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University Press
Wednesday, November 7, 1990
Working for a better world
Students have taken the initiative to begin recycling campus garbage by placing trash
cans in the Art Building, left, and the Geology Building, right. The program will be
expanded to other parts of campus when the Students Toward Environmental
Protection begins its campus recycling program.
Prostitutes disguised as
S&L 'business expense1
DALLAS (UPI) — A former finan-
cial officer for defunct Vernon Savings &
Loan testified Monday he was ordered
to disguise payments for prostitutes as
Christmas bonus checks written with
taxpayer-guaranteed funds.
“1 was told to call and get eight girls
for this party and four girls for that
party,” said Garrison Roth, testifying in
the fraud trial of former Vernon owner
Don Dixon.
“I remember having to rush to cash
the checks before the Saturday parties
and the banks closed so there would be
plenty of cash to hand out,” he testified.
“Everything had to be done in cash.”
One check, which Roth identified
from a stack of government exhibits,
was for $2,275 and was used to procure
women in December 1983, he said. The
check was marked “Christmas bonus.”
“Yes, there was a Christmas,” said
Roth in answer to defense attempts to
ridicule the pretense of the check. “But
it was not a Christmas for any Vernon
employees. It was Christmas for the girls
who came to our parties.”
At one party, guests — politicians,
borrowers, friends of Dixon — were
taken aboard a luxury yacht for a
Southern California cruise. Other parties
involved trips in antique cars and private
jets.
Roth said he turned over “procure-
ment duties” to another Vernon associate
after he left the organization in late 1985.
Defense attorneys tried to shake
Roth’s recollection of the parties, noting
he did not remember who attended each
one.
“You can’t tell which vice president
(of Vernon) was here and which was
there,” attorney Billy Ravkind said. “You
know about the girls, but you don’t know
about the executives.”
Roth compared his recollection to
that of a boxing fan.
“You may not remember all the con-
tenders there in the ring,” he testified.
“But you remember the ring and the fact
a fight took place. I remember the girls
and the fact there were parties.”
Dixon contends the parties were held
to woo potential customers and politi-
cians and represented legitimate busi-
ness expenses.
In a 38-count indictment, the govern-
ment said Dixon illegally used thrift
funds for prostitutes and political contri-
butions and to support a lavish life style.
Dixon’s thrift failed in 1987 at a loss of
$1.3 billion.
Roth said he remembered paying
$300 each for eight girls to accompany a
group of Vernon executives on a boat
ride for eight hours.
“That was in 1983,” he testified.
“The rates probably have gone up since
then.”
On cross-examination, Roth acknowl-
edged that one check, earlier identified
as a payout to prostitutes, was actually
payment-for the use of antique cars by
Vernon directors.
Testimony is expected to continue
for at least three weeks with witnesses
including a California madam, former
borrowers and Vernon executives.
Video recruiting hits Lamar
University system using new technique to attract students for '91
By Danny Stegall
UP staff writer
Lamar University-Beaumont is
hoping to boost student recruiting
with the addition of a recruiting video
in 1991.
The video is a technique being
used by more and more colleges
today for recruiting students, accord-
ing to Jim Rush, academic services
director at Lamar.
“Most of the schools that have
been using the tapes have been pri-
vate schools,” he said, “and they are
mainly recruiting the parents.
“But from Lamar’s standpoint,
we will be recruiting the student.”
Rush said viewing the videotape
is like making a campus visit and is
helpful mainly to students outside
the area who cannot make a personal
visit.
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videotape include scenes of faculty
working on specific projects that stu-
dents can get involved in, Rush said.
Also, he said statements from the
university president are very impor-
tant, as well as graduation scenes and
videotape of basketball games.
Rush stressed the importance of
high-quality videos. “If you look at
the typical person coming out of high
school, they recognize high-quality
videos from watching MTV,” he
said.
“Whatever is going to be pro-
duced has to be able to stand up
against the quality of major colleges’
videos.”
According to Rush, the process
of making a videotape would consist
of talking to video producers and
getting their price ranges, choosing
a producer, writing the script, shoot-
ing tape footage and having profes-
sionals splice and edit the tape.
After attaining the finished prod- If a student orders a certain uni-
uct, separate presentations would be versity’s tape, he will get not only
made to fit into a standard television that school’s presentation but also
talk-show format. ^*thc presentations of two other uni-
Rush said there is a new distribu- versities on the same tape, thus
tion method for the tapes, called “sandwiching” the original,
“sandwiching,” that is being looked Rush said the production price
at by the university. range of all the tapes Lamar has
Here, secondary distributors col- viewed is between $5,000 and
lect college videos, distribute them ■ $100,000. \ '•
for free to video stores and rent therh “The tape will add to the recruit-
to high school students. ing process, not replace it,” he said.
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Casey, Jay. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1990, newspaper, November 7, 1990; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500351/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.