McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 1, Ed. 1, Monday, August 26, 1996 Page: 2 of 4
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in their own words
By Katclyn A. Coll MSG
President
What do you want? If you
want to see President Hall's
renovation it can be done. If
you want closed doors and
longer hours during open
dorm it can be done. If you
want a coin dispenser and
ATM on campus it can be
done.
IT CAN BE DONE and
McMurry Student Govern-
ment is the place to facilitate
your wants and needs as the
Student Association of
McMurry University. The
key is to adorn a" positive at-
titude make a student
alliance and believe that the
students and their
repesentatives are capable of
making things happen.
McMurry Student Govern-
ment is taking a new and
positive turn and is perform-
ing constructively. McMurry
SudentGoverrnmentis com-
prised of very enthusiastic
and competent leaders who
are willing and able to ini-
tiate change for the
betterment of the Student
editorially
By Stacey Nixon
The humanities are dying.
The university was born
from the foundation of phi-
losophy a humanity. Yet
now all the humanities are
facing extinction.
Alan Bloom's The Closing of
the American Mind illustrates
this point. Bloom states
higher education is not ful-
filling its obligation to
students. A university should
not focus on teaching stu-
dents things society could
teach but introduce and edu-
cate a student to things he
she woul d not be able to learn
after college. Basically stated
as the humanities are aban-
doned students graduate
with less knowledge of the
passions the essence of life.
McMurry and the National
Endowment for Humanities
knew this already.
The NEH granted
McMurry $96000 in 1993 to
implement a core curriculum.
This core includes the re
Association. Many changes
and additions have been
make to the structure of
McMurry Student Govern-
ment to initiate greater
productivity. The commit-
tee system is now being
utilized and virtually all busi-
ness will be considered by
the ten respective MSG com-
mittees. The first annual
McMurry Student Govern-
ment Retreat on September
7 is a new addition to the
McMurry Student Govern-
ment agenda. The McMurry
Student Government team
will go through a day of lead-
ership workshops team
building exercises and moti-
vational speakers such as
McMurry University's Dis-
tinguished Alumna Sarah
Weddington to prepare MSG
members to represent the stu-
dent population to the best
efficiency. Weddington was
the first woman elected from
Texas' capital to be a mem-
ber of the Texas House of
Representatives. She served
three terms as a Representa-
tive before becoming
speaking
quired classes Ethics (Core
1100) Persons and Commu-
nities (Core 2400) and Human
Knowledge (Core 3400.)
Bloom stated universities
might be able to return to the
"old book method" basic
education but returning to
the humanities would be a
more difficult task.
Perhaps the world is
watching as McMurry moves
ahead by succesfully doing
this.
As friends graduate hav-
ing taken fewer humanities
they will be lacking in a very
specific important thing... an
understanding of people.
Consider the humanitites
taught here: philosophy re-
ligion and literature. Some
students would not sign up
for these courses had they
not been requirements. The
courses underline a study of
character as do all humani-
ties leading to a better
understanding of our race.
True the Core addresses top-
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Assistant to President Jimmy
Carter. Among her many ac-
complishments is her
successful arguement of the
Roe vs. Wade before the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1973. Peti-
tions open Monday August
26 for freshmen interested in
being a part of McMurry Stu-
dent Government and
participating in the exciting
and rewarding experience of
serving the Student Associa-
tion. Freshmen have the
priviledge of organizing
many of the Homecoming
activities. Remember and
believe
...IT CAN BE DONE!
ics foreign to us. But perhaps
they are not as foreign as they
seem at first glance. What
more are these courses but a
study of who we are what
makes us act based on our
morals what our passions
and impules mean what
drives us to believe and hate
and ponder unanswerable
questions.
The Core may seem point-
less to us because we cannot
contemplate living without
morals or growing up in a
Middle Eastern civilization
or adhearing to the Muslim
religion. Yet this is the very
purpose of teaching these
concepts... to understand. To
take humanity courses is to
understand the human race.
Bloom may be right.
Graduates today may be
more knowledgeable and less
complete as individuals. But
I hope McMurry will prove
him wrong.
Because here at McMurry
the humanities are still alive.
Welcome to
By Deena Duarte
At this time last year I was
just feeling my way around
Abilene and the McMurry
community. Some of you
may remember my column
on my driving abilities or
lack of in this "big" city. In
the last year though I have
adjusted to the whole enchi-
lada stop lights and all.
My hometown is
Sanderson a small one about
five hours away in the Big
Bend area. I have lived there
since I was four and attended
Sanderson Elementary
Sanderson Junior High and
you guessed it Sanderson
High School. By the way our
football team is beginning our
first year as a 6-man team so
now that you have an idea as
to what my hometown is like
you may be thinking
"Mayberry?"
Now get this my dad is
our county Sheriff. I often
consider him the Andy
Griffith of our county. He
keeps the sanity in a very
often insane community of
1200. Many nights our phone
would ring followed by my
dad's voice. A few minutes
later I'd hear his boots beat-
ing on the hallway tile and
the doors unlocking as he was
off to what I always consid-
ered an awesome adventure.
Of course this setting often
provided humor for those
incidents told atSheriff 's con-
ferences each summer.
"VAT McMurxy Dbxvarsit
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Editor: Stacey Nixon
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Photographers: Nichole Kraybill Jessica Reynolds
Advisor. Gary Ellison
August 26 1996
my world.
For instance we once had
a chase around town in the
middle of the night consist-
ing of my dad and a DPS
trooper trailing a vehicle sus-
pected of possessing illegal
drugs. The chase ended with
the suspect driving up the
side road of my house to the
end of our block (a moun-
tain) and wrecking right
into. . . . the pen of our county's
drug dog. Talk about a rude
awakening!
On a more Mayberry level
Dad once got a call from an
elderly woman who has
fueded with her neighbors
for years. She claimed they
had made some sort of witch-
craft object and were facing it
towards her house. Upon ar-
rival my father managed to
save this woman from the
curse placed on her by a jar of
sun tea with the picture of a
smiling sun on the side. No
charges were filed...
You may be wondering if I
ever ran into trouble with the
law. Well no but my big
brother was once reported for
speeding in the school park-
ing lot. This same big brother
years before picked up
Dad's radio and just as he
had always done on his Fisher
Price walkie-talkies began to
ask "Dad are you there?
Hey Dad can you hear me?"
My father heard him as well
as every other county offi-
cial. Today my brother is a
jailor in Alpine but that's
another story.
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