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Installment Plan payments are due
Wednesday. The Cashier’s Office will be
open Monday through Thursday from 7:30
a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and on Friday from 7:30
a.m. until noon. A $15 penalty will be
assessed on late payments.
University Press
^ Friday, October 6,1989_._ Serving Lamar and the community for 66 years
Vol. 66, No.'12
■Study reveals
;white barriers
;at universities
t From staff and wire reports
f AUSTIN (AP) — Southwest Texas colleges
still “reek of whiteness” and present social and
1 cultural barriers to progress of black students,
according to a University of Texas at Austin
researcher.
v The study involved mostly middle-class black
students at predominantly white universities
* throughout the Southwest, said researcher Joe
, Feagin, who specializes in the sociology of race
and ethnic relations.
X According to Feagin, the students described a
white college subculture that dominates campus
life and disparages or ignores black culture, the
A Austin American-Statesman reported.
“They talk often about how they are over-
\ whelmed by the whiteness of everything, the way
people dress and talk, the music, the look of the
1 place, the ways of doing things,” Feagin said.
<i “One girl said of a school that it ‘reeked with
whiteness.’
* “This is very hard for whites to understand.
< The only time I have seen white students unders-
tand it is when I have had a class that was half
black or more,” Feagin said.
“Then the whites in the class can see how that
* girl felt — that she was like a fish out of water.
They can get a feel for that kind of culture
shock,” he said.
Black students described discrimination that
ranged from insensitivity to blatantly racist
acts, he said.
They told racial slurs and jokes, stereotyping,
an unawareness of black history or culture,
reluctance by whites to form close friendships
« with blacks, a lack of interest by professors in
minority-related research and issues and
* harassment by campus police.
, The students also said it is common for white
students and professors to assume all black
*• students are athletes or were admitted because
. of race rather than academic achievement.
f Feagin, who is white, discussed his research in
^ September with a UT committee that is consider-
ing a policy against racial harassment.
‘ He suggests a “no tolerance” policy against
v blatantly racists activities, as well as hiring
more black administrators and teachers, pro-
* viding more black history courses and encourag-
, ine minority organizations.
v Many predominantly white universities have
increased their enrollment of blacks and other
minorities in recent years, but graduation rates
t for blacks and Hispanics are relatively low, the
* See STUDY, page 2
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The head of Big Tex rests comfortably on the ground as
his body is raised into place at Fair Park in Dallas. The
52-foot-tall cowboy has greeted Texas State Fair goers
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Woodland to lecture on Florida Minorcans
By David Barra s
YUP senior staff writer
, Naaman Woodland, regents pro-
fessor of history, has been named
the third Distinguished Faculty Lec-
, turer and will be presented in lec-
ture on Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Qray
i Institute Auditorium.
His topic will be “The Minorcans
Aof Florida: A Neglected Chapter of
i American Frontier History.”
Some 1,400 settlers came to
* Florida in 1767, most of whom were
*from Minorca, an island off the coast
of Spain.
k Woodland said that while most
y people outside Florida are not
familiar with the Minorcans, their
' story is an interesting one.
“It’s like a Michener novel,” he
'said.
r Woodland came to Lamar in 1957
^ as a history instructor. In his 32
years on the faculty, he has made
> several contributions to the school
, and its curriculum while trying to in-
still his love of art in his students.
* He taught a humanities class in
vthe original honors program in
which he was allowed to teach the
class in whatever way he wanted.
This allowed him to expose students
to things they might not otherwise
see.
„ “The Renaissance art unit was
centered on a display in Houston. We
toured the art museum during the
Naaman Woodland
day and saw an opera at night,” he
said.
Woodland also has taught a
history class on ’50s culture and a
history class on genealogy.
He created History 234, titled “An
Approach to American History
through American Art and Music.”
Woodland said the course has
come to the attention of other
educators.
“This has attracted attention
across the state. I get letters asking
how it’s organized,” Woodland said.
“I have lectured to teachers ... on
this approach to history.”
Woodland’s love of art is also evi-
dent in his community activities.
Woodland and his wife, Mary, have
been instrumental in bringing the
arts to Beaumont.
Woodland serves on the artists
selection committee of the Beau-
mont Music Commission and is
chairman of the Beaumont Library
Commission.
He and his wife have been active
in the Beaumont Civic Opera (BCO),
where they were founding members.
The BCO’s 25th anniversary perfor-
mance was dedicated to them.
Woodland has performed in BCO
productions. “I’ve sung a few
leading roles, sung in the chorus,
designed the sets and served as a
production supervisor,” he said.
Mary Woodland sang lead soprano
roles for several years.
Woodland said his love of opera
dates back to high school.
“It was my secret vice. You
wouldn’t dream of letting other peo-
ple know that in high school,” he
said.
His contributions to the arts and
education have been recognized in
the form of the many honors he has
received.
Woodland was the second reci-
pient of the Julie and Ben Rogers
Commemorative Service Award in
1981 for a Lamar faculty or staff
member who has made outstanding
contributions to the community
Woodland also - has been twice
nominated by the faculty to be con-
sidered fop the Mamie Stevens Piper
Professorship.
“It really is a wonderful honor to
be chosen by your fellow faculty
members as a nominee,” Woodland
said. k
The church history of the First
United Methodist Church, “With a
Dome More Vast,” that Woodland
helped edit, was chosen as the best
church history of the year by
Southern Methodist University in
1987.
Other positions Woodland has held
include board member of the Beau-
mont Heritage Society and past
president of the Southeast Texas
Genealogical and Historical Society.
In addition he serves on the Gladys
City Museum Board.
Philosophically, Woodland said,
“I’d like to be remembered as a
good teacher.
“What you take away from the
course is not grades, but what stays
with you — an understanding.”
Woodland as Distinguished Facul-
ty Lecturer follows John Storey in
1987 and William Pampe in 1988.
Initiated by the faculty senate, the
award is funded through a grant
from Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co.
McLaughlin:
Salary hikes
are justified
By Bryan Murley
UP editor
Two top Lamar system officials
received salary increases in excess
of $18,000 for 1989-90, according to
Lamar’s budget approved Aug. 10by
the board of regents.
Chancellor George McLaughlin’s
salary was raised $18,306 to boost his
pay to $121,165 a year.
Oscar Baxley, vice chancellor for
finance, also received a raise of
$18,480, to $99,965 a year.
McLaughlin said earlier this week
that he made recommendations to
the regents regarding increases in
Lamar officials’ salaries other than
his own.
And, McLaughlin said, the raises
that were approved are well deserv*
ed, because of a lack of increases in
previous years.
“Generally, executive salaries in
this system, comparable to what’s
happened with faculty salaries, the
percentage has far surpassed ex-
ecutive salary increases,”
McLaughlin said.
Faculty salaries have been in-
creased each year since 1987, in-
cluding raises of 8 percent, 10 per-
cent and 5 percent for this year.
During those years, ad-
ministrators were “not getting any
merit raises,” McLaughlin said.
“They were getting the minimum in-
creases” that staff personnel got
during those years.
Staff salaries were increased 2
percent for 1987-88 and another 2
percent last year, in addition to an
across-the-board 5 percent increase
this year.
Until this year, it ‘‘wasn’t
prudent” to give executives salary
increases beyond the minimum,
McLaughlin said. “So they weren’t
given to senior executives.”
Since the raises were announced
last week in an article in the Beau-
mont Enterprise, a number of com-
plaints have come from students,
faculty and members of the com-
munity about the large amount of
the increases.
A KFDM-TV, Channel 6, telepoll,
conducted Sept. 26, asked the ques-
“I feel I earn my salary. I
don’t have to back up to the
pay counter on any account.”
—George McLaughlin
tion, “Did Lamar University ex-
ecutives receive excessive pay
raises?” Channel 6 estimates that
2,200 people responded, with the
results showing 92 percent of the
people thought the pay raises were
excessive, and 8 percent said no.
McLaughlin said he has not heard
any disparaging remarks about the
pay raises, and believes he doesn’t
have to defend them.
“I feel I earn my salary. I don’t
have to back up to the pay counter on
any account,” McLaughlin said.
“Some people are not happy that I
received an increase. I’m grateful. I
think I earned it.”
“The regents told me the raises
were based on what they thought
were significant gains in private
gifts and donations and one of the
best years we’ve had in the
Legislature,” he said.
In addition, Lamar executive
salaries lagged behind other com-
parable institutions in the state, in-
cluding the University of North
Texas, where the president receives
$135,000 a year.
Although UNT is a larger school,
with more students, McLaughlin
said the comparison is valid.
“Our program is much more com-
plex (than UNT),” McLaughlin said,
“the array of programs — and look
at the engineering, the Hazardous
Waste Substance Research Center,
the College of Business, the scope of
our offerings.
“Once you reach a critical mass
that is required... it is the complexi-
ty and not the numbers that are im-
portant.”
Other administrators who receiv-
See SALARIES, page 4
Senate president
nixes exec raises
By Bryan Murley
UP editor
Recent raises granted Lamar
University administrators may be
sending the wrong signal to the com-
munity and the university, said
Bruce Drury, faculty senate presi-
dent.
“It gives a very bad impression to
the people of the community, the
faculty, staff and students,” said
Drury, “when the university budget
is quite austere and a few executives
are singled out for raises far beyond
those granted staff members and
faculty.
“It’s very harmful to university
morale and not politically wise,” he
said.
Drury has heard a number of com-
plaints about the raises since the
Beaumont Enterprise reported that
Chancellor George McLaughlin
received a raise of $18,306 a year and
Oscar Baxley, vice chancellor for
finance, received a raise of $18,480 a
year.
“When contracts were late, I
didn’t hear verv much grumbling
coming forth,”
Drury said.
“The raises peo-
ple got were not
large, but they
understand the
financing comes
from the
Legislature and
the Legislature
had not ap-
propriated
enough money.
“After the faculty and staff had
convinced themselves that was all
that was available,” he said, “then
the published budget comes out and
one person gets a 22 percent raise
See DRURY, page 4
UP Survey
Campus expresses opinion on raises
By Craig Clark
UP staff writer
I “Yes. I’m happy that they are
getting what they justifiably
deserve in relation to the cor-
responding positions at other
schools within the state and I can
only hope that other positions here
will receive similar increases
when possible.”
Kush Wood
J Sports information director
“Yes. What did the board of
regents base their decisions on?
What warranted a 22 percent in-
*j crease and what are they going to
do about morale for the rest of the
people that got between 3 and 4
f percent increases. ”
Dianne McMannus
Questions; Are you aware that some Lamar administrators
have been awarded large pay raises by the board of
regents? What Is your reaction to these raises?
Port Neches sophomore
“Yes. Instead of giving raises to
those already quite comfortable
with their salary, they should
channel that extra income into
student/school activities or
scholarships for those in the arts
like myself.”
Owen Tilley
Beaumont sophomore
“Yes. I think it really stinks. They
are not doing that much for the
university to be perfectly honest.”
Hsu Tung
Port Neches sophomore
“Yes. I think they are excessive in
comparison to what the professors
received. I think the professors
should really have received
more.”
Horace Davidson
Beaumont post graduate
“Yes. To be very diplomatic
about it, I think there are almost
an infinite number of things that
the money could have been better
spent on. Especially things that
would more directly improve the
quality of education since that is
our primary mission. The
justification for the raises, i.e.
retention of good personnel should
be applicable if not more so to
faculty positions as well.”
Mike Haiduk
Association professor of biology
“ Yes. The dollar amount given
to those administrators is not out-
of-line with the national average or
those of similar positions in the
state. It would be inappropriate for
me to say anything beyond this.”
James Hill
Department head of art
“Yes. I would like to think that
faculty was as important as ad-
ministration.”
Robert Hebert
Beaumont senior
See SURVEY, page 6
Band members
address meeting
By Melinda Barnett
UP staff writer
President of Kappa Kappa Psi, a
Lamar University music fraternity,
told the Student Government
Association Tuesday that the Lamar
band will boycott all homecoming
activities.
He said members of the band felt
discriminated against in the
homecoming festivities.
“I’m here on behalf of the band,”
said Mike Tucker. “We feel that
we’ve been discriminated against in
the homecoming festivities; and in
retaliation, the members of the band
will be boycotting all homecoming
activities.”
“We were not informed and we did
not receive forms for homecoming
candidates,” he continued. “We ask-
ed questions at the student organiza-
tion office and every time we asked
we were told they (the candidate
election forms) were not ready.
“I went last week and asked. I was
told that they were not ready.
Through the grapevine, I heard that
that was the deadline,” he said.
“The band is very furious with this
and we are going to boycott all
homecoming activities,” Tucker
said.
Ruth McCauley, director of the
Setzer Student Center, was present
at the meeting and told SGA
members that the homecoming can-
didate forms had been hand-placed
into each organization’s box by one
of the members of the election com-
mittee.
’ She apologized that the band had
not received its forms and said that
she would investigate the possibility
See SGA, page 6
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