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University Press
Friday, October 28, 1994
Announcement
Lamar University-Beaumont is offer-
ing temporary housing in Gentry Hall
to our students, faculty and staff for
those affected by the floods and rising
water.
If you need assistance
Call the University Housing office
at 880-8111
Fee
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tion to improve the library.
The resolution states, “To
ensure that the fees collected
are used to improve the library’s
collections and services, and not
to merely maintain current lev-
els of funding, the administra-
tion should not decrease the
percentage of E&G and HEAF
funds currently allocated to the
library as of the fiscal year 1994:
2.60 percent, plus and allocation
of $700,000 from (the) HEAF
budget.
If the university fails to meet
such a goal, the fee shall be
automatically discontinued.”
Tellier said, “The time
between September 1993 and
June 1994 was spent ascertain-
ing if the budget would continue
to support that requirement. We
had to wait until we had a clear
idea of what the FY ’95 budget
was going to be, and could we
afford to continue to support
the library at this level before
we could go to the regents.”
Tellier said the university
always tries to establish any new
fees in February. The students
get plenty of advanced notice.
But Tellier points out that it
states in both the university cat-
alog and the student schedule
that the university reserves the
right to change fees at any time.
The installment contract is
not violated because it does not
change the contract, she said. It
simply is just an added fee.
Russell Rach, president of
SGA, was not available for com-
ment at press time.
Lamar family member allows university to copy rare
daguerreotype, will be displayed on library’s eighth floor
Nedone Brantley
UP features editor
Now hanging on the eighth
floor of the John Gray
Library is the only photo-
graph of Mirabeau Bonaparte
Lamar that Lamar University
owns. The touched up copy of
the original daguerreotype is
a permanent gift to the uni-
versity from Mirabeau
Lamar’s great, great, great,
great niece Nell Whitworth of
Lithonia, Ga.
“Granted, Lamar was not
a pretty gentleman,” said
Richard Dixon, public infor-
mation officer. “We have
paintings and we have statues,
but we didn’t have any photos
of Mirabeau Lamar. So this is
a very valuable piece for the
university.”
The university’s acquisition
of the photo can be traced
directly to history professor
Naaman Woodland, who hap-
pened across Nell
Whitworth’s genealogical
query in the March 1994 issue
of “Family Puzzlers,” where
she asked where in
Richmond, Va, had Lamar
been buried after his death in
1859.
Woodland immediately
wrote back, “Mirabeau B.
Lamar died in Fort Bend
County, Texas, in Richmond,
Texas!” and mailed copies of
the relevant pages from the
book “Thomas Lamar, The
Immigrant: 300 Years of
Descendants” in the Gray
Library.
When Whitworth respond-
ed that she was the great,
great, great granddaughter of
Mirabeau Lamar’s brother,
Thomas Lamar, she also men-
tioned having a daguerreo-
type of Mirabeau Lamar.
She’d often thought of giving
the photo to one of the
Lamar institutions in Texas -
library, university, or his
home. Woodland said he
agreed that it belonged in an
institution. “Here. Right
here,” he said.
The copy of the daguerreo-
type arrived after Whitworth
worked many months to get it
copied, framed and prepared
to travel. She was not able to
attend the small ceremony
during which it was hung in
the presence of President
Cottle, Woodland, Dixon, and
the library interim director
Kathleen Murray, but
Whitworth will be getting
photos of the event.
Dixon said he hopes that
Whitworth will share more
Mirabeau Lamar memorabil-
ia with this university in the
future, including the original
daguerreotype.
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Photo courtesy of Nell Whitworth
Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar is considered the father of education
in Texas. Lamar served in Sam Houston’s forces at the Battle of San
Jacinto and was vice president of the Republic of Texas in 1836. He
later served as the president of the republic from 1838*41.
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Chemicals on Olin Road because they
ire the closest plant to Lamar.
“I asked if the smell could be coming
’rom their plant. They said they would
:heck the situation immediately and call
jack,” Perkins said.
Dave L. Maneman, Olin Chemicals’
slant manager, said he did not know
here was a problem until Perkins called.
Olin Chemicals recycles used acid
rom refineries and puts it through a pro-
:ess to create sulfuric acid for sale.
“We mix the old acid with sulphur to
5et sulphur dioxide,” Maneman said.
‘Then we run the sulphur dioxide
hrough a catalyst bed which creates
teat. The mixture of sulphur dioxide and
leat makes sulphur trioxide. We then
ibsorb the sulphur trioxide in water to
nake sulfuric acid.”
Cold rain water from the flooding
:aused a duct to crack and the plant was
shut down Monday to prevent a sulphur
dioxide leak.,
“When we brought the plant back up,
our furnace, which is usually kept at 2,000
degrees Fahrenheit, was cooled by the
rain,” Maneman said.
Sulphur dioxide needs sufficient heat
for conversion to sulphur trioxide,
Because the furnace was cooled and not
heating at a normal temperature, the sul-
phur dioxide leaked, ultimately creating
the situation Maneman wanted to pre-
vent in the first place.
“We’ve never had a problem like this
before. I take it very personally when
something like this happens,” Maneman
said. “We try to remain as anonymous as
possible so people can’t smell us and
know we’re here. We are very conscious
of our neighbors.”
Maneman said Perkins called him
about 3:45 p.m. Monday, saying that he
smelled sulphur so Maneman came to the
university and took three readings.
“My first reading showed nothing;
then I had .3 parts per million, then .7
ppm and then a 1.1 ppm reading.
Mark McClanahan, a health scientist
with the Centers for Disease Control in
Atlanta, said the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health sets the
acceptable standard for sulphur dioxide
levels at less than 2 ppm.
“The amount of exposure on campus
that day should not have had any detri-
mental effects,” he said.
However, exposure to sulphur dioxide
higher than the 2 ppm standard can dam-
age cells.
“When sulphur dioxide enters the
lungs, it is converted to sulfuric acid
where it can severely damage lungs,”
McClanahan said. “Damaged cells are
then converted to scar tissue. When you
breathe in sulphur dioxide and feel a
chemical bum, that means tissue damage.
If the chemical does not kill the cells, it
will inflame the cells.”
McClanahan then said the friendly
bacteria normally present in the body
will attack the cells. This situation can
cause a person to develop bacterial pneu-
monia because of a cell’s lowered resis-
tance to infection.
“A small exposure will not cause
enough lung irritation to give the bacteria
a good opportunity to cause infection,”
McClanahan said. Maneman said he took
readings around the perimeters of the
Olin plant and found nothing. He said
the reason no reading showed at the
plant was because the gas came out of
the stacks, drifted in the air before falling
to the ground.
Maneman said the plant was back up
and operating normally at 10 p.m.
Monday night.
Olin Chemicals uses the SAGE system
for emergencies, which is an industry-
sponsored alerting network that acts as a'
replacement for the Emergency
Broadcast System.
Maneman said had the reading gone
higher than 2 ppm, he would have alerted
campus police and surrounding neighbor-
hoods on emergency procedures.
“I was very impressed with Olin’s
quick response time,” Perkins said.
“Within fewer than 5 minutes of my call,
Dave Maneman was on campus. That is a
quick response time when Mr. Maneman
had to drive from the Olin offices on
Olin Road and around the perimeter of
the campus to my office in the Setzer
Center.”
A spokesperson for the Lamar Health
Center said the facility did not handle
any complaints.
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