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UNIVERSITY PRESS March 9,1988*4
Candidate addresses forum
By Marlene Auster
UP staff writer
A third applicant for associate
vice president of student affairs,
Frank Rincon, spoke in open forum
Tuesday in the Setzer Student
Center ballroom.
Rincon became a finalist for the
position after the previous appli-
cant, Barbara Mann, withdrew.
Rincon is dean of students and an
instructor at Fairleigh. Dickinson
University in Teaneck, N.J.
He also has been director of stu-
dent life at California State Univer-
sity in Los Angeles and a counselor
at Central Arizona.
He earned his Ph. D. from the
University of Arizona in Tucson,
Ariz.
| Rincon said that if chosen for the
position, he would present himself as
a friendly, honest and open person
with a high degree of integrity.
“You all should look at these
things in selecting an administrator.
Grants_
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one tor computer science; one for
mathematics; two for physics; and
two for economics.
Lamar’s advanced-technology
research project grant requests
total $874,651 and include one for
biology; one for management-
marketing-finance; two for civil
engineering; four for chemical
engineering; two for mechanical
engineering; two for chemistry; and
two for industrial engineering.
Idoux said he hopes the state will
choose to allocate funds for all of
Lamar’s proposals but that he
realizes that may not prove to be a
reality.
“We’re hoping for total funding,
but for any proposals that are not
funded, I’m encouraging faculty
members to take their proposals and
rework them and submit them to
other agencies (for funding),” he
said. “Funds are being sought from
many places.”
Idoux said the new grant pro-
grams are available only for faculty
members of state schools, but that
students will also benefit from the
program because they will be utiliz-
ed as graduate assistants for the
proposed projects.
In the advanced-technology pro-
gram, the most proposals reportedly
came in the areas of biomedicine
and' biotechnology.
Biological and behavioral sciences
and social sciences topped the list of
proposals in the advanced research
program category.
They are very important,” Rincon
said.
He also said that if chosen, he
believes it would be very important
for him to be highly visible to the
students and faculty members.
“You would see me at athletic
events and social events along with
my family. If you did not see me, I
would not be a good administrator,”
he said.
He also said it’s important to be
supportive of student leadership. “It
might be a good idea to have some
free time set aside for student ac-
tivities in the afternoon.”
He said it is important for students
to understand the benefits of what
they receive when they get involved.
Rincon said his philosophy on
discipline is that the student learn
from his mistake. He stressed that
students must see the fairness in
their punishment for them to really
learn what they did wrong.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (UPI) - A
schoolgirl who killed herself two
weeks ago and promised in a suicide
note to return as “Samantha the
Vampire” and murder her
classmates prompted about 225
students to stay home from Everitt
Middle School, officials said.
But principal David Creel, who
tried to ease student fears last week,
said most of the 225 students who
stayed home Monday were back in
classes Tuesday.
A 14-year-old student who commit-
ted suicide two weeks ago promised
in a letter to her cousin that she
would return to school Monday as
“Samantha the Vampire” and kill
other students.
Word of the suicide letter spread
and Creel decided to hold an
assembly Friday to tell seventh and
eighth graders “there was nothing
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Frank Rincon
to it” and assure them that “I have
not ever met anyone that came back
from the dead.”
Creel said many of the students
told him after the assembly that
they considered the vampire rumor
to be “a bunch of bull.”
But despite Creel’s assurances,
about 225 of Everitt’s 800 students
did not show up for classes Monday.
“I think some kids sold their
parents a bill of goods. They used it
as another excuse to stay home,”
Creel said. “But there were some
parents that did not understand and
because of that uncertainty kept
them home.”
Creel said only 70 students were
absent Tuesday, less than the
school’s daily absentee rate of 10
- percent.
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UP staff
awarded
for review,
headline
Two University Press staff
members were recognized Saturday
at the Southwestern Journalism
Congress convention in Abilene.
Brent Snyder, entertainment
writer, was awarded first place for
best review, and Bryan Murley,
managing editor, was awarded third
place in the feature headline
category.
Snyder’s winning entry,
“Rhinestones: Bright Lights, Big
Hair,” generated response from
readers when originally published in
the University Press on Sept. 23.
Murley’s winning entry was a
headline in the Oct. 28 issue of the
UP, “Bela Lugosi’s dead: Vampires
update methods, fashion in ’80s.”
“I’m stunned,” Snyder said. “I
have a very humorous and sarcastic
point of view, and I sometimes feel
alone in that point of view.
“I’m glad that someone else
shares that view,” Snyder said.
Snyder plans to write a book titled
“In the Out Crowd” in which he will
share more of his biting view of blind
conventionality.
“I feel really good that Brent and I
got recognized in our first semester
of work on the entertainment page,”
Murley said. “I hope we can con-
tinue that quality.”
Steven Ford, editor of the Univer-
sity Press, attended the annual spr-
ing meet of the congress as delegate
from Lamar. The event was hosted
by Abilene Christian University
Thursday through Saturday.
Universities who are members of
the congress include Texas Chris-
tian University, Oklahoma State
University, Texas A&M University,
Southern Methodist University,
Baylor University, Lamar, Loui-
siana State University, Arkansas
State University, University of
Texas at Austin, University of Texas
at Arlington, Southwest Texas State
University, University of Oklahoma,
Texas Tech, North Texas State
University, East Texas State
University, and Texas Woman’s
University.
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Photos by Keith Watson
Campaign trail
In last-minute politicking before Super Tuesday, Democratic
presidential hopeful Richard Gephardt, top photo, addresses about 400
people Sunday at the OCAW Hall in Beaumont. The night before, bot-
tom photo, rival Michael Dukakis arrives at Jefferson County Airport
before speaking to about 300 at a mid-county restaurant.
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