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UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving Lamar and the community for 63 years
It’s Friday
May 1, 1987
Vol. 63, No. 40
Education aids economic development
This is the third and final inradl-
ment concerning Lamar’s role and
contribution to economic revitaliza-
tion in Southeast Texas.
By STEVEN FORD
UP managing editor
The Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast
Crescent is the region of land that
borders the Gulf of Mexico from Cor-
pus Christi to New Orleans.
Because of its combination of
natural resources and geographic
characteristics, this region is a na-
tional and world center for the oil
and petrochemical industries.
Not surprisingly, this area exports
about 40 percent of the nation’s
refined products and manufactured
chemicals, and about one-third of
the synthetic rubber.
But this region is not without its
economic problems. A 13.6
unemployment rate across Hardin,
Jefferson and Orange counties is
proof of this.
But this region does have an
economic edge against some of this
adversity through the activities of
the John Gray Institute.
Established in 1981, the John Gray
Institute is a privately funded, state
operated and non-profit entity that
works toward the mutual advance-
ment of business, labor, industry
and education.
“First of all, the John Gray In-
stitute was established to take a look
at what the future of the Gulf Coast
Crescent was going to be,” Merlin
Breaux, JGI president, said.
“The reason that we were in-
terested in that particular piece of
real estate is because it has a single-
based economy,” he said.
That single base is the petroleum
industries, and Breaux estimates
that about eight out of 10 jobs in this
region are somehow dependent on
that one industry for their economic
well-being.
It does not take much effort to
realize that if industry suffers
economically, then so does this
region.
“The idea was, rather than wait
until the entire oil and petroleum in-
dustry begins to mature and play
out—much like the steel and auto
and rubber industries—‘why don’t
we take a look at the future and
begin to make plans and develop
strategies to go from one economic
base to another?’ ” Breaux said.
Breaux emphasizes that JGI ac-
tivities are not concerned with
specifics, rather its activities are
related to a more broad-based
nature and extend over city, county
and state lines.
“We’re not a Beaumont organiza-
tion or even a Triplex organization,”
Breaux said. “Our goals and our
aims are much broader-based than
that because we know that in order
to be more successful in this tri-
county area, we’re going to have to
meet with success all along the Gulf
Crescent.
“Because,” he said, “we’re all in
the same boat.”
Breaux said education, par-
ticularily Lamar’s role, could keep
the economic boat from sinking.
“Somehow we have to educate the
community to how to identify areas
where things can be done,” Breaux
said. “The university system should
be the center of economic develop-
ment in this area.
“In the past, I don’t believe Lamar
has fulfilled that role of being a
trendsetter. I think it has been most-
ly a teaching institution.
“But under the leadership of Dr.
(Bill) Franklin (president of
Lamar) and Dr. (George)
McLaughlin (chancellor of Lamar),
I think we are moving in the right
direction. The hazardous waste
research center is a good example of
that,” he said.
Mclaughlin agrees that the Hazar-
dous Waste Alternative Center is a
good example of Lamar’s involve-
ment with the economic develop-
ment of the area, but he points out
that it is not the only way the univer-
sity is involved.
For instance, McLaughlin ap-
pointed Mark Glick in April to serve
as a special consultant for economic
development and systems planning.
As well as doing research for the
university, Glick is also working in
conjuction with the John Gray In-
stitute on the feasibility of attracting
firms that currently use raw pro-
ducts manufactured here.
Breaux said the John Gray In-
stitute provides the funding for
Glick’s research, and points out that
for many years this vertical integra-
tion of industry, as it is called, has
gone virtually unnoticed in this area.
Some of these raw products are
basic plastics, polyethylene, and
other petrochemical-related pro-
ducts which are manufactured and
exported to other areas of the nation
See EDUCATION, page 6
Students
tell state
to cut budget
elsewhere
AUSTIN (AP)—College students
who said they have been the victim
too often were out in force Tuesday
to send a message to lawmakers that
the budget trimming ax needs to fall
elsewhere.
Three statewide student organiza-
tions sponsored a Higher Education
Awareness Day to inform legislators
of their concerns and to educate
students about pending legislation
affecting higher education.
“Students have borne the pro-
blems of the state three times,” said
James Aldrete, co-director of the
University of Texas at Austin Texas
Student Lobby.
Aldrete said students already
have had to dig deeper into their
pockets to pay for higher tuition
costs, while higher education fun-
ding was cut and sales taxes were in-
creased.
At the same time, federal and
state government reduced financial
aid funding, he said.
Texas has one of the “worst
systems of higher education in the
country” in terms of efficiency, said
Rep. Eddie Cavazos, D-Corpus
Christi. “South Texas has never had
a governor, therefore South Texas is
very deprived” of quality higher
education institutions.
“What it will take to correct it is
unfortunately not what Gov.
Clements is trying to do. The ap-
propriations bill ... is $640 million
more than Clements wanted for
higher edcucation,” Cavazos added.
Cavazos is sponsoring legislation
that would open eligibility to Hinson
Hazlewood loans to people who can
show they are capable of repaying
the loan.
Another bill, sponsored by Rep. A1
Luna, D-Houston, would allow
parents to begin paying for the
child’s education at current tuition
costs. He said the money would be
invested by institutions, with the in-
terest going into a fund to pay the
difference of tuition costs when the
child attends college.
Luna said that bill would provide
students with incentive and would
provide the opportunity of attending
college, especially for minority
students.
The House appropriations bill
returns higher education spending to
1985 levels, which was higher than
funding for 1986-87, said Luna.
“We cannot, we will not step back
(on higher education funding), no
matter what this governor or anyone
else says,” said Sen. Gonzalo Bar-
rientos, D-Austin.
Students from seven colleges and
universities in the state attended the
gathering. The event was sponsored
by the Texas State Student Associa-
tion, The Texas Student Lobby of UT
and Texas A&M University.
Inside
Woodrick profile........2
Editorial page..........3
Campus poll...........4
LU sailing team.........5
Exam schedule.........6
Moulton’s plans........8
Sports..............9-12
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SSC Governing Board deci-
sion bans organizational
food sales in Arbor. See
page 7.
Tacky job
Jane Trinh Quang, employee of the campus well as work for the Brown Center. “We manage
upholstery shop, reupholsters chairs from a to stay pretty busy,” Nash said. The shop also
campus meeting room. Betty Nash, supervisor makes drapes and automotive upholstery
of the shop, said they do all the upholstery for the repairs for Lamar’s state-owned vehicles.
Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange campuses as by BRAD H0RN
Police will again issue tickets
By STEVEN FORD
UP managing editor
There is an abundance of parking
spaces available on campus, Ken
Courtade, assistant director of
facilities, maintenance and opera-
tions, said.
The students’ complaints, he said,
stem from a lack of convenient park-
ing on campus.
Courtade said that Beaumont
Police Department will again begin
issuing parking tickets to parking
violators along the west side of
Callaghan Street.
Beaumont Police Department had
stopped giving tickets to offenders
for a short time, pending more stu-
dent awareness of the new prohibi-
tion of parking along the west side of
the street.
Courtade said city police will ex-
tend a grace period until May 15 on
towing illegally parked vehicles on
Callaghan. He emphasized that this
grace period on towing would extend
only to violators on Callaghan
Street.
Courtade said the west side of
Callaghan Street was designated a
no-parking zone earlier this month
primarily for safety reasons.
He also said that the university
was in violation of state and federal
regulations because students park-
ing along the street were obstructing
handicapped students’ access areas.
Courtade also said campus
aesthetics was a factor in the deci-
sion to close one side of the street to
parking.
There are some plans for addi-
tional parking to be built in the
future, Courtade said, but added
that those plans are subject to stu-
dent enrollment projections and
other expenditure priorities of the
university.
“Plans to build additional parking
areas are weighed against educa-
tional programs, new buildings,
building renovations and a whole
host of other factors,” Courtade
said.
“Students need to realize that we
are going from a vehicular campus
to a pedestrian campus,” he said,
adding that most other colleges and
universities are doing the same.
Some of the plans that Courtade is
dealing with include working with
both the city and the state to provide
an exit ramp from Highway 69 to
Callaghan Street.
Courtade said this will provide the
university with a single major front
entrance, something it now lacks.
If this is implemented, it will be
within the next two to three years.
Courtade also said the university
is considering having Callaghan
Street renovated within the next one
to two years.
If this is done, the street will be
divided by a grass median and have
a cement curb, much like University
Drive. Parking will be eliminated
along both sides of the street if this
plan is to take effect.
There are also plans to expand the
parking facilities on the Technical
Arts campus, following the elimina-
tion of some university housing
there.
Also, Courtade said if the current
Facilities, Maintenance and Opera-
tions facilities are relocated, there
will be additional parking space in
the north Montagne parking area.
Courtade said there are also plans
to build additional parking lots at
various other areas of the universi-
ty, such as across from the Speech
and Hearing Building.
HWAC committee
fine tunes details,
begins to examine
future for center
By GEORGANNE FAULKNER
UP editor
Now that support legislation has
been approved for the Hazardous
Waste Alternative Center, the com-
mittee will begin work on the nuts
and bolts of the program.
The committee, chaired by Dr.
David Geddes, provost, has been
working for three years on proposals
and fine tuning details for the center
with the Environmental Protection
Agency and political leaders involv-
ed in the legislation.
“We have been working with the
EPA on what Lamar needed to do
(to establish the center),” Dr. Jack
Hopper, a member of the Lamar
HWAC committee, said.
Hopper, head of the chemical
engineering department, said he and
members of the committee have
made several trips to Washington,
D.C., and the Hazardous Waste
Engineering Research Laboratory
in Cincinnati to work on the pro-
posals.
“The EPA and state bill is not the
same,” Hopper said.
The Superfund passed by Con-
gress in 1986 outlined the state’s role
with the center and will allow up to
$5 million in appropriations for the
center, Hopper said.
The bill passed recently by the
state Legislature does not provide
any appropriation, but rather
outlines the relationship between the
four universities involved in the
HWAC.
Hopper and the committee have
outlined the structure and
preliminary goals of the center.
“The headquarters of the HWAC
will be at Lamar,” Hopper said.
“But research will be conducted at
all four universities, to be known as
a consortion.”
The consortion includes Lamar,
the University of Texas at Austin,
Texas A&M University and the
University of Houston.
The main office of the HWAC,
located at Lamar, will be operated
by a director, an assistant director
and a quality assurance officer,
Hopper said.
Communications between the
HWAC and the EPA will be handled
from the Lamar office.
The HWAC will be controlled by
two advisory committees, Hopper
said.
The scientific committee will con-
sist of experienced university facul-
ty from schools outside the consor-
tion, industry representatives and
EPA personnel.
The industry committee will con-
sist of adyisers for research and pro-
posals.
“A certain amount of the budget
will go to research,” Hopper said.
Faculty from the four universities
in the consortion will submit pro-
posals for research projects to the
advisory committee for approval.
Hopper said the interaction among
the faculty of the four institutions
will be beneficial for Lamar.
“Research faculty will probably
come here to present their research
and findings,” he said.
Within the proposal, there are
three broad programs, he said.
The first is hazardous waste
minimization which involves
developing technology for preven-
Jack Hopper
ting generation of waste products.
“It is source reduction,” he said.
The second program involves
development of techniques to treat
waste and to minimize the amount
released into the air, water and on
land.
“The Technological Transfer and
Training Program will involve
workshops, short courses and conti-
nuing education based on research
findings,” Hopper said.
An analytical chemical laboratory
will assist Lamar with its research
and will be housed in renovated
chemistry labs in the Chemistry
Building.
The research will be conducted by
faculty members in the four schools
and student assistants.
“The faculty will submit proposals
to the committee for approval,”
Hopper said. “Those chosen will be
financed from the budget.”
Hopper estimates the center’s
budget will be in the area of $1
million annually for the first five
years.
“Hopefully, the center and exper-
tise established by research will
help obtain funds from other funding
agencies,” he said.
Hopper said one HWAC goal is to
reach a point where the health of the
public will not be affected by hazar-
dous material.
Another area the center is observ-
ing is the Superfund sites where
hazardous material has been
dumped and mismanaged, causing
environmental problems, he said.
“We are looking at ways to clean
up these sites, some 2,000 in
number,” he said.
A long-term potential goal of the
HWAC is research findings im-
plemented in the curriculum of the
schools so that students will be more
aware of the byproducts at an early
educational stage.
Hopper said he hopes the center
will commence operation by Oct. 1.
The committee has been inter-
viewing applicants for director, and
Hopper said he thinks the search is
almost complete.
Other members of the committee
include Dr. Fred Young, dean of the
College of Engineering; Dr. John
Idoux, dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences; Dr. Charles Turco,
dean of the College of Professional
Studies; and Dr. Keith Hansen, head
of the chemistry department.
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