University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 5, 1995 Page: 1 of 6
six pages : ill. ; page 23 x 14 in.View a full description of this newspaper.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Lynna Williams will read “Things Not Seen” today, 7:30 p.m„, eight floor, Gray Library
^Profile
j “Smokin’ Joe Bonamassa tells
^ the UP why he has the blues.
Page 3
lH
i
L*/
e*
Track
Take a look at the Ty Terrel
Relays held here this weekend.
Page 4
Quote of the day —
“One of the most striking differ-
ences between a cat and a lie is that a
cat has only nine lives.”
— Mark Twain
University Press
Wednesday, April 5,1995
Lamar University Beaumont, Texas
Vol. 71, No. 41
Lamar athletic department
tackles budget deficit shortfall
Jacqueline Lane
UP staff writer
Despite a deficit of almost $1.2 mil-
lion, the athletic department has man-
aged to improve their debt by just over
$£00,000 in the past fiscal year.
The current deficit is $1,115,007.
5 The debt peaked in 1993 when it
reached a high of $1,338,427 after only
fc^ing $284,219 in 1990.
“The deficit has been down simply because we
are trying to five within our budgeted means,” Mike
O’Brien, athletic director, said.
v “Obviously we are trying to raise more money. We
_are constantly trying to increase our season ticket sales
for both men’s and women’s basketball and baseball
and we are trying to increase our corpo-
rate sponsorship levels,” O’Brien said.
He refused to say why the debt
became so high from 1990 to 1993.
He came to Lamar in the fall of
1993.
“With me not being here,
that may be a little unfair. I could
guess, but that’s not fair. I’m not
going to throw a pebble.”
“The deficit has been reduced by not
giving him (O’Brien) money he,would other-
wise receive. That’s the price you pay where we have to
reduce the deficit money that would be otherwise avail-
able to the athletic department to fund scholarships,”
See AUXILIARY, page 2
Cap and Gown inducts
members for 1995-96
SGA
l
\ election
E results
v The SGA Election
< Commission has released
results for the election of offi-
l
cers for fall 1995 and spring
*1996. Commission Chair
X Brent Thomas said 145 total
. votes were counted.
SGA president: Lance
''■Broussard
1 Senators-at-large: Jason
, Marshburn, Stephen Savoy
and Randy Weede
' Junior class senator:
’ Fredricka Phillips
3 Sophomore class senator:
Laura McCurley
College of Arts and
1 Sciences: Jesse Lewis
> College of Engineering:
A Steven Duhon
Setzer Student Center
' Governing Board, member
* at-large: James Owens
Tammy Nolte
UP staff writer
The Lamar University Cap and
Gown Honor Society inducted 14
new members on Feb. 19.
Cap and Gown Honor Society
is an organization traditionally for
women who are chosen during
their junior and senior years
based on character, leadership,
scholarship and service.
The new inductees are Melanie
Davis, Vidor accounting major;
Sherry Eby, Beaumont kinesiolo-
gy major; Lauri Grantham,
Beaumont social work major;
Christi Hurley, Beaumont eco-
nomics major; Betty Lemaster,
Port Neches social work major;
and Wendy McBryde, Vidor psy-
chology major.
Other new members are
Caralee McDonald, Vidor com-
munication major; Michelle
Nelson, Bacliff health education
major; Khristina Shults, Orange
mathematics major; Elizabeth
Simmons, Beaumont general
business major; Lea Smith,
Nederland accounting major;
Janet Stewart, Beaumont
accounting major; and Sandra
Taylor, Port. Neches nursing
major.
Returning members for the
Cap and Gown Honor Society
are Andrea Guidry, Laura
Hughes, Amy Sherman,
Adrianne Ware, Mary Irvin and
Cristal Dorman.
Officers are Cristal Dorman,
president; Amy Sherman, mem-
bership vice president; Adrianne
Ware, programs vice president;
Mary Irvin, secretary and treasur-
er; and Wendy McBryde, histori-
an and reporter.
Cap and Gown members work
with campus organizations to
encourage leadership . among
Lamar students.
Firefighters
participating
in the Les
Williams
Advanced
Flammable
Liquid
Workshop
battle a blaze
during a prac-
tical exercise
in firefighting
techniques at
the Beaumont
fire and res-
cue center.
Photo by
Stephan Malick
Firefighting workshop plans for disaster
Stephan Malick
UP editor
“If a big fire starts, you may
not have a second chance,”
Henrik Thorrssen said, while
describing the reason he was
attending the Les Williams
Advanced Flammable Liquid
Firefighting Foam technology
workshop hosted by the
Beaumont Fire Rescue Training
Center, 3M corporation and
Williams Fire and Hazard
Control, Emergency One and
Lamar University-Beaumont
that was held this past week in
Beaumont.
Thorrssen, who works for
Shell Oil operations in the North
Sea, and many others came from
around the globe to learn
advanced techniques and prac-
tices in using foam to fight petro-
chemical fires.
Raymond Merle, of 3M
Specialty Chemicals Division,
said about 160 individuals attend-
ed the workshop and that about
one-quarter of the attendees,
were international participants.;
Participants came from as far
away as Venezuela, Korea, the
United Kingdom and from the
Dominican Republic, Trinidad
and Canada.
“What we wanted to happen
at this workshop was to be able
See WORKSHOP, page 2
LU, Marquette offer joint degree program in Gaza
*
Robin Taylor
UP staff writer
K Lamar University-Beaumont is
teaming up with Marquette
University in Milwaukee, Wis., to
offer a bachelors of science degree
tfe a group of 33 Palestinian
Students.
The program is being taught in
the Palestinian self-ruled Gaza
Strip. The two universities will
train students to become speech-
language pathologists, audiolo-
gists and teachers of the deaf. The
purpose is ’to provide services to
communicatively-handicapped
Palestinians living in and around
the Gaza Strip.
“Out of the estimated 250,000
children in the Gaza Strip,
between 20,000 to 30,000 have
hearing, speech, and/or language
disorders. Of these, an estimated
2,000 have some degree of hearing
loss and at least 5000 to 7,750 are
deaf,” Dr. Bob Moulton, associa-
tive vice president for research
and dean of graduate studies at
LU-B, said. “These people are
human beings with dignity and
they need to be given education.”
The project has had major
funding from the United States
Agency for International
Development (AID).
Moulton co-directs the person-
nel project with Dr. Hatem Abu-
Ghazaleh, chairman of the non-
profit Society for the Care of the
Handicapped (SCH).
Several years ago, the Society
for the Care of the Handicapped
in the Gaza Strip began an effort
to start programs for the deaf and
handicapped in that area.
However, there were no trained
professionals who could provide
services.
SCH asked Moulton, who was
in near-by Jordan, to assist them.
Moulton was in Jordan training
teachers, composing a dictionary
of sign language and helping to
build a school for the deaf.
Moulton wrote a proposal to
AID on behalf of SCH and in
1991, AID provided SCH with
See GAZA, page 5
4
j, Photo courtesy of Jerry Newman
1 “Hillside,” a 70” x 90” oil painting by Jerry Newman, Lamar art profes-
sor. Newman has been named National Wildflower Artist of the Year.
Lamar art professor named
‘Wildflower Artist of the Year’
Laura Lee Scott
UP staff writer
Lamar art professor, Jerry Newman, will be
honored as National Wildflower Artist of the Year
in opening ceremonies for'the new facilities of the
National Wildflower Research Center in Austin on
Saturday. Newman’s painting “Hillside,” a 70” x
90” oil, has been selected as the grand prize winner
in an open competition held in conjunction with the
dedication of the facilities at 4801 LaCrosse
Avenue.
Festivities celebrating the opening of the new
center will take place this weekend from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The awards presenta-
tion will be made by Lady Bird Johnson, former
first lady and founder of the center, at 11 a.m.
Saturday.
The wildflower center is “the only national non-
profit environmental organization dedicated to the
preservation and re-establishment of native plants
in natural and planned landscapes,” according to
Peggy Hubble in the center’s public relations office.
The new facility is designed to be “a living museum
of North America’s native plant life” with a prima-
ry focus on “educating the public about the ecolog-
ical, economic and aesthetic importance of wild-
flowers and other native flora.”
Newman said he was very pleased to have his
work chosen.
“It gave me a real charge,” he said. “I entered
the show without much expectation. It’s like I
always tell my students, entering shows is the
important thing, whether you win anything or not
When I got the call notifying me that I had been
chosen for the top award, it just blew me away.”
According to Patricia Alholm, exhibition chair-
man, entrants in the competition were all Texans.
See NEWMAN, page 2
4
v
Boy born
with AIDS
becomes
virus free
NEW YORK (AP) — A Los
Angeles boy who was infected
with the AIDS virus at birth
apparently fought off the infec-
tion and is virus-free at age 5,
astonishing his doctors.
Dr. Yvonne J. Bryson, a
pediatrician and AIDS special-
ist at the UCLA School of
Medicine in Los Angeles, said
she believes it is the first care-
fully documented case of some-
one casting off all signs of infec-
tion.
Tests proved conclusively
that the boy was infected for at
least a month during the first
two months of his life. Later
examinations found no sign of
the virus, Bryson said.
“It’s like a miracle to me and
a miracle to his mother. It’s
every mother’s dream that their
child won’t be infected,”
Bryson said.
Bryson said she and her col-
leagues are studying the boy’s
immune system for clues that
could be used to stop AIDS
infections in others.
“It just opens up a lot of
See AIDS, page 2
*>
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View six places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Malick, Stephan. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 5, 1995, newspaper, April 5, 1995; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500957/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.