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It's Wednesday
October 13, 1982
Vol. 59, No. 13
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Good
Morning!
LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 59 years
Crime decreases at Lamar
during nine-month period
Lamar University had a 16 percent
decline in its crime rate during the first
nine months of 1982, Lamar police chief E.
W. (Gene) Carpenter said this week.
He reported that the substantial decline
occurred in aggravated assaults,
burglaries and thefts. Thefts accounted for
272, and 87 percent, of the 314 reported of-
fenses.
Unlike many other campuses, Lamar
does not have a problem with an onset of
major crimes, Carpenter said. There has
not been a robbery in four years and one
rape has been reported over the past 21
months.
“We do have a safe environment on the
Lamar campus, and on college campuses
in Texas,’’ Carpenter said. “Considering
the total enrollment and the number of
crimes committed, only two to three per-
cent of the college community is affected
by crime in Texas and 80 percent of those
are simple theft.”
Carpenter cited ongoing crime preven-
tion programs, the closing of several city
streets that crisscrossed the campus, and
better trained police officers as reasons
for the declining crime rate at Lamar.
Lamar’s police department personnel
are properly trained, commissioned and
licensed by the state of Texas as required
by law. The department cleared 20 percent
of the crimes in the first nine months as
compared to a state-wide average
clearance rate of 21 percent.
“There is often confusion between what
is security work and what is police work,”
Carpenter said. “While we do have a
security division within the police depart-
ment, our police officers do the patroling,
protecting and arresting.
“We face the fact that we do have crime
at Lamar.” he said. “We do our best to
prevent it and it is not as bad as it may ap-
pear.
“We do not want our many constituents
and other visitors to be afraid of coming to
Lamar because a burglary two blocks
away is reported as being in the Lamar
area. On campus, the safety factor is bet-
ter than most areas in Beaumont.”
Although the closing of city streets is
cited as a reason for the reduced crime
rate on campus, the biggest problem con-
fronting the Lamar community is the out-
side element.
In the first nine months of this year, 67
percent (36 of 54) of the arrests made by
the Lamar police department involved
non-students. In 1981, 55 percent of those
arrested were non-students.
To serve second term on committee
SREB reappoints Kemble
Dr. C. Robert Kemble, Lamar president,
has been reappointed to the executive
committee of the Southern Regional
Education Board.
* Sitting on his second term on the board,
Kemble was renamed to the executive
committee by the chairman of the board,
GoV. Harry Hughes of Maryland.
The SREB is the nation’s oldest in-
terstate compact for higher education and
a pioneer in regional planning and action
for tjie effective multi-state use of educa-
tional programs.
The SREB is “quite influential in many
of the member states,” Kemble said, “con-
ducting practical research and providing
meaningful guidelines. The fact that each
state delegation is small and personally
headed by its respective governor gives
the SREB a degree of authority and con-
tinuity that some other organizations do
not have."
Created in 1948 at the request of the
Southern governors, SREB brings
together educators, government officials,
and regional leaders to work in concert to
advance higher education, and, in so do-
ing, to improve the social and economic
life of the South.
Member states are Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Mississippi, North and South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia.
The board consists of the governor of
each state and four other individuals from
the state, at least one of whom must be a
state legislator and at least one an
educator. All appointments are made by
the governor for four-year, staggered
terms.
Besides Gov. William Clements and
Kemble, members of the Texas delega-
tion, are State Sen. W.E. (Pete) Snelson of
Midland, State Rep. Wilhelmina Delco of
Austin, and Dr. George Kozmetzky, dean
of the Graduate School of Business at the
University oft Texas at Austin.
SREB has no coercive power over any
state or institution, Kemble said. Working
directly with state governments,
academic institutions, and other related
agencies, SREB does research and makes
reports on needs, problems and
developments in higher education; con-
ducts cooperative programs to upgrade
training in undergraduate, graduate, pro-
fessional and technical education; and
serves as a fiscal agent and administrator
in interstate arrangements for regional
educational services and institutions.
In the annual report, Hughes said, “By
fostering greater cooperation and by pro-
posing an agenda of reform, SREB is
fulfilling its statutory charge: to bring
together all those party to education
decision-making to advance higher educa-
tion and, in doing so, improve the social
and economic life of the South.”
The Texas governor will be the next
chairman of SREB, and the 1983 annual
meeting will be held in Texas, Kemble
said.
Among other educational appointments,
Kemble is a member of the executive com-
mittee of the Council of University
Presidents for the State of Texas, a
member of the National Science Commit-
tee for the American Association of State
Colleges and Universities, and chairman
of the Advisory Board of the John E. Gray
Institute.
Frosh officers plan for year
By ALICE NOLAN
UP staff writer
Freshman class officers have begun for-
mulating plans for the upcoming year.
“This group of officers has impressed
11 me very much with their energy and zest
for their tasks,” Steven J. Walker, one of
the freshman class advisers, said.
The officers are currently involved in a
campus-wide search for committee
chairpersons and members for 11 commit-
tees, planning for a class meeting on Oct.
21, and discussing the theme for the
freshman class homecoming float.
At the officers’ planning meeting Sherry
Metcalf, president, said, “I ran for presi-
dent because I wanted to see growth in the
t freshman class as a group.”
t Metcalf, a Nederland accounting major
and Alpha Chi Omega pledge, said that she
gained some experience in an executive
position by serving as president of the Of-
fice Education Association in high school.
She said that as president of the
freshman class she wants to see freshmen
learn about the different organizations at
Lamar and about the leadership abilities
they can acquire here.
Vice president Boi-Lan Van Chau,
Nederland oceanography major, moved
i from Vietnam seven years ago. She is in
< charge of the committees.
“I hope that with the culture committee
I can have speakers come in and talk about
the different cultures and customs of all
the countries around the world,” Van Chau
said.
With the social committee she said she
hopes to get union leaders and various peo-
ple to talk about job opportunities.
Secretary Tim Bailey, Hitchcock,
Texas, accounting major, has a history of
being active in school organizations. In
high school he was in student council for
three years and National Honor Society for
four years.
Bailey said that he likes to see things
organized and “to see freshmen as a group
doing things for the betterment of
themselves.”
Jacqueline Facundo, treasurer,' is a
business administration major from
Pasadena. She said that she ran for
treasurer because she loves being in
politics and finds it exciting to be part of an
organization.
“I want to try to raise a lot of money,”
Facundo said.
“I wish everybody would participate
more in school activities. They don’t know
what they’re missing.”
Cassandra Cummings, Frankfort, Ky.,
computer science major, and Joseph Snell,
an undecided major from Austin, Texas,
are the freshman class senators.
Cummings was originally from Dallas
and wanted to go to school in Texas. Her
minor is communications and she says
that she loves getting involved working for
students.
“I hate to be on the outside looking in,”
she said.
In high school Cummings was involved
in numerous school organizations, in-
cluding student council, cheerleading
squad, honor society and yearbook staff.
At Lamar she is a member of Association
of Computer Machinery, Black Students
Association, and CARDS, a spirit
organization.
Snell says he wants “to see a more
positive image of Lamar in general.” Snell
was involved in politics at Anderson High
School in Austin where he was president of
the Afro-American Club.
“The school I attended was involved in
the busing issue,” Snell said, “The purpose
of the organization was to create a better
self-image of the black population at high
school.”
Snell is a member of Black Students
Association and the Newman Center at
Lamar.
The freshmen class was first organized
in 1980 when a part of the Lamar Universi-
ty goal statement read,“...the university
should establish a program to increase
freshman class unify, to develop leader-
ship capabilities among freshmen, and to
sustain idenitiy through sophomore,
junior and senior years.”
P Hus
Long fall-
Bobby Harris, a construction worker with W. W.
Williams Co., is shown after falling from a cherry
picker Friday. Harris was working on the Cherry
Engineering Building annex when he fell and
broke his leg. After five hours of surgery, a St.
Elizabeth Hospital spokesperson termed Harris’«
condition as satisfactory.
Photo by JAN COUVILLON
Homecoming queen selection begins
Preliminary elections for homecoming
queen will be today and Thursday, Billye
Hooper, chairperson of the homecoming
queen committee, said.
Voting will take place in the Setzer Stu-
dent Center Quadrangle, weather permit-
ting, the Liberal Arts Building and the
Beeson Technical Arts Building cafeteria
from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to
6:30 p.m., Shelly Leedy, homecoming
chairperson, said.
The quadrangle polling place will be
moved to the SSC Arbor in case of incle-
ment weather.
The five finalists will be announced Fri-
day at 12:15 p.m. in the SSC Arbor.
The final elections will be Oct. 20-21 with
the winner announced on Oct. 25, at the
queen’s coronation ceremony, Hooper
said.
The candidtates for homecoming queen
are: Rosa Ann Arredondo, Beaumont
sophomore, American Society of Certified
Technology and American Welding Socie-
LU blood drive
ends Thursday
The Lamar University fall Blood Drive will con-
tinue today and conclude Thursday, Ruth
Christmann, chairperson of the drive, said.
The Southeast Texas Blood Center will be set up in
125 Setzer Student Center from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
and noon to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. On Thursday,
the times for the drive will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
On Friday, 10 a.m. to noon, the SSC Council Social
Committee will serve free sundaes to those who par-
ticipated in the blood drive and there will also be a
t-shirt giveaway.
Christmann said that all organizations who plan on
participating in Blood Plan 40 need to register in the
Student Organization Office, 102 SSC.
The theme of this year’s blood drive is “Give a pint
to show you care. Let others know you’re there.”
The goal of this semester’s blood drive is 350 pints,
Christmann said. Last fall the drive yielded 297 pints.
Resting—
Kathleen Chinn, Waco senior, drinks the blood Monday,
orange juice given to her after donating
Photo by JAN COUVILLON
ty; Deborah Craddock, Texas City senior,
Brooks-Shivers Dorm Councils; and Lisa
Curl, Nederland junior, Allied Health
Sciences.
Also, Anne Daleo, Beaumont junior,
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority; Tahita Quoin
Doyle, Houston junior, Delta Sigma Theta
sorority; and Debbie Durso, Beaumont
junior, Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
And, Karen Etheridge, Beaumont
senior, American Society for Personnel
Administrators-Lamar Management/Per-
sonnel Association; Gina Gabriel, Silsbee
sophomore, Army ROTC; and Stephanie
Gaspard, Groves senior, Blue Key.
Also, Laura Harris, Kilgore sophomore,
Student Council for Exceptional Children;
Tamara Hext, Vidor sophomore,
Sophomore Class; and Laurie House, Lub-
bock junior, Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
And, Jerri Jacobs, Beaumont
sophomore, Kappa Delta sorority; Kelly
Kahla, Winnie senior, Baccalaureate Stu-
dent Nurses Association; and Deanna
Bill Haymes
to perform
Missouri entertainer Bill Haymes marks
his third appearance at Lamar tonight in
the Perch, a presentation of the Setzer Stu-
dent Center Council Coffeehouse Commit-
tee.
Haymes’ major instruments are the
acoustic guitar, mandolin and piano. In
seven years of performing professionally,
he has appeared at over 100 different col-
leges and universities across the United
States. He has also appeared at the Kerr-
ville Folk Festival.
In May of 1979 and again in May of last
year, Haymes toured South America as
part of a cultural exchange program spon-
sored by the Partners of the Americas’ Na-
tional Artist-in-Residency Program. He
performed in three of the continent’s
largest cities, Santa Cruz, La Paz, and
Cochabamba, all in Bolivia.
Plans are also being made for Haymes
to perform in Ecuador, Paraguay and
Chile, under the auspices of the Interna-
tional Communications Agency.
Haymes is a graduate of Rice University
in Houston, earning a degree in history.
While in Houston, he met a number of
musicians, who stimulated his desire to
become a singer.
McNeely, Vidor sophomore, American
Chemical Society.
Also, Lisa Menefee, Beaumont senior,
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity; Lise Mer-
tiens, Nederland sophomore, Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity; and Laura Moffatt,
Vidor sophomore, Phi Kappa Theta frater-
nity.
And, Toni Olsen, Port Neches senior, Phi
Delta Theta fraternity; Christy Post,
Beaumont junior, Kappa Sigma fraterni-
ty; and Beth Pratt, Port Neches senior,'
Cap and Gown.
Also, Kimberly Rogers, Texas City
junior, NSSLHA; Sharlotte Schmidt, Beau-
mont senior, Alpha Delta Pi sorority; and
Sherry Self, Lumberton sophomore, Setzer
Student Center Council.
And, Marioreen Smith, Groves
sophomore, Lamar University Feature
Films Society; Debbie Stratton, Winnie
junior, Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity; and
See CANDIDATES, page 4
Inside
this issue
Martin selected
Jack Martin, director of placemenl
and former Lamar basketball coach,
has been selected to receive a 1982
Distinguished Alumni Award from
Hardin-Simmons University. See
story, page 2.
Hoops to begin
Once is not enough for the Cardina
basketball team. They will try foi
their fifth straight 20-win season, at
tempting to keep intact the nation':
longest home court winning streal
as practice opens this week. Set
story, page 3.
Tech arts featured
The expanding College of Technica
Arts is the largest in the Lama
University system and is the onh
trade and industrial college in thi
state of Texas that is part of ,
university system. See story, page A
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