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University Press • Wednesday, September 13,2000 • Page 2
Mother alleged
to have buried
baby in dump
Enrollment-
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courses, and two-way interac-
tive video classes that serve
all the area high schools are
available to students as an
alternative to regular classes
and have therefore helped in
enhancing and retaining en-
rollment.”
More scholarships award-
ed and a better looking cam-
pus attribute as well to the
increase, he said.
The encouraging fall fig-
ures follow a summer in
which enrollment was also up
11 percent in Summer I and 2
percent in Summer II.
Smith attributes the sum-
Hefner-
Continued from page 1
students a budget if costs go up,”
Hefner said.
In addition to the plans for
the new residence hall, Hefner
has made a few changes in
redesigning management as well
as creating new RA positions for
mer increases to the scholar-
ships that were available and
awarded to students who had
a cumulative grade point
average of 3.0 or higher and
who had completed 24 or
more semester credit hours
and also to the bridge pro-
gram.
Along with enrollment
increases, fall semester credit
hours now stand at 93,671,
up from 88,495 last fall. This
is an almost 6 percent in-
crease.
The increases in semester
credit hours are particularly
crucial because these figures
seniors and starting community
service projects within the halls.
Hefner also has changed the
name from department of hous-
ing to department of residence
life.
“‘Housing’ is an impersonal
determine state formula
funding, Smith said.
“This increase is espe-
cially welcomed because this
is a counting year,” he said.
He added that these
numbers mean a good bud-
get will be in place for the
next two years.
Although the counts for
both enrollment and the
number of semester credit
hours taken are not official
until the 20th class day,
enrollment historically re-
mains steady from the 12th
class day to the 20th class
day, Smith said.
characterization of what we do,”
Hefner said.
Hefner says he is very opti-
mistic about the future of
Lamar’s residence life and he
hopes to also explore other
avenues at the university.
McCarthy-
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ten I’ve been raising for the
last six months.’
“It’s like a piece of your
life given to someone else.
These are all very personal.
They’re all a piece of what I
am. Sometimes you sell it
because you need the money.
Artwork is created to either
be sold or to sit in the closet.”
At this point in her career,
McCarthy tends to prefer rel-
egating her art to the closet
and saving it rather than sell-
ing it.
Even with her success, she
says she isn’t teaching classes
right now. Since she is still in
the new part of the job, she
does not want to jeopardize or
call attention away from her
obligations of managing the
office.
The Beaumont Art
League, however, is trying to
make courses — ones that
McCarthy was unable to take
in Jennings — available to all
area students, including home
schooled children.
She finds that when it
comes to home schooled chil-
dren, they do have some draw-
backs compared with students
from public schools.
“The parents don’t gener-
ally have as wide an education
range in the arts,” she said, “as
they do in other academic and
liberal arts programs.”
McCarthy says the ability
to educate in the arts is not
something everyone is capa-
ble of doing, because not
everyone has the necessary
background.
She says that some of the
members of the Beaumont
Art League have taught for
more than 20 years in ele-
mentary schools, high schools,
and at the college level.
In any event, McCarthy is
not only taking care of her job
well; she is growing by leaps
and bounds for having taken
the position at the league that
she did.
FAIRFAX, S.C. (AP) —
When police began looking for a
missing infant last week, they
expected the worst.
But their search for a tiny
body became a rescue mission
when they pulled the hours-old
newborn from a shallow grave
where ants crawled on his skin
and a board covered his body.
Police say Carolyn Jones
early Friday buried her newborn
son headfirst in a trash dump in
this town about 70 miles south of
Columbia. Then, they said, she
left him to die.
“The good Lord was looking"
after this infant,” said Police
Chief John Sullivan.
Jones, 21, has been charged
with assault and battery with
intent to kill. She was held in lieu
of $40,000 bond on Monday. Her
5-pound, 11-ounce son was in
good condition at a Columbia
hospital.
At a hearing, Jones would
not answer questions about why
she left the baby. Her mother
said Jones buried the boy be-
cause she thought he was dead.
“She’s a good person,”
Bertha Jones said of her daugh-
ter.
“She knew that baby wasn’t
alive. I know in my heart she
would have never done what she
did” if she had known the baby
were alive.
Police allege that Jones gave
birth Friday, then took the baby
to the dump near this rural com-
munity of 2,500 people and
buried him in a 14-inch grave. She
then went to Allendale 'County
Hospital, where doctors alerted
police that the woman had signs
of giving birth but had no baby.
Jones told authorities that
she thought the baby was dead
and buried it along a dirt road, s
After an hour of searching,
police returned to the hospital
and asked Jones to show themn
the grave, said Sullivan.
Jones was taken by ambu-
lance to the dump and told police
where she left the infant, he said.
Hittin’ the books
OPGilliam
Despite the heat, freshman Kimberly Price chooses to study outdoors on the steps of the
Lucas Engineering Building.
Vaccine-
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mid-December through early March,
Jenkins said. Between 70 and 76 million
Americans are considered at-risk for
complications from flu.
While the CDC and the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practice
have recommended that high-risk groups
get vaccinated, he said, both groups
encourage health-care providers, health
organizations, companies and others
planning to launch organized vaccination
campaigns for the general public to delay
them. The purpose is to make sure that
those at-risk get the vaccine first.
“For example, companies that might
offer the vaccine to employees in Oc-
tober should delay until November,"
Glezen said.
Vaccine providers also are being
asked to develop contingency plans if a
flu vaccine shortage develops. First prior-
ity should be given to high-risk individu-
als and health-care workers.
For further information, students
may contact Warner at 880-8466.
doses, she said. The number of doses
given last year was estimated at 325.
Students will be informed upon the
arrival of the vaccinations and will be
offered inoculations as soon as possible,
Warner said.
The primary concern is high-risk
groups, both Warner and Jenkins said,
including senior citizens over the age of
65, victims of chronic heart and lung dis-
ease or people with weakened immune
systems.
Dr. Paul Glezen, an epidemiologist
with the Influenza Research Center at
Baylor in Houston, said that he advises
individuals, considered at-risk, schedule
their shots as soon as the vaccine is avail-
able. He said that the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention recently
announced that manufacturing problems
for one of the flu strains could lead to a
delay in vaccine distribution. In addition,
the total doses available could be lower
than last year.
The flu season typically runs from
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