The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1963 Page: 2 of 8
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Friday, February 8, 1953
THE RANGER
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Mrs. Carl Lieb, English instruc-
tor, reviewed “Genius” by Patrick
Dennis, author of “Auntie Maine,”
at the second annual book review
sponsored by the four local chap-
ters of Alpha Delta Kappa, honor-
ary teachers sorority.
Mrs. C. E. McDaniel, speech in-
structor, was general chairman of
the event. She is a member of the
Pi Chapter.
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Mr. Russell McFarland, assistant
professor of Economics, will spend
the first month of the coming
summer in New York City. He
will be a participant in the Thir-
teenth Annual Forum on Finance
at New York University.
The forum lasts approximately
one month, and Mr. McFarland’s
participation is a courtesy of the
New York Stock Exchange and
the National Association of Securi-
ties Dealers. Dean Paul CulwelL
nominated Mi'. McFarland as the
participant from San Antonio Col-
lege.
for their classes.
Judging from the departmental
offices that this reporter visited
during early registration, the fac-
ulty members were completely oc-!
cupied with registration, and had
no time to grade finals.
The SAC Scene 5AC Ret.ainsJ,unior Sta‘u*;
All of the high sophomores are
grateful to the administration for
devising and presenting the oppor-
tunity to sign up early, but
wouldn’t it be just as convenient
to have the teachers in the Ball-
room? They could take turns, if
some had papers to grade.
Mr. John H. Cage, Director of
Mortuary Science, journeyed to
Chicago February 7 to attend a
three-day meeting of the American
Board of Funeral Service Educa-
tion which is composed of nine
men. This group is meeting for
the purpose of accrediting schools
of mortuary science in the United
States. Mr. Cage is representing
the University Mortuary Science
Education Association of which
SAC is a member.
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Editor-in-Chief -----------,-----------------------------Maxine Gorneau
News Editor ------------------------------------------------ Judith Miller
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to those that have been proposed
and submitted for study by the
Commission.” However, the Com-
mission did not state what the al-
ternatives were.
Spears Adds Comments
Senator Franklin Spears had
pressed general satisfaction of the
findings. He did take exception to
a portion of the Commission’s find-
ings, however, and termed “falla-
cious” that portion of the report
which said raising SAC “would
extend higher education to rela-
tively few students.” He said this
; does not take into consideration the
! large number of San Antonio stu-
| dents now attending other senior
i colleges. -----------
The senator told the Commission provide for all post-high school
I that “there were four times as
; many students in San Antonio Col-
i lege as there were enrolled in the college study.
Dr. Marjorie Walthall, chairman,
of the Music Department, spoke
before the Texas Funeral Directors
and Embalming Association meet-
ing, calling for the use of “lesser
known, more dignified music in.
funeral services.” In her address
on Tuesday, January 29, Dr. Walt-
hall stated that such music is pref-
erable because familiar composi-
tions may carry many unfortunate
associations for the bereaved.
“Good taste and good style are
prerequisites of funeral music as
well as the full recognition of the
power that music has to elicit pre-
determined reactions in people,”
Dr. Walthall advised.
Moderately slow tempo was ur-
ged because “an extremely slow
tempo makes people who are al-
ready sad extremely n e r v o u s.”
Most people prefer remaining re-
strained in public despite the so-
lemnity of the occasion, Dr. Walt-
hall added.
The SAC music professor recom-
mended that, prior to the selection,
of compositions for a funeral, a
conference be held among the fu-
neral director, minister, musicians,
and the bereaved.
Whether you are a transfer student from another
college, a midterm graduate from high school, or a stu-
dent who decided to come for the higher education you
were unable to obtain before., SAC welcomes you to its
student body.
You have chosen a college which will continue to
serve you long after you complete your studies here. You
and your family will derive many hours of pleasure from
the Planetarium, library, student and faculty music re-
citals, children’s plays, and the countless other activities
which keeps SAC open almost 24 hours a day.
However, since you are now a SACite, you will share
the obligation of erasing the false community image of
this student body. This image characterizes the average
student as a fun-loving goof-off who couldn’t go to an-
other college because of a poor scholastic record or insuf-
ficient funds.
We must admit that students of this type frequently
enroll at SAC, but they don’t stay very long. When they
realize that this is a college, with college level standards,
their grades force them to either continue their studies
with a mature attitude, or drop out completely.
How can you help? By conducting yourself as a col-
legiate. This includes abiding by school rules and parti-
cipating in varied SAC-sponsored activities.
Another opportunity to exhibit adult behavior is in
the library. Very often, students hear the class bell and
interpret it to mean a 10 minute conversation period. This
ruckus, no mater how subdued, disturbs the students who
are trying to study. A quiet library is a sign of a mature,
studious student body.
It’s through few words and many examples that SAC
is erasing its “play school” image, and showing the com-
munity and the state what a great college this is. Will
you help us?
In recent years, SAC has mo-
nopolized the MISS SAN ANTO-
NIO title. This isn’t surprising, as
it is common knowledge that SAC
has the prettiest co-eds in the city.
The contest is coming up soon,
and" we want to keep the title in
our college “family.” All girls who
meet the basic requirements (they
are published in this newspaper)
By Maxine Gorneau
About the new system of registration for high sopho-
mores: The intention was good but the procedure was
hard on the cold, privileged sophs. One administrator told
me that the whole idea was to keep the faculty, especially
the department chairmen, in their offices so that they
could work on grading finals, term a. few students and teachers
papers, and other end-of-the-year iiave stated that they think that
business, while registering students the TOP TEN are not really rep-
tesentative of the best in the col-
lege. That is to say, some think
that out of 3,100 students, there
are more than 10 people who are
worthly of being called the most
outstanding in the college. This
seems true, but if you examine
the rolls of the various types of
clubs on campus, you will find
the same names listed over and
over again.
The teachers and administration
are by far the most objective
judges of the most worthy stu-
dents. If left to the students, the
Top Ten race would probably be
a 'popularity contest, with schol-
arship and leadership replaced by
looks and personality, which are
important, but not foremost.
Commission Adopts Staff Report 9-5
Dr. Moody concluded that “This
does not mean that our educational
program is watered down, but once
a student comes to SAC, he is
grouped by educational achieve-
ment and ability through diagnos-
tic and placement testing.”
Lower level courses are offered,
as remedial opportunities in prepa-
ration for certain required subjects.
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Faculty Findings
America’s motorists take good,
care of their cars—and they keep
the pedestrians in good running
condition too.
By Judi Miller | first two years of either college
A proposal to make San Antonio ' accepted by the state system last
College, Odessa, and Laredo Junior Near-
Colleges four year state-supported
institutions has been turned down
by the Texas Commission on High-
er Education. '
Shortly after the Commission >
turned down proposals to make I
the junior colleges four-year sen-
ior institutions, Bexar County Rep- ;
resentative Rudy Esquivel submit-
ted a bill to the lower house of
the Texas Legislature proposing to
raise San Antonio College from a
two to a four-year level.
Representative Esquivel says that ,
many-San Antonio students can- :
not afford to attend the city’s four
private colleges and universities.
His bill would not elevate the pres-
ent junior college but would take
over the physical plant for a new .
four-year college. (
Commission Adopts Report
The Texas Commission on High- 1
er Education received a staff rec-
ommehdation which found insuffi- 1
cient need to warrant a change in
status for the two-year colleges. :
It was adopted 9-5. They had al- :
ready recommended the elevation :
of San Angelo and Pan American :
colleges to senior college status
with full state support last year.
The staff report on which the
Commission based its refusal point- '
ed out that San Antonio students ;
are 50 miles from the nearest four- <
year state college, and that this is ;
too far for easy commuting, ap- '
parently, since only a few students :
make the trip. But the report add-
ed, “The existence of five colleges
and a public junior college in San
Antonio may account in part for
the small number of commuting ,
students.”
The major factor that swayed the (
staff against SAC and the other
colleges was what it considered to
be the greater need for using avail-
able funds elsewhere. This was the
need for improving newer state
senior colleges and bringing them
up to the quality of the longer-
established senior institutions.
Cost Prohibitive
The staff report stated: “The ini-
tial cost of giving effect to each
of the several proposals and the
continuing financial support which
would be required of the State are
factors which necessarily must be
taken into account. The estimated
costs to the State during the 1965-
67 biennium in establishing these
institutions as senior colleges would
be in excess of $10,300,000.”
The Commission also reported
that “It appears that for the pres-
ent and foreseeable future, there
will be ample college-age youth
in the immediate vicinity of San
Antonio and Odessa to provide an
enrollment favorable to an econom-
ic level of operation as senior col-
leges, depending, to some extent,
on the number and variety of de- '
gree programs to be offered.”
The findings of the staff led to
this final conclusion: “In making
this recommendation the staff does
not wish to deny or ignore the
needs which are actually present
in each of these local areas. It is -
our considered judgment that there r
are other alternatives for meeting I other considerations were
these needs which are preferable ] brought out by the administrator
in his ideas of what one might
expect, assuming that as a four-
year state supported college, SAC
would follow the traditional pat-
tern of other Texas colleges.
1. The move would eliminate
the educational opportunities for
the 4,800 students now enrolled in
SAC’s Evening Division, the likes
of which are not offered in exist-
ing four-year state-supported insti-
tutions.
2. A selective admissions policy
would eliminate at least 33 per
cent of the students SAC is now
serving.
As a community junior college,
SAC maintains an open-door ad-
missions policy in an attempt to
plicants, many of whom might not
have any other opportunity for
He stated that San Antonio had
much more grounds for
year college than either of the oth-
er two communities whose appli-
cations were also refused. Senator
Spears said: “Higher education is
cheaper for the student as well •
as for the State when colleges are |
established in urban centers rather j
than put where the students have I
no jobs, no housing, and no rela- |
tion to industry.” He also stated '
that San Antonio is the only ma-
jor city in the state without a
state senior college.
Moody Suggests Plan
an interview with The San
Antonio Light, Dr. Wayland P.
Moody, SAC president, suggested
a unique arrangement as the most
economical way for the State to
provide necessary public higher
education facilities in the San An-
tonio area and still serve the needs
and best interests of its citizens.
Dr. Moody suggested that the state
keep the community junior college
as it is and create an upper level
institution which offers a three-
year program starting with the
third year of college and going
through the fifth year.
The president pointed out a
“definite need” in San Antonio for
greater and better facilities for
college level vocational, technical,
and professional education, espe-
cially in the scientific and engi-
neering fields.
Dr. Moody stated, “A quality
program is so expensive that it
would be impossible to put on this
type of training by any means oth-
er than public funds.”
He noted that many professional
degrees now require five years of
college and said the ^‘upper level”
idea would make it possible for
students to stay in San Antonio to
complete professional and technical
programs.
Possibilities Listed
Two possibilities for implement-
ing such an arrangement were sug-
gested by Dr. Moody:
1. Create an upper division
branch of one of the existing state
institutions of higher education; for
example, The University of Texas,
which “already has the staff, or-
ganization and know-how.”
2. Establish an entirely separate
and new type of institution. Dr.
Moody said he is not opposed to
a four-year state supported college
in San Antonio.
But he pointed out that it would
cost the taxpayers nearly 10 mil-
lion dollars if SAC itself were to
be given this status.
The taxpayers of the San Anto-
nio Union Junior College District
would have to pay off all the cur-
rent bonded indebtedness—a total
$3,331,518, in principal and interest
through 1983.
In addition, the district would
relinquish $6,391,012 in grounds,
buildings, equipment, and library
books, which would have to be
turned over to the state debt free.
Community Service at Stake
Other considerations
a four-
“Woman’s Role in a Changing
World” was the topic chosen by
Miss Bessie Pearce, assistant pro-
fessor of English, for presentation
in a program prepared by Mrs,
Perry E. Gragg for the Epsilon
Beta Chapter, Delta Kappa Gam-
ma society meeting at Luby’s Mc-
Creless Cafeteria, Thursday, Jan-
uary 31.
As fast as they cdme in, the
Book Store sells them—sweatshirts
with the SAC emblem across the
front. The students’ enthusiastic
purchasing of shirts means more
than just buying another sweater;
it diows a desire to publicize and
be proud of - their college. The
supply keeps running short, but
more are on the way. Get yours
in the color of your choice, but
get one! There’s- no excuse now
to wear a sweater from another
college since SAC can boast its
own. are urged to enter.
Some say payola started when
the first kid gave his teacher an
apple.
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