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PAGE 4—THE NOE*
m ^BTH TEXAS DAILY
enidos
Six Flags Theme
May Attract Exes
Once again the pageantry and excitement of “Homecoming” is upon us.
The floats are ready, the Vikki Carr concert is booked (will she cancel
too?) and those beeeeuutiful ladies in the convertibles already have their
smiles plastered on.
But who is “coming home?”
Originally, the term was used in reference to a family reunion-type affair
in which a whole family or clan gathered to celebrate and see old friends
and relatives. But then, when football teams came along, Homecoming was
a time when the team came back after a series of “away” games and ex-
students returned to see the old alma mater and offer support in one form or
another.
Many schools have built traditions on the Homecoming reunion. For
many alumni, the return trip is somewhat enjoyable. They get to see old
friends and teachers, maybe a good football game and the changes in the
campus and students. In return, many of them are enthused enough to sup-
port the school in financial ways as well as just caring about the institution.
The schools who have made Homecoming celebrations meaningful
and useful functions have realized an important fact that North Texas
is only just beginning to see—alumni support is the lifeblood of a university.
In the past few years the celebrations here have been generally bleak and
unimaginative. The dorm decoration contests and sis-boom-bah bonfires
haven’t exactly reached out and grabbed ex-students. As for the athletic por-
tion of the affair, the Eagles with their phenomenally bad record have also
failed to be a great attraction of the “Solid State University.”
So there had to be another angle, another way to attract the vital alumni
lupport. Hopefully, this year North Texas has found it.
This years’ Homecoming will begin a series of celebrations that have
unity and—as trite as it may be—a definite theme. The “Six Flags Over
Texas” series could open a new communication between the school and its
former students and re-introduce them to North Texas. More importantly
it may offer a new attraction to those individuals who could and should
support the institution.
North Texas right now could easily become a hollow academic shell.
Football is a losing proposition, SAU has cancelled its concerts indefinitely
and all the big attractions that never really existed are being pushed further
into obscurity.
Possibly, in its own way, this reorganization of the Homecoming tradition
can add some life and interest to this slowly sinking North Texas ship.
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Thursday, November 9.1972
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Rivendell Emphasizes Creativity
Spruce
Spruce Isaacs (above) alternates
her attention between her thumb
and a shiny top from the toy box
at the Rivendell Day Care Center
Some of her friends (above right)
enjoy their breakfast at the Cen
ter
Feedback
Photos by
John Davis
Text by
Theresa Cloer
Take a room filled with children
and allow them to do what children
usually do and eventually chaos
will ensue.
But take 10 children exposed to the
atmosphere at Rivendell Day Care
Center at 806 Ave. D and the results
will be different.
Instead of squabbling over who
gets to play with the new toy, the
children at Rivendell will more than
likely change their game plan to
something entirely different. Riven-
dell is different not only because of
the program offered to the children,
but also because of the attitude the
staff has toward them.
Based loosely on the formula fol-
lowed by the British infant schools,
Rivendell tries to provide the child-
ren with an open classroom situation.
expected “esquire” or “the third"
did not follow his articulate state-
ment. The child instead asked the
stranger, “What’s your name?”
When the stranger replied with his
first name only, the little boy looked
puzzled again and blurted out,
“Don't you have a last name?”
The children make their own sug-
gestions for projects, too. “Last
summer puppet shows were really
in,” Fran said. “They were the child-
ren’s ideas and they carried them
through. The only time adults were
involved was when a child demanded
that we letter a sign for them."
“YOU SORT of have to stretch
your imagination to picture this as
an open classroom,” said Mrs. Fran-
ces “Fran” Isaacs, originator and
head of the school, pointing at a
cluttered playroom. “But Rivendell
is an excellent school, depending
on what you are looking for.”
The large rambling house provides
excellent places for hide-and-go-
seek. The “kippers,” as the children
are referred to, play in a spacious
backyard filled with discarded tires,
homemade toys, and a wooden tower
which overlooks President Nolen’s
backyard.
Rivendell is a non-profit organiza-
tion. As Mrs. Isaacs put it, “extreme-
ly non-profit.”
TIRES FOR the children's play-
ground just happen to be the most
economical toys. “Besides, they
don’t have any splinters.” Fran said.
But the children at Rivendell arc
its chief product. Although they
range in age trom 3 to b, tney operate
as a group, helping each other, enter-
taining each other.
Even the school’s 3-year-olds are
complete, imaginative individuals.
A stranger cautiously approached the
3-year-old boy seated on a pile of
tires, and asked the youngster what
his name was. The boy looked puz-
zled for a moment, brushed the dirt
from his jumpsuit, looked the intru-
der straight in the eye and said,
“Gregory Douglas Brooks.” The
FRAN TELLS the story of one
5-ycar-old girl who wore orthopedic
shoes, and was constantly kicking
someone either on purpose or ac-
cidentally.
One day she kicked little Gregory
who stood for a few minutes with
tears in his eyes and told the oxford-
shoed lass that he didn’t like that
one little bit and he wasn’t too
pleased with her behavior.
It must be taken into considera-
tion, however, that most of the child-
ren come from homes of professors
who stress education. “That makes
them a special breed to begin with,”
Fran said.
The people who run Rivendell are
exceptional in their own manner.
Fran, the 29-year-old mother of
two girls, has never had an educa-
tion course in her life. Her career
in day care centers began because she
knew how to cook.
She began cooking for the Sun-
shine House,” a psychology-kepl
behavioral faction (a nursery school)
which folded without any advance
warning,” Fran said.
“THE MOTHERS who depended
on Sunshine I ivjii.se to keep their
children had no place to take them on
that particular Monday morning.
Linda, who was working there also,
and 1 had been saying we could do a
better job. So we borrowed a building
and began working for free.”
For Linda, the nursery school busi-
ness is only one of the few occupa-
tions she has had during her four
years of college. Besides working
in the print shop of the North Texas
Daily and milking cows, she was also
part-time mother for the children at
the Cumberland Presbyterian Home.
“I used to work in a pet shop, too,”
Linda added, “but 1 quit when they
wanted me to flush a sick rat down
the commode.” Fran encourages
creativity both in the children and
the occasional handymen that wander
over to the school to help fix fences.
One such handyman, Larry Farris,
Fort Worth junior, approached Fran
one day with the offer of helping
around the house. At a loss as to
what to assign him to do, Fran finally
waved at the backyard, “There's
some wood. Get out there and
create,” she told him.
NOT SO sure he was the creat-
ing type, Ferris slowly backed out
the door saying, "I’ll come back
when you’re not so busy.”
But Rivendell survives on the few
people who are willing to give a little
of their time and talents. Alpha Phi
Omega has promised Fran to begin
to do some real handy work for her,
and one of the art classes has been
assigned the project of making toys.
Fran and Linda almost donate
their time. Their wages for 10- to
20-hour work week is usually around
$15. And even that amount is not
always forthcoming.
But the center has still another
problem It may soon have to re-
linquish its title as the University
Day Care Center, a title which it
has claimed since the university
leased a house to the school.
THE DEAN of Students Office in
cooperation with ihe home economics
department is in the first stage of
planning a new on-campus day care
center for the children of students
and faculty. The school is io be
opened, hopefully, by next fall, ac-
cording to Dr. E!! B Sorenson, dean
of students.
The university, Dr Sorenson said,
had never been able to help Rivendell
other than providing housing for the
school. He felt, however, that Riven-
dell, since it is completely different
in theory from the hoped-for on-
campus center, will survive.
But Rivendell does have one thing.
Dr Sorenson said it was one of their
greatest assets. “There’s a lot of
love in Rivendell.”
letcher Says Yaege Article Unfair
The Domino Theory
Of U.S. Politics
Pletcher, 2425 Louise, Denton
erning David Yaege’s interview en-
‘An NT Eagle speaks out—Win-
ie right tonic” in Sunday's Dallas
Herald
id Yacge, a starting flanker for the
uotball team, made the statement,
: are a lot of people around here
'.Add like to see the school give up
cs Most of ihcm are music majors
.ong-haired freaks.”
I CONSIDER this an unfair statement
and a personal insult. I do not believe you
n categorize or put titles on people and
jie them out as being responsible for
*<ng such comments. It is true that the
,nent has been made many times, but
five heard it from students that neither
nsider themselves long-haired freaks,
^d are not music majors,
ifn the first place, I think Mr. Yaegc
auld consider the record of North Texas
d how that appears to the students. If
I team were to luck into a winning streak,
elieve the students on the whole would
a better view; that, including get-
ting excited enough about the games to sup-
port them mid the players, and therefore,
creating a certain amount of spirit seen in
other surrounding schools. People tend to
be down when losing, and they tend to make
all sorts of radical remarks. I know of many
persons who said the same thing when the
Cowboys were losing.
It seems to me that Mr. Yaege is just a
little embarrassed about the losses and is
afraid of the possible consequences—of
actually doing away with athletics. I can
understand where he, as a football player,
would feel dissent toward this possibility,
but I cannot understand why he has made
the statements regarding and referring to
fellow students.
I think Yaege is a I'Mle jealous of their pub-
licity, and ther.iore, holds them responsible
for saying things against his own interest.
Before 1 conclude, if Yaege expects any-
one to support athletics, he should refrain
from namecalling and try to set an example
to all students.
HE FURTHER adds, “Some of the ones
that knock us are more interested in legal-
izing pot than anything else." This is funny
in itself because the topic of pot legalization
on the whole gets more publicity than foot-
ball at North Texas. And, certainly, peopl
all over the state, if not the nation, have
heard of the great North Texas music de-
partment and of the musicians it turns out.
Yaege was asked if there was a division
between athletes and music people at the
two schools he attended before coming
to NTSU. He said, “Yes, hut it was that
way when I was in high school, too. Back
then, four or five athletes got together and
cracked some heads. That stopped the
talk."
It seems as if maybe he holds some sort
of grudge, left over from high school days,
for music people; and it is obvious he
doesn’t care for what he classifies “long-
haired freaks " Now that there are rumors
of abolishing athletics, he is accusing these
students of being responsible for them.
If Yaege indeed feels that the said
students are responsible for these things,
I consider it poor taste to name-call and
classify.
The last question asked Yaege was, “Has
the stigma attached to athletes at North
Texas made it difficult for the athletes to
date?”
His reply: “Not really. Most of the girls
around there arc okay. The hippy girls
won’t have anything to do with us if they
know we are jocks. That’s all right with
me. I like clean girls anyhow."
What can I say?
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