The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1977 Page: 1 of 8
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l// Child care program starts
Lamar is starting a seven month training program for 485
child care workers in Jefferson, Orange and Hardin Coun-
/ j ties.
Norman Lowrey, supervisor of Lamar’s adult training
program, said the series of educational workshops, clinics
,__-and seminars is being funded by a $40,025 grant to the College
J of Technical Arts from the Department of Public Welfare.
Twenty-eight subject areas will be covered in the sessions
- which began Jan. 25 and will continue through Aug. 31.
Diane Burney, who holds criminal justice and psychology
degrees from Lamar, will coordinate the training.
Burney said day care workers trained in the program will
be better able to develop a safe and healthy environment for
learning while helping children to become intellectually and
physically competent.
“We hope the program helps each worker to better
recognize children’s individual needs,’.’ Burney said. “This
will enable the workers to provide quality substitute paren-
ting while offering a child the thrill of accomplishment
through learning/
All sessions will be offered free of charge to the child care
workers and will count for continuing education credit units,
allowing workers to meet certification requirements recently
set down by the state.
The first seminar will be on development of indoor motor
skills and physical activities for children. It will be held Feb.
1 in Silsbee. Pam Gibbs, LU Port Arthur instructor of early
childhood development, will be the lecturer.
The second session, on fundamentals of supervision, will be
in Port Arthur, Beaumont and Orange Feb. 8, 9 and 10,
respectively. Dr. David Gates, head of the industrial
engineering department, will be the instructor.
Training sessions come under the areas of management
related courses, health and safety in child care centers, en-
vironment, education and community awareness and in-
volvement.
Inquiries about this program may be directed to Burney at
838-8531, or by visiting her office, Room 108 of Building I in
the College of Technical Arts complex.
Film chairman
resigns post
Drew Sauerwein, chairman of
the Setzer Center Film Com-
mittee, resigned from that post
yesterday.
Sauerwein told the UP that his
resignation was not a result, or in
any way related to last week’s
resignation of former SSC
president Rodney Bridgers.
Sauerwein, a senior special
education major from Beaumont,
began as film committee chair-
man in May 1975.
Sauerwein commented, ‘‘I
would like to see some younger
students fill the postion of Film
Committee chairman and I want
to thank students for their sup-
port of our films.”_
ft*
U of MAN KARATE—Instructor
Fred Simon, black belt artist,
has taught karate for 16 years,
producing many
karate champions from this
area.
Ed Ivey, station manager of KVLU,
announces that plans are being made
for the construction of a tower by the
Lamar radio station.
The proposed tower will cost ap-
proximately $156,000, and will increase
the power of the station by ap-
proximately 30,000 watts. This power
increase will put the power of the
station in the range of 80,000 watts. The
station is currently broadcasting at
24,000 watts.
Money for the proposed project will
be in the form of a grant from H.E.W.
covering 75 per cent of the cost of the
tower, if approved, and the remaining
25 per cent supplied by Lamar Univer-
sity.
Bids are being taken for the project,
and the site where the tower will be con-
structed is under study.
The proposed tower will reach a
height of 600 feet. A transmitter house
will also be co nstructed so that a con-
stant temperature can be maintained
around the transmitter location. The
transmitter will be regulated by an
automatic logging system which will
call for less maintenance and relieve
the announcer on duty of reading the
meters.
Free workshops offered
through counseling center
Approximately 100 Lamar students
have signed up for the free workshops
being offered this semester by the
University Counseling Center, ac-
cording to staff counselor Ann Die.
The counseling workshops, first of-
fered last semester, have proven so
successful that four new ones were ad-
ded this semester.
Currently in session are a deep
relaxation workshop, held on Tuesday
evenings, and communication skills, on
Wednesday evenings. A problems in
self-esteem workshop will begin Thur-
sday and will run four weeks. Ac-
cording to Die, there are still a few
openings in these sessions. Daytime
sessions will be planned if enough
student interest is shown.
“A lot of people were scared off by
the idea that these were some sort of en-
counter group,” said Die. “Actually,
they’re structured workshops, led by
staff counselors.”
According to Die, this is a new con-
cept in counseling. Imagery, or role-
playing techniques, will be used in
some sessions, and some of the
workshops planned for later in the
semester will use techniques learned in
the earlier sessions.
Workshops to be offered later in the
semester include decision making,
friendship skills, assertion training and
job application.
“We live in a time where each of us
wants to be all we can be,” said Die.
“Self-improvement is as much a motive
among our students as is a specific need
for help in a problem area.”
They may also be interested in taking
full advantage of free workshops that
would be quite expensive if taken from
a private source.
Reservations for the workshops may
be made at the University Counseling
Center, Room 209, Wimberly Student
Affairs Building, or by calling 838-8329.
THE
UNIVERSITY
PRESS
Vol. 27 NOs^M) 3
Friday, Jan. 28,1977
Lamar University
Beaumont, Texas
Karate to macrame planned
for Spring University of Man
KVLU seeks new tower
by Becky Mitchell
They aren’t promising you’ll be
Bruce Lee, the Galloping Gourmet,
Paul McCartney, Charo or Fred Astaire
in just 10 weeks.
But you can get a taste of what these
people and others are famous for
beginning Monday, Feb. 7, and con-
tinuing through April 29.
The University of Man program, a
series of non-credit courses in
everything from macrame to karate, is
designed to provide students an op-
portunity for enjoyment and self-
development in special areas of in-
terest, according to organizer Neita
Smith, SSC associate program director.
The classes are open to anyone, but
students pay only $5 per course while
the community’s enrollment fee is $10.
Registration will be held Monday
through Friday at the Setzer Center
check cashing counter.
“This semester we are offering the
largest number (31) and variety of
classes we have ever had in the Univer-
sity of Man,” said Smith. “Usually we
peak at about 15 or 16 classes.
“Personally, I am very excited about
this program. And we hope to expand it
even more in the future.” Basically, the
classes can be broken down into hobby,
study, game, defense, music, exercise
and self-help courses.
In the hobby division, courses in
needlepoint, crochet, macrame, wood-
crafts, stained glass, odds and ends,
cake decorating, gourmet cooking and
basic techniques of horsemanship are
offered. In the study area, “Becoming a
total person,” the Gospel of John,
“Living with pre-schoolers,” marriage
and family, and a new testament sur-
vey are being held.
Dance courses include jazz, belly
dancing and tap, while exercise courses
are yoga, cheerleading and slim-
nastics. In defense courses, common
sense defense and judo and karate (tae-
kwon-do) are on the schedule; and
games chess and backgammon are
planned.
In the area of self-help, first aid, key
punching and a charm course are of-
fered; and in music, classical guitar,
beginning guitar and beginning piano
are scheduled.
Most of these classes will be held in
the Setzer Center and brochures with
times and places are available in the
Center this week.
The program, which was initiated
four years ago at Lamar, is based on
the University of Texas’ Texas Union
Informal Class Program, which
averages about 100 classes in the spring
and fall and 50 during the summer.
“We’re basically just getting star-
ted,” said Smith, “and I think this
semester is a very positive step for us in
advancing our program. “We looked at
Texas’ and Houston’s (University of
Houston) programs to get ideas. UT has
the best. That’s the example everyone
tries to work by.”
Small blaze
creates 6havoc9
A fire broke out in a maintenance
cart in Chemistry Building II Monday
evening around 9 p.m., when a lighted
cigarette was dropped into it, says
Eugene Carpenter, chief of university
police.
The fire was reported to the Univer-
sity Police by an anonymous phone
caller and the Beaumont Fire Depart-
ment was notified immediately.
The fire department arrived on the
scene at about 9:10 to observe smoke
coming from the building and outside
foyer.
About this time both the Beaumont
and Campus police arrived at the Mc-
Donald Gym parking lot.
The entire incident ended some 15
minutes after it began.
There were damages, estimated to
about $25, done to the hallway of the
Chemistry Building; and although
there was a lot of smoke inside the
building, no serious smoke damage has
been reported.
In spite of the fact that very little
damage actually occured, Carpenter
did say that it could have conceivably
become a disaster.
The key reason that curved the in-
cident into a minor occurence was that
a Lamar student, Michael Harrington,
who was inside the Chemistry Building,
observed the burning janitorial cart,
and after realizing he was having no
luck in extinguishing it, pushed the cart
outside the building.
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