The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1967 Page: 2 of 6
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PAGE 2—THE CAMPUS CHAT
Friday, October 13, 1967
Counseling Available
Low Grades Linked
To Lack of Guidance
The causes of poor Rrades
among NT students are many and
varied. Certainly the enumeration
of these causes would be a major
undertaking, but a reason for the
low marks of many students is
their failure to utilize the services
of the Guidance Office.
The assumption is reasonable
that larjre numbers of students are
pursuing degrees in fields in which
they are unhappy. Vast numbers
of freshmen begin their collegiate
careers with grandiose delusions of
engaging in majors that are above
their heads.
When their first semester grades
are in, they often grasp for an
eaaier major — only to have it
give them little satisfaction. This
Not Essential
Bottle Up
'Spirit'
School spirit and liquid "spirits'*
are not synonymous, nor do they
belong together.
Drinking at football games can
become a problem. Not only is it
illegal, but it is inconsiderate.
Those who are drinking seem
to ytil the loudest, but not neces-
sarily at the right time. They often
disturb and distract others with
their immature and inconsiderate
behavior.
Another common occurrence
seems to be spilling their drinks,
many times on other spectators.
Is drinking really essential to
enjoyment of the game? If drink-
ing is that important, these peo-
ple could just not attend the game.
There are other nights that could
be reserved for drinking. After the
game there is plenty of time to go
someplace where drinking does not
cause any problems or bother any-
one.
Attend the games, but leave the
liquor at home. It will be much
better for all concerned.
—Lee Kreigh
Necessary Divorce?
change is often based on a whim
or the suggestion of a roommate.
For most, this improper major
leads inevitably to substandard
grades. At the same time, ultimate
goals are altered from specific ca-
reer desires to the simple quest
for a degree—any degree.
This impulsive change, then, can
easily have lifelong ramifications.
At the other end of the spectrum
is the student who is not complete-
ly satisfied with his major but can-
not bring himself to change. He
labors unhappily for four years
and his grade point average suf-
fers. He suffers.
For eac h of these groups of stu-
dents, the obvious step in obtain-
ing proper direction would be a
visit to the Guidance Office.
Under the direction of Dr. Ed-
ward Bonk, this office is capable
of providing full counseling and
guidance services for any and all
students enrolled at North Texas.
"We attempt to tell what the in-
dividual is like and wh it his poten-
tials are and then find a major in
which he can uucceed," Dr. Bonk
said.
oeiore counseling can begin, any
or all of a series of tests are ad-
ministered. These include: interest
inventories, intelligence and apti-
tude tests, personality evaluations
and reading and study habit tests.
Students with problems with
their majors form only a portion
of the work for the Guidance Of-
fice. "We also counsel students
with emotional and personality
problems," Dr. Bonk said. "In
many cases, it takes weeks or even
months for these students to work
out their problems."
Dr. Bonk feels that the majority
of students who fail are capable
of college level work and could be
saved by effective counseling. "The
majority of the students who fail,
do so because they don't use the
full potential that they have," he
observed.
There is little question that the
flunkout and dropout rates would
be lowered and many students'
grade point averages would be ele-
vated by fuller utilization of our
guidance facilities.
—Dave Smith
YR Split Embitters
Campus Factions
A Young Republican is trust-
worthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,
courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful,
thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
"Diey keep themselves physically
strong, mentally awake and moral-
ly straight. It's really a pity that
they relish fighting so much. For
they have, or rather had, potential-
ly, one of the campus' strongest
organizations.
For part of last year, the old YR
club had the sublime satisfaction
of showing North Texans the fine
art of factionalism. The Chat reg-
ularly reported the latest feud of
the factions. The chaotic YR meet-
ings inevitably wasted a minimum
of three hours and accomplished
nothing, while the Republican par-
ty suffered much.
After a peaceful summer, which
saw the departure of the YRs pre-
sident, the old YRs have solved
all of their problems in one easy
step. They split.
To say that the old YR club
members didn't get along so well
is a gross understatement. But was
a divorce necessary?
Any organization most certain-
ly has its internal strife, simply
because all human minds do not
think alike. It is the responsibility
of those same minds to seek a sat-
isfactory solution when differences
arise. At least, that's the idea.
The YRs' interna! strife, accord-
ing to past president Johnny Hen-
drik, is "a basic personality dif-
ference." Granted that personality
problems can be vexing, the YRs
•hould still be able to work out the
problem by intelligent discussion
and eventual compromise.
The splinter group is called Vic-
tory in Progress (VIP). Rick Lover
of the group hss said: "We intend
fo "V *<.>■.. vtt' for the
i .my. out seeing the
two YR clubs work together would
be a spectacle equaled only by that
of Shirley Temple Black filming
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?"
as a musical-comedy with Ronald
Reagan as her co-star.
The basic cause of the split is
a misunderstanding that has led
the YRs astray from the path of
sweetness and light. That misun-
derstanding is the YRs' failure to
grasp the idea of majority rule.
It is the privileged responsibility
of the majority to govern the
group. The minority, meanwhile,
must not sit around and sulk over
their unfortunate fate. For it is
the hope, privilege and responsibili-
ty of the minority to develop into
the majority and assume its tasks.
It was time for the minority in
the old YR club to do just that,
for it had become the majority.
The VIP group left at this point,
which was unfortunate.
The problem takes on university-
wide significance because the YRs
are one of two such political clubs
on the campus. Although neither
group is a major force in local poli-
tics, they are still the only repre-
sentatives of the nation's two big
parties. As such, they have a re-
sponsibility to students to provide
mature political forums.
The Young Democrats lived up
to their responsibilities only this
week by bringing in a state senator
as a speaker. The Young Republi-
cans possibly can match that, but
the existence of a splinter group
most surely make potential speak-
ers slightly wary.
The NTSU Young Republican
Club was judged the best in the
nation last year. Students of North
Texas would welcome a return to
the practices—and harmony—that
won the sward.
—Donny Buchanan
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5
Students Get Ahead With Flick
Thirteen Convert Rest Room Into Movie
By BILL CASE
The Flick Incorporated is black and
yellow, but mostly it is blatantly and
horrendously yellow and it is wrapped
and packaged for student consumption
from its anti-establishmentarian color-
scheme to the type of films that flicker
across its motion picture screen.
The one-story movie house rising
astigmatically on the comer of Oak and
Fry Streets is the product of 13 North
Texas State students' and ex-students'
quest for that most academic of aca-
demic necessities- money, The Flick In-
corporated opened Saturday with "Boc-
caccio 70," an Italian trilogy aimed at
"the more rensitive student," according
to manager Robert Clifton, a former
North Texas student and editor of an
off-campus magazine.
THE STUDENT corporation plans a
steady diet of foreign films, spiced oc-
casionally with second-run American pic-
tures. "We can't afford first-run films,"
student stockholder Bruce Keahey said,
"but we'll show some second-run films
(the ones you didn't see the first time
around) like 'Cat Ballou' or 'A Shot In
The Dark.' We'll stick mostly to foreign
films by people like Bergman and Felini,
You might say that we are selling neon-
lit avant garde culture and popcorn."
The students who run the theater in
alternating shifts and wear yellow sweat
shirts with The Flick Incorporated print-
ed across the front are Keahey, Phil
Pickett, Tom Dennis, Don Jackson, Rick
Fischer, John Grant, Mike Brooks, Bob
Brooks and Kent Keahey. They are
joined by former students Clifton, Bob
Jacobs, Charles Ferguson and Steve Per-
rin.
"When we started," one student stock-
holder said, "it was nothing more than
what was probably Texas' largest rest
room. The previous tenants (the Old
Town Restaurant) left nothing but a
commode. There weren't even any parti-
tions, just vacant floor space—but at
least the commode worked."
THE CORPORATION gathered
enough capital to acquire a year's lease
with an option on succeeding years and
did most of the work toward converting
the abandoned building into a theater
themselves. They put in seating to ac-
commodate about !)0 persons and came
up with such innovations as sound in-
sulators made, of egg-carton bottoms to
cut prices.
IN KEEPING with the theater's fac-
ade, movie-goers enter The Flick Incor-
porated beneath the screen and sit in
the rear of the building.
The student owners have bowed to
convention, however, by pointing the
seats toward the screen, although it was
contemplated, for a time, facing the au-
dience away from the screen and having
them view the film through an immense
mirror on the rear wall in appreciation
of the fact that the present is compre-
hended by reviewing the past (through
a rear view mirror, so to speak). But it
was decided that such an arrangement
would play havoc with the sub-titles on
some of the foreign films. Also, im-
mense mirrors cost money.
"We could have advertised it," lament-
ed one student stockholder, "as Denton's
only double-screen theater."
THE FLICK Incorporated charges 65
cents per ticket. Films such as the cur-
rently showing "To Kill A Mockingbird"
take a steep percentage of the weekly
gross.
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If thay had to break the tie that binds ...
did they have to cut their own throats to do it?
The North Texans are confident, how-
ever, that their dividends will pay for
their schooling with something left over.
Their confidence stems from their loca-
tion one block off campus and the knowl-
edge that foreign films have proved to be
a long-lasting favorite with cuil^ge stu-
dents. They have also programmed their
operation for students with 6:30 open-
ings daily.
The value of The Flick Incorporated
has already risen above the student
stockholders' original investment, but
they say they will probably sell their
interest in the theater individually, rath-
er than as a bloc, as they graduate. The
sale will most likely be to other stu-
dents, Keahey believes.
The Flick Incorporated could, there-
fore, continue as a constant source of
revenue for North Texas students all
depending, of course, on how many stu-
dents flock to the Flick.
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Billy Ahrens
Hippies All Alike-
Unhappy Failures
It was a filthy street, littered with
garbage, including a dead cat. The build-
ings looked as though they should have
been condemned years ago. But the di-
lapidated structures were full of people
- people called hippies.
This street was in East Village, one
of New York City's many attractions.
I flew to New York last month, main-
ly to see how these people lived and
what they thought about life. The sights
were sometimes unbelievable, and the
hippies' thoughts were something to
think about.
I walked into one of the dirty build-
ings, an apartment complex that housed
a rotation of 30 to 40 hippies, all in six
rooms.
GOING UP to the second floor, I went
into one of the rooms. There were eight
people in the hot, dark and filthy room.
Some of the hipsters were sleeping on
the floor, which had a covering of dirt
and insects, while others sat and talked.
I sat and talked with them.
"You lookin' for somebody?" an 18-
year old girl asked. She wore nothing
but a blanket and sunglasses.
I said very little, but just listened to
them and looked about the room.
There was no furniture or appliances
in the 20 by 30 foot room. Beds and
chairs were painted on the floor and a
stove and icebox were painted on a wall.
The room smelled of marijuana.
I may be drawing conclusions without
enough facts, but it seemed that the
hippies I visited in the room acted the
same, had the same views on life and
had the same plans for the future as
any other hippie.
THEY SAID THEY were sick and tired
of the world as it exists today. The want
a world free of responsibility, money,
war, rules and, most of all, policemen.
But to hippies, love, both spiritual and
physical, is most important.
Hippies are a peaceful lot and friendly
with everyone. They like loud loud cloth-
ing or something they call clothes (many
wear blankets with colorful headbands).
In the room where I spent most of my
time, there was one child. The filthy
little 3-year-old girl wore rags. She
didn't even know who her parents were.
She wore a button saying "Make Love,
Not War."
Hippies may have many bad points,
but their worst is drugs. Some in the
flower-crowd consider drugs a luxury
and at the same time a neccessity. Benze-
drine, dexedrine. LSD, STP, methedrine,
heroin and marijuana are the most popu-
lar. A few of the hippies who cannot
regularly afford drugs do the next best
thing. They wear a pair of prism sun-
glasses and drink cheap wine,
MONEY does not come easy for a
hippie. He may paint or write. Most
beg.
Before I left the shabby residence, I
stopped in one of the downstairs apart-
ments. In the room was one boy, just as
filthy and disease-ridden as the others.
1 asked him why he was there?
"I came here from Chicago six months
ago," the 20-year old answered. "I was
sick of the education system, tired of
my parents' vegetable existence and sick
of myself. I'm a failure,"
It ust be tough to be 20 years old
and a failure in life.
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