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Senior thesis art show, Qishman Gallery 6 p.m. tonight
At the Dishman
Senior art students show their
work, and four LU-B professors
engage in a special performance art
piece.
Page 4
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Sports profile
LU golfer Andrea Dobson tells
about her successes on and off the
links.
Page 5
Quote of the day
“In old days books were written by
men of letters and read by the public.
Nowadays books are written by the
public and read by nobody.”
Oscar Wilde
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University Press
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Friday, April 28,1995
Lamar University Beaumont, Texas
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Port Neches native recounts tragedy
Tammie Nolte
UP staff reporter
At least one time in her life,
Tina Hughes can be grateful
that she takes after her father,
who proclaims he is forever
running late.
Hughes was three blocks
away in the Municipal Building
of Oklahoma City when the
bomb exploded April 19 at the
Alfred Murrah Federal
“After the concussion, there was a rumbling. Maybe
it was the floors caving in, I could see papers floating
around the federal courthouse, and I immediately
thought, (bomb\
Tina Hughes
Building. Hughes, an assistant
municipal court counselor for
Oklahoma City, had a 9 a.m.
meeting in the federal court-
house across the street from
the bomb site. Had she been on
time or close, she would have
been directly across from the
Murrah Building at 9:02 a.m.
when the blast occurred.
Hughes had taken a long
weekend celebrating her par-
ents’, Wayne and Dama
Hughes’, 40th wedding
anniversary. She returned to
the office that Wednesday
morning to plenty of questions,
phone calls and some unre-
solved business in the hallway.
“We are thankful she was
running late. She is usually very
punctual,” Dama Hughes said.
Dama and Wayne Hughes
live in Port Neches and own
Hughes Barber and Beauty
Supply at 2826 Nall St., which
is right around the corner from
their home.
Una Hughes graduated as a
Nederland Bulldog in 1974.
She has been employed with
the Oklahoma City as a lawyer
since she graduated from law
school five years ago.
“I was heading down to the
courthouse, trying to get out of
the office. I was in the hall out-
See HUGHES, page 2
Officials begin
profiling suspect
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
New details of Timothy
* McVeigh’s activities in the days
♦before the Oklahoma bombing
surfaced Wednesday, including
the suspect’s chilling warning to a
‘friend that “Something big is
•going to happen.”
Investigators also.were trying
to trace McVeigh’s movements
‘after the explosion that gutted
•the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
^Building, a source told the
Associated Press One theory was
"that McVeigh dropped off a still
•missing colleague before he was
^arrested for traffic and weapons
violations
Just days before
the bombing,
McVeigh report-
edly warned a
friend that
“Something big is
going to happen.”
4 Three wit-
nesses placed
.McVeigh in
front of the
^federal build-
ing moments
before
Timothy McVeigh
explosion —
Apparently
•before the
^ruck carrying the bomb arrived,
according to the same source.
4 Revelations of McVeigh’s
actions in the days before the
bombing came in Wichita, Kan.,
courtroom as prosecutors sought
ro take the friend, Terry Nichols,
<o Oklahoma. The judge granted
Jheir request but delayed it until
May 5 so Nichols could appeal.
As the investigation advanced,
the city and nation paused to
observe a moment of silence at
9:02 a.m. — the precise moment
of the blast one week ago. Bells
rang, tears flowed and heads
bowed as searchers stood amid
the ruins of the collapsed federal
building.
The death toll stood at 98.
In court, U.S. Attorney Randy
Rathbun said McVeigh called
Nichols from Oklahoma City on
April 16 and asked him to pick
him up. Nichols, 40, lives in
Herington, Kan., about 270 miles
north of Oklahoma City.
Rathbun, quoting what
Nichols told the FBI after he was
taken in, gave this account of
what happened next:
Nichols picked McVeigh up,
and as the two men drove north,
See MCVEIGH, page 2
NASA, LU-B step
into space learning
Jammie Nolte
UP staff writer
I.
* One small step for man, one
giant leap for Lamar University
and Region V educational pro-
gramming.
* The Aerospace Education
Services Specialists made their
first journey to Lamar
University-Beaumont campus to
Conduct a two-day workshop for
J£-12 teachers on April 26 and
27.
NASA, along with Lamar’s
Space Science and Technology
Educational Program (SSTEP),
will be introducing a pilot pro-
gram involving Region V stu-
dents and teachers in Southeast
Texas.
“The most glorious achieve-
ments in space programming in
ftie entire world come from
iiTASA,” A.V. Murali, Lamar
University geology professor
and SSTEP director, said.
“The teachers and students
from Region V will have first-
hand knowledge and hands-on
training of the space program,”
Murali said.
By transferring the glory and
achievements of NASA to the
classroom, Murali said, the stu-
dents could benefit with an elat-
ed interest in science and mathe-
matics.
The purpose of the workshop
was to enhance the teachers’
knowledge of aerospace educa-
tion and to incorporate space
science and technology into sci-
ence and mathematics curricu-
lums.
“SSTEP will monitor students
and see how student perfor-
mance improves in math and sci-
ence once the program is in
place,” Murali said.
SSTEP has received $90,000
for the first year of the three-
year program to motivate stu-
dents toward excellence.
Photos by Allen Pearson
Stephanie Franklin, a senior from Houston, wants to use her natural talents to educate the youth of
today and to show them constructive ways to live their lives. At left, “Hope” is one of the many
pieces she has completed. She said the significance of “Hope” is that children should be encouraged
to rise up and live their dreams.
Game of life9 educates artistic student
Tonya Andris
UP staff writer
Walking along the porches of
Gray Hall for pleasure isn’t a
usual thing. The scenery is not
outstanding. One sunny winter
day, that attitude changed. The
radio in B305 had the whole hall
bumping with the sounds of hip-
hop music. A peep into the
room to see what the chaos was
led to something that would
compel even a person who hates
art to stop and look.
A young lady was drawing as
she bopped to the music. After
realizing that someone was at
the door, she introduced herself
Questions about her art were
thrown out at her and she was
very willing to discuss it. The
artwork in that room had such
feeling and strength.
Everyone is bom with talents,
no matter what form they take.
Some people are multi-talented.
Stephanie Franklin falls right
into that category. She is an
artist and a singer with Psalm
150 gospel choir.
Franklin, 23, prides herself on
her art. She has worked hard in
the past to get where she is
today. However, Franklin is
quick to mention she is not
where she wants to be.
“I became interested in art
when I was in the sixth grade,”
Franklin said. “I became really
serious about it when I was in
the eleventh grade.”
Franklin has art in her genes.
Her father, a retired
entrepreneur and currently a
track coach, used to draw for
Franklin when she was younger.
Her love for the pencil as a
drawing tool is credited to him.
“Watching him gave me the
motivation to use pencil,” she
said. “I used to love watching
him draw. He once drew a por-
trait of my brothers and me.”
Her first experience with art
was in a high school drafting
class. Her teachers noticed that
she had a talent for drawing.
Franklin credits them for push-
ing her to continue art and even-
tually major in visual design in
college.
Franklin had thoughts of
majoring in art, but prior to the
eleventh grade, those aspira-
tions took a back seat.
See FRANKLIN, page 5
Fiber optic cable installation to be finished by July 31
Kelly Kirkpatrick
UP staff writer
A tentative completion date of illy 31
has been set for wiring the remaining 18
buildings on campus for Internet, Richard
Brott, director of telecommunications, said
Wednesday.
Twelve buildings have already been
wired, he said.
AT&T got the bid for the additional
buildings, coming in at a little less than a
half-million dollars.
“ Approximately a half-million dollars
has been spent so far on the 12 buildings,”
Brott said, which were done segment by
segment.
He said that the new bid for the 18 build-
ings cost the same price because the whole
project is being done at one time.
The Board of Regents approved the
proposition and granted the money that it
would take to set up the cable.
The process for the system setup
includes one main cable, Brott said, which
is the fiber optic backbone of the network.
The backbone is connected to Net Builder
II bridges, which are major switchers that
take traffic in and send it out to other loca-
tions.
So far, there are three Net Builder IIs on
campus. They are located in the Cherry
Engineering Building, the Carl Parker
Building and the Wimberly Building.
Fiber optic cables connect the Net
Builder IIs to light-wave terminations in
the surrounding buildings.
Brott describes the cable system by com-
paring the Net Builder IIs to a generating
station and the terminations in the connect-
ed buildings to fuse boxes.
“Each and every department is in charge
of wiring and electronics to be able to
See WIRED, page 5
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