The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 6, 1951 Page: 4 of 8
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4—THE J-TAC
Tuesday, March 6, 1951
Students to the Rescue
Tarleton's student body came to the res-
cue of Oscar P. last week. For weeks J-TAC
reporters searched their minds for new and
different ideas to encourage students to- at-
tend basketball games, ,TTS and TTP signs
announcing coining games continued to appeal
as mysteriously as in the past. Coaches ques-
tioned the student's lack of interest in then-
winning basketball team. In fact, just as the
- future life of Oscar P. lo6ked the darkest, the
student body changed the entire picture by
turning out in full for.ce for the last two
scheduled games of .the season.
Congratulations students and band mem-
bers. The large attendance at the Tarleton
Schreiner games, the enthusiastic cheers and
yells, the exciting and thrilling music plus
good sportsmanship proved beyond a doubt
that the Tarleton students appreciate and en-
joy their basketball team.
No Letters Today?
What? No letted again TODAY? Should
there have been one?
Naturally it was only yesterday that a
nice long informative letter was mailed to'
the folks at home. Or was it the early part of
last week. ' •
What difference does -it make when the
last letter to the folks at home was mailed?
Why write to them at all?
Why should they be interested in their
son's or daughter's studies, activities, im-
pressions, and opinions of college life? After
all, parents NEVER sacrifice to send their
offspring to college. Or do they?
The next time an empty post office box
greets your expectant eye, ask yourself whether
or not there should have been a letter and
by all means answer this question in YOUR
favor. Incidentally, the College Store has a
variety of letter-writing materials for sale.
A Word to the Wise
If you happen already to be wise, read no
further. This sermon is nothing more than a
reminder of some "things you already know
about and have already made your plans for.
Maybe, however, you haven't looked at the
facts in just this light.
First of all take a look at a calendar if
you have oi^e handy. During this week you
will remember that there are the usual number
of club meetings. On Saturday you will find
the Military Ball. Now for the rest of March
there are other formal dances scheduled as
' well as a track meet in Fort Worth and Easter
holidays. April's schedule is just as full.
So what? So this — seven weeks of this
semester are gone. Two more weeks and you'll
be rushing' home in hopes of getting those
grades before your parents do. Whv not do
something about those grades now while there
is still .time.
These are the facts. If you are one of the
wise, you already knew these things — any-
way a reminder doesn't hurt anyone, and, as
the sergeant in the "Steel Helmet" says, "If I
were right all the time, I'd be an officer."
Qlltp 3J-®ar
Official Student .Publication of Tarleton State
College. • .
Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post
Office in Stephenville, Texas, under Act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
Represented by the National Advertising Service,
Inc.
Member of the Texas Intercollegiate Press Asso-
ciation, Associated Collegiate Press, and Columbia
Scholastic Press Association,
STAFF
Robert Kenny Editor
Ann Bryan Associate Editor
D. C, Wiikerson..... .Business Manager
Robbie Lou Earp1 Asst. Business Manager
Berva Dawn Sorensen Act, Asst. Busi. Mgr.
Thelma Geeslin Fine Arts Editor
Lois Jordan.. Exchange Editor
Bill Bryce—v Acting Editorials Editor
Louise Williams _ i Feature "Editor
Gina Seastedt
Frances Lawler.
Harold Warford..
Military Editor
-Acting News Editor
Cartoonist
CAMPUSOLOGY
The fleet came in and brought
with it some ex-Earletonites. Louis
Holt and Jimmy Stevens are the
"Swobbies" being referred to. While
on the campus the boys kept
certain gals in a whiz.
Patsy Hogan and Edsol January
were seen at the local theater to-
gether the other night.
Zelda Tesson and Philip Ogan,
and Patsy Wilson and Wayne
Odom are a foursome seen fre-
quently together.
Mary Goodson and Snuffy Smith
were caught sipping a coke at
Jake & Dorothy's the other night,
after the basketball game.
Manuel Garza and Leroy Megg
have a handful of thanks from a
certain Chamberlain gal.
Two of Tarleton's widows re-
ceived long distance telephone calls
from the Army last week. Bob-
bie Lou's came from Colorado and
Jean's came from California. Nice
going, women
Another Tarletonite whose heart
belongs a hundred miles away con-
tinues to mummur something- about
Monahans.
Wally Brundrette took off for
Austin again ldst weekend. That
lucky little Beeville gal really has
a firm grasp!
Who is Sandy?
Don Tate and Joy Barnett were
seen enjoying each others company
last week.
A group of five girls and five
boys. went on a skating party the
other night. Have fun, kids ?
Must close up shop now: see
"you all" at the Military Ball,
but first just one thing—Who
is Sandy ?
Dorothy Corder came back to
school Sunday night with stars in
her eyes. She spent the weekend
at home with her Aggie, Vic Bird.
Five Fort boys and five-Gough
girls had many, many sore spots
Saturday morning. The cause was
a trip to the skating rink Friday
night made by Pat Hogan and Jack
Price, Nancy Calloway, Pokey'
Gibbs, Scooter Brglsford, Ann
Bryan, Richard Redd, Billy Earl
Askins, Jim Yancey and Robert
Henley.
A couple of new couples around
are Alice Stephenson and Billy
Cobb, J. C. Clark and Nancy Mob-
ley. '
It may be a different language,
but dating- is the same. At least
German Sierra Garcia , and Benito
C. Zamora, two first semester
students from Mexico, think so.
They have heard their class-
mates discuss many things they
did not understand; however, one
of the most talked about subjects
was dating. The boys thought it
must be a very important subject.
When it was explained to them,
they were surprised that it was a
"cita." The chief difference in our
dating customs and, those of Mex-
ico1 City is that young girls in
Mexico do not go out without
chaperones.
Wallace Birkes is sporting a ring-
that belongs to a girl in To!nr.
Pat Tindell has that old fa-
miliar gleam; it's Jack Hancock
this time.
Joan Robbins, is dividing hei
time between Dick Glass and
Dugan Johnson.
Gough Hall was. in . an uproar
Friday night. It seemed the girls
who have dates for the Military
Ball were celebrating and those
who don't were staying awake
worrying.
Library Inaugurates
New Teaching Service
New books added to the Tarleton
library stacks are now sent to the
teaching departments for exami-
nation before being circulated, last
week's Faculty News Letter an-
nounced.
All new books received will be
examined by the department or
departments who might use it in
teaching, the letter further ex-
plained.
The library asked that the books
not be kept longer than one week
or over the weekend, so that ex-
amination by faculty should not
become a bottleneck in the acquisi-
tion process.
The new service was begun ex-
perimentally at the beginning of
the semester.
DULL DAY HEMS
Everyone is glad to. see Berva
Dawn Sorensen back on the camp-
us after her recent appendectomy.
Floriee Carothers, Wanda Roach,
Barbara Frisbie, and Pat Freeman
raided Cox's department store last
week to get identical T-shirts. . .
The dining hall staff admires Mo-
nette Simpson's new hair clip. . .
Lee Wise improves his golfing tech-
nique behind the Fort. . . Major
Duke teaches military science-with
the aid of "Mac." Any cadet know
"Mac?" . . . Tommy Dunagan, a
member of the intramural volley-
ball team for two years, is proving
himself a champion again, this
year, . , Betty Boone had a Lab
full of admirers last Tuesday. . . .
Marilyn Reimer, the Wisconsin co-
ed, plans to attend nurse's training
at Baylor University when she
leaves Tarleton, , . Charles Oliver,
cadet commander of the Wain-
wright Grenadiers, plays the piano
with a master's touch. . . Wallace
Birkes' "Clearview Taxi" is ex-
actly what its name implies—you
can view clear through the thing,"
English students of Mr. King learn
to sing the song "Oklahoma" as a
prerequisite to his English course.
Mr. Friou is the proud owner of a
brown necktie with large fushia
dots. . . Betty Middleton is sporting
a new '51 Chevrolet. . . Alice Ste-
phenson is putting the finishing
touches on a leather picture frame.
Jimmy Howard, a star on the bas-
ketball team, had a 2.8 grade point
average last semester, , . D. C.'
Wiikerson is now Tarleton's rep-
resentative for a nationally adver-
tised cigarette company. . . Regis-
trar John Tompkins likes to smoke
cigars.- . . A dog visited in Mr.
English's Wednesday morning bot-
any class. . . Efficient Floriee Ca-
rothers makes most of her clothes.
Coach Willie Zapalac and his bas-
ketball team won conference this
year for the first time since 19
Tarleton lost three competent sec-
retaries last week when Mary Tom
Roberson, Pat Smith, and Alice
McClean went to work for Pacific
Finance Company in Dallas. . . .
Marilyn Reimer's mother is'coming
to visit her from Wisconsin this
week. . . Herbie Harltrider is only
five feet tall,
Three Films Planned
For Frosh Ag Classes
Three films are on schedule- for
showing to freshmen animal hus-
bandry classes this month, ■ H. L,
Self, course instructor, announced
last week.
First of-the series will be shown
Monday through Thursday next
week. It is a technicolor movie
which shows each step in the pro-
duction of beef from the birth of
the calf to the dinner plate. All
the films will be shown in Room 6
of the Agriculture Building.
The. second and third of the
series, "By-Products," and "Meat
Buying Customs," will be shown
immediately after the spring holi-
days. The first deals with the
products which are salvaged dur-
ing livestock slaughter, including
wearing apparel, luggage, medi-
cine and others. The last shows
the factors that ineluence the
cuts and the kind of meat that the
American housewife in different
parts of the country will buy.
All three will be furnished by
Swift and Company, meat pack-
ing-firm.
Fiction Volumes
Added to Library
Acquisition of 15 new volumes
of fiction and 123 other books and
documents was announced last
week by a Faculty News Letter.
Included in the fiction list , are
Stuart's "The Objector," Wetzel's
"A Wreath and a Curse" and "The
Spanish Gardener" by A. J. Cronin.
Other acquisitions included one
philosophy-psychology volume, 16
books on social sciences, education,
or manners and customs, six pure
science volumes and ten on applied
science, seven volumes on fine arts
or recreation, 39 literature or lit-
erature arts books, 12 history vol-
umes, 12 biographies and 15 USD A
documents.
POINT OF VIEW
By ROBERT KENNY
As a second part of my series on "Help-
ful Hints for Suffering Students," which began
last week with plagarism, I would like to offer
a few bits of advice this time concerning,
Stephen Potter would probably put it, "Cheat-
ingontestsmanship." In recent years, this has
become one of the most intricate and exact
sciences known to students in American col-
leges, and has also begun to gain popularity
abroad especially among the natives of New
Zealand, who study English in college.
Years ago, before the time of Deans of
Students and Disciplinary Committees,
cheating on tests was a relatively un-
known subject amqng students at even
the most exclusive schools. Even where
known, it was not practiced with any-
thing like the degree of skill exhibited
daily in modern classrooms. ..The would-
be cheater simply took along his text-
book and looked up the answers as he
needed them. Obviously, such tactics
would get the modern operator nowhere,
since techers have become increasingly .
wary as evidence of fraud increased over
the years. Many teachers can now de-
tect a cheater by the set of his ears or
the grayness of his cuff, so a book could
never get inside the classroom.
Punishment, too, was crude in those days.
A student cheating was either thrown out
on his ear or flunked and given a few sharp-
slaps to promote future honesty. Nowadays,
of course, such action is unthinkable. The
punishment must match the crime in subtlety.
Therefore, the more progressive and advanced
schools merely wire the cheater's parents,
who cut off his supply of money. Then he is
ruined and punishment is complete.
But enough of history; we must get
down to principles. One of the most
reliable and dependable ways to cheat is
to obtain a copy of the test, or as the mili-
tary department expresses it, to "G-2."
This may be done in several ways. Prob-
ably the nvost reliable is to become chum-
my with the prof; and worm them out
of him orally. Never, however, be satis-
fied with generalities. Ply him with
coffee — which you must be careful to
pay for — until he breaks down and
spills everything. Then keep it to your-
self. If a prof hears his own test ques-
tions quoted at him from every corner
of the room, he might make a new one.
If your prof is one of those who write
down their test questions a couple of weeks
beforehand and then hides them in a locked
desk, the only dependable way to get -it is td
rifle the desk. Don't ask him about the test
or he will get' panicky. This type is always
very suspicious if sometimes a little dense,-
and must be handled gingerly. Break into
his office ' some afternoon wheu he is not'
having conference, and then search the place
until you find the papers. It does hot mat-
ter if you disarrange things a bit. because
this type of prof is usually pretty untidy, but
always remember to close all drawers after
you look in them. When you find the desired
sheet, don't touch it. Stand well across the
room and write the questions on the pad of
paper you brought for the purpose. Then
you're all set.
If, however, your teacher is smart
enough to make up his questions after he
comes into the classroom, your problem
is more serious. Many expert cheaters
have given up here, but with persever- ,
ance you can still succeed. The only
practical solution is to prepare answers
to all questions the old man might pos-
sibly ask the night before the exam.
Don't worry about getting everything so
perfect that the prof gets suspicious;
when you answer questions! from some
dreary old time until 4 a. m. you will
make enough mistakes to allay suspi-
cion. This last method is never to be
used in either of the other cases demon-
strated, though, under any circumstances;
it's altogether too much like studying.
Golf is a good walk spoiled. — Twain.
Life —- a jig saw puzzle with most of the
pieces missing.
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