Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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THE DAILY TOREADOR A YEAR OF CONTROVERSY WAS THEIR LOT Toreador staff members are, left to right, Carrie Lou Chaney, assistant managing editor; Milce Read, features editor; Carolene English, managing editor; Tommy Seay, copy editor; Pam Best, copy editor; Mile Wall, sports editor; Lane Crockett, amusements editor; Celeste Hardy, copy editor; Liz Lyne, copy editor. Standing are Bronson Havard, news editor; Cecil Green, copy editor; Preston Maynard, assistant news editor; Gayle Machen Noll, editor. The paper drew its share of awards, taking a first and second in general photography at the Southwestern Jour- nalism Congress, and a third in news writing. Jumping up a notch, the Tor- eador won a first-place rating from the Associated Collegiate Press over last spring ' s second-class rating. The staff also put two members in office for the 1965 Congress meet scheduled for the Tech campus. They are Bronson hlav- ard, news editor and editor-elect, presi- dent; and Miss English managing edi- MARY LOU WATSON Fall copy editor. « • tor and news editor-elect, secretary of the Congress. Staff of the Toreador included Mrs. Noll, editor; Miss English, managing ed- itor: Havard, news editor; Carrie Chan- ey, assistant managing editor; Preston Maynard, assistant news editor; Mike Wall, sports; Lane Crockett, amuse- ments; Cecil Green, Liz Lyne, Celeste hHardy, Pam Best, and Tommy Seay, copy editors; and Mike Read, feature editor. Staff for the upcoming year will be hHavard, editor; Green, managing edi- tor; Miss English, news editor; Wall, as- sistant managing editor; Miss Best, as- sistant news editor; Miss Lyne, amuse- ments editor; Seay, sports; Carolyn Mogridge, Carol Lee Page, Judy Fowl- er, Sally Long and Rob Johnston, copy editors; Jackie Gill and Gayle hlopkins, feature editors; and Mike Read, edi- torial assistant. AD MEN DETERMINE SIZE OF ISSUES Mel Jones, Jim Davidson, and Gary Brower draw up adver- tisements for a Toreador issue.

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THE PRESS GAYLE MACHEN NOLL Responsibility: informing students. By Carolene English With coed Gayle Machen Noll in the editor ' s chair, The Daily Toreador moved at a rapid pace this year. Probably synonymous with the word Toreador this school year were the words name change. The Toreador crusaded in true journalistic fashion for the change of the name of Texas Tech, and when it finally got a name from the Board of Directors, crusaded against that choice. Supporting the name Texas State University, as op- posed to the Board ' s Texas Tech Uni- versity, the paper carried on an edi- torial campaign that might have made some of the old masters jealous. But the board was bigger than both the Toreador and the protesting stu- dents, and the proposed Texas Tech University was finally approved for presentation to the Texas Legislature. Even then the Toreador didn ' t give up, and the paper came out with a sugges- tion to students to talk to their state representatives — and, to prove Its sin- cerity, proceeded to publish names of all the Texas legislators. The Toreador crusaded for other changes, too — a change In the school song and a change In the closed Pan- hellenic meetings. Neither was too suc- cessful In accomplishments, but Mrs. Noll made a door-busting reputation for herself. The Toreador was serious in its aims and plunged forward. The second se- mester was punctuated by a much-ac- claimed extra edition on the new en- trance marker and fountain that be- came even more extra when the Board made its unexpected final decision on the name change. Delving deep into some of the prob- lems of the Tech campus, the Toreador explored the Interfraternlty Council and the Tech fraternity system In a series by Cecil Green, Civil Defense on the Tech campus In three articles by Carolene English, and In an unfinished series on Tech mores and morals writ- ten by staff members. The last article In the series dealt with sex and the Tech coed, a researched and docu- mented article that startled the naive and made the awares chuckle. De- spite protests concerning the article and Its Implications, the edition would have been a sellout if Toreadors weren ' t already free. I CAL WAYNE MOORE Big job: Handling Toreador ' s photography.

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RALPH SELLMEYER A matter of technicalities ROBERT ROOKER Perfection needed here. JOURNALISM Tech ' s journalism department seeks to train students to be capable of fill- ing many positions in journalistic fields. But it stresses much more than the vo- cational aspects of journalism. Staff members attempt to give ma- jors and minors in the department a broad understanding of the world in which they live. The universality of the outlook the department attempts to offer is not strictly a journalistic out- look. Rather, the journalist is advised to learn a lot about a lot and to maintain a broad perspective in a world which often threatens to become immersed in a mass of specialization. W. E. Garets, department head, stresses the importance of universality in the classroom as well as out. One of the newer classes which he has institut- ed since coming to Tech is the Public Opinions and Issues course. This course is open to any Tech student. Speakers from a variety of departments through- out the campus meet with this two-and- a-half-hour class to comment on issues as diverse as the United States divorce rate and chemical warfare. Garets also teaches courses in press law, magazine writing, and propagan- da. He originated the magazine-format concept for the LA VENTANA to give students training in working on a vari- ety of magazines. The unusual yearbook is popular with Tech students, especial- ly with staff members who gain valu- able experience by editing it. Ralph Sellmeyer is responsible for instructing students in several techni- cal journalism courses, hie teaches the basic fundamentals of reporting, edit- ing, and photography. A major factor in the technical skill with which The Daily Toreador is produced is the train- ing in layout, headline writing, and editing provided by Sellmeyer. Staff members often make mistakes on the newspaper ' s technical appearance, due largely to the importance of meeting deadlines quickly, but it is seldom when they do not realize what the mistakes are, and Sellmeyer ' s admonitions come vividly to mind. Robert Rooker was new with the journalism staff in 1963-64. He former- ly worked at the Austin bureau of the Associated Press. Rooker is a Tech graduate and once a Toreador staff member. He teaches courses in ad- vanced reporting, feature writing, and others. His advanced students who have local city beats learn early that Rook- er requires them to do more than get the story. They must know everything about their beats, and the people on them, as is humanly possible — and a good deal more. They must also know much general information about the community and people in it. Perfection must be required now, according to this approach, because it will certainly be required later. The department sponsors Sigma Del- ta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, men ' s and women ' s professional journalistic soci- eties. These organizations are encour- aged in a variety of activities and jour- nalistic projects. Each year the department hosts a Journalism Day on campus for high school students in the area who are in- terested in learning about college op- portunities in the field. Also, the de- partment sponsors interscholastic jour- nalism competitions among high school students who visit the campus. • I W. E. GARETS. DEPARTMENT HEAD, INSTRUCTS SEMINAR Journalistic philosophy: learn a good deal — about everything.