Well, Texarkana College students, CONGRATULATIONS! Last week you managed to show everyone at the College and those visiting the campus just exactly how interested you are in TC activities and programs. Your amount of interest measured close to nothing. In case some of you didn’t realize it, assembly programs ARE part of the college activities.
One club, whose meeting was mistakenly scheduled for the same time as the assembly, turned out ‘en masse’ to hear the East Texas State University Choir perform. A few other clubs also attended the assembly. If they hadn’t, there would have been more people in the choir than in the audience.
In spite of the discouraging lack of audience before which to perform, the ETSU Choir gave an excellent performance. The many TC students who missed them missed a good program. There was something for everyone.
Being a college student is more than just being a high school student with more freedom. Freedom brings responsibility. As a student at TC, you have a responsibility to support the functions of the college. If you don’t support them voluntarily, you may be forced to support them. When that day comes, and it will come if TC continues its present course of disinterest, there will be great gnashing of teeth, pulling of hair, weeping and wailing, etc., among the student body. But you, the students, will have no one to blame but yourselves.
Admittedly, there have been some pretty dull assemblies in the past, but that doesn’t mean that all assemblies are going to be boring. A lot of time and effort has gone into planning the programs at TC this year. So far the quality has been good; unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the attendance.