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Friday, November 19,2004 University Press Page 2
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the offi-
cials and police.”
— August Strindberg
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LIT
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882-3036 in Orange or 924-6037 from Port Arthur,”
said dean of student services Leigh Smith.
“Students can also register by logging onto the
institute of technology’s web site at www.lit.edu.”
Forty-one students are now registered and
enrolled in one of Lamar Institute of Technology’s
newest degree programs - homeland security.
“Last year, LIT became the first two-year
technical college in the State of Texas to offer
degrees and certifications in homeland security,”
said Sam Williams, vice president for academic
affairs. “The Texas State Leadership Consortia
recently awarded our program a $75,000 federal
grant.”
“In September, grant funds enabled us to unite
security experts from all across the nation. These
experts are helping LIT develop a Homeland
Security or curriculum that we will share with all
technical colleges in Texas.”
Williams noted that office technology is now
one of the fastest growing programs in the college’s
supervision department: “To land jobs in one of the
fastest growing fields in the nation, LIT office tech-
nology majors can now branch out into legal or
medical technology. Many of our office technology
majors find employment before they graduate.”
At LIT’s Microsoft IT Academy, students can
train for certification as Microsoft Systems
Engineers and pursue careers in computer net-
work and system administration.
According to a survey by the Microsoft
Certified Professional Magazine, entry-level
salaries for Systems Engineers average nearly
$50,000.
In the college’s new Home Technology
Integration course, students learn to design,
install, integrate and troubleshoot computer sys-
tems that control today’s “smart” or “automated”
homes.
In smart homes, computer systems control
security and surveillance, heat and air condition-
ing, water sprinklers and fountains, entertain-
ment, lighting, telecommunications and entry con-
trols for the convenience of homeowners.
Lamar Institute of Technology now offers
cutting-edge career opportunities in fuel cell tech-
nology. The U.S. Department of Education esti-
mates that this technology could reduce the
nation’s demand for foreign petroleum by more
than 11 million barrels per day by 2040. J
The Department of Education recently cited
LIT as a “‘leader in improving air quality,
strengthening the local economy, and enhancing
public awareness of alternative fuels.”
Fuel cell technology training at LIT is offered
as a specialty in the college’s Heating, Ventilation,
and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Technology pro-
gram.
For more information on course and degree
offerings, enrollment, registration, scholarships,
and financial aid at Lamar Institute of
Technology, prospective students can contact the
campus by calling (409) 880-8321. The college’s
toll-free 1-800-950-6989.
FEHL
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that Academy students provide, Ava
Batiste, the guidance counselor at Fehl said,
“They are young and the children like to
see them come because they know they can
joke; but in total, they always keep the
classroom serious. The teachers are helped
because the academy students keep the
room in order.”
To volunteer, students should keep a
positive attitude.
Since the volunteers act as role models
to these students, they are asked to follow
the same dress code as the students and
demonstrate all of the rules given out by
the school.
Acts such as turning off cell phones, not
running in the halls and walking quietly
through the halls with the person’s hands
together in “Fehl position,” in other words,
clasped at their waists, demonstrates good
behavior.
Cynthia Mancha, one of the Academy
volunteers said, “Tlitoring at Fehl has
opened my eyes to the hard work and ded-
ication that teachers put into educating
today’s young society.”
She went to say that volunteering has
proved to be very rewarding for her.
Academy students are depended upon
to come every week. Volunteering is a com-
mitment that should be honored every
week.
Volunteers assist students in the class-
room with individual needs.
They create their own method of teach-
ing and monitor the progress of the chil-
dren to assist them in keeping up in their
studies.
Pamela Blackwell, a fourth-grade
teacher at Fehl, said, “The rapport with stu-
dents in my classroom has been tremen-
dous. It appears that the volunteers really
care about the students they have helped in
their academics.”
At the same time, the extra encourage-
ment and assistance given to the children
by the volunteers boost the children’s self-
esteem, she said.
The added individualized attention
assists in reinforcing material learned in
class.
Thus, children are enabled to feel more
confident about the material being covered
in class. ,
THOMAS
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confused is the fact that “Rock the Vote” doesn’t
consist of every group who was registering voters.
Rock the Vote was the official slogan for the Setzer
Student Center’s voter registration campaign.
This means that the sociology department or
the NAACP wasn’t technically affiliated with the
SSC Rock the Vote campaign.
“I was doing this (voter registration) as a serv-
ice and a courtesy,” Thomas said. “I didn’t want stu-
dents to have to go away to vote or have trouble
finding cards.”
TJ. Geiger, quoted in Wednesday’s University
Press, said Wednesday after the story appeared, that
he was a deputized registrar and that he was mere-
ly “participating” in the Setzer Student Center
event by volunteering his time to help students reg-
ister.
He did say that he was mistaken in attributing
the event to Lamar Alive! in a taped interview with
a UP reporter.
He also said that his answers to the reporter
were in no way meant to be derogatory or to be crit-
icism of Thomas and her operation.
Geiger said he was not a member of the Setzer
Student Center registration event but rather was
just helping Thomas out by getting students regis-
tered to vote.
Rock the Vote is a nationally recognized cam-
paign, Thomas said. Thomas said she had a contract
with MTV and Rock the Vote stating that the Rock
the Vote Bus Tour would come to campus.
When Thomas got an updated copy of the con-
tract, the part about the Rock the Vote Bus Tour
was scratched out. Officials from Rock the Vote said
that the area in and around Lamar was not big
enough to support the Rock the Vote Bus Tour and
comedic performance.
By that time Thomas said she had already
made fliers promoting the Rock the Vote campaign
so she couldn’t go back on what she was calling the
event and used the name.
What happened was that everyone attached
voter registration, whatever group that may be, with
the Rock the Vote campaign, Thomas reiterated.
This was not the case.
There were other groups registering voters
who apparently weren’t deputized, but everyone
assumed it was Rock the Vote’s fault. This is not the
case.
Thomas said that Geiger had approached her,
asking if he could help in some way because he had
some time that he could devote to it.
She pointed out that she was glad to have him
even though he was not in her training session.
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