The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1967 Page: 1 of 6
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North Texans Would Rather Gripe Than Switch
By JIM SMEAD
To determine the success of an institution, ask the custo-
mer what he thinks of it—that's the method used successfully
for years by politicians, businessmen and George Gallup.
The same method has been tried by a business administra-
tion class taught by Dr. J. D. Dunn. His students were in-
structed to poll North Texas students and find out what they
think about their school.
And while the poll was part of a class examination, it
was also a gauge of student opinion. It didn't have the scien-
tific technique behind it that a Gallup Poll has, but the class
made a strong attempt to get a random sample of students and
to frame questions so that they wouldn't be loaded for a par-
ticular response.
Do you think girls ought to be allowed to live in apart-
ments? Do you approve of the present North Texas Greek sys-
tem? Do you feel that administrative officials are doing their
proper jobs? Do you think the city of Denton takes advantage
of the student?
THESE WERE AMONG the survey's 69 questions in 13
major divisions—student-faculty relations, parking, housing,
the Greek system, the Union Building, self-fulfillment, ath-
letics, student government, the city of Denton, the infirmary,
student-administrative relationship, student-to-student rela-
tionship and morale.
If one question had to be singled out to indicate the con-
tentedness of the student, it would probably be, "If you had it
all to do over again, would you enroll in another college be-
sides North Texas?" Only 32 per cent of those answering said
they would go to another school, while 62 per cent indicated
they would return to North Texas.
In light of some other percentage answers this one be-
comes important. It means that despite discontent, nearly
two-thirds stated that they would come to North Texas again.
ONE OF THE MAJOK AREAS of discontent was the
dormitory system. A large 73 per cent thought that girls should
not be forced to live in dormitories, and 79 per cent favored
a rule forcing freshman men to live in dorms. However, over
half expressed no dislike for the present curfew hours. Another
major dissatisfaction here is the present telephone system.
Still another area in which the students voted for change
concerned the Union Building. Eighty-five per cent said the
UB should provide more recreational facilities. They suggested
pool, ping pong, a ballroom and bowling alleys.
However, the answerers did not want the University Store
moved out of the building to provide the needed room.
Perhaps one of the most pertinent sections on the poll
covered the student administrative relationship. Students were
asked whether they think the administration is progressing,
whether administrative officials arc doing their proper jobs,
whether they have ever heard of anyone being mistreated by
the administration and whether they feel they could go to a
dean for help with a social problem.
ANSWERS SPLIT dramatically. Those polled said that
they had heard of cases in which students were mistreated by
the administration, <>7 per cent, and that they did not feel at
liberty to go to the deans with a problem, 85 per cent.
Yet half the students answering said the administration
is progressing and the officials are doing their proper jobs,
and only 12 per cent indicated a fear of the administration.
The section of the survey that generated the least interest
concerned the Greek system. Each question in the section re-
ceived, according to the survey report, "an extremely large
percentage of 'I don't know' answers."
Forty-eight per cent said they approved of the Greek
system. On the other hand, 70 per cent thought that the Greeks
were not representative of the school.
Another of the more interesting groups of responses per-
tained to the city of Denton, a section that revealed a basic an-
tagonism among the student body toward the city. Eighty of
every hundred students said the university is outgrowing the
city.
And 62 of every 100 said they believe the city takes ad-
vantage of students. A (53 per cent majority favored legalized
sale of alcoholic beverages in the city.
Answerers also pointed out a weakness in the area of cam-
pus student government, as only 37 per cent felt they were
actually represented by the USNT. In fact, only 57 per cent
were able to identify Bob McMath, president of USNT. Others
gave identifications ranging from "president of the school" to
"the new football coach."
THE STUDENTS overwhelmingly agreed that the job of
the student government was "to represent the students," yet
only 42 per cent thought it was doing so.
Other indications of the survey were:
• Students expressed a 95 per cent confidence in the fac-
ulty. but did indicate a wish for more voice in the choice of
courses.
• Lack of parking space was pointed up as a major
problem,
• A majority thought they were being adequately trained
for the future, but the counseling system was described as in-
adequate by 64 per cent of all questioned.
• Eighty per cent think of themselves as individuals
rather than part of a group and a two-to-one majority said
the spirit of cooperation at the university is bad.
• Nearly nine-tenths of the respondents thought that If
the school had a winning football team, school morale would
rise. Seventy-seven per cent said they attended a football
game last season.
• TWO MAJOR NEEDS of the infirmary were pointed
out. Eighty one per cent voted for a campus phychiatrist and
v 1 per cent for emergency service,
• The largest percentage on the survey, 95, students said
that university morale could be improved. They pointed out
athletics, more activities and more interest on the part of the
administration as areas of need.
In a note of conclusion to the survey report, survey chair-
man Alice Tyler said, "The one, perhaps most important,
question of the entire survey shows that the majority of the
students were satisfied enough with North Texas to want to
come back if they had it all to do over again . . . On
the other hand, one must be aware of the dissatisfactions if
this survey is to be considered worthwhile."
These areas notably were housing restrictions, parking
problems, apparent administration disinterest, an inadequate
infirmary system, a slow-growing city and poor cooperation
and morale.
The survey report concluded, "It would seem that a
further, much larger and more scientific investigation into the
merits and demerits of all the areas pointed out by this survey
might be very helpful and informative to all concerned."
The Campus Chat
50TH YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DENTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1967
NO. 45
Senate Approval of Expenditure Bypassed
Students Get Reprimand
By JOE LEMMING
The USNT Senate voted Tuesday night
to reprimand five students representing
the USNT executive branch at a meeting
of the Texas Intercollegiate Student As-
sociation in McAllen this week.
USNT Vice-President Cathy Stricklin
reported that Skip Massey, Alan Phenix,
Ken Wallace, Sheila Smith and Judy
Jones had asked the senate to approve
travel expenses of $450, which they had
already gotten from the administration
According to the USNT constitution, all
money to be spent by the student gov-
ernment must first receive senate ap-
proval and then be submitted for ad-
ministration approval.
A motion by Freshman President
Chuck Scotton requiring the five stu-
dents to "enumerate all expenses and re-
turn any money not properly allocated"
received senate approval.
Freshman Senator Rickey Simpson
said the representatives "should be sharp-
ly reprimanded, and the three members
in the USNT should l>e asked to resign."
(Miss Jones and Phenix were specially
chosen by USNT Budget Officer Massey
to represent NTSU at the convention.)
JUNIOR SENATOR Charles Dixon
asked that the senate delete the clause
concerning resignations.
"Skip Massey has done some fine
things for this school," Dixon said, "and
it would be unfair to remove him over
this."
Sophomore Class President Tom Herod
introduced a resolution that would re-
emphasize that all money to be spent
by USNT officials must first be sub-
mitted to the senate for consideration.
The senate accepted Scotton's proposal
with Simpson's and Herod's amendments.
In other action, the senate did these
things:
• Set up a schedule for campaign
speaking.
• Announced a plan for a USN'T-spon-
sored dance April 21.
• Allocated money for a campus movie
project.
• Heard a report on lab band concerts
in the Union Building.
The schedule for campaign speaking
squeaked by, w ith a tie vote being broken
by Miss Stricklin. Ten-minute periods
were assigned for speeches by presiden-
tial candidates today, Monday and Tues-
day. The election is Wednesday.
During these periods, campaign sing-
ing will l>e forbidden. The speeches will
be in front of the UB, often the site of
singing commercials.
The schedule:
Today — Presidential candidates —
11:50 a.m.-12. 12:50-1, 1:50-2.
Monday Vice-presidential candidates
— Same times as today.
Tuesday — Presidential candidates —
Every 10 minutes from 12:30 to 1.
Rules committee chairman Mike Wims
said the candidates would draw for the
10-niinute slots.
Miss Stricklin also told the senate that
USNT President Bob McMath would con-
fer with President J. C. Matthews on a
USNT paper expressing a need for more
student responsibility.
After hearing a report from Junior
Senator Gene Beaty on the campus mo-
vies, the senate voted to allocate $75 for
the project.
SOPHOMORE SENATOR Troy Phil-
lips reported on his committee's study of
allowing women to visit men's apart-
ments.
Phillips received letters from Oklaho-
ma University and Louisiana Slate con-
cerning n bill allowing women over 21
to choose their own housing.
"Most of the universities I have con-
tacted allow women over 21 to have
their own housing, and the letters from
OU and LSU might give us some fuel
to fight with," he said.
Sophomore Class President Toni Herod
toM the senate bis committee decided to
hold a USNT-sponsored dance from
K-11 p.m. April 21, presumably in the
Women's Gym.
Appeals Court Sends
McClellan Case Back
NT Biologist Calls Report
On Leukemia Premature
By KANDY KINNARD
Dr. Vernon Eugene Scholes of the
biology faculty said Wednesday that
although he feels the theory behind
the research of the treatment of leuk-
emia at the Wadley Research Insti-
tute is good, his main impression is
that publication of the findings is
premature.
He feels that subjecting just three
people to the treatment is not a suf-
ficient number to establish that this
new method can cure leukemia.
"Whether or not Frank Hays Jr.,
the 9-year-old boy who is said to have
recovered from leukemia, would have
gotten well without the drug could
not be determined," Dr. Scholes said.
"In young children, remissions of
leukemia are not uncommon, especial-
ly when treated with present thera-
putic chemicals.
"In this particular case, there simp-
ly were not enough experimental or
control individuals from which sta-
tistically significant data could be
obtained," he said.
"THE IMPORTANT factor that has
come out of this new concept is the
utilization of asparaginase, an en-
zyme, as a material to deplete the
aspargine that is carried by the
bloodstream to the cancerous cells,
which cannot make their own aspars-
gine."
He went on to say that there is a
possibility that this theory could re-
sult in a satisfactory therapeutic ma-
terial in the treatment of leukemia and
possibly other cancer.
Dr. Scholes said that the treatment
developed by Dr. Joseph M. Hill and
Dr. Joseph Roberts is based on the
fact that normal cells produce their
own supply of asparagine, which is
an amino acid.
Malignant cells cannot manufacture
their own asparagine, but they get it
through the bloodstream. Large
amounts of asparaginase, injected into
the bloodstream, deprive malignant
cells of asparagine, and they die of
starvation.
DR. SCHOLES said that it was
known in 1953 that cancerous cells
require asparagine. The asparaginase
used by the Wadley center is not new.
However, the concept of using it is.
The only drawback, he said, is that
a tremendous amount of the drug
must be administered over a long per-
iod of time. The cost is about $15,000
a treatment.
Asparaginase is prepared from a
bacteria found normally in the intes-
tine. It is grown in large flasks. The
bacteria are broken up and the cellu-
lar material is then purified.
Dr. Scholes recently received a
$72,000, three-year grant from the
National Cancer Institute. He has been
working on cancer since 1956, con-
centrating his efforts on premalig-
nancy and the effects of tumors on
mice.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
in Austin Wednesday upheld a district
court decision to grant Byron L. McClel-
lan Jr. a new trial and returned the case
to 16th District Court in Denton.
McClellan, a former NTSU student,
was given a seven-year probated sentence
in Denton last year for allegedly maim-
ing another NTSU student in 1965. Later,
however. District Judge W. C. Boyd, the
trial judge, announced he would grant
McClellan a new trial because the indict-
ment had followed testimony McClellan
gave the grand jury while under sub-
poena. McClellan's attorneys filed an ap-
peal instead of seeking a new trial.
JUDGE BOYD acted under a provision
of the new Texas Criminal Code that
permits trial judges to review records of
their own eases to spot possible revers-
ible errors.
In writing the appeals court decision,
Judge K. K. Woodley said the U. S. Su-
preme Court has held that "it was a
fundamental error to require the appel-
lant to appear before the grand jury
which found the indictment against him."
District Attorney John Lawhon said
Wednesday that he will continue to push
for a conviction in the case.
The Denton County Grand Jury re-in-
dicted McClellan on the maiming charge
last January.
THE MAIMING incident took place
2 Independents
Fail in Election
An NTSU faculty member and a staff
member, running as independents, were
defeated Tuesday in their bids for seats
on the Denton City Council.
The recently organized "By The People
League" scored an upset over the Denton
Charter Association (DCA), long domi-
nant in local politics, as 2,935 Dentonites
went to the polls.
Zeke Martin, Marvin Loveless and J.
T. Jones—all backed by the league
were elected to the council, giving the
new organization a majority voice on
the five-man council.
A. B. (Swede) Swenson, manager of
the University Store received 759 votes
for a seventh place finish !>ehind the
DCA's incumbent Howard Gentry.
Ruth I. Anderson of the business ad-
ministration faculty polled 452 votes for
ninth place.
Oct. 5, 1965. Three Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity meml>ers and a pledge were
arrested and charged with maiming and
aggravated assault in connection with
separate attacks on three NTSU men.
The fraternity was placed on indefinite
suspension.
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Waiting for a Date (May 1)
Cynthia Lisle, junior from Fort Worth, looks longingly through the fence
around the University Pool, awaiting its opening. Miss Lisle is North Texas'
entry in the queen contest at the Drake Relays. The pool is scheduled to
open May I.
Movie Director Visits NT
Friedkin Analyzes Good Times' Job
By MARY BURNS
"The director is the sum of all the
parts of a motion picture," director Wil-
liam Friedkin believes,
Friedkin analyzed his job in an inter-
view while here Wednesday to publicize
his soon to be released movie, "Good
Times." The movie stars singers Sonny
and Cher.
"The director coordinates every ele-
ment of a motion picture; he literally
sets policy for how a scene will l>e per-
formed and appear on the screen,"
Friedkin said.
"Good Times" is Friedkin's first try
at directing a movie, but he has direct-
ed more than 2,000 shows for television.
HE WAS QUICK to praise Sonny and
Cher for their "fantastic technical ex-
cellence" in music. As for their mod
clothes and long hair, he said, "Their
dress is a gimmick. If it became neces-
sary tomorrow for Sonny to wear a
tuxedo and crew cut to sell records, he
would do it," Friedkin said.
Sonny and Cher made a fast ascension
to stardom, but no faster than Friedkin.
The Chicago native began work at 16
in the WGN-TV mail room. In six months
he had become a floor director and in
six more months he was directing live
television
IN 1960 FRIEDKIN wrote and pro-
duced "Great Music from Chicago,"
which won him the Peabody Award. He
also worked on his first documentary
film, "A Walk Through The Valley."
He got his first big break, however,
in 1962 when he joined WBKB TV,
whose station head was Sterling (Red)
ljuinlan. Quintan allowed him to do
"Project Justice: The People vs. Paul
('rump."
The Crump film was about a Chicago
Negro who had exhausted every possi-
bility to get a pardon of his sentence
for murder. Friedkin said he tried to
show a side of Crump that would not
have come out in a courtroom. Three
days after he saw the film, the gover-
nor pardoned Crump.
Friedkin began his first motion pic-
ture last year. He has scheduled a three-
picture deal with Mirisch Company, a
two-picture commitment to Paramount,
a film for Harold Hecht and a second
Sonny and Cher movie, which will be
made in West Germany next year.
TELEVISION NO longer appeals to
the young director because it is, in his
words, "too formatted."
Committee on Ex-Students
Will Speed Up Campaign
By HARDIE DAVIS
The campaign to update methods of
keeping up with ex-students and
strengthening their ties with the univer-
sity is gaining speed.
Dr. Miles E. Anderson, chairman of
the faculty committee on ex-student af-
fairs. said Wednesday he hopes for some
concrete proposals by University Day,
May 8.
A project concerning ex-student af-
fairs is currently under way, supervised
by Dr. Wayne Adams. Dr. Adams was
appointed the first coordinator of special
projects by the Board of Regents last
fall.
PHASE I of the project has for the
most part heen completed, he said. Dr.
Adams has supervised the mailing of
45,(HH) alumni data cards and 20,000
have been returned. The exes were asked
to send news of themselves plus the
names and addrc-se* <>f former students
not receiving the North lexau, a pub-
lication distributed to NT exes.
"THE FIRST PHASE dealt with who
and where the alumni are. How we will
use that information is presently under
consideration," Dr. Anderson said.
The project was discussed two weeks
ago at a meeting of the executive com-
mittce of the Ex-student Association, the
Faculty Committee, student representa-
tives, Dr. Adams and President J. C.
M atthews.
Dr. Anderson said that although there
has been an ex-student, organization for
some time, it has been inactive and in-
effective. "We want to explore ways of
strengthening university ties with the
alumni," he said.
One idea under consideration is mak-
ing the alumni association a dues-paying
organisation. Dr. Anderson said that the
current ex-students association has no
dues for members, unlike most univer-
sities.
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