TSU closed for MLK Day, spring '21 semester starts Tuesday E-T staff report In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Tarleton State University administrative offices are closed Monday, Jan. 18. The Dick Smith Library, Student Health and Counseling Center, Tarleton Alumni Association Office and the university’s Welcome Center also will close, as will Tarleton’s W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas in Thurber and the Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center in Granbury. Three Tarleton areas will be open Monday: Recreational Sports Center, 6 a.m.-8 p.m.; dining hall, 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; and campus bookstore in the Student Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.