Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1978 Page: 1 of 8
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Port Arthur
draws mastf
campus
By LYDIA YENTZEN
and
HELEN SOHLINGER
of the UP staff
A master plan for future expansion of
the Lamar campus at Port Arthur has
been drawn up, according to Sam Monroe,
dean.
The Port Arthur College Foundation,
Lamar University, and the city of Port Ar-
thur jointly underwrote the preparation of
the master plan. Marvin Springer and
Associates of Dallas, an organization of ur-
ban planners, made a study and drew up
the plan, which was discussed at last Mon-
day’s Port Arthur City Council meeting.
Springer’s master plan includes two
alternate plans, each of which have
various options for future buildings,
struction of new facilities.
Each plan will keep the campus within
Procter Street and Lakeshore Drive, so
that we don t have the problem of ex-
panding the campus across a major
throughfare,” Monroe said. “The projec-
ted expansion is toward Lake Charles
Avenue.”
Both plans include the construction of a
student center. Springer suggested a ver-
tical building with three or more floors in
order to provide a view of the Sabine-
Neches Ship Channel, Pleasure Island and
Sabine Lake. Several sites are being con-
sidered, with the primary recom-
mendation being a site behind the Monroe
Educational Building.
A plaza area is also included in both
plans. One block of Stilwell Boulevard, bet-
ween Lakeshore Drive and Proctor Street,
would be closed to create the plaza.
The Lamar-Port Arthur master plan is
part of overall planning, by the Port Ar-
thur Planning and Zoning Commission, to
“since our campus is located in th<
historical area. Two of our buildings, the
Ruby Ruth Fuller Educational Buildin,
and the Gates Memorial Library, hav<
been designated by the. city as histories
buildings.”
City council members will study the plan
before making a decision. The Port Arthur
Planning and Zoning Commission, Lamar
administrators, and the Lamar Board of
Regents will also be involved in making
final decisions.
“This is merely a futuristic conceptual
thought about what the campus could be,
as future needs develop,” Monroe said. "It
is my hope now that the city council will
take it through the normal facility review
Students to get discounts
on movie theatre tickets
By CYNTHIA SHIELDS
of the UP staff
Movie theatre tickets at a reduced rate
will soon be available for the Lamar
University community.
General Cinema Corporation tickets
should go on sale at the reservations booth
in the Setzer Student Center Nov. 1, said
Bill Worsham, director of recreational
sports.
The movie tickets will be sold for $2.50
each and will be redeemable for up to a
year after purchase, Worsham said. The
BMC sponsors show
’Space Dance’ to perform
Pneumonia vaccine o
By FRANKCONDE
of the UP staff
Theatre, based in New York City.
He has been a leading dancer and
choreographer with the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet, and has studied with Martha
Graham in New York and with the Bolshoi
Ballet in Moscow. He has taught at the
Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Clouser became dance master with the
Houston Ballet Company in 1972, and in
1975 became artistic director of the com-
pany.
In 1976, Clouser left the Houston Ballet
Company to form his own dance company,
according to Jim Payne, publicity director
for the BMC.
The Space Dance Theatre was formed
by Clouser in early 1977, and began
working with dance companies in larger
cities around Texas.
The Houston-based group has performed
with dance companies in Dallas, and Fort
Worth, and also did a stint in Chicago.
According to Payne, one of the ballets
the group will perform will feature Clouser
doing an impersonation of Willie Nelson.
Clouser will also give a modern dance
masters class for Lamar dance majors
and selected dance students from the area
at 11:15 a.m., Monday, in the Women’s
Gong Show
deadline
extended
The Space Dance Theatre, a modern
dance group directed by James Clouser,
will perform at 8 p.m. Monday in the Jef-
ferson Theatre.
The dance group consists of eight mem-
bers and Clouser, who also dances and
choreographs.
The Beaumont Music Commission,
which is sponsoring the performances, had
originally scheduled another dance group,
the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble. The
Ailey dance group cancelled after being in-
volved in an auto wreck in which one mem-
ber was killed and six others were
hospitalized.
Clouser, born in Rochester, New York,
has danced nationally since the age of 18,
when he joined the American Ballet'
A vaccine for pneumococcal
pneumonia is now available in the
Health Center.
This is fhe first time the vaccine
has been available for this type of
pneumonia, which is “the most
hazardous kind,” according to Dr.
Lamar Bevil, campus physician.
The vaccine is not intended for
general use, Dr. Bevil said, but is
available for persons having
diabetes, chronic heart disease.
bronchio-pulmonary disease or
sickle cell anemia. The vaccine is
also recommended for persons over
60 years of age.
“It is estimated that 200,000 to one
million cases of pneumococcal
pneumonia occur in the United
States annually, and 13,200 to 66,000
deaths result from it,” Dr. Bevil
said. “The vaccine is 80 percent ef-
fective in preventing this disease.”
The Homecoming Committee has
announced that the deadline for en-
tries in the Homecoming “Gong
Show” has been extended to 4 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 30. Entries should be
turned in at the Activities Area desk,
second floor, Setzer Student Center.
One of the goals of the dance company,
according to Payne, is to bring modern
dance to new audiences such as children,
minorities and smaller urban areas.
The Setzer Student Center has made 75
free tickets available to Lamar students.
Students may pick them up at the check
cashing booth.
Tickets may also be purchased at the
Jefferson Theatre, one hour before the per-
formance, for $5.
Pizza parlor opens today
Edson to be Poetry Day guest
Lamar s pizza parlor will open today to offer ztudentz a variety of pizza,
sandwiches and salads.
The pizza parlor will be open from 10 a.m. until midnight, Monday through
Friday, and from 1 p.m. until midnight on Saturday and Sunday.
Students wilt be able to buy beer and wine after 5 p.m. on weekdays and after
1 p.m. on Saturday .
The Coffeehouse Committee will present the folk-rock band Kiwi at 9 p.m.
today and Saturday for the opening weekend.
Photos by Mike Cutoia
Russell Edson, a prose poet, artist
and printer from Stanford, Con-
necticut, will be this year’s guest for
Lamar’s Poetry Day.
grant and a Connecticutt Foundation
for the Arts Grant.
Denise Levertov, the 1976 speaker
for Poetry Day, says: “Edson’s
mode is detached, oblique, austere.
He is able to pass without loss of
grace from the hilarious to a kind of
dark gothic beauty and sometimes
to a tenderness that reveals him as
no cruel puppetmaster but the
anguished beholder of inexplicable
cruelties.”
R.S. Gwynn, adjunct instructor of
English, after hearing him read
said, “Edson projected his
originality and eccentric
imagination so the audience un-
derstood the grimness and enjoyed
the hilarity that often develops out of
the grimness.”
On Thursday, Nov. 2, at 11 a.m.,
Edson will present a reading of his
own poetry in the LamarTheater to
all Lamar students and the general
public. At 4 o’clock the same af-
ternoon he will meet with the
creative writing students of Dr.
George de Schweinitz in 123 Liberal
Arts Building. All faculty and
students interested in writing are en-
couraged to attend.
An exhibit of Edson’s works has
been set up in 024 of Liberal Arts
Building.
Edson has published six books of
prose poems:“The Very Thing That
Happens” (1964); “What a Man Can
See” (1969); “The Childhood of an
Equestrian” (1973); “The Clam
Theater” (1973); “The Intuitive
Journey and Other Work” (1976);
“The Reason Why the Closet Man is
Never Sad” (1977) and one volume
of four plays “The Falling Sickness”
(1975). He has been the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA
Blood drive honors named
The Air Force ROTC won independent
honors in the recent Lamar Blood Drive
sponsored by the Blood Center of
Southeast Texas. Delta Tau Delta frater-
nity and Alpha Chi Omega sorority took
first place in Greek competition.
The Air Force ROTC netted a 40 percent
turnout, donating 24 pints, and will receive
a party and a trophy for its ac-
complishments in the blood drive.
Following the ROTC were the Techsans
with 20 percent, the Baptist Student Union
with 14 percent, and both the Newman
Center and Methodist Center with 13 per-
cent each.
Other independent donors included the
Concert Choir, Lambda Tau, Alpha Phi
Omega, the Residence Hall- Association,
the American Society 0f Mechanical
Engineers, Beta Beta Beta, Plummer
Hall, Brooks Hall and the Black Leaders
Coalition.
Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Alpha
Chi Omega sorority will hold a mixer at
Fat Dawgs Nov. 15 as their prize for tur-
ning in the top percentiles!' in the Greek
competition of the drive.
The Delts netted a 118 percent turnout in
the three-day affair with 38 pints of blood,
while Alpha Chi Omega had 70 percent,
giving 35 pints.
Sigma Phi Epsilon took second-place
honors in the fraternity category with 63
percent, with Pi Kappa Alpha turning in 48
percent. '
Other fraternities taking part in the
blood drive were Kappa Sigma, Zeta Beta
Tau, Phi Kappa Theta, Phi Delta Theta,
Sigma Nu, Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma
Chi.
In the sorority division, Kappa Delta and
Delta Zeta were second and third with 57
and 53 percent respectively.
Other participants in the sorority
division were Alpha Delta Pi, Zeta Tau
Alpha, Alpha Kappa Alpha and Gamma
Phi Beta.
A final count of 330 pints, out of a goal of
400, was turned in during the three-day
campaign held Oct. 9-11 in the Setzer
Student Center Ballroom.
Co-chairmen of the drive were Janiee
Shanks, Beaumont senior and Gordon
George, Port Neches senior.
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