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Simmons
optimistic
about LU
future
Daniel Chand
UP news editor
“You’re doing something
right, and we as a university are
doing something right,” President
Jimmy Simmons told faculty and
staff at his annual reception and
convocation on Aug. 21 in Uni-
versity Theatre.
Simmons credited Lamar’s
faculty and staff for the enroll-
ment increases over the past year.
“I think enrollment is look-
ing exceptionally good this fall,”
* he said. “It appears that we could
be Up several hundred students,
* possibly more.”
“Enrollment is a key barom-
eter of our health and the percep-
tion people have of this universi-
ty,” he explained.
Simmons’ speech touched on
what he said were some of
Lamar’s “past accomplishments
and future challenges.”
Simmons also spoke of the
school’s new programs.
One of the programs that the
university is in the process of
establishing is a doctorate of
audiology, Simmons said.
“The board has accepted that
concept,” he said. “We’re moving
forward with that so we will have
three doctoral programs at the
university.”
Lamar also has new master’s
degree programs in nursing and
criminal justice, which, according
to Simmons, are doing well and
attracting large numbers of stu-
dents.
Campus development was
one issue of which Simmons
expressed a great deal of excite-
ment.
“As you look around, I’m
sure you’ve noted that a lot of
work is being done on campus,”
he said. “I’ve never seen it look
better, and there’s a lot more in
store.”
He said that the new
See SIMMONS, page 2
Campus Crowd
Trend to higher enrollment continues with preliminary figures
Dennis Kutac
UP features editor
For a second consecutive year, the
enrollment at the Lamar University
campus is up.
This fall, the headcount for stu-
dents on the first day of classes was
8,454 with 94,447 semester credit hours
taken. As of Monday, those numbers
had increased to a headcount of 8,890
and 98,289 semester credit hours
taken, Kevin Smith, associate vice
president of academic administration,
said.
Last fall, on the first class day,
enrollment was at 8,217 with 91,205
semester credit hours taken.
As of Monday, the average stu-
dent is enrolled for 11.06 semester
credit hours.
Although the official enrollment
number will not be known until the
20th class day, Smith said, the current
number is up 3 percent with a 3.6 per-
cent increase in semester credit hours
from last fall.
Enrollment figures are collected
from the first class day through the
20th class day, Smith said.
“It is fairly certain that we will
have the largest fall enrollment since
1993,” Smith said.
After the 20th class day for fall
2000, enrollment stood at 8,568 with
92,521 semester credit hours taken.
That was higher than 1999, he said,
when enrollment, after the 20th class
day, was 8,161 with 88,495 semester
credit hours taken.
The day before the first class day,
a list known as a kill, made up of stu-
dents who have not paid their tuition
or have not made arrangements for
See ENROLLMENT, page 2
New dorms
unveiled in
ribbon cutting
Jenny Achilles
UP entertainment editor
“On behalf of the residents of Cardinal
Village, including myself, welcome to our home,”
Alisa Hicklin, SGA president, said on behalf of
the student residents of Cardinal Village at a rib-
bon-cutting ceremony Aug. 20.
The ceremony, attended by Beaumont
Mayor David Moore, members of the Texas
State University System Board of Regents and
TSUS Chancellor Lamar Urbanovsky, was con-
ducted with roll-out-the-red-carpet style.
Chartwell’s caterers wore white dinner jack-
ets and served lemonade and water on trays to
guests. White petit fours with red cardinals paint-
ed on top were served along side an array of
fruits, cheeses, crackers, croissant sandwiches,
cream puffs and cookies. The Cardinal Village
community center interior was decorated with
flowers and balloons.
Guests milled around the community center,
located in the center of the dorms, smiling and
chatting. The building was packed — standing-
room only.
See VILLAGE, page 7
Lamar president
Jimmy Simmons, left,
joins TSUS chairper-
son, Nancy Neal, SGA
president Alisa Hicklin
and Thomas Trubiana,
president and CEO of
American Campus
Communities, in cut-
ting a ribbon to offi-
cially open the new
Cardinal Village dorms
Aug. 13.
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More than 800 move to campus for fall
Tara Smith
UP managing editor
“Home, Sweet Home” is the song being
sung around Lamar these days by more than
850 students who have taken up residence on
campus and by university officials who
worked diligently to meet their preset goal
of 800 campus residents for fall 2001.
“To say the least, we are very excited
that we have over 800 students presently liv-
ing on campus,” Barry Johnson, interim vice
president for student affairs, says. “It will
help our budget, and it is exciting to get that
^ many students on campus. I can already see a
difference in attitude on campus from last
fall to $his fall.”
The addition of the new dorm, Cardinal
Village, has been one of the main factors that
has led to an increase in students living on
campus, Johnson says.
“Another thing that has happened, par-
ticularly with university housing, is students
are allowed to live by themselves,” Johnson
says. “That is popular with our students, and
roughly we have 160 to 165 students on cam-
pus living in a dorm room without a room-
mate.”
There are 853 on-campus residents,
Johnson says, compared to the 675 residents
in fall 2000. Five hundred and eighteen stu-
dents live in Cardinal Village (a figure that
fills that facility), 254 live in Brooks-Shivers,
and 81 live in the Units.
Though Cardinal Village has attracted
numerous students to dorm life, the appear-
ance of Brooks-Shivers has been improved
and into an appealing residence.
“We have spent some money on Brooks-
Shivers, and it looks better,” Johnson said.
“We spent money last year during the
Christmas vacation. Then Residence Life did
a good bit of painting during the summer to
get the rooms up-to-date. The parking lot
there has been resurfaced, and they have
new lights that have never even been used.”
Many students staying at Brooks-
Shivers, however, are op a waiting list to get
into Cardinal Village.
Todd Hefner, director of residence life,
says that while the number of students in the
dorms will slightly vary from the time the
dorms opened to approximately the 12th-
See DORMS, page 7
Notice to Students
The Family and Educational Rights to Privacy
Act of 1974, as amended, allows a college or universi-
ty to release certain pieces of information if that col-
lege or university has published that it will release
information. Lamar University has published that the
following information will be available to the public
— name, current and permanent address, telephone
listing, date and place of birth, major, participation in
officially recognized activities and sports, weight and
height of members of athletic teams, dates of atten-
dance, degrees and awards received with dates of last
educational agency or institution attended.
If you do not want this information published or
given out, you must go to the records office in 112
Wimberly and sign a Directory Information Hold
Form before Friday, Sept. 7.
If you signed a form last semester and do not
revoke it in writing, your records will remain seeded,
which includes future employers, confirming atten-
dance, and degree received. Please be aware that a
Directory Information Hold Form prevents anyone
from receiving information about you.
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