The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1973 Page: 2 of 12
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Which class favorites?
One of the biggest jokes in Lamar elec-
tion history was played on the student body
in the form of class favorite runoff elec-
tions last week.
The term elections is used because due
to the incapability of those running the
election there had to be two tries before
the results were accepted by the SGA elec-
tion committee.
During the first election, held on Wed-
nesday, no voter was checked for classi-
fication. If a student said he was a junior
he got a junior ballot Students without
ID's were allowed to vote with their
drivers’ licenses and still their classi-
fication was not checked.
When the time came to count the votes,
several ballots which had not been vali-
dated were found. Although most winners
had a clear majority, even without the in-
valid votes, the number of ballots was
doublechecked with the number recorded
on the machine used to stamp ID’s. There
was a 50 vote difference.
Of course, numerous students, including
this writer, voted on drivers’ licenses and
these were not stamped with the ID stamp-
ing machine and thus were not recorded on
its total. Others who happened to know
someone watching the polls and had for-
gotten their ID’s were simply given ballots.
These were not recorded on the stamper
either.
Although several winners Wednesday did
not have votes involved, it was decided by
the election committee that every winner
would stand a revote on Friday because of
the possibility of “stuffed* ballot boxes.
As ridiculous as all of this already was,
it got worse. One student who was ruled
ineligible for the runoff decided he wan-
ted his name on the ballot in the Friday
revote. The election committee let him.
Two students whose names were on the
ballot Wednesday were at the polls stam-
ping ID’s and watching the ballot boxes.
Not only did they not forfeit a percentage
of their votes as stipulated, but one of
them came back and won the Friday elec-
tion even though he was defeated on Wed-
nesday.
The entire election was a perfect exam-
ple of perfect disorganization and parti-
sanship on the part of the election com-
mittee.
Whether or not the ballot boxes were
stuffed Wednesday will never be known
for sure. If they were, it is sad that
being class favorite was that important
to anyone. If they were not, it certainly
was not because the election committee
did not give everyone a perfect opportu-
nity.
New faces on UP staff
It seems that it was just last month that
I was taking over as editor of the Univer-
sity Press for Julian Galiano. But time
has a way of slipping by. The time has
come for me to step down and make room
for others.
I can’t say I haven’t enjoyed being edi-
tor. I have made many friends and just
as many enemies. It is a challenge to
put together a newspaper every week. I
advise everyone to try it sometime.
Taking over the editor’s position will
be Miss Rondah Irving. For the past se-
mester she has held the position of News
Editor.
Assuming Miss Irving’s position will be
Ms. Robbin Hohmann, formerly a reporter
on the UP staff.
Ms. Dianne Allen will become Managing
Editor. Ms. Allen formerly took care of
feature stories and Greek World. She will
be in charge of the UP reporting staff, see-
ing to it that all major stories on campus
are covered by someone.
Miss Linda Embs will assume the po-
sition of staff writer. It shall be Miss
Embs job to provide more indepth series
and feature series. She was also apart of
the UP reportorial staff this past year.
The last addition to the staff will be Mike
Slay, taking over the position of Sports Edi-
tor, vacated by Rick Henderson. Slay for
the past year has served as assistant
sports writer.
The remainder of the staff will be the
same next fall. Steve Oliver will continue
as Make-up editor, Jim McGinley as Busi-
ness Manager with Mary Sonnier and Ju-
dith Runnels as typists. *
These new staffers are anxious to start
the Fall semester and begin another year
with the University Press. It is my hope
that everyone can work together and make
the year an eventful one for them to cover.
There is an old but seldom used adage.
It reads, ‘Every time you (anyone)
does something, it becomes history the
next minute. And every word written in a
newspaper, becomes a history textbook.*
Thus, I wish to reemphasize the need of
working together and making next year
a most eventful year.
TIP A does it again
by Gcno Garcia
There is a ‘thing* called the Texas In-
tercollegiate Press Association. This
thing includes many Texas college news-
papers, such as Stephen F. Austin State
University, Sam Houston State University,
and Sul Ross University, besides Lamar.
The TIPA held their annual convention
a few weeks ago and a majority of the UP
staff was in attendance.
It was supposed to be a long weekend of
workshops and competition among news-
papers. We entered our papers several
weeks before the deadline, only to arrive
tising campaign for Adam’s Apple.
John Mace, listed as a student from La-
mar, won first in the Feature Photo sec-
tion. Another problem arises here, since
John Mace is a student at SFA.
We could continue listing the problems
and inconviences caused by TIPA for sev-
eral more inches. But the main reason
we are writing is to ask for University
support.
This is not the first year problems have
occurred and everyone is extremely tired
of it, that is everyone except the one
*** commentary ***
at the convention and be told that they
were lost in the mail while on their way
to the judges in Chicago.
We resubmitted our entries, still confi-
dent of winning something. We received
a letter last week listing the winners.
We did fair, although not as well as we
thought. J. Skip Dickstein with his pic-
ture of Doug Mathews sidestepping atack-
ler, won first in the Sports Photo section.
Jim McGinley won third with his adver-
school which runs TIPA and we do mean
runs it. Adolph Hitler could have taken
dictator lessons from them.
Several schools, including Lamar, are
considering forming our press associa-
tion. This association would include
schools from East and Central Texas and
Southwest Louisiana. We therefore ask
for the support of the University and.
others in our area in this attempt.
Letters to the Editor
Student claims UP biased
To the Editor:
The UP claims that it is printed for the
benefit of the students and to inform them
of coming events. This statement has
been proven false to me at least six
times. I have tried ten times to put ar-
ticles in the UP of coming events impor-
tant to our club, and only four out of ten
articles were printed this semester, alone!
I suppose you might consider this 40:60
ratio very good. Personally I consider
it very poor. I believe these articles
should be printed on a first come, first
served basis, not on which club or orga-
nization has more pull! I understand that
the UP can not print everything everyone
tries to put in it.
I called the UP the first time one of
our articles was not printed. I was told
to come in on Monday morning and ‘grab*
a reporter because if the article is just
put in the office without someone respon-
sible, the article will be ignored. In this
light, I suppose 32 people with 32 articles
not counting paid advertisements beat me
to the UP office at 9:30 on Monday morn-
ing last week, on the 23!
Our club is now reforming and is trying
to be known. I realize, however, it is
not Important to you or the UP or nearly
as important as the sororities and fra-
ternities, but it is important to its mem-
bers,
I know, of course, that you will never
have the nerve to print this letter. The
truth is too degrading to the UP. Besides,
that is not my real purpose in writing
this letter. My real goal is trying to in-
form the members of our club of its com-v
ing events. I have tried to cooperate witlr
the UP by showing up on Monday morning
and talking to someone. Now, why can’t
the UP live up to their end of the bargain?
Rhonda Caler
Editor’s. Note: First of all, though your
letter exceeded the 250 word limit, we are
running it anyway.
Second, the University Press serves as
an overall communications media; not just
a calendar. We do print notices of Club
meetings, but we consider news of inter-
est to the whole campus first.
Looking at back issues, we found that
we did print all the notices of club meet-
ings that we received from you. In the
Feb. 23 issue, there was even a six-inch
story on the reorganization of the club.
As far as articles being printed on a
first come, first served basis, this would
not work well at all. In the case of limit
ted space, articles which affect the
most people are printed.
We would also like to point out that so-
rorities and fraternities are under the
same space limitations. We receive much
more greek news than we are able to
print.
As far as we know, other organizations
do not have this much ‘trouble* getting
their notices in.
When articles are in the ‘UP’ office by
the Tuesday 5 p.m. deadline, we make
every effort to print them.
- Gene Garcia
(HbpUnturrBttg Jlrwa
Lamar University
P.O. Box 10055, LU Station
Beaumont, Texas 77710
£38-7629
EDITOR-Gene Garcia; NEWS EDITOR-Rondah Irving; SPORTS
EDITOR—Rick Henderson; SPORTS ASSISTANTS—Mike Slay,
April Adams- PHOTOGRAPHY—David Humphrey; MAKEUP
EDITOR—Steve Oliver; BUSINESS MANAGER—Jim McGinley;
ACTIVITIES EDITOR—Dianne Allen; TYPE SETTERS Judith
Runnels, Mary Ann Sonnier; ADVISOR-Rlchard Dixon; RE-
PORTERS—Mark Allen, Dale Boyd, Mona Brittain, Linda Embs,
Christine Gordon, June Greer, Robbin Hohmann, Morris Jones,
Sonya Moses, Gayle Mitchell, Pat O’Dell, George Shannon, Gordon
Westmoreland.
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Garcia, Gene. The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1973, newspaper, May 11, 1973; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500154/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.