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Nov. 30-Dec 1: McMurry Christmas Celebration 7
p.m. Lights in all the trees in quad will be lit hot
chocolate will be served and Christmas carols sung.
Dec. 5: McMurry Jazz Band concert 8 p.m. Amy
Graves Ryan Fine Arts Building Recital Hall. Free
admission.
oDec 6: Star Wars at the Paramount Theater 8 p.m.
Free Admission. Sponsored by MAKONA .
Dec 6: Hypnotist will be on campus in Hunt P.E.
Center. Free admission. Sponsored by Student Activi-
ties Council. Contact Ken Morton at extension 2389 for
more information.
Dec 7: McMurry Christmas Band Concert 8 p.m. in
Radford Auditorium. Free admission.
Dec. 7-9: Barefoot in the Park directed by Stephanie
Cox for her Directing II project. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
admission free for students. Call extension 2302 for
more information or reservations.
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Lessons and Carols" with Vocal Point handbell en-
semble and the Alta Vista 5th Grade Choir. Aldersgate
United Methodist Church 1741 Sayles Blvd. Free
admission.
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By Stacey Nixon
Vote. Vote. Gripe. Gripe.
Vote. Gripe. Gripe. See the
progression? I feel apathy has
taken over in state constitu-
tional amendment elections
and one day students will
pay...not in taxes but in stu-
dent loans. On Tues. Nov. 7
Proposition One allowing
the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board to issue
up to $300 million in bonds
to finance more student loans
passed in the Texas Consti-
tutional Amendment elec-
tion. But the proposition was
passed by only 2.9 percent of
the eligble voters.
In the state of Texas thee
are 9.4 million voters. For
Tuesday's elections only 7.9
percent even came to the
polls. Of this 64 percent
voted in favor of and 35.4
percent votod against the
proposition.
Granted that McMurry
only makes up 0.02 percent
of voting population that is
still 0.6 percent of the differ-
ence in the passing or failing
of this particular vote.
Taking into consideration
that many students may not
have even known about the
proposition I see apathy
might be an extreme point of
view. However students are
at this university because
they know finding a job in
the 21st century without a
college degree will be near
impossible. But by not stay-
ing informed with current
news and state elections the
nonvoters could have made
getting a college education
extremely difficult due to a
lack of available loan money.
The vote passed and with
that I should be satisfied. It
concerns me that 26.2 per-
cent of the registered voters
will go to the polls and vote
for a state lottery when only
7.9 percent will go to help
make higher education more
accessible.
By Ken Morton Director of
Student Activities
Student activities. What is
it? Who's it for? Why are we
so far behind other schools in
this area? These are just a few
of the questions that arise
when the topic is brought up
here at McMurry.
Student activities com-
prises programming done to
meet a variety of needs for
the entire student body out-
side of the classroom. We
plan dances movies carni-
val events novelties (fun
flicks game shows virtual
reality etc...) professional
entertainment (concerts co-
medians hypnotists) road
trips and a lot of other pro-
grams. Itisdone for theentire
student body: traditional and
non-traditional social club
and non-social club athletic
and non-athletic all races
genders interests and abili-
ties. But why we are behind
other schools is a little harder
to answer.
In the past student activi-
ties have been almost
non-existent at McMurry.
But I am not just speaking
of my fellow statesmen. I am
talking also about my fellow
students. I am very surprised
by the number of students on
campus who do not vote
when elections are held. The
lack of voters is a state prob-
lem but it is also a problem at
this school.
You might say MSG does
not do a good enough job
advertising the elections or
not enough people know
about them. The MSG elec-
tion table is always in the
same place. The banner goes
up every time an election is
held and still MSG sena-
tors have to practically yell
at every student that walks
by the booth. If students will
not take the time to vote on
issues that affect our cam-
pus it should not surprise
me that they do not vote for
state elections.
Still I wonder where has
the importance of voting
been lost?
The reasons for this are two-
fold in my opinion.
1. The past administration
did not put an emphasis on
the student affairs area stu-
dent activities in particular.
2. The students have not
demanded a quality activi-
ties program that should be
the right of every student's
college experience.
The current administration
realizes that the more stu-
dents are involved in
activities the happier they
are with college. The happier
they are the more likely they
are to stay here. We are also
working with MSG to try and
implement an activities fee
that will provide us with a
budget for programming. If
this goes through we will
see a dramatic improvement
at McMurry next year. But
we don't have to wait that
long to see a change.
We have a great group of
students on the Student
Activities Council this year
that are willing to provide
quality programs for the
student lody. They get
frustrated at times because
we lack a budget for
programming and when we
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do provide programs we
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that is to be expected when
the students aren't used to
any programs that are not
club-sponsored.
What will really make the
difference is you. If the stu-
dents will just get involved
in the things thatare planned
I think they would be pleased
with the programs. Instead
of doing other things during
a planned event show up and
check it out. If you are inter-
ested in being on the Student
Activities Council pick up
an application in my office or
talk to me about it.
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