The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1962 Page: 2 of 6
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PAGE 2—EDITORIALS
No Cutthroat Competition
Greeks Demonstrate
Spirit of Cooperation
The Campus Chat
Friday. March 10, 1962
Repairing Students' Music Instruments
Ex Performer Likes Backstage Work
For once the Greek organizations on
campus are demonstrating the ability
to work together for their mutual ben-
ent. Their observance of Greek Week
was perhaps the best organized and
most successful of any in previous
years.
They proved this week what they can
do—now it will be up to them to follow
through and continue to cooperate. The
$600 donation by the Interfraternity
Council to the student loan fund is a
good example of what can be done.
The meetings of the various officers
Monday afternoon seemed to accom-
plish one thing—to create a spirit of
cooperation and to eliminate the stub-
born. selfish attitude and cutthroat com-
petition which have been common in
the past. The officers appear to have
realized and admitted one thing—that
the only way to raise the status of
Greeks on this campus is to work to-
gether for the benefit of all, rather than
each group pulling against the others
to achieve its own ends.
Yet there are many areas in which
the Greeks can stand improvement. The
IPC's policy of excluding Chat report-
ers from its meetings indicates a fail-
ure to realize the value of good public
relations. The public must be aware of
what a group is doing before it can
change its attitude toward the group.
The rush system, completely re-
vamped last semester, seems to be a
tremendous improvement over the old
system. However, it is far from per-
fect, for the Greeks still felt the need
of a surveillance committee to watch
for rules violations during rush this
semester.
Greeks have come of age at North
Texas, but they've stili got a lot of grow-
ing up to do.
—David Klament
Language Students
Professors Urge
Laboratory Use
Language teachers encourage the use
of the language laboratory, where stu-
dents can listen to tape recordings of
native speakers. It is an excellent way
to learn the pronunciation and spoken
sound of a foreign language.
Although the laboratory has been
well used, there arc still many students
who do not use it regularly and some
who have never even visited it.
The laboratory has just been expand-
ed to accommodate more students—up
to fiO at once. It is available all day and
until noon on Saturday.
At present, there are tapes available
for the first two semesters of each lang-
uage. Advanced students can still bene-
fit from listening to the tapes for sound
a ild com prehens ion.
B,\ summer, it is planned that tapes
will \h- available to correspond with les-
sons at all levels,
With the new booths, students at all
levels can take advantage of the prac-
tice offered by this voluntary study
help.
—Marv Ellen Harris
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In the old day# before air conditioning was
invented, public school* weren't the only placaa
that dosed down in the summer. So did the
vaudeville circus and the silent movie thea-
ters, says instrument repairman David Single-
tary.
Singletary, who Was a professional clarinet
and sax player around Texas for nearly 80
years before coining to North Texas, explained
that sometimes during the summer he'd take
off to Colorado Springs and play in an or-
chestra there.
Other times, he'd play in concerts held in
city parks in Texas cities.
When winter came, he'd go back to playing
in theater orchestras.
Working hours differed from the business-
man')!, Singletary observed. Members of the
orchestra would arrive at the theater at 1:30
p.m. and play from two to four vaudeville
shows with a silent picture in lietween each
performance.
There would lie a different vaudeville show
every week, he explained. The groups would
travel ull around the United States, stopping
in town after town to play in local thea-
ters.
These theaters hired permanent orchestras
to supply the clrcu es and also silent movies
with musical background.
The professional musician was a full-time
employe in those days, Singletary said. Today
such musicians ordinarily play their instru-
ments in addition to their regular jobs.
Today's musicians' j.ay is good, but it
doesn't last for long periods. Even the sym-
phony seasons are too short to be considered
a dependable source of income, he added.
Fine Arts Programs
Committee Seeks Acts
Offering Great Variety
Lack of attendance at the latest the-
atrical exploit in the Fine Arts Series—
the Cleveland Play House, which drew
some 500 observers—might appall some
Fine Arts Committee members.
However, the drama group is not one
that captures the common interest of
all students. In fact, only about one-
sixteenth of the collegiate community
attended.
But the minority displayed apparent
approval of the committee's selection.
f>ther performers and speakers might
not have interested this 500.
Seek Solutions
Officials Know
Student Woes
The administration's recent announce-
ment of a forthcoming overhaul of the
campus telephone system occasioned
much rejoicing among North Texas stu-
dents, who have long grumbled about
the inadequacies of the present setup.
And they will undoubtedly find new
things to grumble about when the new
system is put into operation.
But the administration's action points
up something that students should real-
ize all the time—and would if they just
stopped to think for a moment.
One moment's serious consideration
would tell them that the North Texas
administration is quite sympathetic to
student problems and that it keeps an
ever-alert eye open to their needs and
wishes.
Often North Texans fail to recognize
this fact because the administrators do
not act at the very first signs of discon-
tent. However, student desires, though
frequently entirely justified, mean
money. And money is not always readi-
ly available.
But if a solution to student problems
is at all possible, the university admin-
istrators strive quietly but steadily to
reach it. And they usually do.
—Nancy Keil
The program planning group proba-
bly is not trying to please all North Tex-
ans with each selection but seeking to
offer a wide variety for all tastes.
Past examples include the Goldovsky
Opera Company, Stan Kenton's jazz
band, Thursday night's lecturer on ex-
istentialism, Jean-Albert Bede, Jose
Greco's Spanish dance troupe, hypnotist
Franz Polgar—the list would l>e some-
what lengthy.
Certainly, many have turned out for
several programs; for example, Jose
Greco's show. But such performances
have not been in abundance—and for
valid reasons.
One of these is money. The Fine Arts
Series is financed well enough through
matriculation fees—but the money must
be used frugally and wisely.
Committeeman James L. Rogers, di-
rector of the News Service, pointed out
that one of Greco's past appearances
was possible at a greatly reduced price
because Denton is in a geographical line
between Houston and Oklahoma City—
and the company would have been with-
out a place to spend the night other-
wist?.
Although NTSU paid a regular price
for the Spanish dancer this year, Stan
Kenton gave a special rate because of
an unexpected opening in his schedule.
Students probably would not want
an increase in matriculation fees, and
there is a statutory limitation.
Another factor in the availability of
entertainers. Committee Chairman Sam
Mc A lister of the government depart-
ment maintains contact with a vast
number of booking agents, and all jjos-
sibilities are presented to the commit-
tee.
Some students fear that the group
did not consider the Four Freshmen,
IJopular singers. According to Dr. Rog-
ers, the quartet was sought but its only
free date conflicted with a campus per-
formance.
We feel that the committee's at-
tempts, successful or not, indicate hard
work. Members should not be dismayed,
nor should students idly complain.
—John York
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With the coming of motion pictures with
sound tracks, the professional musicians went
out of business.
Also the increase in cars and radios and
eventually TV decreased the vaudeville busi-
ness.
"Before they came along, theaters were the
big thing in entertainment." Singletary re-
members.
It was during the vaudeville days, also, that
Singletary picked up the instrument repair
business.
"I was always interested in it," he said.
"There were no repair shops then, and every
musician had to take care of his own instru-
ment unless he wanted to «end it back to the
factory."
STUDIES CRAFT
Then when he decided to go into the busi-
ness for himself, he studied the craft particu-
larly hard.
After 12 years of working in the NTSU
School of Music, Singletary reports that in-
strument repairing is pretty routine to him.
Because many students use the same instru-
ments, there are endless minor repairs need-
ed, such as replacing keypads and adjusting
the keys themselves.
The most serious repairing is done when
Singletary completely overhauls an instru-
ment to net it back to top playing efficiency.
Just because the work is routine doesn't
mean that no ingenuity is needed in the job,
however.
A recent innovation in the repair shop is the
instrument check-out board. It was designed
by Singletary to simplify the confusion when
two or three classes check college-owned in-
struments in and out at the same time.
Each of the students has a number which
is printed on a circle of metal with a hole in
it. When he takes out an instrument, his num-
ber is taken from his peg and hung on anoth-
er scale over the number of the particular in-
strument he is checking out.
In this way Singletary keeps truck of which
instruments are out without the students hav-
ing to take time to sign a sheet in the crowd-
ed shop as they did before.
BRIEK PROBLEM
The only problem arose when some of the
students kept trying to change the board them-
selves.
But they learned quickly that this is taboo.
The students milling continuously through
the office don't bother Singletary. He enjoy*
working in a college atmosphere.
"I have no trouble with them," he com-
mented "Of course I don't try to be too severe
with them. I'm running this place, and they
have to do it the way I want it," he explained
After he <i"it playing for vaudeville per-
formances, Singletary joined the Fort Worth
WRAP radio station staff, which included an
orchestra for local programs.
When national networks began to dominate
the larger stations and national advertising
was more common than local, then radio, too,
had little use for orchestras.
So Singletary took to teaching bands in
Fort Worth and Breckenridge.
But he decided that teaching wasn't his
line.
"Especially during the war the kids had no
incentive, Hands depend on trips and clinics
for incentive, and in the war we couldn't use
the buses because of the mas rationing."
After repairing instruments in Fort Worth
ami also for a San Antonio music firm Sin
gletary came to North Texas In 1050.
Bobbin' Along
Editor Bemoans Blows
In Letters From Library
FORMER VAUDEVILLE STAR David Singletary repairs a clarinet for the School of Mu-
sic. In this worskhop he has organized a new system of checking instruments in and out
to be repaired.
By BOB VFTETO
When 1 somberly reflect on the nightmar-
ish incidents of this week, my pulse becomes
faulty und my eyes glass over. On the campus
I dash from hush to building and at night I
toss in my sleep.
In the space of a few days my good name
has been smeared and reputation smashed to
atoms. What did they say about me? "The
seemingly debatable moral standards of Mr.
Veteto," (See the letter to the editor on this
page, i
And what did I do? I wrote one measly
editorial about a dusty—okay, okay, it's not
dusty -old library. And wham! Within a cou-
Letters to the Editor
Librarians Defend Closing
To the Editor:
In recent weeks the question of additional
hours for the Library has been raised consis-
tently and argued by windmill-seeking sena-
tors and sophistic journalists all appallirn'y
uninformed of the true facts of the matter.
As library employes, who would be most af-
fected by an alteration of the present schedule,
we, the undersigned, have taken it upon our-
selves to carry out the responsibilities de-
signated to, although shirked by, our so-called
"student leaders" and have come up with a
few mentionable facts which our "crusaders
for progress" have conveniently overlooked.
Mr. Veteto, in his editorial of March 21,
vindicated book-marring vandals with the jus-
tification that the poor students are prohibited
from finishing their assignments (assigned at
least -18 hours beforehand) by the early clos-
ing hour of 9:50 p.m. and the fact that the
library "doesn't even open on Sunday." (Wo
will not concern ourselves in this letter with
the seemingly debatable moral tandards of
Mr. Veteto.)
Upon making a few simple inquiries, we
discovered from Mrs. Lois Knox, circulation
librarian, that the Library has experimented
with keeping the Library open on Sundays in
the past and that an average of five students
per Sunday turned out to us« the facilities.
Mr. Veteto has said, "Many argue that the
library has tried opening on Sundays before
and nobody used it. Perhaps this is so. But
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With the Alumni
Ex Transferred
To Hong Kong
MISS MARGARET HAYS (B.A., '31), form-
er secretary to the president, has been as-
signed by the State Department to Hong Kong,
Chinu, Her new position will be as head of the
department of visas arid citiienship in the
American Embassy.
Since she started working for the State
Department Mian Hays has been in three Latin
American stations and in Washington, D.C.
On her way to the West Coast for her de-
parture for Hong Kong, Miss Hays will travel
through Texas, visiting her alma mater and
relatives in Gainesville.
the trial period may have not been long
enough People just don't break habits over-
night of using a library at certain times." If
our news editor had troubled himself to stir
from his cozy, little desk nni'waf* over to
the Library, Mrs, Knox would have informed
him, as she did us, that, the "trial period"
lasted over one year. Surely our students
can't 1m in so bad a rut as this gentleman
would imply.
As for keeping the library open past 9:50
p.m., we can only ask, " Have the proponents
of this policy ever considered the discomforts
and inconvenience later hours would impose
upon the personnel of the library staff?" The
ladies who so courteously assist you in finding
books and documents also have families; we
student employes too have the 8 o'clock class-
es Mr, Veteto refers to. The Library is now
open about 14 hours a day and 80 hours a
week. This is more hours than any other ser-
vice department on campus remains open. The
Library isn't even used properly during these
hours.
On some week night* it is hard to tell
whether it is a library or a social club, At a
peak hour on previous Saturdays there was
an average of 87 students in the stacks-
most of them Saturday students, who are on
campus only one day a week.
On Friday afternoons and evenings the
Library takes on a mausoleum-like atmos-
phere. It seems that those students who are
so desperate for the facilities of the Library
on Sundays could find time on one of these
days.
In this mueh-discuHsed issue one of the
most obvious, as well as important, factors has
been completely overlooked by nearly every-
one.
Mr. David Webb, director of libraries, has
helped us obtain the following estimates re-
garding the cost of keeping the Library open
an additional three hours on Sunday: at least
$400 a month for full-time employes; $00 for
custodians; $36 for student employes; and
$600 for heating and lighta.
(In order to supply heat for the Library
the boilers used for heating the entire old
campus block, including the Art Building, In-
dustrial Arts, Auditorium Building, Histori-
cal Building, the Physics-Mathematics Build.
Ing, language-Government Building and the
Business Administration Building, would have
to be heated up to nearly full capacity.)
Mr. Webb stated that he thought the sum
of the figures mentioned above would be a
highly conservative total. Considering the
fact that the already undermanned staff is al-
ready doing a full-time job, it would be neces-
sary to hire at least one full-time employe, one
student assistant, and one part-time or full-
time custodian. Considering the estimated cost
of $300 a day with Mrs. Knox's average of
five people n day, it would seem that this is
an awfully expensive study hall to maintain.
We, the undersigned, feel that, in view of
the circumstances there is only one choice in
this matter.
Jarrclyn Middlebrooks
Jack I). Scroggs
Joy Rogers
Margaret Ann Feaster
Deannn McCoy
Robert Moon
Tommy Warner
Terry Partin
Mary Sapp
pic of days hundreds of words poured in, de-
lineating in painstaking detail my total lack
of knowledge about what goes on in the Li-
brary.
In one place they called me "sophist!®" and
didn't stop to explain
what, it meant. And
then read it again
if you haven't seen
it—they got s« ho
mey: "If our news
editor had troubled
himself to stir from
his cozy, little
desk . .
Why stir when all
I had to do is lean
hack, uncap a frosty
Coke and wait for the
reams of information to drift in? They told
me how long the Library stays open, how
many people work there, how much they are
paid and even how the building is heated.
But, seriously, my intent was not to con-
done those who mutilate the magazines, 1.
too, think this demonstrates a moral prob-
lem. I do not, however, think all the blame
can he placed on the students.
And. despite the expensive and expansive
argument of my poison pen pals, I still think
the Library should remain open on Sunday.
They say the Library would be an awfully
high-priced study hall to maintain. This whole
university is expensive to keep going. Rut,
don't forget, the students share in these ex-
penses.
The one-year trial period that Mr*. Knox
remembers was In about 1050. In the 11 years
since then the enrollment has shot from 5,000
to almost 11,000. And, equally important, we
have token on a new name one whose real
meaning can be found in increasing the op-
portunity for learning.
Becoming a first-rate university will un-
doubtedly be un expensive tusk- both in time
and money. And it is going to mean change
in .structure and attitude.
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Senator Suggests Reduction
Of U.S. Personnel Overseas
The government ha« too many re-
laxed Americans overseas "living high
on the hog."
That's what Sen. Stephen M. Young,
D-Ohio, told the Senate Monday.
"Their salaries and fringe benefits are
excellent," Young said, "and their so-
cial life seems active."
He recommended that the administra
tion eliminate "at least 10 per cent" of
its diplomatic foreign aid and interna-
tional intelligence employes by not fill-
ing vacancies when resignations and
retirements ocPfflr.
The American traveling abroad,
Young explained, "will be amazed . . .
at the multiplicity of our . . . advisors,
observers, consultants and other repre-
sentatives ... in every corner of the
globe."
He cited employes of the Foreign Aid
Agency, the U. S. Information Agency,
the Central Intelligence Agency, mili-
tary missions "and representatives from
virtually every federal agency on spec-
ial missions of one kind or another."
Young said that Congress should
have watchdog authority over the hush-
hush CIA.
"Over the past two years we have
seen ample evidence to cause us to doubt
the efficiency and good judgment of em-
ployes and officials of the CIA." he said.
He added that "the main function of
many of these officials seems to be to
send communications to each other."
Young quoted a Soviet embassy of-
ficial here as saying there are 8,000 em-
Sloyes at the new CIA headquarters at
IcLean, Va„ and this will be increased
to 11,000.
"For the sake of American taxpay-
ers," Young said, "let's hope the Soviet
Union is wrong again."
The embassy reportedly gave the fig-
ures to Lytton H. Gibson, a Washington
attorney. He said he had tried unsuc-
cessfully for months to obtain them
from the CIA and the White House for
a real estate developer.
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