The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 1975 Page: 4 of 12
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4.UNIVERSITY PRESS April 11,1975
‘Free Enterprise’ group seeks support
“Students For Free Enterprise”, a
new student group in the College of
Business, is seeking interested students
for a new project on campus.
The group is conducting a seminar in
“Free Enterprise”. The Lamar group
is a result of a similar program con-
ducted in Dallas. The parent program
was conducted by National Leadership
Methods in conjunction with South-
western Life Insurance Company.
The seminar will try to determine
what free enterprise is, if anything is
wrong with it, and, if so, what can be
done. The answers to these questions
come as interactions of the participants
in the seminar.
During the seminar, participants will
have the opportunity to meet and talk
with many of the area’s businessmen
and employers.
The seminar is not restricted to
business majors. “Everyone lives in the
free enterprise system and is therefore
capable of viewpoints valuable to the
seminar,” according to Tweed
Chouinard, a spokesman for the group.
The results of the seminar will lead to
a program through which the general
public can learn about and better un-
derstand America’s economy.
Lamar University is not the only
school involved in a project of this type.
Baylor, Louisiana State University,
Southern Methodist University., the
University of Houston, the University of
Oklahoma, and others have similar
projects of their own.
Representatives from Southwestern
Life will review the programs initiated
by each school. The most informative
program developed for the community
by the school will win the competition.
The prize is a $2,500 scholarship to be
granted by the insurance compnay.
The Lamar group professes no
political or socio-economic doctrine. It
is a group attempting to determine
knowledge about America’s economic
environment. Interested persons can
contact Rick Link at 832-6907 or William
Ashley, Business 114.
Beginning next week, the seminar
plans to have a weekly column in the
University Press to look into the
present economic situation in America.
news/features
Expectant mother...
Female octopus given
to Oceanographic Society
LEGS, LEGS, LEGS—Debbie, pet octopus of the Oceonographic
Science Society, spends most of her time hidden under the plastic
box provided as a “cave” for her.
(staff photo by Gerald Gaulding)
“And he ain’t wearing no clothes ...”
Streaking into spring
By Yvonne Harris
Fortunately for me I attended college at a time when the latest craze wasn’t cram-
ming 25 students into a phone booth. It wasn’t having panty raids. And, thank good-
ness, it wasn’t shoving gold fish down one’s throat in the hopes of swallowing just one
more.
As the warm weather grows closer and spring lurks in the shadow of winter, college
campuses all over the country, including Lamar, will be infected with that contagious
spring fever that inspires students to start another block-buster craze.
Last spring, dashing in the nude, or “streaking,” infested the intellectual circles.
There were streakers on the campus, in the parks, and on the streets. There were
streaking parties where the admission was disrobing before engaging in the
festivities. The fashionable thing to do was to streak during a large public gathering
so old ladies could gasp, young men could giggle (at the old ladies, preferably), and
old men could watch in admiration. Streaking was at a peak, receiving publicity from
every form of communication available to man; radio, television, mail services and
from mouth to mouth.
I never dreamed that at Lamar streaking would gain any prominence. When that
slick, pale body zipped through the Student Union last spring, the crowd-in utter
disbelief-went wild. They clamored for more and later got an encore, compliments of
two very fleshy female streakers. And the audience packed the union in delight.
Whether or not streaking will enjoy a comeback this semester remains to be seen.
Maybe it is a little premature, but I hope Lamar won’t catch the tail end of the matter!
by Joel Thibodeaux
An octopus is the recent acquisition of
the Lamar Oceanographic Science
Society (LOSS) according to Gary
Long, president.
Steve Golden, who attended Lamar
for two years, donated the female
creature. He captured the octopus
on a trip to Florida during the Easter
holidays.
LOSS members have named the oc-
topus Debbie although one member
persists in calling her Olivia Newton
Octopus. Exact measurements were
unavailable, but the creature is ap-
proximately two feet long.
The book, “Octopus and Squid: The
Soft Intelligence,” by Jacques-Yves
Costeau and Phillipe Diole, says that
octopuses have a life-span pf only three
years. They lay eggs in bunches, each
bunch resembling an overgrown grain
of rice and each containing as many as
4,000 embryo per bunch.
Debbie has laid about thirty bunches
of eggs, and even more, which she has
hidden.
The tank has a card warning against
observers putting their hands in it, and
for a good reason.
Cousteau and Diole’s book describes
the gripping action of the many suction
cups “as being like a noose: the more
one tries to free himself, the tighter the
hold becomes.”
Debbie may be seen in Room 110 of
the Geology building during the early
afternoon on class days. She spends
much of her time hidden under the
plastic box provided as a “cave” for
her to retreat to.
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