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The North Texas Daily
Friday, January 24, 1986 North Texas State University, Denton, Texas 69th Year No. 58
Commuters
upset over
bus agenda
By Marc McDonald
Staff Writer_
Due to unexpected schedule cancellations in bus service,
many students who commute from Dallas have had to start
making other arrangements to get to NT this spring.
Without prior notification, Texas Bus Lines, the only
commuter bus service between Dallas and NT, made three
schedule changes starting Dec. 3, 1985. These changes
included the cancellation of the bus which arrived at NT at
7:40 a.m., Monday through Friday. Among those affected
by this change were Dallas commuters with 8 a.m. classes.
In addition, the buses scheduled to depart from NT at
11:10 a.m. and at 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, were
cancelled. Among those affected by the 11:10 cancellation
were students who attend school half a day and work in
Dallas in the afternoons Dallas commuters who work on
campus or who have labs which end at 5 p.m. were affected
by the 5:30 p.m. bus cancellation.
A spokesman for Texas Bus Lines said the decision to
cancel the routes was made on an economic basis rather
than because of low ridership.
Larry Burge, operations manager for the company's Grand
Prairie office said a factor behind the decision was increased
insurance costs. Because of higher insurance rates, the routes
which were cancelled were losing money, he said.
“We have a business to run, and our priority is to serve
the university,” Burge said. “But we felt it was better to
do this than to continue to run at a loss.”
Burge said there is no chance the cancelled routes will
be restored later. He said he could not foresee any additional
schedule changes in the future.
Many commuters affected by the schedule changes have
begun car pools to get to NT. Sue Witschi, the coordinator
for off-campus students, said 220 students have signed up
for Operation Lift, an NT service that helps match up students
who live in the same area and want to car pool.
“One concern people have (about car pooling) is that
they’ll get into a bad situation,” Witschi said. "But a lot
of students have said it’s a good way to meet people and to
make new friends.”
Students interested in the program can get more information
by contacting Witschi at her office in University Union
318A or by calling her at 565-2648.
Student Association Vice President Phillip Hernandez was
one of those affected by the bus schedule changes. He said
the SA is planning to start a petition calling for Texas Bus
Lines to restore the routes.
Dean of Students Joe Stewart said he plans to talk to
officials from Texas Bus Lines in three or four weeks about
the company’s future scheduling plans. “We will continue
to explore this whole transportation issue for the next few
weeks,” he said.
NT, TWU join
national trend
By Stephanie McCollum
Staff Writer___
NT is part of a national movement toward marketing
universities in order to attract quality students, said Dr.
Peter Lane, executive assistant to the chancellor.
Lane said Wednesday that a special Marketing Task Force
turned in its report to NT President Al Hurley Jan. 10. The
suggestions arc now under consideration, and once the final
plan is drafted, implementation could take up to six months,
he said. The task force was commissioned in late November
to suggest “short-term actions to enhance the image of NT,’’
said Lane.
The recommendations include ensuring that the university
has sufficient staff, holding a high school counselors’ day,
revising the university literature and using the university’s
centennial class as a selling point for candidates of the class
of 1990, said Lane.
Texas Woman's University has also taken steps toward
a concerted marketing effort. The university has set up the
University Enrollment Studies Committee which will organize
the recruitment effort at TWU, said Diane Freytag. the new
director of admissions and registration at TWU. She said
that expected benefits from the effort include increased alumni
involvement in the university and increased worth of alumni
degrees.
“It just makes good business sense to attract students
who are likely to succeed,” said Dr. Keith Swigger, chairman
of the management subcommittee of the Enrollment Studies
Committee. “We, like most universities, have seen a decline
in enrollment since the 1960s.”
Swigger attributed the decrease in the number of college
students to the tact that the baby boom generation has passed
the college level. Therefore, said Swigger, competition for
quality college students has increased.
Goals for the committee, which will continue to oversee
the recruitment effort at TWU, entail keeping freshman
enrollment growing at the same rate as the high school
senior class and increasing enrollment for ethnic minorities.
Photo by CARIENE STARR
MM-MM GOOD—Carol Kirchoff watches her seated on the floor of the Men's Gym during
son Andrew, who found dinner easier to eat the Taste of Denton ' Food Fair Thursday.
Hotel program
draws students
By Paul Claus
Staff Writer
In only its second semester. NT’s
newly created hotel and restaurant
management degree program in the
School of Home Economics is enjoying
a great response from students the
director of the program said Thursday.
Dr. Richard Tas said the program,
which began offering classes last sem-
ester, has about 70 majors. He said 36
students had signed up this semester for
the program’s entry-level class, “Ori-
entation to the Hospitality Industry,”
being offered for the first time this
semester.
“That’s an excellent student response
for a class that’s never been offered
before.” said Tas.
He said the progam has attracted
many undecided majors from the Col-
lege of Arts and Sciences and College
of Business Administration.
TAS SAID THE formal study of
hotel and restaurant management is
a “comparatively new academic dis-
cipline.”
“The first such program was started
in 1922 at Cornell University. Here we
are in 1986, and there are only 115 other
such progams in the country. That isn't
very many, especially when compared
to the number of business schools in
the country.”
He said the program will be "intro-
ducing quality employees into the hos-
pitality field, for which there is a strong
demand.. especially in the Metroplex.”
Students will be required to take 13
courses specifically oriented to the hotel
and restaurant industry, as well as a
general business core of 10 courses.
Tas said many of the courses for the
program are courses that existed pre-
viously in the School of Home Econ-
omics but have been reorganized to meet
the needs of the program. Others have
been created especially for the program.
IN THE SPRING the program will
begin using facilities at the soon-to-be-
completed North Texas Sheraton Hotel
and Conference Center He said two
courses will make use of the hotel:
“Hotel and Restaurant Management
Systems” and “Hotel Front Office
Management."
Tas said students will be using the
facilities as a laboratory, working with
management of the hotel on class pro-
jects.
Students will also have practical
laboratory experience in the restaurant
teaching lab proposed for the College
Inn. Tentative plans call for the lab to
be a full-service restaurant open to the
public.
Courses to be taught at the College
Inn are “Dining Room Service and
Management.” "Quantity Food Pro-
duction” and “Food and Beverage
Operations Management.”
Eight professors to speak their last
UPC, housing present ‘Last Lecture Series’
By Diana Madden
Staff Writer
The “Last Lecture Scries," which begins Wednesday,
Jan. 29, will give eight NT faculty members the chance to
deliver their last lectures, only early.
The Rev. Ivan Orloff, University Ministry Center chaplain,
said Thursday that the series will allow the faculty members
to say what they would say during the last lecture of their
lives.
Dr. John Gossett of the Division of Communication and
Public Address will give the first lecture on “Responsibility
and Freedom of Speech” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Bruce
Hall lobby Orloff said it will be the first in a series of
eight lectures sponsored by the housing department and the
University Program Council Issues and Ideas Committee.
“Each individual has to decide what constitutes responsible
expression for him or herself,” Gossett said Thursday. "All
speech should be protected, but certain acts may or may
not be protected, depending on whether there are laws against
them.”
Gossett said people who commit violent acts such as
defacing public property or bombing abortion clinics should
be prosecuted, but people should have the right to express
their views.
“If we don’t use the First Amendment, the freedoms it
protects begin to errode,” he said. “People need to talk
about public affairs and not be afraid of government
censorship
Gossett said cameras should be allowed in courtrooms.
“The press should have the right to televise a trial in its
entirety. They should be responsible not to make it sensa-
tional, but fair, informative and newsworthy.”
Mike Thurston, Issues and Ideas Committee member and
Bedford sophomore, said the faculty members will be allowed
to discuss any topic without restrictions.
"It should be interesting because it should be contro-
versial," Thurston said. “The lectures should be stimulating.
Dr. Gerard O'Donovan of the biology faculty. Dr. James
Kitchens of the sociology faculty. Dr. Kevin Korsyn of the
music faculty and Dr. R William McCarter of the art faculty
are scheduled to lecture in the following weeks. Edward J.
Coomes Jr. of the history faculty. Dr Jim Danielson of the
political science faculty and Dr. Lewel Robert Stevens of
the English faculty will also lecture.
Graduate praises former professor
Shuford possessed talent in journalism, poetry
By MIKE COCHRAN
Associated Press
His name was Cecil Eugene Shuford. but two gener-
ations of journalists called him "Pop.”
A prize-winning poet, he founded the journalism depart-
ment at NT in 1945 and served as its chairman until his
retirement in 1974.
Those of us who fell under the Shuford spell perceived
him to be a little larger than life, and we were certain he
lay awake nights devising ways to embarrass us, which he
did. Regularly.
He thought it not at all unreasonable that we somehow
learn to spell and even write, and he spent countless hours
in and out of class seeing that we did so.
For 30 years. Pop Shuford made NT something very
special.
Shuford had the mind of a scholar, the soul of a poet,
the disposition of a drill sargeant and a poorly concealed
affection for any student he thought capable of writing a
legible sentence for an American newspaper or news
magazine.
His laughter was contagious, his frown terrifying.
He spent his public life molding “journalists” and his
private life writing poetry that impressed everyone but his
students, most of whom were too clever to recognize his
enormous talents until later.
His contribution to what we loosely call journalism was
profound. Rare is the daily newspaper in Texas that has
escaped the Shuford influence.
NOTE: Mike Cochran, an Associated Press Fort Worth
correspondent, is a 1958 journalism graduate of NT. Dr
Cecil Shuford, who died earlier this week was one of his
professors.
“The Death in Our Family”
by Gene Shuford
I
The Visit
One tan never tell whal November will be in Texas
it has that delusive warmth ol the blond and love,
promising tenderness forever as though death
will never come; it will let lilacs bloom
in the autumn and the great sun shine with a burning
that invites the ulitmate passion for living even
while the frost waits in tonight's sleep
The rain tan fall in the night and the sky will wash blue
as a baby's eyes in the morning and the puddles will dry
and the big jet will slip down out of cottony c louds
and the phr< r and the pnneess descend and all the banners
will wave above the spirit's shining armor
Already this is a legend, a myth we only hall believe,
saying, surely it must not have happened, surely , it must
have been a dream, surely, it was long ago.
but now is already entrusted with myth and the passion
for forgetting, strong as the passion for remembering,
so that both have woven a golden cloth for the years
of Camelot that were ours, for the greener fields that were
ours.
for the tall castle we saw in the clouds, for the knight
and his lady dropped down from the sky who were our king
and the fairest queen we had ever seen walk proudly
across the tapestry of our time which before
this day was done, all bloody on the stones
would he and trampled with (he blackest death
a man would ever sec or bear to dream of
2
The Dark Flight
A spinning shard of metal can blot the sun
from out of the sky. explode the universe
where love dwells, become a fiery star
that bleeds the roses of their deepest red
It is a black bird, bum for a single flight,
speeding along an arc of darkness swifter
than sound, swifter than the blood's tom torrents
but not so swift as light, winging from
the farthest star
For one would think that night
might come slower than day. slower than tears
from the heart's ort>s or the deep streams of wounds,
or one would think the world might end in a flash
of light, blinding as the sun. bnghtcr
than the greatest nova unfolding petals of fire
But night would come from time's womb bloody and
drabbed.
would come ragged and stained, befouled with mire, clotted
with dying But night would come drabbing the queen s
gown
as she cradled the bleeding flesh and mutely looked into the
sightless eyes.
For he who was king
would move into another room and then.
in another language, would voiceless talk to her,
and there would come a crying in the dark.
and in the night the soft and sudden shower
of unwept tears perfuming all the land
3
The Walking Time
So comes a slow, a walking time for grtef.
a time of measured footfalls, rolling drums,
creaking caissons, and the clop, clop
of horses' hooves
And slow the silence falls
and fills the city with a sobbing sigh,
the long and measured breathing of the men
that still draw breath and stand in sunlight,
watching the passing of the fallen pnncc.
who tastes the sweet, sad air no longer
Tears
water the earth behind him who had asked
no tears, and gnef burdens the feet that gather
at the stations on his road to sleep
There is
a place for htm to lie beneath the flag,
a place for him to pause to rest, and all
that night the feet shuffle slowly past
Children come, men and women come,
his pnneess comes, and in the darkest night
returns it is a walking time for gnef.
an echo time for sorrow like the sound
of distant cannon booming in the night
4
The Flame
The walking is not done, but on this day
of sunlight, kings and pnnees—all the great
who rule the world-—must follow him who moves
toward final sleep, whose body follows close
the spin! that has lied, and kings and prelates
do but seek to speed that winging flight, to ease
the journey that he makes, and mourn his passing
There is a door to enter, a cross to seek,
there is a bridge to find and then a hill
to climb—a last, eternal flame to light
upon the hill for his forever sleeping
Sweet pnncc. who was no pnnee. but king in spmt,
lifting us all to some high hill, to some
tall burning, this is your legend, the myth that you
have forged, a myth truer than truth, the flame
you lighted for us all. the flame we mourn
as vanished, but a torch that somehow pierced
the darkest comers of our night, that bums
like roses in our hearts, bleeding a red
that stains our minds with gnef. as red as blood
you bled, as red as roses that your pnneess dropped
from trembling fingers on the day you died
Dr Cecil Shuford, former journalism
department chairman who died Wednesday
received national recognition for his poetry,
including the 1962-63 William Marion
Reedy Award for "The Death in Our
Family," about President John F. Ken-
nedy’s assassination
Services for Shuford have been set for
10 a m. Saturday at First United Methodist
Church, 201 S. Locust St. Officiating will
be the Rev. C. Crouch and Dr. Martin
Shockley. The buna! service will be at
Roselawn Memorial Park. Visitation will
be from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday al Goen-
Hudgens Funeral Home Inc.. 320 W. Oak
St.
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