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4—THE J-TAC Tuesday, November 7, 1950
New Goals
; Has your club drawn up its objectives foi
this year yet? If not, here are some of the ob-
jectives drawn up by the Scholarship Society:
To promote higher scholarship among all stu-
dents, good fellowship among the Society mem-
bers, and to encourage and enjoy to the fullest
extent all cultural activities at Tarleton.
! The Society this year will also make the first
of a series of annual contributions to the J.
Thomas Davis Scholarship Fund. Other ob-
jectives include the fostering of better rela-
tions with Tarleton's students from Spanish-
America, the encouragement of attendance at
ajll Tarleton Civic Series programs, the pro-
vision of an entertainment on graduation night
fj>r graduating seniors-and-their parents and
fi'iends, and the development of a simple, digni-
fied initiation ceremony for the Tarleton
Steholarship Society,'
Maybe some of these objectives which re-
ceived very favorable comment from President
Howell will provide your organization with
some worthwhile goal to pursue during the rest
of the year.
Better a little chiding than a great deal of
heartbreak.
—William Shakespeare
Fight Night Coming
One of the biggest sports events of the year
is coming up this week—and I am not referring
to the San Angelo game, which may be THE
football game of the season—I mean Fight
Night, that annual knock-do\yn-drag-out which
furnishes funds for intramural awards.
The program this time will be as varied and
exciting as the last Fight Night last year,
which included the first Weaver-Page battle,
a comedy bQut. and over SO rounds of serious
slugging. Tomorrow night, 10 matches will pro-
vide the maxim'um in excitement. Golden Gloves
fighters, enthusiastic amateurs, and hard-hit-
ting high school boxers, will all compete in an
evening on the "must" list for all ring fans.
Funds from ticket sales will be used for
intramural awards, so try not to miss Fight
Night. Those reports can wait one more night!
There' is no man : so good, who, were he to
submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws,
would not deserve hanging-ten times in his life.
.—Michael de Montaigne,
Don't Miss the Train!
LAST CHANCE! THE TRAIN leaves at 1:00
p.m.—Friday that is. But TODAY is your last
chance to buy that ticket to the San Angelo
game! For your convenience tickets are on salt-
in the fiscal office, the Rec Hall, and the din-
ing hall. In case you've forgotten, the train
tickets, are $4.77 and the game tickets are $.50
... a sum total of $5.27.
Guys and gals, get on the ball to be on that
train! This means girls too. Give the boys a
break and buy your own tickets; that will make
finance problems lighter on all concerned. This
trip is the trip of the year. DON'T GET LEFT
BEHIND!
Error of opinion may be tolerated where rea-
son is left free to combat it.—Thomas Jeffer-
son.
Official Student Publication of Tarleton State
College.
Entered as. second-class mail matter at the Post
Office, in Stephenville, Texas, under Act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
Represented by the National Advertising Service,
Inc.
Member of the Texas Intercollegiate Press Asso-
ciation, Associated Collegiate Press, and Columbia
Scholastic Press Association. . 4
STAFF
Robert Kenny ~— —Editor
Ann Bryan ----- —=— Associate Editor
Dan Bishop- ...Business Manager
Thelma Ge?slin._— -Fine Arts Editor
Lois Jordan.... l-.Exchange Editor
Bill Bryee..— - Acting Editorials Editor
Louise Williams ..Feature Editor
Gina Seastedt..*— —--.Military Editor
Frances Lawler Acting News Editor
Harold Warford — Cartoonist
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FIGHT NIGHT STANDOUT—Ove Harris, winner of 17
bouts and who went to the state Golden Gloves tournament
last year, will participate in one of Fight Night's featured
bouts tomorrow night.
Nobody Wants to
Fight Ove Harris
— Scuffing the toe pf . his tennis
shoe against the polished gym floor
and turning slightly red behind
his freckles, Golden: Gloves boxer
Ove Harris explained why he has
been having a- lot of trouble find-
ing sparring partners'at Tarleton.
"A lot of the boys up here just
aren't conditioned to fighting,
that's all," he said slowly.
Red-haired, eighteen year old
Harris is conditioned, though, and
Tarleton boxers shy awey from the
Cut and Shoot boy who went to
the Golden Gloves finals in Fort
Worth last spring.
He did, however, find a Fite-
Nite opponent—Bobby Jones, sen-
ior from Waco who outweighs the
wiry Harris 25 pounds.
Since it didn't take long for Har-
ris to run out of willing partners
in the college gym, now he has to
work out by himself most of the
time. He spends at least an hour
exercising every day, but usually
lets up on weekends.
In his three-year boxing career,
150-pound Harris has fought 18
bouts and won 15 of th.em, but only
one by a Jcnockout. He is a veter-
an of one year's experience in the
Golden Gloves, which he entered
last year from the Lufkin area,
the Conroe Annual Invitational
Tournament and the Gulf Coast
Junior Olympics.
In last year's Golden Gloves com-
petition, Ove won the lightwight
division in the Lufkin area, but
lost in the state tournament to a'
San Antonio boxer. In the other
two tournaments, he won the light-
weight division handily.
Undaunted by his experience last
spring, Ove plans to participate
in the Golden Gloves fights again
tl)is year and hopes for better luck.
He has not yet decided whether to
enter his home district or the Bro-
wnwood district, in which Tarle-
ton is .located but said, "It'll pro-
bably just depend on where I am at
the time I enter."
He is one of the two Harris
brothers from Cut and Shoot, Tex-,
as, who received a great deal of
publicity in the Fort Worth news-
papers by training barefoot for the
Golden Gloves fights. The other
boy, Roy Harris, a ;welterweight,
went to the state Quarterfinals be-
fore losing a split decision to the
boxer who finally won the cham-
pionship.
Referring to the newspaper stor-
ies, Ove said that the publicity
did not bother him at "all. "It was.
all done to attract a bigger crowd,
anyway."
CAMPUSOLOGY
It shouldn't be long until the
kids of Tarleton start pitching pup
tents in the Rec Hall—then they
could spend the nights there, too.
Did you ever see such a bunch of
loafers as we have on campus this
year ? Everybody is always in th.
Rec Hall except those poor, art and
science majors who plug their lives
away in dreary corners?
Among those who habituate the
"Hall" are Jim Bob Milligan, Jack
Jones, and the remainder of the
Fort boys. It's a wonder that boys
don't request to have football pra-
ctice there—well, back to scandal
and off slander for awhile!
Nancy Calloway and Jack Mc-
Cullough have been chasing about
together this past week.
Mary Lynn Whitfield and Bob
Lovelace are no more-unquote.
What would the campus be like
with out Chip and Ginger? No
need giving their last ndmes, every-
body knows who and what we
mean!
Ronnie Miller has decided that
a certain Tarleton gal still out-
rates the Abilene "feni'ales", Nice
going, Patsy!
The girlsfrom lower Chamber-
lain have decided to help the Fort
boys by attending the candy store
during their free hours. Not a bad
business, at that!
Frankye Blanton and Pence
Dacus are among those "we havg
been dating" group on campus this
week, '
Mary Tom Roberson and, Dave
Swisher are spending alot of loaf-
in' time together-where else but
in that old Rec Hall!!.
Talking about camping ■—it's
time to hit the sack or at least
head for. home. It won't be easy,
getting into the girl's dorm.'though
you always have to fight your way
past Jack Partin and Gunter. They
are simply mad about-1- the place.
Until next Tuesday when we'll see
you at the Janina Dorm Party!
POINT OF VIEW
By ROBERT KENNY
San Angelo bound? You'd better be pretty
snappy,about it too-^-today is the last day to
buy a ticket.
The Students Association, which is promot-
ing the trip, has been- working hard to make
that now-slightly-elusive-looking train appear,
in the flesh—don't let its sweat be vain. It.
seems completely impossible to me that there'/
are not 500 students at least who are willing to:
pay $5.27 to see one of the best football games
in the year. Five hundred, at Tarleton, that is,'
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I don't want to be wandering off into sports,
this time, but you will be really missing out
if you don't go. In my book, it's going to be"
tops in entertainment. And all you coeds whose
steadies are in the Wainwright Rifles will want
to go to see them show off too. Not that I'm
trying to drum up customers or anything. Just
try to look the other way when you laugh up.
your sleeve.
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Saturday, the ticket venders were pretty de-
jected about the whole situation. You can't
biame them either, when you think it over. Out.
of 900 students, only 17 (yes, I said 17 '
s-e-v-e-n-t-e-e-n) students had parted with that .
$'5,27 for fares..Pretty discouraging? You callv
ed that shot right. Personally, I am the eight-
ball who walks up to the ticket booth an hour
after it closes and naively inquire, "when can
I buy my ticket?"
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No kidding, 1.00 more students have got. to
shell out with that money or there won't be any
ti*ain at all. Those who have paid will have to
go on buses, which might be just a little tiring.
Following me to the fiscal office?
I heard about one cablet who paid for his
date's ticket too. More power to him, I say,
feeling vainly in my pocket for bus fare down-
town. Somebody ought to strike off a new medal
of some kind for such heroism.
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Honestly. I think the girl§|bught to pay them-
selves, even though it does hurt the escort's
pride a little. The cadet.wfio pays for his girl's
ticket is setting an expensive: example for-the
rest of us. Who knows, the rest of the-feminine--'
population might want us to follow suit, which
would be hard in many cases (still trying tf>
find a dime to ride the bus on, I guess walking
might do me good, anyway).
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Back to San Angelo. The Students Associa-
tion is doing a bang-up job handling the corps
trip, but it does need more publicity. Which is,
I guess, what I am for. There's nothing like a
few free plugs in print. Anyway, if we don't
take a train, it won't be the. fault of a few Stu-
dents Association members who have been
working day and night. All this activity is giv- .
ing the group a good name even though its op- -
eration sometimes seems rather secretive. ;
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All this brings me to another digression, this
time on student politics. This is not election
time, for everyone is already elected and most
everyone seems to be doing a good job, so we
won't be doing any replacing; Regardless, - I
still think at least two hot student parties
would make the campus an exciting place to be
around. Who knows, they might even be able
to cajole the student body into going to the
San Angelo game. Miracles can happen, you
know. But now I'm getting bitter, which won't
do. Maybe I had better return to San Angelo,
which just makes me* mad.
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You might think that there are a few, stu-
dents who would give $5.27 to get out of Fri-
day afternoon lab and Saturday classes. I know
several I thipk should want to, as much as they
seem to abhor Saturday, classes. Maybe they're
planning to hitch-hike and climb over the sta-
dium wall, though. It seems in character.
If this column seems a little' confused this ■
week, blame it on the Texas-SMU football game.
I have finally proved that one can d6 two things
at once, though, if you can call beating this •
typewriter "something." Incidentally, this also
gives you gome idea of about what time I've
been writing'these things. And I- thought it
was pretty bad to write on Friday night! But
at least I have the copy at the printing shop.
Yes, that's a hint.
If anyone attempts to haul down the Ameri-
can flag, shoot him on the spot.—John A, Dix,
January 29, 1861.
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