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Curb parkers
cause hassle
for students
* Ever had one of those days
* when not only can you not
■v- find a parking space, but you
. can’t even get in the lot to
search for one?
The problem lies not in your
v driving ability, but in your
w maneuvering ability. All this
> is brought on by certain in-
A considerate fellow Lamar
commuters.
You know the ones. The
> ones that just have to park on
a the curbs—straight curbs,
* corner curbs, imaginary
curbs. These commuters just
aren’t happy unless they park
where and in such a fashion
*• as to cause a hindrance to the
v flow of traffic.
> What is it with these peo-
pie? Do they not know they
are obstructing the flow of the
' search? Do they realize it is
* one of life’s “no-no’s” and a
* basic rule to harmonious sur-
y vival not to park where others
^ can’t get in or out?
Do they think to themselves
1 that their vehicle is small
K enough to fit and that there’s
* plenty of room?
y Or, are they just self-
centered and so absorbed
with where they need to be
that they are oblivious to the
1 needs and rights of other
A commuters?
It is, at the very least,
, disheartening and at most,
exasperating.
It makes you wish for one
of those heavy, high-finned,
400-horsepowered monsters
of the late 50s just for the pur-
pose of bashing in a few of
the offending vehicles’ sides
to teach them a lesson or two.
But, alas, enough of fan-
tasy.
We live in a civilized socie-
ty, or so we’re told.
Certainly you do not want
to take the law into your own
hands. That is supposedly the
job of the Parking Department
and the Lamar University
Police. But finding one of the
ticket writers or a policeman
to report a vehicle which is
making maneuvering difficult
for others is difficult.
It’s frustrating to see that
when you do find one or the
other, they are usually stan-
ding obliviously by while yet
another curb parker stops,
parks and goes about his
way. These are the same
ticket writers and police that
will give some commuter a
ticket for being a little on the
line of his parking space.
A parking space is not an
entire lot.
There’s a “big picture” con-
cept at work here.
Parking spaces don’t mat-
ter if you can’t get into the lot
in the first place.
The school needs to put a
stop to curb parkers. What
about possibly making curb
parking where flow of traffic
is interrupted an automatic
tow-away and a fine?
:<New direction’
: includes memos
* to buy new books
'r Lamar University’s “new
*». direction” just took a turn for
^ the worse. Make that a 360
degree turn, otherwise known
as a circle.
Not only can this “new
* direction” not be found on a
* compass, it seems to change
, every time the wind blows, or
in this case, every time the
fan inside a photocopying
> machine blows.
The controversy in the last
* few weeks concerning facul-
> ty’s off-campus publications
4 and the university contract
with the campus bookstore,
has been complicated, to say
the least.
Faculty members who used
* off-campus copy services for
* the reproduction of course
•> materials failed to have them
it approved as curriculum by
their department heads and
adopted for use.
The result was that the
* campus bookstore manager
» had no knowledge of, and
> could not supply, the tex-
tbooks he was under contract
to supply.
*. Members of the administra-
^ tion circulated memos remin-
ding the faculty of the proper
procedures as written in the
* faculty handbook; other
* memos followed requesting
i lists of materials copied off-
v campus.
Enter the “U-turn.”
Adminstrators, instead of
** adhering to the very contract
* that they waved in our faces
* through the memos, issued
*■ qualifying statements.
The off-campus publica-
tions were not in violation of
the university contract with
its campus bookstore “if”
they were approved by the
department and “if” they
were listed on textbook re-
quisition forms which were
submitted to the campus
bookstore.
The campus bookstore
manager could ideally go to
the local publishers, who also
happen to be his competitors,
and purchase for the Lamar
bookstore the needed copies.
But what happens when the
local publisher, who is trying
to save his neck and make a
few extra bucks, too, is conve-
niently out of the materials?
The university bookstore is
at the mercy of their com-
petitors, who may or may not
choose to act in a reciprocal
business manner.
Whether off-campus
publications are listed on the
textbook requisition forms is
irrelevant;the potential result
is the same.
When the Lamar bookstore
is denied access to materials
either nationally or locally
published, their contract with
the university is violated, pure
and simple.
Lamar doesn’t need any
more “spineless wonders” in
its administration.
What it could use a whole
lot more of though are some
crusty old dinosaurs who
stand to their feet, rattle their
bones and roar at the first hint
of encroachment upon univer-
sity territory.
y * t
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UNIVERSITY PRESS October 10,1986*3
Wf OVtieriVtM Fofc THFRFTUf^OF NlCHOMC DAtULOFF.
Newspapers not dead yet
By BONNIE DO IRON
UP contributing writer
Q: What is black and white and
read all over?
A: Oh, I know that oldie—a paper.
Bite your tongue. Never say
paper. The word is NEWSpaper.
As a small tribute to the obser-
vance of National Newspaper Week,
it won’t hurt you to read a few
ramblings from one who has had a
love affair with newspapers since
the age of 10.
I will not bore you with statistics.
Who cares how many newspapers
are printed all around the world or
how many words cross the desks of
copy editors daily?
To understate, it is considerable.
There is only one newspaper for
the newspaper reader and that is the
newspaper that the reader happens
to be reading at any one time.
A newspaper does not have to be a
daily or a weekly. It can be a twice a
day, a two or three times a week, a
once a month, or, out in the boon-
docks, a whenever the editor-owner
gets around to it.
In the United States, the
newspaper is the best bargain
around. Here, you can have the
world delivered to your door for a
few cents a day. On fragile pages of
squashed-treated-spread-and-dried
pulpwood you are served a
From National On-Campus Report
Increased interdependence among
nations and decreased dependence
on the superpowers make the world
a different place today from what it
was 20 years ago.
International students already
know they need to adjust. American
students don’t. International
students come here to learn; while
they’re here, they can teach
Americans a lot about the world.
They can, but often they don’t get
the chance. Many American
students don’t want to give up their
egocentrism; they don’t want to
hear about the new limits on the
superpowers. And many foreign
students aren’t interested in spen-
ding their limited time abroad per-
suading them they need to.
But those who’ve run international
programs know that Americans do
need to accept a new position of
equality with other nations—or at
least the position of older brother in-
stead of autocratic father. And they
know what an excellent resource in-
ternational students are in teaching
this lesson.
“There must be an equal effort to
reach out by American and interna-
tional students,” says Josef
Mestenhauser, director of the Office
of International Education at the
University of Minnesota. But, too
often, the Americans don’t bother.
They’re caught up in earning an
education leading to a job.
Even when American students do
make an effort to learn about other
cultures, they stumble over various
prejudices. Americans don’t see
foreign students as people to learn
from: They’re still students, after
all, and often from the
“underdeveloped” countries.
Language prejudice presents
another barrier. Some international
students have a poor command of
English; so, some American
students see them as deficient, too.
The Doiron Report
smorgasbord of life’s miseries, joys,
triumphs and failures. You are
entertained and subtly educated; in-
formed of a great deal more than
you could possibly care to be; warn-
ed of hazards running the gamut of
the alphabet; and bombarded with
advertiser’s promises, adviser’s ad-
monitions and editorial pro-
nouncements.
You do not even have to know how
to read to enjoy the newspaper. It is
full of pictures. Everybody knows
that the best part of any newspaper
is the funny page. A misnomer if one
considers the contents.
And why do you think the
newspapers cater to the cartoonists?
Those editorial and political car-
toons win Pulitzer prizes and often
sway opinions.
There are worries about the health
of the newspaper as a medium of
communication. Far too many have
had to stop their presses or merge
with conglomerates because of tile
vagaries of the market place and the
competition of that instant com-
municator television—the predicted
dragon come to slay the printed
page.
Nonetheless, rumors of the demise
On-Campus Report
To overcome these negative at-
titudes, Americans must first accept
fellow students from other nations
as equals, says Mestenhauser.
Americans must be open to criticism
and to new ideas, especially those
that counter U.S. traditions.
“We’ve pioneered the ‘Learning
with Foreign Students’ program,”
Mestenhauser says. The U. of Min-
nesota program provides many op-
portunities for Americans to meet,
and learn from, international
students.
“Faculty members invite interna-
tional students to help teach classes,
like the school’s ‘Intercultural Com-
munication,’ ” he says. The foreign
students are particularly useful in
the College of Education, he reports.
They’re especially helpful in
language and social studies courses.
Minnesota has also pioneered in
the area of Americans’ involvement
through its Minnesota International
Student Association (MISA). At
most schools, the federation of na-
tionality organizations includes
mostly international students. But at
Minnesota, a number of U.S.
students belong to MISA. Two held
offices in the organization last year.
Yet another program, the Min-
nesota Awareness Project (MAP),
extends the influence of interna-
tional students beyond campus
boundaries. Students from the U. of
Minnesota and other Twin Cities’s
schools volunteer to talk about inter-
national topics—including hunger,
poverty, and other development
of the newspaper are premature.
Newspapers are here to stay. Televi-
sion news is great in that it en-
courages the listener to become the
looker who seeks out a newspaper
for the details and the joy of snipping
a this or a that to save for a later day
or to send off to a relative.
Our founding fathers realized the
importance of an informed citizenry
and in an unprecedented stroke of
genius, gave the protection of the
constitution to the private industry
of the free press.
I read that somewhere.
Our free press took the gift and
over the years through trials and
struggles has been responsible for
the evolvement of a new breed of
humankind—the dedicated
newspaper person who, when cut,
bleeds printer’s ink.
So, when lauding the newspaper,
remember that a newspaper is the
sum of its parts; those parts being
the men and women who hone and
polish and tenderly (sometimes
cursedly) nurture those phrases and
sentences which they know will end
up as garbage wrappers and bird
cage rugs.
During this observance of
newspaper week, be kind to
yourself. Go buy, beg, borrow or
steal a newspaper if for no other
reason than to find out what day it is.
The newspaper knows.
issues—in communities around the
state.
Scientists say no
to SDI research
More than 6,500 scientists, in-
cluding a majority of professors in
the nation’s top 20 university physics
departments, have declared
themselves opposed to Ronald
Reagan’s Strategic Defense In-
itiative, and have pledged not to ac-
cept any “Star Wars” research
funds.
College previews
retention course
In response to concerns about
retention—especially about first-
year attrition—the student service
department at St. Lawrence College-
Saint Laurent (Ontario) is reaching
beyond its traditional role of simply
providing support services.
The college is “getting into the
educational delivery business,” ac-
cording to Kathy Freeman, a
counselor in the student service
department.
The school is offering a course
called Becoming a Master Student,
which has been made compulsory
for all first-year business and
technology students. “Test and
notetaking, time management,
memory techniques, and reading
provide the ‘meaty’ subject matter
of the course,” Freeman says, “but
what the instructors look for as an
end product is a behavioral change
in their students-seen in the way
they communicate, approach and
solve problems, and begin to take
responsibility for their own educa-
tion.
Longevity
research
necessary
By DICK WEST
UPI columnist
Some authorities on aging say the
government doesn’t spend enough
money on longevity research.
It may be, as they claim, that
science could slow the aging pro-
cess, but I’m thankful I’ll probably
be too old to benefit. Not that the
alternative is all that great either.
I remember writing an obituary of
H.L. Mencken and lifting a line from
one of his collections.
“If, after I depart this vale,” he
wrote, any man desiring “to please
my shade” could, among other
things equally bizarre, “wink your
eye at some homely girl.”
I have since gone almost blind
from winking, so many homely girls
have I encountered in the shade.
Some even had wrinkled faces.
There remains, however, a question
of whether public or private funds
should be used to finance anti-aging
research.
Kathy Keeton, president of Omni
magazine, contends that “only the
federal government can supply
money and resources on the scale
that modem scientific research
demands.”
That may be true, but it may lead
to steps like restrictions on importa-
tion of horses from Norway because
of an equine venereal disease.
I’m not suggesting that any of our
elderly citizens have an equine
venereal disease. I just threw that in
as an example of what government-
backed research can lead to.
We surely wouldn’t want to get in-
to a situation in which the importa-
tion of elderly Norwegians would be
restricted.
Nevertheless, Keeton insists Con-
gress should be channeling more
money into longevity research “in-
stead of spending millions of dollars
on studies” that predict the Social
Security system eventually will be
bankrupt unless something is done.
“Brave and visionary men and
women are being forced to wage two
distinct battles: one against old age,
the other against insufficient fun-
ding,” she writes.
She may have a point there. Who
knows? Not all studies deal with
Social Security problems, however.
Five new privately financed
studies indicate that workers who
have almost no control over their
jobs rim a higher risk of having
heart attacks than hard-driving ex-
ecutives.
“The workers at greatest risk are
people who have very little or no
decision-making power,” says one of
the researchers.
“The health risk of low job control
in developing heart diseases is
roughly the same as the risk from
smoking or high serum cholesterol.”
“It’s discouraging, that’s what it
is. Here hard-driving executives
spend all this time in workshops
learning how to cope with stress, and
then new studies come along sug-
gesting it’s being wasted.
Maybe what the government
should do now is finance a study to
determine how much stress is in-
volved in waiting for a Social Securi-
ty check that doesn’t show up
because the system is bankrupt.
It does no good, apparently, to tell
those on the mailing list to stay
calm. Some would be sure to light up
a cigarette while waiting for the
postman.
Healthwise, they might as well run
for Congress, or seek some other
public job that is out of control.
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Editor..................Georganne Faulkner
Sports Editor ..................Lyra Katena
Editorial Page Editor........Vicki Bomefeld
Photo Editor......................Brad Horn
Photographer ..................Don Fanning
Cartoonist....................Robert Zavalla
Staff Writers..................Mamie Bogue,
Steven Ford, Rita Hawn,
Terry Richard, Cathy Kunst,
Sports Assistant ..............Danny Bledsoe
Advertising Manager..........Melissa Plake
Office Assistant..................Dung Pham
Marketing Director
Elaine BuUer
Production Manager
Gloria Post
Assistant Director of Student Publications
John Tisdale
Director of Student Publications
Howard Perkins
Publisher
Student Publications Board
Andrew J. Johnson, Chairman
The University Press is the official student
newspaper of Lamar University, and is
published every Wednesday and Friday dur-
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Wednesdays immediately following holidays.
Offices are located at P.O. Box 10055, 200
Setzer Student Center, University Station,
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