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V
nroMALs
The Campus Chat
Wednesday, Oct. 14. 1959
Opportune Year...
GOP Should Revive
College Affiliations
See Spiders Spin . . .
Camp Uses Op en-Air Therapy for Insecure Boys
Where are the Republicans hiding on
thin campus ?
A few years ago the North Texas
chapter of Young Republicans was cited
aa the beat student chapter in the
United States, and national recognition
was paid the group for making good in
the heart of Texas liberal Democrats.
The following year, however, inter-
est began dying in Republican activities,
for reasons such as the off-election year
and graduation of the most active lead-
ers.
Now would be an appropriate time
for students with Republican leanings
to come out in the open again, band to-
gether, and get some competitive issues
stirred up between the Democrats and
Republicans on this campus.
The Young Democrats are already
strong and would welcome challenges.
They have vowed to become the largest
club on the campus, like th- YD group
at the University of Texas, with 500
Frustration . . .
members who come to meetings.
The university has its GOP troubles,
too. Republicans seem reluctant to
take advantage of pre-election interest
and get organized.
It's an understatement to say that
Democrats have an edge over Republi-
cans iri Texas. For example, YD mem-
bers will have an opportunity to gee a
still fighting leader of their party next
Saturday, Harry Truman, at a rally in
his honor at Dallas.
But state GOP leaders are interested
in reviving a club on this campus arid
would probably bend over backwards
to assist with programming and round-
ing up Republican sjs i.kers.
Democrats themselves are unhappy
about the one-sided situation and are
hoping Republican students will step
forward at the first meeting Thursday
night with a remedy and start sparks
shooting once again.
—Peggy Simpson
by PAI I. KKI'KK
< hat Htaff Writer
A unique method of dealing with one of
America's most pressing health problem*,
mental illnesa, in being developed at a boy'*
ramp near Dallas
Sponsored by the Dallas Salesmanship club,
the ramp provide* year-round facilities for re-
tarded boy* and lho e who have special men-
tal and emotional problem*.
"Insecurity is the main thing the boy* at
the ' amp have in common in their background,"
said Bill Cooper, a Dallas senior who ha* been
a counselor at the camp tor three summer*.
"This insecurity come* from broken home* and
from poverty."
The principle behind the camp's therapy
is to get the boy* away from the frustrating
Inefficiency Causes Woe
For Campus Phone Dialers
Laat year in a rural East Texas com-
munity a woman died after another per-
son on her party-line telephone system
refused to hang up the receiver so that
a doctor could be called to the aid of the
woman who was ill
Nothing quite this serious has hap
pended as a result of the North Texas
dormitory telephone system its incon-
siderate customers, and its harassed op-
erator.
Very few students, however, have not
experienced first-hand the poor tel-
phone situation which exists here.
Number one on the students' list of
complaints is the length of time and
frequency with which persons calling
from one extension number to another
are greeted by a raucous buzz-bubu/:/,,
or in a similar manner, watch helplessly
while someone leisurely reclines on the
telephone shelf for hours without end.
Number two is the complaint of off-
campus telephone users who find it
hard to cope with the North Texas oper-
ator in trying to get an extension num-
ber. Students waste much time and un-
fold numbers of dimes dialing again the
operator who immediately cuts off the
Icing, Cake Dissolve . . .
Pit Ouster
With the abolition of the pit orches-
tra. tradition-poor North Texas lost a
colorful and unique part of its campus
scene.
The principal reason given for dis-
continuing the performances was finan-
cial. The stage show hooks for the last
two to three years have come out some-
what crimson. Needing to cut corners
somewhere, the administration chose
to stop the $l-per-musician expense the
pit orchestra was costing. This method
of bringing down expense seemed nec-
essary at the time, although rather
severe.
Since then two alternate plans have
been offered for the restoration of the
orchestra.
The first was suggested by many or-
chestra members themselves. They
wrote the ("hat, stating that the oppor-
tunity to play good music for an appre-
ciative audience was a valuable and en-
joyable ex|>erience. Several went on to
state that they had rather play without
News in Review . . .
connection as soon as she utters the
common phrase, "That line's busy."
Another complaint is the discrimina-
tion which the operator has been re-
|s>rted to use against students in com-
parison with faculty and administrative
officials.
The fault of this situation lies also
in students themselves. Few of them
in dormitories observe the rule to limit
conversations to three minutes. How-
ever, in one given situation in which
there are some HK girls using one dormi-
tory telephone, it is not likely that an
observance of the three-minute limit
would completely eliminate the confus-
ion.
This is demonstrated by a simple
mathematical process: multiply the
number of girls, KK, by the number of
minutes allotted each girl, !i, and divide
the total minutes, 204, by the number of
minutes in an hour, 00. The answer,
four-plus, determines that it would take
more than four hours before a student
could use the telephone again, no matter
if it WKRK a case of life or death.
Thus, the need for more campus tele-
phones is obvious. —Greta Gates
9
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Chat Photo by ADRIAN
BILL COOPER
ho worked with adolojcent and pre-teen boyj who are mentally retarded, helping
|!f
them gain a balanced concopt of real'ty in an open-air camp
Newell Post . . .
atmosphere of their home and school and into
the simple environment of the camp.
The camp wa* founded a* a three-month
session during the summer. Hut after several
years it wa* found that a boy made much of
hi* improvement during the second month
and then hi* progress became cumulative. At
the end of the summer, however, the boy had
to go back home and much of the progress
was lost before the next summer. Since that
time the camp has become a year-round ses-
sion.
Basically the camp is designed to offer
group therapy for the camper*. It helps the
boys to learn to live with other*. While there
they receive accredited scholastic training
though most don't actually realize they are
in school.
"In school, children have an academic cur-
riculum. At camp it's an experimental curri-
culum," Cooper pointed out. "In school a teach-
er may tell the children about a spider spin-
ning a web, but at the camp the boys actually
see it happening."
While at the camp the boys are encouraged
to participate in all of the activities. The boys
themselves plan their meals, their week's
schedule, and their field trips. The campers
put out a newspaper which they write entirely
by themselves.
The counselor's day starts when he gets the
boys up, helps them make their beds, and
takes them to breakfast. He spends the entire
day with the boys, taking them swimming,
hiking, and generally trying to build up a big-
brother relation.
"A counselor has to know a boy well in
order to know the right way to treat him,"
Hooper said. "Parents should realize that they
should treat each child differently, but with-
out favoritism."
Many of the boys have emotional blocks,
and the correct method to deal with them must
be developed.
One boy couldn't do any work unless it was
completely quiet, and even then he was very
slow. Any outside noise tended to distract
and frustrate him.
Another boy was on the road to schizo-
phrenia. The counselors encouraged him, gave
him attention, and persuaded him to partici-
pate iri group activities. At the end of the
summer he was much improved.
There are basically two types of boys-with-
a-probiem at the camp- the introvert and the
extrovert.
"The introvert is harder to work with and
gets into more serious trouble," Copper re-
called. "The extrovert is easier to work with
but causes more constant trouble."
Cooper told of one boy who had developed
a deep resentment toward authority, caused
in part because the boy's father wouldn't let
him keep his dog in the house. Each morning
after the father had left for work the boy's
mother would permit the boy to let his dog
inside. But each afternoon before the father
returned, the dog was forced back out. The
boy became a problem at school and started
living at the camp. He learned to overcome
his problem, and is now a camp leader.
A boy's disposition is a good indication of
how he's getting over his problems. Cooper
said he could teil when a boy is mastering his
emotional problems because he is smiling and
appears to be happy.
The campers are usually from 7 to 15 years
old. When a boy overcomes his problem he
is sent back to his home. However, for boys
with no home to go back to and for those that
still have ari emotional problem, the camp
has a group called the Ranchers. These boys,
from 15 to IS years of age, live at the camp
and attend a high school nearby.
Several Ranchers recently graduated from
high school and are now attending college on a
scholarship provided by the camp.
Do You Remember ? . . .
Oct. 31 to Bring Homecoming Goblins
by CHAIthDEAN NEWELL
Chal Columnist
Homecoming is on its way. The big
day comes Oct. HI, along with Hallo-
ween, the last day of the month, and
midsemester reports.
The theme of this year's
HC activities is NTX
Roundup, and members of
the Homecoming commit-
tee, whose chairmen are
Dr. Harold Farmer and
Dan llinkle, are hoping
to round up as many grad-
uates, ex-students, and
former faculty members and their fam-
ilies as possible.
The classes of years ending in "9"
drain on the stage show burget and mi wiHalno 1,t' honored at this year's Home-
Leaves Hole
pay rat her than see the orchestra
closed down completely. If lhe members
of the orchestra would agree, as so
many already have, to forego the $1
payment, there would be no financial
feud between the cowboy and the sod-
buster is a "must" since North Texas
is playing the University of Wichita
Wheatshockers, symbolic of farming
la nd.
Then the big game will come, and
NT's Missouri Valley conference crown
will be at stake once again. The Home-
coming committee definitely wants
Fonts field to be full of students and
exes who'll yell "yipee" and "podnuh"
for the benefit of the Green and White.
Among the afternoon's affairs comes
the barbecue, very much in line with
the Roundup theme. Then frat and or-
ganizational parties will be the bill of
fare.
Meanwhile, back at Fouts ranch, dur-
ing the game, or rather at the half, a
new Homecoming queen will be lassoed
into office.
Now, all of this excitement sounds
great, but I have a problem. To begin
with, how does one ride in three differ-
ent cars during the parade? Then, how
does one participate in pre-game activ-
ities for two organizations when the
functions are simultaneous?
Anyway, Homecoming is a yearly
fun fest that affords a meeting time
and place for seldom-seen friends.
I can't wait to see someone try to
combine Halloween, Homecoming, and
Roundup.
Carrico Develops
Plastic Samples
20 Years Ago
(let. 13, 1931* . . . Dean of Women Dr. Edith
Clark anil Dean of Men Theron Fonts stated
today that no more deliveries of food will be
made to dormitories or campus homes after
II) p.m. so that the health of the students and
quiet hours will be protected. . . . The most
popular tunes of the week, according to the
Platter Parade, are Love Grows on the White
Oak Tree and The Last Jump. . . . Dr. G. C.
Wilson, instructor in chemurgy, announced
Monday that two of the nation's top author-
ities on chemurgy will visit NT today. The
men will examine samples of a new plastic
which has been developed by Dr. Wilson and
Dr. J. L. Carrico.
15 Years Ago
Oct. 13, 1944 . . . NT's music department
has recently enrolled two new students from
foreign countries. They are J')hn Bice, a
junior music major from Naceio, Alngoas,
Brazil, and Sonja (iisela Hornstein, a fresh-
man music major from Hamburg, Germany.
John's hobby is character dancing, and he has
danced professionally in several South Amer-
ican eities. Sonja's hobby is cooking, and she
is particularly adept at fixing some of her
native dishes.
5 'Year* Ago
Oct. 12, 1954 . . . Four speech students rep-
resented the NT Debate club at its first ap-
pearance of the semester at an exhibition de-
bate at Denton high school Tuesday.
Looney Tunes
reason for discontinuing the orchestra.
Another plan is to increase the ad-
mission price from .'JO cents to 40 cents.
I his cost would still be a dime below
the local theati prices and yet could
do much to allay the cost of the stage
show.
The stage show is regarded by many
North Texans as a primary form of
week-end entertainment. If the movies
coming. North Texas had its beginnings
in 1H!K), when the idea of a Normal col-
lege was conceived. In 185)4 J. C. Chil-
ton leased the school as a private nor-
mal institution under the name of
Texas Normal college. In IX'M M. B.
Terrill became president. He ended his
reign in 1901.
In March, 1H!W, North Texas came
under the jurisdiction of the state, and
Catchy Lyrics, On-Stage Jokes Work Together
To Shoot Personable Kingston Trio Skyward
the show were top quality, the or- years of progress began.
at
orchestra might not be missed so much.
But since the movies are from six
months to a year old, and very often
so-so, the abolition of the orchestra lias
taken the icing off the entertainment
cake and sliced a good jiortion out of Its
center.
—Paul Recer
This year's parade will take the tradi-
tional route from the football field onto
the main campus and on towards town.
Hundreds of eager-eyed students will be
watching the floats and cars as they
come rolling along. There's sure to be
a Wagon Train characterization or a
Maverick imitator, and the traditional
State Fair's Sparkle Pulls In Crowd
Texas' state fair got under way
Saturday and will l>e open through
Oct. 25. The fair is the nation's largest
annual exposition in terms of attend-
ance, which last year climbed to a rec-
ord total of 2,757,734.
On Monday blues and ballad singer
Sam Cooke will be presented in four |M>r-
formances on the Mobil outdoor stage
at 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m.
The Shower of Stars will wind up
next Wednesday night with a jazz festi-
val in the new State Fair Livestock
coliseum. There will be no "rock and
roll" music. Instead the "cool" modern
ami traditional jazz rhythms of Woody
Herman and his orchestra and Chris
Barber and bis band will be presented.
The guest vocalist will be Cathi Hayes.
• • ♦
Or. Walter Praamtt Webb, • prominent
Materia* iW utlwr, predicted Saturday
Out tfce Mit eeat«7 ■*? M«*g to the
fleotfc. W«tot a prufa—w at the University
a# Trtfff aa4 pad prwMiit af lite Ameri-
a special
report on the South for the unh ersit> 's
Bureau of Ruaineaa Kexearrh.
"Aa things stand now. as I aee th? South
for the next 70 years, I would not advise
any young person to leave it, because it is
not onl) possible hut it is also probable that
this next century will belong to the South."
said Dr. Webb
• • •
President Eisenhower celebrates his
69th birthday today, ending a year in
which he ha:- carried on a vigorous
round of activities and enjoyed general
good health. Only two other presidents
—Andrew Jackson and James Buchan-
an have attained the age of 69 while
serving in the White House. They did
so in their final year in office.
• • a
Premier Ahdel Karim Kasaem of Baghdad
waa recovering rapidly from bullet wounds
he received laat Wednesday as he rode down
Itagfcdad'a main atreet. Two bullet* broke
hia left arm and a third hit hia right hand.
One man involved in the ahooting was killed
on the spot and a special committee of of-
hy JOHNNIE LOONEY
Chat Columnist
It all began with that legendary character
Tom Dooley. I'm referring, naturally, to the
rising popularity of that singing group, the
Kingston Trio.
My renewed interest in this
group was prompted by their
recent appearance in Dallas
when I, and half the North
Texas student body, was for-
tunate enough to hear them
sing "in person." When about
a year ago the trio began sing-
ing of the murder on the
mountain and the fact that if it hadn't been
for Grayson I'd been in Tennessee, collegiates
all over the nation adopted the trio as their
special vocal group. Being an average college
student, I too became an avid fan of the
Kingston trio. But I'm not as devoted a fan
as my roommate, who owns every record the
group ever made.
Since the Kingston trio is so popular, I have
decided to analyze the secret of their success.
In the first place, the titles of their songs are
so strange that everyone buys the records to
Dooley was the hero of the younger set, much
as Davy Crockett had been the hero a few
years previously, But the refrain of Dooley
was soon replaced by the countless records
the trio began to cut.
Even though the titles and lyrics of their
songs are a departure from the usual, these in
themselves would not have been enough to
hear what kind of lyrics could fit the titles, achive the skyrocketing success of the group
Let's face it, who else has recorded things
with titles like Zombie .Inmboree, Merry Min-
uet, I Bawled, MTA, Scotch and Soda, Ti-
juana Jail, and Coplas? The lyrics to these
songs are usually no disappointment to the
record buyers.
These catchy lyrics were the cause of their
initial success. Granted, these lyrics can get
fairly boring after hearing them day and
night, night and day for the many weeks Tom
ficers and judge* has been set up to Inves-
tigate the attempted assasaination.
a a a
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's
Conservative party continued direction
of Britain's destinies after winning !?6o
seats in the new Parliament last week,
compared to 258 for Labor and 5 for
the Liberals.
a a
The U.S. has derided not to invite Yugo-
slav President Tito to visit this country with-
in the forseeable future on grounds that
President Eisenhower's schedule is too
crowded, diplomatic sources said Friday.
Yugoslavia officials were reported surprised.
• • •
Diamond-encrusted jewels valued at
$."19,500 were reported missing Satur-
day from the swank Walnut Hills home
of Dallas attorney Ethan B. Stroud.
The Strouds told police they discov-
ered the burglary after returning to
their home from the Oklahoma-Texas
football game.
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during the past year. The number one secret
of their success, as far as I'm concerned, is
their fabulous stafe personality.
During their performance at Southern
Methodist university, the Kingston trio walked
around the small platform and told jokes.
Immediately after the first number, all three
took off their shoes in order not to jar the
microphone. This was a necessary precaution
since they devoted fully half of their time to
jumping around. During one portion of the
show, one of the trio (who knows which one?)
did a perfect imitation of the one, the only
EP—for those who don't remember the days
of rock-n-roll, that is Elvis (the soldier) Pres-
ley.
Like a typical collegian, the Kingston trio
spent most of the time slamming someone
or some other college. One of their more pop-
ular lines was "Thank you for this wonderful
reception here in Waco." The people of Dal-
las and SMU loved this, I'm jure.
At another time during the course of the
evening, two of the three grabbed their gui-
tars and began singing that familiar Bird
Dog. The entire audience began clapping be-
fore it realized that this wag not one of the
trio's famous aongs but rather one that waa
made famous by the Everly brothers. After
the tremendous round of applause, one singer
said, "This ia just a little something we picked
up down #t College Station,"
With personalities like these guyi, who are
also good-looking (even though they are mar-
ried). how could they help being successful?
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