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Letters to the editor are
welcome, and may be mail-
ed or delivered to the
Leopard Tales office on the
messanine of the student
union building.
editor
assistant editor
sports editor
art editor/ad manager
feature editor
copy editor
advisor
rita batla
..Charlie miller
...james kahlig
..rod nicholson
...sandy kirsch
george wilhite
.sallie aidridge
This week, Action Line asked, “What do you
think the functions of the Temple Junior College
student government should be?” Most students and
faculty members thought it should be the voice of
the students and that it should serve as a promoter
of campus activties.
Gerald Angerstein, Temple: “To represent a
cross-section of the student body in general and to
serve as a communication between the administra-
tion and the students.”
Patsy Supak, Granger: “I think the student
government should act as a spokesman for the
student body. It should be an organization to which
the students could bring their complaints and
suggestions and see that these are acted upon. But
I think, above all, that it should be a government in
the sense that a government is organized and
workable.”
Joe Antler, Temple: “I think the student
government ought to be more functional instead of
just being a thing to be elected to. I think they
should try to bring about a solution for pollution.”
James Taylor, biology instructor: “In my opinion,
if the students have something to say to anybody,
they ought to say it to the student government and
the student government ought to say it to the
school. My idea of the student government is a
voice to everybody—to the student body, the
works. Activities ought to come from the student
government. It ought to do what the students want
it to do.”
Reza Mecanick, Iran: “What they’re supposed to
do. I think they should install a jukebox in the
cafeteria because students have some off periods
and they like to listen to some music.”
Anna Rios, Hutto: “Whatever needs to be done, I
guess. I feel that the freshman orientation should
be shortened. Maybe the student government can
do something about it.”
Terron McDonald, Thrall: “I think they should be
leaders but they should also represent the students
and I think they should also improve the school
functions.”
Irene Haag, English instructor: “To help keep
the campus clean and to help with the posting of the
things around the campus.”
Saeed Moayedzadeh, Iran: “I think the student
government should do something about the library
being closed between 5 and 6:30.”
Dear Editor:
Last year the faculty gave the
freshmen a picnic behind Berry
Hall — this year I am a
sophomore and I heard that
because the students didn’t seem
interested in last year’s picnic
they were not going to give the
freshmen one this year — I felt
like we all were very interested.
And it seems to me that it was the
faculty — blaming the student
body for something they didn’t
feel like doing. These picnics are
a good thing for TJC. People who
never met, met at that picnic.
Now, a lot of kids walk around on
this campus not knowing who the
person is sitting next to him in his
class room.
Next year — have a picnic; the
students will get to know you —
the faculty as well as each other.
A Concerned Sophomore
Leopard Tales is published
15 times during the school
year by journalism stu-
dents of Temple Junior
College, Temple, Texas
76501.
Member:
Texas Junior College Press
Assn.
Associated Collegiate Press
FRANKLY SPEAKING... .by phil frank
by George Wilhite
The officers for the Temple Junior College student government have
been elected. We have done our duty, we have voted. Right? Wrong!
Now that the officers have been elected, the students should not go
off and forget about student government at TJC. In the past, the
student government has done nothing. Most of the students have not
even known what was going on at the student government meetings.
They have not been informed about issues which are being discussed
by the student government. This is the fault of the officers. Right?
Again, wrong!
The officers have had the major responsibility, true. But what about
the other students? Are we going to sit back and let the whole student
government be run by 5 officers?
I hope not. The officers were elected by us and now it is our duty to
help them in any way that we can. The best way that I can think of is to
back the officers we have elected, support them in the job that we have
given them.
And if the student government does not get rolling this year, we
may not have a student government next year.
If you cannot or do not want to come to the meetings but are
interested and concerned about the situation, talk to the student
representatives or the officers themselves. Give them your
suggestions, ideas, wants and desires. Tell them what you think is
necessary for TJC’s betterment. If you don’t tell them, how are they
going to know?
TJC needs a lot of things, but one of the things that it does not need
is a stagnant student government. And with the help of a good student
government, a lot of the other things that TJC needs can come about,
too.
Temple Junior College has,
obviously, adopted a closed door
policy. This is evidenced by the
abundance of closed doors ap-
pearing on campus. Many of the
double doors around campus
continually have one of the two
doors locked. This completely
defeats the purpose of double
doors, which is, essentially, to
have a door that is twice as wide
as a single door. (Assumption
based on application of certain
theorums and laws discussed in
Advanced Common Sense 213.)
This double width enables the
double door to do many things. It
can let twice as many people in or
out of a building as a single door
can. (And four times as many as a
window.) It allows two large,
rotund stubborn people who want
to go through the same door at
the same time, to do so.
But the main function of the
double door is to reduce conges-
tion during peak times of rush
traffic. When one of the two doors
is locked or otherwise obstructed,
this means that there will be a
pileup of people trying to get in or
out that particular door.
Although not as important
the pileup of traffic, but even
more disheartening for the in-
dividual, is the innate tendency
for students to grab the locked
door first at least 99 per cent of
the time. This usually occurs
when the student is in a hurry.
While this might seem a small
thing to many readers, it can
completely louse up a day for
many students. To come up to
four or five double doors a day
and have to pull both of them to
find the open one is maddening.
Actually, there is a very simple
solution — open the other door of
the double doors!
by George Wilhite
Sophomore
Friday, Oct. 25, 1974 leopard tales 2
' Commentary : '
"Politickin'' —art of meeting people
by Steve Camp
“Politics,” stated one old time political observer, “is the art of
getting elected, but “Politickin’’ is the art of meeting the people.” In
this political era of post-Watergate, when the American citizen is
assaulted with politics by every segment of the media, it would be
appropriate to reflect on the American political system.
To the casual drug store political analyst, the American political
system might appear to have a terminal malignancy growing within.
The trained political observer recognizes threat, not a cancerous
disease from within, but an invading alien element. Public disconcern
with politics is the invading foreign element.
Too often the political process is shunned because, “it is too
crooked,” or “it’s only for the rich.” It was the lack of public concern
that re-elected Richard Nixon, allowed Spiro Agnew to accept
kickbacks, and let Gus Mutscher pass the Sharpstown legislation.
Public scrutiny of politics will act as the purifying element of the
American political system. Human nature shows that when the boss is
looking over your shoulder, you do a better job. When the elected
official recognizes he must face voter approval or rejection in two, four
or six years, he will do a conscientious job.
A return to “politickin’’ will erase the threat of future Watergates. A
return to a system where the candidate is more reliant upon
Terson-to-person voter appeal and less upon a media produced image,
vould not be impossible. Politicians like Sissy Farenthold, Ralph
7arbrough, and George McGovern relied upon a one-to-one, personal
pproach in their campaigns. The days of baby kissing politicians are
orever gone. The one remaining glimmer of light is “politickin.”
Weekly calendars prove invaluable
by Charlie Miller
Distribution of weekly calendars has been knocked around severely
ever since they came out for their inconvenience, location, deadlines,
and non-availability, but the whole idea behind them hasn’t quite hit
the majority of student body yet.
Up until the calendars came along, teachers had to inform each of:
their classes of club meetings, socials, and athletic events by reading
the announcements slowly enough for those who wanted to write
reminders. This tedious and often boring process took at least five
minutes a class period. For a person with 16 hours credit (the average
load) that is an unnecessary hour and twenty minutes a week wasted in
repitition of the announcements. According to Dr. Walter Paul, Dean
of student services, the majority of faculty members didn’t really want
to read the calendars every class period. Most students didn’t want to
sit through three of four repitions a day either. A new plan was
necessary.
The weekly calendars were created in the image of the master
calendar in the main office. These copies were intended to be much
handier because the interested students could have their own calendar
right in their own notebook and also save time in the classroom. The
only catch was the student had to be interested in knowing about the
week’s activities.
Dr. Paul said, “Most clubs and organizations have had no problem
in getting in their announcements in before deadline, but there are a
few that come late.” Well, nobody has torn down the bulletin board to
post a special message there.
Five hundred copies are printed each issue and yet, about only half
that number are even picked up. Possible problems could be that
nobody knows about the calendars, their location is out of the way, or
there is an extreme case of apathy at TJC. Dr. Paul said, “We talked
about the location problem in our last student services meeting and
we are going to have four new boxes made; each will be printed gold
and have big black letters that says ‘announcements’ on the side.” The
boxes will be placed in the library, student center, technical building,
and administration building where students can easily find them.
When the location problem is solved, the only excuse for not having
a calendar is ignorance of their existance or an acute case of apathy.
Only the individual can determine the answer.
Election results announced
Where have all the people
gone? This is the question I asked
myself at the last so-called
assembly. The program itself was
really very good, but there just
wasn’t anyone there to watch.
Out of over 1000 students, you
would think that more than 75,
give or take a few, could make it.
Does our college lack spirit,
interest, or what? I just really
don’t understand why we were
granted the priviledge of not
attending class to hear the views
of the people who were trying to
explain why they were running
for a particular office, when
nobody really cared enough to
show up!
by Mike Carroll,
Freshman
:.. HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS,
THEIR ZONE DEFENCE
AND CRIPPLE THEIR SECONDARY
THESE THI^S WE ASF IN TW
NAME/... AAAENF
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