The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1966 Page: 2 of 8
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THE REDBIRD
May 13, 1966
Exit Oglethorpe
With this -issue, Oglethorpe exits stage right . . . or is it stage
left ... or is it down the middle on a stretcher? Anyway, this
issue finishes us with the Redbird contrary to some students opinion
that' were "finished" long ago.
Deciding we'd rather switch than fight, we look with optimism
and anticipation to editing the annual next year and invite any
students who'd like to work on the yearbook to please contact us.
(TE-3M)408)
We hope you've seen improvement in the Redbird in the last year
and a half--but then "up" is about the only way the Deadbird--er,-
ah, Redbird could have gone. At the risk of sounding like an
Academy Award winner, we must thank those persons without whom
none of this could have been achieved. We really had a hard
workingstaff--bothofus. Actually we've been most fortunate this
semester to have a work force of four--the other three being Perry
Riley, Candy Abshier and Charles Goode.
I wish the staff next year all the best and especially a few more
bodies to help grind out this student publication.
Among our shining accomplishments is the distinction of having
the Redbird come out every Friday morning, never on Monday as
had been the all-too-frequent occurrence in previous years. We
can attribute this to a laudable effort by the print shop and aurstaff's
midnight toil, working until our bodies drooped over the typewriters
and our eye makeup flake off, finding our only revival iin aperiodic
sniff from the glue jar.
Yes, many is the nightwe'veturnedourweary gaze out the window
of our fair hovel (or "temporary building" as it is called by some)
onto the parkers in Lot No. 7 and thought how lucky we were to
be inhere toiling away in service to our campus and fellow students
rather than out there idling away the hours. Only the lack of time
prohibited us from taking this message to them and unselfishly
crusading to save them from themselves.
We've survived the bitter cold, when the numbness of our hands
made typing an impossibility; sweltering heat, when the sweat from
our brow bleared the ink; nature’s pestilence, when an enslaught
of mosquitos poured in from the swamp outside through the cracks
inthewall. And all for what?--the satisfaction of doing a job and
that warm feeling one gets inside when he picks up his pay check
every month.
The validity of the Redbird has improved, and we think we no
longer deserve the statement made by Dr. Roger Yerick, our
chemistry prof of four semesters ago, that statement being "Any
resemblance between the truth and what's printed in the Redbird is
purely coincidental."
I can't say it hasn't been fun--because that would be in poor taste.
I can't say my health, grades and mentalstability have diminished--
because that would also be in poor taste and in violation of one of
Helen Guriy Brown's what-not-to-talk-about rules.
So I'll just say that more workers und better facilities are imperative.
The spirit and hard work are definitely embodied in next year s
suckers--er, ah, staff. Good luck and good bye.
Bonnie Oglethorpe
Campus Policies Questioned
In Letters to Editor Column
. . . Enter Riley
We would like to make a few generalizations (and perhaps some
promises) here, at the beginning, about this newspaper.
In the past year, the Redbird has grown. We have reached more
re a de rs this year than ever in the past. The paper has become
larger--the ei^ht page edition has replaced the four page edition
of last year, and the six page one of last semester. And we have
made it out every Friday morning.
We hope to continue to strive for and improve this paper. If as
much can be done next year as was done this year, then we will
t ru ly have a paper we can be ffrout?' of^ But above all, we shall
try to make this newspaper a readable'product, one the student
body can look up to and rely upon.
That principle will be onr main goal. We hope to put out a good
newspaper every week, subject to good journalistic practices. We
shall never fail to discuss any pertinent issue within our editorial
columns. But our opinions will be restricted to those columns.
We will endeavor to inject no bias in straight news copy.
We invite anyoue to express their views in the Redbird through
letters to the editor. We ask that they be limited to two type-
written pages. Column space dictates the necessity of this. Any
longer material will be welcomed as a guest editorial.
We offer this, the final newspaper of the year, as our first
product. May it improve in the months to come.
Perry Riley
jwn'
Dear Editor;
Dr. Herbert Aptheker of the
American Institute of Marxist
Studies in New York and member
of a civilian peace mission to
Hanoi recently accepted an
invitation to speak at Lamar
on the war in Viet Nam.
Dr. Aptheker's engagement
has had to be cancelled because
the student organizations
sponsoring him were told that
Aptheker would not be allowed
to speak here.
Has Aptheker been banned
because he is a communist? If
he was refused a platform for
any reason other than a physical
lack of facilities then a very
real breach of Academic Free-
dom and Free Speech has
occurred at Lamar.
The communists, however,
have not been the only victims.
Early this semester the U.S.
State Department film "Why
Vietnam" was denied a campus
showing. This film presented a
view of the Vietnam war which
is probably exactly opposite to
anything Aptheker would have
said.
If any method can be made of
this madness it would seem that
no one side of the issue is being
censored, but, on the contrary,
The Redbird Staff
Editor....................................Bonnie Oglethorpe
News Editor......................................Perry Riley
Sports Editor.................................Lanrfey-Ratcliff
Photographers.........................*.......Charles ‘Goode
James Waddill
Advertising Manager............................Candy Abshier
Circulation Manager...........................Kathy Johnson
Proofreader................... .Maria Rutt
Faculty Advisor.............................R. H. Wilkerson
The Redbird is published weekly except during holidays, dead week
and final exams during the regular school term. Opinions expressed
are those of the student editor and do not necessarily reflect those
of the faculty and administration. Editorial offices are located in
Office Building #1.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"Well. PeLaney, you'll just havsto stop
/AAW1N6- POTATOES UNTIL THIS PASH CLEAPS UP "
Clean Campus, Openings
For Committe Leaders
Discussed By President
By PERRY TANNER
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
The s e r v ide sorority Lambda
Tau has submitted (5-10-66)
a- written reprot to President
M c Donald on their suggestions
for a cleaner campus. I submit-
ted a letter along with it show-
ing my concert and willingness
to help solve the problem. It
seems they have turned the trick
necessary for curing this ill.
LambdaTau will provide neces-
sary receptacles and paint them
to add to their appearance.
I will start Monday appointing
committees and their chairmen
for 1966-67 school year, which
includes;
1. Homecoming
2. Freshman Dance
3. Model United Nations
4. Leadership Conference
5. Student Union Committee
6. Creative Arts Festival
7. Cardinal Christman
8. Howdy Week
and others. I request all inter-
ested students to see me about
this. Your interest would lend
to abetter understanding of stu-
dent government, and your ac-
tive participation would bring
about improvements. I can be
reached in the Student Govern-
ment Office (Room 202, Stu-
dent U nion Building) Monday
and Wednesday. I will be in
8-1 MWF and 11-1 TTh.
In reference to the appointing
of c o m m i ttees, I feel it most
necessary to have these com-
mittees i n functioning order
throughout the summer in order
to lay the ground work neces-
sary to accomplish their ends.
I need your cooperation in car-
rying out our objectives.
I want also to take this oppor-
tunity ter wish you a very suc-
cessful summer in whatever you
endeavor.
issues in general are not being
permitted to be raised before the
students at all.
Should any attempt or policy
a c t u a 1 ly exist it seems to me
that the issues of Berkley are not
faY from reaching imminent
concern here at Lamar.
Ronald L. Barnes
Dear Editor;
I qu es t ion the motives of a
certain leaderon this campus in
the recent issue which split the
campus into feuding factions.
The issue is the controversial
melting ice cream question.
Is this leader, by solving the
problem, trying to undermine
the Good Humor Man's place as
a b as ic American institution?
Was this leader's platform built
of popsicle sticks? Or does he
really deserve the Millard Fill-
more Achievement Award
awarded by the Trivia and
Minutia Press?
Inquiring Student
Dear Editor:
I am one of the clammering
masses who last week breathed
asighof relief when I read with
glee that PerryTanner, champion
of humanitarian causes, had
already solved the pestalent
problem at Lamar even before
his installation.
The b ags under my eyes are
gone, the frustration and agony
are wiped from my face because
now I can sleep nights knowing
my ice cream won't melt. Our
new president opened his bag 6f
miracles to feed the multitude
miracles to feed the multi-
tudes--on unmelted ice cream.
I propose a toast to continued
progress and borrow my salute
from a TV commercial—" Ice
Cream, You Scream, We All
Scream for Tanner."
Popsicle Patty
Rice University
Educator to Speak
The head of Rice University's
d e p a rtment of education, Dr.
Donald I. Wood, will be guest
speaker at the annual apprecia-
tion reception for area teachers
and administrators today at 4
p.m. in Dining Hall B.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
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Oglethorpe, Bonnie. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1966, newspaper, May 13, 1966; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499427/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.