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Opinion
Novembet 29s 2007
THE J-TAC
How do you feel about the
football season being over?
Good, I don't ijnn>t It's terrible! 1
have to listen really care. can't believe
to people talk- y
about it
anymor
this happened!
I really wish we'd won that game.
Kenneth Brisendine/The J-TAC
Fine tuning the
Poppyeoek
by Daniel Connell
Page 3
Jl/rn'y
Tts THE. 5M< oW
dining hall Moody and Gough: the hottest place on campus
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There are
always different
opinions about
eating in the
dining hall and
there always
will be. While
it may not be
homecooking,
it is still a full
course, all?you-
can-eat meal.
While the Tarleton Dining
Hall is closing the Texan Star
Food Cour£ instill open. Even
if you don't iyant to eat food
from Chartwells, you can still
grab a bag of chips'or a Coke.
Between the dining hall, food
court or coffee shop, finding
something to eat on-campus is
easy. Students may call Chart-
wells convenient, but many
will not talk positive about the
quality,.
I can honestly say that last
year I hated eating in the din-
ing hall. I survived on Chick-
Fil-A because it was the only
thing that Chartwells did not
actually prepare and I always
had meal plans left over at the
end of the week/When I did
MICAH MOORE
not eat at Chick-
Fil-A I would pay
for over-priced
fast food off-cam-
pus. Whether it
was because I was
used to Mom's
cooking and
Chartwells was
far from her qual-
ity of I would just
prefer to hang out
and eat with friends off-cam-
pus, I did not eat in the dining
.hall or fpod fourt very often. I
did not;enjoy eating on cam-
pus because the quality was
terrible. I looked forward to
the time that I would not be re-
quired to have meal plans any-
more and would not be forced
to pay for meals I would not
use. .
This semester has com-
pletely changed my opinion
of the dining hall Over the
summer, Tarleton hired Direc-
tor Becky Bolte and Executive
Chef Damon. There have been
drastic changes made in qual-
ity and selection to what we
See MOORE, Page 8
The J-tac
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jbanria Hensley
Production Manager
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Shawn Hughes
Tyler McCollum
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Graphic Artist
Kenneth Brisendine
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Christina Coleman
Advertising Assistant
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Director
Jim Looby
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Opinions expressed in The
J-TAC are not necessarily those
of Tarleton State University or
The Texas A&M System,
One student's personal
account of living in Gough
Hall when I heard this week
that Tarleton State Uni-
versity was going to tear
down Gough and Moody
Halls I felt as if one of my
best friends had been con-
demned to the death cham-
ber. I thought, "Not Gough!
They can't be serious." But
now I hear tearing them
down is only one option
on the slate. Tarleton just
hasn't decided what they
w^nt tp da with v.the, halls
•yete ■* !
This is my plea to those
who hold the fate of Gough
and Moody in their hands.
Do not take these halls
away from their residents!
These halls should be the
models by which all others
are made!
To most outsiders they
may look at them and all
they see are two out of date
buildings that don't even
have air conditioning. But
unless you have lived there
you have no idea what goes
on inside.
Yes, they are old. They
were built in 1921. But
that's no reason to dis-
like them. When I lived in
Gough knowing how old
they were made them dear-
er to me. I thought of all the
Tarleton women that had
lived in Gough before me
■SZMw
MARCY WATERS
Gough
and how. I
was living
in just the
same con-
ditions as
they had,
and I felt a
connection
to them.
One
thing I will
never .forget. The Saturday
of home coming Fall 2004
an elder couple came into
the Women's Lobby and
looked around. I was.at,
work in the lobby office so
I asked if I could help them
find something. The elder
lady asked if there was any
way she could go into to
Gough hall and show her
husband where she had
lived while attending Tar-
leton. I was about to get off
work so I told her I would
be more than happy to
show them around. While
we waited for my shift to
end I asked her questions
about the time she had
lived in Gough. She told me
she had lived there in 1928!
After- 76 years she could
still recall memories of liv-
ing there and even some of
the rules they had to live
by back then like 8:30 pm
curfews and men only be-
ing allowed in the common
rooms like the lobby.
But what about air con-
ditioning? Yeah,
what about it? I
will admit, be-
fore I moved
into Gough I
was worried
about melting in
the Texas heat.
But not having
air conditioning
is what makes
and Moody so
unique, and in my opinion
superior to all other resi-
dential halls at Tarleton.
; By, necessity the, girls
keep - the - doors to• -their
rooms open just to get
more air flow. That may
sound invading to some
but it always breeds a trust
and knowledge of each
girl in your building that
I've not seen since I lived
there. When you walked
down the halls of Gough
and Moody you didn't just
pass by a room behind a
closed door with a name-
less, faceless resident in-
side. You passed by Jackie
who was trying to finish
school in only two years so
she could marry her fiance
Aaron. You passed Kellye
who was majoring in Ex-
ercise and Sports Studies,
and loved to watch anime.
There were Kay and Amy,
Jena, Nadja, Joan, Jennifer,
Lizzy, Cynthia, Katy W.,
Haven, Sarah, Sara, and
Meredith who played the
violin beautifully. These
are the girls I remember
most but there are others I
know have slipped through
my memories.
If you want to see a
place on campus where
Tarleton traditions live/
grow, and are born, visit
Gough or Moody and talk
to, the residence. You will
find no place like it on
campus. They are a culture
apart.
If they must change then
here is> what. I suggest: do
not EVER install air condi-
tioners on these buildings.
If you do, you will be de-
stroying the tie that brings
these girls close, and then
you may as well just raze
the buildings. Turn them
into freshmen residential
halls. For I believe if you
keep them the way they
are, and freshmen get to
experience living there to-
gether, in only a few short
years we will have a gen-
eration of students that are
closer to each other then
students of the same gen-
eration elsewhere.
Please, if you really
want to see what living
there is like, go there, talk
to the girls, and see what it
is that truly makes Gough
and Moody "the hottest
place on campus!"
What was your favorite part of your
Thanksgiving break?"
JoLynn Elkins/The J-TAC
"Seeing family I
hadn't seen in awhile."
Kaylee Melton
Senior, Business Man-
agement
JoLynn Elkins/The J-TAC
"This was my first
Thanksgiving; I'm
an international stu-
dent here, so it was
a new tradition, the
turkey, the dressing,
all of it. It was fun."
Rijo Santosh
Freshman, Computer
Science
JoLynn Elkins/The J-TAC
The pumpkin pie!"
Josh Ellis
Senior, Theater
JoLynn Elkins/The J-TAC
"I ljked my Grand-
ma's turkey, and I
didn't have to do
anything at work on
Thanksgiving."
Katie Rollins .
Freshman, Special
Education
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