Letters

Thanks from the coach
Dear Editor,
I want to say thanks for the support that has been given to my team, myself and my family throughout the season. In 24 years of coaching, this was my most trying season. There were numerous times during the season that our dream of winning the National Championship was totally gone. I am humbled in God’s blessing of giving us the courage to keep going inspite of some very disappointing losses.

I think our success is a reflection of an outstanding campus of people who are positive and committed to doing excellent in their jobs. Thanks again for all of the support and encouragement. I’m looking forward to next November when we get going again.
Tim McGraw
Men’s Basketball Coach

Kudos for the coach
Dear Editor,
Coach McGraw is a STAR again!!

One approach of looking at cultural diversity is through syntheses of various cultures/diversities.

When approached to present a workshop of cultural diversity for our International Day on 4/7/06, my idea was to not just talk about joining the cultures of the world as represented on our campus, but to experience this phenomenon through sports, as players or spectators.

Coach McGraw graciously agreed to have teams play basketball.

We had a blue team and a green team (to represent NLC colors as well as colors of the world) play each other from 11:15 to noon on International Day.

Several countries were represented. Students and faculty joined hands to represent their respective teams. Everyone had a blast!!

Ms. Lynda Edwards and Dr. Ida Baty scored baskets!
Thanks, Coach McGraw and everyone who played.
There was truly an experience of syntheses of all diversities.
Avni Vyas, Ph.D.
Faculty Counselor

Going above and beyond
Dear Editor,
I would like to thank the faculty, staff and students for their patience during the first week of April as we had approximately 1,200 students on our campus for Choral UIL Concert and Sight Reading Contest.

 I would especially like to thank Alice Butler and Mike McKee, who moved their theatre classes to other areas so that we could hold this important event. Our NLC Facilities team and the NLC Police Department also went above and beyond to help us as well.

The exciting thing for me is that I spoke with many students who expressed interest in coming to North Lake to sing in our choirs, and to study music with us. Truly, our program is on the move! Thank you again.
Allan Andrews
Director of Choirs

A conditioned reflex
Dear Editor,
Several issues ago in the News-Register (Sept. 26, 2005), Professor Amundsen was asked in his column why men seem to be so infatuated “have locked-in issue” with women’s breasts. His response was along the lines that breasts represent source of life and nurturing, first contact with mother and that to most men they feel good and to other men they maybe intriguing, as men do not have them developed as women.

I read an evolutionary biologist’s theory many years ago in National Geographic that stuck with me. I then embellished it somewhat with a little Pavlov from Psychology 101 that also stuck with me.

Basically, man’s reaction to the female breast is a Pavlov’s dog, conditioned/associated reflex to the vagina. Recall that Pavlov fed his dog, which upon approaching the food bowl would begin to salivate. Pavlov then began ringing a bell at the same time he fed the dog. The salivating continued. Pavlov then tried just ringing the bell without the food and found that the dog would nevertheless salivate as if he were about to be fed. Back to the breast….

Millions of years ago, what man, still walking on all fours, would see upon approaching the female from behind, was the buttocks. If he saw the buttocks, he knew the vagina, the primary source of his arousal (the food in the case of Pavlov’s dog), was proximal. The buttocks thus aroused him by association with the nearby vagina. The female buttocks then became an associated or conditioned reflex to the vagina, which explains why many men are aroused by the female buttocks. Back to the breast….

When man began walking erect (Homo Erectus), on two legs, that is, he needed something visually in front to arouse him and keep his desire to have sex (and thus populate the earth). The female breasts, as the buttocks, are globularly shaped. Sublimely to the man, they represent the female buttocks, that are proximal to the vagina. Consequently, the breasts then also initiate a conditioned reflex in man associated with the vagina resulting in arousal.