Articles – The Kennel – 11/17/1967
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Stray Bones
Were you among the many who pulled and pulled on the Student Center left front door and had no response? Can’t read, either! Like the rest of us, you probably felt silly when you noticed the “Use the other door” sign. Junior colleges in Texas have some 76,007 on-campus students this fall. This figure, according…
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Book Review: Importance of Money Is Universal Fact
Through history the French and Germans have perpetuated a series of disagreements and wars. The proverbs of the countries, however, agree about the importance of money. “The richest man carries nothing away with him but his shroud,” according to the French. The Germans say, “Better (to have) an empty purse than an empty head.” The…
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YR To Help Register
Members of the Young Republicans will assist with voter registration in Bowie County. At the October meeting the Chairman of the Republican Party of Miller County, Mr. Raymond Anderson, spoke to the YR members. Officers this year are Ted Bedsole and Larry Perkins, president and vice-president, respectively.
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Film Scheduled for MBSF
A film has been scheduled for the Nov. 30 meeting of the Missionary Baptist Student Fellowship which meets on Thursday in the Student Senate Room, Student Center, at 7 p.m. Yesterday members heard Brother Richard Akin of Westlawn Baptist Church.
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Political Science Meet Draws Southern Delegates
Five members of the TC Social Studies Department journeyed to New Orleans early in November for the 39th annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. Making the trip were Mr. J. E. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gallien, Mr. Jerry Gilbert and Mr. Lewis Cannon. Held Nov. 2-4 at the Jung Hotel, the discussions…
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Baptist Students Have Thanksgiving Banquet
“We Thank Thee, Lord” is the theme of tonight’s Thanksgiving semi-formal banquet at the B.S.U. Center at 7 o’clock. Invited speaker is sophomore ministerial student Joe Ford of East Texas Baptist College, Marshall. The Shreveport native is president of the ETB Ministerial Alliance and is well known to Texarkana-area students. Special music and turkey and…
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Counseling Dept. Offers Job Placement Service
A job placement service is being offered to students of Texarkana College this year for the first time. The service is being handled by the Counseling Department. Thus far, a total of 20 students have been placed in various jobs including delivering, stocking groceries, working in hospitals, working for the telephone company, and helping in…
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Demonstrating and Draft Cards: Students Offer Candid Views
Speaking out is one privilege of living in a free country. To feel the pulse of current opinion, The Kennel polled 20 students, selected at random, on two questions: “What is your opinion on anti-war demonstrations?” and “What do you think about draft card burners?” “They hurt our image abroad,” says freshman David Basye, a…
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Speaking Out For the Majority
Twelve persons from the Texarkana area. That’s the number a town this size would have had present among the 50,000 war dissenters gathered recently in the nation’s capitol at the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. In a country based on majority rule, minorities (.02½ percent of the population) make a loud noise. And these loud…
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Getting Educated . . . Dishonestly
Some students come to college to get educated—some get educated by devious means. Just recently an assignment for English 131 which required reading in the library resulted in torn pages and pilfered articles from Saturday Review, School and Society, Scientific American and other periodicals containing articles on the assigned topic. A thief by any other…