The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 1959 Page: 5 of 8
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1959
the J-tac
FBoniiaiits Keep Things
Lively, Student Says
PAGE FIVE'
As the school year wears on,
things slow down. Special events,
like the Wainright Ball of the
Ugliest Man Contest, are few and
far between. Many students begin
to get bored. In Bender Hall they
know what to do when boredom
starts creeping over the place like
the steam in the shower room.
They rely on an old Tarleton tra-
dition, the Bender Hall flood-out.
Some times it may happen this
way. Somebody might stay awake
all night worrying'. He's worring
because it's three haura past mid-
night and he still can't think of
anything interesting to do. Then
he gets an idea. He'll make a
flood-out. Silently he creeps out
of his room and goes to fix things.
Silently he creeps back into his
room. Then he goes to sleep. He
is happy, thinking about twenty
or thirty other people who will
have to wake up and sweep water
out of their rooms.
Last Year
This is what happened one
night last year. Around three
o'clock in the morning a Bender
resident woke up from delayed
insomnia or something. Then he
heard water running. Out in the
hall he found water spreading out
of the restroom. It had reached
several doors along the hall and
had seeped under them ,spreading
over the floors of rooms. In the
restroom two toilet had' been
plugged and the handles were
wired down with twisted clothes
hangers. They were overflowing.
At the restroom down the hall
the same thing had been done.
: with the ssime results. The idea
of a flood-out is to make a mess
of people's roonig of course. A
restroom on the second floor had
been flooded also. The student
-woke up the ramp masters, and
they woke up everybody else. The
qnes who found their rooms flood-
ed woke up cursing.
Sweep-Out
After the flood-out came the
sweep-out. Soon there was a bunch
of students in the hall, using
brooms and mops to move the
water along to the outside door
at the end of the hall. On the
Becond floor they were moving' wa-
; ter down the stairs to the first,
and they swept that out, too.
Those living in the flooded
rooms were sweeping water into
the hall.-When they were satisfied
they had gotten enough of it out,
they laid towels along the bottom
61 the door to keep it from getting
back in. Then they went out in the
hall to help with the general
sweeping.
High Waves
Somebody got the yard-wide
janitor's broom and used it effec-
tively. Pushing- it on the floor in
front of him, he would make a
run of a few yarda and stop. A
wave of dirty water would shoot
on ahead. Then he would back up
and make another run, each time
working a little further down the
hall. As the water was confined
'to a shorter and shorter length
of hall, there got to be more of it
Jn ono spot, and it got a little
deeper. So, as the man with the
janitor's broom kept pushing the
deepening water, the waves got
higher. Soon waves an inch or
more high were rolling out onto
the outside stairs and were cas-
~ coding over the edge onto the
sidewalk below,
Finally, the sweeping subsided
. and everyone returned to . their
rooms to sleep. The hall waa emp-
ty, and ht etoilets were quiet
again. Peace had returned to Ben-
der Hall,
Kim Orrell, a Bender resident
last eyar, probably knew more
what went on in Bender than any-
G, K. LEWALLEN
, 153 w. Washington
WESTERN STORE
one else did. Short, squat, and
energetic, he could be fonud all
over the plaee. He remembers
some good flood-outs.
Best Flood
"One of the best flood-outs was
when that fool pipe broke in the
lavatory," he said. "It flooded the
first floor for about three or four
hours. Everybody, including the
student in charge of the entire
dorm was wading in water shoe-
top deep.. After the maintainance
man got there, he had to break
off the plate over the valves. It
was nearly dark before he got it
shut off."
"But the best flood-out was one
they pulled about two or three in
the morning on the third floor.
They stopped up the janitor's
drain in the closet and turned the
water on full blast, shut the door
and stuck a match in the keynole
so they couldn't open the lock with
a' key. TJiey had to take the door
off the hinges. It completely flood-
ed all three floors."
Usually, though, students have
been satisfied with less than a full
scale flood-out. Orrell continued,
"The favorite kind of flood-out is
the drown-out, where a large trash
can of water is leaned against
the door. In the morning, the vic-
tim, dreary-eyed and droopy-tail-
ed, opens the door and stands with
a foolish look on his face as the
cold water gushes by his bare
Sadat of Week Plans
Two Routes to Goal
JERRY LOWRANCE
Cadet of the Week
legs. This wakes him up. The vic-
tim, suffering from shock, stays
awake in his eight o'clock class.
This wide-eyedness might be in
part due to his wondering if he
will make it back to his room in
time to clean it up before his
lampmaster discovers it."
Flood-Out Fine
There is a rule at this college
that the dormitory students
caught wfth his room flooded out
has to pay a fine, justin case the
floor is damaged by warping. Be-
cause of this, Orrell thinks flood-
outs are a g'ood influence on stu-
dents in the dormitories. "One
thing about the room flood-outs,
they have to clean up the water
real quick to keep from getting
caught, so they keep their rooms
clean."
Cadet Capt. Jerry Lowrance, "E"
Company commander, has his eyes
set to ranching, and he is pursuing
his aim in life with a double-bar-
reled strategy,
Lowrance, who is not satisfied
with a preparation for his future
career in college alone, is a Civil
Service appointee working during
the summers' of his college career
as a student' engineer in the soil
conservation field. He spent , last
summer in this capacity at Waxa-
hachie. ' , •
Oddly enough, however, the cadet
did not come to Tarleton on the
merits of the school's agricultural
program alone. He entered TSC
on the recommendation of friends
and because it has an EOTC pro-
gram, he says.
After his indication of an active
interest in the ROTC program, it
required little coaxing to get Low-
rance to express his views on the
corps. The cadet captain prefers
Army ROTC to any other service's
branch of the program. When ask-
ed if he thought four-year status
at Tarleton should bring with other
branches of ROTC, the cadet re-
plied, "I don't think so." He pointeS'
out that the Army branch of th©
program already here requires
riiost of the men students already,
and that TSC's enrollment would
not likely increase enough to make
another branch possible wihouti
detriment to both services' pi'O^
grams. '
Although' Lowrance's first inters
ests at college are his curriculum
and ROTC, he did not lose the
active interest in sports which lia
had in high school.. At Waco High,
his Alma Mater, his avid interest
in athletics was especially evident?
in football and basketball. He waa
a letterman in both sports for two
£ears. After coming to TSC, the
corps-minded ag student continued
his interests by participating in in-
tramural athletics.: He enjoys all
the intramural sports offered h.ere0
but, specializes, in basketball, ;'li«
said. He frequently referees garner
During any leisure time the. "intra-
mural athlete finds from his variU
ous other, interests, he enjoys hunfeo
ing and fishing, which he termeft'
his favorite outdoor sports.
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