The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 22, 1976 Page: 2 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS September 22,1976*2
Editorial view sa
If a poll of Lamar students were taken to discover how many of
them are registered to vote, it is feared that the number would be
amazingly small.
The irony of this situation is that a few years back, students
were screaming for the very things we seem to yawn about today.
What has happened to the student’s voice? Is it simply a matter of
waning interests or a redirection of priorities?
Student representation could become an awesome thing in local
government as well as national government. The potential power
of a strong student voice is particularly awesome.
Imagihe cases where the student voice could become a third
variable in traditional, political tug-o’-wars. The interjection of a
noticeably new view could mean a break from the strictly two-
sided struggles that mark most elections.
The student has been invited to play in this game. It is now up to
hirjg*to register. Deadline for voter registration is Oct. 1 for the
Nov. 2 Presidential election. Lamar students may register in the
SGA office, Room 211, Setzer Center.
It is also possible for students from outside of Jefferson County
and living oiUcampus to register to vote in their home counties
through the SGA office.
Deadline for absentee balloting for those students who register
to vote in their home county is Oct. 29.
It should also be noted by students that there is a special method
for write-in balloting. The voter who wishes to write in a candidate
not listed on the ballot should request a special form from the
pollster for this purpose.
Letters to the editor
Parking problems aired;
Brown Center old news
5
Frank
Monday, Dec. 6 has been designated
Snow Day by the Setzer Student Center
Council. They have plans of students
frolicking in real snow and even
building a snowman on campus. Don't
be surprised if itlall happens inside the
Liberal Arts Building; indeed, it is cold
* enough there.
* Some of the buildings on this campus
are so frigid that many of our coeds are
out of step with the fashion world-all
because they’ve had to chuck their
brand-new fall stuff and pull last win-
ter’s outfits out of mothballs. A lot of
people would bring mittens to class
these days, except it is so hard to take
notes in them. It’s amazing that the
Bookstore hasn’t come up with a
special sale on thermal underwear.
Consider poor Roger. On Tuesdays-
Thursdays he has three classes in the
LA Building-four and a half con-
secutive hours of sitting through those
Arctic blasts. Roger tells me that as
soon as the bell rings at the end of each
class, he heads outside to “thaw out.”
But then 15 minutes later he’s inside
again for another 75 minutes.
“I guess I’m going to have to wear
long sleeve shirts the rest of the
semester,” he says.
There seem to be defective ther-
mostats all over Lamar:
•Speech students in the Music-Speech
Building insist that the epitome of per-
sistence is giving a 10-minute per-
suasive speech while your teeth chat-
ter.
•The guys in the Business Building
are really disappointed. They can no
longer stare at all those Office Ad-
ministration majors’ good-looking legs
because the girls are wearing pan-
tsuits, which are warmer, instead of
short dresses.
•One girl claims her coffee froze over
while she was studying for a history test
in the Setzer Center’s Redbird Perch
one day last week.
•A freshmanEnglish student cracked
that LA doesn’t stand for Liberal Arts,
but Little Antarctica.
•The odtfrs of formaldehyde in the
Biolofy Building and sulfur in the
Chemistry Building are bad ■ enough,
but it is really a serious matter when
the urinals are frozen over.
•Several guys have told me Shivers
dorm is appropriately named.
•There is a rumor going around in the
Education Building that a polar bear
was peeping through the doors last
Friday.
Everywhere you look around campus
people are walking around in
Beaumont’s 90-degree days of Sep-
tember-in long sleeve shirts. Every
other person you see either has a runny
nose or chapped lips.
My philosophy professor claims the
problem in the LA Building is very sim-
ple, “Cheap system,” he says. “It’s too
cold in some places and not cold enough
in others. Then in the winter, when they
switch from cooling to heating, it will be
too hot in the places where it is too cold
now.”
But an English prof offered a dif-
ferent explanation: “The air con-
ditioning duct runs through our
building, on over to the computer cen-
ter. And they need very cool air over
there to prevent overheating of the
computers.”
A third explanation-and perhaps the
most believable one-comes from the
“non-conformist” government teacher,
a fellow who sports a beard and
shoulder-length hair and who is more
comfortable in a $6.95 Ban-Lon shirt
than a $200 Johnny Carson suit. “I think
it’s the administrators,” he shrugs.
“They find it a little warm in a coat and
tie, so the cooler temperature permits
them to keep their image.”
So that’s the whole problem-the ad-
ministrators. We students have to
trudge all over campus, to and from
classes, to and from the dorms, to and
from the Student Affairs Building to
drop and add classes, sweating almost
every step of the way. Therefore, since
we are outside so much, we dress ac-
cording to the weather.
But the white collar guys never step
outside. They must be careful not to
perspire, else they would put dirty rings
inside those white collars.
Dear Editor:
In response to the letter from Gary
Garrison, a Morris Hall resident, con-
cerning the parking lot situation, I
would like to relate the Combs residen-
ts’ views on this. To begin with, Combs
Hall is not a dorm, it is an apartment
complex for married students; yet is
governed by rules made up by dor-
mitory residents.
If Combs were a dorm, we would pay
$500 a semester (4 months) to live on
campus and eat in the dining halls.
However, because we live. in apart-
ments, we pay $175 a month rent which
does not include our grocery bills. This
comes to $700 a semester for rent and
about $400 or more for food, which
totals to over $1100 a semester.
Now, for the parking situation. I
totally agree with Gary about the
“brilliant” planning of the Morris Com-
bs lot. However, the married students
have a completely different situation
than the guys in Morris. We have babies
and small children, women and
children walking across the dark lot to
their homes at night when there is no
space in our lot, and also groceries to
carry in (which is a lot of fun when you
have eight bags to carry from Lot 15).
As for the new arrangement of the
parking lot, Combs asked for 34 spaces,
ONE for each apartment. Some of us
(about 10 couples) have two cars which
we had been parking in our lot which
caused Combs to have 44 cars in a lot
that hold 90-plus cars (as we were
told). The administration agreed to
give us enough space for one car for
each apartment and we volunteered to
park out second cars in Lot 15. We will
receive one sticker for our part of the
Morris-Combs lot and a commuter
sticker for our second cars. This
automatically gives Morris 10 extra
spaces that they do not have now.
The way the arrangement is to work
is that you drive into the lot, the first 17
spaces on each side will be for Combs
(we will have a different sticker from
Morris) and the rest of the lot (about 60
spaces) will be left for Morris. Ac-
cording to the number of cars in both
Halls, this worked out proportionately:
1/3 for Combs and 2/3 for Morris, which
is fair.
Another thing that was decided was
that each part of the lot will be a TOW-
AWAY ZONE, so that if a Combs
resident parks in Morris, the resident
can have him towed away and vice ver-
sa.
The only other thing I want to com-
ment on is the statement Gary made
about everyone wanting a space to park
behind where they live. That’s true, but
Combs Hall is not just the place where
we live for two semesters a year. Our
apartments are our homes where we
live year round (even during semester
break, Christmas, and the summer).
However, with the dormitory residents,
they leave during these times and go
home for the holidays. We don’t do tb’
because we are already home with
families of our own right here on cam-
pus.
By the way, if Morris would like to
meet with us, we would be glad to meet
with them to discuss this difference.
Thanks again.
Mrs. Cheryl Simpson
Combs Hall
Dear Editor:
I believe that it is the University
Press’ job to report the current news.
The news concerning the Brown estate
(Sept. 15) is relatively old news.
When the Brown estate was donated
to Lamar, it was covered by both the
local newspapers and television
stations. They provide accurate
coverage.
It has been several months since this
event occurred but the UP has waited
until this time to print this article. If
this article; was ever to appear in the
UP, then it should have been in the first
issue this Fall. Since it was old news, I
also feel that entirely too much space
was given to the article.
Kavanaugh
Bill Roth
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