ILPC Meeting Promises Sessions for Everyone

VOL. LXII AUSTIN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY, 1978 NO. 6 ILPC Meeting Promises Sessions For Everyone The state convention of the In- computers and other electronic limited basis to students who re men students at the University, job terscholastic League Press Confer equipment," said ILPC coordinator sponded to a ILPC release in early prospects in journalism in Texas ence will be held March 17-18 on Bobby Hawthorne. "And we've February announcing the availabil (given by a representative from the campus of the University of made special attempts to acquaint ity of the sessions. The TSP tours the Texas Employment Commis Texas at Austin, beginning what our delegates with this phenomena. will be conducted on Friday after sion), and a discussion and exhibit ILPC officials term a second 50 "Of course, journalism still de noon and twice Saturday morning. by Ben Sargent, editorial cartoon years of service in Texas scholastic pends on the basics: Writing, re The tour of KLRN and the Com ist of the Austin American-States journalism. writing and editing," Hawthorne munication Center will be at 3:15 man, who was recently named the "Last year was our golden anni added. "But for those advanced p.m. Friday. best in his field by Texas Monthly versary and something a little spe students, we've lined up two ses Added Hawthorne, "As is gener magazine. cial to all of us who've watched sions I think will be of special ally the case, these sessions would Among the experts scheduled to scholastic journalism grow these interest." not have been available, were it not present sessions are UT professors past 50 years in Texas," said Dr. One session will be a tour for the generous support of UT Griff Singer, Dr. Norris Davis, Dr. Max R. Haddick, ILPC director. through the Texas Student Publi people, Ron Gibson and Mr. Harvey Dwight Teeter, Martin L. "Red" "But I think our program this cations facilities, where the Daily Herbst, in particular." Gibson, and Kent Middleton; area year will be as good as ever," he Texan, official student newspaper journalists Jim Trotter, sports edi added. "We've put in a lot of hours of the University is published. Other Sessions "The tor of the Austin American-States of work and I'm confident this con Texan's facilities are as modern as Of course, the convention will man; columnist Mike Kelley of the vention will give delegates the any in the state," Hawthorne said. feature numerous sessions on news American-Statesman; television finest instructional sessions, com A second session will tour the paper and newsmagazine writing, anchorman Byron Wood of KVUE petition and information." facilities at the University's com layout and editing, yearbook pro and anchorwoman Dot Chaloupka SUPER DRUM The 1978 state boys and girls basketball tournaments has a seating capacity munication complex, which will in duction, literary magazines, pho of more than 16,000. Student and adult tourna- All-Media Sessions of KTW, both in Austin; and en will be played clude a tour of television station tography and advertising. in the recently completed University of Texas Special ment tickets for the two tourneys are on sale. For more information, see tertainment writers John Bustin of "Journalism is rapidly moving KLRN. There will also be special ses Events Center, aptly nicknamed "The Super Drum." The Facility is the the story on page 2. toward a greater dependence on The sessions will be offered on a sions on financial aides to fresh (See ILPC, Page 2) most modern and unique structure of its kind in the state or nation, and League One-Act Play: Keeping Winning In Perspective By DR. CHARLES A. SCHMIDT added to her life, giving her a new idea of a career in theatre. benefits upon students; a school have embarrassed yourself beyond equanimity as well as the outer cided to enter for the first time. I weren't lost forever if we lost tem Dean/College of Fine Arts appreciation for the aesthetic that shields them from competition recovery. Sometime in life you Lost Sense of Perception politeness. tried out for the play just for kicks porarily. Sam Houston State University sense, the work, and the skill that will leave them unprepared to meet have to learn what it is like to pick When the Denver Broncoes and —nothing else—and was hooked inherently go into the creation of It frazzles my nerves a little life head-on, for if life is not full up the pieces and go on to try the Oakland Raiders were playing before I knew it. We didn't win, Participation Grows Four years ago, I wrote an ar any work of art. when I listen to some people talk of it at every turn, I have lived again. Sometime you will learn last January 2nd, there was the and it was of course a bitter disap Participation in the One-Act ticle for the "Interscholastic And that, in turn, reminds about a desire to cease participat me of these many years with blinders on. that once the dreaded disaster has severest of competition, the kind pointment, but we learned a lot Play Contest continues to grow an Leaguer" and began with the quo a crusty old ing in the One-Act gentleman, carrying Play Contest Municipalities compete with each befallen you, you still breathe—you where feelings run fire high, where and we were back the next year— nually, somehow the complaints tation that you see printed on so on despite the worst because it has become so competi ravages of other; businesses compete with still have hunger—people still say the TV replays seemed almost to and the next. We never did win at against competition must not be much of your League material: arthritis, who was my tive. That seems to have a connec advisor in each other, and people compete hello—and that there may even be contradict some critical official rul District while I was in school, but drowning out other voices. On the "There are no losers in a well- my days of struggle tion with the hysteria for that union over grades with each other within businesses. a certain relief at realizing the ings, but you never saw any raw we never gave up, either. other hand, one of the most pro organized One-Act Play Contest." card known as Ph.D.; that it has been fashionable he was fond to Even within the so-called objectiv worst has come and gone. public recriminations, any brawl As I look back, I remember all gressive steps the League has I subscribed to that principle of telling newcomers to the write about in the last field decade; you ity of the serene halls of Academe, Since not everyone can win in ing, or other indecent behavior. the fun we had, what we learned, taken is the institution of the prac then and I do so still. It leads me about "the would almost dignity of work" that think ulcers are be believe me, competition is intense. any competition, be it a UIL con And it is highly doubtful that any and the real sense of accomplish tice of sending two top plays on.to on to a little story about Joan Mon- real theatre work teaches coming commonplace to those even among test or a political election or a bus one thinks the Raiders are down ment in a well-organized group ef the next level. This gives more dale, the wife of the Vice President, who may have been unaccustomed elementary school Proportion The Key students who iness deal, and since you can the drain because they lost that fort. I have never been at the top good work a chance to be seen; it that was carried in a recent issue to it. will simply wither and die if they Proportion is the key to the hardly avoid competition totally one, least of all, they themselves. of the heap—any heap—and prob adds to the festival nature of the of the Arts Reporting Service. She The UIL One-Act Play Contest, fail to make a straight A card. whole thing. No one event need be unless you elect to become a her ably never will be, but there have proceedings, and the more chances said, in effect, that she could not given a good Never Give Up director, a well-organ What this really indicates is a something, the loss of which throws mit, one of the best things a direc been many little triumphs and the actors have to perform, the call herself a real artist as a pot ized contest—and a good judge— loss of sense of proportion. To you forever into the abyss. You tor can teach his students is the It is now about forty-one years many pleasures along the road, and more they will learn. ter, but because of her schooling can be one of the really cease rewarding to participate in an activity lose one, you win another. To lose art of losing gracefully when their ago that I first heard of the UIL so many of them have been condi When I wrote that article four in that craft and her efforts at it, a experiences for a young person, only because it is competitive will does not necessarily mean that you turn comes. This means establish One-Act Play Contest (as a sopho tioned by these competitive expe whole new dimension had been whether or not he ever has any not automatically confer great have performed below par, that you ing a sense of inner balance and more) when our high school de riences.

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