The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1961 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WESTERNER WORLD
Friday, December 1, 1961
Teacher Talk
Teens’ Unwise Time Use
Instructors’ Main Lament
'Veni, Vidi, Vici* Sigh Students
Mrs. Hawkins
BY TOMMY HESTER
Are students today as anxious
to acquire knowledge as they
were 10 years ago? Last issue in
Teen-Talk we asked six students
this question and all responded
with a resounding "yes."
This was very heartening—but
we wondered if it represented a
wide enough range of replies to
allow the drawing of conclusions.
Accordingly, we have this week
polled five teachers on their feel-
ings, and in the Dec. 15 issue we
plan to present the opinions of a
number of parents of high schoo-
lers.
Like the students, all the tea-
chers—not all of whom, it might
be well to point out—taught in
the early 1950’s
(some were
students then
t h e m s e 1 ves)
answer-
ed “yes,” but
some had res-
ervations.
“There are
probably as
many high
school students
a s eager t o
learn new, but there are ap-
parently fewer students who
really achieve scholastic excel-
lence because of the increased
number of outside activities,”
says Mrs. H. B. Hawkins, history
and government teacher.
"I BELIEVE" counters Mrs.
Mary McDaniel, business in-
structor, “that I have the most
m eager group of
students I have
taught in sev-
eral years . . .
they volunteer
when there is
something t o'
be done in ad-
dition to the
regular work,
and I require
more and bet-
ter work than
I did 10 years ago. More students
have come in to make up work
and get additional help this year
than had in the first nine weeks
the last three school terms.”
M r. Ronald
Gooch, chemi-
stry teacher,
comments re-
garding this
fact that “in
some years the
anxiousness to
acquire know-
ledge is more
_ evident than in
Mr. Gooch others.”
WHY OR WHY not do today’s
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Mr. Rummel
students learn as much or more
than those in the ’50’s? Mrs. Ag-
nes D Robert-
|' son, English
i n s t r uctor,
says they do
because “the
student of to-
day, being a-
,ware of the
world situat-
Jgplll ion, seeks t o
llllll a v a il himself
Mrs. Roberison of the expand-
e d opportuni-
ties provided, especially in the
science and math fields. This
awareness makes him desire to be
able to cope with future situa-
tions.”
Mr. Eugene D. Rummel, math
teacher, although agreeing that
day students want to
learn, says that
outside un-aca-
d e m ic activi-
ties take u p
their time.
“Very few of
us,” he conti-
nues, “work to
full capacity in
school or at our
jobs.
“Nearly every
student could,
achieve greater things in school
if each would develop a sound
philosophy of life and a clear
goal toward which to work. And
to accomplish that goal, hard
work and practice are needed.”
"SOMETIMES," adds Mrs. Mc-
Daniel, I think pupils are more
anxious to learn (than were those
in the last decade), their studies
must compete with television
programs, school and community
entertainment, automobiles, mo-
ney, and the tense conditions of
the world.”
“To be a scholar it will per-
haps be necessary for the student
to see that his time is well ba-
lanced between his academic pre-
paration and his responsibility to
activities that may or may not be
worthy of his consideration,” ad-
vises Mrs. Hawkins on the prob-
lem not having time for school
work.
MR. GOOCH echoes the state-
ments of educators by claiming
that students are “just as eager to
learn, but may be in a more spe-
cialized area than they were 10
years ago.”
So, now we know, the teachers
are on our side. All we have to do
is to convince them that we dis-
tribute our time wisely.
Idea Exchange
my/ HY can't we use the language lab?
W Everyone else in school gets to."
This rather ambiguous statement has,
more or less, become the battle cry of Latin
students in their campaign to gain admission
to the new third floor foreign language
laboratory.
At the first of the year, those taking the
ancient language were allowed to practice
their diction in the lab; but, some weeks ago,
an edict handed down from the central office
cancelled these privileges.
The main objections posed by the adminis-
tration have been the difficult problems of
complying with rules of a government act
which partially financed the lab and of find-
ing time for Latin classes along with those in
Spanish and French—a total of 17 groups—to
utilize the facilities.
Designed for the promotion of modern con-
versational languages, the lab was partially
paid for under the National Defense Educa-
tion Act. This piece of legislation was passed
in 1958 to provide better nation-wide training
in math, science, and modern foreign lang-
uages— studies deemed necessary to keep
pace in the modern world.
As the law was originally interpreted, it
meant that the "dead" languages—such as
Latin—were virtually ostracized from the tape
recording booths. This resulted in the mod-
ern languages gaining sole use of the lab and
Latin being relegated to the ordinary class-
room routine of reading and reciting.
However, after studying the situation,
school officials have re-interpreted the regu-
lations and decided that the lab was built for
the teaching of all languages and even speech.
All these classes may now use the lab—pro-
vided that they don't interefere with the
schedule of French and Spanish students.
Therefore, in the immediate future — as
soon as one final detail (scheduling) is com-
pleted—Latin pupils will be in the lab at
least once a week.
We heartily commend the Lubbock admin-
istrators for their decision concerning the
language laboratory and Latin classes.
S&Ufit*.
Freeways Have Nothing On Hall Congestion
BY VELVIA BISHOP
Just as stop lights are placed
at main intersections throughout
Lubbock, red and green signals
sometimes seem necessary during
passing periods in this Westerner
“city.”
WITH 1,600 students, each car-
rying a full cargo of books, fran-
tically steering their sundry ways
through the halls, it is almost an
impossibility to gain the right-of-
way at busy corridor intersections
long enough to get across.
Granted, judicious use of el-
bows may gain one admission to
the line going up or down the
stairs, whereupon the sheer mo-
mentum of the crowd will carry
him to his destination, but many
times this method does not bring
the desired results when one is
trying to buck the crowd at
right angles in order to cross the
hall.
AFTER working halfway across
the hall through, say, westbound
traffic, the venturer is brought
up short against the unyielding
stream of eastbound travelers.
Until a break appears, he stands
in an imaginary, unrespected, pe-
destrian traffic island in the midst
of the onrush.
During this waiting period his
toes are trod upon, his books are
knocked about, and his sense of
well-being in general is severely
threatened.
A SIMILAR situation exists
when one attempts to enter or
leave a classroom a few seconds
after the bell. Because scholars
are either anxious to get to the
next class or more than willing to
leave their current one, late-lea-
vers are often stranded in the
door, bravely trying to flag down
the crowd in the hall long enough
to blend with it themselves.
Even more effective than a city
stop sign is the perennial line of
students waiting their turns at
each of the water fountains.
THE ONLY trouble i s that
these sure-fire traffic halters al-
ways occur in what amounts to
the middle of the block—and
therefore only contribute to the
overall problem.
From all of this, at least one
undebatable conclusion may be
drawn: just as driving a car calls
for rules of courtesy, maneuver-
ing oneself through the school’s
corridors likewise requires the
exercise of thoughtfulness.
Be Sure To Sniff Deeply While Sniffing Good;
Season For Smelling Due To Stop With Colds
Smells surround us, yet we pay no real
attention. Our noses run the gamut of de-
lightful odors that permeate and surround the
school, but our brains record no sensation.
We rarely notice the smell of the paint
baking on the radiators, the smoke of the in-
cinerator mixed with hickory smoke from
nearby private fireplaces, or the red tile roof
and the apshalt streets' peculiar scents after
a rain.
Our noses sometimes play a trick on us and
mix the acrid stink escaped from the chem-
istry classes with the dab of Chanel located
behind a girl's ear somewhere in the class-
room.
Sensitive noses may reach out and pick up
the remaining reminder of a workman's pipe
or cigarette.
Hungry students have their noses tuned for
those oniony odors from the cafeteria.
Mimeographed sheets are a delight to sniff.
Some teachers like the stale tobacco and
fresh coffee scent of the main lounge; the
odors indicate conversations or relaxation.
The library emits the typical musky aroma
of books, symbolizing peace and knowledge.
Truly, before those winter colds set in, we
might stop for a moment and use one of na-
ture's wonders: the sense of smell.
Schools Sell Scarves/ Sponsor Orphans
San Benito High School’s stu-
dent council begins selling note-
books and scarves bearing the
school emblem next week.
ORPHAN sponsorship has be-
TOU 7%e?
_ Velvia Bishop
_Donna Damron
_ Marette Conn
_ Bobby Miller
___Tommy Hester
Cub Reporters__________________Mary K.
Fisher, Susan Stipic, Pauline Edwards,
Melinda Needles, Jan Edwards
Head Photographer _Robert Scarlett
Assistant Head____t____Phil Overly
BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Manager_Bob Mathis
Asst. Ad. Mgr.__Mike Gross
Ad Salesmen__Mary Ann Duckworth
Mitzi Davis, Mike Pettit, Dale Edler,
Brenda Dooley, Loyce Hunter. Jimmy
Kennedy
Bookkeeper___Jimmy Tillinghast
Exchange Ed. and Circulation Mgr. -
Janet Morrison
Typists__Donald Dunn
Louise Hodges, Sandra Watkins,
Jerry Shoemake
Sponsor _ Mrs. Nancy Kaisner
At the recent District Thirteen
English teacher's workshop in
Levelland, Mrs. LaVerne Han-
cock, junior instructor, commit-
ted the "unpardonable sin"—for
an English teacher, anyway.
When it was announced that
she had been elected to serve as
the group's program chairman
when it meets here next year,
she exclaimed in disbelief, "Me?"
Quickly stammering her apolo-
gies to the shocked teachers
around her, she explained her
grammatical error. "I must have
meant 'Does he mean me,' not
'Is it me?'"
come the responsibility of a jun-
ior homeroom at Township
School of Evanston, 111., through
its participation in the Foster Par-
ent Plan. To raise the necessary
funds for provisions of clothing,
food, and monthly cash grants to
a 16-year-old Korean orphan girl,
the homeroom sponsors a movie.
Money, along with clothes,
toys, games, and school equip-
ment given by members of the
foster parent homeroom, is sent
periodically to the Plan. When
the homeroom graduates, the pro-
ject will end, since the orphan
will finish her schooling at the
same time.
The group’s teacher declares
that any homeroom could easily
sponsor half-a-dozen orphans. Re-
sults of such a project could be
very rewarding if it were extend-
ed into other high schools and
carried on as an aspect of the
American goodwill tradition.
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