Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1980 Page: 1 of 6
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Texas legislature
oversight causes
funding problems
By ANN BOND
of the UP staff
v I Texas universities not covered under the
permanent university fund presently have
no way to receive general revenue funds
for new construction, Lamar President Dr.
C. Robert Kemble, said.
Because of an oversight of the Texas
legislature when it drastically reduced the
ad valorem tax fund which had been used
by the universities for new construction
funding, stipulations remain in the state
constitution which prohibit such ap-
propriations.
“The legislature has gotten itself and the
state universities into a real catch-22
position,” Kemble said. “However, Lamar
will not be affected because, although we
have plans for renovations and repairs to
existing structures, no new construction is
planned for the near future.”
The ad valorem tax fund, formerly used
to fund new construction not covered by
^ PUF, has been reduced to a total of only
{200 a year. Kemble said that he feels sure
that the legislature will move to correct
the mixup by the fall session of 1981. But in
the meantime, state universities will have
no access to new construction funding.
Colleges affected by the funding
situation are Arlington State, Texas Tech,
North Texas State, f.Texas A&I, Texas
Woman’s University, Texas Southern,
Midwestern, University of Houston, Pan
American, East Texas State, Sam
Houston, Southwest Texas, West Texas
State, Stephen F. Austin, Sul Ross, Angelo
State and Lamar.
Colleges besides Lamar that are af-
fected by the funding situation are the
University of Texas at Arlington; Texas
Tech, Lubbock; North Texas State, Den-
ton; Texas A&I, Kingsville; Texas
Woman’s University, Denton; Texas
Southern University, Houston; Mid-
western, Wichita Falls; and the University
of Houston.
Also affected are Pan American, Edin-
burg; East Texas State, Commerce; Sam
Houston State, Huntsville; Southwest
Texas State, San Marcos; West Texas
State, Canyon; Stephen F. Austin,
Nacogdoches;j Sul Ross, Alpine; and
Angelo State, San Angelo.
Board okays bids
Construction projects approved
The Lamar Board of Regents, in a
meeting Thursday, approved bids on. four
construction projects totaling almost $1.5
million, O.K. Baxley, vice president for
finance, said.
The first bid was for expansion to the
t chemistry central plant for a total of
$1,200,130. The project is to expand the cen-
tral plant building to house a 1,000-ton
chiller and to construct a 1,000-ton cooling
tower.
Piping and electrical wiring will be ex-
panded from the new central plant to the
Geology, Physics and Psychology
buildings, and a new electrical feeder and
air conditioning and heating facilities will
be extended to accommodate the planned
f ■ expansion of the Communications com-
plex. The project was awarded to H.B.
Neild & Sons Inc.
The second project was for expansion to
parking lot 55. The addition to this parking
lot was made necessary by the planned ex-
pansion to the Cherry Engineering
Building, which will use space where the
current parking lot is located. Lot ex-
pansion bid was awarded to the Gatlin
Asphalt Co. for its bid of $91,009.
The Gatlin Asphalt Co. was also awar-
ded the project of site drainage for the ex-
panded lot for its bid of $19,732.
The Hubbard Electric Co. was then
awarded the project of electrical lighting
for the lot for its bid of $20,716.
The third project for which bids were ap-
proved was the furnishings for the sixth
and seventh floors of Gray Library. A bid
of $120,332.70 was approved from Lamb Of-
fice Furnishings Equipment Co.
The fourth project involved the reroofing
of three buildings on campus. The project
of reroofing the ROTC Building, the Home
Economics Building, and the Galloway
Business Building was awarded to Gulf
Coast Roofing for its bid of $99,600.
Photos of Saturn—
These pictures of Saturn, beamed to
Earth from a billion miles away
by space satellite Voyager I, were
transmitted'by way of electronic
signals to large receiving antennae,
located at the California Institute of
Technology’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
The signals were then decoded into
images which were displayed on
television monitors in the JPL
mission control. Photographic
prints were made from the images
and were retransmitted by the
JPL Ham Radio Club on ham
radio frequencies to operators all
across the world. The Lamar Uni-
versity Ham Radio Club, utilizing
a Slow Scan Television Converter •
fSSTV), decoded the audio signal
and recorded the images on cassette-
tape, making possible the viewing
of the images on a converter's
screen. UP photographer Fernando
Prado shot these pictures from the
screen, located in Lucas Engineer-
ing Building.
Saturn’s dynamic rings—
Top photo— A close-up of Saturn from a Voyager
I photo shows the planet's intricate sets of
rings. Studies indicate that six sets of rings
exist, not five, as previously theorized.
Left photo— A Voyager I photo captures the
beauty and mystique of Saturn, second-largest
planet of the solar system.
Above photo—A no ther close-up of Saturn shows
two of Saturn's 10 discernible moons,
Tethys and Dione.
Phi Kappa Phi to initiate 57 juniors, seniors Monday
Fifty-seven juniors and seniors will be
initiated into the National Honor Society of
Phi Kappa Phi Monday, 7 p.m. on the
Eighth Floor of Gray Library, R.B.
Thomas, secretary-treasurer, said.
Those to be initiated are Mary Wilson,
Arlington, accounting; Kelvin Collard,
Channel view, accounting; Daniel Dewey,
'> Dickinson, mechanical engineering;
Grace Lichey, Silsbee, elementary
education; and Daryll Jones, Splendora,
marketing.
Also Cheryl Biehle, Vidor, art
education; Karen Simmons, Vidor,
elementary education; Mark Barbay, Port
Neches, chemical engineering; Amy
Echols, Port Neches, home economics;
Lori Finley, Port Neches, psychology; and
Amy Russell, Lumberton, home
economics.
Port Arthur inductees include Angela
Dolce, biology; Mary Gambrell, computer
science; Victor Pittman, computer scien-
ce; Paul Pitts, commericial art; and
David Charles Truncate, accounting.
Initiates from Orange are Travis
Brumley, accounting; Craig Fisette,
chemistry and French; Deborah Green-
wood, mathematics; Sheryl McCall,
elementary education; Louis Mclntire,
biology; and Vera Pence, special
education.
Nederland initiates include Carol Brock,
music; Richard Daniel, music—piano and
voice; Jonnie Miller, elementary
education; Debra Radomski, nursing; and
Michael Sher, chemistry.
Initiates from Bridge City are Connie
Bull, biology; Timothy Cagle, electrical
engineering; and Denise Lormand,
mathematics.
Inductees from Groves are Timothy
Adams, government prelaw; Rochelle
Hanson, elementary education; and Neil
Martin, chemical engineering.
Those from Beaumont are Melanie Alo,
mathematical science and biology; Ruthie
Bach, nursing; Ann Bond, mass com-
munications; Rachel Durso, elementary
education; and Michael Gian, civil
engineering.
Others from Beaumont are Khanh Si
Hoang, mechanical engineering; Daniel
Holland, physics; Susan Holliday, elemen-
tary education; Betty Lee, electrical
engineering; and Karen McCain,
management.
And Mark Lindsey, mechanical
engineering; Timothy Long, mechanical
engineering; and Catherine Marchetti,
elementary education.
Also from Beaumont are Lisa Moore,
nursing; Phyllis Norman, English; Mar-
jorie Peterson, English; Saundra Philyaw,
nursing; and Lou Ann Rainey, physical
education.
Additional Beaumont inductees are
Bonita Reinert, nursing; Lewis Saretsky,
accounting; Sara Toro, Spanish; Arthur
Walker, music-voice; Cheryl Wilder,,
chemistry; and Keith Winfree, geology.
The featured speaker at the induction
will be Beauregard Brown, affirmative ac-
tion manager at Lamar, who will speak on
his past experiences.
Brown is a former career Army officer,
serving as former battalion commander at
Fort Bragg, N.C. While in that position, he
was placed in charge of the clean-up of the
mass suicides at Guyana in 1978, and also
the clean-up of the disaster at Tenerife in
the Canary Islands, where two Boeing 7if
airliners collided in 1977.
Area woman files suit
against tampon maker
In SGA address
Crawford discusses tuition increase
United Press International
A $200,000 damage suit has been filed
against Proctor & Gamble by a woman
who contends use of the company’s
Rely tampdn caused her hospitalization
for toxic shock syndrome.
Jeanne Spaulding of Port Arthur said
in the suit filed Tuesday she was
hospitalized from Oct. 22 to Nov. 4 with
a fever of up to 104 degrees.
She also said her fingernails turned
brown and curled up, she could not eat
or walk, had frequent headaches and a
sore throat and at one point her neck
was so swollen she could not move her
head.
Attorneys said it was the first suit
against Rely filed in the eastern district
of Texas since the controversy began
about the use of tampons.
Rely has been ordered off shelves
because of its link to the disease, which,
although rare, can be fatal. Several
million dollars in lawsuits already are
pending against Proctor and Gamble
by other women, or their survivors,
who suffered from the disease.
The suit was filed in the court of U.S.
District Judge Robert M. Parker.
Persons will' face two major obstacles in
fighting the proposed tuition increase to be
introduced in the 67th legislature, Bo
Crawford, District 7B state senator, said
Tuesday.
The governor and the oil and gas lobby
will present obstacles in a fight against
tuition increase, he said to members of the
Student Government Association on the
Eighth Floor of Gray Library.
The governor has said that he will veto
measures that increase taxes, Crawford
said. Increased revenue is needed for
higher education, and an increase in
tuition would raise this revenue.
The oil and gas lobby will also work for
increased tuition, Crawford said. If tuition
is not raised, then an alternative source
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may be in the form of a tax on crude oil.
Tuition pays for a portion of the total
cost of a student’s education. Ten years
ago a student’s tuition paid for 16 percent
of the total cost of his education. Today, a
student’s tuition pays for four percent of
his education, Crawford said.
In regard to the tuition increase
proposed in Senate Bill 101, Crawford said,
“I haven’t fully made up my mind.”
He said he wants to "continue to explore
other ways to get revenue.”
Crawford also addressed the issue of
funds for building.
He said a permanent university fund
(PUF) was established from oil and gas
royalties for building purposes. Interest
from the royalties generates $70 million
annually. The University of Texas, Austin,
receives two-thirds of this interest and
Texas A&M, College Station, receives one-
third, Crawford said.
Other universities do not have a building
fund; these must approach the legislature
on an item-per-item basis.
Crawford said that he would like to see a
state higher education assistance fund
(SHEAF) enacted. SHEAF would provide
funds for building and provide an op-
portunity for long-range building plans,
Crawford said.
Crawford also addressed the redistric-
ting issue and the appropriations bill. He
felt that these would be major issues in the
legislature.
Cooler temperatures ex-
pected through the
weekend. Daytime highs to
reach the low 60s with lows
ranging from the mid 40s to
upper 30s.
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