University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1999 Page: 2 of 6
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University Press • Friday, January 29,1999 • Page 2
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Blue prints for connecting underground water pipes
across campus show the complexity of the project.
Pipes-
Continued from page 1
He went on to say that the key to this pro-
ject is making a pipe bigger and then connect-
ing it to the system.
“When we’re done, we’ll basically have all
of these plants tied together as one plant, so
we’ll be able to run the entire campus either
off this plant (the north plant),” he said, “or we
can run it off this plant (the south plant) — or
a combination of the two.”
The project will have the campus torn up in
several spots, McCaig said. But in the long-run,
Lamar is going to be better off. He went on to
say once summer is here, the campus will be
cooled by the north plant while the south plant
is being repaired.
McCaig said the new pavement in the SSC
parking lot “won’t be touched.” He also said
the installers will cut across the round drive-
way and place plates over it so “people can still
drive around in emergency situations and the
handicapped people can get to their spaces.”
Although the area near the SSC is blocked
off, McCaig said, deliveries to the bookstore
will still be delivered and the garbage will still
be picked up as usual. He went on to say the
workers could not be on campus to unlock the
gates for copies of the University Press to be
delivered at 5 a.m., and arrangements have
been made for them to be delivered through
another door in the SSC.
“The gate is only open for deliveries,” Anne
Vrolyk, Lamar Bookstore merchandise man-
ager, said. “There is no change with our deliv-
eries at this time.”
“For a while, that will be a little bit of a
problem...,” McCaig said, “but hopefully we’ll
... try to minimize it where we can.”
McCaig said that once construction takes
place on the plant near the Lucas Building,
workers from the physical plant will be the
only ones inconvenienced there.
Center-
Continued from page 1
“My goal is to have the center
become so successful that if they tried
to take it away people would be in an
uproar,” Carey said. “I hope we will be
that vital.”
Joe Nordgren, director of freshman
English, said Cruse Melvin, who was
interim dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at the time the center was
being planned, worked “tirelessly”
with William Cale, executive vice pres-
ident for academic affairs, to get fund-
ing and to offer these services free to
students.
Cale said he is proud of the new
writing center. He said the center not
only supports the core curriculum
classes such as freshman English, but it
also helps students to learn how to
write technical papers and research
reports.
“I think it’s going extremely well,”
Cale said.
Other people working on the con-
cept of a writing center included
William Johnson, LU interim presi-
dent; Miriam Shillingsburg, dean of
arts and sciences; Sallye Sheppeard,
English and foreign language depart-
ment chair; and Stephanie Yearwood,
associate professor of English and pres-
ident of the Texas Council of Teachers
of English.
Police-
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a man at the intersection of Rolfe
Christopher and Florida for driving while
intoxicated. He was taken to Jefferson
County Jail.
A man, on Jan. 5, reported that his
vehicle had been taken without his consent
from McDonald Gym parking lot. He said
the windows were rolled up and the doors
were locked when he left the vehicle.
Fontenot said that the vehicle was
recovered. The tires had been taken from
the car.
One of the workers from the library
called the police station on Jan. 11 to
report that a printer had been taken from
the eighth floor. She said the last time the
printer was seen was on Dec. 21 when she
left for the holidays.
When she returned on Jan. 4, it was
missing.
On Jan. 9, a man reported that his
Camcorder was taken during a wedding
reception on the eight floor of Gray
Library. He estimated the cost of the cam-
era, bag and contents at $675.
Several other thefts were reported to
the campus police during the last two
weeks. These included a planner taken
from an employee’s desk in Gray Library,
a purse taken from an office in the
Wimberly Building, and some money b
taken from a cash box in Mirabeau’s in
the Setzer Student Center.
“Usually, the thefts that occur like
these are because people have picked
items up for their own personal use, or
they plan to pawn the items for cash,”
Fontenot said. “So, now, we will process a
check with' the local pawn shops for this
property.”
Fontenot said that he warns people on k
campus about leaving their valuables
unattended.
“We are already starting to see an #
increase in purse thefts in some of the
buildings,” Fontenot said. “All employees
and students need to lock up their valu-
ables, especially their purses, if they leave
them. They then need to keep the key
with them at all times.
“Don’t leave your valuables unattend-
ed,” Fontenot said.
Teeny science equipment
saves chemicals, monies
HENNIKER, N.H. (AP) — Size
doesn’t matter in college science. At
least that’s what Zvi Szafran, Mono
Mohan Singh and Ronald Pike believe.
The trio have developed what they
call microscale chemistry. The idea is to
shrink the size of the beakers and flasks
that students use every day so experi-
ments can be done using the least
amount of chemicals.
“School labs spend taxpayers’ money
to buy chemicals, exposing students and
teachers to potential danger,” said
Szafran, vice president of academic
affairs at New England College. “Then
they spend time and money to throw
away the products, and it harms the
environment.”
Students at Bowdoin College in
Maine first sparked the idea in the
1980s with their, complaints about
smelly chemistry labs. The school calcu-
lated it would cost $300,000 to improve
the air circulation.
Then along came Singh, who directs
the chemistry department at Merrimack
College in Andover, Mass.; Pike, a
chemistry professor at Bowdoin; and
Szafran. They thought small.
“We thought you wouldn’t have to
clean the air if you didn’t pollute it,”
Szafran said.
The men say their idea for teeny sci-
ence saves money while making labs
safer for students.
“If you’re using teeny, tiny amounts
of a chemical, how big of an explosion
would you get?” Szafran said Saturday.
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Dorman, Billie. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1999, newspaper, January 29, 1999; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500830/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.