Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 13, 1962 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LONE STAR LUTHERAN
Friday, April 13, 1982 ‘
Open Ring, Insert Hat
Election time has sprung. Bulletin boards, buildings, and every
available campus twig will soon blossom forth with a barrage of
campaign propaganda that will put Connally and Daniel to shame.
- Each spring TLC’ers take to the polls to elect senators, class
pr-exies, and student body officers. This year’s edition of the political
liavoc brings to mind several comments:
First, we urge student groups to oi'ganize political parties for
a more effective election. A candidate who runs because a group of
• his fellow students have approached him and asked him to run as the
embodiment of the things for which they stand is a step toward
mature and responsible campaigning. Independents, fraternities, sorori-
ties, and other such groups may find it beneficial to bond into political
parties to insure the election of candidates. We need political parties.
Secondly, if the Student Senate plans to continue its promotion
and actions on world and national affairs next year, which may prove
a debatable campaign issue in itself, candidates will be required to
indicate how they would tend to vote on such matters. Candidates and
Voters should keep this factor in mind.
Third, we offer a word of caution before platforms and propagan-
da get into full swing. Each year candidates are faced with the prob-
lem of presenting a suitable platform. Close scrutiny will reveal that
so-and-so number one has the same plans as so-and-so number two,
which leaves us to believe that we all want the same things anyway.
Certainly, we want to hear original and imaginative platforms, but,
above all, we want to hear practical suggestions that promise to
materialize. One might, make an interesting study of promises that
failed to materialize in past elections.
Fourth, nominations for student body offices opened Wednesday,
April 11. They will close next Wednesday, April 19. It is important
that you consider now who you feel can best serve your interests in
student government. Perhaps you yourself have something to offer
in student government. A responsible citizen will respond to such an
urgent call to service.
Above all, we want to see a week of hard, sincere, spirited
campaigning immediately after Easter (April 23-30). First balloting
will be held in the Kennel Tuesday, May 1. Runoffs will be held
Thursday, May 3.
We need political parties, i~esponsive candidates, and imaginative
platforms. Is your hat in the ring?
BURNING QUESTION
-;V
The Burning Question is a Col-
lection of student opinions on a
contemporary campus or world
problem.
This week’s Burning Question:
Should we or should we not have
freshman initiation ? Why ? Any
suggestion ? .
Ann Swanson: “Initiation was
fine, but it made me feel baby-
ish. We should have it though—
everyone needs one last fling be-
fore settling, down.”
Jerrie Curl: “I think we should
have initiation if more peo-
ple would have more spirit.”
Linda Madsen: “I enjoyed it.
The one thing I’d add is to make
the upperclassmen wear name
tags.”
Jim Hinkhouse: “Yes, continue
some kind of initiation. A lot of
it does some good in getting ac-
quainted. It may need more good
Lone Star Lutheran
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Editor: 'Bob Weller
Managing Editor: Eileen Krue-
ger
Sponsors: 'Dr. W. O’Connell and
Rev. G. Utech
Circulation Manager: ‘Peggy
Woelfel
News Editor: Patty Mitchell
Sports Editors: Charlie Harris,
Ron Baca, Dayton Perry, and
Gene Davenport
Feature Editors: Ann Tee] and
Barbara Lorfing
Columnists: Bob Goodhart. La-
Ve; ne Lundquist, John Bryan and
Vernon Fewell
Reporters: Kathy Doerfler, Eve-
lyn Billo, Larry Vinyard and
Sharen Huff
Mailing: Shirley Eckhardt. and
Virginia Miller
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organization.”
Donn . Rosenauer: “Yes, we
should have freshman initiation.
This year’s was much better than
last year’s. It is a tradition at
TLC, anticipated with mixed emo-
tions. It is a unifying factor and
orientates a freshman both to his
class and to the college commu-
nity.”
Earlene Brown: “We should
continue initiation, but I’d like to
see everyone participating equal-
ly.”
Ron Baca: “Yes, about one or
one-half weeks capped off by
Kangaroo Court.”
Joanne Daniels: “Definitely
continue it, but have more activi-
ties in which ‘Fish’ can get to
know upperclassmen. Upperclass-
men should put out more effort
to meet the ‘Fish’.”
Jeannine Ackmann: “We should
have it next year, but more stress
should be put on the school song
and fight song. Some people were
hurt because they were forced to
participate.”
Jerry Mortensen: “Yes, defin-
itely, I think there should be a
Fish Initiation. Take away the
length of time to wear beanies.
Fish should do more, in short,
like carry trays . . .”
Carolyn Hartmann: “NO, we
don’t need an initiation. It’s just
an extension of high school. We
might have more welcoming par-
ties.”
Joe Smith: “Yes, but it needs
a little more body—It was way
too easy. The walk to the park
was really more like it—needs
moi’e contact!”
Roy Grueber: “Yes, but make
it shorter and more intense. It
needs buttoning because you can
get acquainted with them.”
Ross Earley: “If they have ini-
tiation as it has been conducted
in the past with all the limita-
tions, it would be better just to
drop it because it hardly serves
the purpose. It is not a necessity
but it is a good thing because (1)
it is a freshman’s transition from
home to college- and the ‘outside
world’ where everything is not
‘peaches and cream’; (2) it quick-
ly brings fish into the college so-
ciety.”
Dear Editor:
It is interesting to notice that
the many people who come to a
Christian school for knowledge
are afraid of gaining a little of
it where the music of the church
is conceited. We may not all have
the greatest voices in the world,
but I’m sure that God doesn’t mind
the sound if we are singing from
the heart. Is it that there is really
an aversion to singing, and learn-
ing or is it rather just to create
an issue ?
You people who have so much
spirit in wanting to create a con-
troversy should aim your efforts
at a more meaningful target, or
at least at one that is not aimed
for the benefit of the students
themselves. This is a way of com-
mitting spiritual suicide. Men
smarter than we have been try-
ing for ages, but I think we are
coming the closest to succeeding.
All we have to do is poke a little
fun at the meaningful, make the
small and unimportant our goal,
belittle people who try to give us
insight, and we will achieve the
goal that we are so earnestly
striving for—that of making man
nothing more than a “chunk of
meat.”
Robert Stubbs.
* *
Dear Student Body,
After the advent of “Isaiah”
you’d think we’d all be aware that
the student government NEEDS
leaders. With the Senate looking
as if it’s ready to plunge into the
whirlwind of world politics you’d
think we’d DEMAND a great
many able leaders in our student
government. My point ? Let’s
get those people with guts and
ability onto the ballot in the com-
ing elections.
Linda Normann
Campus Calendar
FRIDAY, APRIL 13:
9:00-9:50 a. m.—Cultural Con-
vocation, Sigurd Rascher, Saxo-
phone, Gymnasium.
7:30-10:00 p. m.—Pan Ameri-
can vs. TLC, here.
SATURDAY, APRiL 14:
8:15 a. m.-4:30 p. m.—Graduate
Record Examination, Convo Hall
1:00 p. m.—Betas leave on re-
treat, Camp Giesecke, New Braun-
fels
1:30-6:00 p. m.—Omega Tau,
Rio Vista
7:30-10:00 p. m.—University of
Houston vs. TLC, here
8:00-9:00 p. m.—Sigurd Rasch-
er, Saxophone Concert with TLC
Band, Gym
9:00-11:00 p. m. — “Battle
Hymn”, Social Activities Agency,
Wupperman
SUNDAY, APRIL 15:
7:00-8:25 p. m.—Lutheran Stu-
dent Association, Riebe Dining
Hall
8:15-9:30 p. m.—Music Recital,
Rosalie Steger and Marcus Streng,
Wupperman
MONDAY, APRIL 15:
3:00-5:30 p. m.—St. Mary’s,
there
7:05-8:25 p. m.—Women’s So-
cial Organizations
7:05-8:25 p. m.—Theta Pi Ep-
silon
TUESDAY, APRIL 17:
5:00-6:30. p. m.—Easter Buffet,
Riebe Dining Hall
7:30-10:00 p. m.—Southwest
State Teachers College, here
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18:
5:30-6:30 p. m.—Student Sen-
ate, Riebe Dining Hall
7:00-9:30 p. m—Lenten Ves-
pers, TLC Choir Passion Week
Concert, Chapel
THURSDAY, APRIL 19:
MAUNDY THURSDAY
12:00 Noon—Easter Holidays
beein.
THE LSL THANKS the mem-
bers of the Projector Projector
Committee for their efforts to
raise funds for a new projector
in Wupperman Little Theater.
Members .of the committee (1-r)
top row—Jay Etheredge, Stan-
ley Post, Chris Pope, Sue Chris-
tiansen, Billie Spies, Mickey
Lindgren, Danny Peterson, and
Donn Rosenauer; bottom row—
Sam Urrate, Diana Van Dyke,
Kay Thompson, Vernell Suite-
meier, and Jack Pfennig. Kay
Thompson served as chairman.
Thanks for a job well done!
Weekly News Summary f
WASHINGTON: Edwin A. Walker, crusading former general for
the far right, charged Thursday he was “framed in a den of iniquity”
—and listed Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Walter Rostowr
presidential advisor, as among dwellers' in the den.
PITTSBURGH: The United Steelworkers signed new labor con-
tracts with steel companies Friday and hailed the agreements a^
possibly the beginning of a strike-free era in the basic steel industryV
MOSCOW: The Soviet Union announced Friday night that it has
put another Sputnik, Cosmos II, into space.
ANGHOA, SOUTH VIET NAM: Government forces, tipped off
by spies in the Communist Viet Cong, crushed an ambitious attack by
1,2CC guerillas in this district in'a four hour battle, South Vietnamese
claimed Saturday.
WASHINGTON: President Kennedy invoked the Taft-Hartly?'
law Saturday in an effort to end a three-week maritime strike that
has caused growing shortages of food and other necessities in Hawaii.
PARIS: Final official returns gave President Charles de Gaulle
a massive 90 per cent vote of confidence Monday from the voters of
France, for the cease-fire accords paving the way for a new indepen-
dent Algeria.
BUENOS AIRES: Deposed Ai’gentine President Arturo Frondia
was reported by two doctors Sunday night to have possibly suffered
a slight heart disorder in the past week.
HAVANA: Fidel Castro’s regime has convicted the 1,179 Cuban
invaders of treason and has offered to swap them for a total of $62
million in ransoms.
NEW YORK: A court order late Monday forbade a threatened
strike of New York ‘City public school leaders. At the same time, thili
state offered a $12 to $17 million advance of funds to ease their wage
crisis.
WASHINGTON: President Kennedy and British Prime Minister
Harold MacMillian have agreed on a public statement justifying a
new U. S. resumption of nuclear tests in the air, informed sources
said, Monday night.
WASHINGTON: President Kennedy announced, Wednesday, vi
servist and national guardsmen, totaling some 155,000 men, called
to duty during the Berlin clash last summer will be released in August,
providing a similar crisis does not reoccur.
WASHINGTON: President Kennedy condemned the nation’s steel
company leaders for their “utter contempt for the American people”
by raising the price of-steel $6 per ton.
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