Campus News

By BILL SCURLOCK Every year about this time, some of the major outdoor magazines have feature articles on fishing in the winter. The authors are usually shown with fine stringers of lunker bass and talk about things like very little fishing pressure, unseasonably warm weather, and lots of action. I don’t doubt the word of…

The Texarkana Phantoms continued their winning ways during the last two weeks as they defeated the Dallas Panthers 19-14 in Hooks on Nov. 18, and then rolled over the Houston All-Stars 49-13 at Razorback Stadium on Nov. 25. The Phantoms now boast a 7-0 record, with only one team, the Dallas Panthers, coming within a…

BY: JOE YATES After a class assignment was made this semester, I decided to take it one step further in my continuing efforts to make something out of nothing. The assignment itself was a research paper concerning the effects of sex and violence on television. In my study of this subject, I found a large…

By Campus Digest News Service The new American participation sport has got to be griping. And the new superstars of the complaining competition are the professors. Political scientist Everett C. Ladd Jr. of the University of Connecticut and sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford not too long ago sent twenty-page questionnaires to faculty members at…

Madelyn Murray O’Hair, who was recently on the TC campus, is once again up to her old tricks, this time in her hometown of Austin, Texas. O’Hair claims that the city has forced her adopted daughter out of the Austin public school system. Therefore, the atheist has waged war upon the citizens of the city…

In the wake of this spring’s sudden spurt of campus protests, some student leaders are talking cautiously of a revival of the spirit of activism that swept American colleges in the sixties. But are U.S. students actually on the verge of launching another nationwide student movement, or are they merely acting out the traditional rites…

AUSTIN, Texas (CH) — A woman here is fighting a battle against forces she believes to be more powerful than the students who took to the streets in protest of the Vietnam war — drunken football fans who are turning her Saturday nights into a personal “hell.” The woman, Lynn Goodman-Strauss, lives near the part…

Despite several rumors that the new ETSU-T building will affect the Vocational-Technical program at TCC, Dr. David Mueller, the Associate Dean of Instruction, says that the new building should not affect the program. “Many people have gotten the idea that ETSU-T is about to take over the entire campus,” says Dr. Mueller, “but this isn’t…

Five years ago East Texas State University came to Texarkana and set up shop. Not very long after that, approximately three years ago, the first phase of expansion began in the form of budget management, state legislative session and, finally, construction. Today, that first phase can be seen here on the Texarkana College campus in…