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Weekend renewal meetings planned
The Diocesan Steering Committee of the Charismatic Renewal
Church, diocese of Beaumont, will present “Evening and Morning of
Renewal” Friday at 7 p.m and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at St. Mary's
Catholic Church, 912 W. Cherry, in Orange. Guest speaker will be Louis
DeLarue of St. Therese Church in Orange.
For more information, call Dee Doucet at 724-7379 or 838-5289.
Delta Sigma Pi continuing recruitment *
Delta Sigma Pi will recruit until Friday from 8 a.m. to noon in 118
Galloway Business Building. A table will be set up in the Galloway
Business Building to provide information.
For more information, call Chris Henderson at 880-7076.
ASQC general meeting scheduled
American Society for Quality Control will hold a general meeting
Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Landes Auditorium of the Galloway Business
Building. Guest speakers will be Terry Wolfe and Brendan Duffy of
Texaco. The ASQC will elect officers, appoint committee chairs, provide
orientation and training, develop a mission statement and set goals.
For more information, call Carl Montano at 880-8651.
Electronic security systems demonstrated
Quorum international distributor David Hooker will demonstrate elec-
tronic security products Thursday and Friday in the Setzer Student Center
atrium. Alarm devices for home, vehicle, personal and property security
will be displayed and offered for sale.
For more information, call David Hooker at 839-8821.
Sigf^a Gamma Rho interest party set .
Sigma Gamma Rho will have an interest party tomorrow from 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m. in the Setzer Student Center Reading Room to provide specific
information about the sorority to all interested females.
For more information, call Kimberly Walton at 839-8342.
OCAW speaker to explain union functions
The American Society for Quality Control will present a guest speaker
from the OCAW today at 2 p.m. in 118 Galloway Business Building. The
speaker will discuss the functions and procedures of the OCAW.
For more information, call Sam Paragi at 880-8652.
Deadlines for submitting announcements for UP Briefs is noon of
the day one week prior to publication. Announcements are run as
space allows — no exceptions. Press release forms are available for
organization reporters in the University Press office, 200 Setzer
Student Center.
Information may also be mailed directly to the University Press,
Lamar University, P.O. Box 10055, Beaumont 77710.
They work hard for the money
By Susan Flowers
UP feature editor
Regardless of the fact that
Texas tuition rates are lower than
the national average, students con-
tinue their education as if they
were riding in the back seat of an
out-of-control bus with expense as
the driver.
Linda Stewart, writer for the
Dallas Morning News, reported
tuition and fees at Texas’ public
universities rank third from the
bottom in the nation.
This seems to be no consolation
to students who are now working
two or three jobs off-campus.
Stewart reported state universities
in Texas will sustain a $2 increase
per credit hour this fall and the
state-ordered tuition hikes will
continue until the maximum of
$32 a credit hour is met in fall of
1996.
“The fact is, Texans get a good
deal,” said Ryan Amacher, UTA
president, as reported by Stewart.
If this is the case, then why do
so many students require multiple
jobs to finance their education?
What impact will a $4 to $5 job —
part-time, work-study or otherwise
— have on meeting the costs?
University administrators
across the nation, while drafting
their 1993-1994 budget, have con-
cluded tuition rates must be raised.
Stewart reported that rapidly
rising costs of operating universi-
ties, from library books to mainte-
nance to faculty salaries to techno-
logical improvements, is going up
— many are wondering how much
longer the Texas tuition bargain
will last.
An offset to this is that many
working students may feel as if
universities are providing lower
quality education and delivering
fewer student services, reported
D’Arcy Tenish, writer for
MacLean’s, a Canadian-based
journal.
One thing is for sure, the tuition
hikes have affected working class
John White, left,
works at Luthers
while Terry Booth,
below, struggles to
find time to study
between work and
class.
Photos by Susan Flowers
students from every region.
Susan Dodge, writer for the
Chronicle of Higher Education,
reported that professors at Wooster
College in Ohio, are making con-
cessions for financial changes by
ordering paperback books instead
of hardbacks. Dodge reported pro-
fessors are doing this because stu-
dents view the price of books as a
major consideration along with the
overall cost of the course.
In light of the financial respon-
sibilities relating to college, some
Lamar working students manage
to adjust to the changes. Tarita
Felix, a Lamar mass communica-
tion major, has been adjusting to
the costs of education in the sys-
tem since she first enrolled to
Lamar in 1978.
“I wish I had finished when my
parents sent me,” Felix said. Felix
married in the middle of her col-
lege career, which cut the ties to
financial support from her parents.
However, she said getting married
has not financially hurt her. To
help support herself in her transi-
tion to marriage, Felix has contin-
ued to work a swing shift at an
area chemical plant for the past 13
years.
Felix found that by extending
her college schedule to six hours a
semester, she could operate better
and study better. “If I minimize my
hours, I have more study time and
the little that I do I can do OK,”
she said.
“Generally, I guess my attitude
is ‘I attack it’ and I think, ‘there’s
nothing I can’t do,”’ Felix said
about the hectic schedule she
keeps while working and going to
school.
“What ends up happening is
that I neglect myself. I like to
work out at the gym, but there’s
just not enough time,” she said.
While juggling her own course
load, helping her children with
their homework and working the
swing shift, Felix has one occa-
sional complaint — falling asleep
in class.
John White can only wish that
was his biggest problem.
White, a history major at
Lamar, will sit out this fall
semester because he could notj
meet this year’s cost of tuition and
fees. He estimates 30 percent of
his income from a local restaurant
goes to college expenses. White
said, “It was just too expensive
this semester.”
He said mismanagement of his
own funds was probably the rea-
son he did not reserve enough
money for the fall semester.
September 22,1993
tuition
When White first came to
Lamar, he said he was ineligible
for financial aid because his par-
ents had a substantial income. He
said the financial aid department at
that time took into account a par-
ent’s income until after the stu-
dent was 25 years old. White said
that was difficult to deal with
because even though his parents’
income was substantial, they did
not contribute to his education.
“Since my father didn’t know
what it’s like to be in college, he
didn’t see the importance in it,”
White said. Because of this, White
has been a self-supporting individ-
ual throughout his college career.
“To an extent, I was self-sup-
porting, but I made the occasional
trips back to the parents’ house,”
he said.
Unlike White and Felix, Terry
Booth, a computer science major,
has made use of the avenues of
financial aid at Lamar.
Since 1988, Booth has accepted
the challenge to go to school,
knowing he would be a working
student and would have to deal
with responsibilities accompany-
ing the role such as helping out
financially at home. Aside from
working for a temporary service in
Beaumont, Booth finds time to
study and help his mother with
insurance bills.
Booth said he thought of a hav-
ing a problem with his computer
or meeting textbook costs —
which is usually the last tab on a
student’s agenda — reinforces
how important having a job in the
outside market really is.
He decided working would
probably be more beneficial and
reliable than counting on financial
aid.
“I finally got tired of dealing
with financial aid,” Booth said.
“Sometimes they say you have an
error in your paperwork and by the
time they you tell about it, it’s too
late to have anything done.”
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