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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 56 years
Good Morning!
Friday, September 7,1979
Vol. 56, No. 2
Mai university library
SEP 7 1979
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‘Goes
, Nuts’
To welcome students back to campus,
the Setzer Student Center Council will host
an “SSCC Goes Nuts Week” Monday
through Friday, according to SSCC
president Karen Nichols.
“The purpose of the week is to give
students a chance to act crazy,” Nichols
said, "and to provide a little bit of en-
tertainment. We also want to make people
aware that SSCC does exist, and that we
are doing something.”
Festivities will begin Monday with a con-
test. A bathtub filled with peanuts will be
on display in the SSC Arbor. Students are
to guess how manypounds of peanuts are
in the bathtub. ***"
Students will also be voting for their
favorite teachers in the “Favorite Nut”
contest. __
► A video tape of “May the Farce Be with_
You” will be playing in the video tape
lounge from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
On Tuesday, Big Red, the Lamar
mascot, will be giving away candy in the
SSC Arbor. Also, SSCC members in T-
shirts will be distributing “nuts” buttons.
At 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., the classic
film “Repulsion” will be screened in the
Ballroom.
* “Mountain Lace” will perform in the
SSC Arbor Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. un-
til 12:30 p.m. Cake and punch will be ser-
ved.
_ “Mountain Lace” will also perform in
the Red Bird Perch from 8 p.m. until 11
p.m.
The SSCC Treasure Hunt will begin Wed-
nesday. The first clue will be given at the
afternoon “Mountain Lace” performance.
* The winner of the treasure hunt will
receive $25.
The SSCC will silk screen T-shirts Wed-
nesday with a “nuts week” logo. Students
must supply their own T-shirts.
Randy Bomar, * Nacagdoches
sophomore, will be spinning records from
the 1950s and 1960s in the SSC Arbor Thur-
sday, from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
The “Rocky Horror Picture Show” will
,be aired in the SSC Ballroom for $1 at 12:30
p.m., at 7 p.m., and at midnight. The
costume contest will begin at 11:30 p .m. No
audience participation will be allowed un-
til the midnight viewing, Nichols said.
Friday, a peanut Pinada Bust is
scheduled at 11 a.m. in the SSC Arbor. At 9
p.m., Barry Drake, singer-guitarist, will
perform in the Red Bird Perch. Winners of
the peanut-counting contest and the,
"Favorite Nut” contest will be announced
at that time.
The theme of the SSCC week is
■’‘sometimes I feel like a nut,” Nichols
said.
Photo by CINDY DOWIES
Man’s best friend?
Bryan Gathright, Teague junior, seems to have gone bananas during Hell Week.
Gathright, a Kappa Sigma pledge, will be formally initiated into his fraternity at
the end of Hell Week, provided his friend doesn’t split.
Lamar leases bookstore
By SUSAN MARLOW
of the UP staff
The University Bookstore has been
leased to Lone Star Book Inc., according to
Pete Plotts, bookstore manager.
This is the first time that the university
has leased the bookstore, Plotts said.
Lone Star Book Inc. is an Austin-based
firm which owns seven other college or.
university bookstores in Texas.
Plotts, who has managed the bookstore
for the university for 10 years, is one of the
owners of the firm.
“Four firms showed an interest in bid-
ding for the lease,” Oscar Baxley, vice
president for finance, said. “Three of these
four actually submitted bids.”
Before the university leased the
bookstore, profits went into student-
related activities and future expansion for
the bookstore, according to Baxley.
The money made from leasing the
bookstore to a private firm, which amoun-
ts to approximately the same as profits
made when the university ran the
bookstore, can be invested in long-term
certificates of deposits, according to
Baxley.
The interest from these certificates can
be put into available funds for student-
related activities, he said.
One of the reasons for the lease is that
Lamar could not pay the kind of salary it
takes to maintain good personnel because
of state guidelines, Plotts said.
“The turnover in personnel is large in
bookstores that are institutionally-
owned,” Plotts said, “and Lamar needed
to protect its investment.”
According to Plotts, being under private
management eliminates much paperwork
that he had to do while the bookstore was
under university management.
The bookstore now offers Visa and
Master Charge credit, he pointed out.
Another change, according to Plotts, will
be on book buy-backs. Students who will be
selling books back to the bookstore at the
end of the semester may find that they will
get more mone>for the book that will no
longer be used at Lamar.
The reason for this, Plotts said, is' the
book may be used at one of Lone Star’s
other bqokstores.
Therefore, the refund price will be
greater than the wholesale cost which the
student was entitled to under the old
system, Plotts said.
The bookstore will try to attract more
people from outside the community, ac-
cording to Plotts.
“We will try to be more customer-
oriented and have a greater variety of
merchandising,” he said.
Homecoming festivities scheduled
• Homecoming festivites will begin Sun-
day, Sept. 30, with a ribbon-cutting
ceremony at 4:30 p.m., outside Gray
Library, according to Sherri Booker,
homecoming publicity chairperson.
A Queen’s reception will follow the rib-
bon-cutting ceremony on the eighth floor,
Gray Library. The five finalists for
homecoming queen will be announced at
the reception, Booker said.
On Monday, Oct. f, the annual
homecoming picnic and games will be held
from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. at Brooks-
Shivers Hall.
A torchlight parade will begin at 10 a.m.
at Gentry Hall, East Lavaca and Univer-
sity Drive, and proceed to the corner of
University Drive and Florida Avenue, an
empty vlot adjacent to the baseball field,
where the bonfire will be lighted.
.The bonfire and pep rally will begin at
10:30p.m.
The Gong Show for faculty and students
will take place in the Setzer Student Center
Ballroom at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 2.
Voting booths will be set up in the SSC
Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 3, for
students to vote for a homecoming queen
candidate.
For Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 3,
and 4, several activities are planned. A
carnival is scheduled for both days on the
SSC Patio, from noon until 10 p.m. On
Thursday, a street dance is scheduled for 7
p.m. -11 p.m. in the SSC circular drive. At
8:30 on Thursday, at the street dance, a
“Bad Bird Boogie” disco dance contest is
scheduled. Trophies and prizes will be
awarded to the winning contestants.
Friday, Oct. 5, Movie Madness, a film
series, will be held in the Red Bird Perch
from noon until 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 6, the homecoming
parade through downtown Beaumont will
begin at 10 a.m. The exact parade route
will be announced later, according to Bob-
bie Applegate, SSC program director.
At 7:30 p.m., Saturday, the Lamar Car-
dinals will play West Texas State
(Canyon) in Cardinal Stadium.
The queen, her court, the float winners
and the new ,Big Red II will be presented
at halftime.
Sept. 19 is the deadline for entries in
homecoming activities. Entry forms are
available in 201 SSC. Any registered
student organization on campus may par-
ticipate in the activities, Applegate said.
There is. something planned for everyone
in this year’s homecoming,” Booker said,
“whether it is building and stuffing a float
for the parade, street dancing or just
coming to watch.
“We hope all Lamar students and
faculty will participate in the ’79
homecoming.”
L1| foundation pays
delinquent land tax
$ J.
By FRANK CONDE
of the UP staff
The Lamar University foundation has
paid $3,564.17 in delinquent taxes to the
city of Beaumont on the original property
site of the Spindletop Monument, ac-
cording to Dr. John Gray, president of the
foundation.
The property is located on Spindletop
Road.
The Lucas Gusher Monument
Association owned the property originally,
but was unable to pay taxes on the proper-
ty because it was a non-profit
organization, Dr. Gray said.
The association filed an affadavit for
exemption of taxes with the city of
Beaumont, but the city did not see fit to ap-
prove it, Dr. Gray said.
For approximately 12 years, taxes on the
property accrued.
When the Lucas Gusher Monument
Association agreed to donate the property
to the foundation, it stipulated that when
and if the land was ever sold the money
was to be used to maintain the Spindletop
Museum and Gladys City,” Dr. Gray said.
After Gov. Bill Clements’ recent veto of
state appropriations for the Spindletop
Museum and Gladys City, and facing a
shortage of funds to operate these two
educational extensions of the university,
the foundation was preparing the ap-
proximate 9-acre tract of land for sale, ac-
cording to Dr. Gray.
It was during the preparation of the
property’s deed that the matter of the
delinquent taxes surfaced, Dr. Gray said.
“We asked the city of Beaumont
Tuesday to waive the tax and. use the
.money to help maintain the Spindletop
Museum and Gladys City, but the city said
that was legally impossible,” Dr. Gray
said.
Beaumont city attorney Ken Wall said
the city council had no legal authority to
“forgive” delinquent taxes, but that the
city’s hotel-motel tax money could legally
be used to support the Spindletop Museum.
Dr. Gray said the' foundation paid the
taxes by borrowing money from a tem-
porary fund. The money will be returned to
the fund after the property is sold, he said.
A buyer for the property has been
located and appropriate actions are being
taken to complete the sale, according to
Dr. Gray.
Dr. Gray said that the foundation had
“no controversy” with the city, but hoped
that the city would use the special fund
made up of the revenue of taxes on motels
and hotels to help maintain the Spindletop
Museum and Gladys City.
“We feel that Spindletop is an asset to
the city, a tourist attraction, has special
educational value, and preserves the
history and culture of this area,” Dr. Gray
said.
Tuesday, the city council will have as a
regular agenda item whether the hotel-
motel tax revenue will be used to support
the Spindletop Museum and Gladys City,
Dr. Gray said.
Pulse available Monday
By RENITA JOHNSON
of the UP staff
The fall 1979 edition of “Pulse” will be
available on campus beginning Monday,
according to managing editor, Steven
Walker, Groves freshman.
Pulse will be available free of charge in
04 Liberal Arts Building, in 107 Art
Building, at the/check-cashing booth in the
Setzer Student Center, and at the in-
formation desk in Wimberly Student Af-
fairs Building, Walker said.
During the spring, cash awards were
given in the poetry, short story, essay, and
art divisions of the magazine.
' First-place winner for the Eleanor
Poetry Award was Ann Levingston Joiner,
Orange senior, for “Lady Audrey.” Lynn
Carlisle, Beaumont graduate student and
English teaching fellow, won the second-
place Eleanor Poetry Award for “Comic
Relief.”
Jesse Doiron, Beaumont graduate
student and English teaching fellow, won
the second-place award for his short story.
“Say Three Hail Marys and Make a Good
Act of Contrition.”
The first-place award for essays went to
Barbara Huval, Port Arthur senior and
English teaching fellow, for “Planned Ob-
solescence on Waste: By-products of an
Affluent Society.”
In the Pulse cover competition, Dorothy
Conn, Beaumont junior, won the second-
place award for her pen and ink drawing
entitled “Roots.” The third-place award
went to Mary Lou Schmitt, Beaumont
senior, for her photograph, “Still Life in
Time.”
For the first time, undergraduate awar-
ds were established in the fall “Pulse,”
with both winners in the poetry category.
The first-place award went to Mary
Adams, Beaumont sophomore; for “The
Letter.” Jennifer Tibbs, Port Arthur
senior, won the second-place award for
“Night Flower.”
Undergraduate awards will continue to
be given in poetry and short story
categories, Joan Wilkerson, assistant
professor of English and “Pulse” adviser,
said.
Deadline for spring 1980 entries is noon,
Monday, Oct. 8, Walker said.
The categories are poetry, essay, short
story, original art and undergraduate. Fir-
st, second and third place awards may be
given in each category, at the discretion of
the judges, Walker said.
Entry forms for literary submissions
will be available at 03A Liberal Arts
Building, and entry forms for art sub-
missions will be available at 107 Art
Building.
Walker said he is working to expand the
staff.
“High school journalists, magazine
writers, and anyone interested in creative
'work are encouraged to join the staff,” he
said.
“Pulse” is one of the most valuable
publications that students put out,”
Wilkerson said. “Besides giving students
valuable experience, it allows students to
do creative work. Most good colleges have
pne, and “Pulse” is a reflection of the
Lgmar student body.”
Over 700 hear Warrens’ lecture
America’s 4top ghost hunters’ speak
By BECKY MOSS
of the UP staff
Demons do exist.
They can possess a person, a house or
any other object.
At least, that is the theory presented by
Ed and Lorraine Warren in the Setzer
Student Center Ballroom Wednesday
evening.
Over 700 people turned out to see the
couple who have been billed as “America’s
Top Ghost Hunters.”
Ed Warren told his audience that people ■
can only become possessed of “their own
free will.” This can happen through direct
confrontation, as with the use of a Ouija
board.
Sometimes a person can invite demon
attacks through his. subconscious,
perhaps by a lack of faith in God, he said.
At other times, the most devout person
will be subject to demonic attacks, ac-
cording to Ed Warren. This happened to
the priest that blessed the George Lutz
home, he said.
The Lutz house at 112 Ocean Ave.,
Amityville, Long Island, had been the
scene of a mass murder in 1974, when
Ronald DeFeo had murdered six members
of his family, when the DeFeos owned the
house. In his trial he claimed that he was
“possessed” when he committed the mur-
ders.
George and Kathy Lutz bought the house
in 1975 and lived there for 28 days. They
fled in the middle of the night, leaving
everything they owned.
Their harrowing story was told in Jay
Anson’s best-seller, “The Amityville
Horror.” It has been made into a movie
released this summer.
Pictures taken inside the Lutz house and
slides demonstrating examples of
paranormal activity were the background
for the Warrens’ lecture on demonology
and the supernatural.
Lorraine Warren, who said she had been
clairvoyant since age 9, opened the
program by showing slides and giving a
brief outline of some of the cases she and
Ed have investigated.
In the most recent case, concerning the
levitation of two young girls in Enfield,
England, she said that voices surrounding
the girls had spoken to Ed and called him
by name.
Ed Warren said that he 'has been in-
volved in 42 cases of exorcism, worked as a
demonologist for over 32 years, and has in-
vestigated hundreds of cases of super-
natural phenomena, but the Amityville
case was the most frightening.
When asked at a press conference Wed-
nesday afternoon if they ever felt their
jobs dangerous, Lorraine Warren said,
“Yes, when dealing with demons there is
lalways danger.” “However,” she added,”
we have great faith in God.”
The Warrens carry religious relics
iwhenever they are working with the super-
natural, she said.
The Warrens were part of a group of
■psychics, clairvoyants, parapsychologists
and a demonologist asked by New York’s
Channel 5 to investigate the house in
Amityville.
Of their overnight stay in the house,
Lorraine Warren said, “Whatever was
there, was definitely of a negative
nature.” It has nothing to do with anythingt
human that ever walked this earth, she
said.
She said that she felt the area was a
resting place for something evil. The
Warrens felt discomfort in several areas of
the house, according to Ed Warren.
The Warrens took two cameramen along
to take pictures throughout the house.
Ed Warren said the pictures showed
evidence of supernatural and not paranor-
mal disturbance.
Supernatural refers to things that exist
beyond the visible or observable universe.
Paranormal is anything that is not scien-
tifically explainable.
Many slides showed the inside of the
Lutz house just as they left it. Many of the
pictures were taken with infrared shots.
Most showed the inside of an ordinary
house.
Two pictures did show what appeared to
be ghostly faces. Was it Ronald DeFeo’s
face as many claim? Was it some ancient
inhabitant of the house? Was it the face of
a monk who died in 1969?
The Warrens think it is one of these
three.
Ed and Lorraine Warren taped a Mike
Douglas program just before coming to
Beaumont. The show, about their ex-
periences at the Amityville House and in
Enfield, England, will be shown locally
later this fall.
: Photo by CINDY DOWIES
Ed and Lorraine Warren
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