TheTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY Skiff* * * * FORT WORTH, TEXAS VOL. i*. NO II TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1969 I. PAGES Campus Gears for Homecoming Activities Vary Widely By SHIRLEY FARRELL Contributing Editor The swallows return to Cape strano, in a manner of .speaking, this weekend, as TCU observe* Homecoming t>9. The scheduled events for I Ionic coming include the regulars- dances, lunches, and floats—plus an Alumni Barheque and ■ cof fee with the Chancellor A Homecoming Parade will be held Thursday, Nov 6, complete with a car caravan Any organi zation on campus can join m the caravan with an identified car. The caravan will assemble ll 11 am in front of the Student Center Participants will include University and civic officials, cheerleaders the Horned Krog band, members of the football learn and nominees for H o m e coming Queen Friday's activities start with a golf match at Shady Oaks Coun try Club at 8 a.m.. held for mem bers of the Ez-LetterCRU'l asso- nation Century Club Luncheon Members of the Century Club, composed of persons who have given Sinn or more to TCI' through the alumni assoeialon during a calendar year, will at tend a 12 15 p.B luncheon at Colonial Country Club Speaker for the luncheon will be Charles D Tandy, president of Tandy Corporation and a mem ber of the Board of Trustees The same evening a cocktail buffet will be held at Colonial Country Crab, honoring the class of '4sv tins war's honor class Special guests at the cocktail buffet will In the (liming Home yueen and two nominee! The name of the [gag II o m e coming Queen and award win tiers for student displays will be announced during a pep rally in Ed Landrelh Audlorium Begin ning at 7 p m . the rally will in Chide the presentation of a for mer Krog athlete, designated as this year's "Returning Hero and the introduction of Coach Kred Taylor and the football team Ouadrangie Floafe Displays prepared by 22 cam pus organizations, which will be sel up around the quadrangle, will be lighted during the evening There will be a presentation of .lames Thurbers comedy. "The Male Animal." The play will h" BEAUTIES VIE FOR CROWN THIS WEEKEND presented at 8 30 p m in the Kd Mmet Andrea Lockwood, Cherry Overton end Connie Wilkinton ttill in the running I andreth Little Theatre Skiff Photo by Jim Snider The play deals with a young college professor's challenge to |i p in until 1 a in at Green Oaks couple th" administration for academic staff and their families are in the 1989 Homecoming *■) u e e n, freedom and the return of a fir vited to attend duchess and Coining Home Queen, Inn Heading the planning for the mer football hero During the yearly buaineai tea will be presented during half students will celebrate Home Homecoming weekend are Frank Th • activjti s -ri SattiM n \ v lion of former itudents, alumni time ceremonies coming at a dance m the Will Kudlat) and and Don Pierson ( ' are varied and numerous \ awardl will be presented bj Dr \fter game activities include Kogers Exposition Budding o n Fort Worth, members "t the Hen or class who are serving as gen O.ffe" with the Chancellor will h ■ Moud) . en houses and receptions in Saturday. Nov 8. from 1:00 p.m h Id from fl in till 11:00 a m i-i i ampua residence halls from i till midnight Arranged by the eral chairman and Honors Class A Game, Too! th" student center Ballroom, 6 p in , and ,i coffee for former Activities Council Dam e Commit chairman, respe< tivelj The) ire tee, the entertainment will be the "lib special tables nnd corners;,. The center ef ;itii actii ii f o r athletes and their families in the being assisted in the planning b) I i -i ?rea* arranged for \ arious Southwest K 0 H Saturday' activities :s the Home Ex I etterman's Clubroom Pat Beckham oi Fort Worth, na rl i i-tmen's upon request coming game against Texas Tech Vdvance tickets are available two dances will hi' held S.itut lional president of the TCTJ Vlum The Alumni Barheque Lunchei n I >i l a m e starts at L' II in in at the student Center Informs in A isociatioo and I sDo will be held in Daniel Meyer Col Amon Carter Stadium da) evi ning The Exes im Home tion Desk a! $:< 00 .i couple Tic iseum at 11 no a m Faculty, Homecoming royalty, including coming Dance will be held from keta at the door arc $4 UO pe r oi Burke, th*.' student chairman THE SKIFF Tuesday. November 4, 1769 TCU History Prof Reform Marked Term of Ex-Mayor The Board, however, felt such By CHARLEEN HAYES Why all this furor over a Univer- for mayor in 1935 he had already the University On Feb 19, 193H, unfavorable pubbcity toward the ' Second of a Series ) litj facult) member running for drawn considerable attention to Hammond assured Van Zandt University must be avoided in city office'' The University, being himself and to tlu' University He .larvis. then chairman of the the future They proposed that i '!'!.. 195 i'a marked a change in privately financed and not a state entered the race and won under Hoard of Trustees, that as soon clause he included in the facult) government throughout America institution, was dependent upon t h e newly organized People's as Ins program was firmly estab- l in' New Deal was catching on, the community for its very exist Progressive League. lished he would withdraw from policies. According to I)r John 1. Wot incs ..lowly and laborious ence Even more pertinani, how Hammond later wrote that he politics but not from the Univer tham. the clause was a Comoro ly. sometimes all at once and ■. ei H is ihe m;m running fell that tin- in o o .1 nf the Cit) ." i>vornight before the mayor's race, Ham Council .it 'lie time he look office un May 11 Hammond resigned nitse between those who wanWi! Some citizens fell thai the time mond had worked vehemently for was expressed in former major as mayor to dismiss Hammond and thou was right for progressive re such issues as better housin Van Zandl J a r v i s's statement form ,n Fort Worth. To some the the poor, modern hospital facili 'When in doubt, do nothing." |rU M |cJ l&J |cJ right man to foster such reforms ties, iirut ilmiliar reforms Reform Projects was !>r William Jackson Ham trary to the desire of the Lfniver mond. chairman of the TCU His sity Board of Trustees, he publu Hammond endorsed many re torj Department ly endorsed organized labor lit form projects during his time in Hammond, a former minister *fa was immediately labeled as "So office, despite a split majority in had lone practiced a humamtar- eialist" and a "Communist" h\ the City Counci, frequent resig- un approach to life, during a some nations and constant threats of STUDENT time when humanity was often Police Action recall and dismissal. His com- overlooked Hammond's devotion prehensive reform program to the "little man" in society Also prior to his election. Ham- brought to reality a new hospital cost him his congregation in his mond publicly criticised Fort and nurses home to serve the first ministerial post He attempt- Worth police action in the case ol SPECIAL! poor and the establishment of ed to organize church sponsored an "admitted communist". In a the Bureau of Veneral Diseases Yon Don't Have To Be A Student To Enjoy It! activities for young people in the letter to the Fort Worth Press on in an effort to end the worst ef congregation Such a practice is Sept 1. 193.1 he called the arrest feet of prostitution. often done today, but was con- the ' heighth of absurdity anil a »*£"'- i)in (Ihico (lhalupa Through regular radio speech sidered dangerously liberal in the flagrant violation of Constitution e.s, Hammond crusaded for im '*$■" Rant hera C early 1900's al rights." After the prisoner's death in proved jail conditions, gambling •Sjj'- i )ne Em hilada Need for Reform control, public ownership of util- C his cell a few days later. Ham- ™ With Chili C Recognizing a constant need mond wrote a second letter de ities and many more for reform. Hammond refused to Bouncing the police and their in- His term was plagued with »«* El (.Im o Spanish teach history as the mere record ability to explain the death. Fol- threats of removal from his po- ™ Fried Rice 98 C mg of isolated facts He felt that lowing the second letter. Chief of sition at the University. W h e a any study of the past led to a con- Police. 111). Lewis, arrived at questioned by newsmen concern- MONDAY THRU THURSDAY ONLY h sideration of current issues Hammond's office with threats ing his plans to withdraw from the University, Hammond ans- C Even though he had strongly of a grand jury investigation and wered, "When I start a fight, 1 supported the new progressive his dismissal from the I'niversity. finish it." movement in politics, Hammond Lewis further demanded to know c turned down a group of citizens if Hammond himself were a Com- TCU President E.M. Waitea munist. and the Executive Council, un- &LQhxcx> who wanted to back him for the mayor's race in 1935 His duties Later, when Hammond wanted der pressure from the business LikeMarna,like Son.