Articles – The Campus News – 12/5/1975

By Billy Burton Fall has definitely fallen upon the Texarkana area, leaving many weather watchers cursing and few cheering. One goes to bed at a decent time with a cool, but not snappy summer breeze blowing, and decides to forego the heater, and perhaps even crack a window or two. By morning, a frost has…

The Veterans Administration representative on campus at Texarkana Community College said that students in school under the G. I. Bill should notify VA quickly of any change in address, training status, or beneficiaries. Such notification would help in ensuring that the veteran’s monthly benefit checks are not interrupted and arrive in the proper amount, according…

The College VA office is coordinating the “Toys for Tots” campaign for the campus. Ms. Sam Sartain, secretary in that office, encourages all who have toys that they would like to give to needy children to bring them to that office. “We will accept new and used toys, but of course we hope that the…

The Dallas office of the FBI has announced that it is in need of clerical employees to fill vacancies in Washington D.C. Specific skills needed are clerk, typist, and stenographer. Entrance salary for the clerk position is $6296 per year; typists start at $7102 and stenographers begin at $7976. Applicants for these positions must pass…

The TCC student senate, in its last meeting of the semester, decided to hold off until next year its selections to fill absent senate seats. Meeting in the Student Center, President Christy Elkins told the group that she had decided not to appoint people to fill the vacant slots (one of which has been empty…

“The Spring of Reckoning” by TCC sophomore E. E. Stroud has been selected to be published in the Biannual Anthology of College Poetry. The Anthology is a compilation of verse written by the college men and women of America, representing every state in the country. Selections were made from thousands of manuscripts submitted.

SOME REVIEW — Straight out of the “Saturday Review,” a noted American magazine, came the following “Personals” ad: “Through an untoward happenstance I am unable to understand, a packet of 37 torrid love letters was placed in my overcoat pocket while it hung in the clothes rack on American Airlines flight 489 from Dallas to…

Pre-college aptitude tests have reported that the examination scores are lower this year than ever before, supporting a downward trend in educational achievement. These assessments, evaluating the basic skills that students should have learned in high school, prove that modern students and educators are failing in their basic purposes. This suggests that American youth are…