Newshorts Eleven Westark students were

initiated i n t o Zeta Epsilon Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa in ceremonies Tuesday week.

New members are Susan Lawrence, Patricia Paul, Ann Aston, Brenda Rogers, Betty Nichols, Connie Caton, Judith Griffin, Dale Arnold, L a r r y Adams, Tommy Bateman and Tom McAlister.

They join old members Fran-cille Cassidy, Doris Wortham, Martin Dryden, Carol Scroggins and Ricky Helmert.

To be eligible for member-ship in Phi Theta Kappa, na-tional honor society for junior colleges, a full time student must have a 3.5 grade point average and must maintain a 3.0 average after induction.

Wrapping up the season with a 13-17 record, Westark bas-ketball players narrowly fell to P h i l l i p s Junior College of Helena, Ark., 72-69, at the Junior Colleges Region II tour-nament March 6 at Tulsa, Okla.

Westark will advertise for bids on the new student center Tuesday, the first step in get-ting actual construction going. One month later on May 1, the sealed bids will be opened and by May 15 the contract is expected to be awarded.

Construction would begin in June, with completion forecast by April 1, 1970.

Financed through a $320,000 Housing and Urban Develop-ment Department loan and $30,000 in Westark funds for equipment and furnishings, the student union was originally promised for this semester.

Equipment for use in the electronics department has been loaned recently by the Naval Reserve. According to Bob Aston, electronics instructor, the equipment consists of an elec-tronics trainer demonstrator, an electric m o t o r demonstrator, and a teletype machine. "This equipment is on loan now," explained Mr. Aston, "but will eventually be given to the school for permanent use."

Page 1 Westark Junior College — Fort Smith, Arkansas March 28, 1969

Movie, Band Concert

Student Board Activities Slated Coming . . .

The University of Notre Dame Concert Band, under the com-bined leadership of director Robert O'Brien and assistant director James Phillips, will present a concert at the Munic-ipal Auditorium April 15.

The program is sponsored by the student board.

James Cook, president of the student board, said the concert will be among a series of pro-grams the band will present during its eleven day, 4,000 mile spring tour.

The band has been touring annually since the end of World War II, and is now believed to be the most widely traveled university band in the United States.

Especially noted for spirited, fine quality music and the wide variety of concerts, James re-ported, the band should appeal to all ages and tastes.

Tickets are available from any student board member.

Proceeds will go toward stu-dent board activities. ############################

Munch Most kids just raid the

refrigerator anyway," one Westark administration of-ficial, pausing between bites of his steaming Luby's cafe-teria lunch, replied when a student's complaint likened the proposed vending ma-chine service for the new student union to cold food from a refrigerator.

Bowlers Rank Eighth In South Conference

Westark J u n i o r College's bowling team now ranks eighth in a field of 13 after failing to place at Meet Four of the South Central Intercollegiate Bowling Conference at Christian Brothers College of Memphis, Tenn.

With a total score of 2401, slightly below the WJC team average, they missed seventh place ranking by 30 points.

Stephanie Wilson with a 213 scored the highest single game; Martha Finley rolled a 1065 six game series for high score on the Westark squad.

Harding College, with 2925,

Leo-t ired Wearing leotards in the pursuit of dramatic excellence

for a male is quite another matter than combing the West-ark campus hunting down the leotards one is supposed to wear in that pursuit.

"The Fatal Quest," a comedial three act play, features Rick Walls, a duke whose costume includes a set of usually feminine leotards; Sharon Anderson, a princess; Cynthia Dougan, a queen; Mark Gentry, a king; and two curtains, Donna Wilkerson and Randy Coleman.

Presented by the Choir Guild, the performance depicts in true melodramatic contortions the story of, what else, a king, queen, duke, princess and two curtains.

The missing leotards? That's the gals' grimmick, they say, to publicize the play (the result of tacking subtle notices to bulletin boards like: "Where's Rick Walls' panty hose?).

"They better watch out," Rick admonishes. "It might just backfire when the leotards are returned — filled."

Tonight . . "Shenandoah" and a W. C.

Fields' movie will be presented by the Student Board tonight in the Science Building lecture room. Admission will be by activity cards.

"Shenandoah" stars Gary Cooper. It is the story of a family during the Civil War in which two of the sons fight on opposite sides while the family tries to remain neutral.

W. C. Fields was a comedian of the 1920's and 1930's who made famous the line "Ah, yes, my little chickadee."

According to Marina Barros, student board member, the program was planned to fill the need for an activity other than a dance.

Three Join "Up With People"

took top honors, followed by Arkansas State University with 2838.

Next tourney for the Westark tenpinners, the SCIBC Meet Six will be held at ASU. The night preceding the meet, the girls' team will play Wichita State University of Kansas as the men's team plays Kansas Uni-versity, ASU and Wichita State in a round robin prior to the Saturday action.

May 11, Westark will host the SCIBC championship which will see the top six teams of the conference competing.

"Up With People" is the song three Westark students may soon be singing. Judy Van Riper, Becky Tinder, and Patty Cox, all freshmen, plan to join the "Up With People" program.

Judy has applied to the national program and, if ac-cepted, will probably join the group around June 15 at their National Convention in Okla-homa City.

When asked why she decided to join the group, Miss Van Riper replied, "I feel that our generation needs to be repre-sented by the true people of our generation. Why let the hippies and noise makers have the say in the way we (youth) feel.' 'Up With People' has an idea they are trying to spread to those who need to know," she continued. "I think the idea is worthwhile and I want to do my part."

Both Patty and Becky are joining the local "Up With People" program, which meets every Sunday at five o'clock at the First Methodist Church.

Why did these girls join? Patty explained, "They (Up With People) want to bring peace. If I can help I want to do my part. There has to be understanding before there is peace."

Becky said it is "because I think the whole nation needs something like this to help bring about peace between the races of the world."

As term papers, every-day-lessons and every-once-in-a-while tests fall due, the sign above this Westark student seems out of place. Similar sage advice is posted regular in the library. No Changes Forecast For Westark Parking

No changes are in the future for Westark students concern-ing the parking situation, ac-cording to Jim Bolin, business manager.

"What are you going to do without money," pointed out Mr. Bolin concerning any future plans about the parking lots.

Improvements to the present lots included addition of 200 tons of gravel on the science parking lot and periodical cold patches.

"Westark could have had

larger and paved parking lots but there would have been no science building or even air-conditioning in the new build-ings," stated Bolin.

Upon construction of the new student union, students will be able to park their cars in the regular science library parking lot.

"If students would only pur-sue something worthwhile be-side parking cars and walking to classes, think of the end results," chided Bolin.

Page 2 The Collegian March 28, 1969

Editorially Spring Board

Peter Cottontail's hopping down the bunny trail could not be any more erratic than Westark's scheduling of vacations, breaks and classes.

Last year, the administration decided to align Westark's spring break with the Fort-Smith public schools' spring break. The Fort Smith public schools decided to do the same.

The two moves resulted in transposed, not aligned, dates for spring break.

Though altering this year's schedule can be little more than a lost cause, the inci-dent can be an excellent springboard for suggestions on future scheduling.

For instance, would not an earlier start in the fall so that semester tests could be held prior to the three-week Christmas vacation be more to the advantage of the student than teacher. True, the vacation

Every human, whether in the middle or on either side of the fence, deserves the right to ex-press his opinion. Here's ours.

allows more study time, but also more time to draw up more difficult tests.

Furthermore, if the more important classes were not all lumped in the 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. bracket, would not that ease students' class scheduling chores?

Simple reluctance to change can be the only opposition to these plans — for they are proposals to which the administration cannot apply it's stock answer: It costs too much.

Ho-Hum! The Trend Is Going Wrong Way

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"My oh my" sighed his companion in agreement. The girl's skirt was a full "threeee" inches above her knee; a three inches that oft grew to four or five as the wearer ascended the steps.

"Lookee thar," boy num-ber one gasped. The parade of hemlines seemed to be pick-ing up.

Two baby blue and two light green pupils traced the ups and downs of the girl's-dress-watching business.

"Whee-de-do-doggie," t h e second one exhaled, "I do be-lieve that's a horse of a differ-ent color!" as another subject of their scrutiny passed in re-view. A four-inch plus hemline revealed delicate wrinkles im-mediately above the carpal joint.

A third young man joined the duo. "Whatcha doin'?"

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"Yep," number two rolled his eyes to an approaching coed, "we've been hem-hawing around about them," the youth reported, proud of his pun.

The flashy lower portion of a freckled thigh, amplified by the three-inch above the knee white cotton skirt flew by.

A composite of three awed faces kept a careful, lengthy watch for any further claifica-tion of the female's femur.

"Dis-grace-ful." "Shameful." "Scandalous." "What's this old world comin'

to?" "Yeah. An' you got here

just a might bit late, though," green eyes admonished.

"I did?" "Yes," blue-eyes exhorted.

"Why, just before you joined our, ah, little discussion group, we espied a four incher." The speaker pronounced those last three words as if they consti-tuted the finale of a sermon.

21 Attend PBL Meeting at LR

Twenty-one members of the Phi Beta Lambda Business Fra-ternity at Westark attended the PBL state convention in Little Rock March 14.

Jim Priest was elected re-porter of the state group.

Steve Lease took the top spot in public speaking; Becky Bray places third in Miss Future Business Teacher; Jim Priest, third, Mr. Future Business Exec-utive; and Dale Dawson, third, vocabulary relay.

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"We just couldn't . . Eyes bulged. It seemed as

if six optical orbs had popped from their sockets. Three hearts either paused or skipped a beat. Breathing came in gasps.

Oblivious to the attention, a girl stepped closer. Her at-the-knee hemline sent chills skip-ping down three spines.

She walked past three stone faces.

"Fellas, the four inch one was bad enough, and now this vulgar display of Puritanism."

"And just when I thought some of last summer's eight-inchers were about to come out of hibernation."

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