The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1966 Page: 1 of 4
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After Revival-What?
BY S. DON BALLANGER
Dr. P. James Flamming in
interview at the Student Center
over coffee and hot tea reflect-
ed that "the spirit on campus
has been most cordial and
warm. There has been an air
of expectancy of both faculty
and students and this could be
a strategic week in the life of
many students. John Wyatt and
I are grateful to have been the
instruments that God has used
to nurture this expectancy."
When asked what he con-
sidered the chief or main pro-
blem of college students, Dr.
Flamming said there is no ba-
sic or single problem to pin-
point. "What is happening?
Just this: Young people are
mirrors of confusion, loneliness,
lostness, meaninglessness, and
loss of value of our culture."
He further related that pro-
blems of the Christian young
persons involved "relating the
good news of God's love to
human situation."
"This predicament of the
student today can be overcome
by a rediscovery of what the
early Christian found. He can
go about this through associa-
ting in Christian fellowship, in
prayer, in Bible study, and in
Christian service. The placei
most students probably need to
begin is the place of real Chris-
tian fellowship-warm, caring,
concerned Christian fellow-
ship."
The question in most stu-
dents minds today is, after this
revival, what? Dr. Flamming
suggests, "My experience is
that a form of fellowship and
prayer groups is the best way
to follow-up any spiritual ex-
perience. In these groups the
student begins to learn the po-
wer of God's love, mutual
sharing and power of prayer."
Queried concerning the work
of Dr. Nat Tracy with the spi-
ritual growth groups, the
evangelist remarked that he
wasn't familiar with their em-
phasis, "however, I do believe
that which the early Christians
discovered is still available.
We must be willing to let the
Bible wound us before we can
expect the message of the Bi-
ble to help us. Judgement often
comes before grace. The Bible
is not just a book to support
the opinions we have already
formed. We must let it critisiza
us as well as comfort us."
Dr. Flamming further added,
"Last week, I was present four
days on the University of Texas
campus and visited with won-
derful Christian students there.
However, one of the pluses of
Christian education is the
warm, friendly spirit on a cam-
pus like this. I can see this in
school spirit contrasted be-
tween the two campuses. The
attitude of many of the stu-
dents last week was one of
skepticism and pessimism.
"I strongly disagree with
people like Rev. Bill Swank,
who, writing in the 'Baptist
Standard' last week, said that
'Christian education is no long-
er needed.'"
The Howard Payne College
YELLOW
JACKET
Volume 54
Brownwood, Texas, December 9, 1960
Number 13
Student Senators Vote 'No'
On Extension Of Holiday
BY TERESA TURNER
After lengthy discussion, the
Senate voted by a majority of
12-3 to leave the Christmas
Holidays as they were set
aside in the school calendar and
not to vote in an extended holi-
day.
Earlier in the week, a com-
mittee composed of Lynn
Brand, Ruth Stanley, Richard
Clark and Sherry Purvis met
with A. C. Garvin, executive
vice-president, to see if it were
possible for students to return
to school the day after New
Year's Day and to return to
classes on January 3, quoted
Lynn Brand, chairman of the
committee. The committee was
informed that the calendar had
already been set up and that
there was a specified number
of class hours that the teacher
were required to meet with the
students for a semester.
New Year's Day falls this
year on Sunday, which means
Monday, January 2, is the legal
New Year's holiday.
Miss Brand reported last
week to the Senate that Mr.
Garvin had heard and had de-
nied the request for the above
reasons.
Senior class president ,Bruce
Peterson, then suggested that a
delegation be sent to Dr. Guy
D. Newman, president of the
school, with the request. Dr.
Newman said that an execu-
tive or administrative council
would take up the matter.
In Senate Tuesday night, Dr.
Doyle McCoy McCoy, academ-
ic dean, explained the school's
position and that of the admi-
nistration on the matter. Also,
Dean McCoy placed several
proposed solutions to the pro-
blem before the Senate for dis-
cussion and vote.
SOLUTIONS
The solutions as proposed by
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the administration were pre-
sented in the manner in which
Dean McCoy approached the
Senate when he said, "This re-
quest is a very legitimate pro-
posal. We all felt so. The com-
mittee on this matter approach-
ed the administration in a very
businesslike manner and we are
appreciative of that fact."
The proposals were:
1. Stay with the calendar and
not have an extension of the
holidays.
Considering the first propo-
sal, Dean McCoy said that the
administration had not "honest-
ly thought about this particular
situation" as it had never arisen
in this way before.
2. Make-up classes on Satur-
day. Dean McCoy said that
this proposal was "more or less
eliminated" because of the dif-
ficulties which had arisen in the
past with make-up class days
on Saturday. Dr. McCoy said
that many students would not
be available for Saturday class-
es because of other obligations
A question concerning the ap-
parent failure of the Saturday
class day was put to Dean Mc-
Coy and he replied that, "It
was inconvenient to too many
people." Mrs. Grace Elsey,
dean of students and senate ad-
visor, said that graduate stu-
dents had classes on Saturday
and some of the professors who
taught week-day classes also
taught Saturday classes.
EXAM POSTPONEMENT
3. The third proposal pre-
sented to the senate for ap-
proval was that the start of
final exams be postponed one
day from January 10 to Jan-
uary 17. The exams would be
postponed from a Monday to
Tuesday. The only drawback
to this seemingly sound propo-
sal was that the exams would
be scheduled to end on the
same day that was orginally
planned. In other words* stu-
dents would be forced to com-
bine all tests into four days in-
stead of five. Another point to
consider for this proposal was
that the Math Department said
that the math exams which
were held on Saturday semes-
ter would be fitted into the
schedule if the exam date was
moved to Tuesday.
Dean McCoy stressed the
point several times that these
proposals did not result as the
purely arbitrary actions of the
administration, but that, the
school had to schedule 45 class
hours for each course in order
to keep its accreditation with
the Southern Association of
Colleges which is the accredit-
ing agency serving Howard
Payne.
After the presentation of the
proposals by Dean McCoy,
Senate President Grayson Wet-
zel reminded the Senate mem-
bers that they would be voting
for the whole student body and
that they should take this into
consideration.
At this reminder, Lynn
Brand said that the Senate is
composed of those with "at
least a 1.5 grade point aver-
age," and that the Senate
might be representing "those
who did not have a 1.5 aver-
age." Miss Brand felt that this
Senate action might be resented
by those who did not wish to
have exams any more crowded
than they already are.
After the discussion, the Se-
nate voted to keep the calen-
dar as it is and resume school
on Monday as scheduled.
Senior class president Bruce
Peterson suggested to the Se-
nate that this decision be pre-
sented to the student body be-
fore the coming holidays and
to remind them to remember
the need of highway safety, go-
to their destinations, and most
especially, on the return trip
to HFC.
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