Notable Texas Place Names From A to Z
A humorous roll call of Texas towns with punny or evocative names starting from Happy and Moody to Sunrise Sunset Whitehouse Whitewright and Turkey, to Muleshoe Cactus Spur Flower Mound and Wood towns, ending with Uncertain. Contains many named places and a playful travel tease through regional monikers.
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Texas
Alamo
San Jacinto
Sabine
Willie
Waylon
Luckenbach
Moody
Whitehouse
Turkey
Hollywood
Halfway through semester mutterings and campus notes
A mixed college column laments Astros nostalgia at Jose Cruz final appearance with the team and a call to release Wagner. It notes Lee College parking lot vultures as a biology example and criticizes wheelchair access gaps. It also comments on Bork’s Supreme Court nomination and student congress progress with a promise of longer game-room hours.
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Lee College
Supreme Court
Robert Bork
Senate Judicary Committee
Bork
Scab Football Fans Back Nonprofessional Play
A reader argues in favor of the nonunion players known as scabs who kept football alive during the NFL strike. They note these players are often former bartenders and workers who crossed picket lines and risk losing jobs, urging focus on supporting football rather than criticizing the strikers.
Sports scandals and drug taint the American games
A reader laments scandals and drug issues taint sports from baseball corked bats to NBA drug talks. He decries urinalysis over education, critiques free agency strikes, praises and derides various leagues, and notes high school to pro football seasons amid a restless sports landscape. He singles out Len Bias, Phil Niekro, Billy Hatcher, Danny White, and the Rockets with skepticism about integrity and entertainment.
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Boston Celtic
Len Bias
NBA
Viewpoint on Lantern staff bylines at Lee College
Dear Editor argues that non staff writers should be labeled Special to the Lantern and notes Dr Blevins agrees. The Lantern invites all students to write and guest columns while clarifying staff definitions and by lines in the journalism department context.
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the Lantern
Journalism Students
Lee College
Whiting
Baytown
Texas
Texas Community College Press Association
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Board of Regents
Lantern
Dr. Blevins
Jay Antle
Jay
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Elkhart
Beeville
Wolfe City
Flower Mound
Woodstock
Woodbranch
Woodloch
Woodsboro
Woodson
Woodville
Woodway
Paris
London
Athens
Dublin
Moscow
Tovdy’s
Jose Cruz
Astros
Houston Astros
Dick Wagner
Cruz
Wagner
Student Congress
Ed Monk
The
NFL
Meone
Shana Matlock
Darren Franta
Eric Lucius
Dina Parkinson
Sonia Barnett
Justin May
Brent Recer
Lesiie Raneri
Sheila Shook
Susan Cummings
Hustle
Phil Niekro
Billy Hatcher
Japan
Danny White
Dallas Cowboys
Mr. White
Houston Rockets
Doug Kadjar Lee
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