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Lamar University • Beaumont, Texas
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Regents
to study
policy
manual
By Michael Wright
UP staff writer
The chair of a committee formed
Thursday by the board of regents to
study the Chancellor’s Policy
Manual said that the manual needed
changes and that all constituency
will be consulted about possible
revisions.
The chair, Regent Michael
Ramsey, said that the committee
will make proposals concerning the
manual, bring these proposals before
the board and solicit recommenda-
tions and comments from faculty,
staff and students before any revi-
sions go before the board for final
approval.
“This is not going to be anything
magic,” Ramsey said in a telephone
interview Monday. “It’s not going to
be done in secret We need to follow
a protocol that will ensure that the
best mechanism for making these
changes takes place.”
“We will start with the existing
policy manual. That does not
include the proposed revisions.”
The proposed revisions, which
originally went before the regents in
December, have been at the heart of
a controversy between faculty and
the system office this semester.
Opponents of the revisions claim
that they undercut the authority of
the campus president and have
deterred strong candidates from
coming forward to apply for the
presidency of Lamar-Beaumont.
Ramsey said that he is not taking
any preconceived notions about the
manual into the committee.
“I haven’t seen' the current man-
ual,” he said. “I’m going to go into
this with an open mind. I’m sure
there are areas that need to be clari-
fied, and there may be areas that
need to be changed."
The committee, which includes
Amalie Cobb and C.W. Conn, hopes
to begin meeting “sometime in the
Photo by Craig Clark
Susanna and Gherubino
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Susanna (seated), played by Meredith Guidry, looks on as Cherubino, played by
Kathryn Lang, sings atop a chest in Count Almaviva’s Palace in the LU Opera
Theater production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.”
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Lamar alumnus, Haynes, named as regent
By Lou Reeves
UP editor
Lamar graduate Lanny Clyde
Haynes, 47, has been named to-the
Lamar University Board of Regents.
News of the appointment came to
the Chancellor’s office around 5:30
the evening before the regularly
scheduled board meeting. Haynes
was present at the Thursday meeting
“I have so much to learn and so
much information to assimilate,”
Haynes said. “I want to learn as
much as I can to make decisions in
the best interest of Lamar and to pro-
mote excellence through the sys-
tem.”
Haynes, a Vidor resident, has
been president of Haynes Oil Co.
since 1975.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in
1967 in government from the Lamar
Institute of Technology and attended
the University of Texas Law School.
Haynes has taught in the West
Orange-Cove Independent School
District
In 1970 he was employed as an
engineering technician at the Texas
Water Quality Board. In 1971 he
became a partner in the Haynes Oil
Co.
From 1980 to 1989, Haynes
served as a director of Waste Express
Co.
He also has served as director of
the Texas Oil Marketers Association,
the Vidor State Bank and the Sabine
Pilot Commission.
Haynes currently is director of the
Vidor Schools Foundation Inc. and
the Vidor Chamber of Commerce.
He holds memberships in the Texas
Oil Marketers Association, the Texas
Food Industry Association and the
National Association of Convenience
Stores.
No consensus:
Presidential
search still on
By Michael Wright
UP stalT writer
Lamar regents voted Thursday to
continue the search for a new presi-
dent of Lamar-Beaumont.
After a 3 1/2 hour meeting in
executive session, the regents
announced that because they could
not reach a consensus on either of
the two finalists, the search would
continue.
William Fulkerson, president of
Adams College in Colorado, and
John Calhoun Wells, former director
of the John Gray Institute, are the
remaining finalists. Three other
finalists have withdrawn from con-
sideration.
Last month the faculty senate
sent a letter to the regents request-
ing that the search be continued if a
consensus could not be reached on
the finalists.
Chancellor George McLaughlin
said that the search would occur
simultaneously with the revisions of
the system policy manual.
In a telephone interview last
week McLaughlin said that he
would confer with the consulting
firm Heidrick and Struggles of
Dallas before placing another ad for
the job in the Chronicle of Higher
Education. He also said that the
regents could decide to choose from
the pool of people who have already
applied for the job.
“We had a pool of candidates, and
in that pool there might be those we
can bring forward without additional
time and expense,” McLaughlin
said. “(However), if the advice from
our consultant is we should place
another ad, we’ll certainly consider
that.”
McLaughlin said the present
advisory committee, chaired by
James Simmons, head of the music
department, will remain intact, as
will its mandate “to advise the chan-
cellor relative to the search for the
president of the Beaumont campus.”
“My assessment is they’ve done
an outstanding job in what they were
asked to do,” McLaughlin said. “I
hope they will continue to operate
and function until the regents choose
a president.”
The chancellor said that all candi-
dates named as finalists will be inter-
viewed by the search committee.
One of the remaining finalists, Wells,
was named by Regent Wayne Reaud
and was interviewed by the advisory
committee after being so named.
“If the members of the board of
regents want to include someone as a
finalist, they have that authority,”
McLaughlin said. Bill Maddox,
spokesperson for the system office,
said that an individual regent could
name a finalist if the regent so
desires.
“Dr. Wells was nominated by a
member of the board of regents, and
he was indeed referred to the com-
mittee,” McLaughlin said. “They
(the advisory committee) didn’t
interview any of (the finalists) ...
before they got here.”
“If a regent has a recommenda-
tion, if I have one, the search com-
mittee will be informed of it and be
invited to interview that person,”
McLaughlin said.
Barbara Baker, president of the
LU-B faculty senate, said after the
meeting that she was disappointed
that a decision acceptable to all con-
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Literary Festival
Third public recitation
scheduled for Thursday
By Susan Martinez
UP staff writer
The third public recitation
spotlighted in the annual Spring
Literary Festival will be Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. in the Spindletop
Room on the eighth floor of the
Gray Library.
Kent Nelson, a novelist and
short story writer from Exeter,
N.H., will read some highlights
from his short story collection
“The Middle of Nowhere” and
his novel “Languages in the
Blood.”
Nelson’s works may be classi-
fied as mainstream contemporary
realism. South America is the set-
ting for many of his works.
The reading is free to the pub-
lic and is sponsored by the
English and foreign languages
department, the College of Arts
and Sciences, the Texas Reading
Circuit, the Texas Commission on
Arts and Beaumont businesswom-
an Eleanor Perlstein Weinbaum.
Primeaux receives
Bess Gentry Award
at Saturday banquet
Yvette Primeaux, Port Ncches
senior, was the recipient of the 18th
annual Bess Gentry Award, given
Saturday. The award banquet, honor-
ing Primeaux and the other finalists,
was held in the Setzer Student
Center Ballroom.
The award annu-
ally recognizes
outstanding senior
women for exem-
plary character,
leadership, ser-
vice, esteem held
by others, scholar-
ship, and contri-
butions to the
Primeaux community, state and
nation during their
undergraduate studies. The award is
named for Bess Gentry, the first dean
of women at Lamar.
Primeaux was chosen from among
six finalists selected from the
December 1991, May 1992 and
August 1992 graduating classes. Her
on-campus accomplishments include
serving as student director of orienta-
tion programs and participation in
Lamar Panhellenic Association,
Lambda Chi Leadership Circle,
Student Government Association
and University Awareness. She has
also served on the Bess Gentry and
Robert Kemble awards committees,
Interfraternity Council, Springfest
Committee, Order of Omega
National Greek Honor Society and
Leadership Lamar.
Primeaux has been active in
Alpha Chi Omega Sorority and Beta
Beta Beta Biological Honor Society.
She has been a dean’s list student
and was inducted into Who’s Who
Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities. She will
graduate in May with a bachelor of
science in biology.
Other finalists honored at the
banquet were Tyree Leger,
December graduate; Pilar Gravitt,
Karla Nash and Rosemary Bates,
May graduates; and Lou Reeves,
August graduate.
Photo by Matt Lumpkin
Blood drive hits 10-year high
More than 456 pints of blood were collected in the annual spring blood drive that
ended Thursday. Lamar University employees were the largest group of donors, hav-
ing given 76 pints. Campuswide, more than 70 organizations made donations.
McKinnon wins
undergraduate
paper award
By Lou Reeves
UP editor
Jeff McKinnon won the under-
graduate award for his paper titled
“The Desegration of Lamar
University” at the Phi Alpha Theta
History Honor Society Southeast
Texas regional meeting held April 11.
McKinnon, Nederland senior, is a
history major.
Connie Randolph, a Beaumont
senior majoring in English, presented
a paper titled “The Battleship Texas:
No Way to Treat a Lady.”
Graduates and undergraduates
presented a total of 18 papers at the
meeting, which was held at Texas
A&M. Awards were given for best
graduate paper and best undergradu-
ate paper.
Marion Holt, associate professor of
history and faculty adviser for Mu
Chi, the Lamar chapter of Phi Alpha
Theta, also attended the meeting.
Mamie Boque, Beaumont gradu-
ate student, chaired a session of the
program.
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