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Editorials
Time to overstuff
Drive needs sustenance
Denton Community Food Services will benefit
greatly from a drive that will be sponsored by the
University Union, April 26 and 27.
The idea behind the drive is to collect enough food
for the needy to last them through the end of the
year. Most food drives are held during Thanksgiving
and Christmas seasons. By having this drive now,
Cindy Shalier, Union marketing coordinator, said it
will benefit those needy who are most often thought
about during the holidays.
An 18-wheeler was donated for the project by Central
Freight Lines Inc., of Denton. Shalier wants to fill
the truck with non-perishable food products.
“What we’re doing is collecting non-perishable
food items and basic need items such as diapers,
toothpaste and toiletries,” she said. Anything we
get is more than we had before.
Co-op education
The truck will be located at Prairie Street and Avenue
A, and NT students should participate by bringing
canned meats and canned fruits to the truck. These
items are needed the most.
There will also be collection sights at the four Denton
Piggly Wiggly stores.
NT is not the only organization that was asked to
participate in the food drive. The sponsors requested
donations from Denton grocery stores, churches, service
organizations, and the city council.
If all of these organizations chip in and help, then
the program will work. If the program works, the
food will be distributed to about 90 needy families a
week.
NT students should drop off their donations at any
of these locations between 9 a m. and 7 p.m.
Sharing benefits students
Cooperation makes the world go round — in world
politics, scientific discoveries and higher education.
When money is short, universities look for ways
to stretch their dollars. One way that NT can get
more for its money, and for its students, is to do
more with Texas Woman’s University.
For instance, students at NT and TWU have re-
ciprocal library privileges, but students infrequently
use them. The universities need to better inform the
students of this opportunity and encourage them to
use it more.
If a publication is infrequently used, why should
libraries at both schools buy the same thing? Why
doesn't one school buy that publication and the other
school buy a related publication, which otherwise
neither school could afford? Then both universities’
resources would be doubled and less limited.
When money is short at both institutions, pooling
funds makes sense.
A good example of cooperation and combining
Attitude adjustment
resources of the two institutions took place Thursday.
The NT and TWU chapters of the American Asso-
ciation of University Professors and the Texas Asso-
ciation of College Texas, along with the Texas United
Faculty, sponsored a banquet with Sen. Bob Glasgow.
D-Stephenville, as speaker. By joining forces, or-
ganizers had the opportunity to draw a larger audience
to hear Glasglow.
More such activities should occur.
Both campuses have organizations which complain
of small memberships. Those organizations would
benefit from combining activities.
High-impact speakers would be more likely to accept
invitations to meetings.
Students would benefit from meeting a wider circle
of people with similar interests or professional aspir-
ations. Networking is an important aspect of job
hunting. The more people who know you, the better.
Both universities have strong departments in different
subjects and should take advantage of each other’s
strengths.
Let communication begin
As spring commencement nears, graduating seniors
begin scanning the job market for that first "real
job. Many of them will be women with aspiring dreams
of success.
Hats off to them! But the transition from school to
professional work could likely become any woman's
nightmare — filled with voices of inequality and unfair
job practices.
Women have taken great strides toward equal rights
in the past two decades — the bra-buming episodes
of the ’60s and the Equal Rights Amendment (as yet
not passed) of the '70s.
These actions have done much to further the public's
education of women as equals in the workplace and
at home. And women should never stop striving to
remove the still-existing sexual biases against them.
But combative attitudes between men and women are
not the best way to achieve success.
The “voices” of women shouting for recognition
have led unfortunately to sometimes fitting criticisms.
Militant demonstrations, flag-waving parades and
overzealous fits of rage have often resulted in the
reverse effect of the intended outcome. Instead of
discovering and acknowledging women's potential,
adversaries become even more so committed to burying
women in traditional roles. Instead of increasing
commitment and encouragement, proponents become
bewildered.
Before the inescapable advancement of women can
be fully achieved, communication channels at all levels
must be established — man to woman, husband to
wife, boy to girl, employer to employee and worker
to worker.
But more important, communication must be com-
manded from man to man and woman to woman.
Both sexes must understand why biased attitudes exist
among themselves. They must be conscious of the
contributions each can make to the workplace. They
must understand each other's identities. Only then
will the barriers of sexual bias be removed.
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Thursday, April 14,1988
Mexican wall hanging replaces loss
felt by owner of motionless gray goldfish
Duncan awoke one morning and
stumbled listlessly from the bedroom
to the bathroom. After a relieving stint
there, he wandered into the kitchen, only
a little more awake than before.
On the way through the Spartan decor
of the living room, he felt a certain sense
of incompleteness, although he could
not decide what it was that was missing.
Strange, he thought, why do people
want to sing like Billy Joel? He con-
cluded the thought was prompted by
something his college roommate had
done.
In the kitchen Rob was fiddling with
the new toaster he had just bought. It
seemed as though he wanted to place
it on the counter that was 12 feet from
the nearest outlet.
“Duncan, where is a new extension?
All of mine arc about 72 years old and
aren't polarized 1 can't even plug the
toaster in,” Rob complained.
“Did they even have electricity 72
years ago? You know, if they did, I
doubt polarized extension cords were
their main problem,” Duncan explained
to him sleepily.
Rob only grunted discontentedly while
he continued to rearrange all of the
major kitchen appliances to accom-
modate his new toaster.
“You know. Rob-man, we really
need some kind of decoration in the
living room. I mean, it’s kinda sparse
in there. I think I'll go out today and
find something to liven the place up."
“Sure. Duncan, whatever you think
is best. If you think about it, bring back
an extension cord.”
Maybe it was because it was still early
in the morning, or maybe it was from
not having drunk enough coffee yet,
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but Duncan was sure he heard Rob yell,
"Rabba dabba doo wop ba bing bam
boom” just as he turned on the water
for a shower.
After spending most of the day at
the shopping mall. Duncan decided that
a goldfish named Bubba would be a
nice touch for the living room decor.
At the pet store he bought all the
necessary equipment, such as a tank,
gravel, some plastic water plants and
the fish. He also bought some unneces-
sary things like fish vitamins, fish toys
and a book titled “Simple Algebra for
Your Goldfish." because the woman
at the sales counter was astoundingly
beautiful and a convincing salesperson.
Duncan got all the way back to the
house before he realized he had forgot-
ten to get a polarized extension cord. It
must have been that saleswoman.
Back at the house, with the new cord,
he found Rob in the bathroom clipping
his toenails.
“Duncan, look at this dried-out
blister,” Rob said, sounding somewhat
amused.
“That's disgusting, why don’t you
clip that skin off? That can get infected,
you know." On the way out of the
bathroom he remembered the extension
cord and tossed it at Rob
“Great.” yelled Rob, "Now I can
put the kitchen back the way it be-
longs.”
As Rob went to re-rearrange the
kitchen. Duncan assembled his new fish
tank. Not that adding gravel, plastic
plants and water is very difficult, but
Duncan just liked being a perfectionist.
Once the water temperature reached a
sufficient goldfish-supporting level.
Duncan gently dropped Bubba in.
The fish swam around, happily blow-
ing bubbles and bumping his goldfish
toys through the plastic plants He
seemed to enjoy his new home. Duncan
stood back to admire his handiwork.
"Rob, as soon as you've finished
your toaster project, come look at the
new decoration.”
"What is it?" Rob yelled from the
kitchen, "A Rembrant. a Mexican-style
wall hanging? Something like that would
look real nice in there "
“No," Duncan replied dejectedly,
“It’s a goldfish."
In the morning Duncan again stum-
bled listlessly from the bedroom to the
bathroom. And again he wandered into
the kitchen only a little more awake
than before.
On his way through the living, he
glanced at his new' piece of living de-
coration and yelled, "What the hell s
wrong with Bubba?!"
The fish was swimming backwards
on his back, wracked occasionally by
spasms. He was also no longer gold,
but a drab sort of gray. Finally he
stopped swimming and floated to the
surface of his barely swum-in home.
Rob tried to comfort Duncan as best
he could. Only after Duncan said.
"Maybe I’ll go buy a Mexican-style
wall hanging," did Rob know that
Duncan would recover from his loss.
Strange bedfellow inspires Beatlemaniac to write
My deadline was approaching, and once
again I was completely at a loss for anything
to write about.
What else is new? I've spent hours sitting
in front of a blank computer screen waiting
for divine inspiration to strike. It never worked
— until now.
My column was due at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Monday night I had writer’s block. Tuesday
morning I woke up with a message from some
benevolent muse. John Lennon was in my
bed.
Well, it wasn't really John; it was a post-
card I keep on my nightstand.
TRUE LENNON FANS would recognize
it. It’s a black and white photo of John
standing on the grass in front of the Statue
of Liberty. Liberty holds a torch in her right
Diana
Madden
hand. John makes a peace sign with his. and
between them is a "keep off the grass"
sign.
The postcard rests permanently by my alarm
clock. When my alarm buzzed its obnoxious
buzz Tuesday morning, I smashed the snooze
button, instinctively grabbed the postcard and
placed it on my pillow.
About an hour later I succumbed to the
alarm's incessant buzz and crawled out of
bed. I looked at John's sardonic smile and
wondered why I had been sleeping with a
postcard. It was a sign from the muse telling
me to write about the Beatles.
I'm not normally given to superstition, and
I'm not in the habit of receiving psychic
messages from beyond the grave. But this
same muse spoke to a Beatle friend of mine
last week.
She returned home one afternoon to find
that all her Beatle posters had fallen off the
walls — all except one, a photo of John.
"Diana, it was a sign,” she said to me,
only slightly tongue-in-cheek.
NON-BEATLE DEVOTEES MAY find
all this rather strange. I’ve been told by at
least one entertainment writer that he's sick
of hearing about the Beatles. As he sat in
front of my desk browsing through tour or
five of my Beatle biographies, he threatened
to start a radio station that would play nothing
but Phil Collins — KPHIL. This was an
irreverent reference to radio stations devoted
soiey to Beatle music.
1 guess to someone not stricken with
Beatlemania it would seem rather ridiculous
to pay money for a certified piece of the
towel used by the Beatles to wipe their faces
after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl
But a Beatlemaniac is not an ordinary fan.
Beatlemania is more than just loving Beatle
music; it’s a whole way of life.
I know. I’ve had Beatlemania since I was
13. At first I thought it was a silly schoolgirl
crush — one that I’d get over in a week or
two. But that was eight years ago, and the
Beatles’ faces still adorn my walls.
I’M NOT ALONE, though I know many
people who are obsessed with John. Paul,
George and Ringo. Some witnessed the
Beatles invading America with their debut
oh the “Ed Sullivan Show.” Others, like
me. had not been born when the Beatles
performed their last concert at Candlestick
Park in San Francisco on August 29. 1966.
We may have little else in common, but
we share a love for the Beatles. “And in
the end. the love you take is equal to the
love you make.” As any Beatle fan knows,
those are the last words from the last lines
of the last song on the Beatles’ last album
1 guess it’s as good a way as any to end
this column.
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