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Thursday, March 10, 1988
Page Two
Guardians celebrate
Golden Anniversary
Parenthetical writer for hire
by Ray C. Brooks
Recipients of the Golden Shears
Award from 1B38 to 1988 gather-
ed Saturday, March 6, for their
Golden Anniversary Breakfast.
Approximately 75 recipients out
of 1,165 were present.
The breakfast was in memory
of Gladys Bowman who began
the Golden Shears Award. She
was the sponsor of the Rambler
in ’38 when Its staff honored the
first recipient, Nora Yeager, who
has since deceased. She spon-
sored the Guardians of the Gold-
en Shears for nearly 25 years.
Catherine Wakefield received
a resolution in honor of herself
amidst a standing ovation at the
breakfast. “I didn’t even know
until I saw the program,” she
said. She retired in ’84 after
teaching for 37 years at Texas
Wesleyan. She had sponsored the
Guardians for 25 years. She is
still active in TWC’s activities.
She was in charge of tracking
down the Shears’ recipients
whose locations were unknown
to TWC.
Pins were passed out to sev-
eral recipients. The second to
receive the Shears, Leon Matthis,
was given one for being the earl-
iest recipient present. His father
taught at TWC while he majored
by Jamas Draka
Nothing leaves an imprint on
one's mind as much as a teriffic
or terrible movie. And then,
every once in a while, a movie
comes along that makes you say,
“Deja vu. Didn’t I see this last
week at the matinee and three
weeks ago on the late movie?"
That, unfortunately, is my re-
action to the soon to be released
movie by Columbia Pictures, Vice
Versa. The movie, which stars
Judge (Bavarly Hills Cop) Rein-
hold, might have captured my
interest if I had not seen the
same plot in the movies Turna-
bout, Fraaky Friday and Lika
Father Lika Son. The plot involves
Reinhold and his 11 year old son
(played by Fred Princess Bride
Savage), changing bodies. Vice
versa, get it? This is all brought
about by some mystical skull that
was stolen by Swoosie Kurtz and
her cohort. Reinhold gets the
skull through a luggage mix-up.
Well, now the fun starts. Rein-
hold trapped in his son’s body,
goes to school. Savage trapped in
his father’s body, goes to work.
Wow! 1 could just hardly contain
my laughter when I saw Reinhold
play with a frog. You could have
in religion. He became a Metho-
dist minister. He was president
of the student body his senior
year in '39
After the breakfast, many
friends gathered to reminisce
their times at TWC. One alum
who went to TWC in the mid '60s
noted that amidst nationwide
social unrest TWC students held
a protest, The students were out-
raged when the college cut down
the trees that were between the
administration building and the
Fine Arts Auditorium to build
a parking lot, she explained.
One couple who met while at
TWC in the mid '60s said there
were several sexist rules on cam-
pus then. There was a rule that
women could not wear shorts on
campus. If they did, they had to
cover their shorts. However, men
could wear shorts to class. Wo-
men could not smoke on campus
either. Freshmen women had to
be in the dorms an hour early
every Monday so they could at-
tend the "charm course."
Some of the recipients noted
that the Shears use to be a great-
er honor because it was given
out at the chapel service which
all students were required to at-
tend. That way everyone on cam-
pus saw you receive the Shears,
they explained.
carried me out on a stretcher
when Reinhold began to really
jam out on some drums. Gee,
will the hysteria never stop? No,
the laughs just kept on rolling.
Reinhold’s son (I can’t remem-
ber his character's name. I laugh-
ed so hard at the picture. I tried
to read his name on the closing
credits, but through the veil of
my laughter induced tears, I only
saw a blur.) began swearing and
I thought, if he drinks too, I'll
just die for it will be too funny.
He started drinking a martini
and I was gone. But since I hadn’t
finished my popcorn I came back
from the other side.
Wow, I thought. Comedies don’t
usually win Academy Awards
but this one is a shoe-in for Best
Picture. So what if I’ve seen the
same plot at least three times be-
fore. So what if the acting was
second rate and the casting was
lousy. So what if it’s a highly
unoriginal comedy that wasted
the better part of a Friday night.
So what if i lied through gritted
teeth when I told you I had a
good time. I only said that be-
cause my original review was
too short. It ran something like:
Not this plot again! I'm doomed!
(You may wonder why I be-
gan this piece in parenthesis.
Well, assuming that I can re-
member to put the other one at
the end of this column, I hope
to go down in history as the per-
son who wrote longest I.P. (in
parenthesis). And, by the way,
I’m pretty close to capturing the
prize for run-on sentences, too.
If I could complete this monu-
mental task I should, perhaps,
occupy a place in the Guinou
Book of World Records. You
Dear Editor:
After consideration of your re-
cent editorial “Condoms For
Safe Sex . . I think that if
you are going to advocate that
the college go to the trouble of
installing and providing security
for condom machines in the rest-
rooms to accommodate a portion
of the student population, you
should also ask that machines
which dispense muzzles, rope,
and catchers’ vests be installed
so as to make sex with bears
safer. Granted, not everyone
would find utility with these ma-
chines, but if ’you are going to
worry about making sex safer
for one group, there is no rea-
son to not extrapolate your con-
cern to serve a wider segment
of the student body. The mind
boggles at the possibilities.
The fact is there is a certain
amount of character building
which takes place when a young
adult must face another live per-
son and ask for a package of
prophylactics. As it has been so
it should be. I think that It is
lack of old-fashioned guts and
no! obsessive concern that moti-
vates your proposal. It takes
little time to go to the drug
store and purchase these items.
You are more assured of the
freshness of the product and
you have more time to reflect
on the course of future events.
know, that book that tells us
about 5,000 year old trees, and
cats that have had more kit-
tens than there arc States.
Or, perhaps, I may be worth
a mention in Rlplay's Believe It
or Not. I once read in Ripley's
about this cow that had three
eyes. And that made me wonder,
what is there that a cow doesn’t
see with two eyes that he (I’m
guessing it was a man cow. I
never met the famous bovine
personally.) would want three?
On top of all this, you have an
edifying experience. And if these
arguments are not enough, you
have the additional satisfaction
of not forcing the college, and
those who finance the institu-
tion, -fo provide security for the
machines. In conclusion, why
don’t we leave the system alone
and let everyone take respon-
sibility for their own appetites
and actions — the old-fashioned
way?
Larry Guyton
To the Editor:
This letter is not pertaining
to a recent column, rather it has
to do with the lack of coverage
in a particular area. The Ram-
bler has always shown a well
diversified coverage of news;
however, this year it seems the
sports department has forgotten
the existence of a golf team.
Now I ealizc that golf may not
be the most exciting spectator
sport Nevertheless, the fact re-
mains that TWC’s golf team has
a rcknowned competitive record,
including three national cham-
pionship titles. This by no means
is a rebuttle against the cover-
age of basketball, volleyball,
baseball, or tennis. Rather it is
just a reminder that the golf
team was not recently banished
from our athletic department.
Sincerely,
Charlie Claffey
I mean there’s grass, manure
and the bam.
I often wonder (which shows
you how much spare time I’ve
truly got) whatever happened to
that stupid cow? I mean did he
become a burger for McDonald’s
or Burger King? In other words
was he fried, or flame broiled?
That leads us to another cow
point. Does anybody really be-
lieve that Elsie (the Borden
spokescow) produces all that
milk herself? I think (therefore
I am) that Elsie, like Santa
Claus (A simile. See, I was
awake in English) has little help-
er cows to keep up production.
Otherwise, I believe, there would
be udder confusion (I think I
may be run out of town for that
one).
Now I feel that I must get
away from domestic farm ani-
mals, so I shall try and staar
clear ... I just failed. Well,
before this gets any worse I shall
close and hope to make my mark
on record history.)
Dispute Resolution
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that fit with the budget and
developed an overall campaign
to hit all markets.
Karner’s group picked up on
the logo of “Fast, Fair, Free"
and developed a catchy design
that was chosen as the basic
foundation of the DRS campaign.
Earner's ideas were combined
with the t-shirt, brochure and
bus ads, as well as 30 second
video spots, to form the whole
DRS advertising campaign.
“I am very honored," said
Earner, who had designed the
logo. "I tried to design one that
was eye-catching and appealing,
professionally simple and sym-
metrical."
Wolff was “very impressed"
with the students’ ideas and
thought that their extensive re-
search was “phenomenal.”
“Now we have a target to look
at," she said. Before the TWC
students completed their task,
DRS was reaching their second
primary target instead of their
first.
Hart described the class as a
"wonderful experienci." "I can
say it now that its’ over," she
sighed.
Plans for the $1,000 award
have not been finalized, how-
ever, it may go toward purchas-
ing software for graphics.
EDITORIAL BOARD OF
TEXAS WESLEYAN RAMBLER
The Rambler is published weekly during the school year,
except holidays and examination periods by Student Publica-
tions at Texas Wesleyan College.
Editor .................................... Sean M. Wood
Managing Editor..........................Susan Merriman
Advertising Manager..........................Julie Ashley
Photography Editor........................Jerry B. Mahle
Staff........James Drake, Amy Wolf, Ray C. Brooks, Reggie
Woods, Buff Sellman, Drew Martin, Michael
Kwas, Michele Hogan
Cartoonists ................................ Reggie Woods
Sponsor............................. Dr. Michael Sewell
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