The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1969 Page: 4 of 16
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THF. RF.DBIRD Oct. 10. 1064-Page 4
Curtain Calls
By Mike Hayes
CONVINCING A COP—Two Lamar students try to talk a Beaumont
policeman out of a citation received for parking on Callahan Street,-
which runs beside the Liberal Arts building. Students have totaled
$40 to $60 in parking fines since the beginning of the fall term. (Staff
photo by Charles McCraine)
Parking Citations Drain
Students With $60 Fines
By Donald Pumphrey
The city of Beaumont is en-
riching itself at the rate of $40
to $60 daily from Lamar Tech
students. That figure is based
on the 20 to 30 parking citations
issued each day on Callahan Stre-
et on the south campus.
Traffic inspector M.C. Mey-
ers, however, has no idea of how
many of the traffic ticket fines
are paid by their recipients. It
is possible that the income de-
rived by the city is actually far
In noting the rising standard
of living of its people, the French
government points out that
whereas in 1912 the average
Frenchman consumed only 15,4
pounds of fruit and vegetables
per year, he now consumes 143
pounds annually.
under the maximum figure of
"60.
City Patrolmen L. L. Marshall
and W.E. White, who are as-
signed the campus area, report
that in practice they first check
parking space availability in the
open parking lots before issuing
violations to illegally parked cars
on Callahan. If there is no
space in the lots, the patrol-
men are sparing in issuing tic-
kets.
Patrolman Marshall said,
“We get no sadistic pleasure
from handing out violations.
Shoot, I’m a student here my-
self.”
Were diagonal parking allowed
oh only the campus side of Cal-
lahan, 75 to 80 additional park-
ing spaces would be available
for Lamar students.
Dean David L, Bost, vice pre-
sident of student affairs, states
that no parking on rallahan was
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
instigated by former city traffic
director Wilbur Balmer. At
that time indefinite plans called
for a four-lane expansion of Cal-
lahan and extension to Cardinal
Drive. Balmer is no longer
with the city.
Grad Fellowships
To Be Offered
Approximately 120 Danforth
Graduate Fellowships will be
awarded in March, 1970 to seniors
or recent graduates of accredited
colleges in the United States,
who have serious interest in col-
lege teaching as a career, and
who plan to study for a PhD
in a field common to the under-
graduate college.
The fellowships include four
years of financial assistance,
with maximum annual living sti-
pend of $2400 for single Fellows
and $2950 for married Fellows,
plus tuition and fees.
Inquiries are to be made to
Robert J. Barnes, professor of
English, Office No. 20 LA,
Extension Center
Offers New Feature
A reading room for students
was opened Tuesday in the Orange
Extension Center. It will be o-
pen from 3 to 6 p.m. each Mon-
day through Thursday.
The room, supervised by a
Lamar work-study student, has
a small circulating selection of
reserve reading material. Books
checked out of the Extension
Center can be turned in at the
Extension Center can be turned
in at the Lamar library and books'
checked out at the Lamar library
can be turned in at the exten-
sion center.
The Bureau of Land Manage-
ment manages for public use and
general public benefit about 543
million acres of land, including
278 million acres in Alaska and
175 million in the 11 western
states.
Films
JEFFERSON
“The Undefeated”: (G)—Post-
civil war western with John
Wayne (Union) and Rock Hudson
(Confederate) gathering horses in
Mexico. Accent is on action with
3,000 horses stampeding in
climax. Rock Hudson is still try-
ing to change sex-comedy image
from Doris Day flicks, and John
Wayne shows none of the char-
acterization acclaimed in Ture
Grit, which will probably earn
him the academy award popular-
ity poll this year. After 40 years
in the movies, this is his 85th
leading lady for the 60 year-old
plus starr. After a creative flash
in True Grit, what can you ex-
pect except a diched, stereotyped
western to follow?
GAYLYNN
Bullitt: (M) — Mediocre cops-
and-robbers with Steve McQueen
doing his thing, tearing up cars
in Hollywood’s longest chase
scene all over San Francisco.
Bonnie and Clyde: A fine film .
suffering from over-exposure.
It’s hard to believe there is any-
one left who has not seen the
Fay Dunnaway, Warren Beatty,
Michael Pollard, and Estelle
Parsons gang. B & C had some
exceptional photography and edit-
ing techniques, plus some excel-
lent acting, and a lot of blood.
It started the non-violent move-
ment and failed miserable at
the academy awards to more fav-
orable intergration films, In the
Heat of the Night and Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner.
LAMAR
Baby Love: A tiny bopper in
London stirs up a little social
comment and a whole lot of sex;
centered around a 15-year-old
Lolita-type. Lamar slipped from
the excellence of Vanessa Red-
grave in Isodora to this, but
Midnight Cowboy, one of the
year’s highest rated films is on
its way next.
SHOWTOWN
Where Eagles Dare: Richard
Burton and Clint Eastwood action
film.
Cincinnati Kid: Steve McQueen
again, this time gambling away
while Ann Margaret smolders ar-
ound in true Theda-Bera vamp
style.
99 Women: Two excellent act-
resses, Mercedes McCambridge
and Maria Schell wirjd up: in a
mess of a film about lesbianism
in a Yugoslavian prison.
That Cold Day in the Park:
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Sandy Dennis is this drab, mid-
dle-aged spinster who brightens
her life by imprisoning a young
hippie in her lonely pad. When
he won’t give in to her sexual
desires, all hell breaks loose.
Sandy Dennis is a good actress
when given a good vehicle. This
one will suffice; sexual deviation
seems to be the mode of the day
in films now.
On Campus
Oct. 13 Monday: Artist Series,
Mox Morath, artist, monologist,
and musician presents “An Even-
ing at the Turn of The Century.”
Oct. 15, Wed.: Poetry Day Lec-
turer Paul Engle, in the Theatre,
2:15.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy will screen at
the Lamar Theatre Oct, 16-23
by special arrangement with Mr,
Joseph Lyons, Gulf Coast Theater
manager and Lamar Tech Film
Forum Committee. An open dis-
cussion will be conducted Oct. 22
at 7: 30 in Brooks-Shivers
Lounge.
Involved in the project to bring
artistic films to Lamar for col-
lege viewing and discussion on
a regular basis have been James
DeGeorge and William Walker
(English Dept.); CraigLinscomb,
Lloyd Longnion, Bonnie Owenby
(Student Association), James
Carter (Student Union Board) and
Fr. Maurice P. Johnson (New-
man Center).
The Lamar Art Cinema has
been used in the past to show
erotica, sex skin flicks, general
audience and children shows. Mr.
Lyons, in an interview, said he
tried to book what the public
wanted to see. Midnight Cowboy
is the first film in a long-range
project to create local interest
in quality films.
Midnight Cowboy has been a
huge financial and critical suc-
cess. Dustin Hoffman changes his
Graduate image with his virtuoso
characterization or Ratzo, the
doomed, derelict pimp; and new-
comer Jon Voight is stunning as
the not-too-bright Texan stud who
hopes to make it big in New York
hustling rich women.
When he can’t exploit his sex,
he falls miserably, swept down
into bitter, essentially tragic ex-
istence where he meets Ratzo in
the slums of New York.
It is not a film just about
sex. It is a film about two lonely
people who reach out to find in
others a reason for living and a
hope for existence. If your col-
lege: schedule allows you little
free; time, I would recommend
you put Midnight Cowboy at the
top of your list.
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Ramsey, Mike. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1969, newspaper, October 10, 1969; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499450/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.