Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 20, 1981 Page: 3 of 6
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UNIVERSITY PRESS November 20,1981-3
Editorial / Letters / Doiron
Viewpoint-
More TV news needed
Texas-style deportment
requires remedial work
A Wednesday, Nov. 18, United
Press International story says that
CBS is currently considering offer-
ing an hour-long news show to its
affiliates, with the affiliates retaining
the option of going with that or
with an original half-hour format.
The extra half-hour could come
from the half-hour "prime time ac-
cess" in which national news, it is
speculated, could be run from 5
p.m. to 6 p.m. CST, leaving the last
half hour for local news.
NBC had also offered a similar
one-hour show to its affiliates, but
according to UPI, it was rejected,
possibly because NBC did not offer
the option of an hour-long show or
a half-hour show to its affiliates.
One expert in affiliate relations
said, however, that some local sta-
tions may not go for the one-hour
show because programming they
place in the prime time access slot
may be doing well in the ratings.
This is probably true for the local
CBS affiliate, KFDM-TV (Channel
6). From 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
KFDM's "PM Magazine" has done
well in the two years it has aired in
this area.
In addition, KFDM has for some
time been broadcasting at 5 p.m.
"Live at Five," which combines local
and national news with weather,
sports and live events of human in-
terest.
With both shows doing well in
the ratings, it is doubtful that either
show will move aside for an hour-
long "CBS Evening News."
While ABC hasn't apparently of-
fered such a program yet, the net-
work already offers its late-night
news program "Nightline" to its af-
filiates—a show not aired in Beau-
mont.
With the decline in newspaper's
popularity over the years and the
rise in broadcast coverage of news
events, it is evident that the public is
turning to its television sets for
news and information.
When people in this area,
however, tune in at the prime time
access time slot, which was created
to allow local stations a chance to air
news and, public affairs programm-
ing, they instead mostly see such
programming as "The Newlywed
Game" or "The Jeffersons."
While it is the right of a local af-
filiate to broadcast what they feel is
best for the viewers (and what is
best for the ratings), it would be a
boon to networks, affiliates and the
public to see more network news on
the air.
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The book
“How to Be Texan” is not the type of
instruction manual you likely would
keep under the seat of your pickup for
emergency consultation in event your
mind suddenly went blank as to the
proper way of scrooching up your
eyes to achieve a passable “40-mile
squint.”
But I figured it might at least serve
as a refresher course in Texas-style
deportment.
Refresher course? I discovered
after a couple of chapters that what I
needed were remedial lessons.
And when I met the author, Michael
Hicks, I might as well have been talk-
ing with a man from Mars. Or Ver-
mont.
The two behavior patterns I
remembered most vividly from my
Texas boyhood weren’t even mention-
ed in the book.
When I was growing up in Merkel,
population 1,826, the farmers and ran-
chers who came to town on Saturdays
would spend hours sitting on their
haunches, chewing tobacco and cuss-
ing the government.
The ability to squat for long periods
was a competence I never mastered.
After a few minutes of squatting, I
would get an ignominious cramp in
one leg and have to stand up.
The sense of shame I felt over this
failing was one of the main reasons I
left Texas in the first place.
When I braced Hicks for not pro-
viding any fine points on squatting in
his book, he had a ready-made ex-
cuse. Or cop-out. “Squatting is not
quite the phenomenon it once was” in
Texas cities large enough to have
bookstores, he explained.
According to Hicks, only the small
towns, where people play dominos in-
stead of reading books, have kept the
art alive.
“Any place that still has a domino
parlor also has a few squatters,” he
said.
As for bragging, Hicks said Texans
still do quite a bit of that, too. But the
subject had been so thoroughly ex-
hausted in previous works of
literature, he deliberately ignored it.
Now let me just say this about that.
Contrary of impressions entertained
elsewhere, Texans never did brag in
the sense of boasting. It was mainly a
defense mechanism, activated by
wartime outlanders.
Living in Texas was genuinely
regarded by those of us living in
Texas as somewhat akin to the Bud-
dish state of Nirvana—i.e., absolute
blessedness.
I’ll never forget how truly flum-
moxed I felt the first time I heard out-
of-state GIs assigned to Texas
military posts speak unflatteringly of
their environment. No wonder so
many of us broke out in vainglorious
rashes.
But attitudes have changed now,
Hicks assured me. The drugstore
cowboy syndrome known as “Texas
chic” is sweeping the nation and
orientation literature of the “How to
Be Texan” type is in heavy demand.
Maybe so. But the alterations take
some getting used to. I think I’U have
to squat on this for a while.
Job crunch may come for young
Readers’ Forum-
UP editorial criticized
Herald:
INS has
‘no policy’
Miami Herald:
...Miami businessman Norman
Braman has withdrawn his name
from consideration for the vacant
post of commissioner of the Immigra-
What Newspapers
Are Saying
tion and Naturalization Service... the
sinking agency is back in the swamp
of leaderlessness.
It has been more than two years
since the INS’s last permanent com-
missioner resigned... Conflicting in-
terest groups ... have paralyzed the
INS, achieving the worst of all possi-
ble results: no immigration policy at
all.
The political struggle is between
the champions of various potential
groups of immigrants. The conser-
vative ranchers who would stop the
influx of Haitians ... welcome the
steady stream of cheap labor from
Mexico.
The administration .. should not ..
further delay its implementation of
effective immigration controls. At
least the current laws should be en-
forced while new policies are
developed. Existing law has been ig-
nored shamelessly for several
years....
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Editor.................Renita Johnson
Managing Editor...........David Harrington
Sports Editor..................Clyde Hughes
Entertainments Editor........Larry Jakobeit
Campus Editor._______. ...........Sam Mize
Photo Editor...................Jan Couvillon
Columnist.,...................Bonnie Doiron
Advertising Manager............Linda Jones
Advertising Representative .. .Paula Lagush
Graphics Editor..................Lisa Wilson
Advertising Assistants....... Kristi Jordan,
Cynthia Robey, Lisa Hoffpauir,
Debra Williamson
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Michael Leslie. Elizabeth Kelley,
Anthony Harris, John Beatty,
Nancy Lawrence
Typesetter.....................Baxter Faulk
Office Manager...............Cynthia Brotrii
Office Assistant..................Pascal Dinh
Production Manager
Gloria Post
Assistant Director of Student Publications
Jill Scoggins
Director of Student Publications
Howard Perkins
Publisher
Student Publications Board
George McLaughlin, Chairman
The University Press is the official student
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long semesters, excluding holidays and
Wednesdays immediately following holidays.
Offices are located at P.O. Box 10055, 200
Setzer Student Center, University Station,
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Opinions expressed in editorials and cc.
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necessarily those of the university administra-
tion.
By MAXWELL GLEN
and CODY SHEARER
Field Newspaper Syndicate
COLUMBUS, Ohio—On a recent
Sunday evening, five friends in their
mid-20s gathered around a kitchen
table to eat dinner and watch “60
Minutes.”
They were some of the brightest
graduates of this state’s public
university svsteip, Since college,
however, each-friend had been forced
to abandorffiis or her career plan and
take what jobs were available. It had
been a matter of survival.
•Howard, an English major, gave
up pursuing a master’s degree to
work in a bookstore.
•Tammy, a would-be commercial
By BONNIE DOIRON
UP Columnist
You don’t really want to be remind-
ed about Thanksgiving, do you?
I’ll tell you anyway.
Thanksgiving Day always comes on
Thursday because that allows
businesses, schools and colleges to
give everybody two days off, which,
when added to Saturday and Sunday,
makes four days off.
I can add. I made a B in “idiot”
math.
I would like to remind you, once
more, that it was a woman (Sarah
Hale) who started the idea of making
designer, is helping remodel a
downtown department store.
•John, who has a bachelor’s degree
in music, had to settle for coaching
young clarinetists one night per week.
•Mary, John’s wife, now drives a
school bus part-time and waits for
political campaign work.
After years of school and tuition
loan repayments, these young
Americans know that the economy
has been hard on them. None needed
to be told by Ronald Reagan that the
country was in a “bit of a recession.”
They’ve done their best to find work
near their fields, or change vocations
entirely.
Yet, a bigger test of their flexibility
lies ahead. Children of the baby-boom
generation are in for what the Wall
Street Journal calls a crunch in white-
Thanksgiving (with a capital T) a na-
tional holiday, way back in 1827.
Thanksgiving Day had been around
off and on for a long time, but always
on any states hit or miss list.
You can trust those Americans.
They will adopt any old wild idea if
they can finagle a couple of days off.
I don’t remember celebrating
Thanksgiving Day when I was
younger. Make that when I was
younger than younger.
I know we had Thanksgiving. I’m
almost sure of it. What I am definitely
sure of is that the one great, big,
planned-for and drooled-over holiday
collar “middle-management” jobs.
According to the Journal, the next
10 years will see dark days for
American between 18 and 35. The job
promotions and salary increases
they’re expecting won’t be as plen-
tiful as everyone would like.
It’s mathematical: Though the
population of Americans who would
normally compete for management-
related jobs will rise over 40 percent
by 1990, the number of job openings
will only swell about 20 percent dur-
ing that period. Our friends should be
prepared to handle the crunch, but
few are expecting it.
In popular terms, millions of baby-
boomers won’t reach the upper rungs
on the “ladder of success” that they
always assumed were within their
grasp.
was Christmas —especially,
Christmas at grandma’s.
The most memorable Christmas at
grandma’s was the time that I was
allowed, at last, to have a small cup of
the grown-up’s eggnog with whiskey.
What a disappointment.
I don’t think I have a relative who is
not fond of spirits. Some more so than
others. So, what’s wrong with me?
I was adopted?
My grandma ran a charity home for
old men—Irish paddies she called
them.
I doubt that there was an Irishman
among them. She did that because she
Editor:
I am writing in response to the UP
editorial of Friday, Nov. 13, concern-
ing the conversion of Combs Hall and
the University Apartments from mar-
ried to single student housing.
The move, which would allegedly
displace a few to benefit many, is
seen as “common sense” by the UP
editor. Her facts concerning the few
are mistaken. Her sentiment concern-
ing common sense is unfortunate.
And she does not believe residents
should have complained to President
(C. Robert) Kemble?
Perhaps she didn’t hear Shirley
Chisholm say that if we don’t make
our own needs known, no one else will
do it for us. If residents had not pur-
sued the meeting we would not have
President Kemble’s offer of possible
university help for those displaced.
I consider it very unfortunate that
the editor sees the decision as “com-
mon sense.” President Kemble did
not state that. My understanding is
that he sees the decision as regret-
table, but necessary to a university
caught in a tight place.
We do not question the university’s
position. We question the wisdom of
its solution, which among other
things, will discourage graduate at-
tendance.
At this time we are no longer lobby-
ing for reversal and we appreciate
President Kemble’s offer of help. We
will cooperate with his offices in fin-
ding alternative housing for those
families displaced.
It is too bad that President Kemble
recognized those needs and the editor
did not.
Janet Kissling
Married resident, Combs Hall
Editor:
I am concerned with the Lamar
University intramural three-on-three
basketball program.
The rules were given to both squads
that there would be no arguing at the
start of the game.
It all started when Mr. Worsham
(Bill Worsham, director of recrea-
tional sports) called a player on the
All-Star team out of the game.
In my judgment, the player was not
wrong in any way.
was Irish.
She lived in the big house, and a
stone’s throw away was the house for
the men. No women.
Grandma was a very good cook and
set a handsome table. Everybody had
to mind his manners. She had a big
cowbell which she ding-donged when
it was mealtime. Each grandchild
had a turn at the bell and woe be to
him or her who let the clapper clap
before time.
The men ate first and we kids had to
wait until we heard the scraping of
;hairs being pushed away from the
table.
There were 15 grandkids and
Editor:
This is written to rebut parts of your
editorial of Friday, Nov. 13,
specifically the alleged failure of
Combs residents to work through
channels in protesting their displace-
ment from university housing.
Residents were never notified of
the possibility of displacement.
However, early in September, the
housing director (Bruce Stracener)
told me privately of an impending
decision on conversion, but no one
was to be displaced; conversion
would occur as residents vacated.
In six weeks, our supervisor said no
decision had been reached. We began
to question the wisdom of the conver-
sion, and on Oct. 20, wrote a letter to
the dean of students (Dr. George
McLaughlin) signed by 25 residents.
This was followed on Oct. 27 by a
meeting of the dean with my wife and
me representing Combs.
He said his decision was final and
offered to meet with residents to ex-
plain why they must vacate by June.
That Nov. 3 meeting was covered by
the UP. The problem was not solved
on this level and residents decided to
see the university president to plead
their case, and, yes, we were
justifiably angry.
The meeting with the president (Dr.
C. Robert Kemble) occurred on Nov.
13 and was covered by the UP. Presi-
dent Kemble has agreed to assist
displaced students by trying to find or
to provide alternate housing.
The residents of Combs may not be
able to see the “common sense” in
eliminating married student housing,
but they are not guilty of bypassing
the proper communications channels.
Thomas H. Jaeckle
San Antonio graduate student
At the start of the game, Mr. Wor-
sham had advised all the players that
he would not interfere with the play of
the game. He did not interfere
once—but twice.
The recreational staff at the gym
treated the players of the All-Star
team with disrespect; they did not
respect their rights.
Larry Williams
LaMarque junior
sometimes we were all there at the
same time.
Grandma came to Texas from
Alabama with her father and step-
mother. When her father decided to
move back to Alabama, Grandma ran
away with her boyfriend. It was OK.
They got married and had nine
children.
She was somewhat of a juvenile
delinquent. She and her two sisters
were not very fond of their step-
mother, so they decided to remedy
the situation. They gathered all the
spiders they could find, crushed them
up, strained the juice, and put it in the
stepmother’s coffee.
All that work for nothing.
As I was saying...
Grandma’s big Christmas better than Thanksgiving
Student says game unfair
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