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Friday, February 8,2002 A Four-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner Vol. 78, No. 28
The Newspaper of Lamar University
SGA discusses plans for Homecoming
EVENT SCHEDULE
TUESDAY
FEB. 15
Lady Cardinals Basketball
Wax Hands and Candles
Mud Volleyball
Montagne Center, 1 p.m.
Setzer Student Center, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.
McDonald Field, 12:30 p.m.
Crawfish Boil
WEDNESDAY
Battle of the Bands
Cardinal Stadium, 8 p.m.
Montagne Center, 3:30 p.m.
Lamar Cardinals Baseball,
Vincent-Beck Stadium, 4 p.m.
Midnight Breakfast
Dining Hall, 11:30 p.m.
Cardinals Basketball
Montagne Center, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY
FEB. 16
FEB. 17
Food Fest
Homecoming Parade
Homecoming Band Concert
Setzer Student Center, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Montagne Center, 9:30 a.m.
Setzer Student Center, 3 p.m.
Rachael Sims
UP staff writer
Discussion of final plans for
homecoming was the major topic at
the Student Government Associa-
tion meeting Tuesday on the eighth
floor of Gray Library .
Homecoming is scheduled Tues-
-day through Feb. 17.
Josh Daspit, SGA committee
chair, reported that there will be 30
‘radio commercials and some televi-
sion commercials aired to announce
the week-long event. Fliers are also
being posted across campus and
handed to students.
Next week in the Setzer Student
Center, SGA is sponsoring voting
for homecoming court. Students will
be choosing a king and queen.
Several candidates are on the ballot.
Free T-shirts will be handed out
to those who vote, Daspit said. The
T-shirts are “an incentive to vote for
court,” he said.
The court will be announced, at
the men’s basketball game on Feb.
16.
Other, events for the week
include a Battle of the Bands con-
test, a crawfish boil, and a midnight
breakfast., said Alisa Hicklin, SGA
president.
The crawfish boil, which will be
held at the Montagne Center on
Feb. 16, will be $4 for Lamar stu-
dents and $6 for the public.
Crawfish will not be the only
food served, however, Hicklin said.
Other foods and refreshments will
be available.
The Battle of the Bands will be
held Feb. 15. Eleven bands audi-
tioned for the contest and five were
chosen to compete, Hicklin said.
Bands performing will be So-
lace, Stalemind, Rock City Trio, Red
Sky and Dwelling Stellar. The top
performer will receive $1,000 and
judges will be brought in from out-
side Lamar University, she said.
After the Battle of the Bands
contest, students may go to the din-
ing hall for Midnight Breakfast.
See HOMECOMING, page 6
Preparing for Battle
Local band stoked about
Homecoming competition
Jenny Achilles
UP features editor
Five bands war for the No. 1
spot Feb. 15 in the Homecoming
Battle of the Bands.
The competition will be at 8
p.m and will either be held in
-Cardinal Stadium or will be held
right next to it, depending on how
the logistics of the event work out,
Alisa Hicklin, Lamar Student
Government Association presi-
dent, said.
The concert is free to the pub-
lic.
“It’s open to everyone, not just
Lamar students,” she said.
The winner of the battle will
receive $1,000, Hicklin said, and
will be chosen by a panel of judges
from outside the Lamar communi-
ty-
Radio station Big Dog 106 is
co-sponsoring the event, and
Ethan, one of the station’s D.J.s, will
MC the event, she said.
Each band will play a 30-
minute set, she said.
The five bands selected from
preliminary auditions held earlier
are Dwelling Stellar, Solace,
StaleMind, Rock City Trio and Red
Sky, she said.
Members of Dwelling Stellar
learned of the competition from
David Breaux, who, along with his
wife and his father, owns local cof-
fee shop The Dorm Room on
University Drive.
Band member Zachariah
Simpson said that Breaux is trying
to provide another outlet for musi-
cians in the area.
“Props to David,” he said.
“He’s trying to get everybody and
his mother to play (at the coffee
shop).”
In D.S., as Dwelling Stellar has
been nicknamed by fans, Delaine
Bryant provides lead vocals;
Simpson provides guitar/vocals;
Brian Bell plays guitar; Jake
Barnett plays bass; and Josh
Barnett plays drums.
Bell is a Lamar freshman from
Beaumont.
Band members wanted to
enter the competition to get expo-
See BANDS, page 2
OPjenny Achilles
Lamar freshman Brian Bell and members of local band
Dwelling Stellar, rehearse for the homecoming competition.
Spring enrollment up
4.57 percent at Lamar
Lamar University reports its largest spring
enrollment since 1993 as it continues significant
growth, officials said following the 20th class day,
the counting day for official reporting.
“We have more than 350 students enrolled
over the number we had last spring, and that’s the
largest spring enrollment since 1993,” Kevin Smith,
associate vice president for academic affairs, said.
With 8,377 students enrolled for the spring
2002 semester, Lamar has seen an increase of 4.57
percent from one year ago when head count was
8,011. The figure reflects an increase of 9 percent
from the spring 2000 total, Smith said.
The Increase in semester credit hours is even
more significant to university administrators
because that figure drives state formula funding,
Brian Sattler, public relation director, said.
Students are enrolled in 90,622 semester cred-
it hours, the largest total since the spring of 1992.
Credit hours have increased 4.76 percent from
86,523 semester credit hours one year ago and 8.3
percent from spring of 2000, Smith said.
Summer 2002 begins the census or “count”
period for the FY2004-05 formula funding granted
by the state.
“These figures position us well for growth,”
Smith said. “Departments across campus, faculty
and staff have been working hard at their particu-
lar tasks, and all that work contributes to improve-
ment in recruitment and retention. Students see
the strength of our academic programs and the
interest of our faculty in their success, and they
choose Lamar.”
These increases mark the third year of growth
for Lamar enrollment, Smith said.
Arguing God, government
Campaign financing bill
to be voted on next week
Panel debates separation of church and state
Dennis Kutac
UP news editor
A debate was held Wednesday night
on the eighth floor of Gray Library.
Guests were attorney and author of
a recent article on hate crime legislation
in the Texas Bar Journal Richard
Clarkson, former district attorney of
Jefferson County Tom Hanna, and
Kirbyville high school teacher and
columnist for the Beaumont Enterprise
Mack Hall. Also participating on the
panel was attorney Gary Braugh and
attorney and recent St. Thomas Moore
Award recipient Marty Green.
The panel was asked to speak on
three issues. The three points were the
framers’ of the constitution intent con-
cerning the separation of church and
state, school prayer and vouchers to
attend public school.
Clarkson opened the discussion by
saying that the question was whether the
U.S. constitution’s understandings evolve
with the passage of time.
“My position is that certainly that
original intent is important,” Clarkson
said, “but our understanding of original
intent in the context of the day can be
different.”
Clarkson went on to say that the pri-
mary purpose of original intent was to
keep the peace and to make sure that the
state did not choose one church over
another church.
Later he also commented on private
school vouchers, raising two questions:
Are they constitutional and do they have
a subversive effect on public schools?
Clarkson said that he believes the
constitution permits them!
Hanna said that he comes to the wall
of separation from a faith position rather
than from a legal position.
“I had a position from church state
15 years before I walked into a comm law
class,” Hanna said. “I did not understand
original intent, but I understood that
See DEBATE, page 2
Marty Green, Beaumont attorney debates the separation of OPDaniel Chand
church and state at the Gray Library on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
House Republican leaders
agreed Tuesday to allow a vote
next week on legislation that
could bring about the most sig-
nificant change in campaign
spending law in a quarter-cen-
tury.
GOP leadership aides said
the House will devote next
Tuesday and Wednesday to the
legislation that would limit
campaign spending and adver-
tising and require more disclo-
sure of campaign contributors.
“We look forward to a fair
debate and are hopeful that
reform legislation will once
again pass the House,” said
Katie Levinson, spokeswoman
for Rep. Christopher Shays, R-
Conn., who has joined with
Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass.,
to introduce the leading cam-
paign finance bill.
“I expect that there will be
a vigorous debate on this issue
that will reflect well on the
House of Representatives,”
said House Speaker Dennis
Hastert, R-Ill., who with other
GOP leaders opposes the
Shays-Meehan approach.
The Shays-Meehan bill
would ban the soft money
donations that corporations,
unions and wealthy individuals
now make to federal political
parties. It also would bar
unions, corporations and some
independent groups from
broadcasting certain types of
political advertising within 60
days of an election or 30 days
of a primary.
Soft money donations to
the parties have exploded from
$86 million in the 1992 presi-
dential election to $500 million
in 2000, but repeated efforts to
change campaign finance law
have died in Congress in recent
years. Many Republicans argue
that restrictions on contribu-
tions are unconstitutional free
speech violations.
Last year the Senate,
which moved back into Demo-
cratic control, passed similar
legislation offered by Sens.
John McCain, R-Ariz., and
Russ Feingold, D-Wis. Efforts
to push Shays-Meehan through
the House last July collapsed
after a procedural dispute and
GOP leaders have resisted giv-
ing supporters of the bill anoth-
er chance.
To revive their bill, Shays
and Meehan resorted to a lit-
tle-used procedure called a dis-
charge petition, whereby signa-
tures from 218 House mem-
bers, a majority of the body, can
force leaders to bring a bill to a
vote.
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