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Friday, March 27, 1992
Lamar University • Beaumont, Texas
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Wells added
to presidential
hopeful list
on Monday
By Joy LeBlanc
UP staff writer
John Wells, a former president of
the John Gray Institute, was named
as a finalist Monday for the presi-
dent’s position at Lamar-Beaumont.
Wells was recommended by Lamar
regent Wayne Reaud and other
Lamar officials, said Bill Maddox,
director of Public Affairs.
Wells was the president of the
John Gray Institute for four years
until October, when he became
director of the research division. As
president of the institute he was
responsible for raising more than
$4.5 million from public and private
sources.
He also directed a national study
into worker safety, a $1.3 million
research project funded by the U.S.
Department of Labor.
Wells, a native of Kentucky,
earned his bachelor’s degree at the
University of Kentucky and his mas-
ter’s and doctorate degrees in urban
and regional planning and policy
development at Rutgers University.
“(Wells) was not in the initial pool
of applicants the advisory committee
looked at,” said Jimmy Simmons,
music department head and chair-
person of the presidential search
committee. Simmons first heard of
the addition of Wells when the chan-
cellor’s office called to say Wells
would be on campus for interviews
this week.
“The advisory committee is
asked to consider strengths and
weaknesses and they are asked to
recommend finalists, but the regents
and the chancellor have the preroga-
tive to name finalists,” Maddox said.
Simmons said the committee
knew that new candidates could be
added at any time.
“We were instructed from the
very beginning that there was a pos-
sibility that the search firm or
regents could add candidates at their
pleasure,” Simmons said. “We’re not
exactly a search committee, we’re an
advisory committee to the chancel-
lor.”
“We’re operating one of the most
open searches I have ever observed
at a university,” Maddox said. “By
law, we don’t have to name the final-
ists until 21 days before the regents
take action. The chancellor and
regents wanted to conduct a very,
very open search, where the stu-
dents, faculty, staff, alumni — every-
body had the opportunity to be
involved in interviews with these
finalists.”
Wells did not apply originally
because of some questions about
whether or not he would be remain-
ing in the Beaumont area, Maddox
said.
“Dr. Wells was unclear some
weeks back what career opportunity
he wanted to pursue; and now he’s
staying in Beaumont, he’s going to
marry a native of Beaumont, and he’s •
going to make Beaumont his perma-
nent home,” Maddox said. “This
changed his availability for the job,
and he expressed an interest in the
job.”
Today at 10 a.m. Wells will meet
with students in the Setzer Student
Center Ballroom.
In the bowels of Lamar
Photo by Craig Clark
Beaumont city worker Jessie Traylor replaces the meter assembly on the main water
supply for the north end of campus Tuesday.
interim
president
named
The second interim president in
fewer than seven months has been
named at the Lamar University-
Beaumont campus.
p-kfSmtmji. ~| Interim President
; John Idoux has
I resigned from the
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immediately.
The dean of the
College of Fine
Arts and
Communication,
W. Brock
Brentlinger, has
been named as
the second inter-
im president.
Idoux was named interim presi-
dent in August 1991, following the
resignation of Presisdent Billy
Franklin. According to previous
reports, Chancellor George
McLaughlin and Idoux had an
understanding that the position
would be “for only a few months.”
Idoux will be returning to his
previous position as executive vice
president for academic and student
affairs, a position he has held since
July 1990.
Brentlinger will serve in the
interim position until a new presi-
dent can be named.
McLaughlin said that he hopes
to recommend a new president to
the board by June 1992. Brentlinger
is scheduled to retire from his dean-
ship in August.
Brantiingar
Gussman, Whitmarsh SGA choices
By Michael Wright
UP staff writer
On April 1 and 2 the Student
Government Association will hold
spring elections for student body
president. Candidates are Robbie
Gussman, a post-baccalaureate from
Buna, and Rob Whitmarsh Sr. from
Lake Jackson.
Gussman is currently representing
the College of Engineering in the
Student Senate, in which he is chair-
person of the Student Affairs
Committee. He served as chairperson
of the Academic Affairs Committee
in the fall semester.
Whitmarsh is an English major
who served as SGA vice president in
the 1990-91 school year. He is cur-
rently a student senator representing
Blue Key.
The candidates participated in a
debate Tuesday night in Landes
Auditorium.
They had differing responses to
the question of the proposed revi-
sions to the Chancellor’s Handbook,
which were originally submitted to
the regents for approval without any
input from students or faculty.
Whitmarsh said that the current
SGA position — that the student gov-
ernment should wait and see what
the regents’ response will be — was
“ridiculous.” He went on to say that
the Chancellor’s Handbook should be
consistent with the Student
Handbook, instead of containing a
provision automatically nullifying any
passage in the Student Handbook
that contradicts a passage of the
Chancellor’s Handbook.
Gussman agreed with
Whitmarsh’s position that students
should be consulted about any
change in the Student Handbook and
promised to work to see that students
had input in such matters.
The candidates will meet in a sec-
ond debate Monday in the Science
Auditorium. The debate is open to
the public.
In interviews March 23 with the
University Press, each candidate
expressed concern for the current
financial problems the university is
suffering and lack of student involve-
See ELECTIONS, page 8
Eisenstadt Collection given to LU
By Susan Martinez
UP staff writer
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A European and American historical art col-
lection was officially granted to the Dishman Art
Gallery at a press conference Tiiesday. The gift
will be known as the Eisenstadt Collection.
The Eisenstadt family agreed to give the col-
lection to the Dishman Gallery providing that
Lamar would be the permanent home of the col-
lection and that the collection would be kept
intact as a complete body of work.
Composed over approximately 50 years, this
collection is a direct result of the artistic tastes of
Dr. Heinz Eise'nstadt and his wife, Ruth. Heinz
and Ruth were born in Berlin and lived in Port
Arthur for more than 50 years. While Heinz pur-
sued his career as an internist and Ruth became
an active volunteer and supporter of the arts and
health care, the two became heavily involved in
philanthropic services in Southeast Texas.
“He (Heinz) got associated with Lamar
University through the Friends of the Arts, an
organization that helps to raise money for pro-
grams in the arts of the university,” said Brock
Brentlinger, dean of the College of Fine Arts
and Communication. “Dr. Eisenstadt was select-
ed as the first president of the board of directors
for the Friends of the Arts organization.”
“All of us who knew Ruth and Heinz loved
them, loved them for their sensitivity, keen
insight into the human condition and their
desire to improve the quality of our lives,”
Chancellor George McLaughlin said.
“Every painting that was acquired by Ruth
and Heinz and every antique, whether it came
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Pictured is one of the larger paintings in the collection.
from Germany and followed them to this country
or whether it was acquired by them in their trav-
els around the world, was collected with love and
a great deal of compassion and sensitivity,” said
Regina Rogers, executor for the Eisenstadt
Collection and a friend of the Eisenstadts. “For
this reason, when we knew that Ruth’s death was
imminent... we talked to her at great lengths about
making a gift, and we wanted it to be done at Lamar
because of the relationships that they had with
Lamar.”
The Eisenstadt Collection consists of 115 oil and
Sm COLLECTION, paga 8
SGA endorses
fee increase
By Joy LeBlanc
UP staff writer
At Tuesday’s Student
Government Association meeting,
the senate voted to support a 20
percent increase in the Student
Service Fee on condition that the
additional revenue is split 50-50
between athletics and student
activities/health center.
Wayne Higgins, vice president
for Finance and Operations, pre-
sented two options to the SGA
Tuesday and encouraged support
for the increase. The first option
was a 10 percent increase, which
the board of regents can imple-
ment without consulting SGA. The
second option, increasing the fee
by 20 percent, requires a vote of
support from SGA.
“Currently, the Student Service
Fee is $11 per credit hour up to a
maximum of nine hours,” Higgins
said, “which means anyone taking
nine hours or more pays roughly
$99.”
If the board of regents
increased it by 10 percent, raising
the fee from $11 to $12 per credit
hour, $185,000 would be generat-
ed. The second option would
increase the fee to $13 per credit
hour, and generate roughly
$380,000 per year.
“Currently, the split between
athletics and student activities
and health center is (that) 57 per-
cent goes to athletics and 43 per-
cent goes to student activities and
health center,” Higgins said.
SGA voted to make the addi-
tional revenue split 50-50, which
would change the overall distribu-
tion to roughly 56 percent for ath-
letics and 44 percent for student
activities, said Joseph Kavanaugh,
dean of students and chairperson
of the Auxiliary Budget
Committee. ,
Kavanaugh cited many exam-
ples of unmet need from last year
that would be considered by the
Sm SGA, pag# 8
Rothwell Trust gift allows
LU recital hall renovations
By Craig Clark
UP managing editor
A $250,000 gift from Virginia
Birdwell and First City Texas, co-
trustees of the Mabel Martha
Rothwell Trust, made possible the
current renovations on the recital
hall in the music department. A
reception was held in the Dishman
Art Gallery March 20 to honor
Birdwell for the gift to Lamar.
Chancellor George McLaughlin
described the occasion as “red letter
day” as he thanked Birdwell for the
gift.
“It is going to be a magnificent
facility,” McLaughlin said. “I
believe it will help to attract stu-
dents of equally high quality as
those we now have.”
W. Brock Brentlinger, interim
president, reported that the renova-
tions may be finished by the begin-
ning of June.
Joe Ping, estimator and project
manager, described several of the
structural modifications that are
being performed by his company,
ALLCO INC. of Beaumont
A foyer and double glass doors
are being added to the exterior of'
the building. Internal modifications
include an expansion of the stage
area, a new lighting system and a
new ceiling.
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