge to face here at
Lamar.
H “I wanted to start something from
scratch rather than be somewhere it
was already ongoing,” Jordan said.
*‘It became interesting to see what I
,pould do at Lamar, having been a
Jim Jordan
student here.”
Julius Dash at Oregon State
University designed the Rocks and
Stars course to be entertaining. At
the same time he wanted to reach
the public on issues in space. His
plan was to take the intimidation
factor out of science. His course has
highly evolved in the 10 years that it
has been offered. At a convention a
few years back, Dash suggested to
Jordan to bring the course to Lamar.
Rocks and Stars is a visual and
musical adventure.
“I feel that the music creates an
air of entertainment that makes the
science that much more powerful.”
One of the big issues and topics for
discussion in the class is the national
dilemma of whether to concentrate
immediate attention on the explora-
tion of Mars or to return to the moon.
It is Jordan’s opinion that the latter
is the wisest decision.
“The idea of learning to live on
another planetary surface, like the
moon or Mars, merges with the idea
of learning to live better on your
home planet,” Jordan said. “To live
on the moon, we would need to
develop a method of extracting ox-
ygen from silicate.
“We may find that there is a cer-
tain wealth of resources on the moon
that are more available there than
here on the Earth.”
One of the resources that Jordan
refers to is Helium-3. It has not been
found in any useful quantity on
Earth, but is abundant on the moon.
He-3 has the potential to supply “fuel
to fusion reactors used on Earth for
the generation of electric power.”
“Calculations have been done that
illustrate that the lunar soil contains
10 times the amount of energy that
we saw in the 20th century in fusion
fuels,” Jordan said. “If we develop
ways of mining the lunar soil, then
we could supply the 21st century
with energy by using Helium-3.
“In 1987, the U.S. energy require-
ment amounted to about 20 billion
dollars,” Jordan said. “Twenty tons
of Helium-3 can be placed in one
payload of the shuttle. This would
place its value at a billion dollars per
ton.”
Jordan’s method of relating to the
class is his emphasis on man’s ex-
ploration of, and the national goals
in, space. He prefers to concentrate
more on human activities than
strictly on description, which would
be more in line with an astronomy
course.
He provides the class with experts
on space-related subjects to give lec-
tures. This year, speakers include
Hugh Peebles, who will discuss
stellar evolution on Thursday from
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.; Jim Daily, from
the Brown & Root Space Operations
branch, who will speak on “mining
the moon”; Paul Cordor, who will
speak on Space Station Freedom;
and others.
This year, enrollment in the
course has been down from the
previous times it was offered (the
past two spring semesters). The
class is conducted on Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. in the
Science Auditorium. Jonian invites
everyone interested to attend.
“I have a goal to bring back the
enthusiasm for space and our space
program as opposed to just teaching
astronomy,” Jordan said. “I want to
let the students know what is going
on. I want us to be able to discuss
and raise issues.”
Friday ceremony kicks off
Awareness Month activity
By Steven Collins
UP senior staff writer
* The official commencement of
Black Awareness Month was an-
nounced Friday night on the eighth
floor of the Gray Library at a recep-
tion sponsored by Omega Psi Phi
fraternity and the Student Govern-
ment Association.
* In attendance at the reception
were associate vice president and
yean of students Joseph Kavanaugh,
director of the Setzer Student Center
Ruth McCauley, SSC associate
director of reservations Karen
Thomas, dean of education Charles
Hodge and Student Government
Association president Anthony
Holmes.
* People from the community also
burned out for the reception.
Those in attendance included state
Representative Artemus Hancock,
,co-host of the local talk show “In-
teractions” Charles Taylor, and
founder of the African American
Cultural Renaissance Society Avyet-
ta Allen.
The theme for the evening was
“Unity in Brotherhood.”
The program opened with the
black national a them performed by
Ladonna Wells, a Beaumont
sophomore.
The evening’s highlight was
speaker Michael Bryant, a liberal
arts senior and member of Omega
Psi Phi.
Bryant opened with remarks con-
cerning the recent developments in-
volving jailed South African leader
Nelson Mandela.
“I am sure that we have all heard,
by now, of the possible release of
South African leader Nelson
Mandela,” Bryant said.
After some brief applause, Bryant
then focused on the meaning of black
awareness.
“February is not the only month in
which we should celebrate black
history,” Bryant said. “There are
many other leaders in many other
months that also deserve recogni-
tion.”
Bryant then spoke of black leaders
such as Marcus Garvey, Martin
Luther King, Fredrick Douglass and
Shirley Chisholm.
“There are also not enough black
history courses being taught here at
Lamar,” Bryant said, “and I
challenge you to challenge the
university on this issue.”
Holmes, in congratulatory
remarks, also made mention of the
lack of black courses offered on a
semesterly basis by the university.
“As a group, we must think of a
master plan,” Bryant said in closing
comments, “unity in brotherhood is
better for the common good.”
See RECEPTION, page 6
Political hype
Mike Richards, left, Steve Stockman, center,
and Oliver North enter the Beaumont Club for a
luncheon Saturday sponsored by the Republican
Committee. The fund-raiser was to promote
Stockman’s campaign for the nomination of the
Photo by Bine Pressler
Republican party for congressman of the ninth
district. North was the guest speaker, ad-
vocating shorter terms for congressmen and en-
couraging people to get more involved in politics.
Approximately 200 attended the event.
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