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Henry C. Link
“While one person hesitates be-
► cause he feels inferior, the other is
\ busy making mistakes and becoming
B superior.”
Festival Frenzy!
Pecan and Rice festivals open with new and
exciting activities this weekend.
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Southland move
Reinstituting football is examined in the first
installment of a series on a conference change.
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University Press
Friday, September 27,1996
Serving Lamar University and the community for 73 years
Vol. 73, No. 8
Movin’ on up
Tliis two-story feed storage building that was a part of a feed store complex in Port Acres got on
its way on a 10-mile excursion to La Belle recently. It will be used by its new owner for automo-
bile storage. Sherman & Sherman handled the moving of the budding. - - - -** - ■
Burglary most common crime
on LU campus, police chief says
Kimberly Green
UP staff writer
The fall semester has been a
busy one for the Lamar
University Police Department.
“We have been able to clear-
up approximately eight burglar-
ies for the Beaumont Police
Department over about a one-
month period,” Dale Fontenot,
LU chief of police^ said.
In fact, burglaries seem to be
the most frequent crime com-
mitted in late August and in the
month of September.
On Aug. 27, three juveniles
and one adult (all non-students),
were found in a car that had
been reported stolen from park-
ing lot 7 in front of McDonald
Gym. The juveniles were sent to
detention and the adult was sent
to Jefferson County Correc-
tional Facility. The vehicle was
owned by a Lamar student.
On Sept. 10, two adults were
arrested for a vehicle burglary
that occurred at the Technical
Arts building. It was also report-
ed that the suspects had stolen a
cellular phone from a car
parked in Lot 65 on the Tech-
nical Arts campus.
“It was because of the stu-
dents and faculty at LUIT that
we were able to capture these
See POLICE, page 2
SSC Ballroom
Blood drive begins Monday
Patience McHenry
UP staff writer
Blood, a highly demanded life-
giving resource, has become scarce
this fall. LifeShare Blood Center is
dealing with the shortage by holding
blood drives, including one here at
Lamar Monday through Thursday in
the Setzer Student Center Ballroom.
Sherry Combs, a donor recruiter
at the center, said there is an
increased demand for blood in the
summer months. She also said this
was the reason for blood drives — to
help soften the overwhelming
demand and restock the shelves with
a new supply.
LifeShare Blood Center, formerly
known as the Beaumont Branch of
the Louisiana Blood Center, has
been serving the Southeast Texas
area for more than 40 years. There
are other branches in the Louisiana
‘Carousel of Fun’
YMBL to host annual fair for 56th year
Billie Dorman Hansen, fair chairperson, said.
UP staff goater Returning fpr the third year is-.the Century Ferris
-——-- Wheel, so named two years ago in honor of the Ferris
When the smell of cotton candy wafts through the wheel’s 100th anniversary,
air and the night is filled with dream-like sounds of “This wheel is the tallest traveling Ferris wheel in
carousels and cheerful screams, it means the Young the world at 101 feet, It seats up to 120 passengers at a
Men’s Business League’s 56th Annual South Texas time in its 20 gondolas,” Hansen said.
State Fair is here. The Harvest Club will feature an exhibit of new
The fair begins Thursday and runs through Oct. 13 automobiles, sponsored by KFDM-TV Channel 6 and
at Fair Park at Gulf and Wiess streets. The theme of the East Texas Chevrolet dealers. Channel 6 will tele-
this year’s fair is “A Carousel of Fun,” and those cast the news from its Harvest Club studio,
attending opening ceremonies at 5:30 p.m. will be Advance sale coupon books valued at $35 and
admitted free. retailing for $15 will be available at local Poochie’s
Wrist bands for unlimited use on rides may be pur- Food Marts and H.E.B. Pantry Foods through Sunday,
chased on the carnival midway for $10 each when the The book contains two adult coupons, allowing
fair opens at 6 p.m. adults $2 off the gate fee, two free fair entry coupons
More than 100 commercial exhibitors, and conces- for students, 40 ride coupons and several two-for-one
sionaires will feature all kinds of food and drinks, nov- coupons for popcorn, drinks and games,
elties, photos, souvenirs, crafts, toys, clothing, hats, Exhibitions will include poultry and rabbits, hob-
caps, art objects, leather goods and jewelry. bies, arts and crafts, collections and educational
“The Bill Hames Show is back again for its 33rd exhibits,
consecutive year to thrill the kids, and the kids at
heart, with their rides, games and carnival food,” Dan See FAIR* page 2
cities of Alexandria, Lake Charles
and Monroe.
“This branch supplies blood to 13
area hospitals in Beaumont, Orange,
Groves, Jasper, Port Arthur and
Nederland,” Vanessa Beverly, donor
recruiter for LifeShare, said. “We
are the only blood bank for all area
hospitals.”
This responsibility has increased
the pressure on the center to main-
tain a steady supply of blood.
“We try to keep a three-day sup-
ply of blood in order to be prepared
for emergencies,” Karen Puckett,
donor recruiter for LifeShare, said.
“At the moment, we are short on
blood types O positive, B positive
and O negative. We are completely
out of type A negative on all blood
center shelves.”
Puckett also said, “Our supply
changes daily, so we need donors to
maintain a steady flow.”
An average operation or transfu-
sion requires four to five units of
blood. More extreme cases call for
up to 250 components of blood, such
as plasma.
This is a hard demand to satisfy,
considering that the center only has
about eight units of O negative blood
for the entire region.
“We try to collect 2,400 units a
month to maintain our supply, but
that is a big feat to accomplish,”
Puckett said. “We hope that the
blood drive at Lamar will help us
reach our goal.”
Last fall, 322 students turned out
to donate. However, only 201 came
out in the spring.
“We hope the numbers increase
this year. In order to keep from
drowning in the demand, we will
need at least 300 people to turn out,”
See BLOOD DRIVE
Go, Sunraycer, go!
Students build prototype solar car
Samantha McGuire
UP staff writer
Lamar University is on the cutting
edge of technology as students in the
engineering department are busy design-
ing what could be the car of tomorrow.
Students in the electrical and mechan-
ical engineering fields are working to
design and construct a car from the
ground up that is powered only by solar
energy. They plan to race the vehicle in
June in a biannual, nationwide race from
Indianapolis to Colorado Springs, Colo.
“The project takes about three years
to complete, and we started about a year
and a half before Sunrayce ’95. We decid-
ed we would give it a shot for ’95, and it
really was a lofty goal,” Darren Habetz,
the Sunrayce team sponsor, said. “We
thought we could do it, but our biggest
problem, and still is our biggest problem,
was funding.”
The organization, in addition to work-
ing on the design of the car, is also orga-
nizing leadership positions to help pro-
mote the project and raise funds.
“As it turns out, we have plenty of
hands-on skills. What we don’t have is
fund-raising skills. So our problem was
not in completing the technical side or
doing the engineering or the design, or
the construction. Raising the money is
what turned out to be the biggest prob-
lem, which we didn’t anticipate,” Habetz
said.
Right now the team is dependent on
Lamar for funds, but it has received
$25,000 worth of parts donated by various
businesses.
“The most success we’ve had with
fund raising is with in-kind gifts,” Habetz
said. “When students find a part they
want, we put a package together for the
company and see if we can’t get the price
reduced.”
The team does have enough funds to
finish the car, but it needs more money to
really be competitive.
“We can complete a very basic design
of the car,” Habetz said. “We need to
purchase a system, and this system alone
you could spend as much as you want to
on. Literally, you could spend $20,000 on
just this portion of the system, which is a
data acquisition and telemetry system.”
This system tells how much energy is
left in the batteries, how much energy is
in the solar panels, and how much energy
is being used in the motor. The system is
necessary for the strategy in the race
because the driver of the car has to com-
municate with a chase car to ensure the
energy is being used as efficiently as pos-
sible.
“Strategy is something that is very<
important to the race. Weather plays an
important role in our race strategy,” he
said. “If its going to be sun shining today
and rainy tomorrow then we want to slow
up today and save as much energy as we
can to make the 140-mile run tomorrow.”
The system could make the difference
in whether the team can be competitive,
but being competitive has a price.
“This system is very expensive; but if
you’re going to win the race, you need
that stuff so you can manage your energy
as well as anybody else can,” Habetz said.
Habetz said that in order to be com-
petitive, the team needs a ball-park figure
of $50,000 in addition to what they
already have. The group also has to pay
for the actual trip to the race which lasts
about 10 days.
The students are currently working on
a design of the car they will use in the
race. They have already constructed a
prototype from the car they began to
build for Sunrayce ’95.
Four Lamar students will drive the car
in the race.
“The drivers will depend on who’s best
at managing all of the stuff,” he said. “It’s
kind of like a pilot in an aircraft. There’s
a lot to think about while you’re driving
the car, so it’s obviously got to be some-
Members of
the Lamar
University
Sunraycer
team work on
a prototype in
their head-
quarters in
143 Lucas
Building.
See SUNRAYCER, page 2
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