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PAGE 2—THE NORTH TEXAS DAILY
Wednesday, September 28, 1977
Untimely Disease Hits NT,-
Students Face Time Crisis
If you don't have time to read this article, you'll un-
derstand what I mean when 1 say time is man's worst
enemy.
It's obvious almost everywhere you look. People are
constantly in a rush—and for good reason. There's
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simply not enough time to do everything one has to
do.
For example, some people are always late. No mat-
ter what time any event begins, it's too early for them.
Others may get there on time, but they're out of
breath and unprepared when they arrive. It's what
some experts call an acute case of the Rush Syndrome.
AND THE DISEASE isn't contained to any one
faction of the population. It has reached epidemic
proportions across America. Our national motto is
"Fast, Fast, Fast."
As a nation, we're plagued with an overabundance
of things to do, and most of us have trouble deciding
what to do first.
Take your own life, for example:
The alarm goes off at 7 a.m. You roll over and turn
it off so you can get those extra 10 minutes of sleep. At
7:45, you wake up and realize you're not going to have
time before class to do the homework you didn't have
time for last night.
You rush to eat breakfast, get dressed and make a
futile effort to get your homework done.
YOU LEAVE the house at 8:45.
When you get to school, you find that the closest
parking space is only a block further than it would
have been for you to walk from home, so you park
and dash madly towards the other side of campus.
Along the way, you meet three other people who
stop to tell you how far away they had to park.
Once again, you are 15 minutes late for class, and
when you get there, you feel like you're going to throw
up breakfast because you had to hurry.
THE DAY doesn't get much better as it progresses.
You make it to your next class on time, but the
teacher's late, so you work yourself into a sweat
because you don't have the homework to turn in.
After class, you have a club meeting. During the
meeting, you get fired up and volunteer to bake 100
cookies for the bake sale. You realize too late how lit-
tle time you have.
When the meeting is over, you decide to go to the
library for a little quiet relaxation to calm your nerves.
Oops! It's 12:15. Time for lunch. You have to go to
work at 1 p.m., and you want a quick meal. You have
lots of fast-food chains to choose from.
ON THE WAY to Burger Doodle, you get caught in
a traffic jam caused by the city police having a driver's
license check.
Since you lost your license last February, it takes an
extra 15 minutes to tell the policeman why you haven't
had time to go get another one and for him to write
you a ticket anyway.
By this time, you only have 20 minutes to eat.
With onion rings on your breath and catsup drib-
bled down your new white slacks, you arrive at work
10 minutes late.
YOU GET OFF at 6 p.m. and have just enough time
to gulp down a beer and a bag of Munchos before
your 6:30 night class.
When you finally get home, you have to wash last
week's dirty dishes and clean the bathtub. After the
dishes are done, you decide to save the bathtub for
next week.
You fall asleep at 11:05 thinking "I'll get up early in
the morning and do my homework."
And there's no relief in sight. You save all the big
things for the weekend, but instead of working on
your term paper and that overdue book report, you
sleep or watch football games, adding more dilemmas
to your schedule for next week.
In The Paradox of Time, Henry Austin Dobson
wrote, "Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays,
we go."
Dormitories, Apartments
Have Common Drawbacks
By ALISON COOK, Special Writer
A minor controversy concerning the merits of dorm
living vis a vis off-campus (generally apartment) living
has been stirring lately.
As a six-semester veteran of various NT residence
halls and a six-week novice apartmentee, perhaps I
can offer insights and comparisons to aid readers in
deciding this crucial issue.
The first consideration is the bathroom.
BOTH TYPES of dwellings have a common draw-
back. I have yet to move into a place with a shower
that didn't need a thorough cleaning.
A dorm shower has an additional drawback stem-
ming from the building's precarious plumbing system.
Whereas, an unsuspecting showerer may receive a
spray of scalding water.
Similarly, apartment plumbing is not without its
own surprises. As the result of a recent adventure with
my sewage pipes, I might write my own version of
"Roots."
The other morning I awoke to discover my
bedroom carpet had absorbed waste water that was
unable to drain properly. The pipes were clogged with
dirt and decayed plantlife.
Every flush of the upstairs apartment's toilet caused
a rising of the tides in my bedroom.
OTHER UTILITIES work equally as bad in both
dorms and apartments. In particular, air-conditioning
units seem to operate on the "feast or famine" princi-
ple.
I was always stupefied by the fact that my dorm
room could be 87 degrees F., while, simultaneously,
the other suite room could be 63 degrees F.
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To make matters worse, the wing thermostat was in
my room. Fellow residents would drop by and beg me
to fiddle with the controls. Eventually, the head resi-
dent received so many complaints that he personally
set my thermostat. Residents were no long to tamper
with the temperature controls on pain of expulsion, he
warned.
My apartment temperature is controlled by a single,
room air conditioner. It has two settings: off and high.
From 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. I freeze. From 3:01 to 7 a.m. I
thaw. About 7:30 a.m. when my room is just right, 1
have to get up and go to class.
A second consideration in choosing between dorms
and apartments is meal preparation. Of course, a ma-
jor advantage of the dorm is that somebody else is
slaving over a hot oven and getting the kind of hands
about which "Madge" is always wisecracking.
MOREOVER, A dorm resident avoids the sizable
capital outlay apartment dwellers make for kitchen
goods.
My cookware resembles molded Reynold's Wrap
painted "Harvest Gold," (other choices being
"Avocado Green" or "Coco-bean Brown.").
Hint: Never leave this type of cookware on a hot
stove unattended. It will melt, as I discovered one
evening after returning home with a newspaper.
However, these minor trials of melting saucepans and
overflowing Cream of Wheat are nonexistent for
dorm residents.
Yet theirs is a slightly more difficult problem. At
least once a week, (depending upon how finicky one
is) a dorm resident must mix and match flavors to con-
coct something palatable.
On the other hand, an enterprising apartment dwel-
ler like myself can whip up her favorite dishes every
night of the week. Just for old times sake, I am
tempted to prepare "Frito Pie" and over-oleoed broc-
coli to see if I can still make the unedible edible.
An Editorial
Show Needs Local Slate
The Homecoming Committee is a group of in-
terested people who get together cach fall and
organize the festivities for that year's Homecom-
ing.
The committee is made up of representatives
from the Student Association, alumni, facultyand
staff, as well as members of the Talons and Green
Jackets booster clubs.
Year after year, this select group of responsible
individuals takes on the large task of planning,
organizing and executing all the activities which
are associated with Homecoming.
They create a theme for each year's activities,
schedule a parade, after-game dance and a show
with "big name" entertainment. Each fall, the
committee does a better than average job planning
and organizing in all the mentioned areas except
one—contracting entertainment for the
Homecoming show which a majority of the stu-
dents at North Texas would enjoy and pay a good
price to see.
Last fall the committee was totally unsuccessful
in contracting a group in time for the show.
Consequently, there was no Homecoming show.
This year, by the middle of September, less than
two months away from Homecoming, the com-
mittee was delaying the action on a decision of
who to contract for the show. Tony Gustwick,
committee chairman said the delay was to allow
the committee more time to find out which bands
are touring and are within the budget for the
show.
Wednesday, the Homecoming Committee an-
nounced that negotiations were under way to con-
tract Diahann Carroll for the Nov. 5 show in the
Coliseum. Miss Carroll will cost the committee
$10,000.
Miss Carroll, who has one record, has been out
of the publics' eye since her TV show, "Julia,"
went off the air. When the committee brought The
Pointer Sisters in 1975, who were current
recording artists, they lost money on the deal,
Mary Yates, assistant director of student activities
said.
Perhaps "big name" entertainment is not the
key to a successful Homecoming show. An open-
air concert with a line-up of local bands, presented
in Fouts Field with a general admission ticket,
could prove to be a winner.
But if the Homecoming Committee is deter-
mined to bring in "big name" entertainment that
a majority of the North Texas community would
enjoy paying to see, they should start hunting
down a group in January for the show following
November.
—ANDY JACKSON
Students Take to Wilderness
Two Courses Teach Budget Backpacking
More and more people go into the national parks
and wilderness areas to enjoy the natural resources
each year.
Many unknowlingly abuse these areas because they
have never learned proper backpacking procedures,
Sammie Jean Estes of the health, physical education
and recreation faculty said.
Miss Estes teaches two backpacking courses. Even a
low-income college student can purchase the essentials
for backpacking at a reasonable price, if one isn't too
worried about the brand name, she said.
Discount houses and Army Navy stores are the best
places to shop, Miss Estes said.
"The fun of backpacking to me isn't taking a bunch
of expensive equipment and living luxuriously or hav-
ing gourmet-type meals," she said, but if you use your
imagination and improvise with Ihe Mailable
materials, "that's where the real fun is."
THE CHEAPER backpacks function just as well as
expensive ones, Miss Estes said. "The metal is not as
strong or there isn't a guarantee on them, but they will
last just as long if you take good care of them."
Even the more expensive packs will easily break if
they aren't handled properly, she said.
Light-weight tents are very practical if you can af-
ford one, but with a hatchet, some rope, a pancho,
wood and a little imagination, explained Miss Estes,
you can easily build a lean-to shelter.
When buying food for a backpacking trip Miss
Estes said, look for items in the grocery store such as
Bisquik, dehydrated fruits and dry cereal. Commercial
backpacking food stuffs are good but "so expensive"
she said.
Miss Estes recommends "The Supermarket Back-
Packer" by Harriet Barker as a handy guide. The
book contains various recipes for camp meals.
TWO TRIPS are planned each semester in the
backpacking course. The first, a two-day trip, will be
an "awareness" trip. The student will learn basic skills
and procedures including how to carry a backpack,
starting fires and breaking camp, Miss Estes said.
The second trip will last four days and three nights.
This year it will be in the Spanish peaks of Colorado.
On this trip, the students will apply the skills learned
during the semester.
Information about Texas trails may be obtained by
writing to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in
Austin.
Miss Estes said students may browse through her
map collection, which covers many states.
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Thirst for Adventure
Photo by JON WHITSELL
Kerry Scudder, 1974 NT graduate, is a backpack-
ing enthusiast. Even a low-income college stu-
dent can purchase the essentials for backpack-
ing, if one isn't too worried about the brand name,
Sammie Jean Estes of the health, physical educa-
tion and recreation faculty said.
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Feedback
Teachers Should Welcome Student Evaluation
Betsy Friauf
2311 Stella Apt. 235
It's distressing to learn (Daily, Sept. 23) that Dr.
Jim Pearson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
doesn't think students are smart enough to figure out
that what applies to student evaluations also applies,
usually, to the quality of teaching.
If students are negative about early morning classes,
so are teachers. I don't want to stereotype, but all too
often, teachers are late, drowsy or disorganized early
in the morning. Not all are, of course, but I'd wager
the percentages on this are about the same for both
teachers and students.
If teaching is poor at certain times of the day,
naturally classes taught at those times will score lower
on student evaluations. Teachers who always get stuck
teaching required courses may be unenthusiastic,
prompting the same kind of evaluation.
As Dr. Larry Kelly points out, teachers should be
happy to get a concrete evaluation of how they're do-
ing. In most occupations and professions, a person has
little real feedback on how he's performing. If he's not
fired, he's doing OK, but how OK, exactly? Although
teaching quality cannot be neatly scored and
categorized, evaluations provide at least a human
yardstick of success.
Students can't be as biased and stubborn as those
who fear evaluation seem to imply; otherwise, who
would ever try to teach them anything? If the abstract
and often esoteric lessons of history, the philosophies
of famous authors and the nuances of psychology can
be taught to such mental deficients, why can't these
same persons be trusted to evaluate the same teaching
process?
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