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Entertainment
FotoFest returns to Houston
Nov. 10-30 with exhibitions of
world-reknown photographers and a
special viewing of the world’s first
photograph.
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Sports
Women’s volleyball assistant coach
Lee Beaumont hopes to help LU go
back to the NCAA tournament.
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Quote of the day—
“Life’s great pleasure lies in telling peo-
ple consequential things they don’t espe-
cially want to hear, showing them what
they don’t want to see, then getting them
to pay you for it.”
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Lamar University Beaumont, Texas
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Southwestern Bell
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gives equipment
*
to fine arts college
Stephan Malick
*UP editor
Lamar University-Beaumont
and Southwestern Bell have
Scheduled a joint news confer-
♦efice for Friday to announce the
^donation of $135,000 in video
equipment to the College of
'’Fine Arts and Communication
►to outfit its new video produc-
tion lab.
The news conference will be
Aheld at 11 a.m. in 107 Art
iBuilding. Attending the event
♦will be Bill Cale, LU-B execu-
tive vice president for academic
and student affairs; Don
►McFarlin, regional manager for
^Southwestern Bell; Jimmy
Simmons, dean of the College
of Fine Arts and
^Communication; and state Sen.
>Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur.
Cale will be receiving the award
for Lamar because LU-B
President Rex Cottle will be out
of town.
“Lamar University is at the
forefront in using technology
for instructional purposes,” said
McFarlin, regional manager for
Southwestern Bell in
Beaumont. “Plus, my company
is partnering with Lamar on an
interactive video project with
Buna High School. It just made
good sense to share our equip-
ment resources with this institu-
tion,” he said.
Larry King, professor of
communication, wrote the pro-
posal, requesting a donation
from Southwestern Bell.
King said the idea was the
result of efforts by Parker and
See DONATION, page 2
^Governing Board
-to consider student office
policy for Setzer Center
Stephanie Mullins
'UP managing editor
The search continues for some
student organizations seeking
‘office space in the Setzer Student
♦Center.
A few organizations wrote let-
ters to the Setzer Student Center
^Governing Board this past
♦spring, formally requesting office
.space. Ruth McCauley, former
director of the Setzer Student
‘Center, submitted the letters to
«the Setzer Student Center
.Governing Board for a vote.
Chris Browning, chair of the
*SSC Governing Board, said the
►board voted to give temporary
♦ space to the organizations that
requested space, but then the
offer was put on hold.
“There was no policy as to
whether student organizations
could have office space, so the
governing board decided that,
until we could get a policy
together, we weren’t going to let
anyone use it,” Browning said.
The SSC Governing Boa $
oversees the SSC and Lamar
Alive! and makes policy for the
SSC. The board consists of stu-
dent representatives, faculty
members, the director of the SSC
and the dean of students.
Joseph Kavanaugh, associate
vice president and dean of stu-
dents, said the SSC Governing
Board is thinking of maybe tum-
See OFFICES, page 2
FotoFest
1994
♦ ♦ * * ♦
FOTOFES
Photos courtesy of FotoFest
Text by Stephan Malick
FotoFest returns to Houston Nov. 10-30 at the George R.
Brown Convention Center. The biennial exhibit is one of the
largest of its kind in the world and is expected to draw more
than 50,000 visitors.
A major feature of the 1994 exhibit, American Voices:
Latino/Chjcano/Hispanic Photography in the U.S., displays
works from photographers, Hector Mendez Caratini, above,
and Ricardo Valverde, at right.
FotoFest returns to Houston, Nov. 10-30
There is no doubt Texans love to brag
about how big everything is down here, and
FotoFest 1994 is another excuse for such an
occasion. FotoFest is one of the world’s
largest photography exhibitions, and it will
run Nov. 10-30 at the George R. Brown
Convention Center in Houston, highlighting
works on the environment, Spanish-speak-
ing cultures of the Americas and the evolu-
tion of fashion photography.
FotoFest is a biennial event that was first
formed in 1984. The exhibition provides a
showcase for previously undiscovered artists
from around the world and serves as a
means for the artists to exhibit their work to
the general public, to photography profes-
sionals, educators, curators and gallery own-
ers.
FotoFest also serves young and emerging
photographers by sponsoring the
International Meeting Place, a place where
photography professionals review portfolios
and meet with photographers individually.
The Global Environment is a three-part
exhibition combining art, science and tech-
nology as a forum to address environmental
concerns. The exhibit uses photography and
three-dimensional and interactive comput-
er stations to present a holistic view of the
environment and the forces affecting envi-
ronmental change.
See FOTOFEST, page 3 —
League of Women Voters targets juvenile crime issues
Holly Simmons
JJP staff writer
Juvenile crime is a rising fac-
tor in today’s Texas crime
scene.
According to Ruthann Geer,
chair of the League of Women
Voters Education Fund, juve-
nile violence is “roaring along
like an out-of-control train with
no brakes — and you and I are
on it.”
In 1973, the Texas
Legislation adopted Title 3 of
the Texas Family Code. This
called for a rehabilitative,
rather than punitive, fofmation
of the Juvenile Justice System,
and strict confidentiality on the
identities of juvenile offenders,,
according to League of Women
Voters literature.
In 1992, ^one violent crime
referral was made to a Texas
Juvenile Probation Department
every 73 minutes. These include
ed one homicide referral every
Juvenile
CRIME
iis*
Editors note: This is Part I of a
three»part series, concerning juve-
nile crime in Texas. Part II will
appear in the Nov. 4 issue of the
|| University Press.
28 hours, one sexual assault
referral every six hours, one
robbery referral every four
hours and one aggravated
assault referral every three
hours, according to information
the Texas Juvenile Probation
Commission released ip 1992.
There is a growing number of
offenders, and the offenders a're
also getting younger. In 1993,
more than 2,100 children under
age 10 were arrested, and Texas
law requires that a child has to
be at least 10 years old to enter
means that
the state has
no way of
punishing
offenders
below that
age.
Many
delinquents,
even the chil-
dren in the
under-10 age
^ group, find
themselves in gangs. Gangs are
groups of people that have a
leader or leaders and have iden-
tifying signs. Violence plays a
major role in many gangs
because of what’s at stake:
drugs or territory.
In 1991, state juvenile proba-
tion departments officially
identified 1,450 juvenile gangs
in Texas.
Guns are now more responsi-
ble for deaths than from all nat-
ural diseases combined, accord-
the juvenile justice system. This /mg to the Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta. Since 1985,
the risk of being shot to death
has increased 77 percent for
teenagers.
tJunshot wounds have
replaced motor vehicle acci-
dents as the leading cause of
deaths for youths in Texas.
“Juvenile crime is not up
much; but in the higher end of it
—^murder, there is a jump in
crime,” said Rick Altemose,
professor of criminal justice' at
Lamar. ^
Schools are also dealing
with juvenile, crime. One
cause for delinquency, is
behavioral or academic prob-
lems at school.>
Approximately 3 million
crimes occur on or near
school property,'and some
135,000 guns are brought
into schools each year,
according to author Kerr
Thomas in the February 1994
issue of “School- and
College.”
Brooks addresses rural drug
abuse, crime bill benefits
Tracy E. Harbin
UP staff writer
The Southeast Regional
Alcohol and ’ Drug Abuse
Advisory Committee conducted
a hearing Thursday at the John
Gray Institute. The hearing was
an effort to better understand
and address drug abuse problems
in rural areas, Jimmy Willbom,
director of the Texas Narcotics
Control Program, said. The pur-
pose of the hearing was to give
interested citizens an opportuni-
ty to comment on drug problems
in rural areas of the state, he said.
U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks, D-
Beaumont, addressed the drug
problem* *in rural areas by
explaining the newly passed fed-
eral crime bill. He said drug
related crimes have passed rapid-
ly through small towns and rural
areas. While the bill was under
consideration, two realities had
to be recognized, he said.
“First, the current fiscal situa-
tion dictated we had to avoid
producing a budget-busting bill
that would add billions of dollars
to our federal debt. Second, we
had to recognize the inescapable
fact that crime prosecuted at the
federal level constitutes only 4
percent of the federal crime in
the United States. The other 96
percent is at a state and local
level,” he said.
Brooks said that while the
crime bill only deals with 4 per-
cent of crime, one purpose of the
bill is to help communities in
their frontline roles of fighting
crime.
“With the exception of the ill-
received ban on assault weapons,
which I’m proud to say I fought
every step of the way, I believe
the final package was a break-
See BROOKS, page 2
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