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UPbriefs
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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, sponsored by the
Internal Revenue Service. VITA volunteers will help older, handi-
capped and non-English speaking taxpayers in filling out basic tax
returns. For details call 833-4249.
Seminar scheduled for Thursday
Howell Gwin, professor of history, will host a study seminar,
Surviving College Lecture Courses, Thursday at 2 p.m. in 140
Galloway Business. The one-hour seminar will focus on study
strategies such as text reading, note taking, preparing for and tak-
ing tests and how to deal with faculty members, he said. The event
is open to everyone. Questions may be directed to Gwin at 880-
8530 or in 103 Maes.
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allows — no exceptions. Press release forms are available for orga-
nization reporters in the UP office, 200 Setzer Student Centear.
Information may be mailed to P.O. Box 10055, Beaumont 77710 or
faxed to 880-8735.
BBB-
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employees and more), and one
small (up to 49 employees).
Clayton said the competition is
open to all for-profit businesses
that serve retail and wholesale
markets, and businesses don’t
have to be members of the BBB.
In addition, applicants must be
located in Chambers, Hardin,
Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty,
Newton, Orange or Tyler coun-
ties. Non-profit organizations or
businesses whose primary mar-
kets are local, state or federal
governments are not eligible for
this award.
An independent panel of
judges will select the award-win-
ning companies. Judges are mem-
bers of the Lamar University fac-
ulty and officers of area non-prof-
it organizations.
Individuals may nominate the
company they work for, own, or
are affiliated with, or may nomi-
nate a peer organization, a com-
pany they do business with, or
any company meeting the awards
parameters set forth in the appli-
cation form. Award entry forms
are available from the office of
the BBB of Southeast Texas by
calling 835-5348.
The three finalists in each cat-
egory will be recognized and the
winners announced at the Touch
Awards Banquet and 35th annual
meeting of the BBB on March 5.
Gov. George W. Bush has
been invited to be the keynote
speaker at the event. Proceeds
from the banquet will go to the
BBB Consumer Education
Foundation who will in turn assist
in funding a Business College
scholarship at Lamar University.
Attention
A general use fee hearing will be held Feb. 4 at 3 p.m. in the Setzer
Student Center Reading Room. Everyone is invited to attend.
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behind their dry conversions.
“We don’t serve any alcohol at our parties
because it makes us responsible,” Wilson said.
Idris R. Traylor, NIC president and executive
director of the Office of International Affairs at
Texas Tech, said, “Our NIC member fraternities
consider it a matter of paramount importance to
eliminate binge drinking and other forms of alco-
hol misuse among undergraduates.”
Eliminating binge drinking and alcohol mis-
Nelson-
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use is important to Wilson, but he doesn’t
believe a dry mandate is the way to go.
“You’re not being realistic to simply say,
‘Just go dry,”’ Wilson said.
Clark said adopting alcohol-free facilities is a
“good idea” because it appeases public resent-
ment and rids fraternities of monetary concerns
had with liability issues.
“(NIC) is afraid frats will lose what they
worked for over one incident,” he said. “No
Laws-
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Poems,” was a finalist for the 1997
National Book Award for Poetry.
A professor of English at the
University of Connecticut, Nelson has
degrees from the University of
California-Davis, the University of
Pennsylvania and the University of
Minnesota. She has twice held fellow-
ships from the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Nelson’s visit to Beaumont is jointly
sponsored by the Lamar University
department of English and foreign lan-
guages, the family of the late Eleanor
Weinbaum and the office of state Rep.
A1 Price.
Additional information is available
from Sam Gwynn, professor of English
at Lamar, at 880-8575.
friend’s dorm room while someone in the room
is consuming alcohol,” Vasser said, “you can
be charged with MIP just for being in the
same room, and the other person can be
charged with making alcohol available to a
minor.”
Vasser said the Legislature made the
change to keep underage kids, especially stu-
dents, from getting into something they’re not
ready to handle.
“Most kids who go to college,” Vasser said,
“are away from home for the first time. They
are free to do what they want for the first
time. They have a tendency to go overboard
with alcohol because they aren’t experienced.
Someone who doesn’t know how intoxicated
they are drinks a lot more than someone who
knows they’ve had too much.”
Another law passed on Sept. 1 involves
traffic in construction zones. The new law,
one wants to lose money, and they don’t want
the public mad at them either.”
In adding its weight to the campaign to stop
the misuse of alcohol by undergraduates via
the Jan. 20 resolution, the NIC also urged its
member fraternities to recommit themselves to
their core mission of encouraging scholarship,
building leadership skills, developing friend-
ships and providing community service,
Traylor said.
which became enforceable on Jan. 1, doubles
the fine for all traffic offenses committed in a
construction zone. Vasser said this law was
created to protect highway construction work-
ers.
“There have been so many workers killed
and so much equipment damaged,” Vasser
said. “Something had to be done, so they
increased the fine amount.”
The legislation passed making the left lane
of a highway a “passing only” lane, Vasser
said, meaning that automobile operators
should drive on the right side until they come
upon slower traffic. After passing, they should
return to the right lane. He said this system
has been used in other states and in Europe
for several years.
Vasser said violation of the “passing only”
lane law is a class C misdemeanor, much like
a speeding ticket.
Pope-
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urged Castro to release political
prisoners. The government made
no comment, but has often
released some prisoners following
visits by other prominent visitors.
Yet other requests will be
subject to negotiations — and
occasional conflicts — with a gov-
ernment that seems to have
opened a more receptive ear to
churches. “These things can be
discussed,” Culture Minister Abel
Prieto, a member of the
Communist Party’s elite Political
Bureau, said during the trip.
The pope urged his bishops to
“expand that dialogue,” but insist-
ed that in demanding greater lib-
erty the church “is not asking for a
gift” that depends on “the will of
the authorities” because religious
freedom is “an inalienable human
right.”
In meetings Sunday, the pope
told Catholic clergy and laypeople
what the church should do with
that freedom in order to “occupy
her rightful place in the midst of
the people” — not merely preach
behind closed doors.
He urged his bishops to
defend human rights, a sensitive
topic in Cuba, and attack abortion,
which is widely practiced there.
John Paul also called for more
access to radio, press and televi-
sion, which are dominated by the
state. Existing Catholic publica-
tions are not censored, but have
trouble obtaining permission to
buy paper and equipment.
Ahead of the papal visit, the
government gave permission for
several dozen new foreign priests
and nuns. The pope, however, said
“we ardently hope” the arrival of
more will be eased for an island
with fewer than 300 priests for 11
millibn people.
Catholic charities such as
Caritas have grown rapidly, but
sometimes face problems import-
ing goods and equipment.
“God willing, may it be made
easier for you to receive and dis-
tribute the resources which so
many sister churches want to
share with you,” John Paul said.
He also urged Catholics to
expand efforts in fields that have
sometimes brought them into con-
flict with officials: educating “in
the areas of culture, economics,
politics and the human person.”
But he may already have
achieved the greatest goal of his
visit to an island where three
decades of official atheism left
many Cubans strangers to the
message of the church.
Most of his appearances and
all of his Masses were broadcast
live on state television and hun-
dreds of thousands of Cubans
turned out — many of them more
curious than committed.
“I went to see him when he
arrived and I watched Sunday’s
Mass on TV,” said Ana Maria
Lastre, 12. Asked if she goes to
church, she answered, “No, I don’t
go to Mass, but now I might be
more interested to see what Mass
is all about.”
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