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Quote of the Day
Anita Creamer
“If you want something to remain
off the record, don’t say it.”
March of Dimes
Lamar students, faculty and staff are encour-
aged to “WalkAmerica.”
Page 3
Golf
The sun has set on the Sun Belt Conference
championship.
Page 5
University Press
Friday, April 18,1997
Serving Lamar University and the community for 73 years
Vol. 73, No. 47
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Election commission replaced
Samantha McGuire
UP staff writer
The Student Government Association
voted Tuesday in favor of replacing the
election commission after charges were
made against it. The election commission
was responsible for overseeing the last two
elections.
John Almon, candidate for president,
won the first election by more than 15 per-
cent of the vote, but the results were
declared invalid. James Paul Kornegay Jr.,
candidate for president, won the second
election by one vote. The second election
has been challenged.
The Student Supreme Court has been
called on to decide whether results of the
first election should have been invalidat-
ed, whether the results of the second elec-
tion will stand or a if third election must be
held.
Cindy Dinkins, president of SGA and
former election commissioner, said the
general motion to form an ad hoc election
commission was necessary because
charges were made against the former
election commission. Anyone serving on
the ad hoc commission can not be mem-
bers of organizations associated with for-
mer election commissioners or candidates,
Dinkins said. These organizations include
Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha X and the
academy program.
Allegations have been made that at
least four of the seven members on the
commission may have held personal bias-
es that could have influenced the outcome
of the elections.
In a letter to the Student Supreme
Court, Almon’s complaints included fail-
ure to hold formal hearings on infractions,
leakage of election results by commission
members, lack of a quorum in the election
commission to make decisions, possible
tampering with election results and con-
flict of interests of commissioners.
Wayne Paulus, chair of the election
commission and vice president of SGA,
was named in several of the complaints.
Almon’s letter pointed out that no one
running for an office can serve on the elec-
tion commission. Almon contends that
Paulus continued to chair the commission
even though he was on the ballot for the
position of chair of the Setzer Center gov-
erning board, Almon said.
Almon also said that Paulus exhibited
bias by not having all members present
when the decision was made to invalidate
the results of the first election.
“...Also, testimony points toward the
election commission chairman as the one
who might have leaked this information
(results of the first election),” Almon said.
“This once again points towards the bias
of the election commission chairman.”
Paulus was also the deviser of the com-
puter voting program used to compile the
election results. He ran the program to
tabulate the election results and was the
only person with access to the computer.
Almon said not all members of the
election commission were present when
the program ran.
“So the possibility of tampering with
See SGA, page 2
‘Election Manager’
Computer ballot effectiveness questioned
Billie Dorman
UP staff writer
The Student Government Association
voted to change the election process from
paper ballots to a computerized program —-
Election Manager — to save time tabulating
the election results two years ago.
Wayne Paulus, Student Government
Association vice president, started develop-
ing the program three years ago with the
help of Joseph Kavanaugh, former associate
vice president/dean of student affairs and
SGA advisor, and Guy Robert Jackson.
Paulus said Jackson and Kavanaugh sug-
gested SGA explore the possibility of going
into computerized elections and assisted in
advising the transformation in the early
stages.
Election Manager consists of a main tab-
ulation system and individual voting com-
puters which are at the polling sites.
Paulus said on the last day of elections,
the diskettes from the individual voting
computers are downloaded into the main
tabulation system.
“Those are then put into an empty file on
the main computer so that is the first time
the main computer actually sees any data,
Paulus said.
“First it goes through and eliminates all
duplicate votes. Then it goes through and
counts up (the results) for each race how
many voted one way versus another way
versus another way.”
Paulus is the only one who has access to
the program since he is still fine tuning the
program. He said it is kept in his room
under lock and key.
“Actually it’s nice because there is no
See COMPUTER, page 2
Afternoon remembrance
Lionel Vandergeiff and his grandson, Brentt Jones, look over the
names on the memorial at Veterans Memorial Park in Port Arthur,
Wednesday.
March of Dimes encourages participants to ‘WalkAmerica’
Todd Sonnier
UP staff writer
This year’s local March of Dimes
WalkAmerica event, themed “Walk for
Someone You Love,” begins tomorrow
at 9 a.m. at Cardinal Stadium.
The walk raises funds to help ensure
that area babies are bom healthy. More
than 1,480 cities in the United States and
Puerto Rico will host March of Dimes
walks, with more than 825,000 people
participating.
This year’s Southeast Texas Walk
America is sponsored by Columbia
Beaumont Medical Center, Wells Fargo
Bank, KBMT Channel 12, Kroger, Cigna
Health Care and Pepsi.
The local division of the March of
Dimes has targeted programs involving
fetal alcohol syndrome, low birthweight
and infant mortality rates within the
community.
More than 5,000 walkers participated
in the Southeast Texas Walk America
campaign last year, raising $269,810.
Since 1970, the Walk America program
has raised more than $900,000,000, which
has helped the organization make such
breakthroughs as a newborn PKU
screening test to prevent mental retarda-
tion and the development of surfactant
therapy to treat respiratory distress syn-
drome and help premature babies
breathe.
Walkers can raise funds using a pledge
per mile program in which donors agree
to pay them a certain amount for every
mile walked. Many walkers will enter the
event in teams, which can consist of as
few as three people or as many as 100 or
more. Lamar-Beaumont, Lamar-Orange
and Lamar-Port Arthur each have teams
planning to participate.
Karen Wells, Lamar University staff
representative on the March of Dimes
committee, said the event is important in
helping research and treatment move
forward.
“The March of Dimes is an American
tradition. It goes back to Franklin
Roosevelt and his battle with polio,”
Wells said. “We’ve come a long way
since then because the money that has
been raised has gone to research, medi-
cine and new ways of treatment. Without
that progress, some babies don’t have a
chance. They deserve a chance to live.”
See WALK, page 4
. Low turnout
reported for
blood drive
Jamie May
UP staff writer
The annual blood drive hosted by
Lamar University in cooperation with
Life Share Blood Centers of Beaumont
concluded Wednesday afternoon in the
Setzer Center.
The turnout from Lamar students
was lower than expected.
“We usually come once a semester
and get between 60-70 donors per day,
but this week we have received approxi-
mately 40 per day,” Tanya Hill, Life
Share volunteer, said.
Donors receive a free T-shirt and
blood insurance covering their immedi-
ate family’s blood needs. The entire
donation process can be completed in 30
minutes.
Students wanting to donate blood can
stop by Life Share Blood Centers at
4305 Laurel in Beaumont.
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Holly Reichard, Orangefield freshman, donates her
pint, Wednesday
Raab turns Art Studio
into enchanted forest
Experiencing the art now on
exhibit at The Art Studio Inc. is like
walking through an enchanted forest
into a mystical village of domed
structures. Corners, niches, drawers
and cabinets seem full of magic and
peopled by fascinatingly odd little
creatures.
“Psycho Analytical Perceptions,”
works by Randy Raab, opened April
5 with a well-attended reception at
the studio at 720 Franklin.
Raab’s assemblages are rustic and
primitive, like folk art. They can be
seen in the same context as works by
earlier artists Joseph Cornell, Louise
Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg,
Jasper Johns and Marisol. He incor-
porates bones, feathers and bits of
dried foliage with bottles, corroded
scraps of metal hardware, tools and
wire in imaginative constructions.
Unusual collections of objects are
assembled in and upon natural and
constructed wooden forms, most of
which are aged and weathered.
Many of his works are highly per-
sonalized and emotionally charged
by the use of ceramic masks of his
own face. These faces, made from a
plaster cast mold, have eyes closed
and a wry smile that curls the lips, as
if to mock any one who intends to
take this art as a serious expression.
Raab backs away from any inter-
pretation of these works that goes
deeper than the pure pleasure he had
in creating them. In his characteristi-
cally retiring manner, he prefers that
they deliver their message visually
without verbal explanation. He
intends to make a general statement
with his art that is “to be perceived
as it is to you,” he said. “It may be
easier for a really rich man to pass
through the eye of a needle, than for
a poor artist to make what he
desires.”
“Untitled” by Randy Raab
Raab feels fortunate that he is
able to create what he enjoys. He has
fashioned a mysterious, dark world
of flickering lights and glowing mists.
A visitor feels charmed, excitingly at
risk, but not endangered, and
amazed at being permitted to experi-
ence its intricacies.
The show will be open at The Art
Studio Inc. until April 28. Gallery
hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday and Saturdays by
appointment. Call 838-5393 for more
information.
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