The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 65, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1960 Page: 2 of 4
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The Campus Chat
Friday, Aug. 19, I960
Political Thinking . . . Along With Mountain Climbing . . .
Liberalism Encroaches Bardas Likes Contemporary Music
Upon Conservatism
Traditionally the Republican party
haii been conservative, and the Demo-
cratic party liberal. However, often to-
day one cannot tell where party lines
begin and end on conservative-liberal
issues l**rau*e both schools of political
thinking exist in both parties. More-
over, most people assume that liberals
are in the majority.
The results of a recent nation-wide*
public opinion sampling indicated that
the conservatives still have a slight
edge and that there are any number of
people who classify themselves a.*
neither conservatives nor liberals prin-
cipally because they do not understand
the terms.
Time was when a liberal wa simply
someone who believed in individual
rights and freedoms. Then h - became
someone seeking governmental change
and reform, and now he is often confus-
ed with the radical who wants to insti-
tute a whole new governmental system.
Hence many political liberals are often
branded as socialists before they get a
defensive word in.
On the other hand a conservative
formerly was someone who simply was
opposed to change in the government,
the more ardent conservatives being re-
actionaries who reacted unfavorably to
anything that did not date back to
grandfather's day. Now a conservative
is often what a liberal formerly was— pianist Beginning Oft. 1« he Will perform
by JANET HOOPER Bardas recently traveled «ome eight thou-
( hat Staff Writer sand mil** by plan*- and far white he judged
A noted concert artist and music instructor auditions, taught master classes, and played
on the campus liken music, teachii.g, and concert* in Texas, Florida, and California,
mountain climbing-
Stefan B&rdas, resident pianist of the School
of Music faculty, ha* toured Italy, Austria,
Germany, and the United .States as a concert
It took only two and a half hours, consider-
ing the difference in time, to travel from
Dallas to his hotel in San Francisco by jet
flight, Bardas noted.
*erie* of 7 concert* of the complete 32 Sona-
tas of Beethoven, for which he is famous, at
Oklahoma City university.
An advocate of contemporary music, he
would like to see more of it played. Many
people *ay th"y do not understand contempo-
rary rnusii and therefore do not wish to listen
•omeone who wants to preserve indiv-
idual ami group rights. In other words,
he is the arch defender against "creep-
ing socialism."
The planks in the two parties' cam-
paign platform* reveal a spread of lib-
eralism in Ihe thinking of party lead- to it. (tarda- believe*
ers. .New calls for educational support, "Throw who *ay they do not understand
health insurance, farm HUpport.lt, <i\ll contemporary composers such as Schoenberg
rights, and housing indicate a trend to- probably don't understand Beethoven either,"
wards government control again, tdding that they merely nay they
creeping socialism. Meanwhile the voter under stand and that actually they do not; the
music "sounds good" to them.
"Understanding comes later," Bardas era-
phnsi/.ed "First, one hears, then studies, and
then understands music. It's like fulling in
love you love the person first, and later you
learn to understand her, or at least try to,"
back home reacted to both national
party conventions with a moan as he
calmly -at in front of his TV set with
his clonk of conservatism.
What the actual results of the new
trend towards liberal political thinking
will be are not predictable yet, though h*' jokingly added.
|(Ositive liberal legislation is an almost Bardas, who came to North Texas in 1354,
certainty. Hut. who knows? Maybe some prefers to teach only "good music." He con
day there will be two new political par- tends that a good musician is one who has
tiew the Conservatives awl the Liber-
ids, replacing the (JOI* arid the Iicmos.
('harldean Newell
Popular Pressure . . .
Public Can Provide Stops
On Inflationary Spending
Recent costs of public housing and
merchant-marine operations, Iroth sub-
sidized by the federal government, came
to more than $10 billion.
These and other spending*, when
added to t'u defense program, total an
aatototding $!>* billion of commitment*
for future spending
There art- many people who believe
that a bit of inflation is tolerable. They
have not taken a look at history and
seen that a bit of inflation is an open
door through which a lot of inflation
enters.
Otir present national debt exceeds
$290 billion, with pressures being in-
creased for new spending programs. If
aii the bills were passed that congress-
men wanted, they would add $f>0 to $fiO
In 1960-61 . . .
talent and is riot afraid to express himself
through his instrument.
"I don't believe in mass-produced teaching
material," Bardu:- emphasised, "because it
stifles self-expression and causes miniatur-
ists" (defined by him as musicians with per-
fection of detail arid lack of self-expression).
Hi - method of molding teachers is to teach
them to be "a little bit of a philosopher and
not too much of a conformist."
Hi- 4peaks four languages, English, tier-
man, French, and Italian, and enjoys unusual
game*, travel, and mountain climbing.
Chess, Mah-Jong, and Go head his list of
billion a year to our present spending, favorite games (Jo, he explained, is "an ex-
Nothing this drastic is probable, but tremeiy complicated Japanese game for those
the fact remains that it is harder each
year to withstand these pressures.
The answer to the problem lies with
Congress. The President cannot cope
with this kind of pressure alone; he
must have the help of Congress. This
branch of the government sets the
amounts of money to be spent.
If the President veto* an appropria-
tions bill, Congress can overrule him.
This control is also shared, or perhaps
dominated is a better word, by the cit-
izen Only he can pressure this powerful
group. This is his fight ; the President
needs his help, in this administration
and the one to come. Hill Foster
'
*1
x
"I like to travel in jets because it makes
you realize what a small world you are living
in," he -said.
On his three-week vacation, he plans to go
mountain climbing in Colorado, where he has
a small cottage.
Bardas likes to climb mountains because
it is a form of good exercise and creative
amusement that completely absorbs the mind,
crowding out everything else, he explains.
He blames the "nervous wrecks" of society
on the lack of total concentration of the mind
on a single objective. He believes that most
people have very little creativity and always
have to look for something to entertain them.
"When you are on top of a mountain, the
world takes on different proportions," he
summarized, adding that it makes one think
in terms of the larger overall structure of
things and clarifies what is meaningful.
"It's like a composition," he added. "When
you master it, then you realize what is im-
portant and what is insignificant."
With the Alumni
who think chess is too easy,"
Summer Minutiae
PIANIST STEFAN BARDAS pl-iys one of the Beethoven sonatas foi
George Eason.
graduate student
Scholar Reflects, Breeds Contempt
by I.At It V BALLARD
( hut Columnist
USNT Success Depends
On Campus Attitudes
A new administration will be turn-
ing the wheels for the student govern-
ment when the next long session be
gins. Great enthusiasm will probably
be shown by this group, and the USNT
could Income the effective organization
that it was intended to be.
Probably the toughest fight the stu-
dent government will face will be the
usual one: the "don't-care" attitudes
of the student body. A minor one will be
the administrative attitudes such as
those toward the library hours move-
ment last spring.
But all in all, the success or failure
of the USNT will Is- governed by the
students' attitudes.
Aftpr a strong opening last fall, the
student government turned out to be
one of the poorest in the group's his-
tory. To begin the year, last year's
greeted his eyes as he first
left the train.
The train pulled out and left
him ami he picked up his bag
and went into the dusty road
A yellow dog raced into hte street, dragging
a chicken head, and when it looked up at the
man, it whimpered uncertainly. The man bent
down and scratched the dog. "Welcomed by
a cur and a chicken head," he mused, "the
scholar's welcome."
And then the man picked up his bag again
and moved down the road If anyone stopped
him to welcome him, he would move on be-
cause he wanted to be home.
Home, the house he had not seen in three
years when he, full of promise, had left it
to go to school. He had been told how well he
would do in college and all the knowledge he
would gain.
Well, he thought, I did gain knowledge; it
wasn't, a watc of time. I learned . . .
H< was just, about to name what he had
learned when a car roared by him and great
swirls of dust fine gray dust settled on his
Hut this year could be a good one sweaty body, giving his shirt a yellow-brown
all the way through. The new student tinge
government has some very const rue- He shouted invectives at the far-away car.
tive plans scheduled, and with the CO- That's one thing I learned in
government worked enthusiastically
and, as a result, brought the student
body of North Texas its first school-
sponsored football trip in years. Much
effort was displayed by the USNT, and
the results were a successful trip and
a satisfied student body.
Then things changed. Dissensions
broke out among the officers, and some
of the top executives were constantly
at one another's throats. A move to se-
cure Sunday library hours temporarily
perkeil up interest, but when this move
failed, the government fell on its face.
And now the sun raced to his head and
surrounded his tanned body, and the heat
Surely truth shall walk in fiction, as it shows collected arid sweat poured in a smooth film
life. Summer is almost over, so here, again, down his back. Heat made him a part, of the
is another story this one to read so that you hot land His vision raced forward down the
may feel lucky. dirt, and he saw his home perched at a crazy
_____ But he left the college in the angle on the edge of the horizon-
green land and returned home. ,{ays of hcnt distorted the image of the
TUCSON. ARIZONA, spelled
out by black paint and hot sun . , ... ,, ..
In home would be all that he had left when
he went to college in a different land. My
family, my youth, my unawareness of the
world, and the security of love I left, he ro-
manticized.
But it was worth it. He tried again to list
what he had learned, but a small dust devil
swirled, and its form reminded him of a cer-
tain party before school was out. They had
gone to the dirty brown iake, and they had
taken drinks and girls. He drank and that whs
something else he had learned, to drink and
drink and drink and still not fall out in the
middle of all the fun.
There had been that girl. "Come back next
year, come back. You are so important to me."
"Sure, honey, you know I will," he had said.
But he knew he wouldn't.
As he turned in the gate and started up the
walk, despair settled into his very heart and
Letters to the Editor . . .
face. He felt as alone and lost ai' he had on
that terrible night of graduation.
The gym had been half full because it was
a summer commencement. He was hot. He
was uncomfortable. He was unhappy. For
some reason he felt empty, and it was like
the time when he dreamed he was trapped
and he ran and ran and ran around a large
gray room. He filed by the president and was
graduated and felt proud of his great achieve-
ment.
It was an achievement. He had learned good
things. The investment of his lifetime was
not lost. Not spent for nothing. But in his
pride was emptiness and his pride was noth-
ing.
Now he had reached the steps of his home,
and he stood at the foot of them and looked
back. A slight breeze blew and lifted the
waves of heat for an instant and in that in-
stant. he relaxed and saw what a waste he
had made of college. His calmness broke, he
was sick inside.
He wanted to run screaming and crying up
the steps. Then he turned an muttered, "No,
I am all right. I have not wasted my time.
It. worth it all. I have learned something,
I just '.'itn't think now. So hot. ... IT WAS
WORTH IT!" he screamed to the silent house.
Miller Assumes
Cowtown Post
In Social Work
JIMMY .JOK MII.I.KR, an NT graduate,
has completed his master's degree in social
work at the University of Texas and has n
position with the Family Service agency in
Fort Worth.
He was awarded an agency scholarship while
at UT.
DAVID OTT will join the faculty of South-
ern Methodist university next fall. Ott, who
has a master's degree in economics from NT,
will be an instructor in the economics depart-
ment.
A I.BERT LEWIS RHODES has been ap-
pointed a member of the sociology depart-
ment at SMU in September. He received a
master's degree in sociology at NT and has
a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt university in N&sh-
ville, Tenn.
Rhodes has been on the staff at the Uni-
versity of Iowa for the past three years.
BILI, LITTLE, Greenville, has accepted the
position of professor of chemistry at South-
west Bible college, Bolivar, Mo. For the past
three years he has been a science teacher in
Fort Worth.
Little was graduated by Southwestern Bap-
tist seminary and has done graduate work at
North Texas.
WOODY FORRESTER, a 1951 graduate, is
now manager of the Snyder Chamber of Com-
merce.
CARL P. JOHNSON was appointed math-
ematician at the U.S. Naval Weapons labora-
tory, Dahlgren, Va. He was graduated here in
1959.
MRS. KARIS DELI ALDERSON, who re-
ceived her B.A. in 1959, will be the itinerant
teacher for the Aubrey and Pilot Point schools.
A National Defense scholarship has been
granted to PAUL GORMLY, a 1960 grad-
uate, for three years of study toward a doc-
tor of philosophy degree in economics at
Southern Methodist university. He will re-
ceive $2800 the first year; $3000 the second,
and ?.'i:200 the third year of study.
JAMES WARD LESLIE, B.B.A. in 195.'1,
is now a certified public accountant in Abi-
lene
Swenson Explains Ring Encrusting Difficulty
operation and interest of the student thought. More words, an enlarged vocabulary,
body. USNT could well get back on the He had learned, and that was important. It
Dear Editor:
The point of your front page editorial in
college, he the Aug. 12 Chnt regarding the fact that en-
road uphill.
-Burle Pet tit ' "< •<> be.
Petit de Rien .
Graduation Blues
As Even Spanish
Grip Chat Master
Becomes Bearable
('hat Editor
by BURLE PETTIT
Soon the sluggish days of summer
school will lie over, marking the end of
a hot season of hard work and the be-
ginning of a short vacation prior to re-
suming teaching jobs,
schooling, and debuts into
the business and profes-
sional world.
It has been a quiet sum-
mer, ami the predominant
tranquillity promises to
maintain its command to
the end.
But the present serenity is not unlike
the calm that precedes a storm.
Beginning Sept. 12, when freshman
and transfer students assemble in the
main auditorium, one will no longer be
•We to shuffle nonchalantly through
the howdy room of the UB.
Enthuaiaam, crisp air, and never-
w—
crusting of the stone in the official college
ring voids the guarantee is well taken. I'm
afraid we at the Trading Post hnve been dere-
lict in advising our customers of this problem
regarding encrusting, and for that derelic
tion we are sorry, and apologize.
Such failure to tell customers the full facts
about the guarantee was never intentional,
because there has never been any secret re-
garding the matter. Rather, we have over-
looked inadvertently the importance of ex-
plaining this matter to each and every cus-
tomer. mainly for the simple reason that most
rings are ordered without encrusting and ex-
cusing conversations of class schedules, thing thnt scared heck out of us just plaining to a person whose stone will be guar-
football, and the major league pennant four short years ago. anteed is unnecessary and time consuming.
races will set in on the Land of the And that attachment is imbedded to few f„cts concerning the guarantee on
c.reen, and this jovia fog w ntox cate „tav No matter what we hnve mid Tf. „ I* .
f.uhm(■ n „„,i „|(U„ Stay. r*o matter wnat \\e nave saici the stones used in official college rings at
frt shman and sen or alike. „bout our Spanish teachers or the insti- .yorth Texas state could have been elicited
And too few will appreciate it for its tution itself during our stay here, no bv the editorial writer beforehand, and in-
full value. t one of us will ever fail to defend it riuded in the editorial. Then both the question
Many of us will be left out of these against outside criticism in the years h„ r#iwd and the answers to that question
activities for the first time in four ahead. rould hav, ,)rintp<, in fhe samo editorial,
years. Most of us have been guilty of Trying times have seemed to out- However, it is not too late to set the record
saying many times. "I'll lie glad to get weigh the good ones, but Father Time straight
this college work over with." has a way of erasing those bad times
But the thoughts of gathering at and polishing up the fond ones until lwurn,alino 8t°ne "8pd in our official
Pouts field on a brisk Saturday night finally the good is ail that is remember- rin,?s of n cry taline structure and is ground
to watch the Eagles charge onto the ed. and polisihed to the shape and size desired
turf—and informal assemblies at the To supplement this column in its ef- ,n the encrusting process the highly polished
same setting on any night of the week fort to pay tribute to our Alma Mater. °f th" *ton* that '*• th*
—saddens even the most brazen of us. the class of '60 borrows these words ""rface is broken and a little of the stone
"" "" " * — • - -- removed to make a slight depression. It is
in this depression that metallic gold is liter-
ally hammered into the microscopic pores in
the stone.
This hammering may. however, set up cer-
tain internal stresses sad strains within the
crystalline structure of the stone which great-
ly increases the susceptibility of the stone to
cracking, chipping and splitting.
As a matter of fact, originally the stones
in our Balfour rings were all covered by the
one-year guarantee against cracking, or break-
ing. but it was found that such a high per-
centage of the encrusted stones were being
returned liecause of such damage that the
original guarantee terms had to be modified.
Incidentally, this guarantee of the stone
is made by the salesman who represents Bal-
four in our area, Joe Ramsey of Greenville,
whom many of our customers know because
he originally sold and fitted them with their
high school rings. The stones, either encrusted
or unencrusted, are not guaranteed by the
company which sells them to Balfour, nor by
Balfour itself, any more than a jewelry store
guarantees a diamond not to split or chip.
Diamonds are just guaranteed to be what
they are purported to be—diamonds, and Bal-
four just guarantees the tourmaline stones
used in our rings to be tourmalines, with all
the characteristics which tourmalines happen
to have, which includes, unfortunately, con-
siderably less resistance to breakage than a
diamond! But then, a diamond of the size of
that tourmaline would cost a little more than
$2.50, too.
Cordially yours,
A. B. Swenson, Manager
Room 104 Journaliam building
PACEMAKER 4 TIMES
ALL-AMERICAN S TIMES
LAURA BALLARD
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHARLDEAN NEWELL BILL FOSTER
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LARRY SMITH
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BEVERLY BLAIR
BYRON EVANS
photographer
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North Texas has been good to us. from Rudyard Kipling:
Many among our clan came here as shy
country boys, anxious if not frankly
frightened. As the semester hours built
up. so did the confidence. And so did
the attachment toward our school, a
I have eaten your bread and salt
I have drunk your water and wine
The deaths ye have died, I have
watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine.
BYRON EVANS
managar
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BUSINESS orricK
NANCY PATTERSON
LEON DULIN
CHARLES LAWHON
rartonniau
JIMMY DARNELL
(irpolatlon
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