The Misfit, April 1, 1966

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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Mistic by an authorized administrator of RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MOORHEAD THE STATf MISFIT Year 1 — Issue 1 Moorhead State College, Moorhead, Minnesota April 1, 1966 Misfit Staff To Leave Soon On Extended Tour Of World

In a special emergency meeting of SS approval of the trip went through. at departure time, and I managed to the MSC Student Senate held last They departed from Hector Airport obtain statements from some of the night, a unanimous vote of approval at 3:00 a.m. on the first stage of the frauds. was given to the proposed world tour two-vear tour which will take them "San Francisco was great last fall, to be taken by the staff of the Misfit, to numberous spots around the globe, but we deserve this little junket, student newspaper of Moorhead State including Fargo, N.D., Hawaii, Red too," said Editor Sharon Sundae. College. China, Zanzibar, Finland, Tasmania, As Business Manager Quincey SS president Rikki Smallacre is Disneyland, Dilworth, Iceland and Stone and Managing Editor Horace sued the following statement to the Greenland. Grievely strapped on their parachutes, press concerning the trip. Cost of the tour, conservatively they echoed with one voice: "So long, "They did a fantastic job and they estimated at between $1 and $2 mil suckers!' have swell editorials, so we couldn't lion, will be borne by Student Act Stone and Grievely will be pilot turn 'em down." ivity Fees. ing the Boeing 707 jet with the as The staff left immediately after This reporter was at the airport sistance of local television personal ity R. Irwin "Batman" Bailey, who Dr. Jellybelly checks his credentials as two faculty members look will serve soft drinks en route. on. Jellybelly always was a slob as witnessed by his fingerless gloves News Editor Jane Thompson and and unshaven face. Feature Editor Mary Palmburned will take care of the staff's 746 pieces of luggage. Proof Editor Polly Varn ish was put in charge of entertain ment for the trip. All Credits Revoked Former Mistic photographer Sven Rogers, who accompanied the group to San Francisco last fall, will not be In Jellybelly Courses going on the world tour, due to a previously scheduled tour of duty "All credits for courses taught by Badthorpe therefore reported that with the Air Arm of the Republic. Dr. John Jellybelly since he joined Jellybelly is not entitled to the de Rogers will be enjoying a rest at the MSC faculty in 1909 have been grees appearing after his name in the Lackland AFB, Texas, before pro- revoked," stated Miscellaneous Dean college catalogue and all course work ceding on a tour of the Far East. His Bovine S. Badthorpe, early this morn- he has taught at MSC over the past expenses will be paid by the U.S. ing. 47 years has been declared void. government. Badthorpe's statement disclosed Also making the tour will be nine that a routine check had brought to An estimated 11,700 persons will teen members of Journalism 200, light the fact that Jellybelly had fail have their degrees revoked including Basic Newswriting and Editing, Mis half of the present MSC faculty who Freda Flatfoot (MSC summa cum laude '23) ex-cheerleader who ed to take a required general studies fit advisor Shick Drieber and former thought they were graduates of this was once suspended for drinking and criticizing education courses leads course in stable sanitation during his advisor R. G. Hamstring, Misfit Con college. Even some persons who the Go Go Girls in practice. undergraduate work at the North sultant Miss Delsie Homburg, plus Dakota Agricultural School in Fargo chose good professions will be af three sympathetic faculty members, in 1902. fected. two janitors, and seven white mice from the psychology department. Activity Fee Increase In other action at the meeting, the Student Senate voted to take 9 away their secretary's paid credits Minnesota M Is and reimburse the State of Minnesota Pays For Faculty Room for money spent on their recent ban quet. Added To Curriculum The student activity fee at Moor for the entire faculty, and we want During the meeting, the Presi head State College will be increased to get the whole group together more dent's gavel broke when it struck and Swedes; 8 hours, History 12— to $50 per quarter next year, follow often; to plan strategy, do research A new major has been added to the Vice-president's head. Two cock Minnesota History 1800-1966; 1 hour, ing action taken at joint meeting of and decide how difficult to make the MSC curriculum. roaches were killed and one senator Political Science—Minnesota Election the college's Student Senate and Fac final examinations." Beginning Fall Quarter, 1966, stu was intoxicated. Campaigns; 5 hours, Art 191—Thun- ulty Senate, last Thursday evening in dents enrolled at the college will be derbird Painting in Minnesota; 3 the Treetop Room of the FM Hotel. offered the opportunity to get a B.S. or B.A. degree in "Minnesota Mis hours, Geography 227 — Minnesota The added funds will be used to takes." Lakes, Fishing Seminar; 4 hours, Mu secure an additional unit in the pro The tentative outline of classes as sic 499—Indian War Chants; 4 hours, posed MSC Student Union. Mickey Mouse Ring Co. prepared by Dr. Otto Snarf, who Physical Education 6—Indian Danc The new room, measuring approx will be advisor to majors in the field, ing; 1 hour. imately 90' x 120' will house a dis has been presented to the Sub-Com Total credits required for the ma cotheque, featuring eight "go-go" Releases Plans For MSC mittee (No. 12) on Educational Folly jor are 40 hours plus electives. girls and a special Spectotone set. for suggestions and additions. Dr. Snarf explained to the Sub- Several companies have made sug Admission to the room will be re Mickey Mouse Ring Co. of Disney A portion of the schedule follows: Committee that some instructors may stricted to faculty members, Student gestions to the Student Senate con land has submitted a bid of 36V2^ English 90—Sinclair Lewis and His be hesitant about adding the cour Senators and college visitors. cerning lower prices and possible sub for mens rings and 23

Editorial KMSC To Open One-Watt "Apathy. YEAH! Radio-TV Station On Campus Let's talk about apathy. We've all been warned against Circle on their way to class. it, now let's say a few words on behalf of college newspaper Radio station KMSC will resume in the area to MSC, he said. editors' favorite sport. broadcasting today as a one-watt sta Program Director Ron Lumberjack Television programs will include: tion operated by college students en has released a partial list of schedu Win the Loot — A quiz program which provides cash for the right Apathy is great. It is healthy. It is stimulating. It is re rolled for Radio-crud 12. led radio programs. They include: freshing. Station manager Fred Black stated The Brown-Bell Report — A pot- answer; designed to eliminate the in an exclusive interview that KMSC- purri of yesterday's news and fea $600,000 surplus in the Student Ac Apathy allows students to relax in the midst of final TV, the campus television station will tures. tivity Fund. examinations. Apathy also allows instructors to casually look begin telecasting Sunday at 11:00 Senate Standpoint - A round-up Science In Action — True cases from the files of the Science Depart the other way when a final is stolen. p.m. of SS activities following each meet The station was remodeled at a ing and featuring exclusive interviews ment, solved after careful investi Apathy gives men students an opportunity to qualify for cost of $2, a gift from the Budget with absent members. gation. the draft. It also provides a fool-proof system for staying out Committee. Scene from the Circle - Interviews Faculty Fun — Faculty members of school. Head Football Coach Duane Ham- with students pausing to visit in the are interviewed away from campus. berg announced that MSC football Apathy permits casual observance of important issues; games will be televised despite any then allows the observer to just as casually do nothing about it. NAIA rules. CDSC CDisfit Coed Apathy is great. It provides a solution to every problem, "The thrill of seeing our squad bat tling to victory in Nemzek Stadium a way out of every argument. We've heard too much against will bring every high school player this state of mind. After examing the issue in a suitably apathetic manner, we know that the consensus of opinion will be in favor of more apathy for everyone, on campus, in the community, in the home. Ed. Courses Apathy is the answer. We need it. Not Required

Education courses will no longer be required for a B.S. degree at MSC beginning fall quarter, 1966. Announcement of the new policy Letter To The Editor came in joint statement from the State College Board and Vice Presi dent H. Horatio Humphrey. 'Please Buy Books!'' The decision to eliminate the de partment was made on the basis of To the Editor: their valuable time working in the existing complaints by the student bookstore have to go there everyday body on the adequacy of the courses It has come to the attention of and not do anything? offered and the fact that spring quar the Moorhead State College Book Please, please, we beg anyone who ter registration showed only eleven store Board the MSC students are students enrolled for method courses. no longer using the facilities of the has a solution to the problem to notify us at once. You don't even have to Students enrolled at MSC who wish college Bookstore. to enter the teaching profession are This week's Campus Coed is President Chaing Kai-shek of the enter the Bookstore. Just make a pa Republic of China. Chaing is a cute 80-year old .who lives in Formosa. We have been told that the reason per airplane, write the advice on the encouraged to substitute various Phy. is that instructors are no longer re Chaing beat out Hubert Humphrey by a landslide for this week's honors. plane and throw it in the direction Ed. courses in place of education. quiring the use of textbooks or note of the door. Someone will pick it up; books in classes. they have nothing else to do. This is perfectly all right with us, We only want to be needed. but we demand to know why we are kept in operation if there is no need Chairman, Secretary and MSC Freshmen To Be Selected for our previously indispensible serv everybody else ices. Why should those who spend MSC Bookstore Board. For Who's What Recognition

Students at MSC will be asked to 5. Students must be apathetic. names of the selected Frosh will be Circle Chosen As Site select representative Freshmen to Nominees will be selected by a placed before the student body for Who's What in Minnesota Institu board consisting of the Freshman the final decision. tions during spring quarter this year, class president, one faculty member Those Freshmen who are chosen to Of New Parking Ramp according to a report received from from the campus school, one faculty Who's What will be given a year's the organization headquarters in Sab- member each from Concordia and subscription to the Mistic, free vac- NDSU, two janitors and the campus inations at the Health Service and a To further allieviate the tense park 100 cars, plus a special section for cop. life-time meal card for Kise Corn- ing problem on campus, a new high- motor scooters, saddle horses, and Following their recommendations, rise parking ramp is being considered perambulators. for MSC. Also included will be a 12-unit If the proposal is approved by the section for staff parking and a rack Minnesota State Legislature and the for faculty bicycles. State College Board, the ramp will be situated in the Circle in the cen MSC security officer, Nels "tick- ter of campus. ets-for-everyone" Nelson, will be in The ramp will provide spaces for charge of the ramp.

Joe Frosh

in, Minnesota. The Dirtbox The change in proceedings arose by Tom Cat from the fact that Freshmen were being generally overlooked in the The beginning of each quarter is new leaf time for at least 105 campus hierarchy and threatened to per cent of the student body. The faculty has failed to establish a take over various positions of author similar policy and something must be done to correct this gross in ity at the school. adequacy. Qualification for the honor will be The disgusting policy of not utilizing the full first hour of the made on the basis of several points: quarter must be abolished. When a student enters his first class, 1. Students must have between a filled with ambition and good intentions, only to find his instructor 1.5 and a 2.0 cumulative G.P.A. max alphabetize and dismiss him his scholastic ambition is destroyed. For imum. many this will be the prophesy of a trip to Viet Nam. 2. Students must be in a position There is no doubt that the first period of each course should to benefit members of the primary be devoted to a full-scale examination. They are, as we know, a selecting committee. learning experience. This policy will induce the student to study during 3. Students must be active in only the quarter break rather than wasting his time on a good book. It one campus organization. can easily be seen how absurd and irresponsible iv is to delay this 4. Students must show a great pot action until the second class period. ential for dropping out of school early Assignments must also be increased. This, however, need not next year. All those people can't possibly be applying for Student Senate be done at the quarter's beginning. The most reasonable procedure offices. Let s throw them out and pick ten names from the directory. would be to assign a light load in the beginning. This will allow the instructor to add seventeen supplementary texts the day prior to midterms and finals. The student will benefit through sleepless nights. This Spring Fever Shots college tradition has been too often eliminated by advanced planning. Offered At College THE MISFIT Unlike the faculty, the administration must be praised for ability The MISFIT is printed once a year as a joke. It is written to make everything convenient for the student. Spring fever inoculations will be in the spirit of good humor, and hopefully will be taken in the same When registering for Spring Quarter the student found it was given at the campus Health Service manner. only necessary to go to five different rooms to locate his class cards. on Friday, April 8, according to Miss It is not mailed out because postal regulations have not been This is a great improvement over previous terms. Rather than wasting Evangeline Lindquist, school nurse. found to cover such a document. valuable time during the quarter break they judiciously delayed indoor Hours for the clinic are from 5:00 It is free. No one would pay for it anyway. painting until after classes resumed. This enabled all those students who p.m. to 6:00 a.m. didn't wear their grubbies to destroy their new clothing. Next quarter A slightly exorbitant fee will be It is written and edited by the same individuals who handle we sincerely hope that the first week be used to re-tar the parking lots. charged. the Mistic. This may be the last paper they put out. April 1, 1966 The Misfit Page 3 Union Blueprints Missing; Investigation Underway Now

Hopes for seeing a Student Union by the fact that the new fine arts lanes, and three billiards tables. A on the MSC campus in the near fu building has many basic resemblences speech instructor has been contacted ture took another blow last week to the artists concept of the union to see if these facilities are actually when it was announced that the blue building. Also equipment lists for the scheduled for the fine arts building prints for the new building had been building have been found to contain for the use of the speech-theatre stu lost. equipment for a snack bar, bowling dents. Jean Denkins, administrative Dean said in a news conference that the plans had either been lost or stolen. They had been laying around for so long that, no one really knew where they were and no one is really sure whether they were even stolen. The crisis arose when the construc Half-time activities in the recent athletic contests in which the tion firm who will be starting con team from Hawley Horticultural defeated the MSC Raccoons. struction next week, decided that they wanted more than an artists drawing of what they were going to build. Plans were further complicated by Hawley Horticultural the fact that nobody seems to re member who the architect for the original plans was. The architect was Defeats MSC Raccoons commissioned for the job in 1938 and his present where abouts are not known. Rumor has it that he is either In a game that was sloppier than dead or resting in a nursing home in the snow removal jobs on campus, One of the sterling features of this California. the MSC Raccoons concluded their quarter, besides the silver identifica Tappa Kega Day fraternity is pleased to announce the upcoming 1966 basketball season last night by tion bracelets which the players wore Denkins said that action has al marriage of their president Fast Jack Moover to Florence Cowhide of taking it on the chin for the 56th so they could tell each other apart ready been taken to find the archi MU MU MU the national honorary agriculture sorority. consecutive time in a contest at Mic was the fine block thrown by Desert tect. Fraternities have joined the key Mouse Village. Flower Warner. search by sending pledges through The Raccoons looked good as they However the ref claimed that the the graveyards looking for tombstones trotted out onto the floor but that block was made in the back of the of deceased architects. Several loyal was the last time. knees so MSC was penalized 15 students have also volunteered to Red Riding A piece of bad luck happened in yards and the superb play went for search California nursing homes this the pre-game warmup when sharp- naught. summer at the school's expense. shooting Jim Bottle had a stroke. It The Pansies had bought the referee A Dual Interpretation Further concern has been caused was reported by a team physician and as a result they were able to that the stroke was even worse than play. as dirty as a pig in the mud. Different people see things in dif met a wolf who threatend her and the one used by Esther Williams in Throughout the evening their men ferent ways. This is an interpretation demanded to know where she was her last picture. poked our players in the ribs, gouged f of Little Red Riding Hood as seen going. After said meeting, the wolf The first half was completely lack their eyes with peanut shells and Sox' To Star by a lawyer and a biblical scholar. then proceeded by another route to ing in action and at half time the tied their shoelaces together. the home of the aforementioned Mrs. Hawley led 62-0. But the Raccoons Shortly before the game ended, In TV Series A LAWYER: Hood where he did willfully proceed weren't to be beaten. MSC's Holly Wakkenbacker slugged On the twentieth day of May in to eat her. It is believed that Little They came out for the second half the referee. He hit the blind man five the year of our Lord nineteen hun Red Riding Hood herself was saved wearing new jerseys which were very times and as a result all six MSC Misfit reporters broke all speed from a similar grim fate only by the records yesterday chasing down the dred and sixty-five it has been as pretty. Then they went back into the men were ordered from the floor. certained that one Little Red Rid circumstance of the chance arrival of dressing room for their shorts. It was then that the Pansies scored rumor that English Department head a woodcutter who attacked the wolf Sox Glasrude has resigned his posi ing Hood was sent by her mother, The third quarter was like all the their last 20 points. Mrs. Robin Hood, to take a basket from behind and killed him with an rest however. The Pansies tried 30 The 133-4 game was closer than tion on the faculty here to audition for the role of Dr. Kildare on NBC containing a variety of cakes and field goals and made 30. The Rac the score indicates as it didn't even other victuals to her grandmother, television. THE BIBLE: coons tried three and missed the show the two shots Hawley missed. a certain Mrs. Julia Hood, residing NBC's sneak talent scout on the in Black Forest Cottage and on the And there dwelt in the land o MSC campus, Miss Delsie Home- stepping stones on Dismal Creek the Make-Believe a certain child, thi berg, commented, "Dick has done an aforesaid Little Red Riding Hood daughter of a widow, and they call allright job but at the present time, ed her name Little Red Riding Hood we have decided that the image of Now the grandmother of Little Rec Dr. Kildare must be changed in order Riding Hood was sick, and the chile for the program to remain success Rancid was sent thither with a basket o fully on the air waves. A man whose bread and fishes. And while she tar learning and wisdom will show ried thus in the forest, a wolf appear through any role is presently needed Arrested ed unto the grandmother and die to make the series a success. Sox is swallow her whole. Now when Little just what we have been looking for. Rancid Janssen, an MSC freshman Red Riding Hoexl found this thinj We are flying Bing and Cary up transfer student from Canby Correc which the crafty wolf had done, she to Moorhead this weekend to con tional School was arrested by Fargo cried out in a loud voice. Then £ vince him to take the part. There police last evening following a chase woodcutter passing by hearkend unte is little doubt in my mind that he through city streets at speeds ap her lament and came and slew the will accept." proaching 110 mph. Rancid was driv wolf. Straightway the grandmothei ing a truck reported stolen from came forth out of the wolf, and there Said Glasrude with a tear in his Hazel's Fish Market where he had was great rejoicing in the land. eye and a catch in his voice, "And I been previously employed as a Hali always wanted to be a doctor." but skinner. -Reprinted from the Staples High Schoo student newspaper. Sun Deck Will Be Included In Library Remodeling Plans

Livingston Lord Library will put a new policy into effect during spring Fraternity members busily work on interiors for their new houses. quarter this year as plans advance to put the library on a paying basis. Beginning Monday, April 4, all students who wish to study at the library will be asked to use the fac Construction To Begin ilities provided by the two city lib- aries, the dormitory dayrooms or the Kise Commons Snack Bar. On Houses For Greeks The library will be reserved for girl watching, pursuit, and date mak ing, with some study rooms made Demolition crews will move onto Interfraternity Council. available for bull sessions and rumor the Moorhead State College campus The only deviation in the basic mongering. early next week to begin tearing down construction of the buildings will be Bart Gull, head librarian stated Hagen Hall, Weld Hall and the through the fact that the Owl Ho that he expected the change in fac Campus School to make room for use" will be moved from its present ilities to greatly enhance the popu houses for the three fraternities and site near campus to the corner of larity of the library, rivaled only by four sororities on campus. 11th Street and 6th Avenue. Cost of the demolition of the pre the MacLean Hall darkroom and var Construction of six identical ho sent buildings and construction of ious spots of interest uptown which uses is expected to begin by May 2. the houses will be approximately $4.5 feature refreshments and live music. Appropriations for the structures million. Due to lack of maintenance funds, came through a special session of the Interfraternity Council president the third floor of the library is be Minnesota State Legislature which Way Farout predicted that campus ing demolished. In its place, a co-ed was called through action by the Greeks will be able to move into sun deck will be available during the Construction underway for Livingston Lord Library's new sun deck, MSC Panhellenic Council and the their new houses by October, 1968. coming quarter at a nominal fee. an added feature of the library's new facilities.

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The poor dog didn't cling tight enough. Here Fritz Bagley captured by the camera picking up another lunch Seriously ill dog bravely clinging to life in the Dr. John Newmeasure lays the creature to rest on a "not fit for the dogs." Misfit office. gentle campus slope as thousands of mourners mourn. Throws Away Food Ninety-six Poisoned Dogs Each Day At Noon Found Near MSC Campus

An incredible story came to light pick the stuff up," said Bagley, "but In a press conference yesterday, sen (MSC class of '65) reported that within a year or two. yesterday when a Moorhead State that was only to keep them from us city dog catcher Ira Smedley an in each case the beasts seem to It is now being handled by Dennis College student revealed to the Mistic ing the junk for the next day's nounced that dog poisoning in Moor have suffered much pain before dy Doorshut, who has watched a couple that he had not eaten his lunch dessert." head seems to have taken a sharp ing. of Peter Sellers movies. He is being rise over the past month. assisted by Beef Larson, Eddy Hertz at Kise Commons for the past month. "Then I'd carry it outside and "An autopsy performed yesterday "We've hauled away 96 dead dogs and Roger Holsum a freshman from Fritz Bagley, a freshman from chuck it all in the snowbank. That revealed that 17 of the dogs had from the Moorhead State College Bottle Lake who hasn't got a lot Porter, Minnesota, stated that the macaroni yesterday smelled even something resembling macaroni in campus area during the past two of clues right now but says that he food wasn't fit to feed to the dogs. worse than it looked," concluded their stomachs," said Janssen. "I'd go through the lunch line and Bagley. weeks alone," said Smedley. will have if he keeps hanging around Assistant dog catcher Don Jans- An investigation will be conducted with that crowd.

Yum Yum Girls New On Campus

The MSC Pom Pon girls have a new name.

At their annual meeting April 1, the group decided to call themselves the Yum Yum girls, a recommenda tion made by members of the college Pep Club.

President of the organization is MSC graduate student Holly Go- lightly. VOTE MSC's High Rise Dorm may not rise as high as earlier predictions indicated. High Rise May Not Rise High

Due to insufficient funds the high Acting Administrative Dean Jean rise dormitory will not rise as high Denkins said yesterday that the bus as everybody thought it would. It's shelter beside the campus gates on a pretty safe bet that the highest 11th Street will be used as a stu thing around campus will still be the dent union as soon as the one open boys from Ballard Hall on Saturday wall can be boarded up and all the night. dirty writing can be removed from The lack of funds will also affect the walls. the proposed building of the new Work will be completed by early Student Union. 1973.

. . . Hello Fargo Forum? . . . This is Harry . . . I'd like to announce the winner of the tractor in our big Alumni contest.