Westark's new student union is on the way.

Word of formal, final ap-proval was received last week that Westark would receive a $320,000 loan from the Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development for the new facil-ity.

Construction tentatively is to begin within the next 90 days, pending action by the Board of Trustees and the State Com-munity College Board concern-ing bonds.

The building wi l l be a split-level, red brick building of the same general type construction of the same general type con-

struction of the present campus facilities.

It wi l l be situated just south of the E. T. Vines Business-Administration building with north and south entrances.

A balcony and a metal "crown", a sort of ornamenta-tion, are planned for the exte-rior.

A dining area (serviced by vending machines), a television lounge, a game room, rest-rooms and a catering kitchen wi l l comprise the lower eleva-tion.

Upstairs, facilities include a student lounge, a f a c u l t y lounge, a self-service book-store, faculty personnel offices

and student club offices. The building, larger than the

present library building, carries a 10 month completion date. The present student union is to remain in use until the new building is finished.

Shelby Breedlove, president, had termed the need for such a facility "critical".

Newshorts Upon recommendation from

the administration, the board of trustees voted to finance construction of a six-foot wide sidewalk from the technical division complex, north to the E. T. Vines Business-Administra-tion Building and then west to the Science Classroom Building. A diagonal walk, from the tech area to the science building, was deemed not feasible since it would interfere with expected construction.

Fifty stereo recordings from the Radio Corporation of Amer-ica have been received by the library. They cover a variety of subjects and supplement a collection of records available to students.

Formal approval of the em-ployment of Jerry Harwood as an electronics instructor for night school was approved by the board of trustees last week. Shelby Breedlove, president, cited an overload of teaching duties in that department as necessitating the addition. The position is temporary.

Tuesday Westark's interclub council held its initial meeting of the year. Primarily for organizational purposes, the meeting was attended by rep-resentatives of ten student organizations.

Members of Westark's chap-ter of the Distributive Education Clubs of America, DECA, are selling calendars not only to gain experience in salesman-ship but also to help finance the annual banquet honoring employers. Bi l l Lacewell is sponsor. Indefinite plans call for the purchase of DECA banner.

Her Rules A visitor? Delece Gordon, psychol-

ogy instructor, was ques-tioned as to whether any guest speakers were sched-uled to assume teaching duties in the psychology department.

" H e a v e n s , No!" she answered. " I don't allow any competition."

Yearbook Receives 2 Awards

In competition with year-books from Arkansas colleges and universities, the "Numa", Westark's annual, received two second place awards in an Associate College Press judg-ing.

The awards, one for editorial planning and one for typogra-phy and lay-out, were pre-sented at the fall semester meeting of the Arkansas Col-legiate Press Association.

Carolyn Steward, editor, Sue Peevy, and Jerry Atkinson, adviser, attended the meeting

2 Films Shown

Nursing Program Being Planned

Joining five other Arkansas Colleges, Westark wi l l begin offering a two-year associate of Science in Nursing Degree program the fall semester of next year.

Mrs. Carolyn Moore, honors graduate of Vanderbilt Univer-sity with a Master's degree in nursing, is in charge of forming the program.

To obtain the degree, stu-dents wi l l spend the two years complimenting clinical practice with general education study.

Heretofore, Sparks Memorial Hospital and St. Edward Mercy Hospital offered nursing pro-grams, the last of their kind in Arkansas. They are being phased out in lieu of the WJC program.

Mrs. Moore's immediate goal is to graduate 50 students each year. But presently, she is spending her time making preparations n e c e s s a r y to launching the program.

Other schools with such

programs are Little Rock Uni-versity, Little Rock; Arkansas Agricultural a n d Mechanical College, Monticello; Southern State College, Magnolia; Phil-lips County Community College (the state's other two-year col-lege), Helena; and Arkansas State University, Jonesboro.

Bleary-eyed students were quite abundant at Westark Friday following a midnight Halloween double f e a t u r e movie Thursday night.

Sponsored by the Student Board, the movies scheduled for viewing were "The Notorious Landlady," starring Jack Lem-mon and Kim Novak at 9:30 p.m. and an unannounced hor-ror movie at midnight.

Chairman of the movie com-mittee was Patti Wil l iams. Roger Amon headed the con-cessions c o m m i t t e e ; James Cook, cleanup; and Marsha Arnold, decorations.

Amon's committee announced plans to sell popcorn, soft drinks and candy during the movie and before showtime at the Student Union. The Union remained open late for night school s t u d e n t s and early movie-goers Thursday night.

Pumpkins, cornstalks a n d black and orange crepe paper were set as the only decora-tions for the auditorium foyer.

In "The Notorious Landlady" Lemmon portrays an amateur detective who thinks his land-lady (Miss Novak) is a mur-derer. His involvement leads him through many comic and

romantic misadventures. The fi lm also features Fred Astaire.

Students and their dates were admitted by activity card only at the movies.

A Student Board spokesman said the purpose of the movies was to allow students who do not attend dances to get more benefit from their activity card.

Music Guild To Host First Faculty Follies

Members of the Westark faculty wi l l once more be given the opportunity to "steal the show" at the first "faculty fol l ies" program November 16 at 8 p.m. in the auditorium.

E n t i t l e d "Yesteryear" the program wi l l feature a style show with faculty members " i n the style." The show wi l l be divided into four sequences in-cluding "Yesteryear," "Ladies in Waiting," "Tot-to-Teen" and "Te-te Te-Tes."

Lady members of the faculty wi l l don the men's clothing while the gentlemen wi l l be attired in the feminine fashions.

Speaking at Westark Oct. 5, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller announced a manpower study to be conducted in the Fort Smith area. The study wi l l be designed to find out how much of the labor force that is not trained to its potential and how much of the labor force is wi l l -ing to take additional training in order to change to better jobs.

Gov. Rockefeller announced that Wade Martin, President of United Dynamics, Inc., wi l l head the study. Martin wi l l

work with members of the local Employment Security office to determine factors to the indus-trial development of the region.

These factors include the potential industrial manpower needs and requirements, the present manpower supply and abilities, the potential man-power supply and abilities and the training facilities that wi l l be necessary to raise the man-power to its potential.

Both Gov. Rockefeller and Martin pointed out that West-ark would be the main center

of training and retraining of the Manpower supply. Results of the survey wi l l indicate the probable industrial t r a i n i n g facilities Westark wi l l need to supply during the next few years.

Martin noted that this five county district has the highest industrial potential of any in the state of Arkansas.

One of the main reasons for this high potential, according to Martin, is that Fort Smith has one of the best Chambers of Commerce in the state.

Editorially Bui Pantry OK

More often than not, the problem in attaining a goal is not the resources one has at hand. The problem is likely to be what "pr ior i ty" is given the pursuit of that goal.

Westark has received a business-admin-istration and a science building because they were given top priority. WJC wi l l get a technical-division-area-to-the-science-building sidewalk for that same reason. Likewise for a new fence for the baseball field, a handball court, a . . .

But of course, the new student union — the topic of discussion.

The reason the new student union wi l l not have kitchen facilities and the reason

d O mm fe t fej . • the new student union wi l l have the same (and they may very well be the exact same) vending machines as are now in use is simply because a drive to get those kitchen facilities has not been given top priority. Or any priority for that matter.

The usual response claims insufficient funds for a kitchen.

But as a point in fact — the new student union wi l l have a catering kitchen plus a faculty "pantry" — neither being nothing less than a domestic, or home-type, kit-chen. And that, students, is all that's required for the service as it existed last year.

Certainly, there's no question the new student union wi l l not create any improve-ment in the food.

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

Test o f 'Smarts'

Hypocrisy is too strong a word. But to say the hand was caught in the

cookie jar, as a figure of speech, seems entirely correct.

Mid-term grades are compiled to let students know how they stand.

Since the computer system used during registration has been incorporated this year in the process of mailing " f " sl ips, teachers had to submit the grades early.

Consequently, examinations for estab-lishing such grades were lumped in a single week.

The result was that students found them-selves faced with major, seven-weeks exams in virtually 99% of their classes.

And teachers are wondering why grades are "running low."

You're • • • John Casey didn't know

what he had done wrong. But there it was. On

official Westark stationary and with the weighty signa-ture of "Harold Cameron," director of guidance and counciling, the letter listed his "shortcomings."

From references to his conduct . . . "poor, inex-cusable," to his dress . . . " s l o u c h y , " "unbecoming," and even his studies . . . "uninvolved," " fai l ing," the letter named every degrad-ing item possible.

Finally, it asked he bring his mother and himself for a conference with Cameron.

Conveniently omitting his mother, Casey appeared in Cameron's office, offered the counselor the letter and re-ceived a perplexed look, and, "What's this? I didn't write i t . "

The Law People who give tickets

are "officers." "Officers" need a badge

and armament. And t h a t may have

prompted Mays Pendelton and Gus Perry to present Jim Bolin, business manager in charge of issuing parking tickets, a dime store sheriff's badge and a bullet.

The Collegian is published bi-weekly by the Journalism students enrolled in S t u d e n t Publications.

Editor Greg Adams

Reporters Mike Kirkendall, Sherry Golden,

Karen Adams

Sports editor C. J. Anderson

Cartoonist Alice Ann Bryant

Photographer Lyn Worsham

Lab technician ... Don Barksdale

Adviser Jerry Atkinson

Yoes Printing and Lithographing Company prints the newspaper.

Wil l iam E. Lacewell, Dis-tributive Education instructor at Westark, has been appointed consultant to the Educational Marketing Services of Washing-ton, D. C

Through this appointment, Lacewell wi l l be able to offer his students, at no cost to them or the school, a new series of programs, study aids and ma-terials developed specifically for them by Educational Mar-keting Services.

Distributive Education is now in its second year as part of the curriculum of WJC. This term approximately 15 students wi l l get training and experience in distribution, marketing and di-rect selling. Each of these stu-dents is also a member of the WJC chapter of the Distributive Education Clubs of America — (DECA).

Through the DECA clubs, stu-dents undertake special projects each year, many of which enable them to assist local businesses and earn money for the club as they gain practical experience.

Learning Lab to Offer 'Remedies' Westark students are now

afforded an opportunity to receive individual instruction through a new Learning Labor-atory, set up in the guidance office in the business adminis-tration building.

"The guidance department is interested in developing the learning lab to help students who either don't have the necessary background to con-tinue their college education,

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or who have certain weak-nesses in courses," explained Harold Cameron, director of student guidance and counsel-ing. "We want to remove any defficiency that might affect any further education."

Basic reading, writing and mathematics are the courses to be offered this school term. It is hoped that in the future more courses can be added, Mr. Cameron said.

Mrs. Kathleen Skeen wi l l be in charge of the reading lab, Mrs. Mabel Perry, the writing composition and Doyle Coe, mathematics. Each teacher wi l l privately tutor students, as well as supply program materials other than those available in the laboratory.

Tape recorder units and necessary tapes are available at any time in the lab.

Westark students' v o t i n g trends differed in only three races with the results in an election poll including all major Arkansas Colleges.

Whereas the overall ballot-ing favored Richard M. Nixon, Republican party candidate, for president; Joe Purcell (D.) for attorney general; and Ed Al l i -son (R) for land commissioner; Westark students favored the " los ing" candidates.

George C. Wallace, American Independent candidate, re-ceived 193 to Nixon's 140 and Democratic hopeful Hubert H.

Humphrey's 43. S t a t e w i d e , Nixon received 2,867 votes, Wallace 2,158 and Humphrey 1,076.

WJC gave Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller a second term in office with 216 votes to Marion Crank's (D) 147. Statewide, Rockefeller tallied a near 2 to 1 margin over the Democratic contender.

Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D) netted 202 Westark votes to Charles T. Bernard's (R) 165. State totals gave the Democrat 3,850 and Bernard 2,196.

The other races were in agreement with state tabula-tions.

In the two races in which Westark did not comply with the state trends, Jerry Thomas-son (R) ousted Atty. Gen. Joe Purcell 177 to 172 (the closest of the contests here). State figures were 2,699 for Purcell and 2,621 for Thomasson.

Westark returned Sam Jones (D) to the land commissioner's post against Ed All ison's bid, 188 to 160, but state figures favored the GOP contender 2,616 to 2,360.

Physics Lab Needs Told

Despite major ex-pansion of physics lab equipment, there still room for

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more. Ken Duerksen, physics instructor, prepares the laser for a class lecture.

Laboratory facilities for West-ark's physics classes have un-dergone a major expansion in the last year, but there are sti l l definite, pressing equipment needs.

"When I came here," Ken Duerksen, p h y s i c s instructor said, "Westark had very little in the way of physics equip-ment."

That was two years ago. The approximate net value

of the existing equipment was $1,000. Now, it's over $6,000.

That $1,000 worth of equip-ment could facilitate only a dozen or so experiments. Now, over 30 separate laboratory exercises can be completed within the year.

In short, the capacity of Westark's physics department has nearly tripled in the past year. Yet, according to the minimal needs of the depart-m e n t , available equipment must again be tripled.

"Now don't get me wrong," Duerksen cautioned, "Westark does have a fine stock of phy-sics equipment, but we're a long way from a complete lab."

That stock includes an array of recently purchased items ranging from the remarkable laser unit to common-to-any lab $1.50 each resistors.

In between, there's a wide range of items including meters, a stroboscope, a nuclear scaler, balance tables and air tracks.

" I 'm especially proud of the air tracks," Duerksen said.

The air tracks are triangular aluminum tubes which, when coupled to an industrial vacuum cleaner, form a cushion of air for three sections of metal shaped much like roof tops. The air cushion which is gen-erated between the air track and the "roof tops" provides for frictionless movement of the three " roofs " .

" Th i s allows the students to study the reaction of masses in relation to motion," Duerksen explained.

The stroboscope is especially identifiable with students.

Much like the "black l ights" in popular use at dances, the stroboscope can slow down, "freeze" or reverse motion.

The laser unit, releasing an intense, narrow beam of light, could be termed an "exotic" item.

"A l l most people know about the laser is what they remem-ber from a James Bond movie," Duerksen joked, "but ours isn't quite as exciting."

The laser unit includes the laser, an optics kit and a single lens reflex camera. By using any one or combinations of more than one of the 16 pieces in the optics kit, the laser can be made to create different light patterns enabling studies of light characteristics.

Another apparatus Duerksen is especially proud of is the Geiger counting system.

It includes a nuclear scaler, a geiger counter, has a silver

Darby Junior High School students watch Duerksen ma-nipulate an air track during a recent tour.

lined tube and, at times, has 1,500 volts of electricity run-ning through it.

It counts the rate nuclear particles are being emitted from a nuclear particle much like an ordinary gas station pump tallies dollars and cents.

Or the most impressive of all, the Berkeley Physics Kit, a sophisticated collection of the most up-to-date physics appa-ratus, designed for a sopho-more level study.

Yet this deluge of the latest equipment isn't enough.

Presently there are three lab sections in physics at Westark, each containing a maximum of 12 students. These 12 are divided into three groups of four students each. For each four students there is one piece of equipment for any particular experiment.

"What's needed is an equip-ment set up for each student," Duerksen said.

This would mean 12, instead of three air tracks; 12 instead of one stroboscope; 12 instead of one Berkeley Kit; or 12 in-stead of three of the other sets.

"The problem with four stu-dents using the same piece of equipment for. an experiment," Duerksen noted, " i s that usually only two are doing the work."

He said of those two, one nearly always carries the heav-ier load. The other two simply observe just enough to get by.

But related to all those com-plications is the underlying

Hole-ly Land Heading west, he took a left turn off Kinkead Avenue.

Up the drive, then a left, a quick right and then another left.

Ken Fry, sophomore, then proceeded down the parking lot adjacent to the library and science buildings. At long last, his car and it's "tortured springs" came to rest.

With nothing less than a desperate moan, he looked at a Collegian staff member. In reference to the advertise-ment for a Holyland tour (this page), he asked, "Why pay the $809? All you have to do is drive through a Westark parking lot."

problem — enough money to equip a complete lab.

Duerksen estimates a $35,000 to $40,000 expenditure for that complete lab. And Mike Hightower, science instructor, a g r e e s it's a conservative figure.

"See, the cost per student in initial outlay is higher in physics than in any other area

of education," Duerksen said. But as " init ial outlay" indi-

cates, once the equipment is purchased, it can last a life-time.

"What it boils down to," Duerksen concluded, " i s we've got a nice, new building with quite an array of apparatus, but we're only a third of the way there."

Dale Arnold, Keith Carroll and Bob Squire begin an experiment with the Geiger Counting System.

Booths selling memberships to Westark's newly organized

Drive Nets New Members

A membership drive was launched by the newly formed Westark Booster Club October 19.

Len Bauman, vice president of the club, estimated between two and three hundred mem-berships sold, at two dollars each for the season. The drive started at 9 a.m. and lasted until 5 p.m., when sales started tapering off.

Membership booths w e r e scattered throughout the Fort Smith area. There were two downtown booths, one at S & Q Clothiers and the other at Hunts Department Store. Booths were also located at Kroger Value Vil lage and Phoenix Vil lage Shopping Center.

WJC cheerleaders and vari-ous members of the athletic department sold memberships and helped operate the booths.

First Pep Rally For Lions Set In Gym Monday

The f i rst Lion pep ral ly of the year w i l l be Nov. 1 1 at 7 p.m. in the school gymnasium. Al l students, faculty members and administration personnel are urged to attend.

Tuesday night at 7 :30 p.m., the Lions w i l l go against their f i rst foe of the season, Okla-homa State Tech.

The pep ral ly is sponsored by the Booster Club and wi l l feature a pep band headed by John Taylor, chemistry instruc-tor.

The Westark cheerleaders w i l l lead cheers for the f i rst time at the rally. They are Glenda Allen, Marina Barros, Jean Setliffe, Barbara Dyrhood, Susie Taylor, ReJeana Richard-son and Gayle Steinmetz.

Booster Club were set up in in efforts to boost membership letic p r o g r a m participants several locations last Saturday rolls. Cheerleaders and ath- manned the booths.

WJC-Boys Club Project

The Westark Board of Trus-tees on July 19 approved a proposal to construct two hand-ball courts adjacent to the school gymnasium on the south-west corner of the campus,

whi le the Fort Smith Boy's Club approved this same proposal September 23.

At the present time all phy-sical education facilities are being utilized by the Boy's

Baseball Fields Set To Get Chain Fence

Construction w i l l soon begin on a 5 foot, chain-link fence around the two baseball f ields on the Westark campus, it was announced by Shelby Breed-love, president, at the third meeting of the Booster Club Tuesday night.

Breedlove explained in his speech that in conjunction with the Boy's Club, the new fence was to be constructed to retain the beauty of the area and for its safety features, to provide a fence for the college baseball

field and to shield the physical education area from the park-ing area that w i l l soon be con-structed.

The fence wi l l be inside the pine trees around the physical education a r e a . Additional pine trees w i l l be planted around the fence in the spring, Breedlove said.

" The chief complaint about our baseball f ields has been that the players have had no home run fence to slam the ball over," Breedlove added.

Club, the junior college, a men's tennis group and a ladies" basketball league. The construction of the new hand-ball courts w i l l bring another group into the picture — the Fort Smith Handball Associa-tion.

A long-range master plan is presently being drawn up for the construction of these facili-ties, util ization of them and financing of construction and operation.

Th is long-range plan wi l l provide for the re-surfacing of the outdoor tennis courts, the building of a swimming pool and the offering of the gym-nasium for after-hour use by adult physical fitness groups.

The handball court w i l l be located in one main structure, with estimated cost set at $20,-000. Th is building w i l l house s h o w e r and dressing room facilities and wi l l be completely air conditioned.

It is hoped that construction of these facilities w i l l begin soon.

Football At WJC Possible?

by C. J. Anderson Everyone is asking the same

question, " W i l l Westark ever have a football team?" In a town the size of Fort Smith with a college the size of Westark, a football team could be well supported and well repre-sented. After al l , WJC has a basketball team, so, why not a football team?

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In an interview with Booster Club p r e s i d e n t Lawrence "Squeaky" Smith, I found out that a football team might not be remote after all. He said that football held future possi-bil it ies at WJC. But one prob-lem exists. An Arkansas state law says that junior colleges cannot have football teams.

" Bu t , " Mr. Smith explained, " l a w s can be changed and some dents have already been put into this one."

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An ex-basketball player of Westark himself, Mr. Smith ex-pressed hope of forming a team within the next few years. "We are always looking toward the future and hoping for better things" he said.

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Mr. Smith also pointed out that a football team here would "hold some of our fine football players that have to leave the state to find a team to play for . "

Negroes, for example, have been excluded from participa-tion in the University of Arkan-sas' athletic program.

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Football at Westark? Change the state law and it's possible.

An intramural council, de-signed to stir interest and to supervise all inter-school activ-ities, is in the present planning stages by Coach Harry Rinehart, he announced Thursday.

The council w i l l consist of a president, vice president, secre-tary and sports reporter. It w i l l have the power over all WJC intramural games, sched-ule all sports activities and report all contests for publica-tion.

Trophies w i l l also be award-ed by the council for outstand-ing players and teams of the year. The highest scoring team at the end of the season w i l l receive an " i ron-man" trophy. This trophy w i l l have the names of each of the members en-graved on it, and w i l l be dis-

played in the school trophy case.

In intramural games October 22, the Nine Bailers defeated the Golden Terrors, 37-27, the Vikings beat the Magnificent Seven, Minus Two, 28-20 and Deano's Drunks fell to V i rg i l ' s Knights, 14-36.