The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1959 Page: 4 of 6
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Age 4
THE REDBIRD
THE REDBIRD
Published weekly except during holidays, dead week
and final examinations during the regular school term.
Opinions expressed are those of the student editors
and do not necessarily reflect -those of the faculty and
administration. Items of interest are solicited and may
be submitted at the REDBIRD office.
Editor...................................................Nancy Liby
Associate Editor....................................Joanne Webfc hi
News Editor........................................Stuart Kinard
s Editor.....................................James Mellard p
Make-up Editor.....................................Naim Serhan n
Editorial Columnist............................... JDi Ann Vick
Business Manager....................................Tom Dixon
Staff Writers.............Howard Perkins, June Ann Rag-
land, James Mielke, Ruby Rives,
Hank Smith, Lillie Caldwell.
Reporters.................Bill Green, Benita MeClurkin,
Marilyn Reel, Ruby Rives, Mari-
john Rowe, Linda Cowan, Esther
Chand, Jo Marie Klebba, Wanda
McAdams.
Typists.........................i................Barbara Stephens
Madge Channing
Faculty Sponsor,....................................Gayle Wyatt
Once Upon A Time In The
Classroom ...
a group of musicians were called to play for a
great king. They did such ,an outstnading job that the king
em that they might each carry home with them all
the treasure which their instruments could hold. This
pleasedall the musicians--all except the little old fellow
who stood there with his piccolo, that is.
This is an old story, but the point it makes is applicable
to students now attending college. Many times our inade-
quate backgrounds, the result of lack of reading, thinking,
and listening, make us unable to benefit from the ideas
and knowledge presented during class lectures and as-
semblies. We are mentally unprepared to hear and un-
derstandand ultimately incorporate learning in our lives
like the man with the piccolo we must be content with the
little we can force into the narrowness of our. instruments.
But we have an advantage. We are not bound to narrow-
ness of mind—we can read books unassigned, follow leg-
islative proceedings unbidded, talk ideas instead of people,
think instead of memorize.
Across The Editor's Desk...
No One Asked
Me But...
Di Ann Vick
One of the major indicat-
ors of social decay is an in-
ability or an unwillingness
to evaluate generally-held
principles and traditions.
Through habit, they are ad-
hered to even when they are
no longer understood or
ertinent. This does not
mean that ideals, traditions^
and principles are evil dr
useless. Theri morality is
relative to time, place, ana
individuals. Nevertheless,
a set of values is evolved for
its particular age, but the
evolution sometimes is not
fully appreciated. When this
happens a new set of values
is practiced while proceed-
ing values are still held as
valid. This superimposition
results in the society's ra-
tionalizing its present val-
ues to coincide with those
of the past. Thus we have
theexampleof the Americ-
an dream of potential suc-
cess and achievement open
to all men o p p o s ed to the
example of the "Organiza-
tion Man". Or, we might
consider our adamant con-
demnation of Socialism
paired with our growing de-
mand for government con-
trol over the economy.
(Seemingly, we have another
alternative: fascism.) Tru-
ly, we are not sure what we
believe in.
We cling to the ideals of
preceeding generations in a
desire to achieve the secur-
ity they seem to have had.
Yet they felt their society
was beset with evils—all
societies seem to be—and
sought actively to combat
them be meeting them and
attemptinga solution. It
may not have been a totally
s a t i sfying philosophy that
they evolved, but it was a
An Open Letter to the Student Council of Lamar Tech:
On Tuesday of this week the final decision was made to
abolish Western Week. While there were no votes count-
ed to the effect that Lamar students did not want Western
Week, neither were there any votes counted saying that
we did want it continued. In fact, there were no votes
counted at all--that is the object of this letter.
a meeting last week of our esteemed Council the mo-
tion was made to forget the western festivities that had
rown to be traditional with Lamar Tech students. When
in was passed--after quite a heated argument,
understand--a last chance was given those students who
believe the institution of Western Week to be a good one
> revive the hopes of continuing the tradition. A chance
was also given to those who wanted Western Week abol-
ished to step up and vote against it. There was one group
left out in the Western Week balloting, however. The in-
dividuals I am speaking of are those who merely don't
care whether we have continued Western Week or not. It
is this group, I believe, that could have been the decisive
n deciding whether or not the votes were to be
ed. Could not the middle-of-the-road student be
given a chance to express their views also?
Granted, less than the required 25% of the day-student!
dted in this election. On the other hand, less than 1% of
the student body eliminated Western Week by the vote of
the Student Council. Is not a 20% cross-section more
accurate than 1% of an election? How often in a city or
even a federal election thrown out because of insufficient
votes? Not often, to my knowledge.
:onclusion, it seems the Student Council--or one or
two members there of- -want to run the whole show. Why
not give those interested members of the student body a
chance to participate?
Sincerely,
Bill Splllar
basis for action. Times and
needs change, however.
Machinery considered ex-
tra o r d i nary in the Nine-
teenth century is antiquated
today. Such machinery is
oftentimes the basis for to-
day's advanced machinery,
butseldom is it retained in
its original form. It has
been modified. The modifi-
cations have been thought
out; applied, and found prac-
tical. So with ideals and
t r a d i tions. They must be
constantly re-evaluated to
determine their value and
ability to meet the needs of
their society. The outcome
of such an evaluation will be
the fate of democracy.
Pre - Law Club
To Meet Feb . 28
There will be a meeting o
the Pre-Law club Feb. 26at
7 p.m. in the Raotlst Student
Center. Walter Cato and
Laveme Pruitt will present
reports of the Annual Pre-
Law Convention held last
December in Dallas.
Plans will also be made for
the pre-law trip to Waco and
Austin. All students inter-
ested In the field of law are
invited to attend.
February 20, 1959
in their recent meeting,
members of the M.E. Club
saw the film, "Steam Power
Plant Designs."
The second reading of he
by-laws was delivered. The
new by-laws have beer
framed to improve die or-
ganization and create int-
erest in uie club. Tnere
was some further discus-
sion concerning the club's
participation In Engineer-
ing Day.
On Canqns
with
MaxShulman
(By the Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" and,
“Barefoot Boy with Cheek.”)
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SMOOCH
Back in ray courting days (the raccoon coat was all the rage,
everybody was singing Good Morning, Mister Zip Zip Zip, and
young Bonaparte had just left Corsica), back, I say, in ray
courting days, the standard way to melt a girl’s heart was to
write poetry to her.
I don’t understand why young men today have abandoned
this gamjbit. There is nothing like poetry for moving a difficult
girl. What’s more, poems are ridiculously easy to write. The
range of subjects is endless. You can write a poem about a girl’s
hair, her eyes, her lips, her walk, her talk, her clothes—anything
at all. Indeed, one of my most effective love lyrics was called
To Maud’s Pencil Box. It went like this:
In your dear little leatherette pencil box
Are pencils of yellow and red,
And if you don’t tell me you lore me soon,
I’ll hit you on top of the head.
Honesty compels me to admit that this poem fell short gf
success. Nothing daunted, I wrote another one. This time I
pulled a switch; I threatened myself instead of Maud.
Oh, Maud, pray stop this drii'el
And tell me you’ll be mine,
For my sweetbreads they do shrirel
And irind around my spine.
My heart doth cease Us beating;
My spleen uncoils and icarps,
My licer slops secreting,
Soon I needs be u corpse.
When this heart-rending ballad failed to win Maud, I could
only conclude that she was cruel and heartless and I was better
off without her. Accordingly I took hack my Hi-Y pin, bade her
adieu, and have not clapped eyes on her since. Last I heard,
she was working in Galvestou as a Plimsoll line.
But I did not mourn Maud long, for after Maud came Doris—
Doris of the laughing eyes, Doris of the shimmering hair, Doris
of the golden tibiae 1 Within moments of meeting her, I whipped
up a torrent of troohaio tetrameter:
Oh, my sweet and dulcet Doris!
I love you like o Philip Morris
With its mild and rich tobano
In its white and scarlet pack-a.
I’d swim from hanisrille to Notches
For Philip Morris and you and matches,
Well, of oourse, the dear girl couldn't resist a poem Uke that
—what girl could?—and she instantly became my slave. For
the rest of the semester she carried my hooks, washed my oar,
and oored my apples, There is no telling where it all would
have ended if she hadn't heen drafted,
So, men, you oan see the power of poetry, Try it yourself. All
you need is a rhyming dictionary, a quill pen, and a second-
hand muse, 0 (MS, Mu Slxrimu
* * *
Let’s drop rhyme and turn to reason. The reason Marlboro,
has gons to ths hsad of tha Mar etgarstts class IS stojp
better “makln’s"—a flavor that plasmas, a Mar that warmSt
Marlboro—from tha maktrs of Philip Morris.
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Liby, Nancy. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1959, newspaper, February 20, 1959; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499170/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.