The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 47, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1969 Page: 3 of 8
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April 1, 1969
THE PROSPECTOR
Page 3
PROSPECTOR FORUM
Paul J. Strelzin
What about your
uture?
campus life. Work starts soon on a new
“‘--:--.,
HARE
CUTS
UP, UP, AND AWAY!
CALL 532-5911
FAITHFUL PROTECTION SINCE 1910
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W.T. GRANT COMPANY
Our College Representatives Have Been
Specially Trained To Assist You In
Planning And Coordinating your
Financial Needs Now And For The
Future.
students themselves who financed and
built the Pan American Center by
pledging the redemption of bonds
through their student association fees.
Can you beat that-there’s spirit and
school pride all the way up at Las
Cruces!
go’round. For the fall 1968-7,232
students purchased Student Association
Paul Strelzin is a graduate student
working on his Master's in health and
physical education. He received his
B.A. in economics in New Hampshire
and edited his coUege newspaper, THE
NEW ENGLANDER, for two years.
Strelzin has been active in P.E. Majors
Club and has taught P.E. and coached
in the El Paso Public Schools.
Editor:
John Middagh
3511 O'Keefe
El Paso, Texas 79922
Telephone 533-8178
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Ask your Placement Director for
a copy of our Brochure, and
sign up for an interview.
With The
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Flying Club.
JOHN MIDDAGH
PROVIDES MORE
THAN A POLICY!
COLLEGE
CAREER
PLAN
ONLY $6 AN HOUR
WITH $10
MONTHLY DUES
We are an equal opportunity employer
On Campus Thursday April 10
If you haven’t, you will want to
talk to us about the outstanding
opportunities in Grants
Management Training Program.
We will give you facts about a
career in retail management without
pulling punches. And if you think
you have the ability and
determination to successfully
manage people in a competitive
business, you can look forward to
an annual income of $25,000
to $50,000 and more.
PV THE UNION
BARBER SHOP
MON-FRI-8 AM-5:30 PM
SAT.-8 AM-2 PM
Contributor Proposes Pan American Center Here
Ed. Note:
Learn To
Fly --Now!
Have you found a career
opportunity that fully satisfies your
requirements? Enough reward,
enough responsibility, enough
excitement, challenge anc
growth potential?
American
Amicable
Have you
heard the latest about the two “Aggies”
who made a recent visit to a U.T. El
Paso basketball game? One “Aggie”
asked the other, “why do the Miners
play their home games in the
Coliseum?” The other “Aggie” being
well educated, after all he graduated
from high school, replied, “you know
how Miners are, they like cold, dark,
and dirtv places.”
Leave it to two “Aggies” to shed
some light on a bleak situation. Joke all
you want about our neighbors up
North but know that they are years
ahead of us in concern for their
University and in their school pride.
When you’re down and out the easiest
way to solve your own problems is to
poke fun at the other fellow and
attempt to balm yourself in this
manner. Perhaps that explains all of the
“Aggie” jokes of the past. But don’t
laugh too hard or too long because the
joke in on us, the students at U.T. El
Paso.
multimillion dollar dormitory complex games and the thirteen home basketball
which will more than double the games his total ticket value would be
Uninformed
Back to the campus at U.T. El Paso a
little tired from the long jaunt and a
little wiser in the ways of an “Aggie,”
dumb he “ain’t,” smar he is. Say
didn’t they look great in the NCAA
basketball regionals up there in the
showplace of the Southwest-the
beautiful Pan American Center? Books,
classes, and the PROSPECTOR, my
favorite newspaper once again becomes
the sounding board for those small
groups of misinformed students who
specialize in ferment. This little group
says we give too much of our student
association fees to the athletic
department and not enough to the
library and other campus functions.
How badly they have done their
homework and research, surely they
must know that the library gets its
operating funds from the state through
the University budget while the athletic
department does NOT RECEIVE
ONE-CENT from the state or the
University budget. They must realize
that the gate receipts from the Sun
Bowl (built by the “Townies,” bless
them) and the Coliseum are used to
fund the Athletic Program and that the
small amount that is received from the
student association fees goes to defray
the cost of minor sports such as an
undefeated wrestling team, a great
baseball team, and one of the countries
finest track squads. Let’s not forget the
money contributed by the town fathers
who enjoy the fact that U.T. El Paso
has an excellent educational and
athletic program that deserves the
attention and support of El Paso even if
the students themselves fail to
recognize or appreciate the progress
that has been made these past few
years. Some of these “Townies” never
went to college and they have adopted
our school, thank God.
Gives Stats
You say you’re not satisfied, tell you
what I’m going to do, FACTS my
friend, FACTS make the world
Awed By Gym
Recently I visited the campus at Las
Cruces and ventured into the new Pan
American Center-Madison Square
Garden West. Perplexed by the
opulence and awe-struck by its size I
wondered just how much the center
had cost the good citizens of New
Mexico, especially those of Las Cruces.
3.5 million dollars, give or take a few
thousand, was the cost. Ready for a
giant-sized guffaw? It cost the private
citizen exactly nothing. That’s right
those poorly educated “Aggies” have
found a better way. They’re doing their
own thing and its not hurting the
pocketbook of anyone. Know how
they did it? They found out that their
students had a little pride, spirit, and a
great deal of concern for their school
and its athletic program. Why it was the
Cards, 219 of these cards were
purchased through the athletic
department for those students on
athletic scholarship which means that
7,013 students were eligible to obtain
tickets for the home football games.
Figures just released from the
department of Intercollegiate Athletics
at UTEP show that total tickets issued
for football to S.A. card holders in
1968 was 34,877. This means that an
average of 4,982 students attended
each home game or if you prefer,
almost 70% of those students holding
S.A. cards attended home football
games.
Another interesting statistic is the value
of tickets used by students holding SA
cards-
S.A. Tickets issued for Football -
23,147 @ $5.00 $ 115,7 35.00
11,7 30 @ $3.00 35,190.00
( 150,925.00) Tot. F. B.
S.A. Tickets for Basketball -
4,593 @ $2.00 9,186.00
11,224 @ $1.50 16,836.00
( 26,022.00) Tot. B. B.
$ 176,947.00 Total Value
Not a bad return on the investment
made by the students through their
Student Association Card fee.
Take a little pride with you when
you enter the Campus, why they’re
actually trying to build up some
life. better belong than on our Campus in
Each student who purchases an SA this truly international Pan American
card here, contributes approximately City?
$8 dollars to the athletic budget. This “Aggie” jokes? Yes, they’re
$8 is for the entire academic year and abundant, but guess who the latest one
not just one term. If an SA card holder is about?
ttended the seven home football
student body now living on campus. $61 doUars, not a bad return on an $8
Don’t despair, we may make this a true dollar investment.
campus yet. There seems to be other Yes, I know it’s trite, but a better
students who take pride in their man than me said something to the
campus functions as witness the great effect that you should ask what YOU
number of students who attended the can do. Well maybe it’s not too late to
home football games. As for me, I wish do something ourselves; let’s not let the
it were possible to give more of the good “townies” of El Paso do
money from the SA fees to the athletic everything for us. Some well-meaning
department but they have not citizen has already started a fund for a
requested it from the students; they new gym. Come on! Let’s stand up and
have provided an athletic program display some school spirit and pride,
which enables us to take pride in its let’s build our own Pan American
accomplishments and in our university Center here, after all, where does it
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University of Texas at El Paso. The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 47, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1969, newspaper, April 1, 1969; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1620487/m1/3/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting University of Texas at El Paso.