The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 18, 1955 Page: 2 of 8
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2—'THE J-TAC
Tuesday, Jan. IS, 195,1
POINT OF VIEW
By Sandra Herrell
Ever wondered what goes on in a girls'
dormitory?
The average day .starts with.either the sound
of an alarm clock or the giii'gling, of the next
door laboratory drain. It's around G:45 a.m.
when the opening and closing of doors, the
grumpy "good mornings," and the sound of
the' roommate's voice is heard. Thirty min-
utes pass in peaceful quiet before the scream-
ing and yelling of "let's eat" begins.
The dormitory frets its peace and quiet
around 8 a.m. when everyone has rushed to
classes. Throughout tlie day girls are coming
to and going from, their rooms.
' After supper, the west windows in Moody
Hall become quite popular; they over, look
the small island between the dining hull and
the dormitories.
Night falls and some girls .prepare for a date.
'When a girl has a date, her room turns into a
regular gathering place. Everyone comes in
to give her opinion on what she should wear
and etc.
if a formal dance should happen to occur,
it's just about as easy to get to the full* length •
mirrors in the hall as it would be to get near-
IJock Hudson. •
Several times a week practicallv all the girls
on one floor will be found congregated in one
room. This little session is known as" a "gab
session." It is in those small meetings that
alj the new gossip is brought to light and -a
good- amount of food is consumed. The usual
food consists of coffee, cokes, cookies, cakes,
or sandwiches. Sometimes the girls make their
own popcorn or do-nuts in a pop corn popper.
While these sessions are going on, perhaps
one girl will be shampooing her hair while
others are doing their nails or setting their
hair.. If it happens to be pretty late at night
when the_ meeting is going on, the girls are
always alert for footsteps; in case footsteps
are heard, girls scatter tinder the Vieds or in
tlie closets.
Every Wednesday morning is room-check
day. On Tuesday nights everyone begins
emptying- their waste paper baskets and
sweeping. By the time Wednesday morning
comes, the trash barrels are running „over,
but the rooms , are shjiiiy - and clean.
It--has been, quite .a .fad to hide a. girl's pic-
ture of her boyfriend. When'a girl., starts go-
ing steady, she is very,apt to find "sugar ants,"
■which are made of tiny paper, particles, till
over her room when she returns from a date.
In case a girl is lucky enough to become
engaged or make the "A" Honor Roll, she
gets thrown in a cold shower.
When, someone is expecting a phone call or a
parlor date, it isn't verv hard to pick out the
girl. Every time the buzzer buzzes, the girl
is right- beside it.
_ House- meetings are held sometimes., to >
discuss little problems that arise. These,
meetings are usually held in the pqrlar. The
dormitories have a house council -which is
made up pf a representative from each floor
of each dormitory.
If you ever wondered what it was like to live
in .a. girl's dormitory, maybe this will help,?;to
give .a glimpse. One thing is for sure;-there
are no two days alike in the dorm—each day
brings, a new type of laughter or tears, hap-
piness or, sadness, and newer problems to be
settled.
A Spirit to Work
i
Most people think of their birthdays as
■ M
being their own day but not Franklin Roose-
velt. Roosevelt "donated" his birthday to-
the National Foundation for Infantile Paral-
ysis. This organization which has over
2,000 local chapters directs and co-ordinates
the fight against polio throughout the coun-
try. This organization has the exclusive
right to use his birthday as a means for
raising- funds. Since his inauguration in
193,'5 approximately $9,296,524 has been
raised at balls, parties, benefits and other
activities.
Roosevelt gave more than just his birthday.
He gave the Americans a spirit to work to de-
feat the dreaded disease. The American people
realize that the fight against polio meant a
great deal to him because he had fought polio
and won.
1 Although Roosevelt no longer leads tlie
fight against polio, he will always be a part
of it. He gave his time, his money, his heart,
and his soul to the fight. Can't we do a little
of the same? Let's make infantile paralysis
a disease of the past. To use a well-known
phrase; "Give Generously, Give Now."—N.W.
"Tell me about the bonus again, huh George?"
Xchanges
By PAT MORRISON
Exchange Editor
Do you need some extra money ?
Follow the example of a couple of
A & M students who discovered a
new way to wake .mo.ney during' the
holidays.
They live in Lubbock, which has
banned what the city officials call
"objectionable comic books," So,
iwliat did the enterprising Aggies
do bin buy up several 10 cent domic
books in College Station, and sell
them for 2& cents-each in Lubbock.
Lubbock will probably ban
Aggies. next.
When they returned to the car they
had trouble making the key fit.
Their distress attracted the atten-
tion of a kindly passerby. After
a few minor adjustments to the
•starter, the key worked beautiful-
ly. As they drove away from the
parking place they noticed the ra-
dio didn't look at all like the same
radio. Neither did the car. It
wasn't.
The J-Tac.
OFFICIAL STUDENT, PUBLICATION OF
TARLETON STATE COLLEGE
Slephenvllle. Texas
Entered as second-class, mail matter at the Post
Office in Stephenville, Texas, under Act of Congress
of March 3, 1873. .
.Represented by the National Advertising Service,
Inc, ■ !
Member of the Texas Intercollegiate, Press Associ-
ation, Asociated -Collegiate Press, Collegiate.
Scholastic Press Association, and Columbia
Scholastic Press Association.
STAFF
Editor .. ...... Melba Dean Neely
Assistant. Editor
Business Manager
News Editor
Society Editor
Feature -Editor
Sports Editor
Ass'L Sports Editor .
Exclfahge Editor
Circulation Manager
Reporters:, Cliarlene
Joyce Short
Sally Wvatt
Marilou lJouthit
Jerry Stubblefleld
Marilyn Frazier
Leiland lioyd
Jerry Flemnton*
l'at Morrisott
— Wayne Tiller
Berna, Nancy White,-
The Skiff, the TCU paper, ran
an article on the type of, things
usually found in the pockets of col-
lege students, Some of the things
were: Ore samples, geologists; pen-
cil stub and crumpled note paper,
journalists; "church key," no de-
finite major; thin volume of T. S.
Eliot, English major, chest sheets,
all students; mayonnaise and bread,
boarding students; and money —•
nobody.
"Big. Bertha" is a whopping 8
feet in diameter and forty-four in-
ches in width, and. the largest of
her tpye in the world. In-case you
don't know who or what "Big Ber-
tha" is, she is the world's" larg-
est' dEum,'*'recently purchased for
UT,' The drum began—its-life at
Chicago University, went to an at-
omic. testing lab, was used in ad-
vertising .the movie .about the life
of John Philip Sousa, and finally
ended up becoming the property
of UT. It's a fitting end for Bertha,
the. largest drum in the largest
state.
TCU students heard reports of
a" plane flying backward over the
campus during the Christmas holi-
days and laughed. They shouldn't
have" laughed for it really happen-
ed. It seems that M/Sgt. William
Orr took the ROTC Flying Club's
Taylorcraft up. for a flight and
climbed' to 5000 feet wheJ|; he en-
countered a headwind of about CO
miles per hour. -
The; Taylorcraft was , making
about,.46 miles per hour..'
: "Result: One Taylorcraft flying
backward at fives.miles per hour
across the campus. .
Arsenic Nan, the grandmother
who poisoned four husbands, has
nothing on John Foster, president
of the Paragon Club of East Texas
College. He almost did. away with
55 — East Texans, not husbands.
John did his bit of poisoning art
for a barbecue. His masterpiece
was a huge mound of potato salad,
which he had prepared two days
earlier and left to sit in an alumi-
nurii pan.
The potato salad was delicious.
Everyone had second Jielpings.
John smiled happily and consum-
ed his own "arsenic."
Disaster struck and; there was
a stampede for the two bathrooms
in the Paragon house.- 20,' women
moaned and staggered down the
halls of their dormitory. In the,,
midst of the female'suffering, the
mailman arrived. Invitations to the
Paragon Open House were not wel-
comed very, heartily.
By the time of the open house
everyone was well, and they troup-
ed over to the Paragon house,
■where they shook hands with Fos-
ter, inspected the house, comlim-
ented the members , . but avoid-
ed the refreshments.
The Percolators Perk
We near the season of the year when
there is no line between night and day—no
rest for the weary!
TSC dormitories which are usually peaceful
and calm with their slumbering students tucked
away at a decent hour suddenly becomes light-
ed up like Grand Central Station. The lights
burn. The percolators perk. The' aroma of
coffee reeks throughout! -ft
Stooped shoulders,betid over desks. Blood-
shot eyes pierce the ever-present printed
page before them. The temptation comes
to forget it all and hit the sack. But no,
no you can't! You have to keep going! You
have to pass! Buddy, have a "rio-doze" tab-
let! Determined hands reach for the box.
You take a couple more,. It doesn't do much
good though. You've probably already built
up an immunity!
The next day a smile is hard to force. Your
forehead is so wrinkled ■ from worry and ex-
haustion that you have to screw your hat on
for the next week. Bags under the eyes droop
so that you resemble a bull dog.
But, you can go home and boast to Mama
and Papa that even though you did fail,
you certainly tried! Why you didn' t even
sleep! No, you stayed up studying! If you
succeed in gaining your parents' sympathy,
believe me, that's all you gained.
You're not alone in your mistake though.
It happens every semestpr! . -
TSC Farm Has
New Fruit Trees
Several fruit trees were recent-
ly added to the horticulture fawwi
Among the additions were apple,
plum, persimmon, and peach'trees
to be used for- a supplement to the
experiment station north of 'Ste-
phenville.
J. V. Laird, Professor of horti-
culture, stated that the trees were
for the purpose of giving the horti-
culture students a chance to ac-
quire practice in pruning.
Marylin Maroney, and Sandra; Herrell,
It seems that a couple of co-eds
of..Navarro Junior College made a
perfectly innocent mistake that
could have landed them in the well-
known "can." ,They borrowed the
car of one of the boys (with l)is
permission) and went shopping.
: "The science of husbandry -is ex-
tremely profitable to those who
understand it but it brings the-
greatest trouble1 and misery upon
those farmers who undertake it
without knowledge."^-Z(?nophon.
A Night of Success
The students of Tarleton should be com-
mended on their excellent attendance to
"Pygmalion."
Have you ever-wondered what it would be
like to be an actor and when curtain time
came, there just wouldn't be any people in the
audience?- Do you think that would make you
want to go all out to make that your best per-
formance? Well, that's the way with any ac-
tor, He-is in the business to perform before
people, and if there aren't any people there,
what use is-there of performing?
The players of "Pygmalion"-must have
.jeen very happy as they saw how many/
Tarleton students had come out to see their
Play for they certainly did a line perform-
ance.
1 * /
i—e ,jncI< entertainment of
that kind, it can only lead to one thiug~it wilt
make itr possible to have the opportunity to
have more things presented on our-stage.
A1/ j" play and the attendance
blended together to i«u ke,last Tuesday night "
a mght of success and-certaiiily a til^ht that
wll[ never be forgotten.
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 18, 1955, newspaper, January 18, 1955; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140560/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.