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TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY
TARLETON'S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1920
January 31, 1991
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION. POSTAGE PAID USPS NO. 131. STEPHENVILIE. TEXAS 76401
A PROUD PART OF THE TEXAS A&.M SYSTEM
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TSU hosts
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Roderick Brown shows off his jump hook as the
Texans beat McMurray last Wednesday.
Karla Dick puts up a jump shot in the TexAnns
win against the Indians.
TSU slams Hardin Simmons
By Michael Marbach
Sports Editor
It was the Roderick Brown show
Wednesday night as the Tarleton
Texans rolled to their eleventh
straight win 82-66. Brown (allied up
35 points and had two blocked shots
to lead his team.
"Hardin Simmons is playing as
well as anyone in the conference
right now," said Lon Reisman. "That
means a lot as to how our team is
playing."
The Texans shot 48 percent and
were dominating on the defensive
boards coming up with 22 rebounds.
Hardin Simmons was only able to
come away with three offensive
boards.
The Texans led by 17 points at
half. It looked as if the Texans would
run away, however (lie Cowboys kept
on making runs. The Cowboys shot
51 percent from the field.
See Texans pg. 4
By Michael Marbach
Sports Editor
Just minutes into the
game and a 10-7 score, the
TexAnns went on an 18 point run
that put the Hardin Simmons
Cowgirls away for good.
The TexAnns made runs
of 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, and 18 to
take the win 79-32. This win put
the TexAnns at 12-8 for the
season and 6-0 in conference.
"We played excitng, and
composed basketball the first
half," said TexAnn coach Jan
Lowry , "we did a lot of the little
things right."
Tina Tibbs led the
TexAnns in scoring with 25
points and seven rebounds.
"Tibbs finally had a great
game, she needed that shot in the
arm to start doing better."
Tibbs recieved a good
deal of help from point guard Julie
Foster who came away with 12
assist, just four short of the
See TexAnns pg. 4
By Julie Grider
Editor-in-Chief
Tarleton State University will
host the annual conference of the
Texas Association of Creative Writ-
ing Teachers Feb. 1-2 at the Holiday
Inn,
In the association's 30 year his-
tory, this weekend marks the first
time TSU will host the event.
The program begins tomorrow
at 9 a.m. and will continue through-
out the day with a banquet 7 pjn.
The conference will continue on Sat-
urday between 9 am. and noon,
TACWT consists of creative
writers as well as collegiate teachers
of creative writing. Several TSU
teachers are members and former
officers of the association.
Xcng# the. Executive:.'.
Director of the TSU foundation, is
the former president of TACWT.
Dr. Russel Long, Head of the
English Department, said he encour-
ages students interesting in writing
to attend at least part of the confer-
ence.
"This is a good opportunity for
students to meet living writers, who
are actually writing books and sell-
ing them," Long said.
Long says many students are
under the false impression that all
famous writers are dead.
"Many of these writers are teach-
ers too, so they like students and are
responsive to their questions," Long
said.
Long says there are many TSU
students interested in creative writ-
ing.
"I get approached all the time by
students I don't know asking about
creative writing," Long said.
Many well known novelists,
poets and playwrites will speak at
the meeting as well as present ex-
cerpts from their recent works.
A few writers who will be pres-
ent are novelists Robert Flinn, Bruce
McGinnis, C.W. Smith. Poet JR.
LeMasster and screenplay writer Jim
Hoggard will also be on hand along
with many others.
A liighlight during the confer-
ence is the award presentation to the
two Undergraduate Writing Compe-
tition Winners.
Undergraduates are nominated
to the competition by their teachers
V^iio belong to the association. Com-
mittee members then judge the writ-
ing competition.
The 1991 winner for a short
story is Jerry Williams from
McMurry University and the poetry
winner is James Samsel from the
University of Texas at San Antonio.
Tarleton student Jordan Can-
nady was nominated by Benedda
Shirley to the short story competi-
tion for his story "The Tunnel Rats".
Hie story did not won an award
but a judge liked it well enough that
it will be published in the Concho
River Review.
'"The Tunnel Rats' is a story
about boyhood in Oklahoma and the
trust that bonds father and son. It
explores the humor of adolesence
and the sorrow that accompanies
growing up," Cannady said.
University prepares
to tally student body
Walker awarded high status
By Tina Morton
Reporter
Tarleton State
University's spring semester
heralded the return of more than
,4,000 students from the 1990 fall
semester.
As of the sixth day of
classes, university officials
reported that 5,850 students were
enrolled at Tarleton.
Of the 5,850, 4,913
students returned from the
previous semester.
Freshmen still led the
cjass numbers with
approximatley 1,560 students.
Seniors came in second with
1,390, while the sophomre class
came in with 1,160. Juniors
students rounded out the
undergraduates with 1,150
students.
Graduate student
enrollment remained low at 670
students.
In the fall semester of
1990, a total of 6,250 were
officially enrolled, so enrollment
did not decrease considerably.
"Since we have already
adjusted to the increase in the fall,
this semseter will go more
smoothly," Don Ross, Tarleton
rcsigtrar, said.
Even though this is not
the official count for the spring,
Ross said, "It is really good to
have this many return."
For all state schools, the
12th class day is the "census date"
to make the official count. The
official counting day wiJl fall ori
Feb. 1.
The last day to register
was Jan. 22, However, due to a
mainframe computer breakdown
on that date, some registration
extensions were granted.
As in the fall, the large
number of new students will have
an cffcct on the way Tarleton
operates, both in administration
and student opinions.
The good part about the
growth is the extra funds for
Tarleton.
Most students still feel
parking problems arc terrible.
However, Ross said he does not
thinkthe problems will decrease
enrollment,
"The only reason that
enrollment might decrease is due
to the economy -- as far as the
war goes," Ross said.
Even thcugh the
returning numbers are positive,
no promises can be made as to a
student enrollment increase.
Dr. Robert Walker, a longtime
member of the faculty at Tarleton
Stale University, was granted status
as Professor Emeritus by the Texas
A&M University System during a
recent meeting of the Board of Re-
gents.
Walker, who retired in August,
was a member of the faculty in the
TSU's Department of English and
Languages for 32 years.
The title of Professor Emeritus
is given to professors after they re-
tire, which gives them special rec-
ognition. This permits them to keep
professor rank as an honorary tide.
"I'm especially proud of this title
because I have spent most of my pro-
fessional life in this department,"
Walker said. "I value it highly and I
am glad to continue the profession."
"It especially pleases me that
the A&M system retirees may don-
tinue to work half time until they
reach mandatory retirement age."
Walker fulfills this obligation
by teaching full time one long se-
mester per year. Presently, he is
teaching a full load during the spring
semester. Dr. William Martin, an-
other TSU Professor Emeritus,
teaches full time during the fall.
"The arrangement makes a good
balance for the department and a
convenient balance for us," Walker
said,
Walker is a native of Cisco and
a 1950 graduate of Tarleton. He
received his Bachelors, Misters and
Ph.D. from the University of Texas
at Austin.
After teaching in the public
schools in Odessa, Walker joined
the teaching staff at TSU in 1958 as
an instructor and retired in 1990 as a
full professor. During his tenure he
was Director of Freshmen English
and the first Dean of the College of
Graduate Studies. He was honored
as Distinguished Faculty at TSU in
1974. ,
Walker's professional and civic
involvements include the National
Council of Teachers of English, the
Erath County Historical Committee
and the Schola Cantorum of Fort
Worth.
"Dr. Walker was an active
member of many professional or-
ganizations and he represented Tar-
leton with distinction on the state,
regional and national levels," said
forma1 Tarleton President Dr. Barry
B. Thompson.
"At the conclusion of his teach-
ing career, it is indeed proper that he
be recognized as Professor Emeri-
tus."
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Dr. Robert Walker of TSU was recently granted status of Professor Emeritus.
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