University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1988 Page: 1 of 8
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Good c.i
Morning!
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving Lamar and the community for 64 years
It’s Wednesday
February 10, 1988
Vol. 64, No. 25
Winter wonderland? f j—
Steve Best and Kathleen Duffy, Beaumont juniors, stroll Friday. The last snowfall in Southeast Texas brought a few
through a rare Beaumont snowfall to the Setzer Student Center flakes in January 1987.
Regents to consider English policy
By Steven Ford
UP editor
The Lamar University Board of
Regents Thursday will consider the
adoption of an English language
competency policy for instructional
staff.
Regents discussed this and other
items of business in committee
meetings Monday, forwarding them
to the full board for consideration.
The competency policy, mandated
by the state Legislature, is aimed at
standardizing basic levels of English
competency for all instructors, in-
cluding graduate teaching
assistants, Andrew Johnson, assis-
tant to the chancellor, said.
The policy is designed to mandate
competency requirements for both
existing and prospective personnel,
he said.
According to the policy draft,
department heads and deans will
determine during the first year of
the policy’s implementation, who, if
any, among their instructional per-
sonnel are deficient in English
language skills.
Any current Lamar instructor who
is determined to be potentially defi-
cient in oral language skills will be
required to score at least 220 on the
Test of Spoken English or a score of
3 on the Foreign Service Institute
Language Proficiency Interview.
Those who do not meet the
minimum skill requirement will be
allowed to teach the following
semester, while enrolled in. ap-
propriate English language instruc-
tion.
The minimum required score will
have to be attained before the
teaching assignment can be con-
tinued.
Prospective Lamar personnel
must meet the same minimum skill
requirements before they are hired
to teach courses other than foreign
languages.
The proposed policy is a criterion
for accreditation from the Commis-
sion on Colleges of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
Also Thursday, regents will con-
sider the adoption of a public health
policy concerning communicable
diseases — their prevention and con-
trol — for the Beaumont campus.
The proposed policy is aimed at
assisting Lamar officials with the
procedures and policy that go along
with state law concerning com-
municable diseases.
President Billy Franklin ap-
pointed a University Health Com-
mittee ini November to develop the
policy in conjunction with the Com-
municable Disease Prevention and
Control Act.
Regents also will consider the
adoption of a policy assuring due
process in instances of alleged drug
use on the Lamar campuses.
Johnson said the university has a
policy of due process for any
discipline infractions, but this pro-
posed policy will put Lamar in line
with the Coordinating Board’s re-
quirements.
Regents will also consider:
• Bids for Phase B of the elec-
trical upgrade for Lamar-Beaumont
and bids for the McDonald Gym tun-
nel renovation.
• Development plans for the
renovation of the seventh floor of the
Mary and John Gray Library.
• An adjustment to the Lamar-
Beaumont budget to buy capital
equipment for the Gulf Coast Hazar-
dous Substance Research Center.
• Approval of a cafeteria plan for
the Lamar System.
• Faculty development leaves
and a proposed title change for the
dean of graduate studies and
research.
• Organizational changes for the
Division of Finance and Operations
at Lamar-Beaumont.
The board will meet Thursday a*
1:30 p.m. in the Map Room of the
John Gray Institute.
Ambassadors cancel appearances
From staff and wire reports
COLLEGE STATION - Soviet
Ambassador to the United States
Yuri Dubikin and Kuwait’s am-
bassador to the United Nations have
canceled appearances at the Student
Conference on National Affairs,
which began today, planners said.
Igor Khripunov, first secretary to
the Soviet Embassy in Washington,
and Dr. Aleksa Djilas of Harvard’s
Russian Research Center have been
added to the program, which ex-
amines “The Kremlin in
Transition,” planners of the student-
run event said.
Khripunov replaces Dubikin, and
Djilas will appear in place of
Kuwait’s ambassador to the United
Nations, Sheikh Saud Nasir Al-
Sabah.
The conference, planned entirely
by Texas A&M students and funded
with private donations solicited by
the students, annually brings
delegates from other campuses
together with key leaders and
policy-makers to promote debate
and dialogue.
About 150 student delegates from
the United States, Mexico, West Ger-
many, Britain, France and Taiwan
are attending the meeting, which
runs through Saturday.
Two Lamar students, Anne-Marie
Roy, Silsbee junior, and Christy
Comstock, Port Neches senior, are
attending the conference as well.
Participants have the opportunity
to talk with program speakers one-
on-one in small roundtable settings.
Khripunov will appear on a panel
discussion of U.S.-Soviet relations
Friday at 10 a.m., along with Robert
German, director of the State
Department’s Office of Analysis for
the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe, and with Jerry Hough,
Duke professor of political science
at Duke University.
Djilas will be scheduled for a
panel Thursday at 10 a.m. on Soviet
Foreign Policy. The program also
will feature Soviet Ambassador to
the United Nations Alexander
Belonogov, British Ambassador to
the United Nations John Birch and
Texas A&M Historian Betty
Unterberger, a specialist in 20th cen-
tury Russian affairs.
Local psychologist tapes program at Lamar
By Steven Lightfoot
UP staff writer
The first syndicated television
program to originate from
Southeast Texas may have been
bom at Lamar’s television studio,
the show’s producer, Lori Old,
says.
Old, who works for Gray & Co.
Marketing Consultants, said, ‘‘The
show may provide a wonderful op-
portunity for Lamar’s com-
munication department to actively
participate in its production.”
She said the show’s star is a local
psychologist, Liz Kamicki, who
already hosts a radio talk show.
Preliminary taping designed to
familiarize Kamicki with the TV
studio environment took place Fri-
day in Lamar’s TV studio.
Kamicki will use the tape as a
feedback device to gain insight in-
to her on-camera presence, James
Bethel, associate professor of com-
munication, said.
Friday’s taping was a
cooperative effort between Gray &
Co., headed by the show’s ex-
ecutive producer, Art Gray, and a
production crew of Lamar com-
munication students headed by
Bethel. k
“The show is targeted for airing
on Sundays at 11:30 a.m. on Chan-
nel 4 where the bulk of the taping
for the 13-week series will take
place,” Old said.
“The show will be primarily
entertainment,” Old said,“with
the intent of getting people involv-
ed.”
The show, titled “Love with
Liz,” will be a different kind of talk
show with a psychologist talking
candidly with other specialists in
various fields of psychology,
Bethel said.
He also said the program will be
localized with slots reserved for
callers to telephone in questions
and for the local stations to run
their own taped segments dealing
with the show’s weekly topic.
“If the show takes off, there will
be, at the very least, the opportuni-
ty for Lamar to extend its intern-
ship program,” Bethel said.
In the long term, there may be
the possibility of monetary gains
which will allow for the expansion
and updating of Lamar’s TV
facilities, Bethel said.
“For now, what we are doing is
extending a favor to Gray & Co.
and;*helping out the community.”
he said.
Photo by Keith Watson
Dr. Bethel'controls the sound room for the television pilot, “Love With Liz.”
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Task force looks
for involvement
in campus affairs
By Bryan Murley
UP managing editor
A study committee is looking at
changes in student activities that
would involve more students in cam-
pus affairs.
The campus activities and
freshman experience subcommittee
of the Task Force on the Quality of
Student Life at Lamar conducted a
90-minute session Friday in which
student leaders expressed their
complaints, praises and thoughts on
ways of changing campus activities
for the better.
Dr. Ed Nicholson, executive vice
president for academic and student
affairs, created the task force in Oc-
tober.
The task force was divided into
five subcommittees. Each member
of the task force serves on one sub-
committee.
The meeting was one of several
with students around campus to help
the subcommittee find out how
students feel about their campus ac-
tivities.
“The aim is for us to come up with
some very concrete recommenda-
tions that can be implemented,”
Tim Summerlin, co-chairman of the
subcommittee, said in his opening
remarks. “Vice President Nicholson
has indicated that what’s going on
here is anything but simply a kind of
exercise in keeping meetings going
and having people have items that
they can put on their resume.”
Among the groups represented in
the meeting were Omega Theta
Alpha, the older-than-average
students’ group; the Student
Government Association; the Setzer
Student Center Committee; the
freshman class; the Residence Hall
Association; and Cap and Gown
senior honor society.
The students and five-member
subcommittee discussed six areas of
campus life: the campus communi-
ty, freshman experience, traditions-
spirit, commuters, older-than-
average students and evening
classes.
Most of the discussion centered on
the campus community, which
covered subjects from fine arts and
athletics to social activities and
leadership training.
In those areas, Lamar received
good marks for its commitment to
leadership training, but, in other
areas, things were found lacking.
In athletics, Jeffery Floyd, presi-
dent of SSCC, brought up the lack of
support for women’s athletics.
The women’s basketball team, for
instance, has no cheerleaders and
the band does not play during their
games, Floyd said.
“In my opinion they are being
treated like second-class citizens,”
Floyd said.
Among suggestions for change
were adding a second set of
cheerleaders for the women’s games
and looking at other women’s
athletics programs in the American
South Conference.
“The aim is for us to
come up with some very
concrete recommenda-
tions that can be im-
plemented.
—Tim Summerlin
Mike Brezina, vice president of
SGA, said Lamar should support the
intramural sports teams more with
money and attendance.
“I think it is a good way to spread
a little more spirit and a little more
awareness of Lamar University not
only locally but throughout the state
and the nation,” Brezina said.
Two intramural flag football
teams went to the national tourna-
ment in New Orleans, and the men’s
team placed third in the nation.
One of the main suggestions to
come out of the meeting was that the
hour requirement for participation
in extracurricular activities be
decreased from 12 hours to nine
hours.
“A lot of the older students are not
involved on campus because of the
hour requirements,” Mary Denson,
president of Omega Theta Alpha,
said.
None of the student leaders had an
immediate objection to the sugges-
tion.
Ideas for strengthening the social
environment included having SSCC
events scheduled during the day on
certain days and letting students
know that events put on by certain
groups are open to people who are
not members.
Much discussion in the meeting
was devoted to the freshman ex-
perience and how to strengthen
freshman involvement on campus.
After orientation, Floyd said he
called freshmen interested in the
SSCC in order to “reach out” and get
them involved.
“You have to have a certain
amount of freshmen in your
organization so you can build up and
they can become the leaders,” Floyd
said. “If you get a lot of seniors in
there, they are worried about get-
ting things on their resume, and
that’s not really what you want.”
“A main problem we’re having,”
Kim Arrington, freshman class vice
president, said, “is that so many
freshmen are commuting.
“It’s hard to reach out and let
them know what’s going on. It’s hard
to pull them all together.”
Brezina said one of the main ways
of helping ge* * more involvement was
for each organizational leader to
spread the word within his organiza-
tion.
“It’s our responsibility to make
sure that things filter down through
the organizations and hit everyone,”
Brezina said.
See TASK FORCE, page 6
Committee aims
for improvements
By Evelyn Hawn
UP news editor
An on-campus telephone for the
students’ use should be installed in
the library this semester.
Killi Surratt, Student Government
Association chairman for the stu-
dent affairs committee, said the pro-
ject was started in the spring of 1987.
Committee member Jim Savage
spoke to Tom/ Willcox, telecom-
munications director, about install-
ing the phone which will only con-
nect with other on-campus phones.
“At first, SGA was going to pay for
it,” Surratt said. Now, however, the
university will pay for the phone
because it would be available to all
students.
The phone currently being ex-
amined costs over $200 and would be
a security phone like the one used in
prisons to guard against theft, Sur-
ratt said.
Another one of the committee’s
projects is improved lighting around
campus.
“The lighting is a major problem
for night students,” Surratt said.
One of the main areas cited is the
quadrangle.
“The walk from the Setzer Center
to the business building is pretty
dark,” she said.
’ The committee hopes to submit a
proposal to the physical plant within
a month.
The committee is considering in-
cluding in the proposal other pro-
blems around campus that need fix-
ing such as the plaques on the
buildings, Surratt said. However,
different proposals might have to be
submitted to different sections of the
physical plant.
It is not known when any results
will come around.
“All we can do is meet and submit
the problems students are having,”
Surratt said.
Also, a memorial is being con-
sidered in remembrance of students
who have died.
The project is still in the planning
stages.
“We have to talk some more with
the administration before we could
start a project like that,” Surratt
said.
The idea for the memorial started
after the death of Harold Thomas, a
student who died March 27 from a
cardial hemorrhage while jogging
on the Ty Terrell track.
The committee is looking at the
cost of the memorial and where it
should go.
.*‘Our major projects for this
sahester are the phone in the
library and the lighting on campus,”
Surratt said.
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