The Pony Express (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 17, 1969 Page: 2 of 8
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2 — THE PONY EXPRESS, December 17, 1969
EDITORIAL COMMENT
“Open Door” College Not
A “Diploma Factory”
those institutions commonly called a diploma factory
or a second-rate college that gives out passing grades
whether one deserves them or not.
Oddly enough, this idea is held more by people who
have had little contact with Panola College, and indeed,
upon first examination this misconception is understand-
able.
First of all, the “diploma factory” idea can be elimi-
nated for several reasons. One of those reasons is that
Panola College is a state-supported and accredited col-
lege. To receive this support and accreditation, a college
must meet certain requirements. Another reason can be
found in the very purpose of instituting a “diploma fac-
tory”_money. Usually there is someone or a number of
persons who derive profit from this type of school. Of
course no one derives profit from Panola College, with
the exception of administration and faculty who work
for and earn what they are paid.
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A similar, but distinct, misconception held in rela-
tion with the “diploma factory” idea is the belief that the
quality of instruction and the work expected of a student
is below par for a college. It is easy to se how this opin-
ion could be obtained; in fact, all junior colleges face the
problem.
That problem is that a junior college is very often
compared to senior colleges. It would be a rare junior
college that could favorably stand this comparison with
a four-year institution.
Panola College is continually improving its image
and is considered to be a fine junior college—perhaps
one Of the best of its size in the state. But its image as a
junior college will always suffer, as will any two-year col-
lege, when compared to a four-year institution. This is a
regretable but inevitable fact.
Joe Borders
Co-Editor
pony express
Official newspaper of the students of Panola College,
Carthage, Texas, published monthly during the fall and
spring semesters.
Co-Editors ..............Joe Borders and Brenda French
Assistant Editor ........................Jan Jones
Business Manager.......•............. Sue Ann McMillan
Photographer ..........................Marlyn Langford
Reporters: Nevilee Hudson, Shelia Skinner, Paula Brown,
Becky Hunter, Kathy Forsyth, Susan Metcalf,
Keenan Gingles.
Faculty Adviser .................... Mr. Charles Hughes.
Editorial statements of the PONY EXPRESS reflect the
opinion of the college newspaper staff and are not necess-
arily those of the Panola administration and faculty.
Attendance
Low
At Games
“But I can’t go, I‘ve got a
date tonight.” “Sure, I’d like to
go to a Panola basketball
game, but ’ve just got too
much homework.” “I’ve got
school spirit, sure, but I just
don’t like sports.”
This noise sound famliiar? It
probably does since all of the
sentences above are excuses
for not attending PJC’s basket-
ball games. Granted, some of
them are even legitimate.
There are, however, certain
groups here at school who are
able to overcome these moun-
tainous obstacles and attend all
home games. These are the
cheerleaders (who also attend
out-of-town contests), the band,
and the drill team, the Pon’
yaides.
Not only do these organiza-
tions support the Ponies by
attendance, but they also spend
their time and effort preparing
special entertainment present-
ed during games to boost spec-
tator and participant spirit.
Since there are so many Pan-
ola students who, for one
reason or another, do not or
“can” not attend the regular
basketball contests, THE
PONY EXPRESS especially
wants to “give a pat on th e
back” to the above groups.
Pony Progressing
Linda Holmes, editor of The
Pony, announced recently that
the annual staff will sponsor a
party later this school year to
announce class favorites, school
favorites, Pony Men, and Beau-
ties. The elections for favorites
will be held soon.
The staff has sent off three
of its four shipments. The last
shipment, which is due in Feb-
ruary, will include activities, or-
ganizations, and honors.
The Taylor Publishing Com-
pany in Dallas will publish the
annual.
My Point of View
By BRENDA FRENCH
Co-Editor
. And Those Were the Daze
WHRTS NEXT?
If you were to characterzize
today’s typical college class,
you would have to include love-
ins, moratoriums, hippies, long
hair, short skirts and the Uni-
versity of Texas having the
number one football team in
the nation. You would have to
boast about such personalities
as James Street, Charlie
Brown, and Lew Alcinder.
If your parents are typical
parents then you’ve heard the
line (or a reasonable fac
simile), “When 1 was your age,
we never did anything like
that.” Perhaps they never took
part in love-ins or morator-
iums, but each college class
has “Done its own thing”, so to
speak. Let’s examine some of
the older generations idiosyn-
crasies:
1929 was a leaping year.
The stock market dropped
sharply. Dropping along with
the market were newly desti-
tute millionaires who found life
bearable only after leaping out
of windows and off of roofs. A
new concept for the Under-
ground was established on St.
Valentines Day when A1 Ca-
pone had seven rival gangland
leaders machine-gunned in a
Chicago garage. 1929’s peak
came when “Shipwreck” Kelly,
the nation’s most celebrated
flagpole sitter, dwelt .145 days on
top of a number of various flag-
poles. This was the year of Ar-
thur Goldberg and James A.
Michener, too.
came when “Shipwreck” Kel-
celebrated flagpole sitter,
dwelt 145 days on top of a num-
ber of various flagpoles. This
was the year of Arthur Gold-
berg and James A. Michener,
too.
Tarzan, Dick Tracy, Tom
Mix, Jack Armstrong were the
heroes of 1936. The Big Men On
Campus were chosen by the
number of goldfish one could
eat. J. Edgar Hoover was on
his way to the position of Di-
rector of the F.B.I., and Shirley
Temple shone from every
movie screen. (Little did the
audiences know that she would
grow up into a real-life U.N.
delegate) Dale Carnegie chose
this year to give the world
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND
INFLUENCE PEOPLE. This
was the year for General W.
Creighton Abrams, Jr., later
the American commander in
Vietnam, and Budd Schulberg,
author of WHAT MAKES SAM-
MY RUN, ON THE WATER-
FRONT, and other books.
1948 was a politically critical
year. The state of Israel was
declared and Mahatma Gandhi
was assassinated. A cow in
England who was fed daily a
ration of eight pints of stout
spiked with ten aspirins pro-
duced 45,081 pounds of milk.
Howard Johnson sold his five
billionth ice cream cone, flavor
unknown. When showman Earl
Carroll, who considered him-
self the world’s leading author-
ity on pretty girls, was buried
at Forest Lawn cemetery, he
received a floral tribute that
included life-sized chorus girls
fashioned from 12,50 flowers.
As we look back at previous
generations, we laugh at their
antics, but have you thought
about what our grandchildren
and great grandchildren will
think about love-ins? Maxi
coats? Hair? Surfing? Dune
buggies?. . .
Two
Attend Conclave
Panola President Q. M. Mar-
tin and Dean Arthur Johnson at-
tended the annual five-day con-
vention of the Southern Associ-
ation of Schools and Colleges,
November 30-December 3, held
this year in Dallas.
The convention is designed to
help educational leaders solve
various teaching and admini-
strational problems through
counciling sessions and work-
shops.
Speakers for the general as-
semblies included James Farm-
er, Assistant Secretary of De-
partment of Health, Education,
and Welfare; Edith Green, Con-
gresswoman, Oregon
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