The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1968 Page: 1 of 12
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Vol. 19 No. 5
Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, Texas 77705
Oct. 18,1968
WELLES HAGEN
Advisory Council Formed
To Aid Student Welfare
Forum Committee Schedules
NBC’s Far East Reporter
The President’s Committee on
Student Affairs, composed of
seven students who will advise
the office of Dr. Richard W.
Setzer, president of Lamar Tech,
of matters pertaining to student
welfare, has been approved by
a vote of the Senate.
Six of the seven members of
the committee were approved at
a meeting of the Senate Monday
Oct. 7. They are Mike Coppinger,
Student Association president;
John Aikey, Student Association
vice president; Merlaine Kruse,
Speaker of the House; Sidney
McKinney, president of the fresh-
man class; Edna Johnson and
Lloyd Lengion.
Forensics
To Compete
In Houston
Seventeen Lamar speech cont-
estants will journey to San Jac-
into College in Houston, Oct. 25
-26, for a two-day speech tour-
nament, according to Howard
Dorgan, assistant professor of
speech.
Debate teams entered in the
contest will be John Conway and
Tommy Gunn, Danny Jennings and
Merlaine Kruse, Robert Mott and
Donna Gunn, SandyHileand Mary-
ann Faigle, Linda Vinson and Sha-
ron Davis, and Debbie Howell
and Paula McDermott.
Competing in individual events
wUl be Pat Gonzales, Margaret
Hilton, Betty Gaspard, Ann
Fowler and Samuel Childs.
The debate question is “That
executive control of United Stqtes
foreign policy should be signi-
ficantly curtailed’’. Oratory con-
sists of memorized original
speeches. Extempor-
aneous speaking is speaking with
only 30 minutes preparation.on
current events. Poetry intrepre-
tation is speaking on previously
prepared poetry selections.
The remaining member will
be appointed a t a later date.
Dr. Setzer, who suggested the
committee, said the non-legisla-
tive body wiU meet once a mqpth.
The president asked for the ad-
visory council to establish com-
munication between his office and
the student body. He noted that
he has had a faculty advisory
council to advise him of faculty
welfare for one year.
Student Leader
Reports Several
Senate Vacancies
There are several vacancies in
the Senate from the schools of
Vocations, Engineering and
Sciences, Mike Coppinger, stu-
dent association president, has
announced.
Students interested in work-
ing with the Senate as a repre-
sentative of their school should
contact the Student Association
in 202 SUB or send their name,
school, classification and quali-
fications to Box 10063, Lamar
Tech Station, Beaumont, 77705.
Organizations wishing to nom-
inate a homecoming queen can-
didate must do so before a
10 a.m. deadline Tuesday, the
1968 Homecoming Committee
reported Monday. Registration
forms and information may be
obtained at the Student Acti-
vities Office, Room 101, Stu-
dent-Union Building.
Homecoming this year will be
observed Nov. 16, with the theme
of “Around the World With Big
I?ed.* Lamar meets Louisiana
Tech on the gridiron at 2 p.m.
that afternoon.
In other action Monday, the
Homecoming Committee an -
Welles Hangen, Far Eastern
correspondent for the National
Broadcasting Company, will
speak Thursday at 9:35 a.m.
in McDonald Gym.
The speech will be the second
in a series by the Lamar Forum
Committee.
Hangen, who has just returned
from a three-year tour of duty
in Asia, has made extensive tours
through Thailand, Cambodia,
Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Peaches and Herb, vocal duet
who were scheduled to appear
in McDonald Gym, Tuesday, Oct.
22, have cancelled their appear-
ance, Gene Peters, director of
student activities, announced.
The duet was also scheduled
to appear at two other area
colleges. Lamar’s agreement
with the duo was that they would
receive 90 per cent of the gate
while Tech took ten per cent.
The other two colleges who
contracted the pair gave them
a guaranteed fee for their per-
Union Committees
List Tentative
Meeting Times
Various Student Union Board
committees have established ten-
tatively times fo r their meet-
ings, according to' Gene Peters,
director of student activities.
The Social Committee will
meet on Thursdays at 3:15 p.m.
in Cardinal Room H.
The Publicity Committee will
meet on Mondays at 5:30 p.m.
in Cardinal Room H.
The Creative Arts Commit-
tee wiU meet Tuesdays at 11:30
a.m. in Cardinal Room U.
The Student Union Program
Board wUl meet Wednesdays at
8 a.m. in Cardinal Room U.
The Recreation Committee wiU
meet Wednesdays at 3:15 p.m. in
Cardinal Room IL
nounced requirements for
floats for the traditional pa-
rade through downtown Beau-
mont. It will start at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 16, and the route
is to be determined.
Float registration opens at
8 a.m. Wednesday and wUl close
at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, in
Room 101, Student Union, Buil-
ding.
Queen candidates must have
a 1.5 grade point average for
all work completed at Lamar
and also for work completed
during the preceding semester.
They must have completed a
minimum of 60 semester hours
He was also in Moscow during
the Greek-Russian crisis.
Hangen has taken courses in
Far Eastern area relations at
Columbia University on a fel-
lowship from the CouncU on Fo-
reign Relations at Columbia.
Prior to his present position he
headed NBC’s New Delhi Bu-
reau, from which he also cov-
ered Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Nepal.
formances. Len Naymark, pro-
moter for Variety Theater Pro-
ductions, who handles Peaches
and Herb, said that one of these
coUeges cancelled out and the
couple could not afford to come
down for financial reasons.
The group wiU pay for all
expenses that Tech incurred du-
ring preparation for the concert.
This will include things like tic-
ket printing and campus publi-
city supplies, according to Pe-
ters.
After the cancellation of Pea-
ches and Herb, Peters made
it known to the student govern-
ment that the Ramsey Lewis
Trio could be hired for Friday,
Nov. 15.
He said this was toe earliest
any other top name performer
could be contracted for toe cam-
pus. The student government
took straw polls in toe House
and Senate meetings Monday.
It was toe general concensus
that Lamar students would not
be able to attend because of
float building for Homecoming.
The idea to hire toe trio was
decided against.
Peters said another top name
group probably won’t be brought
on campus until the spring se-
mester.
bridge club to meet
The Lamar Bridge Club will
meet Wednesday at 4 p.m. in
Snack Bar H, according to Gene
Peters, director of student ac-
tivities.
and are required to have atten-
ded toe last two fulltime
semesters at Lamar.
Candidates must be fulltime
students during toe current se-
mester and must not be married
or ever have been married. They
also must hold membership in
at least two recognized campus
organizations.
Along with toe registration
form, two 3 X 5-inch glossy
photographs of toe campus must
be submitted. The sponsoring
organization must agree to fur-
nish a car for its candidate’s
Continued on Page 9
began in 1948 as a reporter for
toe Parish edition of the New
York Herald Tribune. The fol-
lowing year he returned to toe
! United States to join the New
York Times where he worked
for seven years.
He traveled throughout Russia
as toe Times Moscow Corres-
pondent and in September 1955
he headed toe Times Moscow
Bureau.
In December 1956, Hangen
joined NBC News as head of its
bureau in Car to. During his
tenure Hangen covered the Le-
banese disturbances of 1958, toe
coups in Syria, Iraq, and Jor-
dan, and toe Congo uprisings of
1960 and 1961.
Hangen was born in New York
City in 1930, and attended Man-
hattan’s Trinity School. He also
studied at the University of Vir-
ginia. A Phi Beta Kappa, Han-
gen graduated from Brown U-
niversity, summa cum laude, in
1948.
Hangen, who has been a re-
cipient of an Overseas Press
Club citation for excellence in
radio reprting, is toe author"
of two books, “After Nehru,
Who?” and “The Muted Revo-
lution-East German’s Chal-
lenge to Russia and toe West.*
He has written articles for toe
New Yorker, toe Saturday Eve-
ning Post, Foreign Affairs Quar-
terly and the Yale Review.
Film Services
Are Extended
By TV Station
KFDM Television film depart-
ment has been supplying Lamar’s
modern language department With
a monthly film series of French
current events entitled “Paris
Calling.*
Word was received last week
from Bill Hammond, Channel 6
Film Director, that this service
will be extended to include month-
ly Reader’s Digest film excerpts,
and monthly news releases from
NASA. From time to time various
public service films from other
sources will also be made avail-
able.
These 16 mm sound films,
mostly in color, wiU be of vary-
ing lengths and subjects and will
be turned over to Lamar’s Film
Library after television use.
Lamar Students
To Be Seated
In Special Section
Lamar Tech students attending
ffife Lamar-USL game in Lafayet-
te Oct. 26 will be seated in
a special section by presenting
their activity cards at a booto
at toe south end of toe stadium.
Reserve seat tickets for non-
students are on sale at toe ath-
letic office in Room 106 McDon-
ald Gym.
For Homecoming Queen
Nomination Deadline Is Tuesday
Hangen’s journalistic career
Vocal Duet’s Concert
Cancelled After Tour
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