Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1978 Page: 4 of 6
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LU Briefs
UNIVERSITY PRESS September 29,1978*4
LUGS election
The Lamar University Geological
Society elected its 1978-79 officers at the first
meeting of the year, held earlier this month.
Elected were C.A. Rigsby, Beaumont senior,
president; Keith E. Winfree, Beaumont junior, vice
president; and Patrick A. Wright, Beaumont junior,
treasurer; Debbie Foulk, Port Neches junior,
secretary; and Karl Baltz, Vidor senior, publicity.
LUGS invites interested Lamar students to join in
its semi-annual softball game against the Lamar
Oceanographic Science Society at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 1.
The location will be announced.
For more details, contact C.A. Rigsby in 105
Geology Building.
LUGS will hold its next meeting at the home of
Beaumont junior Andy Baumer, for a covered-dish
supper and fellowship.
Finance Association
The Finance Association will have a meeting on
Tuesday, Oct. 3, in Room 118 Galloway Business
Building, at 7 p.m. All business majors are welcome
to attend.
Sigma Nil pledges
Sigma Nu fraternity has announced two ad-
ditional pledges for the fall. They are Chris Perkins
and Stuart Tillman, both freshmen from Orange.
A pledge acceptance party will be held Saturday
night, the theme being “Surpressed Desires,” at the
fraternity house.
Sunday afternoon the pledges will play Phi Delta
Theta’s pledges in a football game behind Morris
Hall.
Alpha Tau Omega
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity has named its
pledges for the fall semester.
They include Alex Guidroz, Tom Messina, David
Mielenz, Will Newcomer, and Scott Weeks, all
Beaumont freshmen.
Other irishmen are Walter Sticker and Lance
Morgan, both of Nederland; Kevin Collard,
Houston; and Rusty Collazo, Groves.
Sophomores pledging are Bobby White, Mike
Lababera, and Jimmy White, all from Beaumont;
and Roy Davis, Nederland.
Junior pledges are Rod Howard, Beaumont; and
Mike Pickard, Groves.
Economics Association
Don Barnett, Beaumont sophomore, was elected
president of the Economics Association.
The other new officers are Janis Wynn, Beaumont
graduate student, vice president; and David Green,
Port Arthur sophomore, secretary-treasurer.
Dr. Sam Parigi, head of the department of
economics, said that the association plans to have a
series of speakers and field trips, as well as a social
later in the semester.
Bookworms choose romance
By PATRICIA McCORMACK
UPI Education Editor
Give your usual American a
book about the Lord or about a
romantic adventure and it’s a good
bet the book will be read.
Love of the Lord and love of a
good romantic story tied for first
place in an American Library
Association study of what subjects
appeal most these days to
America’s bookworms.
The ALA said romantic novels,
like “The Thorn Birds,” by Colleen
McCullough, and historical roman-
ces are the country’s favorite fic-
tion. In the non-fiction category,
the Bible and a variety of religious
books scored just as high.
Next on the popularity list:
horror tales, including those with
supernatural themes. Books by
J.R.R. Tolkien drew the most men-
tion of any one author of fiction. In
non-fiction, the topics drawing the
most mentions were World War II
and books on Nazi Germany.
Among the classics, favorites in-
clude works by Dickens, Tolstoy,
D.H. Lawrence, Flaubert,
Hawthorne, and Huxley.
Over the decades, the ALA said,
the all-time popular American
works include “Gone With the
Wind ,” “Catcher in the Rye,”
“Rebecca,” and “Catch 22.”
The study on popular reading
matter was conducted for the ALA
by the Gallup Organization. Part
of a large probe of the public’s per-
ception of libraries, it was done
in preparation for the 1979 White
House Conference on Libraries.
Other highlights:
There’s a trend among
American bookworms to get to the
nub of a story fast. This conclusion
stems from a finding that books
condensing fiction and non-fiction
are pretty popular.
About one out of three American
adults read a book a month or
more. About one out of four read
two or more a month.
Women are more likely than
men to read upward of 50 books a
year, especially those in the 18-to-
34 age bracket. Women also tend to
borrow books from friends.
About a quarter of the respon-
dents said television influenced a
book selection in the past year.
“Roots” was the example most
cited.
About 38 percent said they read
to their children under age seven
every day, as recommended by
child development experts. But,
about the same percentage said
they read to the children far less
frequently, if at all.
Only a third of the parents in-
terviewed believe watching less
television would encourage their
children to read more. Twenty-
seven percent didn’t know what ef-
fect watching less television would
have on reading.
Commenting on the survey
results, ALA Executive Director
Robert Wedgeworth said, “The
large number of parents who are
not reading to their young children
and the fact that 27 percent didn’t
know the reading level of their
oldest child is consistent with the
country’s growing problem of fun-
ctional illiteracy.”
The Gallup survey, conducted by
phone during July and August,
also found library users tend to be
satisfied with services and want
them kept intact.
“These wishes must be con-
trasted with the growing demand
for property tax cuts,” Wedgewor-
th said.
‘Rugger9 to speak on human resources
What does a rugby coach
have in common with a
business club concerned
with personnel?
The coach of Lamar’s
rugby team, Paul T. Lof-
tus, will be guest speaker
at the American Society for
Personnel Administration’s
Oct. 2 meeting. The
meeting will be held at 6:30
p.m. in 118 Galloway
Business Building.
Loftus, now working on
his masters in industrial
psychology, researched his
thesis while in Ireland last
summer. Furr said Loftus’
speech will be based on his
interviews with spokesmen
from numberous U.S. com-
panies in Ireland.
The speech, “The Human
Resource Problems Among
U.S. Multinational Com-
panies in Ireland,” will
focus primarily on per-
sonnel administration,
rather than industrial
psychology, Furr said.
Before coming to Lamar,
Loftus worked as an ac-
count executive at Osborn
and Lange Limited, in-
surance brokers. He
received a bachelor of com-
merce degree from the
College of Dublin and a
bachelor of arts degree in
psychology from Concordia
University in Montreal,
Furr said.
Loftus is a native of
Ireland who immigrated to
Canada. He is still a mem-
ber of several
organizations, Furr said.
Those organizations in-
clude the Montreal Board
of Trade and the Traffic
Club of Montreal, a
business transportation
association.
Loftus holds an
associated Insurance
Broker’s license, given by
the Insurance Brokers’
Association. He is a com-
missioner for OATHS for
the Judicial District of
Montreal, an honorary
position for a lower court
jurisdiction.
He is also in the Montreal
Irish Rugby Football Club.
At Lamar, Loftus is a
member of ASPA and the
English Club International
and is president of'the in-
ternational club, Furr said.
After completing his
studies at Lamar, Loftus
will return to Montreal as a
consulting industrial
psychologist.
Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity initiated five little
sisters and pledged 12 others Sunday, Sept. 24.
Those initiated are Mary Peirce, Baytown
sophomore; Marybeth Rizzotto, Beaumont
sophomore; Nancy Ayres, Beaumont senior; Katie
Moore, Kirbyville sophomore; and Betty Bryan,
Beaumont sophomore.
New little sister pledges are Mitzie Hryhorchuk
and Michele Evans, Beaumont sophomores; Kathi
Kobrin, Beaumont junior; Debbie Losa, Memphis
junior; Linda Toney, Orange junior; Sharon Ar-
cher, Spring freshman; Margaret Broder, Sour
Lake senior; Susan Collins, Houston junior; Susan
Erickson, Nederland junior; Bonnie Fahey,
Beaumont freshman^ Terri Neely, Lumberton
'senior; Kathleen Martinez, Port Arthur
sophomore; and Kqy Stelly, Beaumont freshman.
Eta Psi
The Eta Psi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta will
give a dance in Dining Hall B on Saturday night im-
immediately following the Prairie View, Grambling
football game.
Alpha Chi Omega
Two Alpha Chi’s have been selected Pike little
sister pledges. They are Nederland junior Susan
Erickson and Beaumont freshman Jeanne Webb.
Beaumont senior Nancy Ayres is a recent Pike little
sister initiate.
Rush adviser Nikki Ramey of Beaumont assisted
Port Arthur junior Cindy Lafitte with formal rush
and Beaumont sophomore Rehnea Shafer with in-
formal rush.
Chapter adviser is Pat Bourne of Beaumont,;
graduate of Purdue University. Bourne replaces
Peggy Temple of Port Neches, a Lamar graduate.
Other Beaumont advisers include Nancy Maines,
pledge adviser; Merle Booker, interior decorator
adviser; Mary Theresa Mason, housing adviser;'
Norma Hawthorne, scholarship adviser; and
Theresa Hinds, social adviser.
Tech Arts slates personnel safety course
A two-day Key Man-
Development Course in
safety and accident
prevention for supervisory
personnel will be offered by
the Occupational Safety
and Health Program of the
College of Technical Arts in
conjunction with the Texas
Safety Association.
The meeting will be held
in Building T1 of the
Technical Arts complex.
The date set for these
sessions is Oct. 10 and 11,
and classes will be held,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day.
Topics covered will in-
clude human relations,
maintaining interest in
safety, industrial house-
keeping, materials han-
dling and storage, and fire
prevention and control.
Information, including
the 404-page Supervisor’s
Safety Manual, will be
provided to each student
for future reference on the
job.
Tuition for the course is
$60 for TSA members and;
$75 for non-members. A ’
registration fee of $25 will*
be charged and should ac-
company the registration.
Application for registration
should be obtained from
the Texas Safety
Association, P.O. Box 9345,
Austin, Tex. 78766.
telephone (512) 451-7423.
Instructor for the course
is Mr. Jack Methner, cer-
tified safety professional,
retired from E. I DuPont
de Nemours & Co. Sabine
River Works with 35 years
of service in safety, fire
and security.
Methner was in-
strumental in the planning
and implementing of the
annual fire school at
Lamar. He has presented
numerous papers on fire
and safety at regional,
state and national
meetings including the
Mexican National Safety
Congress.
BCP sets
auditions
Auditions for the
Beaumont Community
Players’ production of
“Don’t Drink the Water”
will be held at 2 p.m. Sun-
day and 7:30 p.m. Monday
in the Little Theater, on the
Fairgrounds.
The Woody Allen comedy
about tourism and the Cold
War will be directed by
Walter Doiron. Per-
formance dates are Nov. 30
and Dec. 1,2,8, and 9.
For further information
call 892-3918.
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work? What are the problems? The rewards?
Let the Spring-Summer 1978 Cardinal an-
swer your questions, in a frank and open in-
terview with five Lamar “couples.”
It’s all there in the new Cardinal, coming
to campus October 2. Look for it.
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On sale Monday, October 2, at
University Bookstore
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