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Page 2/Thursday, August 29, 1991/theJ-TAC
OPINION
Outlook for
Tarleton
improves
with new
school year
Dr. Dennis P.
McCabe
To all new and returning Tarleton
students:
I am proud and happy to
welcome you to Tarleton for the
1991-92 school year. As
Tarleton's new president, I'm
sharing with you—especially
those of you who have just
arrived on campus for the first
time--the excitement of
beginning a new year in a new
role.
The past year has been
one of changes and challenges for
Tarleton. Dr. Barry B.
Thompson, our former president,
moved on to West Texas State
University to take on the
^presidency there.
At the same time, the
state budget crunch left us facing
the threat of major budget cuts
and huge tuition increases. But
once again, Tarleton has
survived-and thrived-thanks to
the dedication of the students,
faculty, staff and supporters who
make up the Tarleton family.
Our budget situation,
while not what we dreamed of,
will allow us to continue our
progress. I'm ready to meet the
challenges that will come and I'm
sure that you, too, are excited and
ready to face the new academic
year.
As most of you have
already come to know, Tarleton
is a special place. I hope you
will all take advantage of the
opportunities Tarleton can offer
you.
I think you also know
that the value of your education
won't end with graduation. You
will always carry with you what
you gain here-not just facts and
numbers, and even more than
friends and activities.
You'll take an increased
ability to think, to communicate,
to ask questions, to seek out
(See McCabe page 9)
ADVISOR - Charlie Reynolds
FEATURES EDITOR - Tina Horton
The J-TAC
MANAGING EDITOR - Christy Moore
EDITOR-Julie Grider
SPORTS EDITOR - Mike Marbach
PHOTO EDITOR - Marc Parks
STAFF WRITERS - Pmanuel Alvear, Kelly Boren
EDITORIAL CARTOONIST - Jordan Cannady
ADVERTISING COORDINATOR - Meredith Foster
CIRCULATION MANAGER - Justin Boswell
Involvement is key to smooth
transition
The transformation from high school to college
is exciting and fun, but can also be traumatic and
scary. Leaving the security of a hometown and close
friends along with the sometimes overwhelming
burden of college classes can drive even the most
eager of students away from their education. There is
a simple solution to this problem to help ease the
aprehension a student might feel ~ get involved.
Becoming involved in campus organizations,
activities and clubs helps students meet new people
and gives them a feeling, a purpose and unity with the
school. Over the next few weeks most organizations
will be having membership drives and the first meetings
of the fall semester. Freshmen, or anyone else who
wishes to get involved, should keep an eye out for
clubs that might interest them and visit the meetings to
see what they're about. If it doesn't interest the person,
try another one.
With over 200 clubs and organizations on
campus, Tarleton has something to interest everybody.
From student government to rodeo, chemistry to
religious organizations, republicans, astronomy* dairy,
home ec, theater, business, educators, the R.O.T.C.,
democrats, Plowboys, various Greek organizations,
ect. The list is endless.
Starting Sunday will also be Howdy Week
during which Tarleton will sponsor a full week of
activities on campus. Events such as a BBQ and
dance, a college level game show, a beach bash and a
pep rally will all help welcome new and old students.
So what if a student has absolutely no time
during the week to participate in school activities. Go
to the football games on Saturday night and cheer on
the Tarleton Texans! The season opener will be be
Saturday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. at Memorial Stadium
against East Central Oklahoma State.
Involvement is the key to success in college
life. Participating in school activities helps ease the
big switch to a life on your own and makes college
more exciting, meaningful and worth remembering.
A TARLETON SOLOTIONTO
A NORTH TEXAS STATE
"PROBLEM"
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Time for
growing up
has arrived
Charlie
Reynolds
Most students come to our aca-
demic community to learn. That
pursuit takes them in a multitude of
directions. Many of the require-
ments and bureaucratic obstacles that
jump out from the forest of academia
create problems that not only change
majors, they change lives and life-
styles.
Look around you in the first
session of your Monday classes.
Some of the people you see will not
be with you Wednesday. Many stu-
dents who start will not complete a
four-year degree. The general popu-
lation of Texas is estimated to be
about 20 percent college educated.
These figures alone put you in a
unique and desirable environment.
An environment where success
means you are going to be exposed
to the future leaders, educators and
managers of all aspects of our soci-
ety.
University life is not only an
opportunity to improve your value
as a more productive employee or
employer. It is an opportunity to
actually learn and develop values
and philosophies of living.
You will find that you are ex-
posed to all kinds of ideas and phi-
losophies. Try not to be too closed or
judgmental about the people or the
professors you encounter. Nobody
said it would be easy. But through
this atmosphere of idea exchange;
you can at least decide what you like:
and don't like. Garth Brooks says it:
very well in his hit song, "Unan-'
swered Prayers."
That brings us to the reason for
discussion of all these facts. Hie J-
TAC is the primary media for stu-
dents at TSU. We strive to report the
news of both students and faculty in
a weeldy student newspaper,
Ire not as easy as it may seem
when you are sitting in the Student
Center' having a cola and dropping
the crumbs from your favorite snack
(xi the pages as you read it Every
word and every ad is written and
pasted up by a student who is tiying
to cope with the same above men-,
tioned problems'^nd ideas.
Each of them are trying to deal
with a like number of classes where
the professor thinks his class is the
only one for which you are regis-
tered this semester.
There are space constraints,
deadline problems and a tremendous
amount of pushing and pulling by
some 200 clubs and organizations
(See Reynolds page 8)
Fear of cantaloupes (or how I spent my summer vacation)
Jordan Cannady
Around the Bend
The concept of "elective
surgery" is rather a misnomer in
that, other than cosmetic surgery
for purposes of beauty
enhancement, most of us have
surgery because the long-term
consequences of not having it are
worse. What makes most of
these fall into the "elective"
category is the amount of time
we have to put up with the
disability and put off the cutting.
Most surgeons will encourage
you to not put off to tomorrow
what you can have cut off today,
I went to three different surgeons
before I finally made up my mind
to have repaired what, in home
ec. jargon is referred to as a
"blown souffle." Rather than
lapsing into Silence of The Lamb
descriptive prose let me just tell
you that one of my favorite
organs, the stomach, was
beginning to poke out of a hole
in my abdominal wall. This
unsightly and uncomfortable
condition is known as a hernia, a
malady that can be brought on by
excessively showing off to your
friends by picking up Yugos with
your bare arms or by coughing
too hard. I have long since given
up the Yugo trick but the damage
was already done,
I am thirty-seven and
have entered the age group of
men where God punishes you for
never having had to see a
gynecologist like the other half
has had to. I did not receive a
lick of compassion when I came
home to my wife and said, "...
and then he made me bend and
grab my ankles and then,,." She
thought that my first introduction
to a truly invasive procedure was
about damn time. I had about six
of these exams and can tell you
that, after the second I began
screening my doctors with
questions like, "He doesn't have
big hands does he?" or "How
would he feel about letting me
just describe my insides?" „
Since, in addition to
running a full time business I am
also a full time student,
scheduling the operation and
recovery time was critical. I
determined that the best time was
the day following final exams for
the second summer session. I
arrived at Harris Methodist in
Fort Worth at about 7 am, was
given a thorough preoperative
exam and was then fitted into my
pegnoir. Most -everyone is
familiar with the attractive little
nightgown you get to wear. It
comes down to about a half-inch
below a third degree felony, is
open in the back and comes in an
attractive postmortem blue. It
looks like the type of garment
that Andy Warhol must have
asked to be buried in. Having
been stripped of my jeans,
inhibitions and dignity I was
rolled up to the bar where I was
given a little something to calm
and relax me. For those of you
who can't imagine this narcotic
trance, think of it as that fugue
state you slip into between the
Dodge House and Bostocks. The
last thing I recall was my
anestegiologist giving me just "
one more for the road,"
I awoke several hours
later with an incision on my
abdomen that Sylvester Stallone
would be proud of, enough tubes
passing into me to make me look
like a shake machine at
McDonalds and my concerned
wife by my side.
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The surgeon did an ex-
cellent job, the anesthesiologist
checked on my progress
numerous times (she was what
we would like to believe a true
care giver is) and the nurses
stopped by constantly to take my
vitals, admire my gown and add
fresh olives to the bag that
dripped constantly into my arm.
A week has passed. I
stumble about the house like
Quasimodo's twin brother Semi,
I have worked my way through
the letter "Q" in Jello flavors,
I've learned which comedians are
not safe to watch (laughing and
coughing after this surgery feels
like giving birth to an alien
through the navel), I've witnessed
every form of human depravity
and degradation on daytime tv...
from Geraldo's show about
lesbian sled dogs who worship
Satan to Phil Donahue getting an
on the air shopping list from
Mario and I'm healing well.
So, how was your
summer vacation?
Jordan Cannady is
the Editorial Cartoonist for
the J-TAC.
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