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Conference games
Saturday games in San Antonio equal a nail biter for women,
blowout for men.
— Page 9
Quote of the day
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other
is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”
— Henry C. Link
University Press
I Friday, January 21,2000 A Three-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner Vol. 76, No. 25
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Jacque Chapman
Mixer to unite student organizations
Greg Hayes
UP staff writer
Students who are looking for things
to do on campus should be prepared to
mix and mingle Tuesday.
The office of Student Organization
Services, with the assistance of the
Student Organizations Advisory
Council, will be holding the Second
Annual Student Organizations Mixer
from 5:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Setzer
Student Center Ballroom.
“The mixer is titled ‘All for One,
and One for All,”’ said Valarie Durham,
assistant director of student organiza-
tions for the Setzer Student Center.
“Our goal is to unite all student
organizations as one.”
The theme for the organizational
mixer is “Chicken Soup for the College
Soul,” said Karen Thomas, SSC direc-
tor.
“Chicken soup is often used in a
healing process,” Thomas said. “So
we’re using ‘Chicken Soup for the
College Soul’ for the healing of diversi-
ty. It is sort of a nurturing type thing.
We want the student organizations to
overcome diversity, get a team spirit and
begin using teamwork — working
together.”
Durham said that the organizations
on campus are like puzzle pieces that,
when put together, form a big jigsaw
puzzle.
“We want to unite all the organiza-
tions together so that there will be a
great jigsaw puzzle filled with organiza-
tional diversity helping to propel Lamar
University into the 21st century,” she
said. “I’m encouraging all student orga-
nizations to attend this momentous
occasion.”
Jimmy Simmons, president of
Lamar University, will be giving open-
ing remarks to student organizations
assembled, and he will be followed by
guest speaker Jacque Chapman, former
SSC director and Panhellenic adviser
from 1982 until 1988.
“I was extremely honored to be
remembered after all these years,”
Chapman said on being asked to speak
at the mixer. “I’m anxious to see what
the student involvement is like on the
See MIXER, page 2
Peace on campus
Amnesty chapter seeks
human rights activists
Greg Hayes
UP staff writer
While many long for peace on
earthy-several -students at Lamar are-
trying to make sure that there is a little
peace on campus.
The Peace Cyclp, an Amnesty
International chapter established on
campus last semester, is trying to raise
student awareness regarding human
rights.
“We want to raise awareness of
human rights, beginning right here on
campus,” said junior Nermin Osman-
ovic, coordinator of the Peace Cycle.
“We have around 10 active partici-
pants at this time. We hope that whoev-
er feels like doing something about
human rights or the environment will
join.”
Osmanovic said currently the
Peace Cycle is a part of the Urgent
Action Network.
“It is a part of Amnesty Inter-
national,” he said. “They collect letters
from all over the world regarding things
such as people who are imprisoned
because of their opinions or beliefs.
They send us two letters a month from
the main office and we send our appeals
to the government of the country hold-
ing the people prisoner, asking for their
release.”
Osmanovic said that those in the
Peace Cycle want to bring more people
together.
“Whenever we get enough money
from fund-raising, we hope to have
open-air concerts with young, local
groups,” he said. “It will mostly be for
fun — something to help people see
that they need to relax and use their
time for themselves without being so
rushed.”
The Peace Cycle is currently look-
ing for more members.
“There are no restrictions for mem-
bership,'” Osmanovic said. “Anyone
concerned about human rights can
join.”
The next meeting of the Peace
Cycle will be at noon, Jan. 31, on the
second floor of the Maes Building in
the reading area. This will be the
group’s third meeting.
Osmanovic said that he enjoys get-
ting the opportunity to help people see
their world in a broader perspective.
“There are problems that need to
be resolved,” he said. “We want to
show some of the documentary movies
to people, showing the different world
zones that have big human rights prob-
lems. If everyone can start thinking
about the problem, and trying to solve
it, then those problems will be solved.”
Other students currently over the
Peace Cycle are freshman Vachara
Pathamo, president; graduate student
Jishnu Kinwar, secretary; and graduate
student Lillie Coney.
Bruce Drury, professor of political
science and adviser for the Peace Cycle,
said that student participation is what
keeps a student organization running.
“When the interest dies down, the
organization dies,” he said. “A student
organization has to be maintained by
the students.”.
Drury was the adviser for the
Amnesty International group on the
Lamar campus during the mid-1970s
and the early 1980s.
See AMNESTY, page 2
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Bridge with a view
Children watch the Martin Luther King Day parade from a cam-
pus walkway crossing MLK Parkway Saturday. The parade
began at Avenue A and ended at the Montagne Center.
NASA selects
Lamar project
for March flight
Four Lamar University students
learned recently that NASA has
selected their experiment for a flight
in March aboard the national space
agency’s reduced-gravity aircraft.
The experiment will be the uni-
versity’s fourth to be conducted
aboard the aircraft since flights began
in the Reduced Gravity Student
Flight Opportunities Program, spon-
sored by NASA and administered by •
the Texas Space Grant Consortium, -
Jim Jordan, professor of geology,
said.
Their proposed . experiment,
“ASTOR Space Tether Recoil
Mitigation Test — Phase II,” is a fol-.
low-on to an experiment Lamar stu-
dents flew aboard the aircraft in
August.
“The competition was greater-
than ever before,” Jordan said. “With
87 proposals received, the review
period had to be extended one week.
“Once again, Lamar is with some
pretty good company.”
Jordan and George Irwin, assis-
tant professor of physics, teach
See NASA, page 2
Notice
to
STUDENTS
The Family and Educational
Rights to Privacy Act of 1974, as
amended, allows a college or universi-
ty to release certain pieces of informa-
tion, if that college or university has
published that it will release informa-
tion. Lamar University has published
that the following information will be
available to the public — name, cur-
rent and permanent address, tele-
phone listing, date and place of birth,
major, semester hour load, classifica-
tion, class schedule, participation in
officially recognized activities and
sports, weight and height of members
of athletic teams, dates of attendance,
degrees and awards received with
dates of last educational agency or
institution attended.
If you do not want this informa-
tion published or given out, you must
go to the records office in 112
Wimberly and sign a Directory Infor-
mation Hold Form on or before 5 p.m.
on Jan. 28.
If you sign a form your last semes-
ter and do not revoke it in writing,
your records will remain sealed, which
includes future employers, confirming
attendance, and degree received.
Please be aware that a Directory
Information Hold Form prevents any-
one from receiving information about
you.
Jl
♦
Spindletop 2000
Commission kicks off year-long celebration
Ashley Salter
UP featues editor
Six tons of pipe shot from the oil
derrick and workers scrambled away
from the Spindletop well on the morn-
ing of Jan. 10,1901.
Mud bubbled from the derrick
floor. A column of gas shot from the
well. Then oil gushed from the site
where many thought oil seekers Patillo
Higgins and Anthony Lucas had wast-
ed or were wasting their time.
The well shot 200 feet in the air
and spewed more than 100,000 barrels
a day while Lucas and drillers, the
Hamill brothers, struggled to cap it.
Thousands of people traveled to
Beaumont in the days after the gusher
blew in.
Some came just to see the
Spindletop gusher. Others came to join
the hunt for oil. Speculators and pro-
moters hoped to benefit from the
impending prosperity of the sawmill
town turned oil boom city.
By 1903, derricks for 285 active
wells crowded the area around
Spindletop hill south of campus.
The immense production of the
Lucas gusher and its proximity to the
Gulf of Mexico would soon lead to a
permanent change in fuel use around
the world.
Before the Spindletop boom, oil
was scarce and expensive and coal
cheap and plentiful.
When oil dropped to a fraction of
its pre-Spindletop price, railroads,
ships, breweries, refineries and hotels
across the world began using oil
instead of coal.
See SPINDLETOP, page 5
Evelyn Lord, left, Spindletop 2001 commission chair, and Jimmy
Simmons, LU president, unveil centenary celebration plans.
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