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EDITORIALS
The Campus Chat
More Saddles n Boots Than Texas . . .
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1959
Sweeping Campus Reforms, But . ..
Senate Could Stand Authentic Cowboys Exist in Hawaii
Self-Housedeaning
President Jim Hinkle, Vice-President
Ed Smith, and the entire United Stu-
dents of North Texas are to be con-
gratulated for their activities and ac-
complishments thus far this year
Hinkle and the U8NT were largely re-
sponsible for North Texas' first road
trip in over 20 years. And more im-
portant, their stringent supervision led
to the success of the trip both for the
students and the administration a fac-
tor that will aid the cause of future
road trips.
Although some of the noble projects
are impractical, the fact that the sen-
ate is working actively indicates a
healthy state of student government
on campus.
The -senate, in it« general attitude of
reform, has lent much to the generally
increasing student body interest in cam
pus improvement. A small shaft of light
has cut through the darkness of dis-
interest so prevalent in the past on
campus, and students are beginning to
ask for changes.
But in spite of the senate's determin-
ation to make a clean sweep elsewhere,
Bureaucracy Snarl , . .
it so far has left its own house tin-
dusted.
As yet this semester, the senate has
failed to make concrete, decisive r le
changes to improve th ' campus elect! <n
processes that are an antiquated a- is
the phone system.
A simple senate rules change co-.id
bring th«- election board up sufficiently
in force to operate the two or three .<■!-
ditional ihiIIh needed to serve the «t i-
rlent voters adequately
In spite of the USNT court decision f
last spring on the charge and count'
charge filed by the vice-president> tl
candidates, the seriate ha* failed to a t
toward healing the constitutional wei.k
f|s t that was ex(s>swl
Immediate action by the senate i
preparing an amendment now won I
give the student liodv an opportunity >
vote on it at the next all-college electi< i
early this spring If passed, the anient
merit would make present senators, wl ■
are ineligible under the past ruling, at>
to run for the high HS.VT jmsitions i
May. —Paul Rerer
Red Tape Binds Soil
Newsweek magazine carried a story
last week about a I 1-year-old l oy who
wanted some dirt.
The boy, Robert Graham of Memphis,
Tenn., is the type of boy who grows up
to be the nation's most brilliant scien-
tist. He had wr>n awards in science fairs
for such things as a solar-powered radio
and an exhibit on methods of soil anal-
ysis.
Robert then became inters ted in the
possibility of bacterial life on the planet
Mars. But he had a problem. He needed
some soil samples from extremely cold
areas to be used in creating a laboratory
environment similar to that believed to
exist on Mars. With these samples he
could refrigerate the soil with dry ice
and see how bacteria responded Robert
decided to seek the help of the U.S.
government.
He wrote a letter to the Department
of the Interior explaining his experi-
ment and asking for the soil samples.
Interior passed it on to Agriculture
Delayed Graduation
Counseling
The Department of Agriculture suy
gested instead that Robert read "Stub
ble Mulching in The Great Plains."
In desperation Robert wrote letter
to Premier Nikita Khrushchev and tin
Soviet Academy of Sciences, asking foi
soil samples from the (Ukraine, the ('en
tral Siberian uplands, and the tundrn
of the Far North.
Two weeks ago Robert's three re
quested samples were delivered Wit I
each came a Russian scientific memnr
andum and a letter of transmittal from
the Soviet academy that read, "We wis)
to aid you in reaching your goal ami
help in your scientific experiments . .
Robert got his dirt, Communism
gained another victory. The U.S. gov
ernment inadvertently exposed some ol
its red tape. And some Americans won
dered once again if their government
was still "of the people, by the people
and "for" the people."
Dennis Phillips
by I.KOk'.K hi ki. w;f.
' hat Ht ff W filer
Real cowboy scer.e*. now growing extinct,
if! the United State* except on the television
een- have moved went to Hawaii, Christo-
pher PenhaMow, sophomore economic* major
from the 50th «taU\ declares
"In fact," -.aid the Hawaii-horn student, "I
haven't sees any of those famous Texas cow-
boy dorirtff my travel* here" He then em-
pfcasized hi- xtatement with the comment, "In
Hawaii 'he> dress in traditional western fash
ion arid ride hard "
t hru <|>eak - with authority on hi* state's
"men of the West " His father, Richard Pen
hallow, manage* the 200,IHJ0-acre Parker ranch
on the island of Hawaii. Here dozen* of cow
hoy*, ail in traditional dress including boots,
chaps, and spurs, rifle herd on the cattle and
sheep rantfes
"About. one fourth of our rowhoys are Ha-
waiian," he explains, "and the rest are of
Portuguese and Japanese aneextry The latter
makes the best riders and workers "
Momentarily delaying an answer on Hawaii's
faeied bea< he-- and hula kirted beauties, ('hris
went on to explain that al! i« not beaches and
palms where he lived He described the coun-
try a flat and rolling very much like this
section of Texas but with heavy vegetation
and pine trees.
Towering l'i,7M foot Mauna Kea dominate*
the Parker ranch, with a plain of some <50
mile* ntretching to currently erupting Mauna
boa Two other peaks are in the southern
part of the island
"Hula girls and other traditional attractions
are for the tourists," he said "The real Hawaii
has its industry and other businesses, but
the tourist trade demands certain things and
is one of the growing businesses of the in-
land-*," he explained
f'hris is among the third generation of his
family to l.e born in Hawaii His great-grand-
father. like many of the Yankee sea captains
of the early 1800s, followed the trading lanes
to the then Island Kingdom. New Rriglawl
rni« loruiries followed to t'hi i -Mani/.! the idol-
worshipping natives, and soon American*,
through business tie* and by marriage, great-
ly influenced the royal families
Later the Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and
Filipino* came fr«m A.-tia and the Portuguese
arrived from Europe to work in the sugar in-
dustry which the Americana started. From
these two extrenrt**- of Eastern and Western
cultures, a melting pot of many nationalise*
today reflect Hawaii's true democracy.
Both Penhallow's paternal and maternal
grandparents were engaged in the sugar in-
dustry His father and mother were graduated
from the University of Hawaii be/ore his fath-
er decided on a career in the island's cattle
business
Chris never worked for the Parker ranch.
"I didn't ride for the ranch," he explained,
"but I did care for my father's small herd of
Aberdeen Angus."
He attended Punahou, a co-educational pri-
vate school in Honolulu and completed his
high school studies there before enrolling in
North Texas. Punahou, which was founded by
Americans in 1S-41, is one of the better prep
schools in the United States. In the t-arly
days of California history, families sent their
children there rather than to the Kastern
institutions.
Chris's father is the chairman of the Kepub-
lican Committee on Hawaii, and many of the
business and political leaders are personal
friends of the family. More impressive than
this list of senators and other well-known
persons is the name of (Jen. Nathan F. Twin-
ing. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The general is married to Chris's aunt.
How did Chris pick North Texas over other
colleges to attend here on the mainland? The
NT economics major really doesn't know, but
he thinks the choice was a wise one. However,
he said, the bigness of Texas does not make
up for the things Hawaiian which he likes.
"I miss the whole thing," he said, "because
I just like the Islands and everything they
represent. When a baby, I was fed poi (na-
tive food of ground taro root) instead of
baby food, and I guess it started me on the
road of liking all the foods and customs."
This affinity for Hawaii indicates his future
plans: he will return to the Islands to enter
the expanding tourist business. There he will
concentrate on selling the visitors on the
state's charms, both the scenic areas yet to be
developed and the old standby of hula beauties,
and possibly a real cowboy scene.
Yule Usury
Mil UlHisf
Newell Post
Beat Santa Jazzes Onto Pad Roofs
Lack
Degree Planning
Causes
Muddle
Rules are set up to help students grad-
uate from North Texas without a loss
in semester hours.
Officials suggest early consultation
with a faculty counselor for the correct
courses needed for a particular degree.
Second, they encourage students to have
their degree plans made early, prefer-
ably in the second semester of the fresh-
man year.
Finally, the student is required to
fill out an application for graduation
at the beginning of the last semester.
Talking with students who had to
stay an extra semester has revealed
that the fault lies in the first suggested
step.
In short, there is a deficiency in fac-
ulty counseling. Because students do
not completely understand which
courses should be taken when or how
many must be concentrated in a certain
area of study, they often find them-
selves short three hours credit.
There is some counseling early in the
freshman year and a check of the de
gree plan in the senior year, but the
checks are too far in lietween. There is
not sufficient time to correct mistakes
which may have been made by the stu-
dent .
The most effective procedure would
consist of a constant program of coun-
seling and checking during each semes-
ter throughout the college career.
Greta fates
by ( HAKI.DKAN NKWKIJ.
Chat Columnist
'Twas the week before Yuletide, and
all through the school,
Holiday plans were stirring, and. man,
were they cool;
The jfit't lists were ready, and open
arms did await,
fn hopes that the Fat Man would visit
this state;
Phe eoeds were nestled all snug in their
pads,
Ceeping up, man, with the latest in
fads;
\nd the frat house dwellers, swinging
down the street,
V'ere listening to cool jazz with a def-
inite beat.
Vhen out on the lawn of old Kendall
hall.
.'nixes indicated someone was having :i
ball
way to the windows the gals flew like
a winner.
(it to be excited was to make like a
sinner.
he moon on the breast of the sun-dried
grass
■ ave a picture of Texas to all the big
brass;
hen, what to my shade-clad eyes
should appear,
it tie old wagon labeled Jax beer,
i cool little driver, so frantic and
Looney Tunes . . .
1959 Leaves Science,
Politics Hazy
by JOHNNIE LOU LOON BY
that Columnist
On a recent Jack Parr show, one of the
entertainers summed up the news of the past
few months in this manner:
"I hear Nikita Khrushchev is planning an-
other visit to the United
States, and the State depart-
ment is planning to get him
on a national TV rpiix show.
The department is going to rig
it so that Khrushchev wins
J 10ft.000 and then pay him off
in cranberries."
When one thinks about the
past few months, this gag touches the news
items that were given the most play in the
metropolitan newspapers. But there have been
several other major problems brought before
the public eye during 1959,
The news events that will probably have
the most long-range effect* are those that
deal with the space race. The U.S. selected
sewn astronauts and shot a monkey 55 miles
into space and successfully recovered him
But the Russians have topped these actions
by hitting the moon. According to experts,
however, these events are merely the first In
a series that will be far surpassed In the 'AOs
—the aire of man in space In the current
issm of Newsweek, an article disrusse* the
steps toward outer space that will he taken
in the coming decade. Many items that former-
ly were snwrces for science fiction tales are
entering into the area of reality.
Project Oxma, or sometimes called Project
bittle Green Men, will be begun in nn at-
tempt to make radio contact with civilizations
that astronomers calculate are reasonably cer-
tain to exist elsewhere in the universe. The
plan will be to systematically listen for any
intelligent radio pattern coming in from stars
resembling our own.
The same magazine even listed the probable
dates of the next ten steps into space: 'fift,
"soft" lunar landing; 'SI, man in space; 'f>2,
TV space relay station and shot at Mars; '63,
orbiting observatory; '<14, two-man space sta-
tion; '<55, space weather "eye"; '07, shot to
Venus; ' S8, solar survey, and '70, man on the
moon.
Another problem of the year '59 has been
that of selection of presidential nominees.
Though the actual selection will not take place
until the summer of I9fi0, both parties have
been concerned about the problem. Who will
l#e the candidates? Will the Democrats nom-
inate Kennedy, Stevenson, Symington, John-
son, Humphrey, or one of tne other hopefuls?
Will the COP choose between Nixon and
Rockefeller? These questions can not be an-
swered until the coming year.
A third news highlight of this year has
been the exchange of visits by Khrushchev
and Eisenhower. But the outcome of these
visits can only determined by the events of
the future.
Even though 1959 has been eventful, no
a unl steps forward have been made and no
i il decisions have been reached about main
I >blems. The vein I960 seems to hold the
a twer to many questions and the solutions
t many problems
lint a
And
mad,
I knew instantaneously it must be Old
Dad.
Cooler than Louie, this cat came on in,
And peddled his wagon, as neat at a pin.
"I.ike, Dasher! I,ike, Dancer! Like,
I'rancer and Vixen!
<io, Comet! do, Cupid! Go Donner and
Blltzen!
He called all his beat-deer with the
standard old names,
And hurried them on, saying. "Gotta
get home. .James."
As cool as a beat with a cup of expresso
That swinging wagon got up and really
let go
Those groovy beat-deer flew up to the
dorm top
With an arm load of goodies to make
the first stop.
And, all of a sudden, I heard up above.
These beat-deer pawing and pushing
and giving a shove.
As I returned to my pad, with some ap-
prehension.
I saw the Beat King, shining down like
the sun.
He was dressed in the latest, the kook-
iest style.
And he looked real sharp, like an aging
juvenile.
lb had a bundle of loot dragging along
behind,
And the contents of which looked like
a real good find.
His eyes—-how bloodshot! His beard
was real gone.
And 'twas my stocking his gaze was
fixed upon.
I silently urged him to fill it quite full.
And not to try a snow job or pull over
the wool.
The butt of a cigarette he clenched in
his teeth,
And I hoped and prayed he wouldn't set
fire to ihe wreath;
He had a broad face, and a smile he
could don;
He even looked like he might lay one
right on.
He was solid and cool, a real swinging
cat.
And he looked ultra-sharp in his Steve
Allen hat.
A wink of his eye and some skin off his
hand.
Let me know real soon he was one of
the band.
He wasted no time, which marie him
un-beat,
Hut set right in to get with his fete.
And keeping tradition, what with the
"Schonoozle" bit,
He made for the Northland and the
combo for to sit.
He jumped in the driver's seat, to the
beats gave a sign.
And settled down comfortably, pulling
out a fyll stein.
But I heard him exclaim, as he got to
set drive,
"Merry Christmas, you cats, and all
that jive."
Back in the 1850's, Clement Moore had
no dream
That his gift for the children would
furnish this theme.
News in Review . . .
Reader Attacks
Dollar Worship
Dear Editor:
Gaudily decorated trees (sold at a profit),
wreaths of holly, multi-colored big and little
balls hanging all around, and popular music—
which is not too unprofitable cither—all her-
ald the advent of the 25th of December, that
mystic date which provokes so much excite-
ment and so little understanding.
Once again, the hearts, cash registers and
pocketbooks of men are stirred by the coming
of that familiar, benign, beloved, perennial
spirit of something or other, I don't know
what. Does anyone? Our good merchants enter
into the festivities by hiking their prices and
working overtime to bring paradoxial peace
on earth and mythical good will toward men.
Our fine churches, and I find no fault with
churches, are engaged in commemorating the
birth of our Saviour, who saved us, they say,
not by being born but by dying. What do we
celebrate? We celebrate a pagan holiday with
its origin steeped in the barbarism of old time.
Again, let me underscore the fact that I do
not attack the church. We must all agree that
Christmas fares much worse in its commemor-
ation by the pagan people of our nation, who
have less inhibitions and diligently search for
the spirit of Christmas among other spirits
of a far different nature.
Above all, I believe in him, although I do
not believe in many of his institutions. It is
because I believe we have the capacity to
restore Christmas to its true meaning that
I ask everyone to open their hearts and eyes,
and distinguish between commerce nnd charity.
bet's put an end to yuletide usuary, and if
we can't then let's do away with Christmas
altogether True peace on earth and good will
toward men is not achieved by buying and sell
ing The real spirit of Christmas should pre-
vail all the days of the year. We should not
have to he reminded by our calendar every
25th of December to love our fellow man.
Sincerely.
Bill Perrin
The Campus Chat
Educator Blames Prof Scarcity
On Mighty Graduate Schools
A prominent educator charged Satur- of his Senate anti-monopoly subcom-
day that graduate schools have grabbed mittee after investigators reported that
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I tic Subarriplloci rataa del leered by mI1_ H
the Upjohn company bought female
hormones for 14 cents a gram and sold
them to druggists for $15 a gram, an
increase of 10.000 per cent.
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Dr. T. M. Stinnett of Washington, D. C.,
executive secretary of the National Com-
mission on Teacher Education, challenged
Texas teachers Friday to "face up to the real
potential of your profession."
Dr. Stinnett also said that teachers must
"accept and seek legal responsibility, must
fix standards for acceptance into the pro-
fession. and must set conditions under which
teacher* will work."
• * •
Gov. Orville Freeman. (Minn.) ac-
cused Saturday night by Wilson and
company of using troops to aid striking
packinghouse workers at the firm's
called wonder drusrs were closed Satur- plant in Albert Lee, went there Sundav
day by Senator Estes Kefauver. who to make a personal inspection of the
charged that evidence "clearly shows" situation.
Americans are being required to pay He added at a news conference that
too much for them. he would not remove the National Guard
Kefauver ended the closed hearings until "the danger in removed."
control of the liberal arts colleges and
changed them from institutions of gen-
eral learning to vocational schools.
Dr. Earl J. McGrath, former U.S.
commissioner of education, 1949-1953,
also said the graduate schools are large-
ly responsible for the present shortage
of college teachers. The college teachers
they do produce, he added, are not
trained for teaching but for research.
• • *
John Milton Addison, promoter of a uran-
ium up-grader, won acquittal on a theft
charge Saturday in San Antonio after the
jury returned a verdict of innocent nn in-
Mructions from Dlst. Judge John Onion.
The verdict left Intact Addison's wide-
spread borrowing to finance operations in
24 states.
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Hearings on the pricing of some so-
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