The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 56, Ed. 1 Friday, June 6, 1969 Page: 2 of 4
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52-id Year North Texas State University, Denton, Texas
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Cut Voting Age
Let Students Put
Energy to Work
In recent issues of the Chat the term "campus disorder" has
appeared several times on page one. The frequency of its usage is
increasing across the nation in other campus and city newspapers.
'Hie concern is growing and justifiably so.
To imagine North Texas as another Berkeley or Columbia
seems incomprehensible now, but the elements are here. Small inci-
dents can grow into large-scale ones. Once disorders have started,
there is a possibility that with each new incident the situation can
become analogous to a row of toppling dominoes, each one setting
off the next one, gaining momentum as it goes.
As a recent issue of Time points out. the mode of campus pro-
test is changing. A vivid contrast was cited between two North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University demonstra-
tions. In 1960 a group of Negroes peacefully sat down and waited to
be served at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter. In a recent incident
at A&T students shot against police and National Guardsmen for
three days.
Violent protests such as this have not brought about favorable
results.
The answer? A really effective single way to bring about
change has not yet been formulated.
Maybe the proposed Texas constitutional amendment that
would lower the voting age is one answer. This measure would give
btudents the opportunity to take out their grievances at the polls,
instead of other means.
This amendment was buried in the rush for the legislature
to adjourn, but it will probably be reintroduced in the next session.
The energy used in campus revolts should be rechanneled and
utilized into rational and intelligent discussion to promote concrete
reforms siich as the passage of this amendment. In this way, the
reformers will gain the sought-after attention, respect, and maybe
even a little change. —Brenda Johnston
Good Spots Scarce
Denton a Wasteland
l or Seekers of Jobs
Summer employment in Denton has been a source of irritation
and frustration for some college students for quite some time.
If one is fortunate enough to have a car or some means of
transportation to Dallas, Fort Worth, or other nearby towns, then
getting a job is fairly easy.
College students confined to the boundaries of Denton, how-
ever, face a different situation when they try to seek summer time
employment. Jobs available, such as there are, are predominantly
low-paying and/or part-time.
Students are restricted by employment opportunities to such
things as grocery clerk, stock boy, unloading grocery supplies, mak-
ing bricks, working a concession stand at a movie or pushing news-
papers.
Jobs are jobs as long as they are available, but what about the
students who keep applying for positions, whatever they may be,
ajid find: "No help needed. Sorry"?
During the spring semester a Forum session was devoted to
the availablility of jobs in the Denton area. As far as a can be seen,
no measurable progress had been made by city officials to alleviate
a real problem in summer employment for a large number of stu-
dents.
Perhaps the Denton Chamber of Commerce could sponsor a pro-
gram somewhat like the programs for the underprivileged. The
program would create prospective employers for college students
to interview about summer jobs at a day-long or week-long inter-
view session. Students would go to some central place like the
Denton Civic Auditorium and talk to people sitting around the audi-
torium at various booths concerning a job.
Students need jobs to help them pay for their schooling and
personal expenses, and Denton would gain from the increased in-
come of more employes.
—Harriet Edwards
Chat Staff
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Service From Keys to Lawn to Plumbing
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By HARRIET EDWARDS
Chat Staff Writer
A little known, highly organised and
specialized group runs North Texas State
University — from Ruppltos and ground
care to building maintenance.
It's the NTSU Service Center under
the direction of John Matt Howard, resi-
dent engineer, and it keeps the campus
and school in working condition. Some
200 men "take real pride in their work,"
according to Howard.
Located at 220 W. Prairie, behind West
Dorm, the Service Center is surrounded
by a chain link fence with a wide drive-
way providing entrance to a complex
of buildings and multipurpose area, nec-
essary to keep the university functioning.
AFTER ENTERING THE gates to the
grounds, visitors see an impressively
large structure, the Sen-ice Center office,
looming in the immediate foreground. It
has within it an office set aside for a
staff of secretaries, an office for Hubert
Black, assistant to Howard and overseer
of the center, a time clock for the cen-
ter's employes and a vast storage area
for parts. There are five full-time secre-
taries and two student secretaries who
work part-time in the office.
Connected to the office building is a
unique shop that literally holds the keys
to the university. It is in that shop all
the keys for the university are made.
Hanging on countless wail pegs are keys
of every shape and size, thousands of
them lining the shop wall.
ALL PHASES OF maintenance can be
done at the sprawling Service Center.
Employes include carpenters, plumbers,
electricians, welders, painters, grounds-
men, garage mechanics, warehouse crews
and, most recently hired, an upholsterer.
Most of the men are Skilled workers
when hired. Some unskilled workers are
hired and then receive on-the-job train
:ng once they begin. A few students are
hired for part-time employment at the
center. However, they are a small part
of the total working force.
Included in the general upkeep of the
university is the cart, of the greens on
the NT Golf Course and supplying cords
of wood for both the president's home
and the home management house for the
School of Home Economics. Additionally,
several men from the Service Center
serve as clerk-of-the-works, overseeing
construction jobs around the campus.
AMID THE BUILDINGS at the Ser-
vice Center stands a small home that is
owned by the university and rented to a
student. The student pays for his rent for
the home by helping set up stands and
chairs before games in the Men's Gym
and later taking them down and prepar-
ing the gym for physical education class-
es the following day. He also helps
around the Service Center as needed.
Beyond the house and office building
stand several storage areas housing fur
niture, trophies from the recently closed
Trophy Rooiy in the Student Union
Building, as well as carpentry supplies
and a new upholstery shop. Campus car-
penters make the cabinets, hang the pic-
tures and repair the desks and chairs
throughout the university buildings, De-
pending on the size and type of job, they
work on a project either at the center
or on the site where the project is loca-
ted.
BEFORE THE UPHOLSTERY shop
was completed and someone hired to
run it, all upholstery work for the uni-
versity was sent out on the basis of
bids taken from local firms for the
work. The shop includes a commercial
sewing machine and other equipment to
aid in the work such as repairing sofas,
chairs, vehicle seats (re-covering them)
and even replacing the cloth on Venetian
blind*.
Another building beyond that struc-
ture houses building supplies and hun-
dreds of desk.«. and chairs used by the
university officei, classrooms and dorms.
A complete grounds department is also
located in the center. Large and small
lawnmowers, shrubs, wood, fencing and
cement are found there as well as spaces
for university trucks. Th« groundkeepers
perform tasks from picking up trash and
litter about the campus, pruning the
shrubbery and taking eare of the NT
Golf Course.
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The Keys to Knowledge
Resident engineer John Matt Howard reaches one of the
thousands of keys lining the Service Center wall. All keys
for tho university are made here. The upper pictures show
a worm's eye view of a lawn mower cutting president John
J. Kamerick's grass. Trimming and maintenance of the
campus grounds is only part of the job of the Center.
Photo by Dan Watson
DUTIES OF SERVICE Center welders
range from constructing sign posts, re-
pairing sleds, fixing the tricycles used
at the nursery school and maintaining the
upkeep of all the exercise equipment
used by the athletes at Fouts Field.
Also on the grounds is a plumbing
shop The plumbers repair leaky faucets,
flooded bathrooms and stopped up show-
er drains among their many campus
projects. According to Howard, "One of
the men's most frequent calls is to go
to some dorm and retrieve someone's con-
tact lens out of the sink drain."
Another facet of the Service Center
is its electrical shop. It has a large room
filled with fans and motors for all type
of repair necessary to electrical equip-
ment.
ONE OF THE unique areas at the
center, perhaps, is its paint shop. Among
the separate rooms, the paint brushes
and paint is located in a gigantic paint
spray room which is large to TbIIow the
largest truck to be driven into it. A
omplex puint ventilation system keeps
fresh, filtered air circulating inside the
room where much of the paint projects
are done.
As air circulates, paint fumes are
sucked out of the room, which is closed
off during painting work. Also, dirt iB
kept out of the room by the ventilation
system and paint droplets or spray are
filtered out on a screen as the air is
drawn out.
It Is there, too, in a shed attached to
the paint shop, that the boats and trail-
ers for the biology department are tored.
Over 80 vehicles from trailer trucks to
tractors, campus patrol cars to student
teacher buses; all within the giant con-
fines of the Service Center,
TO IMAGINE THE MANY other
things stored there or the size of the
many buildings on the premises is im-
possible. The area is more reminiscent
of a hidden fortress as mafty men go
about the area or drive in and out during
the 8-to-6 work day, There are nine de-
partments within the Service Center and
•if the 211 men employed, all but 90 of
them actually work at the center. The
custodians of the university comprise the
remaining men and they report to the
building on campus where they work.
Howard's most humorous story about
the Service Center work has to do with
President John J. Kamerick and his fam-
ily (which includes five children still at
home and one in college in Michigan). He
told how the size of the president's fam-
ily sent him on a three-month search for
bigger household appliances to accommo-
date the family. He laughed as he told
of buying "a new dish washer because
the one former President Matthews and
his wife had used required Mrs. Kamerick
to run four or five separate loads of
dishes each meal." He also said he had
to buy a new washer and dryer, freezer
and refrigerator — "the old refrigerator
held only enough milk for one or two
meals."
Since Howard became resident engi-
neer in the Service Center has
grown from $17,000 operation to $180,000.
He bad been a consulting engineer for
NTSU since 1954 and he said that there
was not 'a building on campus I had
not bean in by the time I was hired,"
Howard added that all of his men, some
of whom have worked for NTSU over 30
years, are very "dedicated to the Uni-
versity."
George Flynn
BlWtfWIM
Ya Gotta Have Talent
To Play in This Game
Dropping by the athletic department
recently, I ran into an old buddy, Al,
who was previously employed as a foot-
ball scout at a local university.
"Hiya, Al," I yelled. "What are you up
to these days, still scouting football?"
"Naw, I've started scouting prospects
for the newest collegiate sport."
"What's that, soccer or something?" I
asked.
"No, man. My college wised up. Dis-
orders are the newest sport sweeping
the nation's univer-
sities. Think of the
advantages. Every-
one can participate,
no set boundaries
and the offensive
manuevers are al-
most unlimited."
"Now wait just a
minute Al," I
screamed, "You've
got to be kidding." FLYNN
"THINK ABOUT IT, Geofge. How of
ten does other sports news rate page one
in a newspaper? Or the TV news re-
ports? Football and basketball scores arc
stuck in behind the weather information
almost every time, while demonstrations
and disorders are always in the top news
spot. Why, a university doesn't even need
a stadium to play this sport."
"I guess you've got a point, A I," I
conceded. "What recruiting problems are
you facing?"
WELL, competition between schools is*
really getting tough. Al! the major uni-
versities are beginning to realize the im-
portance of a highly organized disorder
department. Columbia U. in generally
recognized as No. 1 in the nation by the
wire services, so they've been signing a
lot of blue chip demonstrators. How-
ever, that tough Sun Franscisco State
defense, led by Dr. Hiyakawft, is emerg-
ing as a top contender. The shotgun of-
fense that Cornell perfected really boost-
ed them up into a national ranking.
"In football we never had to answer to
anyone but the NCAA, but everyone
gets oil our back about demonstrations,"
AI continued. "Congress is continually
changing the rules, and the FBI constant-
ly bothers us about recruiting techniques.
I've had a terrible time getting alumni
support, too."
"HOW IS YOUR RECRUITING com-
ing along?" I asked.
"I've got a couple of real good pros-
pects in this area. A local high schooler,
weighing in at .128 pounds, has real po-
tential. It took a two-ton forklift to re-
move him from a sit-in,"
I'll have to leave now. 1 have an ap-
pointment with another probable great,"
Al said while walking out the door. "I've
heard this kid ean really throw the
bomb!"
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