The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 7, 1977 Page: 2 of 23
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editorials
Wednesday, December 7, 1977
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NT Athletics Earn Respect
Before the fall semester began, Hayden Fry,
NT’s head football coach and athletic director,
promised it would be an exciting one—and boy,
was he ever right.
Almost everything NT touched athletically
turned to gold, which is a credit to Coach Fry and
his entire staff of overseers. As other area athletic
programs continued to slip steadily towards obli-
vion or cling to the status quo, NT continued its
sometimes slow, but always forward, march to ex-
cellence throughout the athletic programs.
The most apparent evidence of this is the foot-
ball team’s performance—and, oh what a Fall
Oct. 12, 1977
they had. After finishing 6-5 last season, the team
and its coaches had dedicated themselves to
elevating the program to a level where they could
achieve national recognition, and end the season
in a bowl game.
THE TEAM OPENED its quest on the wrong
foot, dropping the first game to a nationally-
ranked Mississippi State team. After that they
rolled to seven straight wins, including a solid
thumping of area rival SMU, and a thrilling, last-
minute overtaking of Memphis State in the
Liberty Bowl.
Then up jumped Florida State, with its power-
ful team and fanatical fans, and the team's record
fell to 7-2. Again bouncing back after defeat, NT
buried New Mexico State and Louisiana Tech.
The Tech game was perhaps Mean Green football
at its best, as the team tur..ed a predicted tossup
into a 41 -14 romp.
Along the way, the team, which was filled with
exciting performers that NT fans will long com-
pare other players against, such as seniors
Washington, Chapman, Jones, Smith, Martin and
Khoury, achieved the national attention they
craved. UPI picked the team in its Top Twenty
eight consecutive weeks, with the ranking going as
high as 13th after the Louisiana Tech game.
However, the bowls didn’t respond to the Mean
Green. Instead, bowl games chose to select teams
with a richer tradition—a tradition like Coach Fry
is trying to build on this campus. Nevertheless, it
was a football season that compared to almost
any in the nation.
There were other good things going on in NT’s
athletic picture.
Women’s athletics continued to come of age. In
only her second year with a program, Dr. Dolores
Copeland molded a program which involved a
high volume of female athletes, and commanded
the attention of other women’s programs in the
area.
PERHAPS THE MOST surprising event of the
entire fall revolved around a team which operates
on only a club sport budget, the baseball club.
Last year the club had problems bringing 15
players to a single spring practice, and this fall, the
club had as many as 60 prospective players at its
workouts.
The foundation continues to grow for a var-
sity baseball program the school deserves.
Next spring?
Well, there is no letup in sight for NT athletics.
Basketball Coach Bill Blakeley has unfurled his
“One More Time’’ sign in the Super Pit, and
there’s no reason to think his team won’t win 20
games for the third straight year. If they do, it ap-
pears that past performances would demand a trip
to the NCAA or NIT tournaments.
Women's basketball should go great guns, as a
team composed of five starting junior college
transfers figures to be one of the state's best. Ten-
nis and golf should both provide a just share of
heroics, and the baseball club should be a treat to
watch, as they go against one of the toughest
schedules around.
However, the most interesting and beneficial
development in NT athletics will probably come
away from the fields of competition, in a smoke-
filled room, when Coach Fry wiil appeal to the
Southwest conference for admission.
ALTHOUGH HE DOESN’T look to have very
strong odds in his favor, it’s hard to speculate
what could happen when the SWC wheels open up
a game of political athletics.
Even if this is but the first of many times that
NT is forced to discuss admission from outside
the SWC fraternity, the spring meeting can only
be a big step forward for NT athletics, and the
university as a whole.
Times used to be where athletics at NT took a
back-seat to just about everything, but (as the
protesters used to love to say on this campus in
the ’60s) “the times, they are a-changing.” Now
athletics are truly big-time here, and the sky’s the
limit on how far they can go.
—PHIL ROGERS
Doubts Linger After Probe
Theoretically, the turmoil of the physics depart-
ment should htive been solved and the situation
should be back to normal.
Following I8 months of investigation by the
FBI, the Denton County Sheriffs Office, the state
Attorney General and the University Police, no
indictments were returned against anyone.
Instead, the grand jury studied all the evidence
and admonished the university to “take corrective
action through reprimand and/or removal of
employees and/or changing administrative
procedures.”
Acting under this guideline. President C.C.
Nolen look “Administrative actions to correct
violations of university fiscal regulations by cer-
tain employees and to improve the administration
of N’TSU.” In all, four physics department
employees, including one faculty member, were
officially reprimanded and placed on one-year
probation.
BUT THIS ACTION did not end the problem.
There were claims that the four personnel
reprimanded were merely scapegoats, and that in-
vestigations should be continued.
The shadow of suspicion, confusion and mis-
trust did not dissipate with the administrative ac-
tions, but grew to encompass the entire campus.
Even with the announcement that there would
be increased scrutiny of the physics department
procedures, to be directed by John Carter, vice
president of fiscal affairs, the blemish on the uni-
versity’s record grew no smaller.
It seems as if everyone is so interested in stating,
as the grand jury announced, “that the vast ma-
jority of employees at North Texas State Univer-
sity and with the physics department were in no
way directly involved in the allegations, findings
or recommendations of its report,” they are
overlooking the seriousness of the situation.
LONG AFTER THIS statement about those
not involved has been forgotten, these grand jury
statements will remain in the spotlight: “that theft
occurred at the physics department is apparent to
this jury,” “that forbidden weapons (gun
silencers) were manufactured at the machine shop
appears certain," and "methods of gathering
evidence regarding some of the accusations of
criminal misconduct were conducted in a fashion
that has hampered the work of this grand jury.”
It will be these statements that will be reflected
upon and reviewed whenever the subject is discuss-
S HO p c LOitn
TR-OlA
Nov. 9, 1977
ed, and as long as there is a single unanswered
question, the university cannot rest easy.
The legal processes have been carried out, but
as it happens in so many cases, there is doubt as to
whether justice has been served. Only when this
doubt has been erased can the physics department
case be considered closed.
-RALPH WININGHAM
Local Option: Costly Game
It seems that Denton’s wet-dry issue will soon
be resolved—temporarily. But then, that’s the
story of the issue’s history, an on again, off again
affair that will soon be off again.
According to the 6th District Court of Civil Ap-
peals in Texarkana, which invalidated the initial
election of April 3, 1976, the omission of one
word, “legal,” from some absentee ballots during
that election, caused two bogus elections, both
won by wet forces.
The second election, called by a dry group, was
held Aug. 6 and, despite a small number of poten-
tial student voters due to the summer date,
resulted in a 7,266-3,810 wet mandate.
The court initially ruled the April 3 election in-
valid on July 26, and upheld that decision Nov. 2.
Stephen Fogg, wet spokesman, said Friday that
a mandate from the court giving retailers 30 days
to clear their stocks of beer and wine is anticipated
to come between Dec. 16 and Dec. 19.
THAT MEANS NT students will almost cer-
tainly be facing a dry Denton shortly after return-
ing from the winter break.
"Beer and wine will definitely come off the
shelves,” Fogg said.
Citizens for Common Sense, the leading wet
group, picked up petitions Monday to call for yet
another local option election. The petitions must
be returned to County Clerk Mary Jo Hill within
30 days and be certified as having 1,911 valid
signatures in order for the election to be called by
the Denton County Commissioners Court.
Fogg said the group hopes to return the peti-
tions early enough to force a decision (final at
last?) by the end of January or the first of
February.
A 20-30 day wait is required lor an election and
an additional 10-day dry period would follow the
election before beer and wine could again be sold.
Denton drinkers, therefore, figure to face about a
month of driving to Lake Dallas or inhabiting
private clubs.
Those estimates, of course, presuppose a wet
victory—and another election, neither of which
can be absolutely certain, although given the sum-
mer election results, both can be considered
probable.
It is that probability indeed that has made this
game of election roulette a tragic one. The folks
who are either going to have to foot gas bills for
the drive or membership fees for private club
privileges aren’t the only losers. The entire pop-
ulation of Denton County is having its pocket
picked over a trivial technicality.
THE WORTHLESS Aug. 6 election cost the
county more than $2,000, and the practical cer-
tainty of another election will mean another
$2,000 or so down the drain.
In addition, county legal fees due to the dry suit
and the appeal which followed amounted to ap-
proximately $4,800. The total cost for redeciding
the issue which was realistically decided on April
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3, 1976, comes to nearly $9,000.
And if you’re thoroughly confused by now,
hold on, it could get worse. Fogg said the pos-
sibility exists that another election could con-
ceivably be called based on the original petition
that forced the election of April 3.
in the wake of all the confusion, one can only
hope voters don’t get too bored with the matter.
Such a “what difference does it make anyway”
attitude could conceivably allow a dry victory,
which would in turn cause—surprise—another
election.
—DARRELL GOOLSBEE
Feedback
Articles Cause Concern
Elisa Heyrich
NT Box 7863
Regarding the article about the “clow n worship
service” covered in the Nov. 30 issue of The Daily:
when I got to the part saying “. . . the head clown,
who symbolizes Christ.” I could not read further
for awhile. I had to stop to pull a few daggers out
of my heart.
Miss Grega, Miss Holm, HOW can you put
such a iabei as “clown" on our Beloved? Speaking
for myself, I do not like to be called a clown; for
some reason I take that as an insuit. For me, there
is the connotation of stupidity and clumsiness
with the term “clown," and our wonderful Lord is
certainly not this.
The man Jesus Christ came into my life on the
31st of August this year. After three months of
daily prayer, I have found that Jesus is a dignified
person indeed, with whom I can speak most in-
timately and refreshingly.
I really cannot express with words the feeling I
get when I see the term “clown" used in connec-
tion with the Son of God. Jesus Christ is not in
any way symbolized by a clown.
Oh, He is INFINITELY GRACEFUL! I am
equally unable to express with words His surpass-
ing greatness, His conquering gentleness.
Terrance Session
213 Ave. G #18
1 am writing in response to last week’s article on
“Clown Service Accents Church Worship Sun-
day.” That page of The Daily on which the article
appeared displayed clear cut differences between
religion and reality.
An article at the bottom of the page explained
how Gregg Ray met the living Jesus Christ, and
the clown article described a circus in Sunday
morning "worship service.”
As one like Mr. Ray, I’m bold and happy to say
that Christ is a real and living person and his grace
can only be experienced in reality and not through
symbolism of any sort.
NT Police Frustrate Student
Jim Presnal
108 Ave. G
This is a short note to give the students at North
Texas a warning. Last Sunday (after
Thanksgiving) a student was unloading his stuff in
front of Kerr Hall. He was illegally parked, tem-
porarily.
An NT policewoman decided to boost her
quota and gave this man a ticket for parking il-
legally. When he tried to explain the situation (he
was unpacking after having been forced to move
away for 3 days by the university) he apparently
became frustrated enough to upset the
policewoman.
When he crossed the street, the policewoman
wrote him another ticket for jay walking (at NT?!).
i ms wus appaicmty iuu 111uch ior the man and he
tore up the tickets in utter disgust.
What does the NT policewoman do? She AR-
RESTS him for littering. She took him to the
Denton jail and he had to have a friend post bond.
He has yet to come to trial.
Reader Phinds Neiv Phobia
Sally Greene
814 Denton St.
Marsha Tunnell’s phascinating column about
phobias was phull of interesting phacts. However,
she (or perhaps her source) neglected that all-
encompassing fear which probably afflicted
Franklin D. Roosevelt: phobophobia.
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