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Thompson Student Center
(Lower Jevel, in the game room/fitness
center) Room 21
People temporarily xbid' freedom
farewell at P.A.N.K.U.S. auction
' By Kyle Hagbery
Staff Writer
P.A.N.K.U.5., People Against Not Knowing University Spirit,
sponsored an auction in the Hunewell Women's lobby last Wednesday
night. To raise funds for the organization, students were auctioned to
the highest bidders to serve as "slaves". The organization has been
on campUs since fal^2001, and it is present at many Tarleton sporting
events. P.A.N.K.U.S. also supports people who attend all university
events. * ■
The auction featured men and women dressed up to impress buy-
ers enough to donate cash fo^ there cause.. The "slaves" we're "sold" to
perform pretty much anything the owner wanted, from cleaning up a
dorm room to doing homework. „
There was quite a crowd in the women's lobby trying to out-bid
each other on friends and enemies, all while making sure to have
plenty of work lined up for the poor unfortunate souls.-This year, sev-
eral other organizations used the same auction ploy to raise money,
some of which succeeded. • t
(Left) Spectators bid on thier
favorite auctionees last WEDNES-
DAY in the Women's Residence
Hall Lobby.
(Right) Junior Tim DeVries,
Horticulture Major, and Neil
Mesler, Exercise and Sports
Studies major, stroll down the
runway at the PAN.K.U.S. auc-
tion Wednesday night. "The auc-
tion went well and a lot of people
participated. everyone that didn't
come missed out on a good jime!"'
Exclaimed Mesler.
Megan Young / J-TAC
Megan Young / J-TAC
Baker Aon the trail of
Texas ghost towns'
University News Service
Tarleton State University's
Dr. T. Lindsay Baker took visi-
tors "On the Trail of Texas Ghost
Towns" recently, when he ad-
dressed a gathering at the Perm-
- ian Basin Petroleum Museum
in Midland. Dr. Baker is holder
of the W.K. Gordon 'Endowed
Chair in history at Tarleton/
Baker has written a num-
, ber of books, his most recent
More Ghost Towns of 'Te^as, is
the second edition concerning
the State's abandoned towns.
Published by the University ofj
Oklahoma Press, this new book
discusses Baker's personal! ex-
periences as a ghost town re-
searcher.
The historian" has teen vis-
iting and photographing Texas
ghost towns since the 1960s. As
an undergraduate student at
Texas Tech University he began
taking pictures of ghost towns he
passed through as he drove be-
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tween the school and his home-
town of Cleburne. Among the
places that caught his interest
' were Claremont in Kent County
and Thurber in Erath County.
Baker: showed photographs of
both places that .he had ^nadtj;
during the intervening years. :
The Permian Basin Petro-
leum Museum is a public mu-
seum devoted to the oil indus-
try, in West,y Texas. It features
exhibits interpreting petroleum
history in the region. Each year
it hosts several midday presen-
tations by regionally prominent
authors.
In addition to teaching at
Tarleton's Stephenville campus,
Baker directs the University's
W.K. Gordon Center at the
Thurber ghost town on Inter-
state Hwy. 20 midway between
Fort Worth and Abilene. The
museum and research center de-
voted to Texas industrial history
is otpen to the public on Tuesdays
through Saturdays from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. and on Sundays from 1
to 4 p.m. For more information
on the Center and its programs,
cal* 254-968-1886.
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