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A non-profit organization, postage paid USPS No. 133, Stephenville, Texas 76401
March 28, 1991
INSIDE,..
• Opinion ■■ page 2
• Op/Ed ■■ page 3
• Sports •■ page 4
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Tarleton groups
sponsor
awareness week
TSU's Advocates and the Tar-
leton Democrats will co-sponsor
a Student Government Associa-
tion (SGA) political awareness
week, in conjunction with
SGA, April 8-12.
This week is designed to help
promote the April 17 and 18
SGA elections and will be cQm-
posed of a series of public fo-
rums allowing SGA candidates
to state their views to the vot-
ing public.
The week will cultimate in
two events: a Student Body
President Forum, and a special
"talk show" format question-
and-answer session featuring all
available student body president
candidates.
The Student Body President
Forum will be managed by the
Advocates with support from
the Tarleton Democrats, and
will be held April 10 at 1 p.m.
in the Auditorium of the TSU
Fine Arts Center. Each student
body president candidate present
at the forum will receive a
chance to make a 5-6 minute
opening speech. This will be
followed by a three-minute ques-
tion ij<| respqtisjfi sessiori per
candidate and; "the fotuftiV'
candidates attending will have a
chance to meet with prospective
constituents on a one-on-one
basis.
The Master of Ceremonies
and coordinator for the final
"talk show" session-tentatively
titled "THE HOT SEAT"- will
be Tarleton Democrat
spokesman Monte "Sonny"
Guthrie, who defended Ann
Richards at the Tarleton guber-
natorial debate last Fall.
Jason Jacks, president of the
Advocates--Tarleton's free
speech group, said that during
this week, the Advocates will
also be sponsoring "lunchtime
candidacy speeches." Candidates
running for SGA positions will
receive invitations to campaign
in various strategic campus lo-
cations in between noon and 1
p.m. during the awareness week.
A list of candidacy areas and
times will be published within
the next two weeks, Jacks said.
Each candidate, attending by
invitation-only, will receive 2
two-minute turns on the plat-
form during these "soapbox
speeches." After each speech,
the following candidate will re-
ceive a chance to either rebut
VITAL SGA
ELECTION TIPS:
* The deadline to apply
for SGA candidacy posi-
tions is April 3 at 3 p.m.
in the SGA office on the
second floor of the TSU
Student Center.
* A candidate for the
positions of Student Body
President, Student Body
Vice President, Texan
Rider or Class President
must submit a letter of in-
tent to the SGA office by
that deadline.
* Applicants for depart-
mental candidacy positions
have to sign the' appli-
cancy sheet by deadline
time in the SGA office.
* A meeting of all can-
didates will be held April 3
at 5 p.m. in the Guadalupe
room of the Student Cen-
ter by Crumley and other
SGA members to discuss
campaign regulations.
points raised by the preceding
candidate or field generalques-.-
tions from the audience. After-
wards, students who are attend-
ing but not campaigning for of-
fice will receive a chance to
speak on political issues, as
well.
"These are argument/fact-find-
ing sessions," Jacks said, "and
this is a great opportunity for
anyone passing by the platforms
to yell out their concerns —
maybe stay there for a while to
argue their points."
TSU Dean of Students Rusty
Jergins said that the week will
stress the importance of the role
of student body president to stu-
dents.
"SGA plays an important part
in being the liaison between the
student body and the administra-
tion," Jergins said. "It says that
students should be as selective
as possible in choosing their
student body president. This
week is a mechanism to get that
message across."
Jergins said that because the
opinions that students form in
college are usually the ones they
employ in their everyday en-
deavors after graduation, there is
a great importance in learning
(See Week page 7)
Financial change sweeps TSU
By Ben Tinsley
Staff Writer
There will soon be a
series of financial changes around
TSU including an increase in
dormitory residence fees, the
cutting of TSU summer hours to
four days from five and the
increase of student computer
access fees as of the 1991 Fall
semester.
Although ihe changes are
practically concurrent, they are
unrelated, TSU( administrators say.
To begin with, TSU has
a budget shortfall of $400,000.
This, said Tarleton State
University Interim President Dr.
Dennis McCabe, is attributable to
two categories of problems: a util-
ity budget shortfall of $180,000
and a requirement by the Texas
Senate for Tarleton to return
$222,000 in funding to the state
of Texas because of the recent
state money crunch caused by cur-
rent school financing problems.
As a result 6f the short-
fall, TSU will be cutting work
days for staff and faculty to four,
days a week starting Monday, May
20. Campus offices will be open
from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Monday through Thursday
throughout the summer, with em-
ployees being allowed a 30 minute
lunch break. Classes for the sum-
mer session will last 125 minutes.
In the past, the university
has assumed a four-day work
week, but the administrative
offices remained open on Friday,
said McCabe. This year, only the
Dick Smith Library, the Student
Center the cafeteria and possibly
the gym will remain open to
accomodate for students attending
Tarleton as part of the Youth
Experience Success (YES)f,
Mainstream state-funded summer
expansion programs and other ,
programs.
The usual summer hours
of the library will be 8 a.m. to 10
p.m, Monday through Thursday
and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays.
"The four-day week cut
has no relation to any of the other
fee increases," McCabe said. "The
shortfall of our current budget,
which runs through August 30, is
the cause of this reduction between
now and August. The strategies
that we implement now will ad-
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Strike out ...
(Above) Texan
pitcher Bobby Blackwell
shows his form during a
game with nationally
ranked Dallas Baptist
University. DBU took
the win but district play
may prove to be another
matter. (Right)
Blackwell pauses to take
instructions from Coach
Jack Allen.
dress the shortfall in the current
fiscal year."
TSU will have a new
budget to adhere to as of
September 1, McCabe said.
Also to compensate for
the $180,000 shortfall, he said,
TSU will crop its budget mostly
in electricity costs, as it did by
shutting the campus down com-
pletely during Spring Break of this
year.
"By conserving,"
McCabe said, "we can save maybe
$100,000 for now and this sum-
mer."
At times, McCabe said,
electricity costs can run as high as
$180 per each TSU hour for the
entire campus. There is a possibil-
ity that it can be cut to as low as
. (See Change page 6)
Tarleion
pulls out
of TTAA
By Michael Marhach
Sports Editor
There will not be a sixteenth
candle lit on Tarleton's Texas Inter-
collegiate Athletic Association
..Their fif--
teen year membership in the confer-
ence is partied out.
At it's March 11 meeting, the
Board of Directors of the T.I.A.A.
voted unanimously to accept the
withdrawal of TSU from the confer-
ence effective May 15, 1991.
"The decision was not made in
isolation," said Interum President Dr.
Dennis McCabe. "The athletes and
coaches were one hundred percent
behind our resignation."
Tarleton's withdrawal from the
T.I.A.A. had been pondered since
February 18 of this year when the
other charter members of the confer-
ence had voiced opinions of the
dominating Texan force.
In 1976, TSU joined the T.I.AA.
with an enrollment of 3,000 students.
Today the enrollment has doubled,
and TSU has 420 student athletes
competing.
This, along with the domination
of conference championships, led to
the withdrawal, McCabe feels,
, "It's time to move on," he said.
"Our relationship in the T.I.AA was
deteriorating so we made the move
forward. Tarleton is becoming a
different type of institution."
(See TIAA page 7)
Student Spotlight
T.I.A.A. resignation provokes varied reactions at Tarleton
•?y Christy Moore
Features Editor
Tarleton officially resigned from
the T.I.A.A. conference on March
11. TSU is now an independent non-
scholarship school in the N.A.I.A.
When asked their opinion on the
change, students had mixed feel-
ings.
"Cool!" said Marino Beato, a
junior computer science major. "I
don't know if it's good or bad though.
I mean, what are we going to do since
we've left Ihe conference? Well have
to be really good to get in the rank-
ings."
Brent Swindall doesn't think that
the decision was a wise one. He feels
that TSU would be better off in a
conference than as an independent
school. "I don't know much about it,
but I don't think we should have
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Beato
left," said Swindall, a sophomore
animal production major.
However, freshman Cindy Stone
supports the idea. "I think it's fine. It
will be better if we don't have to
worry about what other schools think
about us and listen to their stupid
Swindall
Stone
Carter
comments. If they don't like how we
play, too bad!" Stone is a math
education and music major.
"I think that it's time for us to
move on," said Kelly Carter, a fresh-
man education major. "We didn't
need them anyway. Maybe well get
some competition!" Carter also
thinks that the change may bring
scholarship possibilities.
Leslie Collins thinks that it
would eliminate Tarleton having to
play some teams twice. "Maybe"
we'll get to play some better teams
Collins
too. I'm sure that well win no matter
who we play."' Collins is a freshman
math and music major.
The long term effects of the
action were explored by junior physi-
cal education major Nick Alvarado.
"Scholarship possibilities are in the
Alvarado
future. This would help wit!, hiqh
school recruitment as well as make
our competition stiffer. I think that it
is a positive thing."
The action will become effec-
tive on May 15, 1991.
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