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UNIVERSITY PRESS
It’s Wednesday
August 31,1983
Vol. 60, No. 1
UMAA UNiveKs*TY Library
Serving the Lamar community for 60 years
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Legislature approves funding bill
I-amar accorded systems status
St RIAL RECOfr
After years of operating a complex
university “system” without the official
status or funding, l-amur was formally
acknowledged as a university system Mon-
day.
The bill establishing Lamar as a univer-
sity system had been signed June 19 by
lov. Mark White.
The benefits of operating as a university
[system will be far-reaching. Significantly,
|it will supply additional funding to permit
the long under-funded branch campuses to
raise the scope and quality of educational
Services. In addition, it will permit a ma-
rjor reorganization of the entire university
into a “more effective and efficiently run
operation,” Lamar President C. Robert
Kemble sidd.
• » “The main beneficiaries will be the peo-
I pie of Southeast Texas, Lamar’s primary
service area, but also the state as a whole
through improved educational programs
and opportunities, better planning, greater
operational efficiency and higher state and
national prestige,” Kemble said.
The Texas Legislature, added Kemble,
finally recognized that Lamar has been
operating for the past several years as a
complex university system but without the
financial support accorded such an
organization.
‘ With the addition of the branch cam-
puses at Orange in 1969 and Port Arthur in
1975, Ijnuir has been operating a system’s
organization older and larger than some
state approved systems but has been
financed by the state as one campus.
In actuality, Lamar has become a five-
in-one operation: the central campus
university with its two branch campuses in
Orange and Port Arthur, plus a separate
“community college” at technical arts,
and the privately supported John Gray In-
stitute.
' Increasingly, there has been a growing
complexity in the university’s operation
caused by strong enrollment growth, the
mixed academic/vocational missions of
the branch campuses and the unusual
range of curriculum from vocational-
technical opportunities to doctorate pro-
grams in education and engineering intert-
wined with a wide spectrum of traditional
and nontradional academic degrees and
service courses.
Lamar presently offers degree pro-
grams in more than 130 fields of study in
addition to 15 diploma and certificate pro-
grams and more than 60 service classes of-
fered through its department of continuing
education.
The Beaumont campus is unique in the
state with its traditional academic degree
programs, including graduate study op-
portunities, offered alongside one-and two-
year degree programs and certification
programs in the College of Technical Arts
and the College of Health and Behavioral
Sciences.
At the branch campuses, the same mix-
ture prevails. The vocational offerings are
equal to the traditional academic pro-
grams, and associate degrees are
available in the vocational areas.
Academic programs are limited to two
years maximum, transferable to the Beau-
mont campus or other institutions where
degree programs can be completed.
“Being a university system will open
avenues of operations and provide greater
flexibility,” Kemble said.
Beginning in September 1985, Lamar
will receive an additional $2.4 million a
year as a university system. During the
past several years, the university has had
to stretch its own funds throughout the
“system” while recognized systems were
being more aptly financed.
“Additional funding will provide financ-
ing for educational programs, approx-
imately $1 million each for the two branch
campuses, $400,000 for improved coordina-
tion, forward planning and management,
and will raise Lamar’s status with state
agencies, national education authorities
and accreditation organizations,” Kemble
said.
Increased funding will allow the expan-
sion of programs at the branch campuses
where strong enrollment growth has caus-
ed LU-Port Arthur to be the largest branch
campus in the state with LU-Orange rank-
ing as the third largest. Overall, Lamar
has had enrollment increases for 17 con-
secutive semesters and the 1983-84 student
population is expected to exceed 15,000.
The two branch campuses have to date
expended no state money for the purchase
or construction of facilities, even though
their enrollment growth of more than 1,000
students at each location has already more
than doubled the legislature’s original ex-
pectations.
No immediate operational changes have
been made, but die university’s regents
and leadership have been studying
realignment concepts. Later this fall, it is
anticipated that preliminary proposals
and options will be reviewed widely.
Since becoming a multi-campus opera-
tion, the Lamar “system" has been ad-
ministered by the president of the univer-
sity through his staff including provosts of
branch campuses.
“I anticipate deliberate, conceptual
planning by the regents, administration
and faculty this fall, and then gradual
transition to full system operation by
1985,” Kemble said.
Although the milestone occasion, one of
the most significant in Lamar’s 60-year
history, was not marked by the usual
hoopla, Aug. 29 will be etched as a historic
date in the school’s annals.
Filing begins today for SGA offices
By RICHARD BONNIN
UP editor
Filing for Student Government Associa-
tion offices begins today and will continue
through Sept. 9, Dr. LaiTy Ludewig, dean
of students, said Tuesday.
All persons wishing to apply for Student
Government positions must meet general
eligibility requirements, he said.
These requirements include status as a
full-time student who is officially
registered for the fall semester, a grade
point average of 2.0 for the preceding
'semester, as well as for all Lamar college
work, and eligibility for all interscholastic
activities.
A candidate on disciplinary or scholastic
probation, for example, is not eligible to
run for office, Ludewig said.
Eighteen positions in the SGA will be fill-
ed in the elections, scheduled for Sept.
21-22, Ludewig said.
These positions include two senators-at-
large; two freshman class senators; one
representative each from the colleges of
health and behavioral sciences, education
and technical arts; four freshman class
representatives; three sophomore class
representatives; three junior class
representatives; and chairperson of the
Setzer Student Center Governing Board.
“Senator-at-large candidates in the elec-
tion must maintain off-campus residency
and must not be active in more than two
campus organizations,” Ludewig said.
“College representative candidates
must be enrolled in the subject field of-
fered by the college they want to repre-
sent,” he said.
Freshman class representative can-
didates must have been enrolled in the
previous two long semesters and must
have the intent to enroll in the fall and spr-
ing semesters, Ludewig said.
Sophomore class representative can-
didates must have 30 to 59 semester hours
earned, with the intent to enroll in the fall
and spring semesters, he said.
Junior class representative candidates
must have 60 to 89 semester hours earned
and intend to enroll in the fall and spring
semesters, he added.
An opening for the position of Student
Governing Board Chairman has been
created as a result of the resignation of
Marion Phillips, elected to the position last
spring. Phillips resigned the position
earlier this month. He said that he was
resigning for “personal reasons.”
Also resigning this summer was Robert
Glenn, who had been elected last spring as
SGA vice president by the SGA Senate.
Glenn resigned earlier this month.
Glenn, who no longer attends Lamar,
said he plans to pursue his goal of becom-
ing a certified public accountant.
The position of SGA vice president will
be filled through a Senate election.
To be eligible for the office, a student
must have been enrolled one regular
semester prior to the semester of his elec-
tion, and he must be a member of the SGA
Senate during that semester and the
semester of his election.
In addition, he must meet all general
eligibility requirements and have a 2.0
cumulative GPA.
Applications and detailed information
concerning each opening are available in
the SGA office, 211SSC.
In addition, Homecoming Queen elec-
tions have been set for Sept. 28-29, Bobbie
Applegate, Setzer Student Center program
director, said.
Prescriptions no longer free
at LU student health center
Changed procedures-Lamar student, Yousif Al-ahmadi, pays for prescriptions
at LU Student Health Center.
Photo by JAN COUVILLON
By FRED TRAMEL
UP managing editor
Because of increasing costs for
drugs and medical supplies, the Stu-
dent Health Center will no longer
disburse prescription and over-the-
counter drugs free of charge.
“We were the only university in
Texas that gave drugs free,” Dr.
Lamar C. Bevil, director of the
center, said this week. “We had been
living beyond our means. We finally
reached file level in which we couldn’t
do it any more.”
Other options available included
raising student health service fees
and not disbursing drugs at all, Bevil
said. The second option would have
forced students to have prescriptions
filled at retail pharmacies.
The drugs will still be available
from the center and be sold at cost.
Since the center is under a state con-
tract, drugs are obtained by the
center considerably below retail
price. “One preparation that costs the
center $1.60, for example, would cost
$11 retail,” Bevil said.
The center has also changed its
policy regarding care for on-campus
injuries. The first $100 for medical ex-
penses will no longer be paid by the
center, Bevil said.
In other changes, the remodeling of
the building is in the final stages and
is expected to be completed within a
week. The total cost of the project is
$37,000, Kenneth L Sparks, director
of file physical plant, said. The work
was performed by university
employees.
“The entire building has been
renovated,” Bevil said. All walls have
been painted. The floors will soon
have new carpeting, and strip fluores-
cent lighting has been added. The
lighting has been the greatest im-
provement, he said, “it really has
brightened things up.”
The project has increased the size
of the waiting room by 200 percent,
Bevil said. The entrance is still
located on the west side of the
building, facing the tennis courts.
The number of treatment rooms
has been increased from three to six,
while the number of beds has
decreased from 18 to 12. A pharmacy
and an office for a new doctor have
also been included in the project.
The project has been three years in
the planning. "We will be able to work
more effectively,” Bevil said.
Harry Mason, owner of Highland
Avenue Pharmacy at 4400 Highland
and a registered pharmacist, will act
as consultant to the new pharmacy. A
law passed by the state legislature
made it mandatory that Lamar have
a licensed pharmacist.
The center is currently searching
for a new doctor to join its staff, Bevil
said. “Lamar has never had the
number of doctors most universities
of this size have,” he said. The center
has one full-time nurse practitioner,
who can perform many of the duties
of a doctor, and Bevil, who is listed as
a part-time employee.
See HEALTH CENTER, page 6
Candidates must be full-time students,
must be nominated by a registered student
organization, must have a cumulative
GPA of 2.0 and for the last long semester,
<wd must be able to meet all necessary ap-
pointments, Applegate said.
“There have been a couple of important
changes,” Applegate said. “In addition to
the previous requirements, candidates
must have obtained junior or senior status.
The only exception to this change are
students who are pursuing an associate
degree.”
Applegate said one other important
change has been made in the Homecoming
election process. “The finalist and the
queen will now be announced in the same
ceremony. Instead of announcing finalists
and then letting them run, as was done in
the past, there will now be only one elec-
tion,” she said.
Applegate said all applications must be
turned in at the Activities Area of the
Setzer Student Center no later than 4 p.m.,
Sept. 19. A $15 entry fee is required, along
with the application, she said.
For additional information concerning
Homecoming Queen applications, contact
Shelly Talbot at 838-8734.
Institute
Opening—
Ribbon cutting
ceremonies are
scheduled at 1 p.m. today
for Lamar’s new Gray
Institute complex.
Shown are the Research
and Staff Building, above;
a meeting room, center;
and a Gulf Oil Corpora-
tion display, below.
Photo, by JAN COUVILLON
Opening ceremonies
set for Gray Institute
By LINDA ECKOLS
UP staff writer
After nearly two years of planning and
construction, the John Gray Institute, 855
Florida Ave., is ready officially to open its
shiny, new doors today at 1 p.m.
The institute has been established for the
purpose of promoting better labor-
management relations and economic
diversification in the Gulf Coast Crescent.
One of the most unusual aspects of the
facilities is the triangular format used for
their design. The center was designed by
J. Lynn Harden, Beaumont architect, and
built by Miner-Dederick, general contrac-
tor.
There are virtually no right angles in the
three buildings and the surrounding land-
scape that constitute the $6.5 million
center.
The 47,000 square feet of the facility in-
clude a conference center, a research and
staff building, and a guest house.
“The design is complimentary to move-
ment and interaction among employees
and visitors,” Martha Reed, director of
public affairs for the institute, said. “The
lake, many windows and elimination of
sharp comers create a relaxing at-
mosphere in which people can exchange
ideas in a free, uninhibited manner.”
Reed said that the quality of work of the
craftsmen who built the institute is ex-
cellent. Some of the excellence can be seen
in the wooden, handwrought light fixtures
and the hexagon-shaped columns.
To attribute credit to these craftsmen,
an etched glass plaque containing the
names of all 367 project workers will be
mounted at the front entrance of the Con-
ference Center.
All the buildings are made to ac-
comodate growth, Reed said. The Con-
ference Center, used for seminars, public
visitation and catering, is prepared to seat
265 in its auditorium as well as serve 100 in
its dining facilities.
The Research and Staff Building has
several open areas that can be converted
into office or study sites. This building con-
tains offices for the staff, including that of
Dr. Philip L. Johnson, executive director
of the institute, as well as dry labs and a
library for research.
Dr. John E. Gray, president emeritus of
Lamar, and the man for whom the in-
stitute is named, will have office space in
this new building of the institute.
Furniture for the offices is mostly wall-
mounted, allowing for more work space.
Also, extensive use of computers lessens
the filing needs for the institute, Reed said.
The third building is used to accomodate
visiting professors, scholars or seminar
directors. It contains four bedrooms and
kitchen facilities.
Through these new facilities, the in-
stitute intends “to inform the public and
labor-management representatives in
ways to promote a cooperative attitude,”
said Charles Tolbert, labor relations
manager. The institute has plans for
seminars in media, arbitration skills and
bargaining skills in an attempt to achieve
this goal.
Good communications is the best way to
gain successful labor-management rela-
tions, Tolbert and Reed said. “You have to
understand what I’m talking about, and I
have to understand what you’re talking
about before we can have positive com-
munication,” Reed said.
It is important to have all sides informed
about the details of a situation, such as
terms, issues and those involved, before
arbitration, they said.
The John Gray Institute caters to all
forms of industry including those of shipp-
ing, paper and oil.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremonies there
will be displays from the various in-
dustries.
The concept for the institute came in
early 1981, followed closely by the appoint-
ment of Johnson as executive director in
September of the same year. Ground
breaking for the project was held in
January 1982.
Despite an informational picket about
three weeks ago, the center was still com-
pleted by the projected date.
Johnson said that one of the more signifi-
cant points of the institute’s opening is
“...the project was finished on time, under
budget.”
There will be an open house on Sept. 17,
between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Visitors are encouraged to view the
unusual grounds at that time, Reed said.
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