The TC News

by Melynda Gibson Before all the formal festivities of Thanksgiving begin, the Baptist Student Union will do a little celebrating of their own. On November 25, the day before Thanksgiving, the BSU will hold a luncheon at 11 a.m. “There will be a guest speaker, music, and lots of food,” Rocky Burrows, director of the…

The Testing Center hours are: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. – 8 p.m., Mondays – Thursdays; 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Fridays

The TC Counseling Center offers a job placement program in which students are encouraged to participate. The job listings include: delivery, sales, fast food positions, waitresses/waiters, and cooks.

The Counseling Center advises students to begin planning their spring schedules next week. The 1988 Spring Schedules will arrive during the first of the week.

The 1988 nursing curriculum for and associate degree in nursing has been changed. Beginning in the Fall of 1988 English 132 will be deleted and Speech 131 will be added. A required course in Sociology 131 has also been changed to an elective course along with Psychology. All other course requirements remain the same as…

by Rhonda Minton TC President Carl Nelson recently attended a meeting of the Coordinating Board of Colleges and Universities in Amarillo, Texas. According to Nelson, the purpose of this meeting was to explain to the newly-appointed Chairman of the Board of Community Junior Colleges, what Texas Community Colleges are all about. Greg Mitchell, recently appointed…

by Rhonda Minion Students can look forward to doing more writing in classes other than English. A new procedure, titled “Writing Across the Curriculum,” is starting across Texarkana College. Levi Hall, dean of instruction, heads this program which is designed to get the students writing more and more comfortable with writing. “I’ve been interested in…

by Chris Hanna Next semester, TC students may notice a rise in tuition. Due to Governor Clements’ line-item veto, the TC budget was cut by $330,000 and, next year, another $370,000 will have to be removed. That is nearly $700,000 over two years. According to Frank Coleman, dean of business affairs, the funds for the…

by Chris Hanna Concerning different topics in the state government, Texas State Representative Barry Telford, a Democrat from DeKalb, spoke in the upstairs conference room of the Student Center, Wednesday, Nov. 11. Telford, who defeated Republican Jim Parsons for the District 1 Representative’s seat in Austin, spoke on issues including the state budget and the…