Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 39, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 7, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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Good Morning!
Wednesday, March 7,1979
Vol. 29, No. 39
Serving the Lamar community for 55 years
Conversation with the president
LU aware of need
for transitional cash
Editor’s note: This interview is the first
in a series of weekly interviews with
Lamar president Dr. C. Robert Kemble.
The informal interviews will attempt to
keep students up-to-date on issues facing
Lamar, including biennium funding,
results of a steady-state enrollment, and
the reallocation of resources.
< By TARA SHOCKLEY
UP editor
Lamar president Dr. C. Robert Kemble
said Monday he believes Lamar can take
credit for being the university that has
done most in alerting other universities
that formula funding does not adjust itself
to a steady growth state.
Coupled with this awareness, Dr. Kem-
ble said, is the need for reallocation or
^transitional money for those universities
which are in a steady enrollment state.
“The legislature was not well-educated
to this in the past,’’ Dr. Kemble said.
“They now address themselves more
realistically to this.”
Lamar has addressed itself to a steady
enrollment for the last year and a half, Dr.
Kemble said, by beginning reallocation of
funds from steady or declining programs,
k such as liberal arts, to those programs
which are growing.
At the March 12 Board of Regents
meeting, Dr. Kemble will present a list of
23 positions that will be reduced by
elimination or consolidation.
Of this number, eight are faculty mem-
bers, who will not receive contracts, Dr.
Kemble said. Six of these are first-year
employees and two are adjunct instructors
on three-year contracts. “They came
knowing they were only on a three-year
contract,” Dr. Kemble said, “and this is
the third year.”
Administrative reductions, however,
will be close to twice those of faculty
reductions, Dr. Kemble said.
“This is not because Lamar University
is comparatively fat in administrative
size,” he said. “We are average. It was my
judgment that we could better afford to
make adjustments here with more cost
savings.”
The names and departments in which
reductions or consolidations will be made
will not be released until approved by the
regents at the March 12 meeting, ac-
cording to Dr. Kemble.
“We’ve looked at this with great care,”
Dr. Kemble said. “I sincerely feel there
won’t be any adjustments that will hamper
us.”
Dr. Kemble feels that some of the
changes brought about by the need for
reallocation will increase the effectiveness
of the university.
“When enrollment was slow and
gradual,” he said, “we hired at a rate that
exceeded income. So, it was inevitable that
we had to react to that if we wanted to keep
salaries at a level we thought was im-
portant.”
Dr. Kemble said he met with the
academic council and evaluated the im-
pact that reallocation would have College
by college.
“I did not hear anything that led me to
believe that the quality of instruction or
course offerings will be affected,” Dr.
Kemble said, “partly because we have
been addressing this matter with some an-
ticipation for better than a year.
“In areas where student-faculty ratio
has been low, we will see some adjustment
upward.”
Lamar will be in a better posture for the
coming decade if the university makes ad-
justments realistically, Dr. Kemble said.
He is optimistic that the Senate Finance
Committee will make recommendations in
funding that will be favorable. He said he
has recommended, and hopes, that the
Coordinating Board will devise a new for-
mula approach to funding in a state of
steady enrollment.
In years of decline, universities will be
required to absorb the first percent of loss.
After this, the state will take care of the
difference by supplemental support in the
form of 80 cents on the dollar.
“In this way, universities are motivated
to persist, but it gives them time to take
necessary actions,” Dr. Kemble said. “A
formula approach would be more in-
telligent than treating each school on an in-
dividual basis, favoring those schools with
more political muscle.”
Because Lamar was one of the first
universities to address the problems of for-
mula funding in a steady growth state, Dr.
Kemble feels that Lamar’s credibility with
the Legislature has been enhanced.
“Many Americans tend to think that
bigger means better, that quantity means
quality,” Dr. Kemble said. “I really
believe that we have an opportunity to ad-
dress excellence more than growth.”
Lamar University student
dies of heart attack Friday
Gary Wayne Moore, Beaumont Justice of the Peace J.P. McNeill ruled he had to lie down to rest.
freshman, was pronounced dead at 5 p.m.,
Friday, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont,
after collapsing from an apparent heart
attack at 3:31 p.m. the same afternoon in
McDonald Gym.
Moore died from natural causes after an
inquest was made at Baptist Hospital.
According to witness Buzz Loeffler,
Beeville junior, Moore was playing
basketball with a group of students when
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and the cheerleaders are sponsoring a
“send-off” for the Lamar Cardinals
Thursday, at 8:30 a.m., in front of
McDonald Gym.
All students, faculty and staff are
invited, according to Tony Sekaly, SGA
president.
The Cardinals travel to Murfreesboro,
Tenn., Thursday, to meet the University of
Detroit in the first round of the NCAA
Mideast Regional Basketball Tournament.
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“Moore stayed in that position for
approximately five minutes,” Loeffler
said, “until someone noticed he had not
moved. After checking, a person observed
that Moore had stopped breathing.
“A student ran to the Lamar athletic
training room,” Loeffler said, “and
notified Darrell Ortiz, a student trainer.
Ortiz and other student trainers arrived,
according to Loeffler, and began ad-
ministering cardio-pulmonary resusci-
tation.
After several minutes, a Crawford
ambulance crew arrived and also began
working on Moore, according to Ortiz, who
rode in the ambulance to Baptist Hospital.
“To my knowledge, there are no further
investigations into the incident,” J.B.
Higgins, athletic director said.
Miss
Black
Lamar
Stephanie Ann Jackson, Beaumont senior, was
named Miss Black Lamar at the Grand Ball
Saturday night in the Selser Student Center
Ballroom, to climax Black Awareness month.
Jackson is an accounting major, a member of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and an active
member in the Fanhellenic Council.
Jackson is a graduate of Beaumont High
School. She attended North Texas State Univer-
sity, Denton, in fall 1975, and first came to
Lamar for the spring 1976 semester.
Jackson served on the Regents Student Ad-
visory Committee in 1977; was appointed in
1977 to serve as Supreme Court Justice with a
two-year tenure: is a member of Student en-
terprise; was nominated to Who's Who J'or two
consecutive years, 1977-79; and Iasi February
became an active member in the Black Leaders
Coalition.
Jackson said she has accepted employment
with Arthur Anderson & Co., in Houston, a large
accounting firm, following her graduation in
May.
Photo by Lenny Gibson
A touch of spring—
Belinda Hons, Bridge City freshman, takes a moment out to look at the pear trees growing
near Cherry Engineering on south campus.
Photo by Mike Cutaia
Publications finish sixth
in convention competition
By GREG HALE
of the UP staff
At the Southwestern Journalism
Congress competition, the spring-summer
1978 Cardinal tied for second-place
magazine sweepstakes, the University
Press placed seventh, and University
Press-Cardinal student publications
finished sixth overall.
Awards were announced Saturday at the
49th annual convention of the South-
western Journalism Congress hosted by
the University of Texas at Arlington.
Eleven awards went to Lamar students
in individual competition, to comprise
total scoring for the contest.
The Cardinal, Lamar’s semesterly
student feature magazine, accumulated 17
total points to tie with Texas Christian
University’s Image.
Dave Campbell, co-editor of the Car-
dinal and UP graphics manager, took first
place in best magazine cover competition.
Campbell’s cover featured an illustration
of several students painting the magazine
title on a fence.
Tara Shockley, University Press editor,
won first place in best magazine article for
“Hazing: The Rites of Passage, College
Style,” an enterprise story concerning
hazing on the LU campus.
A1 Navarro, UP columnist, took second
place in best magazine article competition
for “He Fought for Freedom," a personal
profile feature on Dr. Anthony de Pineda’s
experiences in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Dr. Pineda is assistant professor of
modern languages at Lamar.
Shockley and Helen Sohlinger, Cardinal
co-editor and UP copy editor, won third
place in the best magazine picture com-
petition for a special effects photo. The
original photo was taken last summer at
the Port Arthur Yacht Club catamaran
races.
In newspaper competition, Navarro won
second place in best column for “I’ve Had
Enough Action,” which appeared in the
Nov. 3,1978, edition of the UP.
Mary Johnson, UP contributing writer,
took third place in the same competition
for “The Nerve of Someone My Age...,"
which appeared in the Sept. 15, 1978,
edition of the UP.
Jesse Doiron, UP cartoonist, won second
place in best editorial cartoon competition
for a cartoon entitled “Single Bullet
Theory,” which appeared in the Sept. 15,
1978, edition of the UP.
Manuel Moreno Jr., UP intramurals
writer and former sports editor, took third
place in best sports page layout com-
petition.
Linda Kirkpatrick, UP sales represen-
tative, took second place in best co-op ad
competition for a two-page advertising
spread, which appeared in the Nov. 10,
1978, edition of the UP.
The list of competing member schools,
ranked in decreasing order by their stan-
ding in overall points in competition, is as
follows: University of Texas at Austin;
Texas A&M University, College Station;
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth;
East Texas State University, Commerce;
University of Texas at Arlington; Lamar
University; University of Oklahoma, Nor-
man; Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater; Texas Tech University, Lub-
bock; North Texas State University, Den-
ton; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville;
Texas Woman’s University, Denton;
Southern Methodist University, Dallas;
and Central State University, Edmond,
Okla.
Four member schools did not attend the
convention: Hardin-Simmons University,
Abilene; Baylor University, Waco;
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge;
and University of Houston.
The Lamar mass communication depar-
tment and student publications were elec-
ted to SWJC membership in December.
Membership is by invitation only, upon
recommendation of the SWJC executive
board and a three-fourths majority vote of
the 18 member schools.
Larry Markley, dean of student ac-
tivities and Setzer Student Center director,
said that the awards are a “real tribute to
the work our students have done. The
showing was outstanding for the first year
in SWJC competition.”
Dr. DeWitte Holland, head of the com-
munication department, said that he has
for a long time been aware of the superior
work of Lamar’s mass communication
students, "particularly journalists.” “I
am pleased, but not really surprised,” Dr.
Holland said.
Weather forces pair
from grave situation
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (UPI)
— Linda Barker and Country Bill
White are doing their best to stay
buried alive, but so far rainy
weather has forced them to abort
three attempts, the latest one Mon-
day.
White and Mrs. Barker had to
climb out of their separated coffins
Sunday because of water seeping in-
to their plots from recent rains.
They had hoped to be back un-
derground Monday but the water
still hadn't been pumped out.
The two have challenged each
other to see who can stay under
longest.
“It’s not that girl who’s a
challenge, it’s that damn box,”
White said Sunday following the
third postponement in a week of the
bury-off.
“That box has made me mad.
They got a foot of water in there. But
I’m not giving up. I haven’t been
whipped in 14 years and I don’t in-
tend to now. I got too much Texas in
me.”
The side-by-side Coffins were
raised from the ground so a water
pump and crossties could be put un-
derneth them.
The two had been “buried” in
their 3-by-3-by-6 coffins for only 11
hours when water seeped inside and
forced their exhumation. The
crossties and water pump are ex-
pected to prevent water from en-
tering the coffins.
White currently holds the world’s
record for being buried alive — 134
days, two hours and 55 minutes.
White and Mrs. Barker, a mother of.
two, hopefully will be reinterred
sometime Tuesday.
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