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Season 74
The Beaumont Music Commission will
open season with ‘Me and My Girl.’
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UT saga continues
University of Texas condemns racists
remarks made by professor.
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Big Easy
Women’s volleyball team defeats
Northeast Louisiana in New Orleans.
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Wednesday, September 17,1997
Serving Lamar University and the community for 74 years
Vol. 74, No. 5.
Dorm occupancy
Figures show increase over last year’s totals
Students who live in the units Renovations for a snack shop
and are still in need of a new are in progress in the Brooks-
mattress should check with their Shivers Hall. New kitchen equip-
residence assistant, Kelso said. ment, including fryers and grills,
Residents also have access to „
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tree cable in all of the dorms and
unit apartments this semester.
Housing adopts policy
Samantha McGuire
UP managing editor
The occupancy of traditional
college students in the dormito-
ries has increased 10 percent
since last fall, Kent Kelso, direc-
tor of housing, said.
Kelso attributes the increase
in occupancy to student satisfac-
tion with the housing staff, hall
directors and residence assis-
tants.
“We also added two housing
maintenance people so that
work orders could be turned
around within 24 hours,” Kelso
said. “Now, complaints are han-
dled very quickly. When I did
not have the maintenance peo-
ple, we were inundated with stu-
dent complaints about mainte-
nance issues.”
Kelso said there have been
few student complaints concern-
ing maintenance since the work-
ers were hired.
“(The housing department
staff) have become quite a bit
more organized, and students
are starting to see that we are
doing things” he said. “Before,
they were paying all of this
money and never saw anything
different. Now, they are seeing
major landscaping around the
dorm halls. We’ve done a lot of
painting. By this May, we will
have replaced every mattress on
campus. We have brand new
inner-spring mattresses on all of
the beds in Brooks-Shivers and
Campbell-Gray halls, and most
of the units have new mattresses.
Samantha McGuire
UP managing editor
A university residency poli-
cy implemented in August
requires all undergraduate,
full-time students with fewer
than 24 earned semester credit
hours to live on campus in a
residence hall, Kent Kelso,
director of housing, said.
Exemptions to the mandato-
ry live-in policy may be grant-
ed if the student resides with a
parent, guardian or other adult
relative, is 21 years of age by
the first class day, will be
enrolled only in evening class-
es, is married or has dependent
children or has a medical
exemption signed by his/her
doctor, Kelso said.
See POLICY, page 2
Congressman slates
campus visit Monday
Sylvia Streeter
UP staff writer
U.S. Congressman Nick Lampson will be in the Lamar
University Setzer Student Center Ballroom Monday at 4:30 p.m.
meeting with students, faculty, staff and the Beaumont communi-
ty to discuss the political process here in the United States and
how it affects the university and the educa-
tion system.
The Student Government Association
organized this event and has spent the last
few weeks preparing this activity in order to
make it a successful one. There will be a
reception prior to his appearance at 4 p.m.
so that students will have a chance to come
and mingle. Refreshments will also be pro-
vided.
♦ Lampson represents the people of the
9th District of Texas, which includes cities in
Jefferson, Galveston, as well as Harris coun-
ties. He plans to address issues that may be relevant to the audi-
ence and to give them a chance to ask questions as well as the
See LAMPSON, page 2
Nick Lampson
The brightly
painted tires,
right, are used
in the vacinity-
of Riverside
Park and City
Hall to control
traffic during
festive occa-
sions such as
July 4 fireworks.
Festive barricade
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UPSandsjb
Dishman will auction
Asbury first editions
Michelle Simmons
UP staff writer
The first 30 copies of Kelly
Asbury.’.§.. recently published
series of children’s books will be
on auction at the Dishman Art
Gallery Sept. 26 from 7 p.m. to 8
p.m.
As an ex-student of Lamar
University’s Art Department,
where he studied studio art,
Asbury donated the first 30
copies of his new children’s book
to the silent and live auction ben-
efiting the Jerry Newman
Painting Scholarship. Each book
is numbered and signed by
Asbury and Jerry Newman,
Lamar University art professor.
Some of Asbury’s lithographs
are on display at the Dishman:
“All proceeds from the auc-
tion will be given to the Jerry
Newman Scholarship Fund
established to promote excel-
lence in painting,” Newman said.
“The scholarship is ongoing.”
Newman, an established artist
in the community who attended
LU 35 years ago, has donated art
work for the auction. One of
Newman’s oil paintings, “An-
nunciation,” is on the auction
block, carrying a minimum bid of
$8,000.
Each book is influenced by an
experience of Asbury’s child-
hood. Born and reared in
Beaumont, he currently has six
other stories in the works which
will add to the series. After 14
years of trying to get children’s
books published, his trio of chil-
dren’s books titled “Rusty’s Red
Vacation,” “Bonnie’s Blue
House” and “Yolanda’s Yellow
School” is one of many accom-
plishments for Asbury.
Asbury worked as a story-
board artist for Disney on the
films “The Little Mermaid,”
See ASBURY, page 6
FCS Building renovations
to accommodate program
Jason Rahmani
UP staff writer
The Family and Consumer
Sciences Building of Lamar
University is undergoing renova-
tions at the present time to modern-
ize and update the facility to accom-
modate the program. These renova-
tions also will fully meet the current
codes of the Americans with
Disabilities Act, Connie Elliff,
department head, said.
“The building was built in 1951
and an addition was built in 1968
that doubled the size.
“The current building has been in
poor condition for a number of years
with a leaky roof, worn-out heating
and air conditioning, and standards
that do not meet the requirements of
the ADA,” she said.
In addition, Elliff said, there is a
large clothing construction area that
is used only one time, every two
years.
“This is not an emphasis of our
program anymore. We need more
flexible space,” she said.
There will be a lecture room that
will hold 75 students and a small
seminar room because of the grow-
ing graduate program.
“We will have an emphasis in the
commercial food service industry
and family food preparation. This
building will also be suited for our
restaurant/hospitality program.
There will be an updated interior
design lab with the appropriate
lighting and storage space,” she said.
There will be a computer lab that
will have computer-aided design for
interior design students, Elliff said.
Also, food and nutrition students
will be able to do nutrition analysis
in this lab. The lab will have the lat-
est instructional technology, she
said.
In the middle of the building,
there will be a large, open area for
student activities and gathering.
Ferro-Saylors, of Houston, are
the architects of the building renova-
tion.
“The firm...worked very closely
with us to understand us. They were
very receptive,” she said.
Most of the current classes are
located in the Galloway Business
See BUILDING, page 2
Hinchey scholarships
Couples’ contributions give students opportunities
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Jane Orr Hinchey deviated 30. years
to education at Lamar, including more
than four years as chair of the depart-
ment of family and consumer sciences.
When she retired in August 1996, her
husband, retired petroleum executive
Frank Hinchey, honored his wife with
a scholarship.
Frank established the Jane Orr
Hinchey Scholarship, “to honor Jane
not only for her lifelong contributions
to the field of education and as a pro-
fessional educator, but also for her
dedication to students and her appre-
ciation of Lamar University.”
A year earlier, with support from
students, faculty and staff, the
Hincheys established another
endowed scholarship — a living trib-
ute to the memory of their son, Stuart
Paul Hinchey, who died in 1994 at the
age of 35.
“If you give a person a meal, you
have fed him one time, but if you teach
him how to feed himself, you have fed
-him for a lifetime,” Frank Hinchey
‘.said. “That’s one of the highlights of
'the educational system — gaining a
better understanding of life.
“Returning something to the system
from which we have so graciously ben-
efited is a goal we have had for a con-
siderable period of time. This is a situ-
ation in which ordinary people like
Jane and I can help others.”
This year, the Hincheys presented
more than 16 scholarships at several
universities, including Lamar.
“Our reward is in the responses
from the students,” Frank Hinchey
said. “It has been a great thing to
know our efforts are appreciated.”
Expressions of appreciation abound
in Lamar’s current Hinchey scholar-
ship recipients. Pamela Sue Morgan, a
mother and grandmother from
Orange, became the first to receive the
Jane Orr Hinchey Endowed
Scholarship. Morgan then became the
first female member of her family to
finish college.
Without the scholarship, she said,
higher education would have been an
impossible dream. Now, after earning
her bachelor’s degree in MKay, Morgan
is already at work on her master’s
degree in nutrition and dietetics.
Morgan credits Hinchey and others
in the department with giving her the
courage and confidence to return to
school and succeed. When Morgan
began working on her degree in 1975,
she had been away from the classroom
and workplace more than a dozen
years.
“I was fortunate to be in a depart-
ment with women like Dr. Hinchey
who were strong, nurturing role mod-
els,” Morgan said. “I feel I’ve done as
well as I have because I have had that
kind of support. I really appreciate
that someone gave me the chance I
needed.
“I don’t have the money to go to
school,” she said. “With five children,
it’s been impossible to save and, espe-
cially, to save for college. To my
knowledge, I am the only female mem-
ber of my family to earn a degree. I
have two daughters and a granddaugh-
ter, and, if there’s anything that’s
important to me, it’s to break that
chain and set an example for them.”
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