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Season’s programs
The Beaumont Symphony
Orchestra will present pianist Bob
Lappin as the season opener in
* September.
Page 5
Sports
The LU athletic department has
hired Nederland native David
McKey as the new women’s head
basketball coach.
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Quote of the day
Judge: Are you trying to show con-
tempt for this court?
Mae West: I was doin’ my best to
hide it.
Because of technical diffi-
culties, the registrar’s office
is extending drop-add dead-
lines until today. For addi-
tional information or ques-
tions, call 880-8968
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Wednesday, August 24,1994
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Oakland University president takes reins of LU System
Champagne named new chancellor
Stephan Malick
UP editor
The Lamar University Board of
Regents have named Joseph E.
Champagne as chancellor of the Lamar
University System. He replaces outgoing
interim chancellor Dolph Norton.
Champagne, 56, was most recently the
president and chief executive officer of a
regional health care system in Rochester,
Minn. Previously, he was president of
Oakland University (12,500 students)
from 1981 to 1991.
The LU board of regents voted unani-
mously for Champagne, selecting him
over five other candidates.
“My wife Emilie (a native of 'Elgin,
Texas), our daughters and I look forward
with excitement and enthusiasm to
becoming Texans again,” Champagne
said. “The Lamar University System has
been strengthened by a number of devel-
opments over the past year or more. The
components have capable leaders and I
am eager to get to work with them. The
region has an excellent legislative delega-
tion and prominent Congressional leader-
ship supportive of higher education. With
all elements of the system and the region
working together, we can provide even
greater educational opportunities and
make Southeast Texas more competitive
economically.”
Texas is familiar country for
Champagne. He has served the University
of Houston System from 1967 to 1981 and
was the founding president of the Houston
Community College System.
One of Champagne’s most notable
achievements while at Oakland University
was the creation of the Oakland
Technology Park, adjacent to that campus.
The resulting effort created some 15,000
jobs and is home to many different corpo-
rations. The Chrysler Corporation cur-
rently has its world headquarters located
there.
Champagne earned a doctorate in
industrial psychology from Purdue
University and currently works as an inde-
See CHAMPAGNE, page 2
Joseph E. Champagne
Students flocked to
McDonald Gym Thursday
and Friday to register.for
classes and pay fees for the
fall semester. As of £
Tuesday, 8,099 students
had registered for classes
on the Beaumont campus.
Photo by Allen Pearson
Criminal justice center not
approved in new House bill
From staff and wire reports
House Speaker Thomas Foley
on Friday announced that the
proposed $10 million for Lamar’s
National Center for Criminal
Justice Research and Education
has been eliminated from the $33
billion crime bill.
Since the July 29 announce-
ment that Lamar would receive
the money, the House indicated
plans to cut the $10 million that
Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, pro-
posed for Lamar.
The center, designed to train
people to staff correctional
facilities near Beaumont,
reportedly became part of the
crime bill by Brooks during a
House-Senate conference on
the bill in July. It had not been
approved in the original Senate
bill passed last November or in
the original House version
passed in April. House
Republicans and some
Democrats, who attacked the
center as a “pork-barrel” pro-
ject, had demanded its
removal.
The House on Sunday night
approved a $30 billion anti-crime
package that bans assault-style
firearms and helps put 100,000
more police on the streets. The
final vote was 235-195 for the
new package. Of the 235 votes in
favor, 188 were Democrats, 46
Republicans and 1 independent.
Voting against it were 131
Republicans and 64 Democrats.
The bill will now go to the Senate
Rep. Jack
Brooks, D-
Texas, proposed
$18 million in
funding for a
criminal justice
research and
education center
to be created on
the LU-B cam-
pus. Backers for
the center said
the effort to
have the center
at Lamar will
continue.
for consideration.
Lamar University proponents
of the center said they will con-
tinue their efforts to construct
the center.
Kevin Smith, chairman of the
sociology, social work and crimi-
nal justice department at Lamar,
said, “We’re not going to get out
of this. We’ve been interested in
this since 1992 and we will con-
tinue our efforts with or without
the funds.
“We at Lamar believe the pro-
posal is not ‘pork,’ as it has been
called by some. We worked hard
for this and we’re committed to
it.”
Planning for the center began
three years ago as part of a long-
term strategy to improve Lamar’s
criminal justice program.
A group of law enforcemem
officers approached the universi
ty many years ago with plans tc
improve education and standard
ize training for state and loca
officers. The result was a propos
al in 1992 for a National Centei
for Criminal Justice anc
Education.
The university had planned tc
use $5 million to convert Brooks
Shivers Hall into the center’:
headquarters, $2 million foi
equipment, $2 million for pro
gram development and $1 millioi
to build a technologically
advanced firing range.
Press secretary Sharon Matts
speaking for Jack Brooks, said oi
Monday that Brooks is still confi
dent that the center will be fund
ed.
Program committee submits John Gray Institute
final report to president’s office Roberts to assume duties Sept. 1
Stephan Malick
UP editor
The Lamar University-
Beaumont Long-Range Planning
Committee has submitted its final
report to President Rex Cottle’s
office for the last step in the year-
long review process.
Cottle said, “(The recommen-
dations) are intended to enhance
Lamar University-Beaumont and
to prepare it to meet the dynamic
challenges of the 21st century.”
Cottle received the report in
July and he is expected to make
his decisions on the recommenda-
tions in time for the Board of
Regents’ monthly meeting in
September. Regents have the
options to request changes or of
approving his report.
The Long-Range Planning
Committee recommended to
alter the structure of LU-B by
increasing the college academic
structure from four to five divi-
sions: business, engineering, fine
arts and education, health sci-
ences and liberal arts and sci-
ences.
The committee also recom-
mended phasing out several bach-
elor of arts degrees that include
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sociology, mathematics, chem-
istry, criminal justice, physics,
political science, dance and
speech-public address. The acad-
emic programs were evaluated by
using a variety of criteria includ-
ing number of majors graduating
annually, average class size, state
funds generated through credit-
hour production in comparison to
the program’s operating budget
and current trends and projected
growth in program enrollment.
“Listed in the document are
recommendations to phase out
some programs,” Cottle said,
See REPORT, page 2
Laura Scott
UP staff writer
Robin A. Roberts of Austin,
recognized as one of the state’s
leading public policy authorities
on workplace initiatives, will
begin her duties as executive
director of the John Gray
Institute Sept.l.
’ She was appointed by the
Lamar University System Board
of Regents upon recommendation by James A.
(Dolph) Norton, interim chancellor. Joseph E.
Champagne, who becomes chancellor on Sept. 1,
concurred in the recommendation, Norton said.
Robin Roberts
component institution of the Lamar University
System.
She was chosen from an original field of 36 and ;
group of five finalists. Norton said Roberts “ha
demonstrated throughout her career the level o:
sensitivity toward the advancement of management
labor, and industry supported by activities of th
John Gray Institute.
“She has extensive experience in statewid
employment services, including economic develop
ment and quality work force planning, which will b
valuable in her new position.”
Roberts came into consideration for the positior
after regents decided not to renew the contract o
George McLaughlin, who served as president of th
|Roberts, 46, is the first woman named to manage a See JGI, page 2
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