The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1975 Page: 3 of 12
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University Press February 28,1975 • 3
High mph’s hazardous
to pedestrian safety
(“VIEWPOINT” is a column where
staff members other than the editor
may express individual opinions on
specific topics. Those thoughts ex-
pressed are not necessarily of the entire
staff and/or the university ad-
ministration.)
Racing around at high speeds is fine
at the Daytona or Indianapolis speed-
ways but it is both dangerous and
illegal around the Lamar campus.
The legal speed limit on the roads
around our campus is 30 miles per hour
<c but I constantly see people driving at
speeds well over the limit. This may
seem to be trivial but I was almost run
over last week and who knows how of-
ten similar incidents happen.
Along with our speeders we also
have a large number of people who like
to “peel out” at stop signs, red lights or
in front of the post office (a campus
favorite).
It has gotten to the point that I
almost start to shake when I see a car
with a sports car identification likd Z28
or engine displacements like 350.
The energy shortage may eventually
slow some of the speederS down but un-
til then our junior A. J. Foyts could be
★ viewpoint ★
slowed down if our campus police would
stop cruising streets like Maddox,
Florida and other off campus roads and
stay on the roadstjiat hoarder the cam-
pus.
The main responsibility for solving
this problem belongs to those people
who are speeding or “laying patches”
so if you fit into one of these catagories
slow down before someone gets hurt or
killed.
Doug Ripley
Regents honored by SGA
Student Government Association
members mixed business and pleasure
4 Tuesday as they hosted a banquet
honoring the board of regents less than
two hours after completing their
weekly business meeting.
At the work session, Theresa Box,
junior accounting major, was con-
firmed as secretary. She replaces Jo
Nell Koncaba, who has withdrawn from
school.
SGA vice president Jane Holt
presented informally a number of
proposed changes to the SGA con-
stitution. The change would include
combining the offices of secretary and
treasurer into one, and electing the vice
president and secretary-treasurer from
the SGA senate, instead of in a campus-
wide election.
The banquet that evening was
designed to allow regents to become
better acquainted with members of
student government.
Board Chairman Otho Plummer, in
an address to the gathering, expressed
his appreciation to the SGA and said
that the board “will always listen” to
suggestions from the student body.
Developmental
labs to aid
study skills
The Psychology depart-
ment is offering a series of
workshops designed to aid
students in improving their
college work.
The workshops, known as
the Developmental Learning
Lab, will consist of 12 hour in-
dividual workshops, each
lasting approximately three
weeks, according to Dr.
Robert A. Gay, assistant
professor of psychology.
The learning sessions will
give aid to students in the
following areas: study skills,
basic composition skills,
speed reading and basic
mathematics. Additional ser-
vices Will also be offered in
career counseling and in in-
dividual learning center will
be provided.
Starting dates and times
have not yet been announced
for the workshops. Interested
students should contact the
Psychology department of-
fice, 201 Physics building, for
further information.
Police encounter
thefts, threats
One burglary, 10 misdemeanor
thefts, two auto thefts, and two bomb
threats occurred during a 10 day
period, Feb. 14-24, according to
Eugene Carpenter, director of
university police.
On the weekend of Feb. 14-17, the
men’s gym was broken into. A
storage room off of the main gym
was entered and a plywood cabinet
pried open. Six cases of Coke were
taken.
A suspect was arrested in
reserence to two rings taken out of
the Imagery Shop in the Setzer Cen-
ter. The incident occurred on Feb. 17
and the suspect arrested on Feb. 21.
The suspect was a student.
In another arrest, two students
were apprehended when they were
attempting to steal several links of
plastic water pipe. The incident hap-
pened at the renovation site of Cam-
pbell and Gray halls.
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by Denny Angelle
I was leaving the Setzer Center when
I was stopped by a friend. “Let’s go
have some coffee,” she suggested.
“No, the damned stuff’s too ex-
pensive. Besides, I’m going to the
bookstore to try to buy a book.”
My friend looked at me sadly, as one
would regard a person who needs
psychiatric help. Finally, she said,
“Good luck,” and walked slowly away.
Her reactions were reasonable for
one who, like us all, has experienced the
hair-raising horror produced by the
amount one pays for so much ink and
paper. Maybe the staples are made of
platinum.
I found the book, and as I was ap-
proaching the cash register, the clerk
there pulled out a black velvet mask
and slipped it over her face. She then
whipped out a pistol and demanded 20
dollars.
“Twenty dollars?” I screamed.
"But the price marked here says 15 ! ”
The clerk smiled and said, “You
were too slow bringing it up to the front.
While you were back there, we got a let-
ter from the co,pany telling us to raise
the prices.”
“What? Do you expect me to believe
that garbage? I’m not a fool, I’m in
college.”
“I know,” said the lady, “the only
college around. Look, do you want this
book or not?”
I’ve got no choice. I had to buy it.
The clerk smiled ahd said, “That’ll
be twenty-five dollars. Pay up, turkey.”
My toenails almost exploded.
“Twenty-five? But you just said...”
“Yeah, I know,” she said, “but
somebody else just bought that book at
another cash register, making the one
you have the last book.”
I paid up. As I was choking my way
out of the bookstore, the lady behind me
piped up, “That text is no good without
a workbook, son.”
Okay, I said, I’ll just sell it back. But
I didn’t know that once I had taken the
book more than five steps away from
the cash register, the refund price goes
down.
She didn’t even leave me enough for
coffee.
I suppose one could blame all this
silliness on the present state of the
economy. But the future looks grim,
too.
A prophet friend of mine has told me
countless tales of the future. He
prophesizes a robot teacher that lec-
tures only when a quarter is inserted;
he has foretold the price of gold coming
up (almost to the price of sugar). He
even foresees a time when the
President will sell the Statue of Liberty
to Moshe Dayan for a tourist attraction.
We must not let this happen, he tells
me.
So, every night, I kneel down and
pray to the big Serv-O-Mation machine
in the sky and ask it to keep “them bad
times away from my door.”
Setzer Center Survey
March 2-3—“Loves of a Blonde”—shown in Setzer Center Perch at 6 p. m. and 8 p. m.
Andula (Hana Brejchova), a shy young factory worker, dreams of having an
exciting romance. She meets Milda, a young pianist and falls in love.
March 6—“Malcolm X”—shown in Setzer Center Ballroom at 6 p. m. and 8 p. m.
The film is based on the best-selling autobiographby which Malcolm wrote.
It penetrates the stereotyped image of the controversial hate-preacher to
reveal the sensitive, proud, highly-intelligent man who became the most dynamic
leader in America’s Black revolution.
March 3-7—“The Best of Ernie Kovacs”—A video-tape will be shown throughout the
day in the video-tape area Setzer Center.
The mad comedy of one of the greatest comedians that television has ever
A side-splitting parade of improbable and absurd situations.
Matthews excited about Rome trip
by Randy Rochelle
William Matthews, professor of
geology, is excited about Lamar’s up-
coming summer program in Rome.
Matthews is part of a group that will be
leaving in May to study in Italy.
A staff of Lamar instructors and in-
A staff of Lamar instructors and in-
terested students will be able to
vacation, as well as gain college credit
by studying subjectrs to be ofiered.-
Applications are being accepted for LU-
Rome by Dr. Andrew Johnson, direc-
tor.
Matthews is fascinated by ear-
thquakes and volcanoes, and he says,
“Italy is a volcano country.” Students
taking the geology course this summer
in Rome will be taken to the crater of
Vesuvius, whose eruption destroyed
Pompeii in the year 79 A. D,
“They have me hooked,” Matthews
says of quakes and volcanoes. “I qNR
“I want to make some small con-
tributrion to a better understanding of
their impact on man and the en-
vironment. While both are known
primarily for their destruction, quakes
and volcanoes have also produced in
formation and materials that have ac-
tually benefitted ma nkin d.”
Matthews hopes, this summer, to not
only study this phenomena of nature,
and to write about it, but to help the
students gain a better understanding.
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Cucancic, Gail. The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1975, newspaper, February 28, 1975; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500200/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.