The Howard Payne University Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, September 8, 1978 Page: 2 of 8
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CommentaryIssues
Better coverage
our goal
Pardon our dust but the Yellow Jacket is in the
process of effecting a new look. We are trying to up-
date the paper in terms of graphics and coverage.
This process may take several weeks before we
get a consistent finished product but we think
you'll like it. New features will be reviews and best-
seller lists. We hope to have community news as it
affects Howard Payne and also the best sports
coverage this side of the Brazos including in-
tramurals. We welcome any comments about our new style
in the form of letters to the editor. In fact we
welcome comments about anything that pertains to
HPU.
We are a weekly newspaper and the deadline for
news or other items is 4 p.m. Monday for Friday
publication.
New legislative
plan working
During the month of September Student
Association Senate is trying a new legislative
procedure. Instead of senators dreaming up a bill
during the process of a session bills are sent to
specific committees composed of senators which
report back the next week with or without revision
(at the committee's discretion) and the senate
votes on the bill.
This process eliminates a lot of bad bills which
have been prevalent in the past. But in the case of
emergency legislation senators have an out. They
can bring the bill up under emergency second
reading and have the bill passed in the same
session and one bill which required immediate ac-
tion was passed in this way Tuesday night. (See
senate story p. 3)
However the system of referring bills to com-
mittee is used by the U.S. Congress and other
legislative bodies. For example of the two bills
that were referred to committee last week both
were changed this week after recommendations by
the respective committees. These were better bills
because they were discussed and were not voted on
in a spur-of-the-moment action.
Steve Jones president; Mark Ludwick vice-
president; and all the senators are to be com-
mended for being willing to try this new system. If
continued it will bring better student government
to Howard Payne.
Support advertisers
Today in the paper we have several ad-
vertisements. Ads are most newspapers' lifeblood
but that is not the case with us. Our ads are a public
service to you.
For example the Burger King ad today will save
you some money if you take advantage of it. If
you don't Burger King will probably cancel its ad-
vertisement. We can't get too many ads because
advertisers in Brownwood believe the readers will
not pay attention. In this case we are really not the
losers but you are.
Pay attention to the ads!
HP to receive $500000
from Coley Foundation
Howard Payne University
will receive the income from
over $500000 under terms of the
will of Mrs. Robert D. Coley
who died in Brownwood earlier
this year.
That announcement was
made jointly by Dr. Roger L.
Brooks HPU president and
Bob Havins president of the
Robert D. and Irene S. Coley
Foundation. The Coley Foun-
dation will administer the
funds.
Most of the income is
designated for scholarships in
Mrs. Coley's will which also
included provisions for $5000 a
year to be used to supplement
the salary of a distinguished
historian.
An additional $1200 was
designated for the maintenance
and improvement of the Daniel
Baker campus of Howard
Payne.
The bequest in Mrs. Coley's
will brings to over $600000 the
total of major gifts which she
and the late Mr. Coley made to
HPU. Havins and Brooks said
the Coley gifts are the second
largest in the history of the
institution exceeded only by
the bequest of $1 million by the
late Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walker.
Mrs. Coley gave a downtown
Brownwood building to Howard
Payne several years ago.
Earlier in 1967 she and Mr.
Coley had funded the Coley
Foundation when it was
established. All of the income
has been used for scholarships
since that date Havins said.
Howard Payne expects to
award up to four $1500 annual
scholarships to outstanding
students and the remainder of
the scholarship funds will be
used to help other students in
lesser amounts Havins said.
Scholarship recipients will be
selected by student aid officials
at the University Havins said.
Havins who was develop-
ment vice-president at HPU for
some 12 years is now a
businessman with interests in
Brownwood and Del Rio. He
had high praise for the late Mr.
and Mrs. Coley.
Senate approves appointments
Business was brisk in
Tuesday night's meeting of the
Student Association Senate as
senators approved and rejected
appointments passed three
bills on second reading
referred two items to com-
mittee and passed one bill on
emergency second reading.
In approved appointments
Rick Turner was re-appointed
chief justice of the Supreme
Court by an 8-1 vote and Billy
Ingalls and Wes Strickland
were approved unanimously as
associate justices. Laura Smith
was rejected because she has
only the fall semester before
she graduates. The ap-
pointment of Jan Mateschzk
was tabled pending her ap-
pearance before senate to be in-
terviewed about the associate
justice position.
Charlene Sanders was
unanimously appointed chair
man of the women's curfew
committee.
The Homecoming budget was
approved at $750 with $100 in
limbo (making the total $850)
until the Homecoming com-
mittee gets some exact figures
on the cost of burning the "J"
which will be a new
homecoming tradition.
A bill for senate room use by
campus groups was approved.
Five-dollar fines will be
charged to those groups that
leave the senate room in
disarray.
Another bill passed was the
senate budget of $2200. Recom-
mended budget allotments by
President Steve Jones were ap-
proved but are not binding
senators can allot the money as
they choose.
THE YELLOW JACKET
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Co-editors Mede Nix
Belia Rangel
Reporters Ike Bozeman
Marci Freeman
Norma Gomez
Bill Hickman
laura McKinney
Leesa Newton
Martha Robinson
Jacci Wickwarc
A bill to donate $35 for a
movie screen for Sid Richar-
dson Hall's twelfth floor was
referred to the Academic Af-
fau s Committee.
The appointment of Mark
Ludwick as senate parliamen-
tarian was referred to the ap-
pointments committee.
In the only emergency second
reading of the night senate
decided that freshman dress-up
day would continue until noon
today.
Letters
to the editor
accepted
Writers should limit their let-
ters to 200 words or less. The
right to condense letters is
reserved as is the right to
reject those considered as
libelous or personal attacks on
individuals. Initials may be
used on request but each letter
must be signed by the author
and submitted in duplicate.
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