The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 6, 1962 Page: 2 of 8
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PAGE TWO
THE. J-TAO.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1962
Somebody Failed
Tarleton State College failed misei'ably ..this past'weekend in
the field of public relations for visiting groups on the campus.
There wei'e ■approximately 1*100 girls from throughout north
central, and central Texas on our campus and TSC did liot do
one thing to make them feel welcome. The girls began arriving
late Friday afternoon and had nothing to do for the entire
evening.
■ It seems that there should have been some type of function
planned for these future college students. We do not know
whether it was the place of the student council, administration,
or some other organization to plan some entertainment for this
group; but we do know that the school failed in this respect
Friday night.
1 Other organizations will be holding conventions and other
meetings on our campus throughout the year and the J-Tac
believes that one way to increase enrollment would be to Bhow
these groups that we are interested in them. Tarleton is es-
pecially short on coed enrollment and perhaps we shouid pay
particular-attention to attracting this segment of the student
body. At any rate the mistake Of Friday night should never
Happen again if we wish to leave a good impression with visitors
to our campus. -
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Letters to the Editor
Sear'Mr, Editor:
, -As we understand it, "J-TAC"
originally stood for John Tarle-
ton Agriculture College. We would
suggest that you change the name
oi' said "J-TAC" to the "Ivy Lea-
gue Weekly."
, Your editors .have been most
liberal in blasting the agricultural
aspect of this college. This college
is at the moment one of the finest
agriculture schools in the state.
The agriculture majors here are
proud of their intended vocations.
The future farmers, ranchers;
county agents, and vocational ag'-
rieulutre teachers dress as they
have dressed in the past and shall
dress in the future. The man that
lias worn hoots since the day he
has been able to walk does not feel
comfortable or at ease in a pair
of shoes. Levis and western shirts
are warm, comfortable clothes.
Hats keep the head warm in the
winter and coo! in the summer.
Most of all, the western clothes
worn by the students at Tarleton
are symbolic and traditional of
Texans in general and agriculture
In particular.
Tradition has always been a
basic factor in campus activities:
at all colleges. At Tarleton, how-
ever, the editors and publisher of
the "J-TAC" have attempted to
destroy all the wonderful old tra-
ditions that have made Tarleton
an attractive prospect for enter-
ing freshmen. These traditions
should be kept alive.
- In concluding, we would like
to say that if these controversies
continue the enrollment «f Tarle-
ton is likely to decrease instead
of increase. Every mail to his own
taste.
Humans exist on the produce
of agriculture, and this is an ag-
riculture school. Please accept that
fact. — Yours truly, THE GOAT-
KOPEKS OF TSC.
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TH£K£'5> AMOTHEK STUPgHt HERS TO SEg <©(J A301ST
CHANGING A SHOULDN'T TAK6 VOU LONG."
question?. Is it the cute little hab
it of tacking signs upon every
available tree and expecting every
student to rush ferverent-
ly from limb to limb to partake
of the pearls of wisdom attached
thereon, or is it the barnyard wail
defending the somewhat dubious
position of the illustrious cowboy
on our pasture-green campus?
Tiiis brings up to the question
of the cowboy. First of all let me
get one thing straight — I
ject not in the least to having lesbianism, mymphoraania. incest, I adult audiences,
filends dress in Levis, western lesbianism, nymphomania, incest, j faintly salacious.
with good taste and absorbing en-
tertainment. Most are adapted
T i LIFE magazine reports that! from distinguised books and plays,
mg. In addition, the clothes thus dilemma centers around the i Most deal with major, serious
sociological problems*
The Fourth Estate
By "GEOFFItEY HOLLADAY usually go as a matter of course.
Bold, shocking, candid movies i Most of the films dealing with
dealing with homesexuality, rape, | these themes, when viewed by
are not even
They are done
A Grain
of Salt
shirt, and boots as long as they ul dilemma for the American mov.
don t loqlc like they have just re
turned from an all day calf rop-
■ ie-goer.
described don t give them license fact the lm)vie3 de.ai with theae
to Hp,t tobacco juice on elevator themeg are> by and ^ thoug.llt,
loor.? and weat their hats in a M film8 for 8 bufc that
building-, li: you will pardon the
expression,
rudeness.
Sex
Box 337
By JUDY HOLLADAY
. Recently I have noticed a lot of
hot air running around about a
very trivial thing. As with every
controversial question, the armies
lire lined up on both side of no-
man's land and have for some
time been throwing mud back and
forth quite furiously. I speak of
the "traditions" battle.
grownups.
... . .. .... t. they are produced for mass mark-
this is the height oi. America„ wU1 probably acc0TOp_
. , , . ,, ,. |et and will be seen at. neighbor-
It was brought to my attention | hoQd movie house3 whtJro chiidrenbanned as being too
that we owe heritage to the cow- 1
boys. Texas wouldn't be Texas
without him! Barf. If you want to
get technical about it, we owe
everything to the American In-
dian, and I'll be hogtied if I wear
a loin c]oth to class!
To make myself further unpop-
ular, traditions are for the ignor-
ant. They are only something for
the masses to follow because they
are too lazy to do their own think-
ing. I agree that this country was
built to an extent by the cowboy,
but progress didn't stop with
1809. On the other hand, ivy goes
farther than the kind of clotheB
one wears; it is a code of ethics
(rather snobbish at that). If the
pseudo-ivies thank that the cow-
boys are cliquish, try getting into
an established ivy clique.
As the school grows and becomes
more liberal arts, the cowboys will
become a thing of the past; this i
has happened before and Will hap-1
A new organization for joiners
ia the so-called "Texans for Amer-
ica", a rightest group concerned
with banning- "salacious" books
from public libraries.
The city of Amarillo seems to
have been swept up in the book-
banning binge. School officials
there have banned a number of
books at high schools and Ama-
rillo College because of "obsceni-
ties" in them. Some books being
banned are Oliver LeFarge's
Laughing Boy, John Steinbeck's
Grapes of Wrath, Mackinlay Kan-
tor's Andersonville, the Red Badge
of Courage, A. B. Guthrie's The
Way West, Herman Wouk's Mai-
l jorie Morningstar, Thomas Wold's
pen again. What are we going to, 0f Time and thg Riyer) ^ldous
do in the meantime? It doesn't; Huxley's Brave New World and
make any difference whether you George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-
are ivy or cowboy as long as you
don't mix the two( can you ima-
gine boots, Madris shirt, Levis,
ten-gallon hat, and black, heavy-
rimmed glasses ?) and look as
nice as possible with what you
have. This is all that can be ex-
Exactly what traditions are in pected of anybody. — Bill Ruther-
THE J-TAC
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ONE SEMESTER,
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8UIISCKIPTION KATES
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MEMBER OF THE
COLUMBIA SCHOLASTIC
PRESS ASSOCIATION
■ — -Geoffrey Holiday
— —^—Gordon MeCui*. agu
. :—— —Noel Johnson
—-t— Mosur, Christopher Cheung
p., .-i.... .i«C. "JDtiuPree
'UMitor
Editor .
Feature Editor
Cartoonist
Photographers
Columnwt ——,
Vacuity Advisor _
Four. The latter four authors are
Pulitzer Prize winners.
There is no mention of the ban-
ning of much "franker" literary
works such as Tropic of Cancer,
by Henry Miller; Peyton Place, by
Grace Metalious; From Here to
Eternity and Some Came Running,
by James Jones; Lady Chatterly's
Lover, by D. H. Lawrence; Lolita,
by Vladamir Nobokiv; The Catch-
er in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger; or
Madam Bovary, by Gustave Flau-
bert.
Most college students are fami-
liar with Shakespeare, Heming-
way. Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Watt Whitman, and Geoffrey
Chaucer — all of whom the "Tex-
ans for America" probably de-
plore. One wonders what the peo-
ple belonging to that organiza-
tion read, if, indeed, they do.
Sex and literature seem insep-
arable. Many phrases can appear
salacious when taken out of con-
text. Even the Bible could be de-
clared obscene If certain portions
werd evaluated out of context
and with bigotry.
One thing the "Texans for
The movies adapted from books
and plays reflect the unprecedent-
ed candor of sex in the United
States. Books that ' were once
racy, like
Henry Miller's TROPIC OF CAN-
CER, are now available to the
reading public. And even today,
Miller's novel seems tame beside
those of more contemporary aut-
hors.
Amid this unprecedented free-
dom, movies present a special
problem. Unlike books and plays,
they are available to everyone, re-
gardless of age. Many adults fear
that children may. be jolted by
films which come to grips with
stark adult problems. On the
other hand, many experts believe
that just as strong a case can be
made that maladjustments are in-
tensified through tight and pru-
dist censorship. But outspoken
movies have revived a heat of ac-
cusation from clergymen, Con-
gressmen, women's clubs, and Ro-
man Catholic bishops that movies
that candidly deal with sex pose
moral threat to U. S. youth.
Censorship
Frank, outspoken movies forc-
ed a re-examination of censorship.
With only one legal justification
for censoring a movie, gross ob-
scenity, censorship worked down
to state, local, organization, and
parental censorship. Voluntary
rather than legal classification
has rlow come to be one of the
most popular means of censor-
ship. Outspoken movies are us-
ually approved if they specify in
their advertisment that are for
adults only. But neither voluntary
or legal classification as aids in
censorship are entirely satisfac-
tory. Many children under 16 are
still able to see the type of movies
recommended only for adults
without being' accorilpanied by an
BY GORDON MeCULLOUGH
George Cook, manager of the
College Store, is due a pat on the
back from the student body and
faculty for establishing' a fine so-'
lection of books oh his shelves.
During the past few weeks the Col-
lege Store has increased its vol-
ume of good reading material sev-
eral times while at the same time
removing some worthless 'maga-
zines which were on sale. These
.worthless magazines have now
been replaced with copies of the
most popular weekly publications
as well as the monthly publica-
tions. Cook has stocked the book
shelves with many famous novels
in different paperback editions
plus adding many new series 0i
educational paperbacks. If you are
trying to find something good to
read A Grain of Salt suggests that
you browse through . this newly
created source on the TSC camplia,
Campus Communications —
Many complaints have been
heard lately about the poor dormi-
tory telephone service on the TSG
campus. This problem has been
especially acute in the men's
dorm. It is virtually impossible to
contact' a student in the men's
dorm. There is never a student On
regular duty to answer the phono
and in many instances this has
created problems if an urgent call
is placed to TSC. At present the-,
phone is situated inside the dorm'
counselor's room and he. cannot, be;
expected to be present at all hours;;
of the day to answer phone call's.
The location of the phone also,
places J'.n inconvenience on this,,
student becsiuse lie is constantly
annoyed by a jingling phone when,:
he is in the room. It would seem?
i that a ' system ..much like the onOi
I used in the women's dormitory
I could be. established,.. A switch.,;
j board type of setup could be used
, and individual students could man
a desk as a regular job much as-
the. women students do. The. desb>
could, be set up in a single room "
to be used for the sole purpose'of,;
receiving calls and an informa-.-
tion center in general.. • ; i
Integration
I am just curious as to how the;-. .
students of Tarleton: .would react ;
to following question if it . were
placed before them. ;Do you . thhjk;;"
that Tarleton State .(Texas .A&ftJ-r
system .in this , case) should .takes.-;
steps to integrate its educational;
facilities? If this choice wtjfe plae-.j
ed before the TSC, student body,
how would it vote? .. ,
adult.
The most effective means for
censorship seems to lay within ^the.
realm of the family. Arbitrary.'-:
age censorship imposes a draw--
back on 16-year-olds who are"'
mentally and physically mature,'
but it can be protective to back*-
ward adolescents. The enormous?
differences in age groups foy"
adolescents " makes it almost im,-" > •
perative for effective censorship-
to work within the family. "0
lish is an all-time time high for
all the books they ban. It seems
that banned literature has a new
appeal for potential readers.
Should the "Texans for Amer-
ica" invade our campus, Box 337
wagers two things will happen.
First, another organization would
arise in its wake for the consul -
ing Of censorship. And secondly,
the College Book Store would do
a landslide business selling the
aforementioned books.
Judging Team
Takes Third
At Houston . .. U-
The Tarleton Livestock Judging
team won the third pfyce troply-r
in the Quarter Horse,division Sat-,
urday at the Houston Fat Stock "
ShOW. ■' , .
Dean Gage and W i h st o fit
Churehwell tied for second place-!,
in individual honors in this Quarter .
Horse division, while Gage, copped:
fourth place in overall individual_
honors. The team placed fifth in
the Swine division and eighth in
the Beef division.
The Houston contest rounded
out the ..year for the, TSC team.
They won first place for the-
fourth straight year in the con-
test held &fc'- Sara' Houston-Stats
and placed third in the Fort
Worth FaTEtoCirS EoW donteSKT"^
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