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Thursday, February 23, 1989
A Proud
NON-PROFIT
ORGANIZATION
AGE PAID USPS NO. 133
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Legislative Information Service opens channels
By RUSSELL SCHNEIDER
J-TAG Staff Writer
With the appointment of thirteen
people to staff its different branches,
the Legislative Information Service
has become the newest service of-
fered, to students, faculty and staff
by Tarleton State University's Stu-
dent Government.
The overall goal of the Legislative
Information Service is to provide a
communication channel among
students, faculty, administration and
others interested in legislative
issues.Student Government officials
said.
With this goal in mind,, interested
students completed applications that
were reviewed by student govern-
ment personnel. Student govern-
ment officials then chose the peo-
ple they felt would work for the suc-
cess of the Service. The appointees
were then assigned to the various
branches of the Service, student
government officials said.
J.C. Johnson was chosen as the
director of the Legislative Informa-
tion Service last fall and has been
working to organize Tarleton's Ser-
vice. Johnson has studied other
university's legislative groups and
has helped pattern Tarleton's after
them.
Ben Tinsley was chosen as the
coordinator of the newsletter
branch. He will be working with
Janette Jergins and Michael Hen-
nech in the typing, editing, printing
and distribution of the Service's
newsletter.
The Service's research branch
will be lead by coordinator Nishi
Whiteley. She will be responsible
for the researching of legislative
issues to provide informative reports
to be utilized by the other members.
She will be assisted by general
members Barbara Martin and Chris
Frazier.
Toby Burkes will head the student
relations branch. Debbie Shepard,
Dawn Manning and Bart Whipps
will help Burkes in providing TSU
students with information concern-
ing the Legislature as well as the ac-
tivities of the Service.
The public information branch
will be headed by coordinator Gary
Lairdon. Lairdon will be responsi-
ble for informing the local com-
munity of the legislative views of
TSU students and of the activities
of the Legislative Information Ser-
vice. He will be assisted by
Christine Hancook and Tom Green.
The Service has also assigned its
first activities to be completed in
two weeks, Johnson said.
The public information branch
has been assigned two tasks: (1)
make a list of important local
citizens with whom the Service will
need to set up correspondance with
and put on the newsletter mailing
'If we meet all the spending, and the
assumptions are wrong, we'm
to miss Gramm-Rudrnan by $26
biSlfon bucks. The chickens are going
to come home to roost this year.'
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By, DAP4 K, McCOY , . „ .. ■■■
Editor of The J-TAC-
He's just a cotton former from Stamford, Texas. But, when Charles
Stenholm spoke to a group of StephenvtUe Optimist Club members!
he'souiided more like Stephuivitle s own U.S. Congressman. And
that's just what the audience wuited to hear. • .
Stenholm: addressed a capacity crowd at the noon Wednesday lun-
cheon of the Optimist Club held February 15, at the local Cutting
Horse Restaurant; TherCongressman gave a brief introduction to cer-
tain current issues, but reserved the balance of, his time for
questions and answers from the j-
group. :
" We want to do what-T think
is vitally important to a member
of Congress." Stenholm said,
"and that's coming back home
and making certain that : yoti
don't forget what it's all about."'
Stenholm indicated that Con-
gress has^ always been held in
somewhat low esteem, especial-
ly recently. ''We hit a new all :
time low over the last two or
5 three weeks at feast in the
perception of the American peo-
ple. the pay raise issue." the
Congressman .said.'' "'STENHOItM .
- He si:iid there was much misinformation as well as mishandeling
< of the proposal, ' 'There was always going to be a vote,'' Stenholm
said, "Congress doesn't do anything without a vote."
Stenholm insisted that he is opposed to any sitting Congress in-
creasing its own pay."Any increases must have an election interc-
^ed between the passing of iti: and the actual taking effect of it' (the
raise), that's what I'm for," Stenholm said.
"Contrary to public opinion, the Congress does respond," the Con-
gressman said, "That's what were here for," V
Stenholm said he would vote for a pay increase this year for the
. administrative and judicial arms of government. "If we do not make '
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0f HMI$Tt£ CONGRESSMAN: Charles
$tenholm spoke to a capacity crowd at the
local Optimist Club meeting. Stenholm's
atop Id Stephenvllie was part of a 16 city
tour throughout District 17. The Con-
gressman spoke for approximately an hour
before traveling toDubi into present some
special Congressional awards to grade
school students who partielpafed in a pro-
gram about the Constitution.
list, and.(2) find out the necessary
information on obtaining a seat on
the Chamber of Commerce.
The research branch has also been-
, assigned two activities: (1) make a
list of the important legislators, in
Austin with whom the Service will
need to set up correspondance with
and put on the newsletter mailing
list, and (2) put together a brief
report on the main legislative issues
that will affect the students of
Tarleton and higher education as a
whole. Also, include the options
available for the issues in the report.
TASP program
tops Senate
agenda
By Ben Tinsley
Asst. to the Editor
The Faculty Senate meeting Tues-
day, February 14, opened with
discussion of the potential problems
presented by the impending TASP
program, and possible resolutions
to those problems.
Dr. Robert Fain, Vice President
for Academic Affairs, headed the
discussion/
Fain expressed concern about the
unknown factors of the new pro-
cess. "The placement testing we're
doing now gets nearly 50 percent of
. our freshman class,'' he said, "We ,
don't know of the correlation bet-
ween the TASP math test and the
one we've been using. We had 600
students in remedial math this last
fall. If this TASP test is similar, I'm
sure the ratio is not goin^ to go
down. If anything, it's going to go
up."
In other business: 1
* The senate discussed the
possibility of a permanent budget,
or set amount of money per year,
as opposed to asking for money
when needed.
* The Outstanding Faculty Award
remains nafneless. The Senate
discussed several possible names to
add to the award, including several
teachers and College Presidents that
started Tarleton College in the
1800's. Several members felt that'
since they never knew what kind of
individuals these people were, nam-
ing an award after them would be
impractical. The Senate decided to
po«tnonc any decision on the matter.
* The issues that Faculty Senate's
President Bob Newby raised in a
previous meeting concerning the ex-"
pansion of terms of office were
voted on twice by the Senate. It was
again proposed that the nomination
[
See Senate Page 7.
'Man of La Marietta' opens today
The. 1989 spring musical produc-
tion of "Man of La Mancha" at
Tarleton State Universtiy might well
be dedicated to the "unbeatable
spirits" of today. Dr. Mary Jane
Mingus, director of the show,
selected this musical because of its
inspirational effect on its audiences
and, maybe partly, because she sees
herself as one of those "un-
stable" characters.
"This is an unusual musical," she
said about "Man of La Mancha",
"but it has a beautiful story and a
wondetful sound score." the
musical is one of the'longest runn-
ing shows in America history and
its most memorable song, "The Im-
possible Dream" has become a
theme for many. "Don Quixote
represents that part of man which
is truly unconquerable," she said.
"He can see the beauty in
everything, including the dirty
distraught political prisoners of the
Spanish Inquisition."
Developed from the 16th century
stories by Miguel de Cervantes,
"Man of La Mancha" is a tale of
lost hope and undying faith. The
characters, all prisoners, are most-
ly ignorant pathetic creatures who
are destined to die at the hands of
others. However, through the tales
of Cervantes about his hero Quix-
ote, the prisoners gain a sense of
self-worth and in the end rekindle
a mighty hope.
"Audiences can't help but be
drawn into this change that comes
over the characters. In the end,
when you know Cervantes is being
led off to his death, you still can't
help but believe that everything is
going to be all right," said Dr.'
Mingus.
Dr. Mingus describes Quixote as
the sort of person who can always
see the silver lining -and never
hesitates to take on any challenge no
matter how complicated. "He holds
to the idea that believing in
something can make it so."
Standing behind her Quixotesque
beliefs, Dr. Mingus scheduled the
show last spring with absolutely no
idea about who would play the
musical's central character. The
awesome task has fallen to freshman
Music Education major Keith Pip-
pin of Burleson. "I knew he was
perfect when I saw him. He is
another of us 'Don Quixotes'."
Supporting Pippin will be veteran
performer Eric Cates, a senior
Theatre major from Cooper.
Familiar to TSU audiences for his
roles in "My Fair Lady", "Noises
Off" and "Romeo and Juliet", this
Cates' final TSU show. In "LaMan-
cha", he plays Quixote's comic
sidekick Sancho Panza.
There is no dancing in this
musical and while the costumes and
setting may appear to be simple and
bland, there versatility will likely be
surprising. "The music may not be
all that familiar to most," said Dr.
Mingus, "but I think they will en-
joy if. This is the sort of music that
stays around in your head and you'll
find yourself humming it days
later."
The Tarleton Band under the
direction of Jonathan Hooper will
provide the music but this year the
ensemble will be situated behind the •
set and not in the orchestra pit.
"This will be somewhat different
but I think it will be pleasing to au-
diences," said Mingus.
The musical will be presented in
the auditorium of the Clyde H.
Wells Fine Arts Center on Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday evenings
Ticket Office at 817-968-9634.
Ticketoffice hours are from 12:30
to 2:30 p.m. and from 4 to 5:30
p.m. weekdays.
Night classes show an
increase in enrollment
By CHRISTINE HANCOOK
Staff Writer of THE J-TAC
Preliminary enrollment figures
for night students were released
Monday. Compared with last
stATe
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Enrollment Increase
year, there has been an 11 f)er-.
cent increase in the number of
section enrollments.
' 'This is the first year there has
been an effort to provide more
access to coursework through of-
ferings of courses stalling at 5100
p.m. or later," said John
Whiting, Registrar. There were
92 sections offered to students on
campus plus other sections
available on satellite campuses.
Whiting contributed the in-
crease to several factors in-
cluding there being more sections
available plus increased publicity.
Whiting also said that the
university is aiming towards the
non-traditional student, one be-
ing over 24-years of age.
A majority of the classes are
satisfying the demand for 3BA
coursework and also for the first
two years of. courses in ether
areas, Whiting said.
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