The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 28, 1955 Page: 2 of 4
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EDITORIALS
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Another car was towed away recent-
ly for a parkin* violation.
This parking violation was committed
in plain sight of signs informing motor-
ists of the parking rules for that par-
ticular place.
Perhaps the violation could not have
been prevented at that time. Perhaps
the car belonged to a commuting stu-
dent who was late to the class that he
paid to attend. Perhaps he left the auto
in the forbidden zone so that he could
reach the other sid< of the campus be-
fore the class started.
Yes, perhaps the violation could not
have been prevented at that time.
But it could have been prevented.
With a record number of students on
the campus this fall there seems to be
also a record number of automobiles
that naturally create a more difficult
parking situation.
There are probably several solutions
to the problem, some of which would
take much time and effort, but others
would take only thought on the part of
•North Texas students.
For example, if dormitory students
would walk to all their classes, the area
around class buildings would not be
nearly so congested with automobiles.
Too many students drive from the
quadrangle and other dormitories to
across-the-campus classes. Not only
does this make the parking situation
worse, but the students spend more
time finding a parking place to park
than they would have if they had walk-
ed to class in the first place.
A guy that drives from quad If and
parks behind th<- journalism building
after looking 15 minutes fur a place to
park saves a heck of a lot of time!
When the time comes that cars are
left in front of the dorms and rooming
houses within an area of two or three
block* from the campus, the parking
situation will be almost solved.
Then there will be plenty of room
for acroxs-town students and commu-
ters.
The exercise would not be bad for the
individual either.
— Willie Jacobs
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Throughout the United States col- 2. The rise in college population lie-
It gen and universities are facing the
ever-increasing problem of record en-
rollments. And, despite emergency mea-
sures and extensive expansion pro-
grams, the problem continues to grow
more and more critical.
North Texas has felt the pinch. En-
rollment this fall has already passed the
previous all-time high of 5282, which
was set in 1949, and prospect ' point to
further increases in coming semesters.
The enrollment problem here, and
elsewhere, (>oirits to an inevitable re-
sult : getting into college any college—
may not In- so easy in the future.
U.S. News and World Ke|>ort points
out that great swarms of youths will
jam the campuses in the 1960s. And,
as the ranks of new students rise, col-
leges in self-defense will raise admission
standards.
A growing number of parents are
asking: Are my youngsters going to
get into college before the great crush
begins ?
Colleges will someday be as over-
crowded as grade schools already are.
The problem poses a number of ques-
tions, the answers to which can be given
with mathematical accuracy:
1 Each year for the next 1 .'i years
the number of youths seeking a place in
college will tie larger than the year
liefore.
tween now and 1960, however, will be
gradual, averaging about 100,000 each
year.
.'5. After I960, the rise in college stu-
dent will accelerate. In the first
of the postwar baby crop will hit col-
leges like a tidal wave. By 196*. total
enrollment will soar above 1.6 million.
The increase of !.( million students, in
the e!ght years from 1960 to 1968, will
exceed the total college enrollment of
1910,
Colleges are doing everything they
can to meet their expansion problems.
Parents can do their part by impressing
upon their children the importance of
adequate preparation in high school in
order to meet the higher college en-
trance requirements which will have
to be imposed in the future.
—Charles Adler
Baptist Convention Delegate
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ANN COLLIER
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Wednotday, Sept. 28. 1955
With the Alumni . . .
Grad Gets Post
At Texas Tech
i'AT M WINDHAM recently completed
work on his Ph.D. in nuclear physics at Rice
institute. He is teaching at Texas Tech this
fall.
Ma ir WILLIAM B. PIERCE and his wife,
MARGARET, are in Germany, where he is
stationed with the Seventh army.
Two former North Texas students, OLIN
A HARDWICK JR., Meridian, and BOBBY
E. MOORE of Fort Worth, have been grad-
uated from the Navy's officer candidate
school at Newport, R. I.
Graduating from the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical school in Dallas in
June were three former students: JAMES
TATL'M, JEWELL S. (DOC) DAUGHETY,
and ORLAND BAKER
Marine Lt. PEARSON T. POLLARD, Was-
kom, has been graduated from the U. S. Naval
preflight school at Pensacola, Fla. He is now
assigned to the Whiting field air station at
Milton, Fla., for primary flight training.
JAMES L. HILL JR., is chaplain's assistant
at the U. S. Naval Training center in San
Diego, Calif.
FRANK WARREN KIRK PATRICK is now
stationed in Japan.
MARILYN WHITESIDE is the recipient of
a scholarship to do graduate work at Medill
School of Journalism at Northwestern uni-
versity, Evanston, III.
MAXINE GRADY has been appointed to
the faculty of David Lipscomb college in
Nashville, Tenn. She will teach health and
physical education.
RALPH T. DANIEL received his Ph.D. from
Harvard university in June.
Coed Tells About European Travels
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Last week Juan Domingo Peron was
given permission to leave Argentina
safely to seek asylum in Paraguay,
perhaps a fitting finale for the man
who rose to power from a similar re
volt in 1948.
His exile marks the end of the nine-
year Peron era in Argentina. But the
iron hand of the powerful ruler had
begun to loosen its grip several months
ago when the first in a recent series of
revolts had to be quelled.
Prior to that time, his dictatorship
had existed almost without opposition.
He had broken the power of the previ-
ously dominate landowners and indus-
trialists. and, by playing on rivalries,
had divided the political parties into
powerlessness.
In their stead he sought the support
of the factory workers, landless pea-
sants, and ranch hands. The strange
combination of .Juan and Eva Peron
built these groups into a jiotent backing
force. Evita was a shrewd, strong-willed
woman from the wrong side of the
tracks who spoke the workers' ian-
Hendry's Hi-Jinks . . .
guage. She played a major role, before
her death in 1952, in building the power-
ful regime of her husband.
Peron's fatal move came when, al-
most a year ago, he decided to break
the strength of the largest single power
remaining in the country, the Roman
Catholic church. Some church leaders
had sought to play a bigger role in la-
bor unions, ant) Peron would not allow
it. Priests were arrested. Religious edu-
cation was banned in the schools.
Peron even sponsored n constitutional
amendment to deprive the faith of its
status as the Argentine state church.
In a countryside address, Peron spoke
against the church, adding that " . . pa-
tient Argentine people may not one day
take justice into its own hands."
Right song, wrong verse. People did
take justice into their own hands. De-
fiance flew up. Revolution broke out.
Peron was defeated and forced to resign
his position as head of the nation.
He ruled Argentina with high-handed
tactics and ruthlessness. He has danced
and must now pay the fiddler.
—Joyce Hendrj
In Wil l IF JUOJtS
Boat, motor coach, plane, feet, and train
were the methods of travel used by Ann
Collier, senior music major from Fort Worth,
in her tour of Europe last summer.
Mis# Collier, who was part 'if the United
State- delegation to the Baptist World A11 i -
itriiv held July 1 «• through 22 in London, says
that she, iilontr with 11! more members of
the group, visited Holland, Germany, Switzer-
land, Fiance, and Italy In fore going to Eng-
land.
After the convention, the group toured
Scotland and then returned by plane to the
United States.
"Delegates were picked from Baptist
churches throughout the country," says Miss
Collier, who is a member of the Broadway
Baptist church in Fort Worth, "and I was
picked to go."
According to Miss Collier, who is known on
the North Texas campus as a violinist in
'Feasor*.* Aces, the convention was intensely
interesting Many well-known Baptist per-
sonalities, including Billy Graham, spoke at
the week-long convention.
One of the highlights of the program in
which M:-s Collier was most interested was
an address given by a Russian delegate.
"The delegate explained to Us why the
Communists hav> never closed the Baptist
churches in Russia," says the coed.
"You see," she explained, "unlike some
churches, the Baptists lie 1 leve that state and
church should have no connection, and for
that rea.:on the Baptist churches were per-
mitted to stay open in Russia."
In the group with Miss Collier was the
Atlanta Baptist Association choir which per-
formed in every country visited. The choir
went over in the early part of July and tour-
ed the mainland before going to the convention
on the sixteenth.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in a
Swiss city where fireworks were available
for all American tourists.
'They really helped us celebrate," says Miss
< llier "They even put American flags on our
tables at dinner."
Another highlight of the Swiss tour was a
meal in one of the colorful chalets in the
mountains where a "chalet cake" was served
to the tourists It consisted of a chocolate
ilk" vith a miniature chalet resting on the
top.
Charlie's Chatter . . .
"And it snowed in July in Switzerland!"
Miss Collier exclaimed.
The group visited many other points of
interest, including the Mediterranean sea,
where they swam on the French Riviera.
"People just dress and undress right on the
beach!" exclaimed Miss Collier.
In Rome the group attended an opera in
the Bath of Caracalla, the largest outdoor
opera stage in the world. They were sere-
naded by Venice gondoliers, and went to the
Folies Bergere in Paris.
According to Miss Collier, the most colorful
part of the trip was Holland, where the native
dress and the windmill landscapes were more
than beautiful.
There was a trip down the Rhine river in
Germany from which World War II ruins
could be seen. The tourists also saw the new
buildings constructed through the Marshall
plan.
"We went back through England and visit-
ed Buckingham palace just after the Queen
of England had left," she said. "We also went
to her winter home, Windsor castle."
After England, the group went through
Scotland and flew back to the states.
Miss Collier says one thing is typical of all
European countries, "potatoes.. . every meal."
Writer States Views on Controversy
Over Required Courses vs. Interest
h> CHARLES ADI.ER
Should a student who is training for a busi-
ness or profession m college lie required to
take a number of liberal arts and other courses
outside his field, or should he be allowed to
•pend all of hi- time concentrating upon his
specialty?
This qiMMtion has never been successfully
answered to the complete satisfaction of stu-
dents and college administrators, nor will it
ever 1 Fifty year- ago college students were
required to take a heavy load of courses out-
side their major fields. In many schools heavy
doses of Latin, mathematics, English, philoso-
phy, history, and government were considered
necessary for every student.
Then, for many years, the trend was aw-ay
from such a heavy load of required subjects to-
ward concentration in one's major field. Many
colleges were becoming little more than trade
schools. The trend today is back in the direc-
tion of more required liberal arts courses,
despite objections voiced by many students
that such courses are a waste of their time.
Much has been said and written to the ef-
fect that college students are becoming spe-
cialists, machine-like men who are trained for
one particular occupation and nothing else.
Even at North Texas collegians complain
about having to take such courses as English,
government, foreign languages, history, or
science. Yet, if they were going to other
schools, they might also have to take mathe-
except one: he needed three more hours of
French. He couldn't sign up for the course
that semester, so he decided to take it by cor-
respondence.
He did a lesson now and then, and, by the
time Christmas vacation rolled around, he had
completed about a fourth of the lessons. He
worked on them during Siis vacation and dur-
ing the following weeks. But, by the time dead
week arrived, he still had a number of les-
sons to complete.
So, for the last two weeks of the semester,
this young man worked French lessons day
and night, until he finally finished. This story
has a happy ending. The lad passed the course
and went on to receive his sheepskin. Inci-
matics philosophy, music, or religion, depend- dentally, he's in the Army now.
Professional Phonies Rook Public
by JOY< E HENDRY
Think twice liefore you laugh the next time
you hear about someone's buying a gold brick
for a bargain price.
The American public pays approximately
two and one-half billion dollar-, a year to the
largest plague of professional phonies since
the con man made a fortune peddling the
Brooklyn bridge to out-of-town yokels.
It isn't nearly *o funny as it first seemed
if it happens to you. At least I didn't think
o.
I-ast Christmas vacation, a friend intro-
Remember? . . .
Group Planned
Basketball Trip
I Year Ago
A basketball road trip is being planned by
the North Texas road trip committee, prob-
ably to Baylor. Also under consideration by
the committee is a long-range, alternating
plan for a football road trip This trip w U|<1
take the students to Trinity one year and to
Hardin-Simmons university the next
S Years Ago
One thousand five hundred ninety-one stu-
dents voted in an a!!-eo!ie«t ei s*-offic*r riw>
tion today, setting a new single-day turnout
record for voting. Curtis Ramsey. Denton,
was elected to the nenior presidency and Bob
Sharp, Waxahachie. took the junior top job.
The other two class presidents are Fred Cof-
fee, Denton, sophomore, and Bill Jones, Dai
1m. freshman.
dured a group of us in San Antonio to a young
cookware-company supervisor who wh- in
town for a few weeks.
Such a nice boy. He took all of us out to
dinner repeatedly and put the tit lis on his
company expense account, gave expensive
pre.cuts, and got one friend n job with his
company, arranging for them to pool their
funds into a joint bank account, lie offered
to get ii cookware set from his company at
half price for my bride-elect roommate. Just
give him a $40 check, and he would lie glad
to get it. Such a nice boy.
In between moments of generosity he bor-
rowed money and had friends cash personal
checks for him. This was all before irate cred-
itors began to call us about hot checks. Doz-
ens of them.
Suddenly he had disappeared but was
picked up trying to cross the border in a stolen
car He was really sorry for what he had
done, promising to go straight and make it
all up. After he was released on bond, an-
other friend's identification strangely disap-
peared. Later we found our reformer had left
checks at three different automobile compa-
nies with the friend's signature and taken
new cars out "to show the wife."
Well, I finally regained my confidence in
human nature this summer when I met the
advertising manager of the paper on which
I worked. My first day there he offered to
lend me money until payday, said I could use
his car anytime, and introduced me around
town. Such a nice little man.
His wife and daughter had been killed in an
accident in Oregon, and he had come to Texas
tc forget about it. He was devoting all his
time to the church anil the Boy Scouts.
Suddenly he disappeared about the same
time as a dozen blank checks. Then merchants
Iwgan to phone about advertising they had
paid for and never received, and forged cheeks
poured in from North Carolina, Illinois and
Colorado. A check of his police record showed
that he had been in 19 penitentiaries, includ-
ing Alcatraz. He i\a<! been behind bars m«-t
of his life—thirty years.
May I suggest that the next time someone
offers to sell you a 115,000 seal coat for a
steal, forget it. It probably is a steal, literally.
By the way, I happened to meet the sweet-
est little lady yesterday. Seems she is an ec-
tentric millionaire who wants to sell her fam-
ily fortune at half price. Be glad to direct
you to her. Such a sweet little lady.
The Campus Chat
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PACF.M \KER i TIMES
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Merob^ Southwestern Journalism confrcu
KEN KENNAMKR
iMitor
ing upon the school.
Perhaps the chronic worriers around here
don't realize how fortunate they really are.
But for some reason many student build up
an aversion toward required courses.
The battle that some collegians have with
foreign languages is amusing to everyone ex-
cept the victim. A beginning freshman, full
of old-fashioned college spirit and determina-
tion, may actually sign up for a language
course during his first semester. He will go
to class for a few weeks, find that he is hope-
lessly behind, and quit.
After several false starts, the student may
finally pass a semester or so of foreign lan-
guage by the time he reaches his senior year.
Then comes the big battle- finishing up the
foreign language requirement in time to grad-
uate.
Some make it. Some don't.
I recall one fellow who had completed vir-
tually all his graduation requirements
Campus Echoes . . .
Similar tales have been told concerning stu-
dents who kept putting off their freshman
science requirements until it was almost too
late.
Passing four semesters of English is a
seemingly insurmountable obstacle for some
collegians. Many come to college lacking the
ability to write a logical, grammatically cor-
rect theme. However, two or three semesters
of Engish 100 or 181 will usually cure this
ailment.
Perhaps this distaste among college stu-
dents for required subjects stems from im-
proper preparation in high school. Or maybe
such students fear that they may learn too
much about too many different things.
Regardless of the reasons students may
give, they might try to remember that a col-
lege diploma is more than just a certification
that the person has learned a trade during
his four year* on a college campus.
JOYCE HENDRY
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A man in McCook, Neb., was fined $100 for
reckless driving following an accident, but
officers had to admit he couldn't have picked
a better place. The new car, badly wrecked,
spun off the highway and rolled into a junk-
yard. —University Daily Kansan
• • •
A twirler for the l,onghorn band at the
University of Texas explained the reason for
changing her major from fine arts to busi-
ond left the letter out by mistake.
—Daily Texan
• • •
Joseph Murphy of New Haven, Conn., un-
wittingly drove off in an automobile similar
to his own which later was reported stolen.
Authorities said the odds against Murphy's
key fitting the other machine were 10,000 to
one. —Daily Kansan
a • •
Out of the intelligence and good will of the
ness. She fell over a railroad tic in NV aco, campus's best thinkers must come the solution
hurting her hand, and was no longer able to
play the harp. —Daily Texan
to uur self-manufactured dilemma.
—Daily Texan
One freshman at the University of Texas "I heard your wife is a finished singer. Is
became a little more homesick when he opened that true?"
his first letter from home and found that his
folks had mailed two sheet* of blank paper
"Not quite, but the neighbors nearly fin-
inshed her last night." —The Echo
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