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Events and happenings of the Fall
semester of ’81 from the Student Senate
point of view.
Joel Vera and Cathie Fisher were
elected to serve on the University Coun-
cil.
Fifteen new refrigerators found their
way to the campus and were rented out
by the Senate who paid for them in the
first place.
Karen Roe was a speaker for the se-
cond meeting of Senate and discussed
the role of Student Affairs Council and
its duties and on the issue of the sale of
tickets to Mask and Wig productions.
University Council recommended that
the present endowment be increased to
eight million dollars. Also discussed
were increase scholarships based on
SHEREE REYNOLDS MELISSA CEROLAN CATHERINE SPEZIA
JACKIE SIDERS JONI WILLIS MELINDA MARKE^
This holiday season was tne season
for accidents as well, it seems. Security
officer Bill Nelson, for instance, was
travelling home from the grocery store
when his car was struck by another. He
had been driving through a residential
area, he explained, when a woman also
driving in the area came too close to a
curb and skidded on the icy road, hitting
his car and forcing him into someone’s
front yard, badly damaging his brand
new Riviera: He is now back on duty
once again, however, after a few days
off duty.
Chris Cragg, R.A. at H.B. also was in-
volved in an accident over the holidays.
On New Yedar’s Eve, as he entered an in-
tersection, his car was struck by a
woman who thought that her stop sign
was a four-way. Needless to say, it
wasn’t, and Chris also ended up with his
car in someone’s front yard.
—In sports, the SU basketball team
advanced to the NAIA playoffs for the
third year in a row in late February,
the baseball team won the Big State
Conference and went into the NAIA
playoffs in April, and the women's
volleyball team won second in the
nation in the NAIA tournament. Three
of those volleyball players made All
American — Jeanne Bulla and Alfie
Vela on the first team and Robyn Hall
on the second team.
—Facilities at the university im-
proved significantly with major
renovations of more than $1 million
each being made on Fondren-Jones
Science Hall and Lois Perkins Chapel.
Those two buildings were rededicated
early in the fall semester. Ruter Hall
also received some renovations and Sid
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swats. But, the book does not end bitter-
ly or with any sense of hopelessness.
Rather, it finishes with a kind of op-
timism that is at most implied.
"Dunces” can be easily read in a
weekend. I suggest it for those days
when life goes slowly — and on a rainy
day it should be indispensable.
MOVIE REVIEW
academic ability and also on need-
based due to federal cutbacks, and
upgrade in the salary system, and
building renovations for the Library and
SUB.
Mr. Bill Swift attended the Spetember
22 meeting and spoke on admissions
and recruitment.
Don Heins, Director of Residence Life,
spoke on his position, Housing staff
structure, Intramurals, Suimmer Con-
ference and his role in the formulation of
the Master Plan.
Senate elected 8 people to serve on
the Liaison to the Board of Trustees.
A Master Plan was developed and is
still in the'final stages. Ten areas are
covered and it sets priorities and objec-
tives for the University for the next 3, 5
and 10 years, as formed by faculty, ad-
ministrators and students.
One Senator was impeached. One
Senator resigned.
Discussion was held with President
Shilling at his home and topics such as
donations, classes and Senate role on
campus were discussed.
David Alexander was a guest speaker
and spoke of the Union Program Council
and scheduling the Calendar. -
Steve Cobb set up a student evalua-
tion on the classes and professors that
was distributed last semester. We
should see those results soon.
Because the students spoke up the
add period will remain the same but a
demanding that -the academy be reopen-
ed before they release it.
Besides being a good, suspenseful
drama, this molvie provides an excellent
example of fine directing and acting.
Timothy Hutton gives a first-rate perfor-
mance as the top-ranking cadet, and
George C. Scott portrays his , own
character with his usual flair, even
though his role is shamefully small. The
directing is done with an eye for highly
dramatic sequences, and the movie con-
tains some of the best characterizations
to be seen in a current film.
Admittedly, this is a more male-
oriented movie than some that are now
running, but for a fine plot and top-notch
acting and directing, few films recently-
released can offer as much as Taps.
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Dunces
“A Confederacy of Dunces”
By John Kennedy Toole
If there is a shining spot in what has
lately evolved into a featureless and
unexciting field of American satire, it
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In addition to the two Southwestern
University events mentioned in the 1981
wrap-up story in the The Williamson
County Sun of Dec. 30, the school had a
number of other landmark events
during the paut year.
Mentioned in last week's story were
the arrival of new President Roy
Shilling in July and the success of the
Brown Symposium in January. Other
headline events at the university in-
cluded:
—The success of the 1980 Brown
Challenge with SU's alumni and sup-
porters surpassing the goal by giving
more than $1.7 million and The Brown
Foundation of Houston more than
has to be Toole’s “Confederacy of
Dunces.” I am happy to say that finally a
relatively new publication in out that
levels and wipes away our late literary
embarrassments like “The World Accor-
ding to Garp” and more recently, “Hotel
New Hampshire,” both of which were of-
fered, amidst the usual commercial
vaguarles, as important humorous-
satirical works.
“Dunces” is the story of Ignatius Reil-
ly, a thirty-ish slob-Intellectual-recluse,
and his attempts to reform a 20th cen-
tury devoid of "geometry and triology."
The resulting calamity is of the greatest
roportion, and not one of the
characters (of which there are many)
comes clear of Toole’s contemptuous
artists Ishmael Soto and Steve Temple
helped enlighten the campus com-
munity and Georgetown residents.
—Final news story of the year was
the announcement that the Cullen
Foundation of Houston had given
Southwestern $1 million for develop-
ment and enrichment of its faculty.
These are just a few of the more than
250 stories that have made news at
Southwestern in 1981. And with the
inauguration of President Shilling and
expanding activities on all fronts of the
school, 1982 promises to be even more
eventful at Southwestern University.
dropped class after tke sixth week will
be recorded as a "W” rather than a W
plus a grade as had been suggested.
Student Senate raised their
secretary’s pay to minimum wage and
pushed it through to get everyone else to
also. It Is now required as of next fall to
be paid minimum wage for working for
the University.
Inaugural Committee is getting ready
for the big event.
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W. Richardson Physical Education
Center was upgraded with the addition
of exercise equipment given in
memory of Kent Roper.
—Durwood Fleming was honored for
his 20 years as president of the
university at several major events last
spring including those initiated by the
Board’of Trustees and by the faculty.
He assumed the newly created position
of chancellor of the university during
the current school year.
—One of the school's most im-
pressive fine arts seasons pleased
audiences with such programs as the
Vienna Boys Choir, violin virtuoso
Eugene Fodor, jazz pianist Marian
McPartland, the Preservation Hall
Jazz Band, the play "Little Foxes,"
Opera Theatre's "Barber of Seville,"
and the University Chorale's per-
forming in the Santa Fe (N.M.) Bach
Festival.
—The naming of Dr. Walter Herbert
as a Guggenheim Fellow in April was
one of a number of personal
achievement stories of both faculty,
students and administration coming
from the university.
—Learning opportunity stories
abounded ranging from international
study programs in London, France,
and the Far East to management
seminars to holistic health and
Christian education workshops.
Prominent lecturers such as John B.
Cobb, William B. Kennedy, and visiting
One of the articles was credited to J.
F. Dobie and Miss Bertha McKee,
editors of the SU magazine.-Miss McKee
later became Mrs. Dobie.
Not all the stories are Texana. The col-
lection includes play reviews, historical
sketches, and typical collegiate repor-
ting of activities in the humorous vein:
Photos also show Dobie and- his
Southwestrn friends in more and less
serious poses. A
Also included is a review of Dobie’s
collegiate works by Jeff Campbell,
former English professor at
Southwestern and now on the faculty of
Midwestern University.
On display during the open house will
be a number of the original manuscripts
of Doble’s later works, a part of the
university’s rare book collection.
Expected to take part in the informal
presentation of the new book will be
former Ambassador Edward A. Clark of
Austin, another Southwestern alumnus,
who has contributed a large Texana Col-
lection to the SU library.
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UNS — “I have seen a land of free
men and of great herds changed into a
land of ‘gringos’ and plow mules. More
than 50 years ago I came to the country
north of the Rio Grande. Then I could
ride from that river to Montana and never
see a fence. Twice I did, and many times
I drove up the trail to Kansas. My home
was from the San Antonio to the Rio
Bravo. Free, free as the unmolested deer
that fled before me, was I.”
Not surprisingly, J. Frank Dobie wrote
thinks in his typical "Texian" style as he
quoted Don Julian, a dying Mexican va-
quero.
But of literary interest to the
Southwest, especially in the growing
area of Texana, this and other Dobie
works are, for the first time, being
published for the public.
A collection of the famous tale-teller’s
works written as a student in
Georgetown has been published in a
newly released book, “Doble at
Southwestern University.”
Compiled and edited by Judson S.
Custer, the new book will be introduced
at an open house at the uyniversity’s
Cody Memorial Library Wednesday, Jan.
13, at 4 p.m, The open house and Infor-
mal program are open to the public.
The book contains a number of ar-
ticles and stories by or about Dobie that
were published In the university’s
magazine and yearbook during his stu-
dent years of 1906-1910.
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