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Applicants for student commencement speaker sought LAINIE HARRIS UP CONTRIBUTOR Lamar University has redesigned its graduation ceremonies and will select a representative of the student body to deliver a commencement address at every December and May ceremony.

All currently enrolled full-time undergraduate or graduate students are eligible to apply. The student selected will receive an honorarium of $500.

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Students may download the Student Commencement Address Application pdf at facultystaff.lamar.edu/forms .html. Completed applications must be received by Monday in 104 Plummer.

“We’ve opened it up to all students,” Kevin Smith, senior associate provost, said. “However, preference will be shown to those who are members of the graduating class. That includes not only graduating seniors — baccalaureate seniors — but also graduate students. What’s even doubly in-

teresting about it is we have a large number of online students and they too are eligible.”

Instead of having two general ceremonies dividing the colleges in half, the school will have one universitywide ceremony and each college will confer to separate ceremonies, Smith said.

“We are redesigning the university ceremony, which will be at 10 a.m. on Dec. 13,” he said. “We redesigned it, and as we talked about it, we

thought it would be most appropriate for a representative of the student body to speak at commencement.”

Smith said it was President Kenneth Evans’s idea to add the student speaker.

“One of the things that I found missing in our commencement was a better level, a more meaningful level, of student engagement — student ownership,” Evans said. “I think it is really important that the students have an opportunity to meet, greet and be

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MERCURY RISING JERRY LIN TO DISCUSS METAL’S PITFALLS, POTENTIAL IN DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE

LAUREN VAN GERVEN UP EDITOR @thegerven The international honor society, Phi Beta Delta – Chapter Beta Xi, will sponsor a talk, “Colloquy on Ukraine — Three Views — Three Women” Wednesday, 3-4 p.m. in the Gray Library open conference area on the sixth floor.

The talk will feature Uliana Trylowsky, Yuliia Hetman Robinson and Dariya Dashutina — three women with strong connections to Ukraine — and will be moderated by Bruce Drury, the founding president of the Beta Xi chapter of Phi Beta Delta.

“The Beta Xi is honored to give them a place and time to voice their views on campus,” Jesse Doiron, Phi Beta Delta, chapter Beta Xi president, said. “The colloquy will put a human face on the political matter. It will also emphasize the changed attitude of women in the world.”

Last February, after a series of violent events in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, the five-day lasting Ukrainian revolution took place. Shortly after, the Crimean crisis — an international crisis that mainly involved Russia and Ukraine regarding the control over the Crimean Peninsula — unfolded.

Doiron said that the women have first-hand knowledge of the region.

“That matters,” he said. “Recognizing the equality of women was part of Soviet constitution. It’s also a part of our American society. Women’s rights has become a global matter. The speakers will be able to explain what it happening in Ukraine because they lived there, they have family there. In spirit, they are there. That matters.”

Trylowsky, who is the executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Jef-

honor recognized by their individual colleges for their accomplishments.”

Previously, Evans was the Dean of the College of Business at the University of Oklahoma, which has a representative from the student body deliver the commencement address to the graduating class.

“We selected students to present at those events and they thoroughly enjoyed it, and students in the audi-

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Jerry Lin, professor of environmental engineering, works on a simulation of the effects of mercury in his lab in Cherry Engineering Building, Oct. 9. Lin will present the 2014 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, "Chasing Quicksilver: From an Emperor's Tomb to the Global Environment," Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Theatre.

Jerry Lin, professor of environmental engineering, has been honored by Lamar University as this year’s distinguished faculty lecturer. He will present his lecture “Chasing Quicksilver: From an Emperor’s Tomb to the Global Environment,” Oct. 20, at 7 p.m., in the University Theatre.

Lin, who’s areas of expertise include water and wastewater engineering, fate and transport of atmospheric mercury, and air quality assessment, will center his lecture around the metal that he has studied for over 20 years — mercury.

“When I was about to apply for this particular lecture, I thought about what I would like to talk about,” he said. “I could talk about either water, air quality, or I could go back to my original research point. I thought that would be the easiest, and the most interesting story that I could tell. So, I came up with the thought to talk about mercury, because it has such a rich relationship with human activity, all the way back for thousands of years.”

Lin said that he is excited to have a platform that allows him to share the science and his knowledge on mercury.

“First of all, I am very, very humbly honored,” he said. “I am also very excited to be able to tell this wonderful story about my research. I am so excited to be able to contemplate those 20

years of work to one hour. I put it in an understandable way for a broad audience, and I think that it is a very good story to share.”

Mercury is an important raw material that is used for different industrial processes, Lin said.

“In the old days, we used it in very bad ways, simply because we didn’t know the consequences,” he said. “It has very specific chemical and physical properties that allow it, for example to serve as a very good industrial catalyst to be able to manufacture a lot of raw materials that we use every day.”

Lin said that, when using the raw material without prior knowledge about its consequences, people contaminate the environment without even knowing it, and eventually there are health consequences.

“We enjoy the benefits first, and then later on we see that there are some problems, and we need to come back and clean it up,” he said. “And that’s what the environmental engineers should do, so that as a human race we need to look into things in a more broad spectrum.”

During his lecture, Lin will talk about the history of the metal — from its original discovery to its release into the atmosphere — and the bad industrial application of it.

“I’m going to start from the application point, and really follow the traveling experience of the particular metal in the air, the water, the soil, in the ocean, and coming back to the polluSee MERCURY, page 2

KVLU tests emergency broadcast equipment for hearing impaired ELIZABETH GRIMM UP STAFF WRITER

Byron Balentine adjusts the device used for hearing impairment that is used at KVLU for hearing impairment individuals, Oct. 10.

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KVLU tested out equipment that allows for emergency broadcasts to be sent to hearingimpaired individuals.

Byron Balentine, KVLU program director and station manager, said that emergency messages have been used since the Cold War and now technology allows for advancement of broadcasts.

“Ever since the Cold War began, radio stations have been equipped with a receiver that would allow us to pass on emergency messages,” he said. “At first, it was for nuclear attack, but later it was expanded for severe weather and other things.

“In recent years, with the jump in technology, they changed from what was called the emergency broadcast system to the emergency alert system. It’s a computer-based system unlike the previous — that is capable of so many more things. You can put on not only weather problems but also yellow alerts or missing children.”

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KVLU is an affiliate of National Public Radio and found out about the project where Homeland Security would provide early warnings to the hearing-impaired.

“There were two things that crossed my mind — we are in the middle of hurricane country, and we have a very well-known audiology section of the university, one of the biggest around,” Balentine said. “And I thought, ‘This is something that would be a natural for us.’ We contacted NPR and said, ‘Are you taking volunteers?’ and they said, ‘Yes.’ They signed us up for that and we became part of what they called the Gulf State CAP project.

“I don’t know where the idea came from — if it was from Homeland Security or NPR — but however it happened, they got together and they picked out a series of stations, mostly along the Gulf Coast, to test out this system.”

The NPR satellite system has a path that is connected to KVLU’s satellite system of transmitters, which is activated by a box that See KVLU, page 2

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MERCURY ••••••••••••• Continued from page 1 tion problem that it causes,â€? he said. “After we understand it — there are a lot of scientists who have been working for 30 years trying to understand it — where it is from, where it is going to, now we have a pretty good handling of how to deal with the pollution issue.â€?

Lin said that there are three major points that he wants to deliver during his lecture. “No. 1 is that I want to make people aware that when we have raw materials that we get from the source, and know its chemical and physical properties, we can make great things out of those particular properties,� he said. “I am going to talk about how to utilize the knowledge, to make the simple things that are useful.�

Lin said he will caution the audience about under what circumstances they will be exposed to mercury. “There are some simple things that one can implement to prevent the contamination of mercury in the envi-

KVLU •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Continued from page 1 decodes the message and sent to a receiver, Balentine said. “It’s similar to the system which radio stations can put call letters on your radio,â€? he said. “That’s called RDS. It’s basically a way that you can send texts. They’re using that system and changing it around. You can send emergency messages over the satellite to a device that encodes it and sends it to these devices that can receive it. “Eventually, if this is considered doable by Homeland Security and the FCC, they no doubt will add the direct connection from the emergency alert system device that would also feed into this to provide messages.â€?

The testing period has passed, but KVLU spent several months with the Nipper One, sending test messages,

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Balentine said, adding that there were a half a dozen people in this market who were testing the receivers. “It displays the message — when a message is coming in it flashes a light,� he said. “There is an outlet on there that can plug it into a couple of things that hearing-impaired people might have in their houses. Then the light would indicate that you should go see what’s on the screen.�

Balentine said KVLU and other stations had the duty of installing the system and testing it to see if it was viable. A lot of information was collected and sent to Homeland Security, who will determine if the system will be mandated for all radio stations.

Balentine said the university’s administration was supportive of the process. He worked through Russ Schultz, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication. Audiology and speech and hearing are in that college.

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ronment in certain ways,� he said. “So, I’m going to review that. That will be very entertaining and exciting.�

Secondly, Lin wants to make his audience aware of the consequences of the material. “When you are making useful things from the raw material, it’s always better for us to stay cautious so that we don’t just utilize the benefits and forget about the consequences,� he said.

Lin’s final major point covers what happens when there are negative consequences. “If we observe that there is a consequence, by planning our knowledge, and by working with the people all together, we will be able to get the problem solved,� he said. “It is just a matter of time, we just need to be very positive, and with the good will to understand the challenges that we have pretty much in everything.�

Lin, who publishes five to 10 publications a year on mercury, said that he has given many presentations in the past, some to scientists and some to the general public, and that this topic is easy to talk about in front of a diverse audience.

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CALENDAR October 16 Finding Your Strenghts Seminar 101 Galloway Business Building 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

October 17 AP Fall I 8-wk ends

October 18 Alumni Service Project at Humane Society Humane Society of Southeast Texas, 2050 Spindletop Ave. Beaumont 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Jerry Lin, professor of environmental engineering, works on his lecture, "Chasing Quicksilver: From an Emperor's Tomb to the Global Environment," in his lab in Cherry Engineering, Oct. 9.

ADPi Glow Run Relay for Ronald Ty Terrell Track 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

October 20 AP Fall II 8-wk begins.

“You can see mercur y pretty much every day, even without knowing it,� he said. “I’m not going to talk a lot about fundamental sciences. Instead, I will talk about where we use it and under what circumstances are you going to be letting it into the air.�

“Chasing Quicksilver: From an Emperor’s Tomb to the Global Environment� is sponsored by ExxonMobil and hosted by the Lamar University Faculty Senate.

The lecture is open to the public and admission is free.

“I think he had an interest in that community being served,� Balentine said. “This idea, which is really a breakthrough for that population, appealed to him. He was very supportive. “Plus, it didn’t cost us anything.

We were provided with the equipment, and mostly what we did was tie in man power to get it implemented.�

Balentine said that the program will be a tremendous benefit for the people it will serve, and if it is adopted, the equipment is already installed and KVLU would be the first on air to implement it. “It’s hard to tell what the federal government is going to do,� he said. “I would say that they’ve had a very positive test at other stations and they were happy from the information they got from ours. My guess is that from this device, they would come up with something that is a little more selfcontained.

“This (device) is in two modules.

They probably could make it work through an iPad or something, eventually. For all the other parts of it, I think it’s just a matter of the political will to do it and the ability to convince other stations that this is something that they should add through their broadcast systems.�

Balentine said that he is glad KVLU had the chance to test the equipment and to help the community. “I’m ver y proud that we’re in a place where we have the ability to be on the ground floor with something as exciting as this,� he said. “We could be a real aid to people who are deaf or hearing-impaired. It shows the commitment of KVLU and Lamar University to ser ve that community in whatever way we can.�

For more information, contact the station at 880-8164 or visit www.kvlu. org.

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October 22 Job Search Strategies Seminar 101 Galloway Business Building 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Rock, Paper, Scissor Tournament Dining Hall Front Lawn Noon Distinguished Faculty Lecture University Theatre 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

MBA/MSA Open House 242 Galloway Business Building 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m..

Colloquy on Ukraine Gray Library, 6th Floor Conference Area 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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SPEAKER ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Continued from page 1 ence certainly thoroughly enjoyed having somebody from their ranks participating in the commencement process,” Evans said. “I’ve always enjoyed their comments, they’ve been really exceptional, so there’s no doubt they will be this December as well.

“It’s a great opportunity for personal and professional growth for whoever ends up doing this.”

Undergraduate applicants must have at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA by the end of the semester and have completed 30 or more credits from Lamar University. Graduate students must have at least a 3.75 cumulative GPA on all graduate work by the end of the semester and completed 15 or more credits.

Smith said the provost office decided all the details — who is eligible, how they are going to be selected, what the committee is going to look like, what the person is going to say and how much the speaker will be paid.

“We do have a member on the selection committee from the department of communications, Nicki Michalski, who is going to help us with public speaking, because as you might well imagine this is a new and challenging experience for a student,” he said. “So we’ll have someone who is an expert in public speaking help us select the person and prepare the person for the address.”

The students selected as finalists will prepare a draft address and audition before the selection committee.

“We’re looking at about 10 minutes,” Smith said. “We want the chosen speaker to speak on the transformative effects of higher education — how higher education transforms the lives of perhaps the speaker, perhaps members of the graduating class, perhaps citizens of the state or the nation, perhaps the world. It’s a fairly broad topic.”

Smith said the administration is looking forward to the change.

“We think this will be a wonderful addition to the ceremony,” he said.

For more information, call Senior Associate Provost, Kevin Smith at 880-8400, or email kevin.smith@lamar.edu.

UKRAINE ••••••••••••••• Continued from page 1 ferson County, said that she wanted to participate in the event because she is interested in the issue, and wants more people to understand it.

“There is so much going on right now in the world, and the Ukraine issue seems old by now, but it holds great importance for future relations in Europe, and between the U.S. and Russia,” she said. “We can’t ignore it.”

Doiron said that it is the complexity of the issue that makes Russian involvement in Ukraine important to people in the United States.

“There is a hint of a warming

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FEELING IN THE PINK Future Cardinals perform during the half time show of Satuday’s football game against Southeastern Louisiana at Provost Umphrey Stadium. The girls participated in a Cheer and Dance Football clinic Oct. 4, hosted by the Lamar University Spirit Team. The participants joined the spirit team in wearing pink for Breast Cancer Awareness.

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battle, if not a hotting-up war,” he said. “Now, a powerful European nation is at odds with almost all of its European sisters. Ukraine is a subject that Americans should understand, because Ukraine will change the way America works with Europe.”

Robinson, a Lamar University graduate student, said that she wants people to know about Ukraine.

“I love my native country,” she said. “And, I want people to know about it. I want you to see how happy that you are that you do not have a war in your country, and nobody dies and suffers.”

Dashutina, a senior from Kharkiv, Ukraine, agrees that it is important that people know about the situation.

“I want to participate in this

event because I want to make a difference,” she said. “I want to raise awareness of this problem.”

Trylowsky said that the events happening in Ukraine today go beyond the country’s borders.

“The real issue here is Russia and what Putin is planning in the future,” she said. “He has taken the country back to the Soviet Union.

He is crushing dissent, controlling media, and not allowing democracy to grow. If he adds expansionist aims to this political philosophy we all need to be worried.”

Doiron said that the talk is open to everyone.

“We would like to have a broad range of participation,” he said.

“The campus is our primary audience — students, staff, faculty, and administration. The local community off-campus is welcome as well.”

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Uliana Trylowsky, left, Dasha Dashutina, and Yuliia Robertson talk in the Quad, Oct. 09. The trio will be part of a colloquy about the crisis in Ukraine, Wednesday, in Gray Library.

DIVERSE: Composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities The UP consistently attracts one of the most diversified staffs, both ethnically and culturally, of any organization on campus. Major editors have included all races.

Some countries represented over the years include, in addition to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Sweden, England, Spain, France, Germany, Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Iran, Scotland, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Thailand and Belgium.

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Hallmark inducted into Business Hall of Fame ELIZABETH GRIMM UP CONTRIBUTOR When Dan Hallmark was a senior at what was then Lamar Tech, J.D. Landes, dean of the College of Business, suggested he interview for a local bank.

“He felt like I was qualified,” Hallmark said. “I said ‘Dr. Landes, I appreciate the confidence and the thought that you had for me, but I really don’t have any interest in banking.’ Landes said, with wisdom, ‘Well you may not, but there’s going to come a time when you’re interviewing for a position that you really are interested in. The more of these interviews you’ve done, the easier it will be for you. Besides, you just never know what may come out of the interviews.’”

Hallmark said that out of respect for Landes he went and did the interview at the American National Bank of Beaumont. Today, after nearly four decades in the banking industry, Hallmark is the latest inductee into the Lamar University College of Business Hall of Fame.

Hallmark said that he liked the people he met at the interview.

“I liked what they explained to me about the program and how it was going to work,” he said. “I began to think about three or four more years of no income and working on a postgraduate degree, and I decided (the job) sounded pretty good. So I took the offer. And 38 years later, I walk out of the same building having been chairman and CEO for the last 15 years.”

Hallmark said that many of the positive things that happened in his career are directly attributed to his education at Lamar.

“To start with, my junior year, they helped me get a student loan through two large banks in Beaumont that both offered it,” he said. “They helped me with the application process and paved the way to that. My senior year they helped me with an academic scholarship — it wasn’t a big scholarship, but it covered my books and part of my tuition.

That was very helpful.”

Hallmark has not forgotten the opportunities the school gave him and has continued to be a strong supporter of the university, including serving as a Texas State University System regent.

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Business Hall of Fame inductee and avid fisherman, Dan Hallmark, examines a fishing lure at his home, Oct. 6. the College of Business, said Hallmark is well deserving of the honor.

“He has tremendous achievement in his industry,” Venta said. “He’s probably one of the best known people in Beaumont that’s engaged in banking.

He’s known throughout the state, has mentored students and mentored many people.”

Venta said he hopes students will see Hallmark as a role model.

“We’re hoping that the students will look at people like that, and look at those people and say, ‘Well these are role models — these are people that did different things,’” he said. “Dan was interesting.

He wasn’t a finance major or accounting major — he’s a management major who ended up with a long 38-year career in banking. You can never tell where the situation is going to lead you to.”

Venta said he was glad to see how happy Hallmark was to be inducted.

“He brought two tables of people,” he said. “It makes you feel good. This is a person that not only deserves it but relished the award — and that makes it special.”

Hallmark is the 10th person named to the Business Hall of Fame, joining C.W. Conn, Jr., Elvis Mason, Jordan “Jerry” Reese III, Robert Swerdlow, William Childs, James Crump, Bette Stead, Terry Kelley and Jay Barton Simmons.

“There’s been so many outstanding College of Business graduates,” Hallmark said. “The previous nine members of the College of Business Hall of Fame, many of them I know. I’m not quite comfortable being in that group. But in any event, it was very nice.”

Hallmark said he has many hobbies and interests that are not related to banking. He and his wife, Jan, like to hunt, fish, ski, and spend time with their

grandchildren.

“We spend a lot of time with family and travel when we can,” he said. “I love history and architecture. You always enjoy the opportunity to see that in particular countries in Europe.

“Basically, you look at bankers as being pretty straight-laced, and that’s not always the case.”

Hallmark said he enjoys skiing and that it’s a great sport for the family.

“I’ve been doing that a long time,” he said. “We have a home in Crested Butte, Colo. We spend close to three months of the year, probably sometimes a little more, in Colorado. About half of it winter, half of it summer. In the winter, of course, skiing is the thing there. We ski a lot and I enjoy that. All of our grandchildren that are four or five or older can ski. We’ve got two six year olds that are skiing quite well. It’s a great family sport.”

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Hallmark started with skiing through a church group in Beaumont, he said.

“Calder Baptist Church had put a group together for young people to go skiing,” he said. “My wife and I went with them a time or two and enjoyed it. We started going back at spring break and I had four good friends that I skied with.

We did serious skiing. It was just a guy’s trip and we’d go usually about the third week or so in January, and for seven days we would ski nonstop from the time the lift opened until it closed.

“Then we’d go back at spring break with the family and have family time. It just kind of grew. It’s a beautiful thing — pretty clear day after heavy snowfall and (you) have that light snow and the suns out and pretty blue skies. It’s a great thing to do.”

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CROWDS AND COLORED CLOUDS More than 6,000 people participated in the Julie Richardson Procter 5K Ribbon Run Color Rush, Saturday, in downtown Beaumont. The race began in front of the Beaumont Civic Center at 8 a.m. and culminated with a color blast outside of Beaumont City Hall at 9:30 a.m.

Participants were pelted by colored corn starch as they rushed to raise funds for cancer research. Even the Beaumont Police Department got in on the fun, with at

least one officer driving his bike through the colored cloud.

The Color Rush, which was sponsored by the Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program, had raised more than $140,000 at press time through fees and individual fundraising.

“It’s hard to say right now exactly how much we’ve raised because we’re allowing teams to turn in their money until Oct. 17,” Ashlynn Lalonde, Gift of Life public rela-

tions coordinator, said.

Established in 1994, the Gift of Life program provides health services to underserved members of the community. The organization has provided 1,701 free clinical breast exams and mammograms this year, and they provided 441 free prostate cancer screenings in 2013. The organization also provides educational outreach concerning gynecological cancers, tobacco prevention and healthy lifestyle choices.

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— NOBEL PRIZE ROUNDUP — Science of taming powerful firms Jean Tirole is one of the most influential economists of our time. He has made important theoretical research contributions in a number of areas, but most of all he has clarified how to understand and regulate industries with a few powerful firms.

Many industries are dominated by a small number of large firms or a single monopoly. Left unregulated, such markets often produce socially undesirable results – prices higher than those motivated by costs, or unproductive firms that survive by blocking the entry of new and more productive ones.

From the mid-1980s and onwards, Jean Tirole has breathed new life into research on such market failures. His analysis of firms with market power provides a unified theory with a strong bearing on central policy questions: how should the government deal with mergers or cartels, and how should it regulate monopolies?

Donald Price, professor of economics and finance, said that he was surprised to see that this year’s Nobel Prize laureate was someone who studies in his field of expertise.

“He studies how to control

monopolies and oligopolies,” he said. “He emphasizes that you have to consider what is going on in each market.”

Price said that he didn’t expect the prize to go to work as recent as Tirole’s “Something as recent as 30 years ago is unusual,” he said.

“Prizes in economics are usually given very late in life, for research done years earlier.”

Before Tirole, researchers and policymakers sought general principles for all industries.

They advocated simple policy rules, such as capping prices for monopolists and prohibiting co-

Jean Tirole

operation between competitors, while permitting cooperation between firms with different positions in the value chain. Tirole showed theoretically that such rules may work well in certain conditions, but do more harm than good in others. Price caps can provide dominant firms with strong motives to reduce costs – a good thing for society – but may also permit excessive profits – a bad thing for society. Cooperation on price setting within a market is usually harmful, but cooperation regarding patent pools can benefit everyone. The merger of a firm and its supplier may encourage innovation, but may also distort competition.

The best regulation or competition policy should therefore be carefully adapted to every industry’s specific conditions. In a series of articles and books, Jean Tirole has presented a general framework for designing such policies and applied it to a number of industries, ranging from telecommunications to banking.

Drawing on these new insights, governments can better encourage powerful firms to become more productive and, at the same time, prevent them from harming competitors and customers.

Muslim, Hindu honored for children’s struggles The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. In the poor countries of the world, 60 percent of the present population is under 25 years of age. It is a prerequisite for peaceful global development that the rights of children and young people be respected. In conflict-ridden areas in particular, the violation of children leads to the continuation of violence from generation to generation.

“I am teaching the Terrorism and Political Violence class right now and I have been trying to teach my students the concept of ‘blowback,’ the unintended consequences of American military actions abroad that may lead to or create terrorism,” Stuart Wright, professor of sociology, said. “I don’t think the American people are aware that we sometimes create terrorists by our actions and policies.”

Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain. He has also contributed to the development of important international conventions on children’s rights.

Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzay has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations.

Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls’ rights

Kailash Satyarthi, top, and Malala Yousafzay to education.

The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.

It has been calculated that there are 168 million child labourers around the world today. In 2000 the figure was 78 million higher.

The struggle against suppression and for the rights of children and adolescents contributes to the realization of the “fraternity between nations” that Alfred Nobel mentions in his will as one of the criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Modiano wins literature prize for art of memory The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 has been announced. This year’s Nobel Laureate has been awarded to the French author Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”

Modiano’s works center on topics such as memory, oblivion, identity and guilt. The city of Paris is often present in the text and can almost be considered a creative participant in the works. Rather often his tales are built on an au-

tobiographical foundation, or on events that took place during the German occupation.

He sometimes draws material for his works from interviews, newspaper articles or his own notes accumulated over the years. His novels show an affinity with one another, and it happens that earlier episodes are extended or that persons recur in different tales. The author’s hometown and its history often serve to link the tales together.

“Modiano is not one of the more famous authors, but he has always been well regarded

in France,” Kenneth Rivers, professor of French, said in an email interview. “His screenplays are perhaps his best work. France is justifiably proud that he is the fifteenth French author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.”

A work of documentary character, with World War II as background, is “Dora Bruder” which builds on the true tale of a fifteen-year old girl in Paris who became one of the victims of the Holocaust. Among the works which most clearly reveal an autobiographical character, one notes “Un pedigree” from 2005.

Patrick Modiano

SPORTS UP SPORTS BRIEFS Basketball

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LIONS RAIN ON CARDINALS

The Lamar men's and women's basketball teams have scheduled a Tip-Off Breakfast for Saturday in the Montagne Center.

The event is slated to begin at 8:30 a.m. with a meet and greet with the coaches and players, followed by the breakfast at 9 a.m.

The breakfast will allow fans their first look at the 2014-15 Lamar Cardinals and Lady Cardinals basketball teams.

The LU men enter the season under the guidance of first-year head coach Tic Price, while the Lady Cards are coming off one of the best seasons in school history.

In addition to meeting the 201415 men's and women's basketball teams, there will also be a silent auction.

Tickets can be purchased in advance for $25, or at the door for $30.

Tables range in price from $300 up to $1,000, and fans can choose to be seated with either Price or Harmony, a team captain or a specific player.

Women’s Tennis The Lamar women's tennis team had two individuals advance to the finals of their respective flights at the Schlief Tennis Complex in Nacogdoches.

Senior Carolina Maso and sophomore Hanna Elfving competed in the flight A and D finals, Sunday.

Maso squared off against McNeese State's Julia Kral but came up short, dropping a 6-1, 6-4 decision. It was a similar result for Elfving in the flight D championship. Elfving squared off against Sam Houston State's Mila Milanovic. Elfving fought hard, but came up short with a 6-4, 6-2 set back.

Lamar will be back in action today as they travel to Waco to compete in the ITA Regional Championships.The regional tournament will run through Sunday.

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SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA OUTPLAYS LAMAR IN 61-34 WIN GRANT CRAWFORD UP SPORTS EDITOR @GrantLamarUP

Women’s Soccer The Lamar Lady Cardinals saw their postseason hopes take a serious hit, Sunday, as they dropped a 4-0 road decision to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in Southland Conference action.

The Lady Cardinals (4-9-1 overall, 2-4-1 Southland) fell out of the sixth and final berth in next month’s Southland Conference Tournament with four games remaining.

The Lady Cardinals host McNeese State in a crucial Southland Conference game at 7 p.m., Friday, at the Lamar Soccer Complex.Tickets are available at www.LamarCardinals.com.

Tickets may be purchased from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. weekdays at the Montagne Center ticket office, or by calling 880-1715.Tickets will be sold at the Lamar Soccer Complex box office one hour prior to kickoff.

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Caleb Berry, top, tries to get rid of the ball before being tackled by defenders in Lamar’s 61-34 loss to Southeastern Louisiana, Saturday. Reggie Begelton, above, is tackled after a reception from Caleb Berry.

The Lamar football team suffered a 6134 loss to Southeastern Louisiana, Saturday, at Provost Umphrey Stadium.

The loss drops Lamar to 4-3 (1-2 SLC).

Lamar was down 17-13 at half time but were outplayed in the third quarter. Head coach Ray Woodard said he was encouraged by his team’s play in the first half.

“Obviously we didn’t get it done tonight,” Woodard said. “Southeast outplayed us in all three phases of the second half. I thought we were in decent position going into half time. We really got outplayed in the third quarter. I’m very disappointed in the outcome of the game — tough loss.”

The Cardinals were down 34-20 in the third quarter when sophomore Xavier Bethany intercepted a pass off of Southeastern quarterback Bryan Bennett, and returned it 40 yards for a touchdown to make it 34-27. The Lions then scored the next 27 points to pull away from Lamar.

“X makes the pick and we’re back in the game,” Woodard said. “Then they just took control of the game. We couldn’t tackle. We couldn’t stop them when we needed to, and that’s to their credit. We fought. We definitely had some chances. We just weren’t good enough.”

Senior Caleb Berry threw for 280 yards and two touchdowns. Lamar’s offensive line was unable to prevent Southeastern from sacking Berry five times.

“They came after him more in the second half,” Woodard said. “They rattled him and really took him out of his game. We didn’t do a good enough job at keeping them off of him.”

The Cardinals were able to get two turnovers in the game and Woodard said he saw some bright spots from his team.

“We created some turnovers tonight,” Woodard said. “That was very encouraging.

We won the turnover battle. Juan again punted really well, that’s two weeks in a row.

We did some good things in the kicking game, but overall we’re just not good enough. It just looked like they’re a better team, especially in the second half.”

As well as his interception, Bethany led the team in tackles with 15. Bethany said he was trying to be modest about his touchdown.

“It felt good to pick the ball,” he said.

“That was my first touchdown of my whole career. You should never lay down to anything or anybody, and just keep working hard. You never know, sometimes things might go your way.”

Woodard said his team needs to improve after what he saw Saturday.

“It looked like we underestimated their speed at times,” he said. “We’re a better tackling team than that. We’re going to have to spend a lot of time working on fundamentals –– unacceptable tonight. We’ve got to do a better job. I’ve got to do a better job.”

LU next plays away against Nicholls State, Saturday, in Thibodeaux, La. “We still have got five football games left against five good opponents,” Woodard said. “A lot of good things can happen for us.

It’s on the table for us, but we’re not going to get there playing this way. We got to go back to work.

“We have a great opportunity to go down and beat Nichols this week. I’m down.

I want (the players) to be down, but we’re not going to stay down. We’re going to have to come back and put in a heck of a week.”

Softball The Lamar softball team went 1-2 at the LSU Tournament, Saturday, in Baton Rouge, La. The Lady Cardinals opened with a 6-3 loss to Belhaven before posting a 6-3 win over Baton Rouge Community College. Lamar closed the tournament with a 6-4 loss to Louisiana State.

Casey Cromwell had two hits for Lamar in the loss to Belhaven. Lauren Dannelley pitched two scoreless innings of relief.

Sarah Ragsdale went 3-for-3 with an RBI in the win over Baton Rouge CC, while Baylie Comeaux had a bases-loaded triple.Amie Cisneros pitched the first five innings for the win. Shannon Sain worked two innings of one-hit relief for the save.

The Lady Cardinals will play at Lamar State College-Port Arthur at 2 p.m. Saturday.The game is being billed as “Gleaux for a Cure,” as a fun run/walk follows the contest.The event is a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness and research.

Entry fee is $20 a person, children younger than 12 are $10.

All participants receive a T-shirt and are encouraged to wear bright colors.

Volleyball sweeps UIW, runs SLC record to 3-2 COTY DAVIS UP CONTRIBUTOR The Lady Cardinals Volleyball team won their second Southland Conference game in a row, and recorded their first 3-0 sweep of the season, as they defeated the University of the Incarnate Word, Saturday, in McDonald Gym. The victory gave the Lady Cardinals (3-14 overall, 3-2 Southland) their third-straight home win where they remain undefeated on the season. Head coach Alan Edwards, said there is no better place to play than the McDonald Gym. “It’s just home cooking,” he said.

“Playing on the road is tough, especially when playing on the road with such a young team. We have a tendency right now to compete at a high level when we are motivated, and this crowd is what motivated us. Being able to play in front of this crowd is always great.”

From the start of the first set, it was clear that Incarnate Word was trying their best to steal a victory, but LU

seemed to be one step ahead, winning the first set 25-21.

Early in the second set, things did not go the Lady Cardinals way as they found themselves down early 12-8.

After a timeout, LU was able to regroup, as they won the competitive set, 25-23.

“We have a bad habit of (not) staying consistent in games, which has allowed some games and matches to get away from us,” Edwards said. “During the timeout, we talked about continuing to attack like the first set, and I was happy with the way we played after the break.”

After winning both sets in the first sessions, Lamar returned from the locker room break full of intensity, as they looked to put away UIW in the third set.

LU outside hitter Autumn Taylor, who had eight kills and seven digs, said the biggest key during the third set was trying to stick to the game plan, even after Lamar’s Amethyst Hollowell suffered a foot injury late in the third.

“Our plan going into the third set

Lady Cardinal Autumn Taylor had eight kills and seven digs against Incarnate Word, Saturday. was staying aggressive and keeping the momentum on our side, which was hard after the injury,” Taylor said.

“However, we were still able to play through it and stick to the game plan.”

Edwards said he was happy with

the way his team played through adversity after the injury.

“Subbing in Kelsey Beards threw our lineup in a haywire situation, because she had never played on the left before,” he said. “We had to play a couple of rotations with a few man servers receive, something we never work on, and for us to execute the way we did, I was really happy with that.”

Despite the injury, they prevailed, winning the third set 25-20.

“In every single conference match so far, we have been going to four and five sets, and for us to come out and compete the way we did today, which resulted in a sweep, makes me very proud,” Taylor said.

After the game, Edwards said the victory shows how much progress his team has made throughout the season, but he still sees room for improvement.

He said the biggest challenge for LU is to transition the way they play at home to their play on the road.

Lamar plays the Sam Houston State Lady Bearkats in Huntsville, Tuesday.

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Symphony to offer free community concert, Oct. 19 The Symphony of Southeast Texas (SOST) is pleased to announce that it will be back at the Julie Rogers Theatre on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. to perform “Scheherazade” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was unfortunately interrupted by a series of unforeseen mechanical circumstances.

In appreciation of their many patrons, corporate supporters and city government, the orchestra is excited that it will be able to complete the interrupted concert and is inviting the public free of charge. This free community concert is made possible by the generosity of long-time corporate sponsor, Entergy Texas, the staff of the Julie Rogers Theatre and the City of Beaumont.

“Our musicians worked diligently to play this epic symphonic work; I’m just delighted that this concert will showcase their talents,” said Douglas Fair, Executive Director.

Current season ticket-holders or single concert patrons will be offered tickets to the Oct. 19 concert by mail.

The general public is invited to attend by calling the Symphony office at 8922257 to obtain their tickets. The theater has limited seating so quick action is encouraged.

“On behalf of the board of directors, Maestro Chelsea Tipton, II and our talented musicians, we want to thank Entergy Texas and the City of Beaumont for their belief in the Sym-

Chelsea Tipton II phony of Southeast Texas to bring exciting symphonic music to Southeast Texas,” said Fair.

This concert will also kick off a spectacular Symphony week bookended by amazing concerts, as the second concert in the Classics Series, “The British are Coming” is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 25. Get more details on this concert at www.sost.org.

The Symphony of Southeast Texas continues its mission of presenting educational, entertaining, and culturally enriching programs of the highest artistic quality and, as always, promises to be “Good to the last note!”

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An LUPD officer evacuates students from the area in front of the Post Office, Tuesday, as a gas leak was reported as a result of contruction on the Setzer Student Center.

Gas leak causes partial evacuation, Tuesday Several buildings, including the Setzer Student Center, were evacuated Tuesday, around 9 a.m., after a gas leak was detected.

“There has been some construction going by the Setzer Center and there was a gas leak,”

Hector Flores, LUPD assistant chief, said.“As an abundance of caution the surrounding buildings were evacuated.”

Flores said an emergency alert was not sent as the incident was resolved quickly.

“We were about to send out an emergency alert, but the gas had already been shut off,” he said.“After that, they did a walk through with the fire department and everything was deemed safe.”

Alpha Delta Pi to host glow run Saturday at Ty Terrell Track STEPHANIE COOLIDGE UP CONTRIBUTOR The Delta Beta chapter of Alpha Delta Pi at Lamar University will host a Glow Run, Saturday, at the Ty Terrell Track. The event is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. and will conclude at 10 p.m.

Proceeds go to the Ronald McDonald House of Galveston.

“Ronald McDonald House Charities is a series of houses and family rooms stationed near specialized hospitals where families of sick children can stay for little to no cost,” Dani Sanders, ADPi Philanthropy Chair,

said. “The purpose of this Glow Run is to raise money so our chapter can help pay for electricity or water bills to lower costs, and enable families to stay at the house free of charge.”

Sanders said that all runners are welcome and the more participants the better. She wants everyone to have fun with the event and with their glow attire.

“Everyone should be all decked out in glow wear,” she said. “Really, anything goes. Wear as much glow stuff as you want. Paint yourself, wear a Morphsuit — it does not matter just as long as you come.”

Refreshments will be available for purchase. Music will be provided by Southern Hype.

“ADPi plans on decorating the track in glow to provide a unique atmosphere and a fun experience for every runner,” Sanders said.

Registration for the event is available until the run starts.

Preregistration is $15, $29.99 if the participant wants an event T-shirt.

Registration at the gate is $20, $34.99 including a shirt.

Sanders said that many sorority members have visited the Ronald McDonald House.

“It’s really cool to me that we are donating to a specific house,” she said.

“We have personal relationships with the kids who live there. Whereas if you’re donating to a nationwide cause, donors don’t usually get to meet the people their contributions go to. You can actually go to Galveston to visit our kids and see what your donations are going toward.

“The more runners the better.

Our main goal is to raise as much money as possible to help the families in need.”

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(1 Timothy 1:3b-4)

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