Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1981 Page: 1 of 12
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<(^5" Morning!
LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 58 years
It’s Friday
September 11,1981
Vol. 58, No. 1
U construction
ow underway
y JULIA WILLIAMS
f the UP staff
Lamar is currently embarking
~n construction of academic and
mpus-wide facilities covering
veral departments, the most con-
ruction undertaken in several
ars.
As a result of campus construction,
udents will see wooden fences and
mporary trails all around campus
r the next two to three years, Dr.
drew Johnson, vice president for
dministration and planning, said.
Construction of a $4 million addition
the Cherry Engineering Building
s just begun and it is expected to
ke more than two years to com-
pete, Johnson said.
The expansion of the Cherry
wilding will allow space for addi-
ional engineering labs and depart-
ent head offices. The first floor will
omprise most of the lab space, while
e second floor will have a student
ctivities room and study rooms
long with conference rooms and of-
ices.
To provide construction company
rsonnel with a work area,, East
Irginia Street has been closed to
through traffic from Callaghan Street
to University Drive.
The closing of East Virginia will
make it possible to complete a
covered walk system connecting both
sides of tiie Lamar campus.
See related photos, page 4.
Construction of an addition connec-
ting the Music-Speech Building,
University Theatre and the Art
Building was started last spring. Con-
struction strikes have delayed this ad-
dition, and it is expected to be com-
pleted by Spring 1983, Johnson said.
This expansion will provide space
for conference rooms, journalism
writing labs and interviewing rooms.
Also included will be a photo
laboratory, office space, television
studio, editing 'bays and a video
engineering room.
The addition will also include space
for a rehearsal stage, dressing rooms,
and shop, costume storage and laun-
dry areas. There will also be space for
a future move by campus radio sta-
See CONSTRUCTION, page 9
igures called ‘stable’
By DAVID HARRINGTON
'P managing editor
Preliminary enrollment at Lamar
has remained basically stable for fall
1981, with slight increases reported on
‘the main campus and slight
lecreases at LU-Orange and LU-Port
Arthur.
According to Elmer Rode, dean of
admissions and records, the enroll-
ment figures for the campuses as of
Sept: s snow that main campus has
11,667 enrolled (11,222
undergraduates, 445 graduate
students) with 11,646 in fall 1960
(11,069 undergraduates and 442
graduate students).
Meanwhile, LUPA and LU-0 dipped
slightly, with LUPA enrolling 1,002,
compared with 1,054 last year, and
LU-0 tallying 816 this year as opposed
to 961 last year.
Combining the totals together, then,
the enrollment for the three cam-
puses this fall is approximately
13,485, compared with last year’s
total of 13,661, a drop of around 176
students.
Fall 1981 figures at this time are
preliminary, however, Rode said.
Although there is a drop in enroll-
ent overall, Rode said that the loss
i so small that it can be considered a
‘stable enrollment.”
In addition, Rode added, semester
hours have risen for the semester
even though the enrollment has not.
Although the figures aren’t out yet, it
is estimated that Lamar this fall has
over 200 semester hours more
registered than in Fall 1980.
According to Rode, “This (the
semester hour increase) has occurred
because this fall there have been a
greater number of students taking
more hours than last fall.”
By classification, the freshman
class has preliminarily shown the
greatest increase, while sophomores’
enrollment remains pretty much
stable. Junior and senior enrollment,
however, has been somewhat smaller
this fall.
In the colleges, the Colleges of
Technical Arts:, Business and Educa-
tion increased enrollments in
preliminary figures, while the Col-
leges of Sciences and Liberal Arts
dropped in enrollment. That drop, ac-
cording to Rode, will not exceed
around 200 students.
Rode said that the increase in
enrollment for the first three colleges
has been common the past two years.
He said he feels that trend is due to
students becoming more attracted to
“career-related” degrees, whereby
students could graduate from college
in a relatively short period of time
and begin to work immediately.
Cuernavaca Wedding Day
Cuernavaca is known for its ideal year-round climate, making it a Mexican city
of eternal merriment. Here, on a Sunday morning, a large crowd of people
gather in front of the city’s cathedral to celebrate a wedding. Tourists join in the
festivities. See related Mexican holiday picture story, page 7.
Photo by HOWARD PERKINS
Lamar, Mobil to instruct Saudis
Workers to receive technical, language training
By ROSE BROUSSARD
of the UP staff
Ninety-seven Saudi Arabians will
receive technical and vocational
training and language instruction
from Lamar University as part of a
twenty-seven month program spon-
sored by Mobil Chemical Company
and the government of Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Richard Hargrove, assistant to
the president and dean of academic
services, said the program will teach
the ’Saudis how to operate a
petrochemical plant.
Lamar was contacted by Mobil for
the language instruction and the
vocational and technical training.
Lamar then contracted Systran Cor-
poration to provide the staff and cur-
riculum design for the language pro-
gram, Dr. Victoria Price, English for
Special Purposes projeirt director,
said. ■&£.■
The Saudis will begin their English
training Sept. ‘‘14. The new students
will attend classes from 12:30p.m. to
6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
Price said.
“The students will receive an inten-
sive study of the English language,”
Price said, “and they will attend a
one-hour laboratory each day.”
The students will be instructed in
language by 10 full-time instructors
and three part-time instructors.
Fred Valentine, an employee of the
Systran Corporation who is acting as
ESP assistant project director, said,
“The instructors were selected on the
basis of their resumes and personal
interviews.”
Valentine described the instructors
as “a very international group.
Almost all of the instructors have liv-
ed overseas,” he said.
Following the intensive language
period the students will receive voca-
tional and technical training. It is ex-
pected that the students will begin
their vocational and technical train-
ing in December.
The students will learn to be
operators, maintenance technicians,
electricians, lab technicians and in-
strument technicians, Dr. Kenneth
Shipper, dean of the College of
Technical Arts, said.
The curriculum for the Saudis
technical and vocational training can-
not be completed until the Saudis
have finished some of the language in-
struction, Jim Finklea, Lamar voca-
tional curriculum coordinator, said.
Housing situation 4 9
By ANTHONY HARRIS
of the UP staff
Compared to previous years, the
housing situation for resident
students has improved for fall 1981.
However, there remain 122 students
on a housing waiting list. According to
Bruce Stracener, director of universi-
ty housing, these students will even-
tually be furnished rooms on campus.
Lodging for resident students has
improved basically because of
several new additions to Lamar’s
housing facilities, plus the shifting of
male residents from Campbell Hall to
Morris Hall and of female residents
from Plummer Hall to Campbell and
Gray Halls.
Stracener said that Campbell Hall,
which had traditionally housed male
students, now houses female students
only; also, Plummer Hall, formerly a
co-ed dorm, is now an all-male dor-
mitory. Returning male students who
had previously lived in Campbell
have been moved to all-male Morris
Hall.
A greater demand for housing by
female students than male students,
Stracener said, led the housing office
to make that maneuver. In addition,
he said that female students, by mov-
ing from Plummer to Campbell Hall,
would have a greater guarantee of
security by living there.
“Women students appreciate the
fact that they have more space and
security in Campbell Hall,”
Stracener said. “At first, the men
might have been angry to move from
their traditional dormitory, but I
know they are settled and satisfied.”
The biggest changes in the housing
of resident students are the purchase
of the University Inn Motel and its
conversion to Stadium Hall, the new
University Drive Apartments, built
this summer, and the construction of
a fraternity lodge.
University Inn, which Lamar
assumed full control of on June 10,
was bought specifically for the pur
There are one- and two-bedroom
apartments completely furnished
with a sofa, chair, coffee table and
end table, desk, dining table and wall-
to-wall carpet and drapes.
The kitchen is totally electric, with
a range, refrigerator, dishwasher and
disposal. Also, there is a washer and
dryer in each apartment.
The addition of the University
Drive Apartments, which houses 180
pose of converting it into a residency*! ^U(^en^s> ®lonf» with Stadium Hall
hall, Stracener said. -TvflOO students) and the 12-student
The motel, however, had to be
renovated to suit the needs of a per-
manent dweller. Closets were built,
the building was repainted inside,
recarpeted and refurnished. Also, the
outside of the building is expected to
be repainted, and the parking lot will
be repaired to facilitate Stadium
residents.
The restaurant is being altered into
a dining hall which will serve
breakfast and supper only; residents
can eat lunch, however, at Main Din-
ing Hall, Stracener said.
He stated that in spring 1979, Dr.
George McLaughlin, vice president
for student affairs, implemented the
plan to construct the apartments
because of the need for additional
housing space and the desire to have
the community participate in a
private investment.
Lamar, Stracener said, did not
have to spend money on the apart-
ments; however, the university pays
a monthly lease on them. The apart-
ments are managed like a typical
privately-owned apartment complex.
Alpha Tau Omega lodge (see related
story), student housing capacity has
been raised to 1,922 residents, which
has helped alleviate the housing shor-
tage discovered last year.
A shortage still exists, however.
Stracener attributed it to the
student’s desire to live on campus
because of the economic benefit (i.e.,
versus spending money on a private
apartment or on transportation).
“We can’t guarantee them (waiting
students) a place to live,” Stracener
said, “but we’ll do everything we can
to help them find a place.”
Robin Caillouet, Residence Hall
Association president, said that the
new housing situation will work out
for the best eventually, but that peo-
ple may suffer during the transition
stage.
Many people who were living in
Morris Hall were unfortunate, she
said, because they were forced to
move to Stadium Hall, which had not
been ready to accomodate them at the
See HOUSING, page 9
Building of institute authorized
By RENITA JOHNSON
UP editor
Planned construction of the John E.
Gray Institute has been authorized by
the Lamar University Board of
Regents, Lamar president Dr. C.
Robert Kemble said.
Although a director for the institute
has not been named, the university
will go to the state coordinating board
for approval in October, and it is
hoped that the ground-breaking
ceremony will be held jearly next
year, Kemble said.
The construction site of the institute
building, located near Brooks-Shivers
Hall, is in an area bounded by Florida
Avenue and Cheek, Oregon and Cunn-
ingham Streets, Kemble said.
Eighty-five percent of the funding
for the privately-funded Gray In-
stitute is complete, he said, and con-
struction will begin only after full fun-
ding is assured by the John E. Gray
Foundation, the organization respon-
sible for the funding of the institute.
A transition committee has been
reviewing applications for a
director’s position, and it is possible
that a director and his top staff will be
named within the next several weeks,
Kemble, chairperson of the commit-
tee, said.
Other members of the committee
include Dr. John E. Gray, president
emeritus of Lamar; Dr. Richard
Hargrove, assistant to the president
and dean for academic sendees; Dr.
. < David Geddes, vice president for
academic affairs; W.S. “Bud”
Leonard, vice president of university
See GRAY, page 9
Ford implicated in deaths
BROWNSVILLE, f Texas
(UPI)—Three Texas men djjfed a fiery
death in a rear-end collisiof because
Ford Motor Co. did not wantso pay an
extra $8 to fix each of the Miftang gas
tanks it knew were unsafe, attorneys
charge.
“Ford knew there was a reasonably
safe alternative, but they didn’t want
to use it because of cost,” said
Houston attorney Larry Watts.
Watts, presenting opening
arguments Wednesday in a $112.8
million federal civil lawsuit against
Ford, said the auto manufacture
knew the fuel tank design for the 1965
Mustang was unsafe.
“Carlos Garcia and Hector
Arizmendi, who burned almost in
each other’s arms in this car, didn’t
have to be sacrificed for that $8 per
car,” he said. “They (Ford) spent the
Jives of these boys.”
The families of the three youths kill-
ed in the March 12,1978, two-car colli-
sion, and a young woman who surviv-
ed it, claim Ford knew of nine safety
defects in the company’s popular 1965
Mustang model.
But William Slusser of Houston, an
attorney representing the auto
manufacturer, told the four-man,
two-woman jury the accident and
resulting gas tank explosion and fire
was not the fault of Ford. He said the
car that rear-ended the Mustang was
traveling at a high enough speed to
rupture any gas tank.
“Ford was a pioneer in safety,”
Slusser said.
The lawsuit claims the 1965
Mustang driven by Robert G. Schach
stopped along a county road near
McAllen, Texas, to try to render aid to
persons involved in a two-vehicle ac-
cident. Schach got out of the car, but
Arizmendi and Garcia, both 16, re-
mained in the Mustang.
Inside
♦^Diversions, page 7
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page 5
(^-Sportsline, page 10
Weather
Partly cloudy and warm
today through Monday with
chance of rain. Temperatures
in the upper 80s in daytime,
lower 70s at night.
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