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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 56 years
Good Morning!
Wednesday, September 12,1979
Vol. 56, No. 3
Campus
News
Job seminar
Lamar University Placement Of-
fice will conduct a seminar on job
search techniques Thursday, Sept.
27, at 6 p.m., Landes Auditorium,
Galloway Business Building.
According to Jack Martin, direc-
tor of placement, the seminar will be
held in conjunction with the Lamar
. chapter of the American Society for
Personnel Administration.
Co-sponsors of the program will be
Dr. Bob Wooten, assistant professor
of business administration, and
Jeannette Vaughan, assistant
professor of office administration,
Martin said.
Vaughan, recently selected
“Teacher of the Year” in District 5
of the Texas Business Education
Association, will discuss guidelines
1 for developing effective resumes.
The seminar will also cover fin-
ding employment opportunities,
preparing for and concluding suc-
• cessful interviews, the hiring
process, and how to utilize
Placement Office facilities, Martin
said.
Admission to the seminar is free.
Interested students and faculty
are asked to sign up in the
Placement Office at least two days
prior to the seminar, Martin said.
LU additions
Forty-nine new people have joined
the faculty and staff of Lamar
University effective this fall, ac-
cording to the office of the vice
presidentof academic affairs.
Forty-four of these constitute ad-
ditions or replacements to faculty
and staff at the main campus. Two
will teach on the Orange campus,
and three on the Port Arthur cam-
pus.
On the main campus, the break-
down of new faculty and staff
positions is as follows:
College of Health Sciences, 10 new
positions; College of Education, nine
new positions and two replacemen-
ts; College of Sciences, one new
position; and College of Fine and Ap-
plied Arts, two new positions.
Also, College of Business, two new
positions and four replacements;
College of Liberal Arts, three
replacements; College of Technical
Arts, six new positions; College of
Engineering, one new position and
two replacements.
Two staff members have been ad-
ded at Gray Library.
Driving range
Construction on the new driving
range located at Florida Avenue and
University Drive is nearing com-
pletion, according to athletic direc-
tor J.B. Higgins.
The driving range, proposed to the
Lamar Board of Regents in May
1978, should be operational by next
week, weather permitting, Higgins
said.
Although the combined physical
education and recreational facility
will be open to students and faculty
as well as to the public, construction
on parts of the facility will continue
for at least six months, Higgins said.
The range, when open, will include
a clubhouse.
Eventually the range will add a
chipping green, a sand trap, a put-
ting green, lighting and a 40-space
parking lot, Higgins said.
The clubhouse, to be managed by
former Lamar golfer and a PGA
Class A golf pro Mike Jerome, is
very near completion, Higgins saidv
Jerome will supervise the main-
tenance of the greens, according to
Higgins. The clubhouse will sell,
repair and rent golf equipment,
Higgins said.
Heavy rainfall has slowed down
the landscaping considerably, ac-
cording to Higgins.
“The rain has-been so bad that the
trucks have not been able to enter
the dirt pits to load the type soil we
need for the completion of the
range,” Higgins said.
Heavy rainfall has also kept
Lamar from finishing the greens,
Higgins said.
Jim Stoudenmier, golf pro at the
Wildwood Estates golf course, has
volunteered his services in
designing the range, Higgins said.
Stoudenmier has designed several
golfing facilities in the area.
Price 10 cents off campus
Senior shot in W aco;
returns to Beaumont
By KIM CRAFT
of the UP staff
Larry Menard, a Lamar senior from
Friendswood, was returned to Beaumont
yesterday after being injured by gunshot
Saturday evening in Waco after the
Lamar-Baylor football game.
Menard sustained a flesh wound to the
head while attending a postgame frater-
nity party given by the Baylor chapter of
Kappa Sigma for the Beaumont Kappa
Sigma chapter.
According to Menard, the bullet entered
and exited the flesh behind his right ear,
leaving some fragments under the skin.
"I am not able to resume classes for
awhile, but I am feeling much better,”
Menard said in a telephone interview
yesterday.
He was treated at Providence Hospital
in Waco and returned to Beaumont by a
Baylor University plane.
Waco police were investigating the in-
cident at press time, but no arrests had
been made.
According to Detective Joe M. Lopez,
Waco Police Department, several people
not connected with either chapter of the
fraternity are being questioned.
“Yes, I can safely say that the fraternity
is out of it,” Lopez said. “I feel that I will
have an arrest by the end of the week.”
Prior to the shooting, several persons
tried to crash the party, according to Paul
Tomme, president of the Baylor Kappa
Sigma chapter. “We asked them to leave,”
Tomme said, “and they left.
“The shooting was not related to the
fraternity. I feel it was a prank caused by
persons ndt in attendance at the party.”
“I don’t know who did the shooting, but it
had nothing to do with the fraternity,”
Manuel Moreno Jr., Lamar Galveston
senior attending the party, said. “I don’t
think they (the shooters) were trying to hit
anybody because we were really packed
close together in the yard. They may have
been trying to hit the overhead lights.”
About 200 persons were present at the
party held in the backyard of a member of
the Baylor chapter.
“We heard at least four shots at about
three-minute intervals,” said Joe Max-
well, Lamar senior and guest at the party.
“Everyone thought they were
firecrackers.”
According to Maxwell, it was not until he
saw the blood on Menard’s head that he
realized Menard was hurt. “When Larry
fell down, we thought he was clowning
around and then I saw the blood,” Maxwell
said.
“I didn’t realize I had been shot until I
reached the hospital,” Menard replied
when questioned by telephone. “I fell to
my knees and couldn’t get up, but I still
didn’t know what had happened.”
At this time, authorities believe the
wound was caused by a .38-caliber bullet,
according to Lopez. “We found a hole in
the drain pipe of the house that was caused
by a .38-caliber or larger,” Lopez said.
“We feel the same gun was used for the
several shots that were fired.”
“We had a flood light attached to the
drain pipe to illuminate the back yard,”
Tomme said. “I think someone thought it
would be funny to watch the light explode
in the middle of all those people and
Menard got in the way.
“At least two members of our fraternity
had their tires slashed and I heard there
were more.”
Authorities are still investigating the in-
cident. at the party. “I have several other
leads to follow before I am ready to give
out definite information,” Lopez said.
For academic services
New division established
By LILLIE CATANZARO
of the UP staff
l
you nuts in me aeizer center;—uecne Honiman, Nederland senior, fin-
ds that it is a drain on her brain to determine how many pounds of peanuts are in a
bathtub in the SSC Arbor. If she guesses the correct number, the Setzer Student
Center Council will have to shell out a gift certificate to the Redbird Perch. The
contest is one of several activities scheduled during “SSCC Goes Nuts Week.”
Representative blames
oil spill upon absence
of competent staffing
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A new'division has been established at
Lamar, the Division of Academic Ser-
vices.
Dr. W. Richard Hargrove will head the
division as assistant to the president and
dean of academic services.
The new division will include four major
areas: office of admissions and registrar,
office of student administrative services,
office of research and programs, and of-
fice of public service.
“With these student services under one
function, Dr. C. Robert Kemble, Lamar
president, said “the quality of service to
the student will be improved.”
When these services were under
separate functions there were sometimes
delays in processing information for the
student seeking these services, Dr.
Hargrove said.
The Office of Admissions and Registrar
encompasses admissions and records (for-
merly under the academic affairs
division).
The Office of Student Administrative
Services encompasses high school
relations, financial aid, and recruiting
(formerly under the student affairs
division).
The Office of Research and Programs
emcompasses academic research and
public service programs (formerly under
the division of academic affairs).
The Office of Public Service en-
compasses continuing education, off-
campus and evening programs,
cooperative education and travel
programs (formerly under the academic
affairs division).
Elmer Rode, formerly associate dean of
Admissions and records, has been named
dean of admissions and registrar,
replacing Norris Kelton, retiring dean of
admissions and records.
Dr. Robert Bell, formerly director of
student aid, has been named dean of
student administrative services.
Dr. Charles Turco will continue as direc-
tor of research and programs.
Dr. Hargrove, along with his new
position as assistant to the president and
dean of academic services, will continue to
head public service.
In the creation of the new division,
several personnel changes have been
made.
R.L. Neuman, former director of off-
campus and evening programs, has been
named director of admissions.
Sharon Pate, former secretary to the
foreign student adviser, has been named
adviser of international students.
Jim Rush, formerly associate director of
student aid, has been named director of
student aid.
Jack Hill, former public service coor-
dinator, has been named director of off-
campus and evening programs.
Dr. James Cozine, formerly director of
the Lamar program at Liberty has been
named public service coordinator.
Dianne Burney, formerly public service
program director, has been named to the
new position of coordinator of continuing
education.
Kathleen Colburn, former director of
continuing education at the University of
Texas at Arlington, has been named
developer of public service programs.
WASHINGTON UPI—Rep. John
Breaux, D-La., Monday blamed the worst
oil spill in history on ‘the lack of competent
Mexican personnel” stationed on the crip-
pled Ixtoc I well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Breaux, chairman of a House committee
that conducted two days of hearings into
the massive spill, said Americans on board
the well should have been given greater
authority to supervise its basic operations.
“I am personally convinced that lack of
competent Mexican personnel at the Ixtoc
I well in the Bay of Campeche, together
with the seven American personnel on
board acting as advisers only but with no
supervisory authority and no adequate
geological information to provide proper
advice, directly contributed to what is now
the world’s worst oil spill,” Breaux said.
Following joint hearings by the House
Merchant Marine and Fisheries and House
Public Works committees, Breaux said
persons living along the Texas coast where
oil washed ashore should be able to sue for
damages. But currently they have no legal
redress, Breaux said.
“This lack of assistance for those suf-
fering economic loss points out the need
for domestic oil spill liability legislation
and for bilateral agreements to be reached
with foreign neighbors to resolve
situations such as the oil spill and its ac-
companying damages to the U.S. and the
citizens,” Breaux said.
Breaux said the Mexican government
has refused to say whether it will help pay
for any oil damage to the U.S. coast. The
Louisiana congressman said American
cleanup and containment efforts are
costing $85,000 a day.
But Breaux said Louisiana fishing in-
terests should be spared any en-
vironmental damage because Gulf curren-
ts are blowing the spill toward the south.
Students feel money crunch
in inflated fees, food prices
By JILL HATHAWAY first student services fee in 1962.
of the UP staff Because of inflation, it became evident
Inflation has touched just about
everything, and education is no exception.
At Lamar, the total cost of education in-
creased for the fall semester, primarily in
the areas of the student services fee, the
health services fee, room and board, and
food in the Setzer Student Center.
Prices in these areas are “up across the
board,” according to Oscar Baxley, vice
president for finance.
The student services fee, for example,
Baxley said, was increased to $40, up $10
from last year’s $30.
The student services fee increase
resulted from the passage of a state law in
the spring, Baxley said.
The approval by the state legislature to
increase the student services fee was sup-
ported by the Student Government
Association and campus leaders at Lamar,
as well as local state legislators.
The increase in this fee has allowed
Lamar to raise its auxiliary budget by
$401,843, Baxley said. These monies are
being used to improve existing student
programs and activities, and create new
ones, Baxley said.
Some of these programs and their allot-
ted budget increased for 1979-80, according
to George McLaughlin, vice president for
student affairs, include the performing ar-
ts, 23.6 percent; men’s athletics, 18 per-
cent; women’s athletics, 37 percent;
Student Government Association, 15 per-
cent; Student Publications, 18.5 percent;
and KVLU-FM, 14.4 percent.
These and other increases in auxiliary
budgets, McLaughlin said, represent the
greatest amounts of money spent on
student activities since Lamar levied its
last school year, McLaughlin said, that an
increase in student fees was necessary.
“In my view,” McLaughlin said, “we
have the fundings to provide a quality
program of student services and activities
for the university during the school year.”
The health services fee was raised to $15,
up $5 from last school year, Baxley said.
This fee is based on a graduated scale of a
minimum of $5 for one to five semester
hours taken, and $1 more per semester
hour taken up to a maximum of $15,
Baxley said.
Room and board expenses at the univer-
sity rose approximately 7 percent this
year, according to Brce Stracener, direc-
tor of university housing.
Since last year, Stracener said, the cost
of electricity has risen 15 percent and the
cost of gas has risen 10 percent, resulting
in about a 12 percent increase in utility
costs to the university.
The university has absorbed some of
these increases, Stracener said, but the 7
percent increase will help defray costs.
Even with these increases, Stracener
said, housing at Lamar is “among the
lowest in the state,” for “some of the
nicest dor,ms in the state.
Food prices are also generally higher,
according to Roger C. Fry, director of
Saga food service.
Prices in the Setzer Student Center Nest
rose an average 10 to 11 percent over last
year’s prices and the pizza pub’s prices
rose an average 5.4 percent over last
year’s prices, according to Fry.
Fry said he tries to balance the retail
prices with the wholesale prices he pays,
lowering an item’s price whenever prac-
tically possible, because he believes this
practice is “fair to students.”
Bear Hug—
Lamar University's
mascot, Big Red,
seems to be fighting off
the somewhat amorous
advances of Baylor's
mascot, Daisy Mae.
All Daisy Mae wants
is a peck from the
bird’s beak, but
Big Red seems to find
the whole affair
unbearable.
Photo by MANUEL MORENO '
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