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On their toes
Dancers of varying skill levels from around Southeast Texas gathered
at Lamar Saturday to participate in master classes.
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During the 1950s, Lamar State
College of Technology was the
fastest growing senior institution of
higher learning in the state of
Texas.
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Wednesday, October 21,1998
A Three-Time Associated Press Texas Managing Editors Award Winner
Vol. 75, No. 14
Awareness Month
October makes public
savvy to breast cancer
Billie Dorman
UP news editor
Editor’s note: This is the first in a
series of stories marking the obser-
vance of October as Breast Cancer
Awareness Month.
Excluding cancers of the skin,
breast cancer is the most common
cancer among women, and in order
to help open public eyes, October is
National Breast Cancer Awareness
Month.
Breast cancer accounts for one
out of every three cancer diagnoses
in the United States, Pauline Franks,
American Cancer Society adminis-
trative assistant, said.
She said there has been an esti-
mated 178,700 new invasive cases
among women in the United States
during 1998 — and about 1,600 new
cases of breast cancer will be diag-
nosed in men in 1998.
After increasing 4 percent a year
in the 1980s, Franks said breast can-
cer incidence rates in women have
leveled off in recent years to about
110 cases per 100,000.
“The earliest sign of breast cancer
is usually an abnormality that shows
up on a mammogram before it can
be felt by the woman or her health
care provider,” Franks said. “When
breast cancer has grown to the point
where physical signs and symptoms
exist, these may include a breast
lump, thickening, swelling, distor-
tion or tenderness; skin irritation or
dimpling; and nipple pain, scaliness,
or retraction.”
Franks went on to say that breast
pain is often the sign of benign con-
ditions, and is uncommonly the first
symptom of breast cancer.
See AWARENESS, page 6
Mobil grants LU $25,000
for chemical engineering
River Burton
UP staff writer
Technology in the area of indus-
trial chemistry may be determined
to advance and evolve swiftly, but
the Lamar chemical engineering
department is equally determined
to keep up.
This task will be facilitated by a
$25,000 grant from Mobil Oil that
will be employed to upgrade the
department’s process simulation
program for graduate and under-
graduate students.
Jack Hopper, department chair
of chemical engineering, said the
simulation program will be execut-
ed via software that utilizes basic
chemical engineering principles to
mathematically model actual plant
operations and allows engineers to
assess petroleum refining and
chemical processes for potential
changes in raw materials and oper-
See GRANT, page 2
Police beat
On-campus theft rises
Karen Cochrum
UP staff writer
A rise in the theft rate has prompt-
ed university police to remind students
to not leave their personal property
unattended anywhere on campus.
“Chances are you can go up to the
second floor of the Setzer Center and
see bags sitting around on tables with
nobody around,” Police Chief Dale
Fontenot said. “That’s just asking for
trouble.”
The majority of the thefts have
taken place in the Setzer Student
Center, the Lamar Bookstore and the
weight room, he said. Most are taking
place between classes when there are
more people in those areas.
Fontenot said entire book bags are
being stolen. He added that thieves are
then going through the bags to get
money and books before discarding
them.
“We haven’t had anyone try to sell
stolen books back yet,” Fontenot said.
“But we think they may be waiting
until later.”
See THEFT, page 4
Pre-Midnight Madness
Celebration
ends early,
but fever
could last
Archie Windham
UP managing editor
The return of Midnight
Madness to the Montagne Center
on Saturday continued a positive
momentum swing for Lamar bas-
ketball, even if the showcase
event did start a day late and fin-
ish an hour short by big-time col-
lege basketball standards.
NCAA rules allowed men’s
and women’s college basketball
programs to begin full team prac-
tices Saturday, and most other
schools that host a Midnight
Madness basketball gala do so
late night on Friday since mid-
night officially ushers in the sea-
son. But most other schools don’t
compete against high school foot-
ball as Lamar is forced to do in an
area rich in its Friday night
pigskin traditions.
Rather than force some Lamar
basketball faithful to miss the
seventh annual, season tip-off
celebration, Coach Grey Gio-
vanine said the decision was
made to buck the national trend
and start the 1998-99 Cardinal
basketball season on Saturday
evening.
“We just didn’t want to con-
flict with high school football,” he
said.
Bucking trend a second time,
See MIDNIGHT, page 5
Malcolm McCreight makes his first official appearance in the Montagne Center
during player introductions at Saturday’s Midnight Madness.
Local candidates encourage students to vote
Shontta Stevens
UP staff writer
McDonald Gym opened its doors
Monday as an early voting site for the
Lamar University-Beaumont campus
and the entire South Park area.
State representative candidate for
District 21 Allan Ritter was there at 7:30
a.m. to welcome students.
“Voting is the No. 1 right,” Ritter
said. “It’s the most important thing next
to freedom of speech.”
Ritter emphasized the importance of
voting and speaking out for change. He
also stressed the importance of state
elections and how they directly affect the
community.
Following the opening of the voting
booths, there was a rally at noon in the
Setzer Student Center.
Candidates gathered and talked to
students in an attempt to increase the
poll turnout on campus.
Ritter returned to join David
Bernsen, state Senate candidate for
District 4, and Skip Hulett, incumbent of
the judge’s seat for the 317 Family
District Court.
The three met with students to discuss
issues and to rally for their votes.
All of the candidates showed concern
for the student voices of Lamar
University and said they want as many as
possible to make it over to McDonald
Gym and cast a vote. Each said he wants
Lamar to have representation in Austin.
“What we’re trying to do is to engage
students in the political process,”
Bernsen said.
“I’ve been talking to people, trying to
get them involved in the election and the
whole process.”
The poll will be open weekdays
through Oct. 30 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“They need a voice, and right now
they don’t have one,” Bernsen said. “I’m
trying to tell them to go and vote right
there at McDonald Gym, and I hope
they go and do it.”
Keith Carter accepts a plaque from Lamar University Interim
President William Johnson after his lecture Monday evening.
Carter brings East Texas people, places, stories into focus
Jennifer Turner
UP staff writer
Beaumonter, educator and world-
renowned photographer Keith Carter
spoke about remembering his East Texas
roots on Monday as the featured speaker
in Lamar University’s Distinguished
Faculty Lecture Series.
“Successful photographs are more than
descriptions of beauty or pleasing form,”
Carter said. “They are about ideas. My
own efforts evolve from the storytelling
culture of East Texas.”
The plot of his story, as he put it, is that
“ordinary lives are not ordinary, nor have
they ever been.” His subplot — “that
heaven can be glimpsed easily by those
that are looking for it” — conveys that the
small town boy never left Carter despite
his many successes.
“All creatures great and small are
equal before the lens,” he said. “With
photography, everyone and everything
can be given the same gift.”
Just as Carter seemed to be born with
a photographic eye, he tries to help others
through this talent. He credits his East
Texas roots for his depth of human under-
standing.
That small-town understanding allows
Carter to empathize with many of the sub-
jects that make his art, he says. And in an
effort to never lose touch with who made
the art that made him, he said he tries to
take East Texas with him wherever he
goes.
“For more than two decades, my own
work has been rooted figuratively and lit-
erally in the soil of East Texas,” he said.
He said he had photographed images
from all over the world, but he has always
tried to make the same picture that he
would make in Jasper, Kirbyville or
Beaumont.
“I ask myself..., ‘What would I ever
have written had I not come from that
place?,”’ alluding to a speech by the writer
William Goyen.
Carter said that he will continue to
make art through his pictures.
See CARTER, page 4
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