Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1969 Page: 1 of 6
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Murray Controversy Subsides
Efforts to seek a rever-
sal of the decision made
last week by TLC Pres-
ident Martin L. Cole to deny
Madalyn Murray O’Hair the
right to speak here on cam-
pus seem to have been
abandoned for the present
time.
Although approximately
300 students signed the pet-
ition which asked that Mrs.
O’Hair be allowed to speak
on campus in the interest
of free expression and
academic freedom, the ad-
ministration would not
change its position on the
matter. Dr. Cole main-
tained his belief that one
of the objectives of TLC
was to promote the Christ-
ian faith and that allowing
Mrs. O'Hair to appear here
would not be in keeping
with that objective.
Charges were made by
some students, however,
that the main factor be-
hind the administration's
action was fear of an ad-
verse reaction from the
college constituency (See
editorial, page 2).
At any rate Dr. Cole and
incoming President Dr. Joe
K. Menn have indicated to
student leaders their in-
terest in formulating a
statement of policy which
would relate to cases such
as this which might arise
in the future.
For the forseeable fut-
ure, the ad hoc committee
formed after Dr. Cole's de-
cision in an attempt to re-
verse that ruling has
developed more or less a
wait - and - see attitude.
They are hopeful that the
incoming president of the
college will reverse or at
least modify the position
taken by Dr. Cole in re-
gard to having speakers
such as Madalyn Murray
appear on campus. Student
Association President
Fred Biery stated that he
hoped next year's student
body president would con-
tinue efforts to get Mrs,
O'Hair on campus and ex-
pressed the belief that new
administration may adopt
a more liberal position on
matters such as this.
Although some students
have suggested that money
be raised from sources
other than school funds to
bring Mrs. O'Hair to cam-
pus or at least to the Se-
quin area, this action has
been dismissed by the ad
hoc committee members as
being too "impractical"
and "not worth the effort."
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TAR LUTHERAN
VOLUME XLX
SEGUIN, TEXAS 78155
NO. 15
TEXAS LUTHERAN COLLEGE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1969
Tony Jimenez, Recruiting Spe-
cialist for the Southwest Area
of Volunteers In Service To
America (VISTA), spoke before
a small but interested convo
audience yesterday and discussed
the general nature of the VTSTA
PROGRAM. Mr. Jiminez was
standing in for his co-worker
Miss Vicki Samsel, who had to
return home because of a sud-
den illness; both VISTA workers
had been on campus to inform
students about their program and
to recruit workers if possible.
VISTA was characterized by
Mr. Jiminez as being primarily
a group of middle-class, white
students who were interested in
the eradication of poverty in the
United States. He later siad,
however, that such programs as
“Minority Mobilization” were
underway to recruit more Mexi-
can-American, Negro, and In-
dian workers for the VISTA
organization.
VISTA workers live and serve
in a community such as a Negro
ghetto, a migrant labor camp,
or an Indian reservation for a
period of one year. There is
no set pattern for these workers
to follow, according to Mr. Ji-
minez; they simply become in-
volved in trying to help solve
as many community problems as
possible, and these problems of
course vary from area to area.
VISTA serves a community pri-
marily as a motivating force
and a catalyst designed to help
the people in a certain area
develop programs themselves to
further their advancement. Mr.
Jiminez stated that one of the
major problems of VISTA work-
ers is often getting the com-
munity to accept them and to
honor their motives for work-
ing in such a program.
A VISTA worker received a
stipend of $50 a month, which
goes into a home bank account
and may not be removed until
the completion of his year of
service. In addition, each work-
er usually receives a monthly
allowance of approximately $200
to cover food, rent, and per-
sonal expenses. Mr. Jiminez
indicated that VISTA workers
were just like everyone else in
that they usually live from pay-
check to paycheck, but he said
that it was quite revealing to
note that many large families
which VISTA workers are in-
volved with in their work re-
ceive no where near that $200
a month figure for their in-
come.
The work of a VISTA volun-
teer was made vivid to the con-
vo audience by Mr. Jiminez’s
account of the one year period
which he himself had spent in
that capacity. Although VISTA
workers usually do not work in
their home areas, Mr. Jiminez
was involved in a special pro-
ject which required volunteers
to serve in their native areas.
Thus, he worked in the Rio
Grande Valley, in his home-
town; but even being in an
area where the people were fa-
miliar with him, Mr. Jiminez
stated that it still took three
months to really get anything
going as far as community ac-
tion was concerned. Some peo-
ple questioned his motives in
working for VISTA, When he
finally gained their confidence,
his first action was to get every-
one in the community together
to meet their neighbors, discuss
their common problems, and plan
ways of solving those problems.
A group was formed to work
for the pavement of the streets
in their area by the city. When
this group first contacted the
mayor, they were unable to
express themselves correctly
and left the impression that they
wanted to overthrow the city
government. After this misun-
derstanding was cleared up, how-
ever, the city did pave their
streets.
During this one-year period,
Mr. Jiminez also worked with
older Mexican people who wished
to obtain United States citizen-
ship, health authorities looking
for cases of malnutrition, and
groups pushing for bilingual ed-
ucation especially in the South
Texas area.
Mr. Jiminez concluded his re-
marks by saying that there are
no age requirements nor tests
for VISTA volunteers. A person
must be in good health, however,
and willing to work for one year
under such conditions as he de-
scribed. Only one out of every
six applicants are accepted for
VISTA because the program
wants only those people who are
sincerely dedicated to its ideals
and objectives.
Biery Appoints TISA Co-ordinator
Fred Biery, Student Associ-
ation President, has appointed
Dennis Hartzog as campus co-
ordinator for the Texas Inter-
collegiate Student Association.
The TISA is the chief repre-
sentative agency of the students
of Texas. Composed of student
associations on some 42 col-
leges and universities through-
out Texas, It represents a col-
lective membership of over
170,000 students. The purpose of
the TISA is: to encourage and
promote active student govern-
ments, to act as a laboratory
for the exchange of ideas and
discussion of problems, and to
aid in identifying the individual
student with his college commun-
ity and its academic philo-
sophy.
Dennis* main duties will be to
handle all correspondance be-
tween TLC and TISA. He will
also have the opportunity to be
in contact with TISA co-ordlna-
tors on other campuses, so there
will be an exchange of ideas and
opinions between TLC and other
member colleges.
TISA maintains an annual tra-
vel program in co-operation with
Bill Jeske and Debbie Nustad during a grueling (.. . er,
drooling?) rehearsal for Steve Carr’s production of
"Hello Out There". Staff photo (after 5th attempt)
Student-Directed Production
Scheduled For Next Tuesday
The time is the present. The
place is a jail cell in Matador,
Texas. The people are a girl
aged seventeen, a young man
aged twenty-five, an irate hus-
band a whorish wife, and twc
friends. These are mixed thor-
oughly until they reach the con-
sistency of loneliness, then sim-
mered slowly and served. The
concoction is called HELLO OUT
THERE, a one-act play by Will-
iam Saroyan.
Jiminez Acquaints Convo Audience
With Life Of A VISTA Volunteer
William Saroyan is noted for
his novel, THE HUMAN COMEDY
and many plays including: MY
HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS,
THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, and
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE. Sar-
oyan was a realistic playwright
of 1940*s. He writes in the same
tradition of Tennessee Williams,
Arthur Miller, and Eugene
O’Neill. There is a dramatic
quality in his work that proves
to be quite a distinctive style.
Perhaps the Young Man speaks
a bit of Saroyan philosophy when
he says, “Hello—out there! Putt-
ing me in jail. Rape! Rape?
They rape everything good that
was ever born. His side hurts.
They laugh at her. Fifty cents
a day. Little punk'people. Hurt-
ing the only good thing that ever
came their way. Hello—out
there!”
Members of the cast for
HELLO OUT THERE are: BUI
Jeske as the Young Man, Debbie
Nustad as the Girl, Steve Watts
as the Man, Linda Hines as the
Woman, Don Taylor as the se-
cond Man, and Frank Swinehart
as the third Man. The stage
manager is Roxie LaSoya. Crew
members include Linda Blase and
Mike Spinelli.
HELLO OUT THERE is being
produced as part of an independ-
ent study in the field of drama.
The play is directed by Steve
Carr, a senior Drama and Eng-
lish major from San Antonio.
This will be Steve’s second play
to direct; his first was
MOONY’S KID DON’T CRY
by Tennessee Williams. Although
Steve is primarily an actor, he
enjoys directing a great deal.
Steve has played such roles as
Richard in Fry’s THE LADY’S
NOT FOR BURNING, Knox and
Moray in Anderson’s MARY OF
SCOTLAND, Becket in Anouilh’s
BECKET, J.B, in MacLeish’s
J.B., Algernon in Wilde’s THE
IMPORTANCE OF BEING EAR-
NEST, and the soldier in the
THREE FARCES BY CER-
VANTES. Steve will direct two
more plays suring the semester
to complete his independent
study. He must direct, design
the set, design the lights, and
produce each production.
HELLO OUT THERE will be
presented Tuesday, February 25
at 6:00 p.m. in the OPEN STAGE,
T.L.C.’s experimental theatre.
Prior to the performance, Dr.
Allen Grant has consented to read
some poetry selections. There
will be no admission charge.
Concert To Be Presented
In Chapel February 23
Individual member schools.
Through this program, interested
students at TLC have access to
reduced-rate flights to Europe,
a variety of tours, and a sum-
mer European student employ-
ment service. Any student in-
terested in these programs may
contact Dennis by campus mail
for further information.
rred and Dennis will be at-
tending a TISA convention this
spring, with the possibility of
attending special conferences on
topics such as human relations,
higher education, the political
role of* students, Mexican-
American relations, and lead-
ership training.
A concert of organ, instru-
ments and choir will be pre-
sented in the Weinert Memorial
Chapel of the Abiding Presence
at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, February
23. The concert is one of a
series in an organ festival being
held this year. All of the music
is of a very festive character
in celebration of the new chapel
organ.
Benjamin Britten’s JUBILATE
DEO, an English setting of Psalm
100 featuring the TLC Concert
Choir directed by Peter Tkach,
and Mary Esther Orth, college
organist, opens the program.
String and wind instruments
from the University of Texas
Symphony Orchestra combine
with the organ for Henrich
Schuetz’ JUBILATE DEO
TERRA, a Latin setting of
Psalm 100.
Orville White, bass-baritone
soloist of the UT music facul-
ty, will sing the cantata for
this selection taken from the
SYMPHONIAE SACRAE. White
has appeared professionally for
many years in New York and
California, singing in opera, ora-
torio and concert performances.
His most recent engagements
were with the Houston Opera
and the San Diego Opera. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in
opera from the University of
Southern California. White has
also studied and performed in
Europe.
Soprano soloist Andrea Tkach
will sing in the original German
J.S. Bach’s JAUCHZET GOTT
IN ALLEN LANDEN (Praise God
all ye people”), accompanied by
trumpet, string orchestra and
organ. Mrs. Tkach has studied
at Washington University in St.
Louis and appeared with the St.
Louis Sumphony.
Organist Mary Orth will then
be accompanied by an orchestra
of strings and oboes in G. F.
Handel’s ORGAN CONCERTO
NO. 13.
Climaxing the program will be
J.S. Bach’s GOTT, DER HERR,
1ST SONN UND SCHULD (God
the Lord is sun and shield”)
including the choir, solists, or-
chestra of strings, oboes, French
horns, timpani and organ. Mu-
sic will be sung in the origi-
nal German.
Dance
Tonight
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