The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1971 Page: 2 of 8
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Friday, March 5, 1971
THE MEGAPHONE
1 MEGAPHONE
ESTABLISHED 1908
It is the duty of the press to protect free expression of
ideas and promote freedom of intellect.
Painting the Town Red_.S.U. Style
A FICTION BY TANDY RICE
Getting tickets for the new musical
showing in Austin hadn’t been easy. The
road show had been a success in every
town so far. Mike, a sophomore at S.U.,
considered himself lucky to have gotten
seats so near the stage. The only problem
remaining was that of asking someone out.
He had decided to call Lynn, a pretty
brunette freshman who lived at L.K..
When she agreed, he told her he’d pick her
up at 7:00 p.m. Thursday. He felt lucky
again He and Lynn had talked frequently
in the past several days and they had been
getting along really great.
When they arrived at the theatre, Mike
discovered that the seats were even better
than he'd thought. They sat down just as
the curtain went up. In what seemed like a
very short time, it was helf over and in-
termission had begun. Mike and Lynn
taiked and laughed, and he impressed her
with his skill at blowing smoke rings.
Back in the auditorium, the audience fell
silent in anticipation of the play’s last
three acts. Sometime into the second act
Mike felt a tap on his shoulder.
"What time is it?” Lynn asked. ^
"Ten o’clock”, he whispered back.
“Oh my gosh,” she gasped. ‘‘Is it that
late’.' What time will this be over?”
"Probably at eleven- What difference
does it make?”
"We have to go soon, Mike,” she said.
"I'll explain in the car.”
A few minutes later they got up and
reluctantly left. The second act was just
ending. On the way back to Georgetown he
half listened to her. but mostly thought of
his wasted money, time, and that great
looking girl from Jester he should have
asked out.
".. .you see,” she was saying. ‘‘I’ve only
got six grace minutes’ left, and just
suppose we had a flat or something!”
Mike lit a smoke and turned up the radio.
He wasn’t mad really, just in a state of
disbelief.
"I'm sorry, Mike, I thought you knew
1 still had hours. It’s so ridiculous.” She
paused to think a moment “Nineteen years
old, 400 miles away from home, and my
seventeen year old sister in high school is
able to stay out later than 1 can. And she
doesn’t get charged 50$ a minute for
overtime or have to put up* with threats of
being campused. ”
By the time they pulled up to L.K., Mike
felt sorry for Lynn as well as himself.
After all, she had been enjoying the play
also, and he had even planned to take her
for something to eat after the play.
To make it in on time, she had to run from
his car into the building.
‘‘Had a nice time/’^she called over her
shoulder.
“Yeah, tremendous,” he mumbled.
“We ll have to do it again...”
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THE LONG HOT SUMMER
The experiences of students at South-
western are not limited to% Georgetown
locations only.
Just looking about, one notices the
diversity of the students and their
backgrounds. It is not hard to imagine the
variety of interests among the student
body, and these interests are most easily
seen in the summer activities that the
students take part in.
The main vacation activities of a college
student would probably include summer
work (that’s a four letter word), summer
school (believe it or leave it), travel, and
doing “nothing”. (Use your imagination
on this one. A little cranial exercise will do
you good.)
Some students will try to combine a
couple of these activities such as travel
and studies; work and travel; or work ahd
studies. Many students will combine
“doing nothing” and taking trips...
In the coming weeks this column will be
focused on the summer travels, study
programs, and interesting work op-
portunities coming up. Different aspects
and approaches to the vacation months
will be discussed. Attention will be giveh
to vacation plans on both the North
American continent and abroad. Watch
for it.
Acapella
Service
A Service in Song will be presented by
the Southwestern University ACappella
Choir at the First United Methodist Church
in Ozona at 10:50 a.m. and in San Antonio
at Laurel Heights Methodist Church at
7:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 14.
Vittoria, Zuchino, Schutz, Casciolini,
Bach, Bruckner, Pasquet, Thompson,
Mueller, Berger, Dawson, and Burleigh-
Vene.
Directing this 35-voice choir is Professor
John D. Richards, Dean of the School of
Fine Arts at Southwestern University.
^MEGAPHONE
Southwestern University Georgetown, Texas 78626
Published by the Students Association of Southwestern University, Georgetown,
Texas, 78626. Issued weekly during the school year except for official recess.
Entered at the post office at Georgetown, Texas 78626 as second class mail matter
September 26, 1906, under special prevision of Act of March 3, 1879, and ac-
cepted for mailing at special rate of August 20, 1918.
Randy Madsen, Editor
Ned Dismukes, Sports Editor
Guy Knoll, Randy Rice, Mike Robinson,
Scott Smith, Gayle Galloway, Jan Flet-
cher, Laney Brown, Buddy Dickey, John
Ondrusek, Scott Harpst, Gene Kraft, Paul
Louis, Mart Goodman......
Committee
Requests
Suggestions
•The Student Welfare Commission has
rush. However, before the Commission
formalizes its final report, it would like to
secure as many opinions as possible. If
you have any suggestions or alternative
plans for deferred rush send them to:
Student Welfare Commission, Larry
Nobles, Box 158, Campus Mail.
by Rick Mitz
THE STUDENT IMAGE: THE MEDIUM
IS THE MESS
“College students are a good-natured,
hard-working, fun-loving bunch of kids.
Oh, sure, they do some crazy things like
swallow goldfish, wear those shaggy
raccoon coats, scream at football games
and stuff themselves into phone booths.
But, for the most part, college students are
good-natured, hard -working and fun-
loving.”
Oh yeah?
That may have been an accurate
description of the college student of 50
years ago when things were The Cat’s
Meow rather than Right On, but the new
image of the university student has him
doing somewhat different things than in
the days of the Varsity Drag. Today the
student does other “crazy” things. He
swallows hallucinogenic drugs rather than
goldfish, wears hippie clothes, screams at
demonstrations, and stuffs himself into an
occasional university administrator’s
office.
It’s in the eyes of those allegedly Con-
cerned Citizens that the student image is a
tainted one, mutilated by magazine covers
screaming out about the Student
Revolution (exploiting covers that often
are more revolting than the Revolts
themselves) and even more distorted by
one sided television coverage that shows
only the student revolution, but never the
evolution.
The medium is the mess. Newspapers,
radio and, especially, televison have given
the people of America an even more
distorted picture of what the Typical
Today Student is like.
The emerging stereotype is the raggedy-
coif ed revolutionary--radical, endlessly
partaking in various school-spirited ac-
tivities-bombings, seizures, strikes,
In his spare time, he downs dope, sleeps
promiscuously in coed dorms, dresses
outlandishly and that’s that.
The media displays (and displays and
displays and instant replays) only his
demonstration behavior, which might very
well be out of context. He might be a
medical student with honor grades who
loves his mother, dates a Sensible girl,
attends church, has a good part-time job,
loves apple pie, and in all other ways
fulfulls the All-American dream. But the 6
o’clock news never shows that part of him.
People are frightened by the student
movement - scared and acrimonious. The
values they’ve held sacred, the goals
they ’ve strived toward suddently are being
threatened -- by their own children. The
result is panic. In a nation-wide poll taken
last spring, the campus unrest problem
ranked number one -- even over war,
ecology, racial strife, poverty and crime.
Spring is the season in which they take
place. Spring — when every young
student’s fancy Runs to revolution, when a
fresh breath means a mouthful of mace,
and spring fever means the hot anger of
the U S. populace sitting by their TVs
counting the RPMs.
And they aren’t exactly sitting there
watching nothing. Last year, 1,785
demonstrations took place on college
campuses, including 313 building seizures
and sit-ins, 281 anti-ROTC demonstrations,
246 arsons, and 7,200 student arrests,
resulting in more than $9.5 million in
damage.
Television brought all the damage, fire,
seizures, sit-ins right into our living rooms,
in living red, white, black and blue color.
The Student Radical could have been the
title of a highly successful, action-packed,
situation TV show aired in lieu of the news
every evening.
The new student portrait is detrimental
to the student himself -- making all
students appear alike, depersonalizing
them, castrating individuality and
sprouting new prejudices in a world
already too full of biases. Yet the new
student image can not be as bas as college
trustees and university regents might
fear.
Asit-in might be a radical way of ex-
pressing an idea, but it certainly is more
socially provocative and meaningfully
profound than swallowing a goldfish.
Discontented students sit in and take over
because they are concerned with values
that affect the total society, not just
themselves.
It’s that cause which is so important.
But television shows only the superficial
outcome of the student fight for that cause
- the rioting, the sea of straggly students,
the hurled rocks, the four-letter words
The bloody, fighting, hell-raising
revolutionary student image could be - if
not changed, at least altered - if the
media could make the public aware of the
issues behind the fight. Struggles for
ecology, an end to racism, equal rights,
community control and the finish of an
unjust war are not difficult issues for the
public to relate to. However, they get lost
in the color and dramatics of the televised
college demonstrations, which always
come out looking like a television Fellini
orgy rather than a concerned and op-
timistic fight for a better American future.
That Middle American couple sitting in
front of their new color TV no longer can
afford to angrily turn off the 6 o’clock news
of studeht protest and switch the channels
to a war movie or an old John Wayne film.
The channels that must be switched are
the channels of communication, and what
could emerge would not be a new student
image at all, but a new national image
based upon a new understanding.
NEW YORK, N Y. (CPS) - Almost
seventy per cent of today’s college
students agree that there is too little
emphasis on family life in the United
States today, according to a poll sponsored
by NEWSWEEK magazine.
The survey, conducted by the Gallup
Organization, and in which 1,061 students
on 61 campuses across the country were
interviewed during Dec., also found nearly
half saying the same thing about the in-
dividual’s financial security. Sixty-one
percent felt there should be more em-
phasis on strong national leaders.
While 31 per cent of the students said
their university was too iippersonal, only
13 per cent said it was toi conservative.
Comparatively few-16 per cent-felt their
college courses were not relevant.
When it came to science and technology,
42 per cent said that those areas had
received too much emphasis in the country
today.
John F. Kennedy led (with 34 per cent)
the men most admired by todays college
students. Second was Martin Luther King,
18 per cent (although only one-tenth of the
students polled were black), and Robert
Kennedy was third with 17 per cent.
President Nixon finished a distant fourth,
with nine per cent.
A preponderant 63 per cent selected
Ernest Hemingway as their favorite
author, followed by George Orwell (41 per
cent) and J. D. Salinger (34 per cent. Sex
novelist Jacqueline Susann was the
favorite of nine per cent.
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plete form to the Megaphone, Box 48,
Campus Mail. It will also be ap-
preciatively received in the Megaphone
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