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UNIVERSITY PRESS
It’s Friday
February 24,1984
Vol. 60, No. 37
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Statue staked by student
By LINDA ECKOLS
UP iteff writer
It was not a display of a headhunting
tribe’s lastest catches as some postulated.
Nor was it a set-up for a modern-day
paganistic ritual:
Instead, it was a showing of a senior art
student’s site specific sculpture project.
Amy Richard of Beaumont placed her 42
life-sized replicas of David Cargill’s
bronze statue of Mirabeau B. Lamar on 3-
to Moot stakes in the quadrangle on Tues-
day and Wednesday.
“The site specific sculpture project is
designed to be relevant in only one part of
the campus. Most of the previous projects
have been displayed near the art depart-
ment and get little attention,” Richard
said. “I was walking by the quadrangle
one day and thought it would be interesting
if I could do something in the center of the
campus.
“I walked around the the Lamar statue
and decided that 40 replicas would be most
effective. They are placed about three feet
apart. I made 45 all together and ended up
displaying 42 Tuesday.”
She said she wanted to get people talking
and wondering about the display.
“I started the project in October. I had to
work on and off because I have a baby due
in five weeks. I did what I could when I
could,” Richard said.
Also because she has been pregnant, she
has been unable to lift the 50 pound mold
used in casting the sculptures. Friends in
the art department were helpful, she said.
“I plan to give each of than a sculpture
free. I also plan to give some to members
of the administration who helped financial-
ly with the project,” Richard said.
It cost her 8200 in all to complete the set-
up. She said she has had several offers
from students and other viewers of the pro-
ject for purchasing the replicas. She plans
to sell some after she has given all those
away to people who assisted in the project
The statues were so popular that two
were missing Tuesday evening when the
project was taken down for the night.
“I expected it—that was part of the fun. I.
was just happy that there wasn’t any van-
dalism,” Richard said.
“We took some movie film of the reac-
tions as people passed the sculptures. They
had to walk through them if they stayed on
the sidewalk; otherwise they had to step
into the grass. Some did. It will be very in-
teresting to see the film.”
AERho sets Media Day Saturday
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Forty-two heads in the round—
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Amy Richard, senior art major, displayed a sculpture project Monday and Tuesday.
The display consisted of 42 day heads that she had made, all replicas of the Cargill
bust of Mirabeau B. Lamar in the quadrangle. The heads were placed in a circle
around the bust, atop stakes ranging from five feet to six feet tall. The project gave
students “a chance to see the project and walk through it,” she said.
Special effecti photo by JAN COUVmLON
Alpha Epsilon Rho National Broad-
casting Sodety is sponsoring Media Day
Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. in the Com-
munications Building and its tdevision
studio.
The purpose of the event is to
demonstrate and teach mass communica-
tion students about work in the broad-
casting industry, Les Stobart, AERho
publidty spokesperson, said.
Media Day will consist of several one-
Tharp discusses ticket policy at meeting
By JOE RUTLAND
UP staff writer
A discussion of student ticket polides for
the upcoming Southland Conference
basketball tournament, to be held March
9-10, highlighted Tuesday’s Student
Government Association meeting.
Judy Tharp, athletic promotions direc-
tor, said tickets for the tournament would
go on sale Monday at 9 a.m. at the Beau-
mont Civic Center ticket booth.
With the exception of 150 seats, All seats
in the center will be available for sale to
Lamar and the general public on a first-
come, first-served basis. The conference
has allocated 150 seats for other schools
with 75 of those located behind the visitor’s
bench.
She said the tickets were being sold at
the center because of difficulty in parking
at Lamar. “We are selling the tickets down
there because of the parking problem in
front of McDonald Gym,” Tharp said.
Some tickets will be sold at McDonald
Gym, however. She said Lamar students
who bring ID cards can purchase tourna-
ment tickets for $8 per package, beginning
March 1 in McDonald Gym. All other
ticket packages will be |12 per package
and are available only at the center.
“These $8 ticket packages can be bought
in McDonald Gym for sections Z, A, AA
and B in the Civic Center,” Tharp said.
She also said single day tickets will cost
$4 at the door for students with LU ID and
|7 for the general public each day.
Tharp emphasized the fact that no ban-
ners can be hung in the center and profani-
ty on the part of fans will not be tolerated.
“There have been a lot of questions as to
what defines profanity. I talked with the
Lamar University Police last week, and
they said that if the police catch you saying
something that they think is offensive,
they can arrest you,” Tharp said.
Tharp also discussed the problems
students had while getting their tickets for
the LU-Louisiana Tech game two weeks
ago. To remedy the problem of scalping,
the ticket office at Lamar established a
policy of stamping students’ ID cards
when they purchase tickets.
“We were going to get Dr. (George)
McLaughlin’s (vice president for student
affairs) permission (to establish the stam-
ping procedure), but he was sick with the
flu. So we went through Bruce Stracener
(director of auxiliary services) and he
gave us the OK to go ahead with the pro-
cedure,” she said.
Tharp explained this was done because
scalpers and previous ticket buyers could
be identified quickly and easily.
A few suggestions on selling tickets to
the student body were discussed, such as
using a roster-type method, suggested by
Donna Gunter, Beaumont junior, and
changing the entire ticket policy, sug-
gested by David Green, Beaumont senior.
Ross Mansker, SGA Student Affairs
Committee chairperson, said the ticket of-
fice should reinstate the ticket policy used
before this season.
“People were standing in line for tickets
and students were skipping class so they
could get their tickets (for the Louisiana
Tech game),” Mansker said. “What was
wrong with the old way (of gettting
tickets) which was students just showing
their IDs at the Civic Center door and be-
ing allowed entrance?”
Tharp said the ticket office might go
back to that way next season when the
team moves on campus to the 8,000-seat
Montague Activity Center.
“This year, we have had to turn fans
away from buying tickets because we just
didn’t have any,” she said. “But next year
we have to fill the Montagne Center in
order to break even. That’s why the center
was built—we just had to move Iron the
Civic Center.”
In other business, Beaumont City Coun-
cilman David Moore of Ward 4 told
senators the SGA is important for all
students as an extension of city govern-
ment.
He discussed the fact that their are no
signs that point toward Lamar along In-
terstate 10 and discussed how Ward 4
works for Lamar. “If you are not looking
at something controversial, SGA is not do-
ing its job,” he said.
Moore also discussed racial problems,
saying “SGA should make sure it’s
(members are) talking to students and
getting their input on any subjects that are
of campus concern.”
In other SGA business, a motion to fur-
ther investigate the possibility of having a
type of campus police protection sticker
was moved to the Student Affairs Commit-
tee.
The sticker, which would be 2 inches by 3
inches, would be attached to dorm room
doors and vehicles.
Student property would be engraved
with driver’s license numbers and
photographs would be taken of the items
being protected.
Another motion approved appointments
for the SGA Election and Constitutional
Revision committees by Marvin Benoit,
SGA vice president.
SGA secretary-treasurer Chris Erickson
said more bike racks were added to
Brooks-Shivers Hall and that student input
would be welcomed.
The High School Leadership Conference
Committee, chaired by Paul Clayton, ex-
ecutive associate to the SGA president,
was presented the “Bad Bird of the Week”
award.
"I was really thrilled and considered it a
big honor not only for myself but for the en-
tire committee,” Clayton said.
Clayton said the staff was “fabulous”
and gave a lot of the credit to their hard
work.
hour workshops and a question-and-
answer session conducted by local media
people, Stobart said.
Workshop topics include radio and
television sports, television production,
the making of a television show, on-the-air
radio broadcasting and broadcasting sell-
ing and marketing.
Local media representatives par-
ticipating in the event are Cecile Burandt,
Skye Winslow, Brian Jensen, Bob
Donaldson, Albert Zipp and Greg Hunter,
all of KFDM-TV; John Hurt of KBMT-TV;
Dave Hofferth and A1 Caldwell, both of
KLVI-AM; Doug Davis of KHYS-FM; Let-
tie Lanza of KWIC-FM; Rush Wood of
Lamar’s Sports Information Office; and
Richard Dixon of Lamar’s Public Informa-
tion Office.
Applications to attend Media Day are
available in 201 Communications Building.
Cost per person is $3.
Students protest proposed
abolishment of fraternities
AMHERST, Mass. (UPI)—A group of
Amherst College students Tuesday
began a four-day hunger strike to protest
a proposal to abolish the school’s eight
fraternities.
“We don’t want to threaten the
trustees, but we want to send a loud dear
message that we really care about this,”
Robert Hecht, 19, a sophomore from
Grand Rapids, Mich., and one of 10
fraternity members faking, said.
The students gathered in the lobby of
the campus dining hall at 1 p.m. and
vowed to eat nothing and drink only
water and fruit juice until Saturday,
when the board of trustees meets in New
York City to discuss banning frater-
nities.
About 240 of the 1,523 students at the
prestigious liberal arts school belong to
fraternities, which have come under fire
for rowdyism, vandalism and
mischievous initiation rites.
The trustees’ Committee on Campus
life last month released a report that
was critical of the fraternity system for
“exacerbating” social problems by
“their lack of sodal discipline” and
“tolerating gross social activity.”
Looking backward lands
suspect ‘smack against it’
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (UPI)-Had Eric
Noeth observed the words of the late Sat-
chel Paige—“Don’t look back, something
might be gaining on you”—he might have
escaped arrest Monday on a burglary
charge.
Outching a ham, Noeth, 41, ran out of a
delicatessen in Hempstead, N.Y.,
authorities said.
Deli owner Paule Delle, 30, was right
behind him in hot pursuit.
Delle said he was not armed, but he
shouted to the suspect, "Freeze or I’ll blow
your head off.
“As he glanced back at me to see if I had
a gun, he ran into a telephone pole,” Delle
said.
The impact knocked Noeth to the
ground, and Delle held him until police ar-
rived.
Savoie raw sugar mill vital link in process
Editor's NoteiThls is the second article in
a three part series on the sugar industry in
Southeast Texas and southern Louisiana.
The third article will appear Wednesday.
By SUE WRIGHT
UP writer
The booming sugar industry that
Etienne de Bore introduced into Louisiana
in the late 1700s flourished for almost 100
years until the QvU War took the growers
off to battle leaving empty fields and silent
mills.
After a slow recovery during
Reconstruction years, sugar once again
a major industry.
The 1920s, however, brought “mosiac,”
a viral disease that attacked the so-called
“noble” cane, the only type of sugar cane
grown at that time in Louisiana.
It was an economic disaster for the
state, throwing many people out of work
and causing a heavy loss of property. The
yield of sugar decreased from an average
of 300,000 tons per year to a low of 47,000
tons in 1926.
Only the introduction of hybrid, disease-
resistant sugar canes from Java saved the
sugar industry in Louisiana from annihila-
tion, and production was once more on the
upswing.
Later, other hybrid canes brought in
from India were found to be more compati-
ble with cane-growing conditions in Loui-
siana.
Sugar cane is grown in 17 parishes in
Louisiana on more than 1,200 forms that
employ some 15,000 workers. After
harvesting, the cane is ground in mills
throughout the southern Louisiana area.
This is the first step in transforming sugar
cane into cane sugar.
The raw sugar produced at the cane
mills is refined at six refineries in Loui-
siana and one in Texas.
At one such raw sugar mill in Belle Rose,
La., owned and operated by Savoie In-
dustries Inc., the cane comes in by tractor
or truck to be weighed. Samples of each
load are tested for sucrose content and
cleanliness. A par is established, and
growers are paid for their cane on the
basis of the sample anaylsis.
About 50 percent of the sugar produced
by Savoie Industries comes from cane
grown on their own lands, and the other 50
percent is purchased from local cane
growers.
After the cane is weighed and unloaded,
it passes through a series of revolving
knives that cut the stalks into smaller
pieces. A series of heavy rollers crush the
cane and extract the juice. The woody
residue left after the juice is extracted is
known as “bagasse.”
Lime is added to the extracted juice and
the mixture is heated to about 230 degrees.
The lime plus the heat causes the im-
purities in the juice to precipitate. The
juice is transferred to clarifiers, where the
impurities are allowed to settle.
The clarified juice then goes to
evaporators, and the “mud” or filter cake
which has precipitated out of the juice is
hauled away to be used for fertilizer or
landfill.
When the juice goes into the
evaporators, its natural water, plus the
water added during the milling process, is
removed, and the juice becomes a thick
syrup. Small amounts of powdered sugar
are added to the syrup, producing a
catalytic action to encourage faster forma-
tion of sugar crystals.
The syrup is boiled in vacuum pans at
low temperatures under partial vacuum,
during which time the sugar crystals form.
The resulting mixture of sugar crystals
and molasses is called “massecuite.”
The massecuite is then transferred to
perforated drums or baskets called “cen-
trifugals” which revolve at high speed
within an iron casing. The coarse, dark
brown granular crystals remaining in the
drum are known as raw sugar or “tur-
binado,” a word borrowed from the
Spanish, meaning “revolved,” or “whirl-
ed.” The raw sugar is then transported to
refineries for further processing into white
sugar.
The molasses extracted during this pro-
cedure is returned for reboiling and
removal of any remaining sugar. After all
commercially recoverable sugar has been
removed from the molasses, the residue is
known as black-strap molasses and is used
in livestock feed and in the production of
alcohol, yeast, citric add and vinegar.
C.J. Savoie, of Savoie Industries, says
the refinery can process a load of cane into
raw sugar in about eight to 10 hours.
Savoie says that one ton of cane, or 2,000
pounds, will produce 180 pounds of raw
sugar, 85 pounds of molasses and 270
pounds of residue or bagasse.
The Belle Rose plant of Savoie In-
dustries processes some 4,500 to 5,000 tons
of sugar cane each day of their working
season, which is roughly two months. The
plant ships from 45 to 65 million pounds of
raw sugar each year.
The enormous warehouse holds 15
million pounds of sugar and is reminiscent
of an indoor rock candy mountain.
Molasses produced at the mill is shipped
from the factory in railroad tank cars
which are filled along railroad sidings in-
side the plant facilities.
Savoie Industries Inc. is part of a family-
owned enterprise dating to the turn of the
century.
In 1946, the first steam turbine ever to be
used in a sugar mill was installed at the
See SUGAR, page 4
From cane
to sugar—
The Savoie Industries Inc., Belle Rose,
La., is one of many mills producing
raw sugar in the 17 sugar-growing
parishes of that state. Cane, left, is
brought in from the fields and stacked,
ready to be processed through the mill,
above and right. The Belle Rose facility
produces between 45 million and 65
million pounds of raw sugar per year.
Phote! by JAN COUVILLON
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