The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1967 Page: 2 of 6
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PAGE 2—THE CAMPUS CHAT
Campus Fads
Friday, Saptambar 29, 1967
'Don't Care' Look
Ruins Coed Image
There's u new word in women's
fashions going around the North
Texas campus. It's called apathy,
or the "1 just don't care" look.
Creators of the latest styles in
cutoffs and psychedelic sweat-
Cards Get Codes
ZIP Locaters
Help Speed
Mail Service
North Texas students have been
asked to help keep U.S. mail mov-
ing by using ZIP Code.
The U. S. Post Office Depart-
ment mailed out ZIP Code locater
cards to each student at the be-
ginning of the semester.
The cards explain how ZIP Code
works: Suppose the ZIP Code is
60635. The "6" says the letter goes
to the Midwest. The "06" narrows
it down to Chicago. The last two
digits "35" pinpoint the local post
office.
Mail that does not include the
ZIP Code must be sorted and re-
sorted many times before it reach-
es its destination. Larger cities
have more than one local post of-
fice, each of which has its own
ZIP Code. One unzipped letter can
slow up the mail at six post of-
fices.
ZIP Code is especially impor-
tant now because Christmas sea-
son is around the corner. Postal
workers will face over 200 million
letters and packages per day.
Locater cards should be used to
get the correct ZIP Codes for the
addresses of the people you write.
The cards need only to be filled
out and dropped into a nearby
mailbox. They don't require post-
age.
ZIP Codes can also be obtained
by looking at the ZIP map in the
business pages of the phone book
or by calling the local post office.
Students can save themselves
time and tax money by becoming
acquainted with ZIP Codes.
—Glenda Davidson
shirts, along with contributions
from the world's largest hair roller
factory, have been turning out
their products in bulk quantities,
especially for the women at North
Texas.
The present problem, however,
is only partially related to fads.
The major emphasis is on the lack
of concern on the part of the wom-
en.
IAjt it be understood that the
"apathetic" look does not l>eiong
to those who are doing it as a part
of their individualism. These are
women who, because they just
don't know better or don't want to
know better, are showing up at
the University Store, Post Office,
surrounding campus stores and
even the Administration Building
in slacks, shorts and gigantic hair
rollers.
In questioning some male stu-
dents, the Chat got a mild reaction
to slacks. Everyone questioned,
however, definitely disapproved of
rollers. One commented that he
thought only the results of beauty
routines should be seen.
Another clothing matter, brief
as it may be, is the mini-skirt.
Some may not be familiar with the
parody about Joyce Kilmer's poem
"Trees" entitled "Knees":
"I think that I shall never see
a thing as ugly as a knee. Above
whose gnarled and knotted crest,
a mini-hemline comes to rest. Or
one that's even worse than that—
when padded with repulsive fat."
Another point of discussion is
the new pants-dresses. Of course,
they're the "in" fashion of the
season, but some look more like
jump suits for toddlers than incog-
nito pants.
What's the solution to the apathy
in dressing for classes and cam-
pus functions? Dorm directors
agree that women at NTSU can-
not be forced to obey a rigid stand-
ard. But they do feel that exam-
ples set by the upperclass women
could be a solution. Some may
have the idea that sweatshirts and
cutoffs are great for coeds. And
inr and senior women are do-
ing nothing to curtail this image.
If the women know the rules and
the proud reputation NTSU has
for well-dressed women, they will
leave their cutoffs in the dorm.
And they will keep their minis to
a safe mini.
—Pat Bryan
University Life
Students Involved
In 'Numbers Game'
"But sir," pleaded 454-26-8842,
I must have 345 or 356."
"Impossible," said Mr. X. "I can
tell by your ACT and g.p.a. that
you are not ready for 345 or 356.
I suggest you see Mr. Z at the next
table and try to get 238."
A spy movie? Science fiction?
Not a chance. It's only registration
at North Texas. But worse than
that, it's life at North Texas.
Troubles for 454-26-8842 have
just begun. He used to be a per-
son. Not anymore. He had to give
up his identity to join the complex
society of a large university.
Oh, he still has a name, of
course. But many people on this
campus, and many professors as
well, are not interested in names.
They are not interested in persons
either. They want to know your
major, or classification, or alpha
sequence, or blood-type.
What they don't want to know is
what 454-26-8842 thinks, feels, or
really wants to do.
But you might get lucky, 454-26-
8842. Sure 454-26-8842 is feeling
bad about buying a bunch of $11
textbooks he will have to sell back
in January for $4.75 — if they
don't discontinue them. But things
might look up.
Because 454-26-8842 could get
a Mr. X or Z that cares. One that
knows. A Mr. X that can reach out
and get across to his classes. A
Mr. X that's a person as well as a
professor.
President J. C. Matthews told
the graduates at summer com-
mencement that people are not be-
ing replaced by machines. But
some professors on campus are
turning into machines. It's easy to
do. They are burdened with tons
of clerical and bookkeeping work
handed down by the bureaucracy.
Sure it's important, and even neces-
sary. But professors don't have to
succumb to the numbers game.
If 454-26-8842 has some profes-
sors who have not given in, he will
be fortunate. Then maybe he can
become a student instead of an en-
rol lee.
—Randy Cameron
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ing tower will center the campus, serving as a point of reference for a pedes- an enrollment of 20,000 and looks toward 30,000.
trian-oriented square. The education area will remain in the interior of the
campus, with high rise dormitories on the campus perimeter. The plan covers
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The Master Plan - an Analysis for Newcomers
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Freshmen and the Master Plan —
whnt do they have in common?
Right now very little, for the fresh-
men know little about it. They weren't
here on University Day last May when
the plan was first made public, and
few have had time to do more than find
their classes in this first confused week
of a new semester.
But as students who will shape the
future of North Texas, freshmen should
know something about the plan for the
school that will shape them.
The NTSU MaBter Plan is the school's
guide for growth for a predicted en-
rollment of 20,000 in 1972 and a possi-
ble 30,000 in 1978. It is evidence of rec-
ognition by the administration that
a plan was needed to coordinate the
growth of the university with the in-
crease in the size of the student body.
THE HOUSTON architectural firm of
C'audill, Rowlett and Scott was selected
to study campus problems and suggest
changes that would enable the school to
handle the expected enrollment increase.
In beginning, the firm held consulta-
tions with faculty members and asked
them what they wanted and needed for
the future at North Texas. These sug-
gestions provided basic planning guides
for the school.
The firm then carried out a design
study of existing campus architecture
and produced a booklet to guide future
architects in planning structures to har-
monize with present buildings.
The Speech and Drama building now
being built is a case study of these
principles. Although it will not Ire of
the same shape as other buildings, it
will harmonize with the rest of the
campus in that it will be built with the
same materials as many of the older
buildings.
The planners were not building for
a particular calendar date but rather
for a specific number of students.
THE PLAN they devised will dras-
tically change the appearance of the
campus for freshmen of the future as
well as those now who may then be
graduate students.
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The Master Plan will be completed in
phases. One of the first was undertaken
in April 1966. At that time the admin-
istration received at report dealing with
the physical facilities needed by the uni-
versity as well as design studies of land
use, density, circulation, parking, build-
ings, land acquisition, campus design
and utilities.
THE REPORT set the stage, and a sec-
ond phase was created. Phase two deals
with identifying the campus and elimi-
nating traffic through it. Perimeter
parking lots are suggested. A pedestrian-
oriented square bounded by Sycamore,
Avenue A, Avenue C and Highland is
adviaed to replace streets running
through the center of the campus. High
rise residential towers would mark the
outer campus boundaries, while the Ad-
ministration Building in the center would
serve at a focal point.
A third, more futuristic, phase has
fallowed. It concerns itself with student
growth beyond 20,000, and particularly
with replacing obsolescent buildings with
more modern, higher density structures.
New structures would be built along the
perimeter of the campus as the univer-
sity expanded, but others with "mis-
placed functions," such as the Lab
School, would be relocated.
IN TIME, the major arts and sciences
would come to be in the center of the
campus with housing facilities located
to the cast, south and west around them.
Buildings could be designed so that
both the academic and housing areas
could expand without overlapping and
hampering each other in their growth.
A beautification and landscaping pro-
gram is suggested, complete with foun-
tains and malls.
Some of the new buildings called for
have already been begun. In all, 23 new
structures are suggested, with four in
either the building or planning stages.
A new Biology Building is complete,
while the Foreign Language and Speech
and Drama Buildings are going up. Plans
on a new library call for bids to be
opened in November. Future plans in-
clude a new Women's Gym, five men's
and five women's dorms and a coliseum
with a seating capacity of 10,000 for
athletic and Fine Arts events.
The Master Plan deals with campus
problems, with enrollment and buildings
and traffic.
But it is not just a program of a
university mushrooming in size. It is a
flexible guide for a school that will Ire
moved, moved by the students who at-
tend, Freshmen are part of the group
that will do that moving.
Jerry Smith
Car Parking, 5f;
Card Parking, No
A major problem faring cities today
is traffic and transportation. While North
Texas cannot realistically be labeled a
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College Roommate:
A Friendly Enemy
Various callings have characteristic
dangers. The adman often gets an ulcer
(all that vermouth) and the coal miner
must beware of tuberculosis. But the
college student faces the most horrible
of all—the roommate.
Last weekend, legions of freshmen
wrote home to anxious parents and gave
them that most comforting of all mes-
sages: "I really like my roommate." Be-
fore Homecoming, these statements will
have to be retracted.
I really don't know why it is. Perhaps
in his cerebrum there is a tiny malig-
nancy that controls the roommate's ac-
tions. Maybe some malevolent gene gov-
erns the roommate by rules formed in a
cave 20 million years ago. But the fact
is easy enough to see roommates are
dangerous.
CLEANLINESS IS the first sign. A
stocking here, a beer can there —depend-
ing on you and your roommate's sex
becomes that pound of dust under the
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Information
Room reservations are be-
iriK taken for organizations
that want to meet in the Un-
ion Building at night.
I)r. J. Harold Farmer, UB
director, asks that clubs make
their reservations as soon as
possible in his office on the
second floor of the UB.
bed and the loose shoe that trips you
late at night. If you are not cautious, a
neck-high clothes line will put a crimp
in your jugular vein as the roommate
wrestles with Morpheus.
Surviving these perils, you must apply
the test of the good intention. Since you
were tired the night before, the roomie
turns off the alarm so you can get some
rest. You sleep through your English
departmental and suicide is the only an-
swer.
A terminal case of Hellenic headache
must also be avoided. Your tormentor
decides to go through rush and a curious
crew of Greeks invades your domicile.
Fred Frat, with his paisley tie and foul
mouth, or Suzie Sorority with her syr-
upy sweet sincerity are constantly about
revealing how great an influence they
and their friends will be in later life.
A ROOMMATE can also do you in by
shattering your love life. Your regular
sweetheart tails and ole honesty says
you are out with someone you met in a
biology class. (The fact that you art-
studying for a quiz isn't mentioned.)
Since humans, like cats, can die from
a lack of sleep, the roomie assaults your
resting time. Late-night discussions on
professors, metaphysics, or just plain
sex will wreck your schedule.
Specialized dangers include the liver-
destroying drinking bouts men are in-
vited to and the character-assassinating
gossip in which coeds so often turn on
their dearest friends.
Aware of these dire pitfalls, one might
ask how they could be avoided. Two al
ternatives are possible. You can leave
school, thus settling to the bottom of
future society, or get married. I regret
that the solutions are no more attractive
than the problem
city, traffic and transportation are ma-
jor problems facing school officials.
NTSU's tremendous enrollment growth
has made parking space a major concern.
School officials have moved to meet the
problem by scheduling in the Master
Plan a number of large parking lots, on
the outskirts of the campus, that will be
able to handle 10,000 cars.
The university proudly pointed out
this summer that progress was being
made on the parking situation with 768
more parking spaces, 377 of them in re-
stricted lots, being made available in the
fall at six new locations.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT sounded like
real progress, but it really isn't. John
Matt Howard, assistant to the president
and resident engineer, said in response to
questions recently that what officials
are calling new lots are actually lots
students have used before. They were
notofficially open, but they were park-
ing places.
Thus far, the new lots have created
more problems than they have solved.
Students are upset because most of the
lots are labeled for commuters or re-
quire cards for entry, leaving them few-
er spaces. The can! spaces are rented to
faculty members first, with students and
staff sharing the remainder on a first
come, first served basis.
Faculty members, too, are upset since
many of them have been reassigned new
parking spaces in the outer lots to in-
sure that "everyone is the same distance
from their office," Howard said.
DESPITE PROMISES of closer sup
ervision to see that lots are being used
properly and attempts to provide more
spaces, a parking problem will continue
to exist until officials stop taking two
steps backward to make one step for-
ward.
Some schools do not allow freshmen to
have cars on campua their first year.
Such a practice would help the parking
situation and might cut the high fresh-
man flunk-out toll. Others so've park-
ing problems by assigning students to
specific lots each semester.
Thfe last method could possibly be the
best solution to the NTSU parking situ-
ation The school could make all lots
card lots and let students sign up for
parking spaces in registration just as
they sign tip for classes.
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Tittle, Mel. The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1967, newspaper, September 29, 1967; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth307370/m1/2/?q=%22North+Texas+State+University+--+Newspapers.%22: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.