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University Press
Wednesday, April 17,2002
A Four-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner
The Newspaper of Lamar University
SGA elections pushed to runoff
Greg Hayes
UP staff writer
Voter turnout was said to be
better than expected after the
total votes from the Student
Government Association presi-
dential and vice presidential elec-
tions were added up on Friday.
“As of the second day of vot-
ing we had 798 total votes,” Alisa
Hicklin, senior and outgoing pres-
ident of the SGA, said on Friday.
“We had 494 students vote on the
first day and we are really hoping
that on the third day of voting we
can get a little over 200 so that we
can see over 1,000 votes.”
Hicklin’s wish was granted
when the last vote was put
through the scanner — 1,024
votes total, which is the highest
she has ever seen it reach.
“We only had a little under
700 students vote last year,” she
said. “We are real excited with
how well the candidates did with
their campaigns.”
The vice presidential candi-
date to arise victorious was Brian
Bean with 598 total votes topping
214 votes for Thomasina Jones.
The presidential office, how-
ever, is still being pursued this
week in a runoff election between
Josh Daspit and Vachara “Udi”
Pathamo.
Daspit received 421 votes to
Pathamo’s 242 votes, but he failed
to receive the 50 percent of the
total votes needed to win the elec-
tion.
Ondrez Domoneck, the third
presidential candidate, received
231 votes, which brought his cam-
paign to an end.
Barry Johnson,vice president
for student affairs and SGA
adviser, said that only 56 of the
votes cast were not counted in the
candidates’ totals.
“Those 56 ballots would not
go through the scanning
machine,” Johnson said. “We even
tried running each one back
through separately, but they were
still spit out. So, we just turned
those ballots upside down and did
not look at them again. They were
numbered in the total ballots cast,
but they were not included in
total votes for any of the candi-
dates.”
Johnson said the major rea-
son those ballots did not go
through was because the boxes
for social security numbers were
not filled in properly.
“Some of the social security
numbers were found to be invalid
by the computer,” he said. “That
means that some of those voting
may not have been registered stu-
dents.”
Johnson said all three candi-
dates were invited to the vote tal-
lying procedure on Friday and
were each given a fair chance to
observe the entire process.
See RUNOFF, page 2
UPDaniel Chand
Josh Daspit and Vachara “Udi” Pathamo, the two candidates who
received the most votes in the SGA presidential elections, are cam-
paigning for their runoff, which continues through Thursday.
Marching toward a cure
LU, community to participate in March of Dimes Saturday
Heather Lackey
UP staff writer
It’s supposed to be one of the happiest days
of your life — the day your child is born. But
for some parents, that day can also be scary
when their child is born prematurely.
The chances of this happening may be
greater than you think.
One out of every eight babies born comes
too early, and one in 28 is born with a serious
birth defect.
That’s why WalkAmerica provides the
opportunity for the common person to make
his or her own contribution to the medical field.
WalkAmerica, the March of Dimes’ annual
fundraiser, will be held at Lamar’s Cardinal
Stadium on Saturday. Participants usually
arrive around 8 a.m., Karen Wells, Lamar’s
WalkAmerica coordinator, said, but the actual
walk will begin at 9 a.m.
Funds raised by WalkAmerica are used for
prematurity research, gene therapy research,
the National Folic Acid campaign, health care
coverage, and the March of Dimes research
center, according to the March of Dimes’ web
site.
Nation-wide, 500,000 walkers are expected,
and an overall total of 9 million people will par-
ticipate in WalkAmerica this year. This group
includes not only walkers, but sponsors and vol-
unteers as well.
Of those 9 million participants, at least
2,000 gather at Lamar University every year to
show their support for the March of Dimes.
Walkers include Lamar students, faculty and
staff, as well as WalkAmerica sponsors.
Lamar students participate in the 5-mile
walk every year.
“It’s a lot of fun. You get to hang out with
friends, eat a lot of food, and you’re part of a
good cause at the same time,” Ashly Elam,
Lamar junior, said.
Lamar students are not the only ones who
walk in this event. Local residents, businesses
and members of the media have also formed
teams for the walk.
“Having a child with health problems, I
know how important research is,” Tracy
Kennick, KBMT news anchor, said. “We had
complications with Jackson, and it’s near to my
heart.”
Wells, who has participated in
WalkAmerica since 1989, cites her own experi-
ences as influencing her involvement. Wells’
youngest daughter was born prematurely, and
Wells was impacted by the abundant medical
assistance provided for her and her daughter.
See DIMES, page 2
Vol. 78, No. 42
Illiteracy
topic of
round-table
discussion
Julie Gipson
UP staff writer
Suppose, while sitting in the waiting
room at the doctor’s office, you pick up a
local newspaper and the front page is cov-
ered in strange squiggled lines. You stare
at the photographs on the page and try to
determine the latest news. The person in
the next chair asks about the weather
forecast and you search the page until you
see a small sun half-covered by clouds. “A
little cloudy,” you respond.
Later, after the doctor has diagnosed
your illness, you study the prescription
bottles that were given to you. Were you
supposed to take three of the blue pills
and one of the pink pills or was it the
other way around? The pharmacist’s
printed instructions are in your hand, but
they are useless because you are one of
the 30 percent of adults in Southeast
Texas who are classified as “functionally
illiterate.”
On Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m., the
Joint Education Project will explore the
topic of illiteracy during a round-table
discussion titled “Illiteracy in Southeast
Texas — A Code Read Threat.”
Subjects for discussion at the round
table include types of functional illiteracy,
factors contributing to adult illiteracy,
social action needed to eliminate illitera-
cy, training programs to help illiterate res-
idents and the funding of programs in
adult basic literacy and English as a
Second Language.
The Lamar Language Institute, the
Beaumont Literacy Depot, the Port
Arthur Literacy Support, the Greater
Orange Area Literacy Support (GOALS)
and Project Welcome have established
the Joint Education Project Consortium
(JEP) to make reading English accessible
to the third of the voting-age population
in Southeast Texas that cannot read above
a sixth-grade level, Jesse Doiron, project
manager, said.
The JEP supports a staff of three full-
time training coordinators who supervise
local volunteers in adult training in basic
literacy and English as a Second
Language.
A grant of $132,000 from the
Meadows Foundation aids in providing
instructional materials and salaries for
the coordinators.
“The Meadows Foundation was quite
instrumental in providing a skeletal struc-
ture on which to gain weight,” Doiron
said.
The JEP is seeking additional funding
from the Texas Education Agency.
“The round table kicks off a series of
round tables that we will be conducting
up until we resubmit our proposal to
See ILLITERACY, page 2
Rumsfeld: Iraqi weapons
inspections will not work
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld said Monday he
cannot imagine a formula for
U.N. weapons inspections
that would be both accept-
able to Iraq and successful in
uncovering nuclear weapons.
His remarks contrasted
sharply with comments made
separately by State
Department spokesman
Philip Reeker, who told
reporters it is the Bush
administration's policy to
insist that Iraq permit unfet-
tered inspections.
“Iraq has to comply fully
and unconditionally with all
-applicable United Nations
Security Council resolutions,
including the return of U.N.
weapons inspectors, and
cooperate fully with them,”
Reeker said. He gave no
indication the State
Department shares
Rumsfeld’s view that inspec-
tions cannot succeed.
Rumsfeld did not say
what should be done if effec-
tive inspections should prove
impossible. In the past he has
endorsed the view that if the
goal is to stop Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein from
threatening to use a weapon
of mass destruction, then
military action would be
more effective than diploma-
cy.
“Everyone knows” Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein is
pressing ahead with a
nuclear program and striving
to improve and expand his
chemical and biological
weapons arsenal, Rumsfeld
See IRAQ, page 2
Lamar selects dean for College of Business
Lamar University’s internationally
accredited College of Business will soon
be under new management.
University officials announced April
10 the selection of Enrique (Henry)
Venta, dean of Loyola University’s
School of Business Administration, as
dean of the College of Business.
Venta will join Lamar July 1 pending
approval of the Texas State University
System Board of Regents at its next
meeting, May 9 through May 10.
Venta, a 23-year faculty member at
Loyola as professor, department chair
and dean, continues to serve as professor
of information systems and operations
management and teaches a course each
semester.
Since August 1999, Venta has served
as the chief executive officer of the
school that serves 1,200 full-time and 275
part-time undergraduate business
students, as well as 800 graduate stu-
dents.
“I’m very excited to have a new
Henry Venta
dean with such an outstanding academic
record as part of our team,” Lamar pres-
ident James Simmons said.
“Henry Venta has a proven record in
working with a very large community
f
and brings to the table a strong emphasis
on economic development. I believe he
will be a great resource not only for
Lamar University, but for the entire
region.”
At Loyola, undergraduate students
seek the B.B.A. degree, and graduate
programs are available for the M.B.A.,
the Executive M.B.A., and M.S. degrees
in accounting, integrated marketing
communications, information systems
management, as well as graduate certifi-
cate programs in e-commerce, data ware-
housing and mining, and business ethics.
The school has five endowed profes-
sorships, a full-time faculty of 63, and an
endowment of about $12 million. The
school’s direct revenues are approxi-
mately $27 million annually.
In 1988, Venta was named faculty
member of the year in both the under-
graduate and graduate business pro-
grams. Even after assuming adminis-
trative posts, Venta has continued
See VENTA, page 2
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