The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1972 Page: 2 of 8
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Editorial
Nine Weeks Grades
Should be Abolished
Nine-week grades are nothing but a head-ache for stu-
dents, teachers, and parents; they should be abolished.
Many times the nine-week grades rest on one or two
major tests. If a student fails on this test his grade for the
first half of the semester is low. Even though the student
may later raise his grade, a low grade report goes out to
the parents.
• The grade goes on no permanent record as such, and is
simply an alert to the parents as to what the student is do-
ing, To the parents a low grade often denotes little or no
work while a high grade denotes a great effort. This is not
always true as has been shown above. Just because a stu-
One reason given in favor of nine-weeks grades is that
they will-through the parents-strike a bit of "enthusiasm"
toward studies in the students. Yet, many times the stu-
dents never see their grades and have to hear about them
from their parents. Wouldn't it be better to give the grade
reports to the students who are the ones who will have to
make the grade up. Why add to their pressures by having
the parents looming over them?
The good students are the ones who are going to make
themselves work hard and bring the grade up. The other
students who do not care about the grade in the first place
are probably not going to make a large effort to make it up
no matter what.
Many times students who are "on their own" in the
world still have to have their grades sent to their parents.
Most of the time these students are working and paying for
their education. It seems strange that their parents should
receive the grade report. Wouldn't it be more proper to
send out the report to the student who has already accep-
ted the responsibility for his education.
Many large universities do not bother to send out any
reports other than the final semester ones. It seems that
this would be a much better idea. It would take a load off
teachers, who have to make them out and students, who
have to sweat throujgh them. If students were concerned
about their grades they could go and talk to the teachers.
This, it would seem, is what the grade reports are designed
to do anyway. This would provide the student an oppor-
tunity to discuss with the teacher possible ways of bringing
UP his grade. —Mary Anne Yarbrough
Letters to
the Editor
Dear Editor: married and must attend to the
Has it ever occurred to the eel- responsibilities of making a liv-
itor of this paper that although big. Also, there are those stu-
there are many functions and dents who are married and have
services provided by the college children, and in some cases,
there are some students who live out of town. I recognize
cannot take part in or will not r^e fact ^,at the editor lives
take part in these services and out of town but she does not
functions. My main concern is have the responsibilities of mar-
with those students who cannot riaSe and parenthood to consi-
take advantage of the functions der. From the student service
supplied from the payment of fee the student is "forced" in
the student service fee. some cases t0 Plirc^lase a season
Football games can be used Pass ^ie SiK)tbull games,
as an example. If a student Therefore, the student with out-
wishes to attend a game and side responsibilities is paying for
can't, according to Miss Yar- a service which he or she will
brough, that's too bad. Miss
Yarbrough fails to recognize the Continued on Page 5
situation of a student who is
The J-TAC, student newspaper of Tarleton State College, is pub-
lished by Tarleton State College on Wednesdays during the regidar
fall and spring semesters with the exception of school holidays and
examination periods. Printer is the Stephenville Empire-Tribune,
Stephenville, Texas.
Editor Mary Anne Yarbrough
Assistant Editor •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Mike Siftiddy
Feature Editor Christi Young
Photographer. ••••••Paul Ollar
Business Manager•«<• •••••*•••••«••••<••> W. K. Vandygriff f
Circulation Manager. ...••. ••• Danny Shipler
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Copyreaders ** •«••••••••••••••••*• ••"*''"Phyllis Graves
Cartoonist •Ann Loveless -
Faculty Advisor •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Tom Shuford
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The exciting thing about be-
ing editor of a paper is the
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new words you learn. I'm re-
ferring to those words which
you look up in the dictionary
because you have been called
them at one time or another
by irate readers.
If in the heat of anger they
can't think of a word that com-
pletely typifies you, they make
up one. Many tirnes these are
a. combination of two words
which they couldn't decide
which best' suited you. They
may be completely made up.
Examples of these are: fat
rink, tacky gut, dingo, whom-
bat, bingdat. . .and of course
many unprintable ones.
I figure by the time I have
pursued my journalism career
for 50 years I should be able
to write a book of names to
call people. Oh well. . .1 guess
I'm just a "lorn booser."
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I get the J-TAC wrong date
award this week. First Of all,
I put the Playboy Dance "Sat-
urday" night on the front page
111 plain view, although it was
actually Friday. Perhaps this
was my subconscious trying to
tell me something. I have always
felt that all club-sponsored
dances should be on Saturday
night instead of Friday. But
Applications
Now Available
Applications for graduate
scholarships are now available
for the fall semester at the
Placement Office. According to
Truman Bell, director of finan-
cial aid, the recipient must have
passed the Graduate Record
Exam, and be enrolled in a mini-
mum of nine hours of graduate
study.
He must also have attended
Tarleton State College and been
classified as a full time student
at one time,, but does not have
to be a graduate of Tarleton
State College, The recipient
must show' financial need for
scholarship assistance.
I ovation
and other
sports people and fans at the
Monday
her last
McMurry game last
night because it was
game to be cheerleader for TSC.
She will graduate in May. Christ!
has done a lot for TSC
lege will really miss
year.
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March 8, 1972
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The Tarleton Civic Series will
present the National Shakespeare
Company in their production of
"Romeo and Juliet" at 8 p.m.
tonight. The production will be
held in the Main Auditorium
and TSC students will be ad-
mitted on their I.D.'s.
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The Collegiate FFA will hold
its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday in the Agriculture Au-
ditorium.
anyway my apologies to
OWLS and Keys.
The second wrong date of
the week occurred in the Sym-
phonic Band story. I knew all
along that the concert was last
Thursday, March 2, and even
had made plans to attend. But
somewhere between my finger
hitting the. typewriter key and
the printing of the paper, some-
one moved it to March 9. Oh
boy. . .Sorry about that, Dr.
Owen. Maybe I'd better retire
while I am still able to remember
what month this is. . .February,
isn't it? .
Let me take this opportunity
to say congratulations to Christi
Young, on the surprise half-time
recognition at the last basketball
game of the season. For those
of you who don't know, Christi
was given a standin
by the football players
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The Tarleton Young Demo-
crats will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, March 13 in Science
Building 159.
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The Tarleton Circle K Club-
will sponsor a dance from 8 p.m..
to 12 midnight in the Cave on|
March 10. The Lake Country,
Five will play at the dance. Ad-
mission is $3 for couple and $2
for singles.
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The twentieth annual Texas
Phi Beta Lambda convention
will be held March 10-11 in
Dallas. The Tarleton chapter
will send members for a close
look at what is happening.
Mascot Elections
Now In Progress
Final elections for the Tar-
leton mascot contest are cur-
rently being conducted in the
Student Center today from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Following contest rules, the
Senate screened the seven en-
tries received and chose five
to be presented to the student
body. The idea having a maj-
ority of the votes will become
the new mascot.
Drawn out diagrams of the
ideas can be seen at the Stu-
dent Center around the voting
tables. They will be' numbered
and the student may indicate his
choice by circling the corres-
ponding number on the ballot.
Alva's Jewelry
4 WEDDING SOON?
^Gheck with us for your selections
in china, silver, stainless,
invitations and napkins.
160 E. Washington Phone 965-7324
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