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University Press • Friday, November 6,1998 • Page 2
Students take it to the ‘Edge’
Shontta Stevens
UP staff writer
Do you know what it's like to be on the cut-
ting edge? Thanks to the Pro Performance
Group, some students can answer yes to this
question.
The Cutting Edge Tour came to the campus
Wednesday and Thursday, with some of the lat-
est products in the world of electronics. The
quadrangle was the showplace for new video
games, scientific calculators and a car among
other things.
“Basically...it’s an event marketing tour. We
have five companies that sponsor it: Texas
Instruments, First U.S.A., Columbia House,
Spin Magazine and Hyundai Motors,” Chris
Jolliette, tour manager said.
Jolliette said that the tour is a way for all of
the companies to show their products to college
students. The virtual reality games, Sony Play
Stations, driving games, and thunder seats are
all for students to experience.
“Three years ago, Pro Performance
Marketing contacted all of these companies and
it just kept growing. We go on 15-week tours,
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DuPont/Sabine River Works, for instance,
has involved 52 LUIT process operating and
instrumentation students in cooperative
training in the past two years and employed
31 of them after graduation. Four others are
currently in training, and the employment of
five others is pending. DuPont has also
placed 40 LUIT students in job shadowing
opportunities this past year. Besides operat-
ing its own cooperative training program for
three students, Mobil PolyEthylene has
donated manpower, equipment and scholar-
ship funds to LUIT.
Mobil Chemical O&A has given the
school a $1 million process operating demon-
stration unit which has been restored and
placed in the school’s first training laborato-
ry. It has also been instrumental in acquiring
a $150,000 TDC 3000 Honeywell computer
simulation unit which will place LUIT’s
process operating and instrumentation pro-
grams at the top of such two-year degree pro-
grams on the Gulf Coast. More than 700 stu-
dents are involved in those two programs at
LUIT.
North Star Steel and Mobil Refinery have
partnered with LUIT in the Texas Skills
Development and Smart Jobs programs to
bring more than $1.3 million in training dol-
lars to the region. At North Star, employees
are receiving training via computer modules
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and go to 29 schools. We’re just about done,”
Jolliette said.
Lamar was the tour’s 21st stop. The next
stop is Tulane University.
Jolliette said that the feedback has been
good, but it also depends on the school. The
schools visited usually get involved and moti-
vate students.
Participants received compact discs and T-
shirts were given away and students were able
to inspect the interior and exterior of the
Hyundai.
Mike McKee, sophomore, said, “ I think it’s
really interesting that we can come out and see
these different technologies. It gets young peo-
ple more involved in this kind of thing.”
McKee got a chance to play one of the new
video games on display. He said that the uni-
versity should have more events like the tour.
“ I think it would increase student participa-
tion and it would be fun,” McKee said.
Matthew Frost, one of the tour presenters,
said it makes the daily trip around campus more
interesting.
“The response we get from a lot of students
is that it’s good for them when the school goes
out of its way to make the whole college expe-
rience a little more interesting,” he said.
which have been created by programmers
and trainers at LUIT. Mobil has contracted
with LUIT to upgrade welding skills of its
employees, both in summer classes and regu-
lar semester classes.
BetzDearborne has been deeply involved
with LUIT’s workplace training, improving
skills of workers, studying job responsibilities
and reviewing work conditions. Chevron
Chemical has created a scholarship program
to assist three process operating students at
LUIT and currently is involved in on-site
credit classes offered to its instrumentation
employees through LUIT which provides a
full-time, on-site instructor for the Orange-
based company.
Representatives from companies involved
in presentations at the event were Joel Smith,
director of Human Resources at North Star
Steel in Vidor; Rodney Ames of Beaumont,
representative of Smart Jobs; Joe Lynn,
plant manager of BetzDearborne in
Beaumont; Mel Day, training coordinator at
Chevron Chemical/Orange; Jeane Whitnell,
Human Resources representative from
Mobil Chemical PolyEthylene Plant; Ron
Sonnier of Orange, director of Human
Resources at DuPont/Sabine River Works;
and Naomi Crockett-Carter of Beaumont,
operations supervisor at DuPont/Sabine
River Works.
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held the House three straight terms. But any
Democratic inroads would contradict a post-World
War II trend of an average of 27 losses in mid-term
losses for the party of a sitting president. Not since
1934, when Franklin Roosevelt was president, ha§ the
party in the White House won seats at mid-term.
Davis aside, Democrats celebrated other state-
house victories, ousting a pair of Southern governors
and electing a governor in Iowa for the first time since
1966.
In a dynastic triumph with implications for the
2000 presidential race, GOP Gov. George W. Bush
won a Texas-sized re-election. His brother Jeb added
the Florida statehouse to the Republican column.
And Republicans held big-state governorships in
Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and New York, and took
Nevada away from the Democrats.
Democrats countered in South Carolina, where
Jim Hodges toppled first-term Gov. David Beasley,
ironically the chairman of the Republican Governors’
Association. Alabama Republican Gov. Fob James
was defeated as well.
Democrats also kept the Georgia governorship in
their hands, when Roy Barnes won his race to suc-
ceed Zell Miller.
The most intriguing race of the night was in
Minnesota, where former pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura,
running as a Reform Party candidate, won a shocking
victory over his two major party rivals in the race for
governor.
In one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate
races, Republican Rep. Jim Bunning edged out
Democratic Rep. Scotty Baesler in a long count in
Kentucky.
Democratic Sen. Harry Reid led for a new term in
Nevada in a close race with Rep. John Ensign.
With the polls still open in the West, the leaders of
both parties sought to claim success in the final
midterm election of the Clinton presidency.
Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
said that when all the seats were decided, Republicans
would pad their majorities in both the House and
Senate. Voters decided otherwise, and Senate Whip
Don Nickles acknowledged tersely, “It’s not as good
as some hoped.”
Steve Grossman, co-chair of the Democratic Party,
said a late-campaign series of GOP commercials
reminding voters of Clinton’s affair with Monica
Lewinsky was “an abject failure.... This was not only
a colossal waste of money on the part of the
Republicans, but it also caused something of a back-
lash.”
Asked in an interview about the impact of the
returns on impeachment proceedings, House
Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt said, “I think this
was a cry from the people to get on with their agenda
and I hope the Republicans will.”
Carroll said he believes the impeachment process
will continue despite the election results. But while he
said he is “unclear” of exactly what will come of the
proceedings, he is “doubtful that anything will come
of it.”
Two Clinton foes tasted defeat. In strongly con-
tested Senate races, D’Amato lost his bid for a fourth
term to Rep. Charles Schumer in New York.
Faircloth fell to John Edwards in North Carolina.
Winning first terms were Democrat Blanche
Lincoln in Arkansas and Republican Mike Crapo in
Idaho, both of whom were succeeding lawmakers in
their own party.
The trend in House races was overwhelmingly
favorable to incumbents in both parties. With nearly
300 of the House’s 435 races settled, only a handful
had been denied a new term. Only one Democrat,
Rep. Jay Johnson of Wisconsin, was among them.
Election Day interviews with voters across the
country showed that 20 percent identified education
as their most important concern when they cast bal-
lots in congressional races. Another 19 percent cited
moral and ethical issues, 14 percent named the econ-
omy and 12 percent each identified taxes and Social
Security.
When asked about Clinton and impeachment, six
in 10 voters said they disapproved of how Congress is
handling the matter, with nearly as many saying
Congress should just drop the issue without proceed-
ing to impeachment hearings. But roughly 60 percent
of those questioned said the president’s troubles had
nothing to do with their vote for House candidates.
The remaining 40 percent were equally divided in
casting their votes to show support for or opposition
to Clinton.
The polls were conducted by Voter News Service
for The Associated Press and five television networks.
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Rockdale, who died in August.
Republicans also poured money into several other
House races, including a challenge by Larry Taylor of
Friendswood of Democratic Rep. Craig Eiland of
Galveston. Eiland was able to hold onto the seat,
gaining 61 percent of the vote with 46 percent of the
precincts reporting. Taylor got 39 percent of the vote.
Taylor received more than $220,000 during the
last two months from party loyalists and political
action committees. Political consultants say it typi-
cally takes about $125,000 total to run a House
campaign.
more attention during class.
The study also showed that when certain students
were allowed to sleep as much as they want, as on
weekends, they tended to go to bed later, wake up
later and sleep longer — which could indicate sleep
deprivation during the school week.
Sleep deprivation doesn’t just affect schoolwork by
hindering alertness, it also reduces creativity and long-
term memory
Sleep cycles also affect many bodily processes, such
as cell division, protein synthesis and immune func-
tion. In other words, when we don’t get enough sleep,
we are more susceptible to get sick and we take longer
to recuperate.
“I used to work out all the time. Now my body just
can’t handle it. There’s not enough time for it to shut
down and fix itself,” Parker said.
In fact, lack of sleep can become a serious health
threat if it continues for an extreme amount of time.
And there is a rare, hereditary disease called fatal
familial insomnia that affects fewer than 10 families in
the world, said Dr. Paul Brown of the National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in
Bethesda, Md.
He said the most well-known case involved a 41-
year-old high school music teacher who went for
about 15 months without significant sleep before his
body finally shut down altogether.
But lack of sleep can be a serious threat to life even
when the problem is short term. According to a report
published by the Federal Highway Administration in
1994, driver drowsiness and fatigue were cited as the
cause of an estimated 56,000 car crashes a year on
police reports.
An experiment conducted by the Federal Highway
Department tested drivers’ driving skills after a good
night’s sleep and after being awake for 60 hours.
Using a driving simulator, they counted the number of
crashes and the number of times the driver left the
correct driving lane.
After eight hours of sleep, none of the drivers suf-
fered a crash, and the average number of lane excur-
sions was five. After 60 hours without sleep, there
were eight crashes and 45 lane excursions a day.
Of course, not all sleep deprivation is caused by
voluntary neglect.
“I tend to he in bed for two or three hours before I
even start to fall asleep,” Lumberton native Joyce
Landry said. “And when I do sleep for several hours,
I still wake up feeling dead tired.”
Even a conscious effort to get enough sleep may
not be effective for some people. Sleep disorders can
disrupt the sleep cycle just as easily as partying, cram-
ming for tests and working graveyard shifts.
About one-third of people with sleep disorders are
undiagnosed.
Sleep disorders include insomnia, sleep apnea and
narcolepsy.
Insomnia and narcolepsy, though more severe, are
more easily diagnosed than sleep apnea because many
who suffer from apnea are unaware that they have
any problem.
Sleep apnea is a disorder in which the sleeper stops
breathing for a moment and wakes himself up, though
not completely. This can happen several times a night,
preventing the him from ever falling into deep REM
sleep.
It is possible to improve sleeping habits by making
certain lifestyle adjustments, such as adhering to a reg-
ular wake-up and bedtime each night, exercising reg- ‘
ularly and avoiding caffeine and alcohol for at least
four hours before bedtime.
“I just don’t think it would make much difference.
I can never get enough sleep. I’m never ready to get
up, whether I sleep one hour or 21 hours,” Parker
said.
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