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UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Serving the Lamar community for 61 years
It’s Wednesday
April 24, 1985
Vol. 61, No. 50
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Neil: System
status causes
transfer woes
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Participants in the “Crawfish Eating
Contest,” Monday in the Setzer Student
Center Arbor, gorge themselves on the
crustaceans, above, as spectators cheer for
their favorite contestant. Phil Hallmark,
Port Arthur junior, left, participated in
the contest, but he was bested by John Steiger,
Anahuac senior, who won the prize for
eating the most. The event was sponsored by
the Setzer Student Center Council in
conjunction with the SSC 14th anniversary.
Photo by DAVID CRUZ
Braiit
L U offers parent orientation sessions
•-Orientation for prospective col-
lege students is usually aimed at the
students. But in the case of Lamar
University, orientation is also for
parents.
“We are holding a parents orienta-
tion session concurrent with each of
the four summer freshman orienta-
tion sessions this summer in order to
tell the parents just what to expect of
the university and of their student,”
said Kathleen King, director of
orientation.
“This is not new to Lamar, but this
year we are expanding our parents’
sessions to give them more informa-
tion. All too often, parents are not
aware of all the things a student
must go through in college,” she ad-
ded.
Parents will go through most of
the same sessions as their son or
daughter during orientation and
they will have sessions just for
parents covering various topics con-
cerning Lamar University.
For those parents who are unable
to attend the entire session, a special
parents meeting is scheduled on the
evening of the first day of each ses-
sion.
This summer, sessions for parents
and incoming students are schedul-
ed for June 11-13, June 26-27, July
20-22, and August 6-8. Advanced
registration is required for both
parents and students. In addition, a
special one day session for students
is planned on Aug. 23, King said.
Students attending any of the four
sessions will, in addition to learning
about Lamar and college, register
for fall classes. Students attending
the special one-day session in
August will register during the
regular registration period.
To be eligible for orientation ses-
sions, prospective students must
first file an application for admis-
sion with the university’s Office of
Admissions and Records, King said.
They must also report SAT or ACT
scores to the university prior to at-
tending orientation.
For additional information con-
cerning orientation, interested
students or parents should contact
the Office of Student Development
and Orientation at 880-8442 or 107
Wimberly Student Services
Building.
By ALAN PACE
UP staff writer
Widespread misunderstandings
have made recruitment of high
school students to Lamar branch
campuses difficult, said Tom Neil,
LU-Port Arthur director of student
services.
Media reports of Lamar’s gaining
system status, Neil said, have con-
tributed to the “unbelievable” con-
fusion among high school students
concerning difficulties involved in
transferring from one campus to
another.
Another misconception, Neil said,
is that LU-Port Arthur will no longer
hold night classes or summer school.
He said this misunderstanding grew
from testimony Sam Monroe, presi-
dent of LU-Port Arthur, gave to the
Texas Legislature.
In arguing against the Legislative
Budget Board’s original proposal to
cut funding for higher education by
26 percent, Monroe said Lamar-Port
Arthur might be forced to abandon
summer school and night courses.
That original proposal, however,
is no longer under consideration and
Lamar-Port Arthur will continue to
operate as it has in the past, Neil
said.
He said some of the confusion
about transferring from one campus
to another results from the fact that
tranferring within other university
systems is often more difficult than
at Lamar.
He cited the University of Houston
as an example. Some basic courses,
such as freshman English, will not
transfer from U of H-Downtown to
the main campus.
The procedure for transferring
identical classes from one Lamar
campus to another is almost
automatic, and transcripts from
Lamar do not yet make a distinction
between campuses, said Josh Crane,
LU-Port Arthur vice president for
academic affairs.
LU-Beaumont vice president for
academic affairs Ralph Wooster
said all Lamar campuses use the
same materials and books, and
faculty is of equal quality. He said
students at the branch campuses
should have no trouble transferring
to the Beaumont campus.
Ray Brown, vice president for
academic affairs at LU-Orange, said
most courses on branch campuses
parallel those taught on the Beau-
mont campus, using the same
syllabi and textbooks.
The only courses which do not
parallel those on the Beaumont cam-
pus, Brown said, are vocational
rather than academic. Historically,
he said, courses on branch cam-
puses have been a subset of those
taught on the Beaumont campus.
Crane said changes will eventual-
ly be implemented as a result of
Lamar’s gaining system status, but
that transferring between campuses
should remain relatively problem-
free.
Within two or three years, Crane
said, transcripts will indicate the
campus on which courses are taken.
Also, he said the branch campuses
are currently applying for separate
accreditation with the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
Currently, the Lamar system as a
whole is accredited with SACS.
Separate accreditation would
enable the branch campuses to app-
ly for grants without using the
system umbrella. That ability,
Crane said, would more fully meet
the needs of the students at LU-Port
Arthur and Orange.
Political economist
warns of arms race
^nlutinnc* Administration plans to refurbish dorms,
offers incentive programs for students
ftptions to Refurbish
Academic Typewriters
Distribution excellence and
programs programs computers
Repairs
Recreational
equipment
Brooks-Shivers
•
Plummer
•
•
Stadium Hall
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Gentry
• • |
Unit III
Combs
Campbell
Gray
By GEORGANNE FAULKNER
UP staff writer
Editor’s note: The following article
is the third in a three-part series,
showing the problems that exist with
Lamar dorm students and their
grades.
The Housing Board is recommen-
ding a housing proposal to refurbish
the campus residence halls, Dr. An-
drew J. Johnson, vice president of
administration, personnel and stu-
dent services, said.
The various options being con-
sidered are resident distribution,
special consideration of Brooks-
Shivers, incentive programs and
repairs, Johnson said.
Brooks-Shivers will house a cross-
section of residents rather than all
freshmen.
A specific number of spaces for
freshmen will be reserved in each
hall, Jesse Castete, director of hous-
ing, said.
A black sorority will be encourag-
ed to live in one of the wings of Gen-
try Hall, Castete said.
Only members and pledges of the
six sororities will occupy Gentry, he
said.
Stadium Hall will be reserved for
football players while the ‘A’ wing of
Plummer Hall will be reserved for
basketball players, he said.
The lodges and ‘C’ wing of Plum-
mer will be reserved for fraternities,
he said.
New residents will be randomly
assigned to space allocated in each
hall with roommate requests con-
sidered, Jerry Willbom, assistant
director of housing, said.
Three or four double occupancy
rooms per floor in Brooks-Shivers
will be reserved as single rooms for
junior and senior students, Willbom
said.
The students who apply for these
rooms must maintain a 2.5 grade
point average, have no discipline
record and have 60 credit hours,
Willbom said.
An attraction to these up-
perclassmen will be an adjusted
rate, Willbom said.
Third floors in both Brooks and
Shivers will be an academic floor
tyith stricter quiet hours, Castete
said.
Alcohol and visitation policies will
be reviewed, Castete said.
Typewriters and computer ter-
minals will be available for Brooks-
Shivers students, Castete said.
A new program, Academic Ex-
cellence, started last fall for enter-
ing freshmen will continue, Willborn
said.
The program involves the Top 10
entering freshmen who plan to live
on campus, Willbom said.
These students are required to live
in Brooks-Shivers and receive room
and board scholarships in return for
participating in hall activities,
Willbom said.
The Academic Excellence
students are involved in hall
counseling, peer tutorial services
and study skills programs, he said.
Recreation equipment will be
placed in the courtyards of Brooks-
Shivers, and a game room will be
located on the second floor, Castete
said.
Renovations will be continued on
the dorms, Castete said.
“We’ve applied for a loan from the
government to replace the heat and
air units in Plummer and Gentry,”
Castete said.
The roof on Gentry and the hot
water heater will also be replaced,
he said. -
The lounge, bedrooms and
bathrooms in the ‘A’ wing of Plum-
mer will be refurnished, he said.
Unit III, Morris, Combs, Campbell
and Gray will be refurbished,
Castete said.
The plan will replace windows and
doors and paint, he said.
The lounge areas will receive
primary attention in Brooks-
Shivers, he said.
“One thing we want to stress is
that living on campus is not
necessarily connected with poor
grade point averages,” Willbom
said.
He says the GPA’s of commuter
students are also low.
The plans for the dorms will im-
prove campus life over a short
period of time, Castete said.
He says he hopes students will
become more involved as an incen-
tive for better grades.
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By MAMIE BOGUE
UP staff writer
“The design, construction and ex-
ecution of military aims systems
was once legitimate on the grounds
of national security,” Dr. Uoyd J.
Dumas said in his lecture on
“Security and Nuclear Arms.”
“Arms superiority once made the
country more secure, but this is not
necessarily true today,” Dumas
said. “A theory of building up ar-
maments to secure a permanent
world peace with a balance of power
was helped by a chain of events ac-
cidently started World War I.”
Dumas is a professor of political
economics at the University of
Texas at Dallas. He has researched
three areas of the economic military
system and has published numerous
articles. He edited and authored
‘‘Reversing Economic Decay: The
Political Economy of Arms Reduc-
tion” and “The Conservation
Responses: Strategies for Design
and Operation of Energy Using
Systems.” '
Three things, Dumas said, were
needed for an accidental war: a trig-
gering event, a failure of verifica-
tion and a background of high inter-
national tension.
Maximum warning time is suppos-
ed to be 15 to 30 minutes coming
from a land mass, he said. In reality
Gil Kibler, a senior from
Philadelphia, won Residence Hall
Association president with 83.7 per-
cent of the vote.
Kibler received 538 votes to out-
distance Stephen Godinich, a
Galveston, Texas, senior. Godinich
received 105 votes or 16.3 percent.
Jacqueline Hawthorne, Orange,
Texas, senior won vice president,
winning 90 percent of the vote. She
was unopposed.
Of the 1,571 students living on
campus, 40.93 percent or 643 voted,
Charles Liggins, RHA election com-
it is closer to five to seven minutes.
“One problem is false warnings,”
Dumas said. “If the system doesn’t
work right there are only a few
minutes time to determine whether
it is a real attack or not. In ’80,
Senator Gary Hart and Senator
Barry Goldwater issued a report to
the service commission that in ’79
there had been 79 indications of an
attack—all false.
“All subsequent reports have in-
dicated that such false warnings are
on the increase. As the pressure gets
stronger, we try to make the system
more sensitive,” Dumas said, “and
the more sensitive the system the
higher the possibility of false warn-
ings.”
There is also the human element
to contend with in the system. Dis-
counting the people making the
weapons, you still have the people in
the militai7.
There are always people involved
and people are not perfect. The
system, Dumas contends, calls for
perfection and people are prone to
make mistakes.
Besides these problems, Dumas
says the system has grown so large
it is almost impossible to keep a pro-
per inventory. Also, security is a
problem.
See ARMS RACE, page 6
mission chairman, said.
Deborah Tapper, Kingsville,
Jamaica, junior, won the RHA
secretary position with 66.7 percent
of the vote. Paula Brim, Silsbee,
Texas, freshman, garnered 200 votes
to finish second with 33.3 percent.
Shelfa Allison, an Orange, Texas,
junior, won the RHA treasurer’s
position with 58.9 percent of the vote.
Randy Erickson, a Port Neches,
Texas, freshman, finished second in
the balloting with 41.1 percent of the
vote.
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Dorm students elect Kibler
as residence hall president
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