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Th Yellow Jacket
After the deadline
It's absurd!
It's insane!
Its
From the heaps of news
releases sent to an editor of
a college newspaper came
one release that merits
attention.
Why this news release
caught my eye was yet to
be seen. Press releases
about the advantages of
communist Cuba and
scholarship opportunities
for unwed fathers quite
frankly waste no time fill-
ing the trash can.
But this release pro-
moting a new breed of tex-
tbooks for university study
gripped my hand in fear
until I promised to give it
column inches.
Entitled "supertext" the
thought of the textbook is
intriguing if not outright
horrifying to already inun-
dated students. One would
wonder if such a text would
require students in the
course to have an I.Q. of 300
or better.
Yet the soon-to-be-released
text will not be
equipped with bottom
Tollers for travel to class.
The Long Silence
"In bringing many sons to glory it was fitting that
God. . . should make the author of their salvation
perfect through suffering. "
- Hebrews 2: 10 (NTV)
A story is told of a great gathering of peoples at the
end of time awaiting the Judgment of the loving but ho-
ly God. The multitude knew what they were guilty of
all too well but from one small complaining group
came snouts of injustice.
A spokesman sent to the Lord said that it was unfair
The
The Yellow Jacket is the official stu-
dent newspaper of Howard Payne
University. Published weekly the
Yellow Jacket is a charter member of
the Texas Intercollegiate Press
Association.
The opinions expressed in this
newspaper are strictly those of the in-
dividual staff members and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Univer-
sity administration.
Letters to the editor are accepted by
the Yellow Jacket Writers should limit
their letters to 290 words or leu and
must sign their names along with ad
supertexts!
But according to the news
release it "just may
challenge computers as the
single most influential ad-
vance now happening in
college today."
One step at a time
please. The computers
dumbfound me now
supertext could leave me
supervexed.
Who would enroll in an
accounting class in which
the required text is describ-
ed as a "helfy-looking
tome?" A supernote book
with no covers and only a
million pages on turnstile
spiral binding would be
needed to record class
notes.
This particular supertext
was three years in the mak-
ing and involved a "small
army" of accounting pro-
fessionals 776 people a
far cry or wail from the
stereotyped notion of a
single professor hunched
over a typewriter. The
book ha a staggering up-
front piuduction cost of
$800000.
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But publishers Harper &
Row are not through
frightening you yet. They
purpose that the text is
"error-free for all practical
purposes." I don't care if
each chapter was sent to
three separate sets of
reviewers experimentally
taught in four classroom
situations and subjected to
suggestions from one and
all. My suggestion would be
that such a volume cannot
be described with the word
"practical" at all.
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that God should judge them because he never ex-
perienced the suffering that mankind had.
His group of rebels demanded that before God could
sentence them he must serve a sentence. He should be
born a Jew with even the legitimacy of his birth ques-
tioned. He must have to learn a common trade such as
carpentry and have no place to lay his head latter in his
life. Finally at age 33 people will hate him and will
cause him to suffer death by execution.
Then there was a long silence beard throughout the
throngs of demanding people.
They suddenly realized that God had already served
his sentence.
dress and telephone number. Letters
should be neatly handwritten or typed.
The Yellow Jacket reserved the right
to condense oredit letters and to reject
any letter that is libelous a personal at-
tack on an individual or in poor taste.
The right to reject any letter due to
space limitations is also reserved.
Deadline for letters news items and
advertisements is noon Monday for Fri-
day publication. Newspaper offices are
located at UN Flak Ave.; Phone
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Box 173 Jennings Hall HPU
Brownwood Texas 7M01.
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me 1-0 stay in shop. .
This was not just another
insignificant news release.
Supertexts are an affront to
any student desiring time
enough for personal
hygiene throughout the
semester.
It would sound as if the
text could out race a
speeding bullet or leap tall
buildings in a single bound.
But a subtitle of "Suf-
fertext" might be more fit-
ting. Students prefer learn-
ing to languishing.
Steve Freeman
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Editor. Steve Freeman
646-4586 Ext 1012
Business Manager Photo Editor. Linda McMillan
648-2502 Ext 224
Circulation Assistants Clarence Bagby Susl Murray Milta Mann
Reporters. Vickie Washington Jonathan Hewett Travis Frank
DeAnn Stewart David Rodriguez Sheila Shankle David Smith
Photographers. M David Smith Jonathan Hewett
Darkroom. M Ken Willingham
Artists. David Gale Susan Hess
Sting Editor. Maria Mathena
Sponsors. Tessica Martin Charlotte Laughlln
ivews
Editorial: Constitution of a Union
Ambiguities in the former Student Union Constitu-
tion and the operation of the Student Union Board dif-
ferently than the five-year-old document specifies are
some of the reasons for the drafting of a new or revis-
ed constitution. Although the new document has been
ratified by SUB and is now undergoing approving pro-
cesses by SA Senate as any other organization's con-
stitution would we must remember that a new con-
stitution while providing better student representation
on the most powerful extra-student-governmental
organization on campus is still a contract with the stu-
dent body of Howard Payne.
That fact is evident from the first article of the new
constitution to the last repeatedly mentioning the Stu-
dent Union as consisting of every qualifying student.
SUB is therefore not a clique because every full-time
student is a member of the all-inclusive Student Union
over which SUB serves.
The revised constitution does extend the student
representation by making all SUB officers and
representative positions elected. Formerly the more
powerful positions were appointed by the previous
Board not by the students.
SUB has come a long way from the days when its
constitution and amendments were approved by the
students and it was an autonomous organization. While
the newly ratified constitution is in the holding pattern
of Senate awaiting approval a step in the right direc-
tion toward better representation doesn't mean we can
stop pushing forward. It only means that SUB is on its
way.
Letter to the Editor
I just wanted my campus
to know that I am represen-
ting Howard Payne as a
BSU semester missionary.
I am serving in the Baptist
mission centers which 'are
located in the slums of
Houston.
' The work here is very ex-
Ming and often rewarding
out it is also very hard. We
offer women's clubs teen
clubs tutoring English
classes and sewing classes.
Most of all we try to share
some part of the love that
God has blessed us with.
The people here are no dif-
ferent than those in
Brownwood. They only
lack the warmth love and
compassion that comes
with a personal relation-
ship with Jesus Christ.
We are being blessed dai-
ly by God. I can tell that the
prayers for me are being
said and answered. The
Lord provided an oral
surgeon that performed
surgery on me when I need-
ed it this week. I could only
thank God when I found out
that there was to be no
charge.
Please continue to pray
for me as I do for everyone
at HP. I can be reached by
mailing correspondence
to:
Chris Oliver
1815 Gano
Houston Texas 77009
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