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University Press
Wednesday, February 20,1991
Lamar University • Beaumont, Texas
Vol. 67, No. 36
Magazine believes ^
college racism up
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Dee Gilchrist
\JP staff writer
Racism, a blight on American soci-
ety since the birth of this nation, has
now risen to intolerable levels at
American colleges and universities,
.ccording to the publication “Black
'Ssues in Higher Education.”
With these institutions aiming for
greater cultural diversity, administra-
jors, faculty and students have joined
in an attempt to create and support
Campus environments sensitive to
'varied ethnic concerns and which do
-not tolerate racially motivated crimes.
To this end, the Black Student
i ssociation and Setzer Student
Center Council are co-sponsoring a
videoconference on “The Rise in
Campus Racism* *’ to be presented at
^ioon Wednesday at the John Gray
Institute.
Y Ken Lamartiniere, assistant direc-
tor for programs, said the program
will begin on time and it might be
^ell to arrive a little early.
He said the videoconference,
hich includes a panel discussion,
will be broadcast live to colleges and
universities nationwide. The excep-
Sion to the live broadcast will be four
pre-recorded case studies done at var-
ious institutions across the country.
The four reports are intended to
jddress issues and stimulate dialogue
among panelists and viewers.
J> The case studies include
^.Institutional Racism,” Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass.;
^Separatism,” University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; “The Effects
According to the publication
"Black Issues in Higher Education,"
racism has now risen to intolerable
levels at American colleges and uni-
versities across this nation.
of Diversity on Racism,” University
of California at Berkeley; and “The
Anatomy of a Racially Motivated
Incident,” George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.
Loyce Sinegal, BSA adviser, said
the panel members will be Michael
Williams, assistant secretary for civil
rights, U.S. Department of
Education; Na’im Akbar, educator,
Florida State University; Howard J.
Ehrlich, director of research, National
Institute Against Prejudice and
Violence; Mary Ellen Ashley, vice
provost, University of Cincinnati and
author of “Combating Racism on
Campus.”
Also, Jawanza Kunjufu, author of
“Countering the Conspiracy to
Destroy Black Boys”; Susan
Weidman Schneider, editor-in-chief,
Lilith, the nation’s only independent
Jewish women’s magazine; Reginald
Clark, professor of Afro-ethnic stud-
ies at California State University-
Fullerton; Richard Rubenstein, direc-
tor, Center for Conflict Analysis and
Resolution at George Mason
University; Raynard Davis, execu-
tive director of the D.C. Student
Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racism; and Lillian Roybal Rose,
' workshop educator, trainer and con-
sultant.
The program will be broken
down into three main content areas,
and the panel discussion will center
around the following topics:
“The Causes,” which will
include topics such as “The Impact
of the Reagan Years” and “The
History of Racial Thought in
America”; “The Environment,”
which will include topics such as
“Racism in the Professoriate” and
“The Psychological Impact of
Racism”; and “The Solutions,”
which will include topics such as
“Campus Codes of Conduct” and
“Mobilizing Campus-Wide
Responses.”
The panel will probe the root
causes of this problem and offer dis-
cussion, analyses and solutions
specifically geared to colleges and
universities.
Photo by Janna Smith
Pie-eating contest winner
Todd Langston, Beaumont sophomore, has pie on his face after winning the pie-eating con-
test during Love Lamar Week on campus. The monetary award was $25. He also won another
$25 for the plane-toss contest held in the Setzer Student Center Arbor. Susan E. Lewis,
Kountze junior, was the recipient of a $50 prize for writing the best essay on J’Why I Love
Lamar." Tracie McLean, Port Neches freshman, won $25 for winning the heart hunt.
Bioremediation
Hazardous substances top agenda
Examinations allow students
•y
to receive college credits faster
|By Dee Gilchrist
P staff writer
The College-Level Examination
program, or CLEP, has helped hun-
dreds of thousands of people over the
past 22 years to move ahead more
ftpidly with their education by pro-
viding them a means of receiving col-
lege credit for what they already
know.
* CLEP consists of a series of
^xams to test the applicant’s knowl-
edge in a wide variety of subject
areas. Exams may be taken in history
#nd the social sciences; modern lan-
guages including French, German
and Spanish; composition and litera-
ure; science and mathematics; and
atsiness.
'Sandra K. Langham of Lamar
niversity’s Testing and Counseling
Renter said she believes the center
administers a “pretty good mixture of
111 the tests” on a regular basis with
perhaps more demand for the sec-
tions on history and social sciences;
composition and literature; and sci-
ence and mathematics.
Each exam takes 90 minutes and
— with the exception of the English
composition version with an essay —
consists entirely of multiple-choice
questions.
“The American government
exam, for example, consists of
approximately 100 questions and is
administered in two separately-
timed 45-minute sections,”
Langham said.
Langham said that after the
exams are completed, the finished
tests are sent to CLEP to be graded.
The test results are sent directly to
the student taking the exam unless
that student has requested that the
scores be provided to some specified
college or university.
A minimum acceptable score for
each exam is listed on the informa-
tion and instruction material avail-
able from the counseling center.
CLEP is the nation’s most widely
accepted credit-by-examination pro-
gram. Nearly two-thirds of the coun-
try’s accredited colleges and univer-
sities award credit on the basis of
satisfactory scores on these exams.
These tests may shorten the
time needed to get a college degree.
College courses bypassed because
of successfully passed CLEP exams
are courses that don’t have to be
paid for with time or money.
Langham said that applicants for
these tests are fairly representative
of Lamar’s student population. She
sees students returning to school
after some years and hoping to be
able to convert their work experi-
ence and background into college
credit.
She also sees young students,
already in school, who feel they may
have the appropriate knowledge to
“CLEP” a college course.
Langham said a book called
“The College Board Guide to the
See CLEP, page 6
Bioremediation is the topic of the
third annual symposium of the Gulf
Coast Hazardous Substance
Research Center Thursday and
Friday at .Lamar University-
Beaumont.
Fifteen nationally recognized
experts on bioremediation and haz-
ardous waste disposal will address
this subject in meetings in the
Montagne Center, said William
Cawley, director of the center.
The center is funded by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
the State of Texas and industry. The
sponsorship of the symposium is pro-
vided by Texaco Research.
“This symposium on bioremedia-
tion couldn’t be more timely in light
of the oil spill in the Persian Gulf,”
Cawley said. “Techniques that will
be required to clean up the spill are
on the cutting edge of this new tech-
nology.
“Other important techniques and
applications will be presented during
the two days,” Cawley continued.
The GCHSRC is a consortium of
eight universities: Louisiana State
University, Mississippi State
University, Texas A&M University-
TEES, University of Alabama,
University of Central Florida,
University of Houston, University of
Texas at Austin and Lamar
University. The Beaumont campus
serves as headquarters for the center.
The program will open Feb. 21 at
8:30 a.m. with the first session begin-
ning at 8:50 a,m. Perry L. McCarty of
the civil engineering department at
Stanford University will be the first
speaker. He will talk on
“Engineering Concepts for In-Situ
Bioremediation.”
He will be followed at 9:30 a.m.
by Gary S. Sayler, Center for
Environmental Technology,
University of Tennessee, talking on
“Contribution of Molecular Biology
to Bioremediation.”
Robin Auenrieth, department of
civil engineering, Texas A&M, will
speak on “Biodegradation of
Phenolic Wastes” at 10:40 a.m., fol-
lowed by Carolyn W. English,
department of civil engineering.
University of Texas at Austin, speak-
ing on “Degradation of Organic
Vapors in Unsaturated Soils” at 11:20
a.m.
The luncheon will feature
Margaret Kelly of the Technology
Innovation Office, U.S. EPA. Kelly
will present “Progress on EPA’s
Bioremediation Field Initiative.”
Following the luncheon, H. J.
Marlow, department of environmen-
tal science and engineering at Rice
University, will speak on “Microbial
Transport through Porous Media:
The Effect of Hydraulic
Conductivity and Injection
Velocity,” at 1:30 p.m.
“Bioventing to Treat Fuel Spills
from Underground Storage Tanks”
will be discussed by John T. Wilson,
Robert S. Kerr Environmental
Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, at
2:10 p.m.
Following a coffee break, Gerald
E. Speitel Jr., department of civil
engineering, University of Texas at
Austin, will speak on
“Bioremediation of Unsaturated Soil
Contaminated with Chlorinate^
Solvents,” at 3:20 p.m.
Scott Ziegenfuss, of Roy F.
Weston Inc., will speak on
“Hazardous Materials Composting”
at 4 p.m., and the last session will
begin at 4:40 p.m. with Stephen D.
Fiend, Compliance Consultants Inc.,
speaking on “Bench-Scale
Performance of Suspended-Growth
Biological Treatment Processes for
Petrochemical Sludges.”
A poster session and cocktail
reception will be held from 5:20 to 7
p.m.
Sessions for Feb. 22 will begin at
8 a.m. with P.H. Prichard, EPA
Alaskan Oil Spill Bioremediation
Project, U.S. EPA, speaking on •
“Bioremediation as a Technology:
Experiences with the Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill.”
Albert Venosa, Risk Reduction
Engineering Laboratory, U.S. EPA,
will speak on “Protocol for Testing
Bioremediation Products Against
Weathered Alaskan Crude Oil,” at
8:40 a.m.
“Bioremediation of Chlorinated
Phenols and Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons” is the topic of Gary
D. McGinnis, Forest Products
Laboratory, Mississippi State
University, at 9:20 a.m.
Following a coffee break, John
Ryan, Remediation Technologies
Inc. will speak on “Bioremediation
of Contaminated Soils Using
Prepared Bed Bioreactors-Field
Results,” at 10:30 a.m.
The final speaker is C.H. Ward,
department of environmental sci-
ence and engineering, Rice
University, speaking on “Decision
Making — Is Bioremediation a
Viable Option?”
The symposium will conclude
with a panel discussion from 11:50
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. featuring John
Glaser, Risk Reduction Engineering
Laboratory, U.S. EPA; James
Bonner, department of civil engi-
neering, Texas A&M; and Raymond
Loehr, department of civil engineer-
ing, University of Texas at Austin.
Wittry will conduct
next BSO concert
By Karen Gilman
UP staff writer
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U.S. Marine amphibious Amtrack tracked vehicles
wait at a fuel depot in Saudi Arabia Tuesday. The
AP Laser Photo
Marines are preparing themselves and their equip-
ment for possible action against Iraqi forces.
Thursday’s concert of the
Beaumont Symphony Orchestra will
bring a chance for the public to see
another conductor, another style, in
the five finalists for the position with
the BSO.
Dianne Wittry will be the conduc-
tor and Gustavo Romero the guest
soloist for the concert.
Wittry was a violin performance
major in college and took a conduct-
ing class.
“It was a fluke. I was required to
take the class,” Wittry said. “I dis-
covered that I liked it and I was good
at it.”
“I see music as a gift,” she said. “I
can offer more as a conductor” than
as a player.
She said she likes to shape the
overall music, not just one sound.
“Conducting is a combination of
all things I like,” she said, which
includes the musical end and “being
a
Conducting is
a combination of
all things I
like.
—Dianne Wittry
in control of things.”
Wittry said she has been conduct-
ing for eight or nine years. She is cur-
rently serving as music director/con-
ductor for the Greater Miami Youth
Symphony and assistant conductor of
See CONDUCTOR, page 6
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