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Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Che Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 22, 1965 • Opinions • Cartoons Features Law Cracks Down On Obscene Calls Great inventions and discoveries have modernized our way of life and have given us more leisure time. Where would we be today, for example, without electricity ? The continuous dis covery of modem drugs has helped expand life expectancy more than twofold since the colonization of America. The airplane has provided much faster means of travel in recent years than the train and automo bile, which were significant inventions themselves. But with these great innovations comes abuse. The rifle and pistol, for instance, were developed to provide food and protec tion. But criminals took advantage of guns to spread violence, terror and crime. Modern drugs have helped expand life expectancy, but their abuse has led to harmful addiction. So it is with the telephone. Perhaps no modern convenience is considered more of a necessity than the telephone, but people have found ways to abuse even this seem ingly harmless invention. Threats and pranks over the telephone today account for a large percentage of police activity throughout the nation. The latest fad for the telephone prankster is indecent language to women. In one large Texas city pranksters, al though that word doesn’t seem quite harsh enough to describe these persons, have placed calls to women under the pretense of investigating policemen. “Hello, Mrs. —the conversation goes, “this is Sgt. of the police department. We have caught a prowler near your house, and he had on him some pictures of you and your husband in an unnatural sex act.” The man then goes into intimate bed room details and usually concludes with some vulgar, profane, obscene or sugges tive remarks. Quite often he tries to make a date with the woman or her daughter. Police have a method to uncover such harrassment, but until this month the penalty had been so light that it afforded little hardship or punishment for offenders. But the Texas legislature changed the penalty during its session this year. The new penalty went into effect this month. The legislative action amended Article 476 of the state’s Penal Code of 1925 to read: “Whoever uses any vulgar, profane, ob scene, or indecent language over or through any telephone or whoever uses any telephone in any manner with intent to harass, annoy, torment, abuse, threaten or intimidate another, except if such call be ty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction for a lawful business purpose, shall be guil- shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one month nor more than 12 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.” The new penalty is expected to aid law enforcement officials in reducing the num ber of complaints from this nuisance to society. Police officials have especially be come concerned about the problem because (1) impersonation of officers and (2) heavy log activity. The telephone culprits do more than just abuse women; they also detain police men whose time could be better spent pro tecting our streets against robberies, mug gings and murders. The problem is not far removed from College Station nor Texas A&M. Campus Security officers report a larger number of such calls locally during the nine-month school term than during the summer, when most cities are faced with the problem’s intensity, Which leads to the assumption that some students are or have been guilty of committing these acts. Several students have been caught by the campus police. This is a black mark on the student body concerning its relationship with the community. A stiffer law should help correct this situation — one that should have never existed in an academic-oriented communi ty. “Bunny” Baloney A lot of nonsense is making the rounds about one provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is the provision for bidding discrimination on account of sex. One story suggests that if a male applies for the job of a “Bunny” at a Playboy Club, the law would require his employment. An other sidesplitter had to do with washroom attendants. All of these stories are intended to il lustrate the idiocy of the provision of the act designed to protect women against job discrimination. As a result a number of well-meaning people, who have not read the act, have been misled. Section 703-E of Title VII states: “It shall not be an unlawful employ ment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees ... on the basis of his religion, sex or national origin in those instances where religion, sex or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualifi cation reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or en terprise.” This would seem to be an effective solu tion to the “bunny” problem—The Louis ville, Ky., Courier-Journal. Tommy DeFrank The Stallings Diplomacy CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “I’d like to change sections so I wouldn’t have Friday afternoon classes ‘cause my ride . . . see my roommate has this car ... I thought ... I think I’ll keep this same section.” Gene Stallings proved in convincing fashion Monday night he can handle the stu dent body just as handily as he has handled the Aggie football reins so far. The new head coach turned in a superior job of diplomatic knuckle-rapping during All-University Night ceremonies, and the few who were there no doubt came away convinced that Aggie football fortunes are in capable hands. Stallings gave the Aggies, and in particular the Corps of Cadets, what they needed most—hard-hitting, no-non- sense, straight-from-the- shoulder talk. He pulled no punches as he told the Corps to quit yelling while opponents are on the offense because it re flects discredit on him, his team and his university. He said Aggie crowd an tics reached him while he was an assistant coach at the University of Alabama last year, especially after the Arkansas game. “I’m tired of being em barrassed,” he said, know ing full well his sentiments were being shared by uni versity officials as well as countless thousands of Ag gie exes, who have enough trouble fending off static without having the student body provide more fuel for hecklers’ jibes. Working Workshop Someone asked me the other day how the Aggie Players’ Fallout Theater Workshop got started. Very simple, I told him, some students wanted to do it, they asked Mr. C. K. Esten (director of the Play ers), he said it was okay, and they did it. Very sim ple. Somewhere in there, there was a tremendous amount of work, but, in the main it was simply a matter of deciding to do it and then doing it. Well, he asks me, what keeps it going? I reached back into the back of my head for another simple answer. While I was reaching and groping around in the dark, he got tired and left. But there is an answer. It took me a little longer than the first question, but after some digging, I found an answer. To wit: people. For example, during the workshop’s first summer season this past summer, 12 students directetd 15 plays during a period ranging from June 25 to August 24 —two months flat. The first 11 plays were directed by students taking a directing course. The next three were directed by three of the same students, but not for course credit, just for the fun of it. The last play was directed by a stu dent who hasn’t taken the directing course yet. Sand wiched somewhere in be tween were a couple of dra matic readings and a variety show. Altogether, about 80 people participated in one or more of the plays. Ordinarily, a director, cast and crew will take about two months to prepare and present one full-length two- and-a-half hour show that involves about 40 people— by comparison, 80 people prepared four times as much entertainment in the same length of time. People keep the work- Tim Lane shop going. People like a couple of students who wrote plays after the plays had already been scheduled and the cast selected. People like several stu dents who memorized parts and rehearsed two or three plays at once. People like those who have two or three hours a week to spare and spend it working on costumes or sets. So I bumped into the fel low a couple of days later and told him, people keep the Fallout Theater Work shop going. He said, oh—say, by the way, what does that place look like, I’ve never been down there, is it very big? Stallings’ logic is ridi culously simple. He wants to win and fully expects to, but he wants to win because of stronger coaching, better character and desire and all round better ability. In a nutshell, he wants games to be won or lost on the field and not from the stands. There are diehards who will no doubt scream that Stallings, President Rudder, Col. Baker, Dean Hannigan and everyone else made out as scapegoats are trying to obliterate another hallowed tradition. But they’re out to lunch. This particular “tradition” of yelling when opposing teams have the ball was be gun within the last half-doz en years or so. And there is nothing in University Regulations that requires Aggies to be lousy sports, contrary to the be lief of too many Texans. Texas A&M has won the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Award but once in its existence, a clear indication there is ample room for improvement. It is time for us all to realize we represent a great university every time we leave campus, regardless of the situation. There were other inci dents at All - University Night. The civilians came through with their usual paltry attendance and the seniors did not see fit to rise from their laurels and join the standing ovation given President Rudder. But Stal lings was the whole show. Aggies have needed con structive chastisement for years over game conduct. It took an Aggie, and a good one, to tame the Aggies, and he did a good job. But it was long overdue. Gene Stallings is not the first to be unhappy over Ag gie behavior. Perhaps he will be the last. Writer Loves Registration, New Room, Opening Class Don’t ever let it be said that I’m an Aggie that dreads registration. On the contrary, I love it. Where else can you see all of your buddies back for another year, or those that didn’t make it back. Seeing it’s my fifth year at glorious A&M, I expectetd to see few of my former Senior buddies. I was wrong, they’re all back. I love to wait in lines whistling at girls, laughing at cops, and praising profs. By lauding the advisors, complimenting the deans, and speaking highly of Vi’s wives, I made it through in less than two hours. Believe it or not, it was my buddies checking me out that kept be the final hour. Two hours registering means nothing to me any more. I use to complain highly of the disinterest shown by registering profs until I spent a summer ses sion at our dear fellow Uni versity, T.U. Over there it took me seven hours to reg ister for six hours, a rec ord I hope to never break. Anyhow, I’m registered now and ready for a new year. Three Friday after noon classes, five eight Herky Killingsworth o’clock classes (and I’m a non-reg now), and three three-hour labs but I’m set tled now for another semes ter. I also love Monday morn ing of the first day back, before eight o’clock. By nine o’clock I’m a day be hind, by ten o’clock a week behind, and by eleven I’ve given up. The first day is exciting though, seeing who your professors are, moan ing afterwards over a cup of coffee. I believe it’s amaz ing that a college youth of today can keep returning to the next class knowing some notorious prof will hold your life in his gradebook for the next five months. Thrilling! Also, it’s a bore. Do you realize you are going to be stuck in that classroom, with that profes sor, over that book, writing with that pencil (unless you lose it), for the rest of the year. Over and ever again. Day after day for some- odds 18 to 19 weeks. Practi cally puts me to sleep think ing about it. No wonder there is such a high percent age of classroom droopers. I’ve got a wonderful room, fourth floor with a view overlooking a beautiful dead limb. Some architect ure student would be crazy about it and might even have it framed and on the wall before the week was out. Everything’s going great so far, but then I have only met half of my classes. Who knows what tomorrow may hold. I do actually have one complaint, if you want to be honest about it. Actual ly, it’s not a complaint, it’s a gripe—a big one. I have the best classes, the best hours, the best room, and the worst parking place on campus. I’m having to park over a mile away from my dorm. It’s easier to park off campus than to walk from Hart Hall to the south end of Dorm 12 which is next to Club Duncan for those of you who do not know where the Navasota Parking Lot is. What a waste of time. T’would be better to have lived off cam pus than to never have lived at all, in Hart. So what. It’s Fall, 1965, and a new year is off and running. I wish you luck and if everyone will wish me luck I may get out of here some day. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz PEANUTS THE WHOLE WORLD C0iV(IN6 APART, AMD V0U‘R6 DANCIN6! I CAN'T HELP IT... MV FEET LOVE TO DANCE... i/Kkv'/. I have an obligation to m FEET l vi 14 Uh-u / ^4? d .1/ hk h*- BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Indian Prime Minister Orders Cease-Fire In War NEW DELHI, India—Indian Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, weeping as he spoke, announced today he has ordered a cease-fire in the war against Pakistan, He said the two Asian neighbors must live irl neighborly peace. Shastri told Parliament, however, that Communist China presents an “even greater challenge” to India’s independence and that the nation must firmly resolve to meet the Red threat. “We do not know what the Chinese will do next,” Shastri said. Earlier, India described as false an announcement from Peking that it has torn down military outposts on the Sikkim- Tibet frontier as demanded by Red China, “We have not crossed into Tibet and we have not torn down anything,” an official spokesman said. U. S. B52 Jet Bombers Stage 30th Raid In Viet Nam SAIGON—U. S. B52 jet bombers staged their 30th strike of the Vietnamese war today, hammering suspected Viet Cong targets in Binh Duong Province, a U. S, military spokesman said. No assessment was made of the effec tiveness of the raid, 25 miles north of Saigon, by the Guam-based Strategic Air Command bombers. Elements of the U. S. Army 173rd Air borne Brigade uncovered a big Viet Cong hospital hidden in dense jungle northwest of Saigon, a U. S. spokesman said. The paratroopers discovered the medical facility Tuesday while combing a Com munist-infested area near the district capital of Ben Cat, 40 miles from Saigon, the spokesman said. $46.88 Billion Defense Bill Ready For President’s Signature for President Johnson’s signature a $46.88- billion defense money bill that include: $1.7 billion for a Viet Nam war build-up The measure goes to the President carrying also a provision that frustrates Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’: desire to merge the Army Reserve and the National Guard. No merger can be ordered by the Pentagon within a year without Congress' express approval, under terms of the passed Tuesday by the Senate and Friday by the House. The bill also forbids the Army to use any of the money for educating draftees who fail mental or other aptitude tests. The defense appropriation is the largest money bill of the year. The special $1.7- billion appropriation included in it is to build up the armed forces in accord with increased requirements of the war in Viet Nam. Hurricane Carol Expected To Turn To Northwest MIAMI, Fla.—Hurricane Carol, thrash ing around in midocean, is expected to tun toward the northwest or west today. Fore casters say there is no reason for any part of the United States to be jittery. “It will make several wobbles before"? can tell for sure what it’s going to do," said forecaster Raymond Kraft of the Miami Weather Bureau. “It’s just too far out to make a valuable prediction at this time.” The Weather Bureau’s 5 a.m. advisory centered the storm at approximately l,40t miles east southeast of Bermuda. Carol was moving toward the north at about 18 miles per hour. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. Th( Battalion is a, non tax-supported wo profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications of Texas AtH University. Members of the Student Publications Board are James l ndsey, chairman ; Robert Knight, College of Art: ences ; J. G. 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