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Friday, November 5,1993
Lamar University Beaumont, Texas
No. 20
Free dental clinic draws public
A free dental hygiene clinic
was held Saturday to celebrate
National Dental Hygiene
month and to help raise public
awareness of dental hygiene.
The clinic, held at the
Lamar University Institute of
Technology, offered extra and
intra-oral cancer screenings,
radiographs, periodontal evalu-
ations, dental cleanings, polish-
ing and patient dental educa-
tion.
The clinic was staffed by
both practicing dentists and
dental hygiene faculty and stu-
dents.
Eugene Boone, practicing
dentist in Vidor; Kelly Dorsey,
practicing dental hygienist in
Beaumont; Betty Reynard, den-
tal hygiene program director;
Kami Hanson, faculty member
of Lamar’s dental hygiene pro-
gram and 13 senior dental
•hygiene students volunteered to
Dr. Eugene Boone, DDS, left, and Martha Eissler, senior dental
hygiene student, examine a volunteer.
man the clinic.
In conjunction with National
Dental Hygiene Month and the
clinic, Lamar’s dental hygiene
department held a poster contest
for area middle schools.
The theme for the contest was
preventive dentistry and prizes
included a $75 savings bond for
first place, a $50 savings bond
for second place and a $25 sav-
ings bond for third place, all
supplied by the Sabine District
Dental Hygiene Association.
All the poster contest win-
ners were seventh graders from
Marshall Middle School. First
place winner was Agsa
Nadeem. Karallen Rokoni took
second place and third place
went to Amber Young.
Chain restaurants, ARA part of
growing trend in campus dining
By Kathy Portie
UP staff writer
Editor’s note: This is the sec-
ond installment in a series on the
Lamar University-Beaumont
campus food service.
A growing trend in food service
on the nation’s college campuses is
a concept familiar to ARA, the cor-
poration in charge of Lamar
University-Beaumont’s culinary
operations.
National brand concepts
involves a cooperative effort
between the contracted food ser-
vice and one or more fast food
chains to provide on-campus ser-
vice to various colleges throughout
the nation. Such restaurants as
Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, Taco Bell and
TCBY Yogurt have found their
way onto college campuses the
past couple of years.
An example in this trend can be
found as close as Sam Houston
State University in Huntsville,
another college currently under
contract with ARA. This summer
in the the SHSU student center, a
Burger King outlet joined such
standard ARA cash operations as
Itza Pizza, Gretel’s sweet shop,
and various restaurants.
The SHSU student center’s
Burger King is managed and
staffed by ARA.
Tom Childers, director of the
SHSU student center, believes the
implementation of the national
brand concept at his school has
had a positive impact on campus
life.
“Students have reacted in a
positive way to the changes here,”
Childers said. “I think that the
national brand concept is the com-
ing thing.
“We’ve seen a tremendous
increase in the number of students
who use the student center since
Burger King arrived. We’re look-
ing to expand the concept to
include more chain restaurants —
something along the lines of a
Taco Bell, although nothing has
been decided yet.”
How does the ARA’s Burger
King food at the SHSU student
center compare with other Burger
Kings outside the ARA umbrella?
“It’s just like it,” Childers said.
‘They even run the same specials
as the other Burger Kings. ARA
manages the operation, but a rep-
resentative from the Burger King
checks on operations periodical-
ly.”
As for whether ARA will
include Lamar in this latest trend
in on-campus dining, Mike
Pettyjohn, director of food ser-
vices on the LU-B campus, could
not say for certain.
‘There have been some discus-
See ARA, page 4
Lamarissimo! features ‘Dramatic Moments in Music’ in concert series
By Shaista Mohammed
UP staff writer
The Lamarissimo! concert series will
present its second event, “Dramatic
Moments in Music,” featuring the Lamar
music faculty and the Lamar chamber
orchestra on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 8 p.m. in
the Julie Rogers Theater.
The program is a musical tapestry
interwoven with poetry, drama and narra-
tion which takes the audience on a musi-
cological journey through the various
periods of musical expression.
The concert will highlight the talents of
the faculty in the College of Fine Arts and
Communication.
“It’s one of the few chances the faculty
gets to showcase their talents,” said Kim
Ellis, director of the Lamarissimo! series
and assistant professor of music and the-
ater. “We’re all looking forward to it.”
The program is diverse, opening with
George Gershwin’s vivacious “Porgy and
Bess,” performed by the Lamar brass
quintet with Kathy Wadenpfhul-Gay on
flute, Kim Ellis on clarinet, Beth Graham
on oboe, Rebecca Jemian on bassoon and
Robert Culbertson on horn.
“Porgy and Bess” is a three-act opera
composed by George Gershwin, with
libretto by Ira Gershwin and Du Bose
Heyward. It was produced in Boston on
Sept. 30, 1935, and debuted at the Stoll
Theatre in London, on Oct. 9, 1952.
The second piece is Frederick Chopin’s
“Polonaise in Ab major, Opus 53” a pro-
cessional in triple meter, performed by
Melanie Foster Taylor on piano. This
piece has become known as the “Heroic
Polonaise” because of its grand and lyri-
cal style.
Next is Alessandro Scarlatti’s opera,
“Sule Sponde del Tebro,” featuring sopra-
no Pamela Austin, piccolo trumpeteer
Raul Ornelas and pianist Dwight Pierce.
Psalm XXIII by Herman Berlinski,
will feature soprano Barbara Mathis and
flutist Wadenpfhul-Gay.
Later in the program, the mood
changes with the comic relief of Gaetano
Donizetti’s opera, “L” Elisir d’Amore”
featuring tenor Michael Denham.
A playful treatment of two favorite
hymns, “Nearer my God to Thee” and
“God be with You” from Gwyneth
Walker’s Braintree Quintet will be fea-
tured by the Lamar woodwind quintet,
See LAMARISSIMO!, page 4
Hostels offer cheap
alternative to hotels
“Hey! You can’t bring that in here!” PhMob,vakrieBrow“
Beth O’Neill, left, with Area Agency on Aging, and Sharon Wallace from Home Health Services participate in LU’s Home
Economics Fair on Wednesday in the Setzer Student Center Ballroom.
NRC offers fellowship program to aid students
By Tammy McMinn
UP staff writer
If you have travel plans for the
holidays, you might want to con-
sider a different lodging plan than
the usual hotel.
Hostelling International-
American Youth Hostels, a 60-
year-old non-profit corporation
provides accommodations at 150
places across the United States for
an average cost of $7 to $15 per
night. But hostels provide more
than just a place to stay.
“The idea behind hostels is not
just a cheap place to stay, but a
place where you can build special
friendships and cultural under-
standings,” Joy Boone, a Houston
hostel owner said.
Hostels in the south are gener-
ally located in renovated mansions
and hotels. Other places include
Pigeon Point Lighthouse on the
rocky cliffs of Pescadero, Calif.,
where guests can watch the annual
migration of the gray whales. Or
you might want to spend the night
in a hand-hewn log cabin, a Sioux
tepee or even a covered wagon by
a campfire in Washington, where
you can wake up to a free pancake
breakfast made with the hostel
manager’s old family recipe.
“Americans tend to really
underutilize the facilities in this
country. Sure, they check out hos-
tels in Europe, but they don’t take
advantage of hostels here,” Boone
said.
In Texas, there are two hostels
in Houston, one near NASA and
the other in the museum district.
There are also renovated mansions
in San Antonio and El Paso. One
of the most popular hostels in this
region is in New Orleans, where
you can stay in a renovated 1830s
mansion.
Hostels provide kitchens, so not
only is the lodging affordable, but
the cost of meals can be kept to a
minimum. Boone said guests usu-
ally bunk with others in a dorm-
like setting with bathrooms down
the hall.
“You don’t want a private room
— you want to meet people and
learn about other cultures,” Boone
said.
Membership in HI-AYH is $25
for adults or $35 for families with
children under 14. Formal organi-
zations can obtain free member-
ships good for one year that are
accepted in over 6,000 hostels
world-wide. Non-members can
stay on a welcome stand at most
hostels for an extra $3 per night to
see if they would like to join.
There are no age requirements,
but most hostel visitors are 20 to
35-year-olds. Boone said Germans
and Australians traveling around
the world often stay in hostels, as
do students right before school
begins. Eurorail passes can also be
See HOSTELS, page 4
Students interested in pursuing
a career in the field of nuclear
power regulation and continuing
their education should look to the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission for a helpful hand.
Administered by the Oak Ridge
Institute for Science and
Education, the NRC Fellowship
Program provides funds for stu-
dents interested in pursuing mas-
ter’s degrees in areas such as
health physics, nuclear engineering
and specialty engineering disci-
plines with emphasis in instrumen-
tation and control systems, materi-
als science, materials engineering,
metallurgy and artificial intelli-
gence and expert systems for use in
human factors.
Fellows must work at the NRC
for a minimum of nine months
prior to commencing graduate
school. During this period, fellows
will be hired at a GG-7 level and
receive an annual salary ranging
from $33,000 to $35,000 plus full
government benefits. Fellows must
also agree to work for the NRC for
four years following satisfactory
completion of a two-year master’s
program. At the beginning of this
service obligation, fellows will be
generally classified as a GG-9 and
receive a salary within the range of
$38,000 to $40,000.
The NRC Fellowship program
provides full payment of tuition,
fees and books as well as monthly
stipends of $1,800 and a $5,000-a-
year cost of education allowance
paid to the academic program in
which the fellow is enrolled.
Eligible students must be U.S
citizens, have received a bache-
lor’s degree by May/June 1994,
and have completed the Graduate
Record Examination. At the time
of application, applicants may not
have completed more than one
year of graduate education in a dis-
cipline that the NRC fellowship
program supports. Selection is
based on academic performance,
academic and professional refer-
ences, a statement of career goals,
and interviews with the applicants.
Fellowship applicants are being
taken through Jan. 21, and all
awards will be announced in April.
For applications or additional
information, contact Rose Etta Cox
at (615) 576-9279 or Tom
Richmond at (615) 576-2194.
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