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Wednesday, Match 2,2005
The Newspaper of Lamar University and Lamar Institute of Technology
Wol. 81, No. 35
♦ HOMECOMING 2QQS
Weather
dampens bonfire,
not spirits
Perfect Attendance
Open House, weekend of recruitment concludes — yielding record crowds
By MARK SHOW
UP Editor
“When weather doesn’t
cooperate, you can’t do it,” Barry
Johnson, vice president for stu-
dent affairs, said Monday.
Johnson said that the incle-
ment weather prevented the bon-
fire on Friday. Johnson also said
that other than the bonfire can1
cellation, homecoming week
activities were an overall success.
“With the alumni, Open
House and all the excitement on
campus, it was nothing but posi-
tive,” Johnson said.
Many students were left
wondering Friday whether the
bonfire was going to happen.
They would later find that since
no wood had been collected, their
chances for a bonfire were
between slim and none.
Karen Thomas, director of
See BONFIRE, page 2
# HOMECOMING 200$
Cards lose
to SHSU in
blowout
By CODY PASTORELLA
UP Sports Editor
Sounds of bad shots clank-
ing off the rim, referees blow-
ing their whistles and Billy
Hibbs screaming in frustration
echoed through the Montagne
Center Saturday afternoon as
a silent homecoming crowd of
6,164 watched Sam Houston
State stretch a 3-point half-
time lead into an 88-70 blow-
out over Lamar.
Tubbs said that he knew at
halftime, when only down 41-
38, that something was wrong
with his team.
See GAME, page 6
By MARK SHOW
UP Editor
Thousands of students —
about three thousand, to be exact
— invaded the Lamar University
campus .Saturday to attend the
17th |innual Open House, an
event geared toward potential
students and their parents to
showcase the advantages and ben-
efits of Lamar University.
The event began at 9 a.m.
when students packed the Mon-
tagne Center for an agenda for
the day’s activities. Here, students
began their attempt to win the
two main door prizes, a year of
room and board at Cardinal
Village and a year of paid tuition.
Students had to get their agendas
stamped from all the designated
locations to be eligible for the
prizes.
From the Montagne Center,
students made the walk to the
Quadrangle, where organizations
had booths set up to further
explain what their organizations
had to offer and to answer ques-
tions students had for them.
“I’m here to tell students
about our organization,” Andrew
Goolsby, senior family studies
major, said, “and the various
opportunities they will have.”
Colored chalk lined the side-
walks on campus with directions
to each department and building.
Red and white balloons, Cardinal
apparel and school spirit were all
on display as potential students
and their parents visited with fac-
ulty, discussed majors and got
their agenda stamped.
“She is starting to think about
college,” Becky Sanders said.
“Lamar is on our list.”
Sanders said that she and her
daughter, Katie, came to find out
more about the campus and the
activities it has to offer.
“I came to learn more about
Lamar,” Katie Sanders said. “I
would like to come here. It’s a
good school and it is close to
home.”
While some attended to learn
See HOUSE, page 2
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Cindy and Anessa Trevino, top, get excited about Lamar during
Open House. Above, students wait in line to get their agendas
punched, qualifying them for the top door prizes.
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Homecoming concludes with game,
king and queen ceremony
♦ Homecoming king and queen were announced during half time
of the Lamar men’s game against Sam Houston State. This year’s
homecoming queen is Diztorsha Jefferson, representing the
Student Government Association. The homecoming king is Ikem
Arisukwu, representing the Black Student Association.
♦ The two lucky door prize winners were also announced at halftime.
The winner of the year of tuition was Harry Allen of Houston’s
North Shore High School. The winner of the one-year stay at
Cardinal Village was Angelica Garza, also of Houston’s North Shore
High School.
♦ The Lamar men’s basketball team lost a rather anti-climactic game
to Sam Houston State 88-70 Saturday in-the Montagne Center. A
crowd of 6,164 fans packed the Montagne for both Lamar basket-
ball games, well over the average of 3,800 per home game.
The Lady Cards, who played after the men’s game, snapped an
eight-game losing streak defeating SHSU 59-53.
♦ The biggest success of the week of homecoming, according to the
administration, was the fact that students got out and attended
the events it had to offer. Valerie Black, assistant director of stu-
dent organizations, said that students were very excited to partici-
pate in the events. “The Food Fest and comedy show were also
huge hits for students,” she added.
bomb kills 100+ in Iraq
Applications for Rotary
scholarship due March 15
♦ WORLD & NATION
Suicide car
By ALIAL-FATLAWI
The Associated F*ress
HILLAH, Iraq — A suicide car
bomber blasted a crowd of police and
national guard recruits Monday as they
gathered for physicals outside a medical
clinic south of Baghdad, killing at least
115 people and wounding 132.
Tom limbs and other body parts
littered the street outside the. clinic in
Hillah, a predominantly Shiite area
about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
Monday’s blast outside the clinic
was so powerful it nearly vaporized the
suicide bomber’s car, leaving only its
engine partially intact. The injured were
piled into pickup trucks and ambu-
lances and taken to nearby hospitals.
Outside the concrete and brick
building in Hillah, people gingerly
walked around small lakes of blood
pooling on the street. Scorch marks
infused with blood covered the clinic’s
walls and dozens of people helped pile
body parts, including arms, feet and
limbs, into blankets. Piles of shoes and
tattered clothes were thrown into a cor-
ner.
Angry crowds gathered outside the
hospital chanting “Allah akbar!” —
Arabic for “God is great!” — and
demanded to know the fate of their rel-
atives.
“I was lined up near the medical
center, waiting for my turn for the med-
ical exam in order to apply for work in
the police,” Abdullah Salih, 22, said.
“Suddenly I heard a very big explosion.
I was thrown several meters away and I
had bums in my legs and hands, then I
was taken to the hospital.”
Babil province police headquarters
said “several people” were arrested in
connection with the blast, the biggest
confirmed death toll in a single attack
since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Ayad
Allawi wrote in The Wall Street Journal
on Monday that Iraq still needed inter-
national forces on the ground while the
effort was under way to rebuild Iraqi
security forces.
“But we will continue to need and
to seek assistance for some time to
come,” he wrote.
By KATHRYN EAKENS
UP Features Editor
Students looking to study
abroad needn’t look any further than
their local Rotary Club.
Since 1947, more than 30,000
men and women from 100 nations
have studied abroad through the
Rotary International Ambassadorial
Scholarship program.
Applications for the program,
designed to further international
understanding and friendly relations
among people of different countries,
are due by March 15.
“Students are able to study and
serve as ambassadors to other coun-
tries for a year,” Donna Birdwell,
director of the Honors Program,
said. “They are enrolled in a rotary
sponsored program abroad in addi-
tion to being enrolled as a university
student.”
Applicants are sponsored by
local Rotary Clubs and evaluated at
the regional level through inter-
views. The region then makes recom-
mendations to the Rotary Foun-
dation, which makes the final deci-
sion.
“All Lamar students may apply
through the Beaumont club, or if
they are not from Beaumont, they
may apply through the rotary club in
their area,” Birdwell said.
While abroad, students serve as
ambassadors of goodwill to the peo-
ple of the host country and give pre-
sentations to Rotary Clubs and
other groups. Upon returning home,
students also give presentations to
Rotary Clubs in the states about
their experiences abroad.
“You make contact with the
Rotary Clubs in your country and
you have people to stay with and to
show you around and help you fig-
ure out how to get from place to
place and tell you what to see,”
Birdwell said.
In addition to sending American
students to other countries, the pro-
gram also brings international stu-
dents to study in the United States.
In recent years, Lamar students
have been very successful in being
accepted into the program.
Recent Lamar students who
have received the scholarship are:
Robbie Waters, who studied in Spain
during the 2002-2003 school year;
See ROTARY, page 2
APAlaa al-Marjani
Security forces walk through a blood-soaked street after a suicide bomber blasted a crowd of
police and national guard recruits as they gathered outside a clinic in Iraq on Monday.
See BOMB, page 2
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