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University Press • Friday, January 21, 2000 • Page 2
Memorial
Retired professor Winfred S. Emmons dies Jan.4
Services for Winfred S.
Emmons, Jr., 79, retired professor of
English, were held Jan. 7 at Calder
Baptist Church in Beaumont. Burial
followed at Forest Lawn Memorial
Park under the direction of Kelley-
Watkins Funeral Home.
James Fuller, pastor of the
church, presided.
Emmons died Jan. 4 at
Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital after
being in ill health for several years.
He came to Lamar in the fall
of 1955 and retired at the end of the
first summer semester in 1985.
He was a native of Sikes, La.,
where he was born on Feb. 9, 1920,
and had lived in Beaumont since com-
ing here to teach at the university. An
army veteran of World War II, he
earned his bachelor’s degree from
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, his
master’s from the University of
Virginia, and his doctorate from
Louisiana State University.
Before coming to Lamar, he
was head of the English department at
Quachita Baptist College in Arkadel-
phia, Ark.
Emmons was known for
demanding and expecting excellence
from students. He also expected stu-
dents to learn to stand up for them-
selves, a quality that he much admired
and practiced in his own life. One of
his favorite expressions was, “People
will be as sorry as you let them be”;
and he was always keen to try to
encourage students, in his own way, to
be the very best they could be in the
context of what their circumstances
were. Those who learned this from
him became his friends for life. He was
known for his quick, dry, sometimes
acerbic humor, which not only came
naturally to him, but that he took great
pleasure in cultivating.
He taught a Sunday school
class at Calder and sang in the choir.
He also participated in the Beaumont
Community Players, the Beaumont
Civic Opera and the Beaumont
Interfaith Choir.
Survivors include his wife,
Ethel May Emmons, of Beaumont;
sons, Winfred S. Emmons III of Waco
and Donald W. Emmons of Austin;
and a daughter, Jeanne Emmons and
her husband Adam Frisch of Sioux
City, Iowa.
He is also survived by broth-
ers, Martel W. Emmons of Baton
Rouge, La., Glen Emmons of Fort
Collins, Colo., Fontaine Emmons of
Monroe, La., Robert Emmons of
Sikes; and his sister, Elinor E. Hartsell
of Hot Springs Village, Ark. Other
survivors include six grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Brock
Brentlinger, Sam Gwynn, Philip Lat-
imer, Ronald Platt, Arney Strickland,
and Robert Thomas.
Winfred S. Emmons, Jr.
Supreme Court to weigh law
that creates protective ‘bubble’
DENVER (AP) — The morning
calm on a tree-lined residential street is
pierced as sign-carrying protesters shout
at women entering an abortion clinic.
“It’s an office of death! Don’t kill
your baby! Do you know what you’re
doing?” they yell from eight feet away at
women partially shielded by a 4-foot
brick wall outside the Planned Parent-
hood clinic.
It is a scene dictated by Colorado’s
1993 “bubble” law, which requires pro-
testers to keep their distance from
patients entering health-care facilities.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme
Court will hear arguments on whether
the law legally protects patients from
harassment and intimidation or violates
the protesters’ right to free speech.
The decision could establish guide-
lines for other states and cities that have
grappled with ways to maintain peace
between protesters and women seeking
abortions.
The state of Colorado argues that
the law balances free-speech rights with
the right to access to health care. The
Legislature passed the law after hearing
patients complain of being spat on,
kicked and harassed.
“It’s all right to protest. That’s fine,
but when it gets down to intervening with
another person’s recognized right, the
Legislature felt obliged to step in,” said
Deputy Attorney General Ken Lane.
James Henderson of the Virginia-
based American Center for Law and
Justice, which represents the protesters,
counters that the law tramples on free-
speech rights.
“My way of sidewalk counseling is to
be gentle and to be compassionate.
Colorado’s way is to put me so far away I
have to scream and yell,” said Jeanne
Hill, one of three protesters challenging
the law.
Around the country, some cities f
have tried creating buffer zones between1
protesters and clinic patients, and f
between protesters and churches. Others*
have required protesters to obtain per-
mits for demonstrations.
Fourteen states and the District of
Columbia have laws that prohibit pro-
testers from blocking clinic entrances,
said Elizabeth Amdorfer, an attorney
with the National Abortion and Repro-
ductive Rights Action League.
The Colorado law bars people from
counseling, distributing leaflets or dis-
playing signs within eight feet of others
without their consent. The protective
bubble is maintained within 100 feet of
an entrance to a health-care facility.
Violators can get up to six months in jail
and a $750 fine.
None of the three protesters at the
center of the case was arrested under the
law. Colorado Senate Minority Leader
Mike Feeley, a Democrat who sponsored
the legislation, said no one at all has been
arrested since it was enacted.
The U.S. Supreme Court returned
the case to Colorado’s state courts in
1997 to reconsider it in wake of the high
court’s decision in a New York case. In
that case, the high court allowed abortion
protesters to confront patients on public
sidewalks as long as they stayed at least
15 feet from the clinic’s entrance.
Mixer-
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Amnesty-
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campus now.”
Chapman is owner of “Contin-
uations,” a program that teaches
classes on etiquette and social skills
and is assistant director of St. Jude’s
Mother’s Day Out and Preschool.
“I plan to speak, more or less,
about the importance of involve-
ment and leadership in student orga-
nizations,” Chapman said. “I’ll use
that topic to also speak on the effect
that undergraduate and student
involvement will have on their lives
in the future.”
“She is a very dynamic lady,”
Nicki Bernard, co-chair for the
mixer, said of Chapman. “I was not
here when she was at Lamar, but I
have been told that she was very
involved with student organizations
and student involvement on cam-
pus.”
The speaker from last year’s
mixer, George Gardner, president
of Subway Development Southwest
and Central Louisiana and G.A.J.
Investments and Associations, has
been invited back to this year’s
mixer as a special guest.
“This is one of our traditions
that we started,” Durham said. “We
plan, each year, to invite the previ-
ous year’s speaker back as our spe-
cial guest.”
Following the speakers, there
will be food, music provided by
Pizzazz Productions and door prizes
donated by Best Buy.
Durham says she is wanting as
many student organizations as possi-
ble to attend the mixer because a
group shot will be taken of all of the
organizations together.
“Each organization president
will also receive a free T-shirt that
will mark his or her organization’s
participation in the event,” she said.
Extra T-shirts will be available
from the Student Organization
Services office for other members of
the organizations at $5 each.
Student organizations should
confirm their attendance at the.
mixer by today by going by 212 SSC
or by calling 880-8722.
Durham said that all student
organizations are invited to help
decorate the ballroom.
They will meet to do this at 1
p.m. on Tuesday.
“People just gradually lost interest,” he said. “I
had also traveled out of the country for a year, in
1986, and not long after that the organization died.”
Drury says he is glad that students are once
again showing an interest in a human rights group
on campus.
“One student got interested, talked to several
others, and then they came and talked to me,-—he
said. “Since Amnesty International is one of thi
best human rights organizations I know of, I sug-
gested it to them. They asked me to be the advisej
without even knowing I had been the adviser
before.”
For more information regarding the Peace
Cycle, Coney can be contacted at 880-8819.
NASA-
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Lamar’s rocketry and payloads course in
which students develop experiment pro-
posals, and, in the case of those selected,
have opportunity to perform those exper-
iments in near-zero gravity conditions
aboard NASA’s KC-135 aircraft, which,
through a series of parabolic maneuvers,
creates brief periods of microgravity.
Students are also at work on a rocket
flight proposal planned for White Sands
Missile Range in New Mexico later this
year.
Students on the project include Jason
Dugas of Dayton, Rumana Chowdhury of
Bangladesh, and Ron Sheffield of
Beaumont, all juniors majoring in electri-
cal engineering, and Juli Sholar, a sopho-
more geology major from New Orleans.
Dugas flew with Lamar’s experiment in
August and is team leader for the flight.
Forty-eight experiments were select-
ed to participate in the series of flights in
March. Each must pass rigorous tests for
safety and compatibility to remain eligible
to fly. Each student must also undergo
physiological training in preparation for
the flight.
Lamar’s experience with the program
is an advantage in designing experiments
that not only pass muster, but also operate
successfully in the demanding environ-
ment, Jordan said.
“It is helpful that one of our students
has flown previously,” he said. “He has
some insight into what one can reasonably
expect to accomplish on the flight.”
Universities and colleges chosen to participate in NASA project
Alabama A&M University,
Auburn University (two experi-
ments), Brown University, Carne-
gie Mellon University, Colorado
State University, Drury College,
Embry Riddle Aeronautical
University (two), Florida State
University, Lamar University,
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology (two), Mississippi State
University, Montana State
University (two), North Dakota
State University, Oregon Institute
of Technology, Oregon State Uni-
versity, Pomona College (two),
Purdue University, Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology, Rowan
University, South Dakota School
of Mines & Technology, State
University of West Georgia, Texas
A&M University (four), Universi-
ty of Alabama (two), University of
Arkansas, University of Califor-
nia-San Diego (two), University of
Cincinnati, University of Colorado
at Boulder (two), University of
Illinois at Chicago, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(two), University of Kentucky,
University of Michigan (two),
University of Puerto Rico, Uni-
versity of Vermont, University of
Wisconsin-Madison (two) and
Wellesley College.
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