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* Morning!
Serving Lamar and the community for 63 years
UNIVERSITY PRESS
It’s Wednesday
October 8, 1986
Vol. 63, No. 8
OPEC
; plans
; hike
From staff and wire reports
* OPEC’s immediate aim is to drive
the price of oil up 25 percent to $18 or
’ $19 by the end of the year, OPEC
* President Rilwanu Lukman said
Tuesday in Geneva.
Lukman, the Nigerian oil
t minister, said the world “can be
sure” that OPEC ministers will not
* permit any market deterioration.
y The current price of oil on the
European spot market is $14.05 a
barrel. West Texas intermediate,
the key U.S. oil for immediate
delivery on the New York Mercan-
* tile Exchange, was $14.82 a barrel
k Monday.
“Our aim is in the first instance to
‘ drive up the price by the end of this
t year to $18 or $19 a barrel,” Lukman
told reporters on the second day of
\ the fifth ministerial conference this
year.
“You can be sure that whatever
k we do will not result in a deteriora-
tion of the market,” he said.
The Organization of Petroleum ex-
\ porting countries production
restraints for September and Oc-
* tober have boosted prices to about
k $14 a barrel from about $9 in July.
Lukman did not rule out an exten-
* sion of the temporary two-month
f output limitation. “(But) our
primary concern is to arrive at per-
* mament (production) quotas as soon
as possible,” he said.
“If indications are that we should
i return to fixed prices with differen-
tials (for various qualities of crude
oil), we will do so,” Lukman said.
. OPEC abandoned fixed price and
production levels last December
^ because of widespread cheating
v among members in the face of grow-
ing competition from non-member
*■ oil producing countries.
t Ministers at one brief meeting
,.Jitaesday set up two, three-member
t. committees to make recommenda-
tions on production- and pricing
strategy for coming winter months,
r If the price of oil does rise, it will
have a positive impact on the state’s
v economy, Janis Mason, press
x secretary for Gov. White, said.
But, she added, prices will have to
v rise above $20 and stabilize over a
4 long term in order for Texas to reap
any real economical benefits.
* “Any time oil prices rise, natural-
K ly this is good for Texas,” Mason
said, “but right now it’s premature
<r- to speculate what this means for the
„ state’s economy over a long term.”
“And it’s impossible to predict
/ what oil prices will be in six months
or even a year,” she said.
Big Red wave—
Bruce Wilson, Evadale junior, makes minor repairs to Big Red Cowboy proceeding the Homecom-
ing Parade on Saturday. The float was built by Kappa Sigma fraternity and Alpha Chi Omega
sorority. It won Best Overall Float in the parade, which began in McDonald Gym Parking Lot,
travelled down University Drive and ended in the ROTC Parking Lot. See related pictures, page 4.
Photo by BRAD HORN
Visitor from sister city tours campus
Committee in 1984, showed Yoichi Danjo around Lamar’s campus. Danjo is from Beppu, Japan, Beaumont’s sister
City. Photo by LYRA KATENA
* By LYRA KATENA
/ V UP staff writer
A journalist from Beppu, Japan,
K Beaumont’s sister city, visited the
t Lamar University campus as part of
an assignment for his newspaper.
* Yoichi Danjo, an administrative
y staff of the Konnichi Newspaper of
Beppu, had a two-hour tour Monday,
4 visiting the computer facilities in the
j, Galloway Business Building, the
Stedman collection in the Biology
* Building, the Eighth Floor of the
4 Gray Library and the Montagne
Center.
x “I was very impressed,” Danjo
4 said. “I feel that the students are
privileged because they can educate
> themselves in a wonderful and gifted
atmosphere,” he said.
a “In Japan, the colleges and
universities are rather compact.
1 The campuses are not very big,” he
► said. “Especially in big cities, the
schools concentrate on examina-
1 tions so it’s rare and difficult for the
k students to enjoy college-life on
campus in a relaxed atmosphere.”
"*• “I also understand that it’s
* relatively easy to enter a college and
rather difficult to graduate,” Danjo
f said. “In Japan, it’s very difficult to
enter, but easy to graduate.”
Danjo was also impressed with the
a support for the athletic program as
well as for the involvement of
businesses in the program.
a “The college athletics, such as
basketball and football, are more
advanced than that in Japan,” he
* said. “In Japan, it’s very difficult to
get sponsors from major businesses
' like Coca-Cola for the amateur
t. sports events because of some rules.
“I was impressed how the
v businesses here cooperate with the
y schools,” Danjo said. “I believe that
the relationship between the
* business and the university is very
* good to create competitive people in
society.”
1 Danjo left Japan Sept. 20 with an
assignment to see Beverly Hills. “I
was told to take a look at Beverly
Hills for a company our newspaper
is associated with,” he said.
“I was told to gather a report on
the high-classed real estate there so
that such can be recreated in
Beppu.”
Shunichi Nishimura, the president
of Beppu Junior College, and this
year’s chairman of the sister city
committee of Beppu, also gave Dan-
jo an assignment.
“He felt that Beaumont was not
publicized in Beppu since the two
cities became sister cities, and so he
felt that an in-depth report of Beau-
mont should be done,” Danjo said.
“I was assigned to observe the
changes Beaumont has gone through
since last year when Mayor
Nagayoshi Wakiya of Beppu visited
here, and to publicize the informa-
tion.”
Danjo arrived Sunday in Beau-
mont. He met Jimmy Stokes, the
chairman of the sister city commit-
tee and Tommy Polk and Dr. Robert
Swerdlow, former chairmen on the
committee.
He started the week by touring the
Beaumont Enterprise and meeting
the publisher, George Irish. “I had
an informal talk with the publisher
and I suggested that we exchange
news from our cities. He was very
interested.
“I learned that Beaumont will be
celebrating its 150th anniversary,
and that events are planned for that
occasion,” he said. “I’ll report this
to the mayor in Beppu and I plan to
suggest to send a delagation to Beau-
mont for that occasion.”
Danjo met with Mayor Maury
Meyers and the City Council Tues-
day in the Beppu City Room. He also
attended the Taste of Beaumont
before attending the Rotary Club
meeting.
Danjo will tour more of Beaumont
today, and leave to return to Japan
Thursday.
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Faculty Senate
draws resolution
calling for change
By STEVEN FORD
UP staff writer
The Lamar Faculty Senate passed
a resolution Oct. 1 expressing
frustration toward the lack of sup-
port for higher education in Texas,
Dr. Mary Alice Baker, Senate chair-
man, said.
The resolution, which Baker said
was sent Friday to President Bill
Franklin and the chairman of the
Board of Regents, states that faculty
members “particularly deplore the
unilateral decision, made at the
local level, to rescind those con-
tracts without any attempt to in-
clude the faculty in a serious effort
to determine reasonable alter-
natives.”
Baker said that faculty contracts,
signed during the summer of 1986,
reflected a 3 percent raise and car-
ried no stipulations or provisions for
any pending legislative decisions to
rescind the raise.
The resolution goes on to request
that the Lamar administration take
steps to reinstate those contracts
and consult with the faculty to find
ways of approaching Lamar’s cur-
rent financial situation.
“The university faculty here, as
well as faculties in colleges and
universities all over the state, are
frustrated at being excluded in the
decision-making process that affects
them directly,” Baker said.
“The key thing is that faculty are
frustrated at the lack of support that
higher education is getting here in
Texas,” she said.
Baker said that prisons and
highways were given more attention
by state legislators, and that even
public education received a 60 per-
cent increase in its funding, as op-
posed to the cuts that higher educa-
tion has faced in the last two years.
“Higher education can’t continue
to have these devestating cuts and
function at a quality level,” Baker
said.
The Lamar resolution, which pass-
ed the Senate by a vote of 22 to six,
states that because of rescission of
faculty contracts, “Lamar has
already lost and will continue to lose
highly qualified faculty members,
and...the loss of reputation and
credibility of Lamar University
precludes the recruitment of
reasonably qualified replace-
ments.”
The resolution also states that the
Faculty Senate strongly recom-
mends that the administration avoid
“insulting the intelligence of the
faculty by suggesting that they sign
revised ‘contracts’ without ‘revised’
mutually agreeable consideration,
and reminds the administration that
a document that binds only one par-
ty to an agreement is not a
contract!”
Baker said that she has heard
Mary Alice Baker
H.D. Pate
reports of some faculty considering
legal action regarding the legality of
their contracts being rescinded.
Franklin and Chancellor George
McLaughlin were out of town and
could not be reached for comment.
Provost David Geddes said that he
had not seen the resolution, and
therefore had no comment to make.
H.D. Pate, board chairman, said,
“I readily understand why they are
upset over rescinded contracts, but
we have no input in that.”
Pate said that the university’s ac-
tion in rescinding the faculty’s con-
tract was owing to law mandated by
Texas legislation in the recent
special session.
“I’m sorry that they didn’t get
their raises. I’m sorry that we now
have-a shorter workweek and that
we can’t continue our building pro-
gram,” Pate said, “but these are
hard economic times for the state of
Texas.”
Applications for aid
up 15 percent at LU
By DARRAGH DO IRON
UP contributing writer
Financial aid applications are up
approximately 15 percent from last
year, Raylynn Castete, assistant
director of financial aid, said.
Students may still apply for Pell
grants, loan funds and work-study
programs for use this semester, she
said.
Castete estimates that $2.7 million
was distributed through Pell grants
alone for the 1985-86 school year.
Scholarship applicants for the
1987-88 school year will be available
around Nov. 15 in the Financial Aid
Office, 216 Wimberly Student Ser-
vices.
These scholarships are strictly
academic and are funded by en-
dowments at Lamar University.
The priority deadline for these ap-
plications is March 1. Scholarships
are awarded for academic progress,
but extracurricular activities also
are considered.
Financial aid applications for the
1987-88 school year will be available
in January 1987, and the priority
deadline for them is Apru i.
Applications will be accepted after
the deadlines, but it is to the
students’ advantage to have them in
well before the deadline, Castete
said.
Many students supply incomplete
or incorrect information. Such
forms must be returned to the stu-
dent for correction. This causes
delay and added paperwork, she
said.
Another cause for delay is that the
federal government is asking for
more information and verification of
income figures to prevent fraud.
The office is waiting for rule
changes that will make funds
available in the areas of Guaranteed
Student Loans and National-Direct
Student Loans.
There also has been a recent in-
crease in the use of the Short-Term
Loan Program.
The program has been in effect at
Lamar for two years. Loans assist
the student in payment of tuition and
fees, and are repayable in a 30-, 60-
or 90-day period, Castete said.
Inside
University of Texas awarded research A pictorial highlight of Homecoming
grant. week.
Pfl- 2 pg. 4
Teen suicide rate declining and ex- Former Lamar athletes inducted into
pected to drop off. Cardinal Hall of Honor.
pg. 3 pg. 5
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