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Wednesday, February 5, 1992 Lamar University • Beaumont, Texas Vol. 68, No. 26
Newman's oil painting "Window Garden” will soon hang in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
U.S. ambassador buys Newman painting
Organizations
handbook
revised
By Dawn Shoup
UP staff writer
The Office ‘of Student
Organization Services has made revi-
sions in the Student Organization
Handbook. The handbook is a refer-
ence guide for campus organizations
as they plan and implement activi-
ties. The handbook also provides the
organizations with information
regarding university services.
“The handbook hasn’t been
revised in eight years,” said Billye
Potts, assistant director of Student
Organization Services. “The hand-
book has basically been updated.”
Potts feels that two revisions are
most important: the revision of poli-
cies and procedures of solicitation
and the revision of policy for late-
night events in the Setzer Student
Center.
Under the first revision, student
organizations seeking contributions
of money or goods and services from
area residents or businesses must fill
out fundraising project proposals and
return them to the Student
Organization Services office.
The students in an organization
must carry their Lamar identification
cards and a letter of certification with
them while collecting contributions.
The letter of certification is used to
assure supporters that they are con-
tributing to an organization at Lamar
for a certain purpose.
“We’ve had several calls from
people in the community who are
upset,” Potts said. “People come by
trying to sell stuff and say they are
from Lamar, but in reality they have
nothing to do with Lamar.”
“This protects the students and
university.”
The Setzer Center governing
board’s revision of the policy for late-
night events in the Setzer Center
requires sponsoring organizations to
use a metal detector to screen per-
sons admitted to their events. Five
security officers are required to mon-
itor events. They will oversee the
parking lot, crowd and front door.
“We’ve had some problems in the
past with outside people coming in
and starting trouble,” Potts said.
The revised handbook was made
available to organizations Jan. 29.
Spanish mission,
El Orcoquisac,
topic of lecture
today in library
By Michael Wright
UP staff writer
On Feb. 5 Margaret Henson will
give a lecture on El Orcoquisac
Spanish mission and presidio. The
lecture will begin at 10:10 a.m. on
the eighth floor of the Gray Library.
It will be the third of four lectures in
the Lamar University Cultural
Awareness Lecture Series.
El Orcoquisac was established in
1756 in the Anahuac area to keep
French traders from encroaching on
Spanish territory. The mission was
maintained until 1771.
According to Jo Ann Stiles,
Lamar assistant professor of history,
the Spanish governor was illegally
involved with the French traders
and lobbied hard for the mission in
order to hide his involvement.
“They brought it (the rnTssTUrr)--
down here and put it in a god-awful
place,” Stiles said. “It was right
down on the edge of the bay, and it
was swampy and mosquito-infest-
ed.”
Henson is a retired professor
from the University of Houston at
Clear Lake. She has written several
books on the history of Southeast
Texas, specializing in the time of
the Republic of Texas, revolutionary
Texas and Mexican Texas.
“She is an extraordinary teacher
and a good lecturer and an all-
around good scholar of Texas histo-
ry,” Stiles said.
The lecture is open to the public
and free of charge.
By Susan Martinez
UP staff writer
Jerry Newman’s “Window
Garden” will soon establish a “feel-
ing of America” within the United
States Embassy ih Moscow.
Since 1962, Newman has served
as professor of art at Lamar. A recipi-
ent of the university’s Board of
Regents’ Teaching Excellence
Award, he holds a bachelor’s degree
in fine arts from the University of
Texas and a master’s in fine arts from
By Andy Owen
UP contributing writer
The education department at
Lamar University has introduced a
new program for student teaching
that some find exciting and others
find disappointing.
The new program will place the
students in groups of 12 per school.
the University of South Carolina.
Robert Strauss, the new ambas-
sador of the United States Embassy
in Moscow, recently chose one of
Newman’s largest oil creations, titled
“Window Garden,” for his personal
residence. Centered in the “main
room” ofSpaso House, it will provide
American and foreign negotiators
with a “feeling of America.”
“Our representatives serve as
extensions and satellites of the U.S.,”
Newman said, “and therefore they
will want American art.”
This will allow' tTierirto take their
classroom management courses and
student-teach at the same time. They
will also observe their cooperating
teachers a semester ahead of time.
“This is the first time the stu-
dents will be placed with their coop-
erating teachers before they student-
teach,” said Charles Burke, director
of professional services and admis-
The Meredith Long & Co.
Gallery in Houston^one of Newman’s
nearest affiliates, provided for the
sale of the “Window Garden.”
At 6 feet tall and 16 feet long, the
“Window Garden” was completed in
approximately two-and-a-half
months.
The inspiration and the concept
behind the painting was quite sim-
ple.
In the summer of 1984 Newman
was teaching for the Lamar
University art department in London.
sions in the College of Education
and Human Development
“This is an exciting time for stu-
dent teaching,” said Mark Cooper,
associate professor of professional
pedagogy. “This program is a
tremendous step in the right direc-
tion.”
However, while the education
department of Lamar is eagerly
He spent a few days examining the
landscapes of Bath, England.
“The hotel we stayed in had a
huge window box, 20 or 30 feet long,
with an iron and concrete slab below
that,” Newman said. “A spray of
flowers that was growing there would
just blind you as you walked up on
it.”
Newman used oil on canvas to
recreate the vivid effect of the flow-
ers. The massive length of the live
box was captured on the canvas by
connecting two large panels painted
putting its program into place, sever-
al area school districts say they are
unhappy with what Lamar is doing.
Only Port Arthur and Beaumont
school districts will receive student
teachers under the plan. This leaves
many area districts out of the stu-
dent teaching program.
“We would have liked to have
had student teachers,” said Zack
By Tom Riley
UP staff writer
In recent days much attention
has been focused on the assassina-
tion -of President John F. Kennedy
and all the rumors and facts sur-
rounding his death.
Many questions concerning the
accuracy of the Warren Report have
resurfaced. Was there a conspiracy?
Was there only one gunman? Did
Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy?
Who else was involved?
Another intriguing question is
what the public thinks about the
whole situation.
In a random, unscientific survey
conducted at Lamar, the over-
whelming majority of students and
staff questioned feel that the assassi-
nation was a conspiracy of some sort.
“I definitely believe that it was a
conspiracy; things were hidden from
the public eye,” said John Rogers,
Liberty freshman.
Many of them were not specific
as to personal beliefs concerning
who was involved and what actually
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Earth's protective ozone layer is
becoming depleted over populated
areas of norhtern New England,
Canada and Europe, raising con-
cerns about heightened risk of skin
cancer and other dangers, NASA
researchers said Monday.
Releasing data from two NASA
projects, the scientists said they
so that the separation was not visible.
The rough texture of the concrete
base was achieved by applying 40 to
50 layers of a very thick “pasto
paint.” (That’s approximately one-
and-a-half inches thick to the human
eye.)
The proper illumination provides
this “cement look” as a perfect repli-
ca of the real thing.
“I never realized what type of
concept it would be,” Newman said.
See NEWMAN, page 6
Byrd, superintendent of Port
Neches-Groves Independent School
District. “We feel we give students a
good opportunity and experience.”
Nederland assistant superinten-
dent Jerry Smith said he did not
know what Lamar’s new plan was,
but that Nederland could work out
See EDUCATION, page 6
took place on that November day in
Dallas, but a few were boldly vocal.
“Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t do it
at all,” said Stephanie Rawson, Port
Arthur senior.
“I think money had something to
do with it. ... I think it was the CIA
paying some Cubans,” said Joey
Crawford, Fannett freshman.
Much of the interest in the
Kennedy murder was stirred up by
“JFK,” the controversial movie
directed by Oliver Stone.
“Stone lays facts down without
forcing any opinion as to what hap-
pened,” Rogers said.
Most of the people interviewed
showed a genuine curiosity as to
what is in the House Select
Committee on Assassinations sealed
file that contains evidence that will
not be opened until the year 2029.
“They should open it (now), but
it won’t happen,” Rogers said.
“Bush was head of the CIA and he
doesn’t want to cut his own throat”
“I think everyone believes it was
a conspiracy,” said John Jones, Port
Arthur freshman.
observed what soon will be a new
ozone hole over the Arctic, including
large, popluated areas of Europe and
Asia. Increasing levels of ozone-
depleting chemicals were found as
far south as Bangor, Maine.
The ozone layer of the upper
atmosphere protects life on Earth
from the sun's harmful ultraviolet
radiation.
Lord addresses LU class
By Anthony Flowers
UP wire editor
“I’m a very informal person —
you will find that out very quickly,”
Mayor Evelyn Lord said to open her
speech Friday in the Galloway
Business Building before the
Women in Business class.
Lord’s informal 45-minute
speech was the first in a series by
speakers who will lecture the class
on such topics as their lives and how
business careers have affected them.
“I began my political career in
Wilmington, Del., working with the
League of Women Voters,” Lord
said. “At the time there weren’t
enough inspectors to properly
inspect the slum tenement build-
ings. So we learned the regulations
and did it ourselves.”
Lord went on to take a seat on
the Delaware State Senate.
“I found out that you could do
more for the city on the state level,”
she said. “That is the way
Delaware’s government is set up.”
She went on to talk about her
time in Ireland, getting her law
degree from Kentucky and eventu-
ally moving to Beaumont for the
first time.
She talked about her time on the
Beaumont city council and of having
to return to Ireland when her hus-
band was transferred.
When he retired, they returned
to Beaumont, and shortly thereafter
Lord was elected mayor of
Beaumont.
She said her job is 90 percent joy,
but there are times when she would
like to be elsewhere — like when
she has a late meeting and would
rather be home watching “Star
Trek.”
To conclude her lecture, Lord
asked for questions from the stu-
dents.
She answered many, covering
topics from her future plans to how
her career has affected her family
life.
“I don’t plan to continue in poli-
tics,” she said.
“I would like to serve another
term, but then I want to go home
and spend time with my husband."
Lord said the reason for return-
ing to Beaumont was the people.
“We could have moved anywhere
when he retired, but we wanted to
come here," she said. “I can get
hills or cities anywhere, but it’s the
people that make this area special
to me.”
Marsha Steffek is the instructor
of the class. She said that she will
invite several additional guest
speakers during the course of the
semester. Visitors are always wel-
come, she said.
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Education initiates new teaching program
Campus survey
reveals opinions
on JFK slaying
NASA scientists issue warning
of new holes in ozone layer
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