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The North Texas Daily
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Thursday, April 11,1991
Commentary
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Apathetic students shouldn't gripe
vote.
That other 96.2 percent of the didn't have a chance to vote at all. ing?"
student population should be But 24,777 students can't legiti-
mately gripe.
though it was after voting this cares?
The NT Daily.
But there's more than just the time.
No more
CHEERS TO THOSE assem- writing about apathy. The voting,
NT's plot to gain
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Walls might crumble
at Comiskey, but
spirit won't fall
Miller/Duchene need to keep
up with campaign promises
Texas must avoid
state income tax
Students should get
what they pay for
Natalie
White
Legislators must reject bill
that would cut college money
Interested association mem-
bers, and members-elect, know
But why should students care? what the973 students want. These
At the last two SA meetings, members know what referendums
presidential race. There were also
student representatives, more
money and spend my valuable our beloved campus. Well, as all
time to take part in an experiment of you hormonally imbalanced
I feel that it is pointless and a
waste of my time to continue
It was built on a piece of land on
the south side of Chicago, which
once housed the city dump. Located
at 35th Street and Shields Avenue, it
served for 81 years as the home for
campus didn't bother to voice their have the right to complain about to the non-apathetic 973 students
opinions. Only 3.8 percent did the increases will be those who are counting on it.
ashamed.
The association was established
for the sole purpose of being a
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James Hague
Richardson graduate student
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Linda James
Denton sophomore
Charles Smoyer be taught?
Lake Dallas graduate student
State legislators are holding the ax, and higher
education is on the chopping block again as the
impact of a $5 billion budget shortfall begins to sink
in.
Higher education appears to be the scapegoat in
these timesof mandates forequalized public schools,
more prisons and improved mental health services.
Senate Bill 111 already has chopped $1.18 million
from NT's budget.
Now, a new evil to higher education is lurking
around the corner. House Bill 10, recently proposed
by the House Appropriations Committee, would
cut $360 million more in twoyears from the budget
of colleges and universities. The proposal will go to
the Legislature this summer.
The 1 percent cut, that was put in place in Febru-
ary, will impact higher education across the state
enough as it is. UT-Arlington will feel it in about
four months from now. The university will not offer
second summer session classes.
NT lucked out thanks to rainy day cash that will
meet budgeting shortfalls here. It was wise of
administrators to set aside the money. But we're on
the edge — we cannot handle any more cuts.
A presentation to lawmakers given by adminis-
trators last week indicated that House Bill 10 could
force NT to lay off 200 faculty members and 29 staff
members. Another option could be to cancel all
summer classes. Also, programs would be sharply
reduced.
If state legislators say they are for higher educa-
tion, then they are making false campaign promises.
They don't care about higher education when they
use it as an easy way out of the muddled up budget.
This is not the place to cut.
Cutting higher education hurts this state's future.
The effects will be devastating — students won't
receive the quality education they deserve and need
to make Texas' future bright.
If this cutting trend continues, soon a state district
judge will be mandating that legislators maintain a
minimum level for higher education as has already
happened in public school education, prisons and
mental health. Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad
idea. A minimum standard should be set so Texas
universities and colleges can maintain programs
and meet growth. Let's just hope that if it would
come to this point, lawmakers wouldn't dilly-dally
as they have with these other issues.
When the legislators consider House Bill 10, every
one of them should voice a resounding no. Those
who don't can't say at election time that they stand
for higher education, or education at all in this state.
A brief, retrospective look at what the Student
Association has and has not done reveals a promise-
keeping record of 33 percent, said former assembly
member Bogers Cadenhead.
And though this track record is not something to
display proudly in a trophy case, it is a tremendous
improvement compared to past administrations.
During the 1989-90 school year, Paul Stevens'
administration dragged the association to an all-
time low in the legislative function of passing bills
and adopting resolutions. In fall1989, SA had passed
two bills.
And even though the Will Helixon administra-
tion, which reigned during the 1988-89 school year,
was more productive in this function, personnel
problems rather than brain damage were the causes
of its static condition.
But just because the Wade Duchene administra-
tion has flourished in the bill-passing category —
passing more than 20 bills and adopting more than
25 resolutions — it has lost sight of trying to be a
truly representative body and has run out of steam
in following through on its legislative work.
Recently, Bill Miller, former SA vice president,
won the presidency of the association, and before
the elections, said he wasn't too concerned about
trying to get conservative minded students into the
assembly, of which there is a deficit.
The recent elections pitted Miller against assem-
bly member Tom Thomas, whose platform was
almost identical to Miller's.
"He's never been good at getting people moti-
vated to do something," Thomas said.
But the biggest pitfail of Duchene’s reign was the
failure of completing the Professor Book before the
end of his term of office.
In August, Miller and Duchene said publication
of the teacher evaluations was "the first order of
business for SA," and Duchene even used student
money to buy computer software for the project.
So where are the fruits of their labor? Are they out
there rotting in the fields of student apathy?
Is SA truly a legislative body, or is it more of a
recommendation making organization?
Miller and Duchene have another shot at making
good on their the few unrealized campaign prom-
ises they made in spring 1990.
Though only 637 students voted for Miller and
Duchene out of 937, all students must remember
these promises and hold Miller and Duchene ac-
countable.
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Here's a num-
ber that makes
my stomach turn
— 973.
Only973 out of
about 25,750 NT
students voted in
the Student Asso-
ciation elections
last week.
That means
about 24,777 stu-
dents on this
Granted, Comiskey Park didn't Roman
have the mystique of a Yankee Sta- o H _
dium (the House that Ruth Built), "odrgue-
Tiger Stadium, Wrigley Field or a •mma
Fenway Park. However, being the nation's oldest
park, Comiskey was the site of a number of memo-
rable baseball moments.
Comiskey was the site of the first all-star game in
1933.
It was also the permanent site of the Negro
Leagues' yearly East-West all-star game from 1933
to 1950.
In 1960, then team owner Bill Veeck added a
special feature to the stadium's scoreboard — fire-
works. Thus giving baseball, it's first and only ex-
ploding scoreboard.
To me, Comiskey park won't be remembered as
the place were "Down with Disco Night" was held
or where rowdy Chicago fans sang "Hey, Hey, Hey,
Good-bye" after every White Sox home run. Instead
it will be remembered as the place that changed with
the times, just as the game itself did.
Constructed in 1910, Comiskey was ideally suited
for the dead-ball-era play. Yet compared to the old
stadiums of the past, Comiskey was considered
plain. When architect Zachary Taylor Davis pro-
posed building a grandstand with ornate arches,
then White Sox owner Charles Comiskey vetoed the
idea.
As the game changed so did Comiskey. During
the time of Ruth, Gehrig and the like, fans de-
manded high scores and massive home runs. So in
1934, home plate was moved up and the fences were
shortened. Unfortunately, for the White Sox, more
often than not, opponents benefited from the smaller
dimension-
When I first learned Comiskey Park was being
torn down—mainly because of increasing mainte-
nance costs and structural problems — I became
interested in learning more about the park. I guess
a lot of my curiosity was sparked after I saw the
movie "Eight Men Out." The movie was based on
the 1919 World Series in which eight members of
the White Sox were banned from organized base-
ball for conspiring with gamblers to throw the
series.
Granted, the incident did leave a dark cloud to
loom over the stadium and the White Sox organiza-
tion. But Comiskey Park did see brighter and more
memorable moments.
So on April 3rd as I was watching ABC's Nightly
News and they ran a story on the tearing down of
Comiskey Park, I couldn't help but feel a little sad.
To me, it wasn't just another ''building" being torn
down to become a parking lot but rather a piece of
history — baseball history.
Unfortunately, I never went to a game at Comi-
skey, but I can imagine how it might have felt.
Sitting in the right-center field bleachers with a
hot dog and a beer, listening to not only the cheers
of the fans around me but also to the fans of an
earlier time.
I could imagine looking out onto the playing
field and seeing greats like Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Joe
DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Shoeless Joe Jackson
hitting and running the bases. Of course, these
players have been replaced by current baseball
stars. But nevertheless, I can't help but imagine that
their spirits were still felt at "old" Comiskey Park.
This season the White Sox will be playing their
home games in the "new" Comiskey Park, which is
located just across the street from the older one.
Granted, the accommodations will be improved.
But I wonder, for Chicago fans, if White Sox games
will be the same.
Sadly, I'll never have the opportunity to experi-
ence "old" Comiskey. But as long as baseball con-
tinues, the memory of Comiskey Park will survive.
Roman Rodriguez is Newswatch editor for The NT
Daily.
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Editorials
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Second chance
As an undergraduate, I've been students worked
told in two consecutive terms that
the classes I'm in were either ex-
perimental, or that new teaching Guffaw, chortle, har-har-har
methodsforthesubjectwerebeing and a hearty, humorous wheeze
used. Ladies and gentlemen, I am to all of those freshmen who
highly insulted. I am not alabora- blindly entered NT solely on the
tory rat. basis of those wild South Texas
I do not pay my hard-earned rumors of 10 girls for every guy on
without my permission. kiddies probably already know, it
In both of these classes, the tests just isn't so.
Texasdoesnotneedandshould were absolute disasters. In the What fiends, pray tell, fashion
not impose a state income tax on most recent occurrence, the over- such far-fetched female false-
its residents. We should be look- all grade for the students taking hoods? Well, I might be one of the
ing at ways to cut waste instead of that exam was a 60. Does this mean elite who knows that Kendall Hall
thinking up more ways to raise were are all underachievers? I isn t an all ROTC dorm this
money. A state income tax would think not. If you feel that the test mystery is simply too much for
hurt everybody. was designed to trick or deceive my sluggish mind, which barely
Bullock, in his proposal, says a you, then what do the reading as- squeezed through Differential
state income tax would reduce the signments and class lectures Equations R. I have my theories,
corporate franchise tax and prop- serve? though. Themostpromisingis that
erty taxes. But even if the tax does in the most recent example of this is a plot to increase enroll-
reduce other taxes, it would only farce, I had the test analyzed by a ment. It was master-minded by
help some people while an income senior student. The student's re- the happy babemeistersin the Ad-
tax would hurt everybody. sponses to the test are quite un- ministration Building. This plot is
t“"Asrarasschoolsareconcerned, potable. To my eyes, the test was being perpetuatedlby the tour-
it is a myth that throwing more meant to trick and deceive. mongers of the NT40.
money at them will make them What is the solution? If you feel Am I complaining. Not at all.
better. Producing better students that a test has been administered This is one of the few freckles of
requires that the parents motivate to you that falls in this category, genius on the back of an otherwise
their children more. Without that then get up off of your apathetic rather pathetic university. My only
motivation, all the money in the backsidesand do something about suggestion is that dorm women
world won't make a difference, it. We, the undergraduates of NT, try to sychronize theirspnngaf-
We do not need to tax more We are the mainstay of this temoon sunbathing with the high
needI tospendless. university's funds. If that is the school visitation schedule.
case, why should we pay and not
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the ballot, including one giving whole meeting are setting a good
five possible ways to expand the example for the students—NOT.
University Union and four con- The members are saying to the
cerning fee increases. students, "We don't care enough
c , , ,, about you to show up or stay. We
Some of the referendums with j 11. ,
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fee increases passed, some didn’t Message received
For the ones that did pass, it is the 6 8ecexe * , •
job of SA President Bill Miller, SA teTheppintiImtryingtpamakeis
Vice President-elect.WadeDuch- and was elected by the students,
enesanditherest SAtopeti- thatpersonhadbettershowupt
tion to get these increases. AM.. 1 . T
° the meetings next semester.
And the only students who will After all, those of us belonging
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voted no, and new students who But why should I keep “preach-
direct representatives of students bly members who stayed both caring 3.8 percent of students
in a certain college or school. times. know how I feel, and the apathetic
The rest of the members should 96.2 percent of students are proba-
AND THERE WERE referen- be ashamed. Apathy within the bly not even reading this anyway.
dums. Although a referendum assembly is the last thing students And those students should be
that passes is not set in stone, it is need from their representatives, ashamed.
a polling tool for the association to But those members who can't Natalie White is a managing edi-
go by. Nine referendums were on manage to show up or stay for a tor for The NT Daily.
voice for the students. But how there was a loss of a quorum. The were voted on and what students
can it be a voice for the students if first of the two meetings still had who care say should be done,
the students don't say anything? legislation for the association to
The presidential race may have vote on. Of course, the legislation BUT REMEMBER TO work
seemed like "choosing between had to wait until the next week, hard and represent all of the stu-
apples and apples," as the SA's when the assembly (voting mem- dents. Even though only 973 are
Rides and Elections Director Todd bers of the association) managed really counting on your voice.
Galle said in the April 3 issue of to lose a quorum again, even As for the other 24,777 — who
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