The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 15, 1963 Page: 2 of 8
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THE J-TAC
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 19C3
Education Defined
The educated person in the highest sense of the word, is he who
•moves forward constantly (even when he digresses), sharpening- his
intellectual faculties and examining and re-examining himself. His
formal education supplements and empirical knowledge which forces
him to recognize his own gignifcance and reminds him at the same time
of each individual's importance in the plans of God,
The educated man will recognize the virtues of liigh morality, hard
worn, and pure goodness; he will be able to see in their proper magni-
tude the materialistic and spiritual aspects of this life. He will ap-
preciate life for its living and humanity for its giving. He will ap-
preciate the simple things of life so often taken for granted and work
to improve the physical, mental, and spiritual conditions of his fellow
Juan.
To keep the proper perspective steems to be a major problem among'
college students, found most frequently in one of two types of people:
1, The student who is not particularly interested in education him-
self, but is content with his self-painted, over-exaggerated portrait
where he is magnificiently splashed in vivid colors across the canvas
of college life, towering above his university peers much as Apollo or
Minerva towered above the {tomans.
'i. The second type is always much more pitiable than the first, for
this individual has the ability to learn and educate himself, but will
'never succeed because he completely lacks in humbleness and humility.
He has educated himself academically, but hat failed compltely to
educate himself in other socioeconomic aspects of education which in-
chrde the ability to adapt one's self to an environment. He is never con-
tent .unless everyone within his sphere of influence is fully aware of
his potentialities, and so he presumes to announce himself like the little
teapot who faithfully whistles when the water begins to boil.
GET A GOAL
Have you ever noticed how some people seem to work and work and
still never accomplish very much, while others seem to put out much
less effort and find success around every corner? The difference be-
tween these two types of people is having' a goal.
Those who always have success are always working toward some-
thing; they have a goal. They don't waste extra effort by doing un-
important things, because they know exactly what they are working
toward. With their goal always in mind, they can make it the most
important thing in their lives, and thereby achieve it.
Those of ns who have no goal in life can be likened to a car going
down a road that leads nowhere. Nothing that is done accomplishes
very much because it is not leading up to something- erally important
in a person's life—it doesn't further him toward his goal.
Besides those who have 110 goal are those who have many goals, so
many that they can reach none of them. You can't work toward one
goal if there are a dozen other goals that are conflicting' with each
other.
Each of us should decide what we really want out of, life and start
to work toward it. We must not lose sight of our real goal by becom-
ing involved with all the little things of life that can clutter lip our
purpose. We need something' to work for, or our work does us no
good. With.a goal in life, we are moving ahead; without one, we are
heading- down a deadend1 street.
LOOKING AHEAD
A new year is before us, and it is up to each of us to make it the
best year yet. .This is a time for looking ahead to the future to see
what we can make of it. Fate won't really guide our lives; we will get
out- of life only as much as we put into it.
This is also a time for looking back over the past year to see what
we have given to and gotten from life. If we see in our backward
glances that the last year was a good one—one in which we grew,
and worked, and matured, and accomplished a lot—we can be justly
proud and us« last year as a model for this year. However, if we see
this past yec.r as one of which we can't really he proud—because we
took more than we gave, backslid in our values, and accomplished
little—we must resolve to turn over a new leaf to grow into a really
useful human being.
We are the future leaders of tomorrow, but we can't mature into
the kind of persons we need to be all at once; we must do it a little at
a time. Taking this year as the first step, we can use this period of
time to really beg'in making ourselves into what we want to be. But
we must begin now, or the year'will slip away from us, and we will
have little to show for it this time next January.
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Just A
Thought
By LANE
Since finals are just around the
corner, all the TSC students will
be reading- about, thinking up, and
trying out new ways to study.
However, for those people who are
tired of school and are looking
for a way out of it, "Just a
Though" has some advice that is a
sure ticket for leaving school. The
formula is called the "Wasted
Week-End", and put to proper use,
it guarantees students that there
is now way they can pass their
finals and stay in school.
A Good Start
The "Wasted Week-End" begins
by cutting Saturday classes, if
you have any. Then, spend the rest
of the morning' in the rec hall,-be-
ing: the last one out when it closes
at 12:00.
BE SURE to take plenty of time
eating lunch.; after all would-
n't want to get indigestion from
eating too fast. Besides that's a
great way to kill time. If you
smoke, take time for two cigaret-
tes after lunch,. instead of the
usual one. If you don't smoke, go
to lunch with someone who does,
so that you can keep him company
while he's puffing away.
For girls, there are a dozen
ways to waste the afternoon. You
might start by cleaning up your
room.' Since room check was on
Thursday morning', surely your
room is messy enough by Saturday
afternoon to necessitate a good
cleaning. If by some chance you
happen to have a neat roommate,
you might try straightening your
dresser drawers or cleaning out
your closet. But no matter how
strong the urge to study is, don't
give in to it
Saturday Night
After that, if you have a date
for Saturday night, you can spend
the rest of the afternoon getting
leady. Of course, you don't want
to spend too much time on this, or
you might be ready when your
date called for you. That kind of
shock might be too much for him.
IE YOU DON'T have a date,
spent the rest of the afternoon
primping a"yway. Then maybe
next semester the kids here will
speak of you as "that pretty girl
who went to school here last semes-
ter," Besides, if you primp alot,
think how nice you'll look when
you're waving good-bye to every-
body!
Also for the dateless girls is this
bit of advice. Go out and find a
boy to be with Saturday night. If
you ask him, he'll probably be too
surprised to say no. Besides, if
you're not going to be back next
semester, it doesn't matter too
much if you embarrass a boy by
asking him for a date.
Do your most useful deed of the
week-enu by going to church Sun-
day morning. That afternoon, get
at least four girls into your rnoom
and just talk. With four girls in
one room, you can easily waste
hours and hours talking. Just
thing, you'll get practice for when
you're away from college and out
in the cold cruel world.
The Finish
Then Sunday night you can be-
gin packing. It will take quite
awhile to get together all the
things you've accumulated at col'
lege. Besides that, you'll have to
stop every once in a while to think
over some memory of a good time
that a souvenir you're packing re-
minds you of.
.THEN YOU CAN finish the
wasted week-end by crying your-
self to sleep, because you'll wish
you'd studied so that you could
come back to school next semester.
THE MISSING LINK
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By ELAINE GRESHAM
Well, if you have read the "Tar-
ieton In Review" already, you've
seen that in the 'One Year Ago'
section it is stated that this time
last year the newest fad 011 cam-
pus was the Twist. Now it looks as
if the fickle youth of TSC have al-
ready found a new fad for this
year, but it's very different from
last yer.r's,
NO, ITS NOT something as dif-
ferent as studying ahead of time
for finals (at least not more than
a day ahead of time), answering
letters from home (except those
from sweethearts), not making
frequent trips North, or cutting
down or smoking. No, the new fad
at TSC this new year is getting
engaged. It has gotten to the point
that the girls without diamonds
are in the minority, instead of the
other way around. One girl even
said that she thought she would
put a rhinestone 011 her senior ring
from high school so that she
wouldn't feel so left out. It re-
minds me of an of^en quoted quote
that I'm going to misquote. "They
also seive who only watch and
wait" , . . and wait . . . and Wait
. . , and wait.
THEY'RE HERE! ! ! ! !
BESIDES THE RINGS, there is
something else that is going to put
in an appearance 011 our lovely
campus. Yes, the inevitable finals
are approaching fast and furiously
(or~ speedily or rapidly or some-
thing like that). That means that
some actual study will begin . , „
Maybe. Finals remind me of soma
incurable disease; we just can't
seem to get rid of them.
WE CAN NOW look forward to
the unusual scenes we saw in the
dorms last year about this time.
(Well, in the girls' dorm anyway;
,1 don't know about the boys'
dorms' cause I was a little too
busy during finals last year to
make very many trips over there.)
Last year we had girls studying in
bathtubs, on the top of chests of
drawers, and studying on floors to
stay awake but going to sleep in-
stead. There will be those who
study for two hours and rest ten
minutes (maybe), and then there
will be those who the same system
—in reverse.
NEXt SEMESTER
FINALS BRING one good thing
—relief when they're over. Then
with the rest period between sem-
esters, we can come back to Tar-
ieton all set for four and a hajf
months of playing around before
the one week of studying for
finals . . . maybe.
FOR THOSE WHO will not be
returning ,to TSC next semester,
because'Qf grade points (or lack
of them), engagement rings (or
lack of them), or plain old decid-
ing to go somewhere else, the
"Link" has just one thing to say.
Good-bye . . . Good luck . , . and
we'll miss you . . . maybe.
G. A. S
When o person gets in g jam it
doesn't take long to spread it all
over towa
By CAROLYN MASTERS
Well, dear friends and readers,
in today's issue of the J-Tac' we
are adding a new column to the
paper. Now of course, this widely
read paper has been loaded down
with columns this year, but some-
how they don't last very long. The
reason, dear ones, is that we want
to keep you guessing on "what will
appear next. The J-Tac may not
have much else but it does have
variety.
Now perhaps some of you are
wondering what the letters G, A.
S. stand for. Well, folks, so am I.
It was like this. We needed an-
other column (since we've had so
few this year) and I was elected,
by a large majority (the Editor,
she has sonority) to write one.
There was one catch — I'm stub-
born and simply would not write
a column without a name. So the
editor of the "Link" and I got
together and racked our brains for
something different. That's about
all we did was rack our brains be-
cause we just couldn't come up
with something we liked. So we
decided to take 26 pieces of paper
with the 2(3 letters of the alpha-
bet and place them in a hat. Then
we drew three letters — thus we
had a name for the column.
GAS! Now many of you ingen-
ious patrons of TSC could prob-
ably think up a better name. The
only thing I can say for the name
is "it's different." It doesn't have
any particular meaning, but as I
said some of you readers could
probably think up some good ones.
If we wanted to get intellectual
about it we could say that what is
read in this column will supply
"fuel for thought," but since we
are not intellectual we won't say
that.
This column is ; not written to
criticize or run down any one per-
son, organization, group, or thing.
The point I'm trying to make is
that friends are hard to come by;
they're even harder to keep; and
I sure don't want to go around
making enemies. I will attempt
(attempt is right) to entertain
you, and to throw in a laugh or
two (that's probably all I'll get is
a laugh or two.)
Well, enough about the Column,
The hottest news on campus is
the opening of the new girls dorm,
Hunewell Hall. That's really a nice
name since the dorm is practically
in Hunewell Park anyway. On the
27th and 28th, the lucky girls who
■pull through finals, will make a
"confusing" pilgrimage to the new
dorm. I say confusing because it
will be mass confusion when about
120 girls start trudging at the same
time through the hallowed halls of
Gough, Moody, Lewis, and Cham-
berlain taking lamps, books,
clothes, and stuffed animals to
their new home.
One thing for sure, moving into
the new home will be a welcome
relief from the rooms in the other
dorms. The new rooms will have
either grey or brown walls (the
girls choose the colors) sprinkled
with touches of orange. This in
itself will be a great change from
the green walls in the old rooms.
I'm speaking from experience. I
had the pleasure (?) to live in the
Brown County jail for ten years
where we had green walls. UGH!
Then I made the big step and came
to college. What was the first
thing I saw — more green walls.
Even if. the new dorm had purple
polka dot walls, I would be glad'
to move.
The new dorm will be divided
into suites with private baths for
four girls. This added attraction
will prevent a lot of colds and
sniffles that are sometimes ac-
quired when waliking 50 feet from
the showers to your rooms in the
dead of winter. Along with this
will be a central heating unit with
a thermostat 111 each room. Just
think girls . . . now we can throw
away our long flannel nightgowns.
Another nice thing will be the
convenience of two or more elec-
tric plugs in each room. In the old
dorms one takes her life into
her hands when she enters a
room that is filled with electric
extension cords. Upon walking
into a room she faces the fate of
tripping over a cord and breaking
a neck or unplugging1 a socket and
being shocked out of your senses.
Some of the rooms in Gough and
Moody look like they've been wired
for a take-off from Cape Canave-
ral.
At long last the dream of a
modern girl's dorm has come true.
Now we can start saying our pray-
ers and saving our yells of glee
for the day when the new doors
of the proposed new Student Cen-
ter will be opened.
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