The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 6, 1960 Page: 2 of 4
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EDITORIALS
Answer to Letter
Sport Heads Explain
Weak Grid Schedule
In a letter to the editor appearing to
today'* Chat, a Nsrth Texas student,
disappointed in the 1960 football sched-
ule which waa recently released, Hounded
c** at the athletic department concern-
ing the quality of next season's opj*>sj-
tion.
It i* indeed unfortunate that, in ad-
dition to the three conference games,
3yracuse, Mississippi, LSU, Texas, Ok-
lahoma, Navy, and Notre Dame could
not be matched to fill out the remainder
of the schedule.
But matching game# with prominent
teams is not that easy.
The Chat learned Monday, in a con-
ference with Dr. Emmett (ambron,
director of athletics, and Odus Mitchell,
head football coach, that every possi-
ble effort has been made by the ath-
letic department to engage whorls with
major grid reputations.
Many factors affect the scheduling
of football games, probably the major
of which is a team's commitments to
its fellow conference members. This has
been especially detrimental to any long-
range plans by North Texas because
of the present unstable structure of the
Missouri Valley conference. With Hous-
ton dropping its Valley membership
and the conference contemplating ex-
I*ansion, member teams cannot do much
future planning of non-conference con-
tents.
To secure a game with one of the top-
notch teams, a school of smaller status
usually "lucks into" the situation. Un-
derstandably, a major team will not
schedule a team which has a limited
amount of drawing power for a game to
be played several years in the future.
Consequently, the only way the small-
Gets Prosecuted . . .
$1 Check May Cost
$27 If It Bounces
Students may not realize what they're
getting into when they cash a hot check
and then fail to make it good within
a short time.
The county attorney's office reports
it receives calls every day from mer-
chants unable to collect on bad checks.
On an average of once every three days,
a person is convicted and fined -or pos-
sibly jailed—for passing hot checks.
This is filed under "theft by false pre-
text."
What are the chances of getting
caught on a hot check count? An in-
direct answer might be of some value.
During his five years in office, County
Atty. Robert Caldwell Jr. has recovered
$38,000 in checks for Denton merchants.
If a student pleads guilty or is found
guilty of such a charge and is charged
only a $1 fine, he'll end up paying $27.40
by the time court costs are added to the
bill. That's pretty expensive interest if
the bad check hap|>ened to In' for only a
small amount such as $1 or $5.
Asst. County Atty. John Lawhon re-
flects the local concern over invalid
checks by making one of his campaign-
for-county-attorney pledges "an effec-
Mac's Madhouse . . .
tive 'hot check' prosecution and collec-
tion system."
lie believes the way to stop bad
checks is by prosecution of the offend
ers. Just as simple as that.
What als>ut the suggestion of having
identifying photos on activity cards as
a means to safeguard merchants? Law-
hon was wary of being placed in a posi-
tion where he would appear to be tell-
ing the school what to do, but he did
volunteer the information that his of-
fice very rarely must deal with any hot
check cases from TWU. Businessmen
who receive bad checks from the women
call the school and the girls are dealt
with directly. The merchant doesn't
have that security when dealing with
North Texas students.
Whereas the NTSC policy is more
"what a student does is his own busi-
ness." Lawhon was quirk to add that
the school is most co-operative in help-
ing his office locate students currently
enrolled. Deans Imogene Bentley and
William G. Woods counsel with students
who have given bad checks, although
they do riot act as a collection agency.
—F'eggy Simpson
The Campus Chat
Chooses Purdue With Fellowship . . .
Wednesday, April 6, I960
Lamb Gets Offers From Top Schools
er school can get such a game is to just
happen to have an open date at a time
that the large school needs a game.
Trinity was able to secure its game
with Texas A and M by guaranteeing
the Aggies something like thirty thou-
sand dollars. North Texas would never
Is* able to make such a contract. An-
other thing that heljied Trinity match
the A and M game is the fact that the
Aggies have a strong alumni organi-
zation in San Antonio. Also, San An
tonio is con .derably larger than Den-
ton, a great asset as a gate-drawing
potential.
In recent years, North Texas has
scheduled such major college powers as
Arkansas, Mississippi, and Mississippi
State.
Another indication as to why it is
hard to schedule a major college team
is that, after barely eking out a 6-point
victory over North Texas in the last
game, Arkansas refused to continue the
series.
Integration laws have also hurt the
Kagle schedule because the Eagles use
Negro players. Alabama, which wanted
to schedule a game with North Texas in
1960, is the most recent example.
Mitchell stated that if one would name
every major football team in the coun-
try, he would guarantee that 75 per
cent—or probably more—had been con-
tacted.
Our schedule cannot be blamed on the
athletic department; nor should stu-
dents become pessimistic concerning it.
The continued growth of the college and
the continued improvement of the foot-
ball program will eventually help North
Texas reach her grid objectives.
—Burle I'ettit
bt I'K.M.Y SIMI'HON
( hat Ht ff Writer
How doe* it feel to have top school* bidding
for your attendance?
Kor Lloyd l.anib, senior from Houston who
U president of the Speech Therapy club, the
initial "feeling" ha* worn off, but he i* still
surprised by the re*pon*e* given hi* applica-
tion* for graduate mholarnhip*.
the Keine-Huntbird fellowship, which wa* one a few speech course*-- and he ended up chang-
of two given in the United State*," he said. ing hi* major to speech therapy.
Should anyone be discoursed from gradu- The national defense fellowship, «s giant
ate He hoot* because he lack* money? "If I in the sense it require* no work from the re-
ran be offered something from three of the cipient. will allow Lloyd to get hi* master's
better known school* in the nation, there must and doctor'* degree in audiology. a specialty
be money available if a *tudent looks hard of hearing.
enough," Lloyd said. ^ by audiology ? The therapy major likes
He added that a lot depend* on the appli- working with electrical equipment and with
cant's attitude and how hard he is willing to the theories of sound. He likes teaching ("it's
my main end goal") and working with people.
lie had applied to Purdue university for a wurk to get somewhere . _ . .
teaching or clinical assistantship. I he head Another factor which could have had some and he enjoy .1 research and experiments
of the speech therapy clinic wrote back and )1<.arlnjf ,<n |,j0yd'* abundance of fellowships Audiology will throw him in contact with all
asked whether he would like to be considered jjt hj„ g0 avrrMge for lh(. jMt four „e. these
for h National Defense f.ducat ion act fellow- "That might have helped," he nay* "I do like the idea of working with deaf
^hip. modestly. people but it's not just emotion," he said.
"It wa.- then the iJflth of February, and he After high *chool graduation he went a "Audiology is u lucrative field where I'll enjoy
aid Purdue would nominate me for the frl- semester to Abilene Chriwtian college ( had a the work und the contact with people. I'm try-
lowship if I got all the information back by miserable record") and then signed up for t"g to lie practical, too."
the 2Kth," Lloyd said. "I would have rarrieo three years with the Army, where he says his
it up through the snow to meet the deadline, sense* of values changed as he matured.
he laughed. "J was a typical high school athlete, or
He got the award In fact, he was offered what I consider typical. Maybe it was typical
fellowship* from three of the four schools to in the wiong direction. 1 just wanted to have
which he applied. A second one, the Keirie- a good time and football was always more
Hurnhird fellowship, was offered through the important than any academic life," he sum-
American Hearing society for two years at mari/.ed. He feels college would have been
wasted upon him.
As it happened, he came out of the Army
determined to lie an engineer and planned to
sign up for pre-engineering courses at North
Texas, He was persuaded to modify hi* stiff
schedule of chemistry, physics, and math with
The whole field of speech therapy is rapidly
stepping into the limelight. Lloyd's wife,
Paula, i* a spoch therapist in Arlington. She
and another woman were hired several year*
ago to give the school system a total of four
therapists. There now are six, a fact which
indicates the demand for the specialist*.
For extracurricular activities, Paula and
Lloyd like bowling. Be*ides his office in the
Speech Therapy club, the husband i* a mem-
ber of Blue Key, was selected to "Who'* Who
Among Students in American Colleges and
Universities." and even if he makes all "BV
thi* semester, he will graduate with high
honors
Among his "most enjoyable*" of college at
North Texas, Lloyd puts his three years as a
baritone in the A fappella choir and the Grand
chorus.
Northwestern university, SH000 a year.
The third wa* proffered by Stanford uni-
versity. giving $2400 for one year.
"The Purdue award ($6 l(Ml over a three-
year period) came bm a complete surprise. Hut
I'm most proud of the one I couldn't accept
Letters to the Editor .
Better Football Foes Needed
Dear Kditor:
Aftei studying the recently announced Ka
trie football schedule for HMO, w< hit upon
two lines of procedure that must eventually
lie taken by the North Texas athletic depart-
ment.
North Texas mu*t either a boll '1 football as
a competitive sport or drop from the ranks of
the major colleges and compete on the small
college level, unless, of course, the Kagles tan
be matched with teams of more prominence
and ability than those currently scheduled.
When North Texas joined the already weak
Missouri Valley Conference in li)57 and con-
tinued to meet teams on a par with Texas
Western, West Texas State, and Drake uni
varsity, we accepted the schedules with a puz-
zled but optimistic outlook believing that even-
tually, alter a degree of experience and pub
licity, North Texas would be capable of at
trading competition from several of our larg-
er schools. However, this has not yet come
about, and it will not come about in either the
near or distant future if the athletic depart
men! does not insert at least one true football
team into the present ridiculous schedule.
To make the Kagles' schedule appear as even
more of a farce was the announcement that
Arlington State college, which will be com-
peting in its first full year as a four-year
school this year, has already vaulted to our
level of sports as far as scheduling goes by
making arrangements to meet Memphis State
college. Also, Trinity University, a school of
15(1(1 students, has published its plans to tan
gle with Texas A and M this season and tin
1 ext four years to come.
Perhaps our pleas for better football sched-
uling can be met by sensible-sounding reasons
for not seeking improved football It can al-
ways be pointed out that the average attend-
ance at Fouls field hovers around i'OOO. But,
after all, why should students or resident* of
Denton support Kagle football when more ex-
citing and closely matched games may be
viewed at the Denton high Bronco field?
One of the most often heard excuses for our
poor schedule came at the height of o<tr seem-
ingly outstanding season last year. After
proudly tucking -everal victories under our
low!,, tighernng belt, we cockily boasted that
the big schools were afraid to play us. We
ilmmed tiiat they feared defeat :.t the hands
of a mailer school. We couldn't understand
why the -ports writer* failed to place us with
the ten best team* of the nation. Then after
one humiliating loss we suddenly realized the
truth, Of course no big school would schedule
us. Why should they? What does a chain of
victories mean when we have gained them with
the aid uf several mediocre football teams?
We d<> not. claim that the Kagle football
team of l'.)5t> was undeserving of any notice
01 applause directed to it. However, it is nat-
ural of >iui team to slowly lose its spirit and
punch after such a streak of lopnided wins.
Alter considering all the facts surrounding
the uthlet.it deparintent's lackadnsical efforts
to present better football to North Texas stu-
dents, one simple fact remain*. The more wide-
ly known schools will never consider negotia-
tions with us concerning games if we never
attempt to schedule teams above the level now
included in our plans.
Jerrell Walker
LLOYD LAMB. WINNER OF PURDUE FELLOWSHIP
. . . explains the working* of the inner ear to Joy Judd
Looney Tunes . . .
Meeting Draws Brass. Few Students
by JOHNNIE LOU LOONEY
('hat Columnist
Lake Dallas Lures Spring Enthusiast
by don Mcdowell
Chat Columnist
Spring brings out the nature lover in the
North Texan. Spring wind* blow, flower*
bloom, temperatures woai, und someone shout*,
"Lake time!"
Giggle* of glee greet thi*
annua) cry. "Yea, verily, 'ti*
lake time indeed," *hout North
Texan*, at last unshackled
from coffee *hop table*. Moth;
are *haken from bathing at-
tire, *un tan lotion i* acquired
by the gallon, and the ma**
exodu* 1* under way.
Car* roar from Denton, winding their way
to l*ake Dallas by way of Dalla* where picnic
goodie* are procured. Bevelry is in the air.
So are numerous student*.
It might be well to inject an explanatory
note here for freihman and transfer student*
Years ago, the founding father* of this
moat noble of institutions decided to do some
thing for the student hody. They cant their
eyes about for a true service to perform for
the long-suffering college student.
Otfcer schools, they noted, spent fortune* in
the construction of palatial union buildings
and the like to provide relief from the arduoua
grind ai learning. Alas, they noted, there
seemed to be a trend toward constructing said
structures on the campus.
This just wouldn't do for North Texas,
they decided. No siree, the North Texan needed
to really get away from It all. About eight
miles away from it all.
Why not, they said, perauade someone to
conatruct this recreational site for the college
•t the expense of someone else? Also, they
thought, why not have said recreational site
in the general direction of the land of milk
-Dallas?
Suddenly, inspiration *truck the founding
father*. "Eureka!" one of them was heard
to shout one hot, dry spring morning. "I have
it! A lake! We'll have a lake. They (the afore-
mentioned long-suffering student* who writhe
during the winter in the clutches of the
monster learning) shall have a lake."
And *0 it wa*. A lake was constructed, or
dammed, or whatever one doe* with lake*. And
with the lake came traditional lake parties.
And with the lake partie* came the traditionnl
yearning for learning about nature.
Nature abound* around Lake Dallas. There
A 270-pound pillbox-shaped TV satel-
The Campus Chat
Kittmt 104 journallum building
PACEMAKER I TIM US
*1.1. AMERICAN It TIMES
JOHNNIE LOU LOO NICY
•alitor
DON MeDOWEI.L
I'AUL RET.gR
OEORfiE RURl.ARE
JACK ADRIAN
photogranhar
hiisinkss office
JERRY KKiHT
Th* Uampm Chat. iM4nt nawapapar ol Norti
Tmu tut* rallaga. la publiahad aeeihreafclr
1 rrwrr Wadnaadar ud Friday! during the Ions
tansa Raptambar through Mar and waakly
frtdar i during Um ■■■■it iwslia. J«aa
through Aaguat, aatapt daring raaiaw a ad ag-
• mlnatlon parbate and whnol vaeatlona
Editorial ■taumanta of tha Campua Chat raflact
tha opinion of atedeet wrttafi and not i. aa
•aril? thai of tha North T**aa Mat* - llaga ad-
min tat ration
bration on our diamond anniversary.
What can be done to stimulate inter-
As many of the students know, last North Texas day? One of the rec-
Thursda.v was the annual North Texas "fnfnendations of the jfroup waH
day, hut for the first time in several ftuids be allocated in order for the facul-
years, t here was no NT day assembly to ^ research committee to compile a
commemorate the occa- comprehensive history of the school,
aion. Futhermore, for the 75th anniversary
What was the reason to }>e a ,ar&e celebration, plans must
for the absence of the be ',e^un now- Two years will be needed
traditional assembly pro- •<,e'et't a committee to carry out the
^ram ? In order to fully P'ans< tate clubs should be organized,
answer this (juestion, it •' mailing list must be drawn up.
is necessary to explain t he ( 'HSH reunions could be scheduled for
background of the prob- baccalaureate day.
lem. Last Wednesday, President J. C. Other suggestions from the floor
Matthews called a special meeting of ranged from combining NT day and
the presidents of all student organiza- ^ • • d •
tions, department directors and deans, iNeWS IP Keview . . .
and the members of the ex-students-col-
lege relations committee.
The meeting was called in order to
"think out loud" because two things
have been happening in regard to the
NT day celebration. First, there has
been a tendency to have more and more
entertainment in the program in an at-
liack to the subject at hand. It is lake time |' I J,'.'J,"J,* V T' i''''1'..'V,'/,','Plite shot into space Friday destined to
ain. The *un shines and the little birdie* ! \, i been a gradual reduction (,|jmjnaje America's best iokc material
in attendance. And even more import- « .jmennt* oe i jtwe material
ant. 1964 will mark the 75th anHver- —the weatherman and his often erratic
sary of the college. predictions. Authorities believe the sat-
From the attendance at the meeting, Wl" furnish information for a 90-
it might be possible to discover the basic forecast.
reason for the growing problem. Of the Tiros I, the eye-in-the-sk.v mechan-
over one hundred students invited, only |sm- 'nv circling the earth with all
lti attended the meeting. Though there instruments reported functioning well,
were several college-sponsored activi- Remarkably clear pictures of cloud
T iaphon : du aitanaton u« t je„ t hat afternoon which might have masses are being transmitted.
BjUllfcn I !* ■. V .v.... II. _ • t t • .
provided excuses for a few of the ab- Scientists plan to launch a similar sat-
sences, the chief reason for absenteeism ellite this vear with infra-red gear for
probably was a general feeling of dis- taking pictures in the dark. Ultimate
interest in this program on the part of planning calls for six polar-orbiting TV
the students. weather satellites and a seventh circling
Even though the attendance at the the earth in an equatorial west-to-east
meeting was small, there was much ac- direction. This network would provide
tive discussion of the problem, and sev- two pictures of everv portion of the
eral possible solutions were suggested. «.Hrth everv three hours
Dr. R. L. Marquis, chairman of the ex- . . '
students-college relations committee,
|x>sed several questions for the audience
to think about: What should NT day
be, in regard to tradition and philoso-
phy? What does the past mean? What
LirrrrRa from rkaderh 1 Th. chat «ai. should be in the future?
risru> d*r h7nmnJ^I^ r.£u£^h£id'£ The principal object in discussing
thm ,n""" "m " these questions was that in 1964 NT
will celebrate its 75th anniversary. On
« ■ eewnu-ciaw matter April 19, IHV, ~
at tha post nfllea at Dan ion Tmi undar th* _
tion is of great significance, but the dis-
Honors day (favored by the students)
to changing the assembly to an even-
ing program, because of the pressure of
a 50-minute limit during the day. Others
favored dismissing classes for day-long
activities of cultural and academic in-
terest on NT day.
Though the problem was discussed
for almost two hours, no positive de-
cisions were made. Howevor, Dr. Mar-
quis urged anyone interested to sub-
mit to the ex-students-college relations
committee any suggestion for better
means of observing NT day and for
making its traditions and past more
meaningful, especially in terms of the
approaching 75th anniversary.
is gill**, there is ground, there is beautiful
water, and there is the student.
There was once Studio City, but some in-
sidious soul purchased same and ruled out an-
other North Texas institution which 1 haven't
time, space, or permission to delve into right
now.
Ki
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tweet in the tree*. Dallas is still there with
its store of goodies. The lake beckons and this
writer casts aside his typewriter to answer
it* call. It's been a long, hard winter, and this
column is long enough now. To the lake
Eye-in-the-Sky' Will Eliminate
America's Weathered Jokes
Snuthwaatern Journallam rongr
ASSOC! A". I? EDITORS
I'ROT.Y 8IMPKON LINDA DKAL
•dltortala smueemente-artMUaa
JIMMY DARNKLt
feature*
•a* Mania
I'HARI.DEAN NKWEI.L
DAVID HOLLAND LION DULIN
rartoonlam
Mi) Ri.r. rwrriT
J E LIE <MITH
JIMMY DARNKI.l
elrmlatton
IVVhT1 p£t most college campuses, such a celebra-
art ef Merck (, IRI.
k* National Ad arttaing aeratae*. interest on the NT campus makes it al-
ma. rata, dalla^d ha «atl M ^ jmpossib|e to pJan for a JarRp cele.
Other L A space plans call for the launch-
ing of s satellite this year equipped to
gauge Ihe hazards of meteor* to apace
travel.
Some authorities believe pellets from extra-
terrestrial space might make life impossible
on earth If it were not for the protection
provided by the atmoaphere. Most bita of
matter hurtling toward the earth are des-
troyed in the atmoaphere by the heat of
air friction. In airleaa space, authoritiea say,
these may have potential deetrurtivenea*.
The National Aeronautics and Space ad-
ministration is conducting the tests from
Wallops Island. Va. Tests are expected to
si art in May or June.
Still another project later this year will
put the first Vmerican into space for brief
tests.
NEWS BRIEFS—Ghana has with-
drawn her ambassador to Paris in re-
prisal for the second French atomic ex-
plosion in the Sahara Friday. De Gaulle
showed France's determination to get
into the atomic club by exploding the
atomic device in the face of African pro-
tests and during Khrushchev's visit to
France.
Ancient historical treasures along tl\e
Nile river in Egypt and Sudan may be
saved by U.S. financial aid. Unless as-
sistance is given to archaeologists a
wealth of treasures will be lost under
the .'i00-mile-long lake to be created by
the Aswan high dam.
The votes are counted in the Wiscon-
sin primary, but the Kennedy Humph-
phrey campaign may indicate the type
of battle which will be fought for the
Democratic nomination. Although the
primaries often have little bearing
on the nomination at the convention,
both candidates in Wisconsin fought for
popularity right down to the wire.
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