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UNIVERSITY PRESS February 9,1977*2
r-Campus Survey—
What would you like to see Dr. Kemble do as the new
I president of Lamar University ?
“I think that Dr. Kemble will
shed new light in some dark
areas on the Lamar campus, and
he seems to be aware of needed
Improvements.
Steve Moore
Beaumont, Junior
Mass Communications
“He should perform as Dr.
Gray did In the past, by keeping
up the tradition of the school, and
backing the students.”
Charles Kemp
Lumberton, Freshman
Mass Communications
“He should work on a way to
service students at registration.
He should work to terminate con-
fusion students go through to
receive grants.”
Kathy Wilson
Beaumont, Junior
English
“I would like to see more
student activities, and help for
the Black Student Association.”
Clifton Antoine
Port Arthur, Freshman
' / Biology
“I don’t have any Idea what he
is going to do. I am new In
Beaumont, and have only been on
campus for one and a half
years.”
Don Smith
Beaumont, Sophomore
Music Theory
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Serving Lamar
for 54 Years
Cheryl Daniels...............................................EDITOR
Roger Cowries...................................-.....NEWS EDITOR
Michael Branch.....................................STAFF WRITERS
Jess Doiron
Uene Harral
Becky Mitchell
Lee Nabors
Don Young
Carolyn Martinas...................................UPDATE EDITOR
Neil Harrison..........................................COLUMNISTS
Frank Kavanaugh
George Bowden..............................MEN’S SPORTS EDITOR
Sandra Thomas..........................WOMEN’S SPORTS EDITOR
Thomas Hall.......................................PHOTOGRAPHER
Greg Giles..............i...............PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANT
Debbie Moses..............................ADVERTISING MANAGER
Janet Mims... ...........................ADVERTISING ASSISTANT
Valeric Daniels...................... TYPESETTERS
Karen McLane
Raye Nell Page
Katherine Streetman
Dinah Taylor
Howard Perkins...........................PUBLICATIONS ADVISOR
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Students, faculty and staff members are selected without regard to their race, color, creed, sex, or
national origin, consistent with the Assurance of Complicance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964;
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M.lll.f address Box 10055
Lsasar Ualvsrslty Station
Beasaoat, Texas 77710
Offices located in
the Activities Area of the
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Telephone: (713) 838-7628, 838-7629
by Neil Harrison
The Plain Truth
The University Press is con-
stantly receiving letters ad-
dressed to the editor concerning
many of the existing conditions,
both good and bad, on campus.
Many times these are valid
questions that deserve an answer
as to the cause of these con-
ditions, the reason behind certain
actions by our administrators, or
in some cases, general in-
formation about our campus.
The purpose of this new column
will be to answer these questions
as explicitly and completely as
possible.
Students and faculty members
are invited to bring their
questions by the University Press
office in the Activities Area of the
Setzer Student Center, or mail
them to the University Press ,
Box 10055, Lamar University
Station, Beaumont, Texas 77710.
Questions should be succinct,
neatly typed and double-spaced.
All letters must be signed by a
current Lamar University
student. Only initials will ac-
company letters in the column.
Question: I am graduating in
May with a degree in Mass Com-
munications. I have always an-
ticipated a career in radio broad-
casting. I am now faced with the
sobering fact that without any
real experience in radio, my
chances for getting a job are next
to nothing. Why was I not warned
of this and is the mass com-
munication department doing
anything to alleviate this
situation? M.B.
The Plain Truth: Ed Ivey,
station manager for the campus
radio station KVLU, says, “The
purpose of the campus radio
station is to offer a public service
to the community and to educate
the student. Sometimes these two
purposes overlap. At other times,
the purposes oppose each other.”
“One must remember that our
mass comm, degree is relatively
new and while some people are
too idealistic about what they are
expecting, I think we are offering
a very valuable program. We
hope to teach the student things
that he would not normally learn
by experience.”
“We have had problems with our
equipment that have prevented
the student from using the equip-
ment as much as we would like
them to; however, we do use the
students as much as possible.
Each weeknight, we use a student
from 10:30 p.m. until sigh-off. We
have also placed 61 people in our
department into full or part-time
jobs in commercial broadcasting.
After questioning, Ivey revealed
that this figure includes those
students who were previously
employed in radio before at-
tending Lamar.
Several local radio program-
mers painted a more dismal pic-
ture for the prospective radio em-
ployee. One said rather bluntly,
“A degree in radio and a quarter
will buy you a cup of coffee just
about anywhere. That is not to
say that the degree is worthless,
however. The degree is a useful
-tool when tempered with ex-
perience, but given the choice of
an applicant with four years of
radio experience and an ap-
plicant with no experience and a
college degree, I would have to
choose the person with ex-
perience. .However, the person
with a degree and the necessary
experience is twice as valuable
as the person with only ex-
perience.”
Another programmer said,
“The Golden Triangle is one of
the top 100 markets in the nation
and it is very difficult to hire a
college graduate with little or no
experience and pay him much
more than minimum wages. Ex-
perience is absolutely
necessary.”
All programmers suggested
that the student make an ap-
pointment and an application for
a part-time position in order to
get the necessary experience.
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I see they’ve made another addition to the Philoeophy Dept.
Police Beat
838-8311
Two Lamar University students have
pleaded guilty and have been fined for
stealing five parking stickers while
working in registration for the Spring
semester. They received their fine in
Justice of the Peace court.
Eartha L. Williams, of 1433 West 5th
Street, Port Arthur, and Jan Marie
Phillips, of 2233 Salisbury, Port Arthur,
were charged with a misdemeanor
theft and fined in J. P. court.
Eugene Carpenter; LU police chief,
stated that five other students are being
sought for receiving the stolen stickers.
He stated that the students could be
charged with receiving and concealing
stolen property. He stated that he is
currently qiiestibhing these- students.
Carpenter stated that a student con-
tact led to the investigation that
revealed possible recipients of the
stickers.
Carpenter stated that the students
that are guilty of knowingly receiving
the stolen goods will be turned over to
Student Affairs for disciplinary action.
He stated that they could go before the _ *
student Supreme Court, which is
usually harsher in punishment than the
deans.
According to Carpenter, therfe has
been little trouble in the past with theft
of stickers in registration.
Students are assigned positions in
registration out of the Admissions and
Records office, which chose them from ^
applications the students have sub-
mitted.
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