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Playing for kicks
Members of the Lady Cardinals Club Soccer team continue to play the
game they love, despite the sacrifices it demands.
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During World War II, courses
were taught in vocations, now
LUIT, 24 hours a day, preparing
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Friday, October 9,1998 A THREE-TlME ASSOCIATED PRESS TEXAS MANAGING EDITORS AWARD WINNER Vo1- 75>No- 11
TRIBUTE
AIDS quilt on display
in Lamar Studio Theatre
Todd Sonnier
UP editor
The black cyclone curtains in
Lamar’s Studio Theatre act as the
backdrop for a haunting, spectac-
. ular display of colors, images and
words.
Sections of a quilt hang from
- the rafters as an emotional, per-
sonal reminder of the lives lost to
AIDS and the loved ones left
behind.
“You just can’t walk into this
room without getting a little emo-
tional,” John Smith, chairman of
the Southeast Texas NAMES
Project, said.
The quilt, a tribute to loved
ones lost to AIDS, is on display in
the theatre until Monday, when it
will be moved to the Holiday Inn
Beaumont Plaza for the 12th
annual AIDS Update, which is co-
sponsored by the Triangle AIDS
"Network.
During a program Thursday
evening, 12 new quilt panels, cre-
ated in this area in recent months,
were carried into the theatre to
be added to the national quilt.
The national quilt was con-
ceived in 1985. The first panel was
created in 1986 and has continued
to grow ever since.
“We’ve added 10 panels to it,
but we should be adding 100,”
Smith said. “People are doing this
same thing in almost every city;
and every time it’s displayed,
more panels are added to it. So its
growing and growing all the
time.”
Though many of the quilt sec-
tions are without pictures or full
names, each is as unique as the
person it memorializes.
“People try to reflect personal-
ities in these quilts when they
build them,” Smith said.
Some sections of the quilt bear
names, photos or even articles of
clothing.
On one new section of the
quilt, a name is spelled out next to
a photograph by a myriad of mul-
ticolored socks.
“That kid just loved to wear
wild socks. Every time you saw
him, he had on a different pair of
wild, colorful socks. So they
spelled his name out of these
See QUILT, page 2
Sections of the AIDS memorial quilt with ties to Southeast Texas are
hanging in the Lamar Studio Theatre through Monday.
LU professor
will participate
in book signing
Jim Sanderson, associate professor of English
at Lamar University, is among “signature
authors” who will be featured Sunday as part of
the annual Book and Author Dinner in
Houston.
Sanderson will sign his two most recent
books: A collection of humorous essays titled
“A West Texas Soapbox,” published in June,
and his most recent book, a work of crime fic-
tion titled “El Camino del Rio.”
He and 10 other signature authors will meet
their readers and sign books from 5:30 p.m. to
6:45 p.m. in the Westin Galleria Hotel.
“Signature authors being showcased are local
and regional writers who have new, important,
interesting books ranging from historical novels
to mysteries to memoirs to children’s titles,”
according to the Houston Chronicle, which
sponsors the annual event.
Sanderson teaches fiction writing and
American literature at Lamar, where he has
been a member of the faculty since 1989. He
also is the author of “Semi-Private Rooms,”
which won the Kenneth Patchen Prize for fic-
tion.
Sanderson describes “A West Texas
Soapbox” as “A collection of humorous essays
about the frontier, churches and bars in West
Texas. What I want to emphasize is that it’s not
a scholarly book, but a book for general audi-
ences with what I hope are funny, personal
essays;”
Although born and reared in San Antonio,
See AUTHOR, page 2
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Southeast Texans get ready
to walk toward racial unity
Karen Cochrum
UP staff writer
The Sixth Annual Walk for Race
Unity will be held in Port Arthur on
Saturday.
The walk will begin and end at Rose
Hill Park, which is located on the corner
of Procter and Woodworth.
The walk will conclude with a service
honoring those throughout the area who
have lost their lives in racially motivated
incidents.
“There will be a memorial service
honoring Mr. Byrd and approximately 10
others whose lives have been sacrificed
because of race at the end of the walk,”
Landry said.
Landry said that in the past there has
been a “mediocre” turnout. This year
they are expecting many more people.
“This is the first year we’ve had real
hardcore support from the community,”
Landry said.
Southeast Texans aren’t the only ones
getting involved. Landry said she has
received calls from people throughout
the entire state who are interested in par-
ticipating.
This year’s entertainment will include
See WALK, page 2
SGA debates registration issues
Sylvia Streeter
UP staff writer
The Student Government Associa-
tion heard three resolutions concerning
registration and advisement proposed
by the Academic Affairs Committee in
Tuesday’s meeting.
The first proposal states that the
Dean’s Council and Kevin Smith, asso-
ciate vice president for academic
affairs, have recommended to SGA
that “arena registration” be moved
from the Montagne Center to another
area.
“No one had an answer to what
would be done if this method is omit-
ted,” Kate Kelso, vice president of
SGA, said. “They have recommended
several solutions but not decided what
will replace this system.”
The Dean’s Council and Smith have
suggested finding a more cost efficient
system of registration, but neither have
offered a detailed and explicit proposal
of how or where to replace the regis-
tration system.
SGA members said they believe it
would be unwise to approve ending
any policy concerning registration
without prior knowledge of what will
replace it.
The proposal requests that Smith
and the council submit to the SGA a
detailed and explicit proposal to
replace “arena registration” before
SGA takes any action.
“We need to know what exactly
we’re voting to change to before we
vote,” Kelso said.
The next proposal concerns manda-
tory advisement. The resolution states
that the Dean’s Council agrees with the
proposition of ending the current poli-
cy of mandatory advisement.
The current advisement system
requires students to be on campus for
academic counseling and has been
See SGA, page 2
Students prepare project for space shuttle mission
Brandianne Hinton
UP staff writer
Lamar students enrolled in the
“Rocketry and Payloads” course
taught by Jim Jordan have a full
semester ahead of them as they pre-
pare experiments for a NASA space
shuttle mission in 2000.
The shuttle mission involves the
ASTOR (Advanced Safety Tether
Operations and Reliabilities) Student
Program designed to provide students
with hands-on experience with space
hardware, flight and data acquisition
as well as familiarizing them with the
national space program and promoting
interests in mathematics, engineering,
and technology education, said Jordan,
professor of geology and physics.
Not only will students design and
build their own experiments, but they
will also compete for the chance to test
them in a microgravity simulation
plane. The experiments will be placed
aboard the ASTOR satellite, which is
designed to study the safety and relia-
bility of tethered satellites to be
launched by the space shuttle.
The proposed experiment uses
accelerometers (commonly used as air
bag sensors in cars) to monitor move-
ments, small variations in the earth’s
gravitational field and altitude changes
of the satellite. Additionally, radiation
monitors will be used to measure radi-
ation in gamma rays, ex-rays and other
particles, Jordan said.
The information collected will be
used as a verification tool in conjunc-
tion with data already planned to be
gathered through the Global Position-
ing System receivers aboard the teth-
ered satellites.
Jordan and his students, in coopera-
tion with University of Texas-Dallas
scientists and engineers, are planning
to use this pilot program as a mentor-
ing opportunity with area high schools.
Students will also be competing for
a chance to fly aboard the KC-135 air-
craft — /also known as the “vomit
comet” — with their satellite experi-
ments, under NASA’s Reduced
Gravity Student Flight Opportunities
program, sponsored by the Texas
Space Grant Consortium, of which
Lamar University-Beaumont is a char-
ter member.
The KC-135 mission is scheduled
for March 1999, but all proposals must
be entered by the Nov. 20 deadline in
order to be considered for flight.
Jordan is hoping the students will be
selected to fly aboard the KC-135,
which flies at an altitude of 20 miles
high, for an opportunity to test their
equipment for the ASTOR experiment
in zero gravity well before the shuttle
mission in fall 2000, he said.
Resources and/or funding for the
projects will be provided by Lamar
See JORDAN, page 2
Geology professor Jim Jordan’s students are working on a pro-
ject that will be taken aboard the ASTOR satellite.
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Sonnier, Todd. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1998, newspaper, October 9, 1998; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500924/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 31, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.