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Friday, November 19,2004
the Newspaper of Lamar University and Lamar Institute of Technology
Wol. 81, No. 22
Thomas clarifies voter registration procedures
By MARK SHOW
UP Editor
Rock the Vote, the Setzer Student Center
campaign designed to register voters, was not the
only group registering voters throughout the reg-
istration process, Karen Thomas, director of the
Setzer Student Center, said Wednesday, in
response to a UP story dealing with the fact that
some students thought they were registered to
vote and, when they got to the polls, were not reg-
istered.
There were four other organizations on cam-
pus set up to register voters, according to records
in the SSC reservations office.
The NAACP, the Student Government
Association, the sociology department and the
Black Student Association, in addition to the
Setzer Student Center, were sponsoring voter
registration groups on campus.
When Thomas and Valerie Black, assistant
director of student organizations, went to get re-
deputized to register voters, the voters registra-
tion office told them to make sure students living
on campus listed their P.O. Box and dorm room
number, Thomas said.
Thomas said that the Setzer Student Center
registration process lasted only one day, on Sept.
7, whereas the other organization’s registration
process lasted for a week.
“If the other groups who did voter registra-
tion held onto the cards and didn’t get them
turned in on time,” Thomas said, “it would be late
getting back to the voter.”
Thomas said that she personally checked all
registration cards from the SSC drive to make
sure they were filled out properly. After all of the
controversy in the 2000 election, Thomas said she
and her people wanted to make sure everything
they told the students was correct.
Thomas did say that after her organization
promptly turned in students’ registration cards to
the voting registrar’s office in the downtown court
house, her office still had students come in asking
for a registration card. Thomas said her people
would give them one but leave it up to each to get
the card turned in to the registration office
because, by that time, the SSC Rock the Vote
campaign was over.
Thomas said the thing that people are getting
See THOMAS, page 2
UPMorgan Mahana
Geology professor Joe Kruger, above, points out the location of ancient Ingleside beach that existed 120,000 years ago. Groves sophomore Kristopher Castille, below, examines
beach sediments at a rest stop on 1-10 that match those at modern beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.
Students study local beach dating back 120,000 years
“■'•■r’" t’s a cold and windy morning and students
trickle in. Today’s group consists of a mere
four, compared to the prior day’s two van-
loads. Students seem apprehensive about
the weather, but the guide’s enthusiasm
warms their curiosity.
The students were part of a field trip
Saturday that was visiting sites along the
route to Bolivar Point. This is the second of
four trips organized by the geology depart-
ment to study local geological phenomena.
Participants are members of the geology I
classes at Lamar. Subsequent trips will be
At Gilcriest
on Bolivar
Peninsula,
geology
professor
Joe Kruger
explains
erosion-pre-
vention
measures
to students
on the trip.
held today from noon to 6 p.m. and
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Joe Kruger, professor of geology, led
Saturday’s students.
The first stop was at a picnic area off I-
10, a forest that was once a section of the
Ingleside beach system more than 120,000
years ago. At that time, the gulfs shoreline
spanned across a good portion of Southeast
Texas and the majority of Louisiana, leaving
sandy, beach-like sediments and fossilized
shells.
Students visited High Island and dis-
cussed oil pumping in relationship to the
underlying salt dome. Oil derricks, still in
operation, ring the dome, extracting petro-
leum that collects against the salt.
Other locations visited included a por-
tion of washed-out Highway 87 on
Chambers County Beach and then travel-
ing on to Rollover Pass, Johnson Beach and
the Bolivar beach wildlife refuge. Students
examined sediments, discussed beach ero-
sion and explored erosion-prevention
measures.
A future trip to Big Bend, Carlsbad
Caverns and Palo Duro Canyon is planned
for the winter mini-session from Dec. 27 to
Jan. 10.
Text and Photos by Morgan Mahana
♦ TEXAS ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP IN HUMANITIES
Volunteers offer services to Fehl Elementary
By CALANDRE CARR
UP Staff Writer
Every Friday, Texas Academy
of Leadership in the Humanities
students volunteer at Fehl Elemen-
tary. These students spend two
hours each week helping the teach-
ers and students keep everything
in order during the time before dis-
missal each Friday afternoon.
Fehl is an elementary school in
the Beaumont Independent School
District. For about eight years, stu-
dents from the academy have been
volunteering at Fehl.
In October alone, students
spent more than 86 hours volun-
teering at the school.
In order to become volunteers,
there is a guide each student must
read and papers to fill out disclos-
ing each student’s area for volun-
teering. In these papers, students
choose what grade and in what
areas they will volunteer.
A volunteer can help in any
classroom from kindergarten
through fifth grade. Thtoring can
range from helping in core classes,
such as math, science and reading
to being a storyteller or classroom
volunteer.
While discussing the assistance
See FEHL, page 2
‘Scramjet’
makes flight
off California
By JOHN ANTCZAK
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tiny
unmanned NASA “scramjet” soared
above the Pacific Ocean Tuesday at
nearly 10 times the speed of sound,
or almost 7,000 mph, in a record-
breaking demonstration of a radical
new engine technology.
The 12-foot-long X-43A super-
sonic combustion ramjet flew at
about Mach 9.6 or slightly higher,
said research engineer Randy
Voland, leader of the scramjet
propulsion team at NASA’s Dryden
Flight Research Center at.Edwards.
Air Force Base.
The exotic aircraft flew under its
own power for about 10 seconds
after separating from a booster rock-
et at 111,000 feet, then glided to a
splash landing about 800 miles off-
shore. Analysis of data to determine
See SCRAMJET, page 4
♦ LIT
Registration begins
for mini-sessions,
spring semester
Registration for the mini-winter
session and spring semester at Lamar
Institute of Technology has begun.
“Our next winter mini-session will
allow students to complete some basic
courses within just 10 days,” said Joe
Juarez, chair of LIT’s supervision
department. “The session starts Dec.
15. Students will be off for the holidays
from Dec. 23 through Jan. 2. The mini-
session ends on Jan. 10.”
With the start of the spring semes-
ter, history will be made on the Lamar
Institute of Technology campus when,
for the first time, all of the college’s
Allied Health programs are united
under one roof in a new $7.2 million
Multi-Purpose Center, Harry Wood,
director of public relations, said..
“We will move equipment and fur-
niture into the new building over the
Christmas holidays,” said Robert
Krienke, president of the institute. “The
Multi-Purpose Center will be ready for
occupancy when spring semester class-
es begin on Jan. 12.”
“The 56,000 square-foot structure
at the comer of East Lavaca Street and
University Drive will benefit every
department and program at the insti-
tute.... Our campus will gain 45 new
faculty offices, seven new multi-pur-
pose classrooms, new computer and
chemistry/physics labs, and its first
multi-purpose room for banquets and
large meetings,” he said.
“All eligible students, those who
have applied and been accepted, can
register over the telephone by calling
839-2000 from the Beaumont area,
See LIT, page 2
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