Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 2, 1977 Page: 4 of 12
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UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2,1977*4
Input still wanted
There were cries of betrayal
floating about campus
following the quarterly meeting
of the Board of Regents last
week as people learned — or
thought they learned - what
they were going to get as far as
new buildings and facilities go.
These feelings of betrayal
grew from the president’s
report of the on-going master
planning made to the regents at
that meeting. As carefully as
the president has labeled the
plans presented to the board a
“conceptualization,” as careful
as he has been to state that
there was time and need for
much more input, many seem
to have taken the projects
outlined as settled. They seem
to think that the issue is decided
and that it is hopeless to try to
change the destined course of
events.
This raises the question of
why there seems to be a lack of
communication among the
people planning the projects
and the people who will even-
tually use the facilities. The
presentation to the board that
was reported on by the news
media seems to be where most
of the interested people found
out what was going on, but they
should have been aware of the
proposals long before they went
to the board in any fashion that
looked complete. Key faculty
members should have been
directly and vigorously in-
volved in the planning or “con-
ceptualization” of the projects.
Lamar needs comprehensive
planning if the campus is to be
built in an orderly fashion -- to
make best use of resources,
space and dollars. But the plan-
ning is no good if it does not
take into full consideration the
needs of the departments that
will be using the facilities. The
teachers know what they need
in order to teach and the depar-
tment heads should be aware of
those needs. If a new building is
being planned it would seem
logical that the ones using the
building should be an integral
part of the planning of that
building.
The planning is still going on.
The president has repeatedly
stressed that he and his staff
are open to input. There is still
a chance to make the needs of
your department known and
the opportunity must not be
passed by if the final campus
master plan is to reflect the
needs of those affected.
THE BANE OF OCCIDENTAL ACADEMICISM
Headers7 rorum
Idea ‘eminently meritorious ’
To the Editor:
The current demand for the
sale of alcohol on campus strikes
me as eminently meritorious; an
“Old English pub with
Shakespearian characters
holding discourses on topics of
wide interest; carrying on after
the fashion of Falstaff and young
Prince Henry” strikes me as just
what the doctor shoud have or-
dered long ago to improve the at-
mosphere at Lamar.
Day after day I come into my
classes, to be confronted with
overworked, tensed-up scholars,
their eyes red-rimmed from
fumes of midnight oil, their
cheeks wan and their foreheads
corrugated from excess
cerebration. Boring though my
lectures are, they bravely endure
my lack-luster presentation of
the lecture-notes which are
yellow with age and have been
nibbled by generations of
roaches, and doggedly bring to
my trite and outdated platitudes
(duck-billed platitudes at that)
the fruits of their wide reading in
supplementary works, and thus
manage to achieve results
through their own superhuman
efforts which my inadequate
remarks could never be expected
to encourage.
But there is more to life and to
education than this sort of thing.
All work and no play can make
Jack a dull boy; and what the
average Lamar student needs
more than anything is relaxation.
The proposed pizzaria, where one
could partake of a bowl of sack, a
flagon of mead, a few cold ones, a
shot or so of Sneaky Pete, or even
a pizza, thus sounds eminently in
order. At all costs, we must cease
to contribute to the risk of ner-
vous breakdowns induced by
overwork among our student
body.
Concernedly yours,
Winfred S. Emmons
Professor of English
Dr. Nytolers ’ screening bad
Dear Sirs:
In reflecting upon the ‘‘Dr.
Nytol” contest being sponsored
by Sigma Nu, I find that the
ability of this fraternity to screen
appropriate nominees is ap-
parently nonexistent. Otherwise,
Dr. Emmons (qnd possibly the
others) would definitely not be
considered in a contest for-
mulated for naming the in-
structor who “reigns supreme”
in boring lectures and is ex-
tremely monotonous in tone and
expression, as the title “Dr.
Nytol” invokes.
An immensely intelligent and
vigorous professor, Dr. Emmons
is able to keep even the eight
o’clock “sleepy heads” wide-
eyed and keenly aware of subject
matter. Quick wit and a thorough
knowledge of his subject is indeed
a rare combination among many
in his profession. Stimulating, not
boring, describes his classroom.
As for your blind assumptions
that class attendance isn’t man-
datory, it’s hard to make an A,
and it’s hard to pass-the answer
to all of these is yes if:
A. You do not realize (as a
mature univeristy student
should) that an unwritten rule of
learning and gaining from a cour-
se is regular and willing at-
tendance.
B. You are an unfortunate vic-
tim of sweet, high school English
teachers who passed out A+’s for
poetry “that rhymes nicely,” yet
are unwilling to overcome this
stigma and make an honest
effort toward righting this wrong
and be graded accordingly.
C. You never read assigned
literature (or anything), follow
with research, practice, yes,
PRACTICE writing, and never
THINK. Also included in this is
never having an idea or opinion
on any subject.
The fact that Dr. Emmons and
others like him are promoters of
learning in an exalting manner
certainly does not qualify him for
this “ingenious award.” He is
probably disappointed for not
being placed in a more suitable
grouping. Disappointed, yet
amused at the entire fiasco. How
like the mass not to even know
the damn definition of boring!
Sincerely,
Bonnie Withers
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Cowles, Roger. Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 2, 1977, newspaper, November 2, 1977; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500458/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.