The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, September 20, 1974 Page: 2 of 8
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THE YELLOW JACKET
Editorials
To vote or not to vote
Almost all of us have a negative attitude toward registration.
Registration of any kind or for anything just naturally brings
thoughts of long lines and we all know what that can be like.
There is however a registration which all of us should be
more than glad to stand in line for. The good news and irony of
it is that you don't have to stand in line for registering to vote.
The entire procedure takes no more than one or two minutes
and there are many advantages.
Most of us are registered or will register back home where
the parents vote But why register back home where we will be
spending on the average of twelve to fifteen weeks from now
on'' Hrownwood will be our home for nine months out of every
year we spend at college.
Why not vote here where most of the municipal decisions
made will affect us? Why not vote where we pay a sales tax?
Consider the disadvantages of voting back home. In order
for us to vote absentee we must first write for an absentee
ballot request form. Next we must send the form back along
with our voter registration certificate before we can receive
the actual absentee ballot. The ballot must be notarized or it
will not be valid.
All this must be done within a relatively short period before
the election. The expense of postage and notary fees is enough
to make us forget the whole thing. The end result will be that
we shall not cast a vote if we intended to vote absentee. And we
certainly can't vote here if weare registered back home.
The right to vote is too precious to ignore. We strongly
recommend that everyone take one minute to register to vote
in Brownwood and participate in the community in which we
live.
RCG
The Yellow Jacket
"The voice of the campus"
A Texas Intercollegiate Press Assn. member believing that
freedom is a gift as well as a right and maintaining that the
responsibility to defend freedom falls upon those who enjoy its
profits. This newspaper is dedicated to the task of uplifting and
preserving the privileges of a free people living in a free nation
with freedom of the press.
The Yellow Jacket is published every Friday morning except
examination week twice a year and holidays. Basically a
student publication the paper is under the auspices of Howard
Payne College Brownwood Texas.
Editor
Managing Editor
Assistant Editor
Editorial Assistant
Page Editor
Business Manager
Business Assistant
Sports Editor
Sports Assistant
Photographers
Staff Writers
Dianna Deerfield Marlene Carwile Ginger Etheredge Fairhn
McClintock Romelia Sanchez Terry Taylor Jearmene Woods.
Publications Sponsor Tessica Martin
1974 Texas Intercollegiate Press Assn. Advisor of the Year
The editorial and business offices of the Yellow Jacket are
located in the Student Publications Building (across the street
from Walker Library). Office hours are Monday-Friday 1:00-
5:00 p.m. Campus phone number: 3H; campus mail box:
Jennings 173.
SIPTIMKR 20. If 74
Circulation 1300
EDITORIAL STAFF
Raul C.Garcia
Steve Evans
Linda Au try
Carta Vandiver
Diane Davis
Larry Payne
MaryCassell
Bobby Clay
George Stout
Carl Douglass Jeff Shirley
BillCeMs
Bouquets to
Mrs. Gandy
We want to take this op-.
portunity to say something good
about people whom we have
met in our everyday struggles
to get this publication out to our
readers.
Some of them have nothing to
do with journalism. They just
happen to say the right thing at
the right moment or be at the
right place to make us feel that
it is worth going back to the
office and continuing what
moments before we had vowed
never to do.
For example we want to
throw as many bouquets as
possible to Mrs. Lillian Gandy
that never ending smile who is
always in the hall as we enter
Veda.
It's the little things that count
they say. Mrs. Gandy takes
time to tell a Veda resident
waiting for the elevator that it is
out of order "again" so that she
won't have to wait for
something that is not coming.
And those little clever
philosophical statements she
artistically pastes on all the
windows are sometimes just
what we need to crack the first
smile of the day.
Mrs. Gandy chooses to eat
most of her meals in the
cafeteria instead of taking her
tray to the quiet and privacy of
her apartment. She can usually
be found in the middle of the
biggest group at every meal.
We don't intend to downgrade
anyone else by singling out Mrs.
Gandy. We just want her and
everyone to know that the little
things she does are noticed and
have a definite and lasting
effect on those who frequent her
dorm.
High school
A newspaper and yearkbook
seminar for high school
students will be held here on
September 21 according to
Terry Wilson Howard Payne
news director and seminar
coordinator.
The day long seminar is
expected to attract about 100
participants. The event is being
co-sponsored by Howard Payne
and the Brownwood Bulletin
and is designed to give the high
school press ideas to develop
mora attractive and higher
;
Seniors
stage
show
"Fall Fantasy 74" if the
theme of the annual Senior
Class Show to be bald Sep-
tember 27 in Mims Auditorium.
According to Carl Douglas
class senator the show will
feature the Heritage Singers
Lisa Franks Currie and a group
known as Harmony.
The entertainment will begin
at I p.m. and will cost $1.26
per parson.
An lndpndnf voc
We are living in a day and time when our Constitution is
being severely tested and tried.
We believe that Howard Payne takes a positive stand for the
American ideals which the Constitution stands for with the
establishment of the Academy of Freedom.
We also believe that the Yellow Jacket adheres to the rights
the Constitution provides and the privileges we all enjoy from
it.
One of the most important sentences in the Constitution is
"Congress shall make no law restricting establishment of
religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging
the freedom of speech or of the press."
We have a responsibility to that sentence. Sometimes a few
of us would rather that a particular subject not appear in print.
We feel that the majority of our readers have a right to know
what is going on.
Our independent voice is upheld by the Constitution just as
we uphold it It is perfectly legitimate for school publications
to print any materal as long as it does not "purposely disrupt
the normal learning process in school."
We are an independent voice and we shall continue to be.
A.S.E.
Letters to the editor
The Yellow Jacket welcomes letters to the editor. The
editorial staff reserves the right to edit letters and does not
guarantee to publish any letter if space does not permit. All
letters are limited to 200 words one double-spaced
typewritten page. They must be decent and abide by the libel
laws. Each letter must be signed and show the address of the
writer. The deadline for letters if 5 p.m. Friday.
Deadline
Deadlines for material submitted for publication in the Yellow
Jacket are 5 p.m. on Fridays and noon on Mondays.
Material submitted on these days will appear on the following
Friday.
All advertising is due by noon on Mondays.
journalists to
quality publications.
On hand for the seminar will
be Mr. Norman Fisher
Brownwood Bulletin managing
editor Miss Tessica Martin
journalism deparment head
Mr. Bob Havins HPC vice-
president for development and
public relations and Mr. Dick
Jacs Newsfoto Yearbooks
representative.
Also on hand will be Miss
Cheryl Reese assistant dean of
students; Raul Garcia editor of
the Yellow Jacket; Norm Hall
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convene
editor of the Lasso; Linda
Autry put editor of the Lasso;
and Wilson.
Separate seminars will be
held for newspapers and
yearbooks for both students and
sponsors in Wlnebrenner Hall of
Science beginning at 10 a.m.
Tours of the Brownwood
Bulletin and the Academy of
Freedom are also scheduled.
Get acquainted activities
lunch and a news conference
for students is also on the
agenda.
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