Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 29, 1992 Page: 2 of 12
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2 / Collegian
News/Features
Wednesday, January 29, 1992
PTK providing student mentors
NE Campus Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) has announced a
new service for foreign students attending TCJC this spring.
The International Friendship Desk will provide theforeign
students with a mentor in dealing with the American way of
life,
‘T hope some lasting friendships will occur from this/*
Dl Hans Oonk, international Club advisor, said.
The desk will be staffed by PTK members from 11 a.nu
to 1 p,m. Thursdays and Fridays.
“This will be a good learning experience for ail
participants/’ Hana Priest, chairperson of the PTK service
committee.
BSU offering Friday Night Alive
The Baptist Student Umon CBSU) on the NW Campus
provides a night of activity and Christian fellowship for
students Friday nights at 7 pan.
Friday Night Alive usually meets at the flag pole on the
NW Campus and welcomes students of all faiths.
For the cmrent month, a scavenger hunt was planned
Jam 24, and a progressive dinner is set Jan. 31,
More information may be obtained in room B-258,
or by calling 232-2900, ext. 498.
Dieters invited to compete for cash
Mostcontcsts are looking for winners not losers, But, the
News briefs
NW Campus Health Center is looking for losers for their
weight-loss contest.
Each contestant must lose a minimum of five pounds to
qualify for four drawings of $25 gift certificates.
Contestants must weigh in before the contest begins and
before 5 p.m. ott each Friday of the six-week contest
Approximately 25 students have entered.
Losers’ names wiM be entered in a drawing for each five
pounds lost The final sign updateof Jan. 17 has been extended.
Game holding expanded on NW
The NW Campus game room in B-262 has four new
games to offer students. Scrabble, Monopoly, Life and Wheel
of Fortune have been added to the games that were already
availa
Holiday project continuing on NW
What Started as aThanksgiving Day project has blossomed
into a year-long act of goodwilHor the faculty and students on
the FT
In November, the students and faculty collected canned
goods to provide Thanksgiving dinners for families in need. |
’’But I decided that people need this kind of help all year
long " CarrieTunson, NW Campus direclorof studentactivities,
said.
Since then, the can drive has neverstopped,and more than
500 items havebeen collected. In addition, a clothing drive has
been started with most of the clothing being donated to the
YWCA for women and children in transition. More than 400
; piecesof clothinghavebeen donated and are still coming in,
■■ . ' - -
A letter of thanks was sent to the TCJC students and
Staff who donated goods from Rhonda L Skinner, adult
protective services specialist with the Texas Department of
X“A few people still do really care/’ Tunson said.
Panelists to discuss careers
Environmental Careers will be discussed by expert
panelists in the first of a Career Success (CSS) at
12:30 pm. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Forum Room of the
Student Center on South Campus.
Panelists appearing on the free program, Making the
Planet Sqfefor the Faiare, are a senior director of Safety and
Environmental Affairs, Alcon Laboratories; a director of
Environment Services, Texas Utilities Services; a sales
manager with Waste Management/Fort Worth; an
environmental attorney,Partner,Canty & Hanger; a fisheries
; biologist as well as a contaminants biologist,Texas Parks and
Purpose of CSS is to bring students making a career
decision together with professionals who share their career
experiences and answer questions.
Remaining spring programs wifi include Cws wA
YouthAgencies Wednesday,Feb. 19,;£aw Careers Thursday,
March 5; and Cattery at Pottery Wednesday, April 15.
The series is sponsored by the Career Planning and
Placement Center on South Campus.
Lawman pursuing
college education
By Stephanie Burch ;
Reporter
NW Campus student Al Alcorn
wages the battle against crime by
night and maintains a 10-hour course
schedule during the day.
West Division Lieutenant of the
Fort Worth Police Department since
1987, Alcorn plans to retire after 26
years on the force and pursue a higher
education.
Alcpm says having a college
education was virtually unheard of
for a police officer when he joined
the department in 1966, but most
high-ranking officers today have
bachelor’s degrees.
“The education level in police
departments has sky-rocketted,” he
said. ‘That piece of paper means a
lot.”
Although Alcorn will officially
retire in February, it is not likely he
will leave the criminal justice field
permanently.
“I’d like to be chief of police in
a small town two or three years down
the road,” he said. ‘To do that you’ve
got to have a college education.”
The 50-year-old Lieutenant says
it has been “fun” going back to school,
and he will continue at TCJC as long
as he can.
“I’d like to take at least 15 hours
in the spring,” he said, “but I don’t
plan on taking anymore computer
courses. It’s very tough for me.”
Alcorn says managing to hold
Al Alcorn
an A average despite his “computer
ignorance” is the result of a lot of
studying and being married to a
computer major. His wife, recently
laid off from General Dynamics, is
also going back to school.
“She’s what is saving me,” he
said. “We go to school together
everyday.”
Now that Alcorn has cut back to
four evenings a week at work, his
wife is working part time and his
retirement is less than three months
away, the couple finally has the
chance to enjoy life and accomplish
some long awaited goals like going
back to school.
“It’s been nice,” Alcorn said.
“We’re having a good time.”
NE students persevere
to get D.J. jobs in area
By Saedra Pinkerton
NE News Editor
NE Campus students Mikey D. and Wonderful
Wes, also known as Mike Davenport and Wes
Williams, seem to have the “perfect job.”
Both are DJ’s at Texas Dance Palace, a club in
Euless.
“We get paid to drink beer, play music we like
and talk to girls,” Davenport said.
Davenport, who has been DJ-ing for several
years, began, oddly enough, as a bellboy in a Fort
Worth hotel.
“I was a bellman, and I wanted to be the assistant
DJ,” he said.
“They (his employers) wouldn’thire me because
I was only 19. I asked them for the job, and they
turned me down. So about six months later, I started
paging people on the paging system (to demonstrate
his DJ abilities). Finally, they said ‘If you’re so
excited about doing this job, then we’ll give you a
And he has been a DJ ever since. Davenport
hired Williams as an assistant several weeks ago, in
what both say was a revealing interview.
“He gave me the job because I was pretty much
the stud (during the interview),” Williams said.
Davenport agreed.
“He came in, and he was so cocky. He was very
confident. He wasn’t cocky to the point that he was
obnoxious. Buttobein the business that we’re in, you
have to be confident,” Davenport said.
Davenport said that although perseverance is
what got him his first job as a DJ, ingenuity is a trait
that a DJ cannot be without
“I was DJ-ing in Corpus (Christi), and it was a
really busy night. There were about 300 people in the
club and a waitress came up (to the DJ booth) with a
full tray of drinks to make a request. As she walked up,
her heel fell off the bottom of her shoe, and she fell over
and all the drinks fell on my mixing board.
“I had no music whatsoever, and there were
about 300 people in the club. The only thing I could
get to work was my microphone. So we improvised
and got a boombox from one of the guys in the kitchen.
And for an hour we played musical chairs until I finally
got part of the system dried out with a hair dryer,”
Davenport said.
Although in his three months as a DJ, Williams
has not experienced such dramatic problems, he said
that he has seen a few local celebrities in the club and
has listened to a lot of people sing their song requests
because they do not know the title of the song or the
artist
“People come up all the time and say, ‘I want to
hear a song,’ and they’ll start singing to you. And you
have people behind you, waiting to give requests, or
whatever and then you have this girl singing Depeche
Mode or something,” Davenport said.
Davenport hopes to get a degree in radio/television
and film and begin a career as a radio DJ.
Regardless of the career they choose, though,
both Davenport and Williams said they have the ultimate
job for college students.
“It’s a great way to meet girls; and, basically, we
get paid for being the party animals that we are,”
Davenport said.
You can see Williams Sunday-Tuesday nights
and Davenport Wednesday-Saturday nights at Texas
Dance Palace at 1901W. AirportFreeway in Showplace
Lanes.
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