University of North Texas - Yucca Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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WELL-FED STLIDENTS AND A CLEAN CAMPLFS ARE THE MAIN CONCERN OF COLLEGE EMPLOYEES. Unknown People Create ' Home-Away-From-Home ' Cooking, housecleaning, and yard work — these are part of the duties of a homeowner. Although constructed on a larger scale than the average home, North Texas is no different from any other home in that it has housekeeping chores. But, whereas at home Mom and Dad do most of the work of making a home, the college employs many people unknown to the students to keep house. During the school year dietitians and cooks plan and prepare three meals a day — except on Sundays when local restaurants are filled with collegians — for an average of 2,500 students living in the dormitories. Maids and janitors sweep countless miles of halls and erase innumerable blackboards. But in addition to the normal duties of housekeeping, the col- lege also does such things as print its own publications and keep the public informed of the activities of the students. This, too, requires behind-the-scene workers, for to remain creative a home or a school must be energetic in every area. PRINT shop employees check for errors on a page proof for a college catalog, one of the various publications printed by the college-owned press. i ITIS COLLEGE workmen prepare the ground around the new Business Administration building for landscaping. 27

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AS an announcer from Dallas radio station KIXL, senior Joe Hicl man plays instrumental music recordings for the discriminating radio listener. Jobs Aid Learning For many, many years — centuries, even — scholars all over the world have stressed the fact that learning is not only a mental process dependent on one ' s thoughts, but is also the accumulation of experiences which one is able to utilize in life. Today ' s modern college student more often than not practices this theory. It has been said that today as many as two-thirds of the male college graduates and one-half of the females have earned their way through school by working either part or full-time while in school or by working summers. North Texans are not exceptional. Joe Hickman, a senior from Celina, is an example of a work- ing student. Employed by KIXL in Dallas to host a program of instrumental music, he works approximately 35 hours a week while carrying a nine-hour load of classes. Hickman, a journalism major, will continue working with the radio station after obtaining his diploma. HICKMAN reduces copy received by wire to a form which can be used for broadcasts. 26 AND now Kix-sul brings you hi-fidelity and another 15-niinute segment begins.

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TRADITIONS are dear to the hearts of all, and the freshmen prove to be conventional as they eagerly buy green beanies. THE auditorium is filled to capacity at orientation where in- structions for registering are given by administrators. 28 Freshmen Assume Duties As New Semester Starts To anyone who happened to enter the main auditorium during the first week of school, Macbeth ' s incarnadined sea might have seemed to have returned to its normal green state, for a literal sea of green beanies filled the auditorium during orientation week. And to experienced upperdassmen, the exceptionally large number of those beanies symbolized a special vitality in the way a new school year was beginning. The wearers of the beanies, the class of 1964, found numerous surprises to greet them. One of the most puzzling was the dis- covery that seven IBM cards had to be filled out before registra- tion was possible — and making it even more puzzling was the problem of how to print one ' s name around the small holes. But each bridge was crossed as it appeared in College Road, and the freshman class become wise in the ways of North Texas by midterm. The frosh rose wholeheartedly to the support of their class and the school; they joined the ISO, paid class dues, and nominated a Yucca Beauty contestant who won. Orientation proved its value as the freshmen demonstrated their school spirit. BUT I know that I requested a card packet this summer, explains a freshman boy who needs his credentials before he can begin registration.