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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Ekirle
Lani Presswood
1 think th’
lem ”
time has come for us to face a certain prob-
Chinese Students
Favor American
Viet Nam Action
By JOE LEMMING
Battalion Staff Writer
During the Christmas holidays,
Americans briefly attempted to
forget the all too realistic prob
lems of the Vietnamese war, and
the cancerous rise of “peace”
demonstrators in several Ameri
can colleges.
Like stones dropped into a pool
of calm water, the ripples of these
dilemmas are felt abroad, and
other nations judge the United
States by her overseas actions.
What are the opinions being
formed about United States
policy ? Many Americans wonder.
As an attempt at answering a
portion of this question, four
Chinese graduate students at
A&M were asked their views on
the difficult issues.
Because of their Asiatic origin,
their opinion of Viet Nam and
communism are significant. Also,
all four served as officers in the
Nationalist Chinese Army, and
are familiar with military opera
tions.
The four students were first
asked if they thought America
was justified in stepping into Viet
Nam.
“The Communists want to con
trol the world, so Americans must
fight. If the United States does
not, she will give up Thailand and
Malaysia, and finally the Ameri
can territory itself,” commented
Fa-Chung Wang, 26, Department
of Physics.
The four agreed the United
States should bei n Viet Nam, but
Education Tax Relief:
Long - Overdue Plan
said Viet Nam was only a front,
and the real heart of the problem
comes from Red China.
“The keypoint is Red China,”
said Robert Chen, 26, Department
of Civil Engineering. “If the
United States really wants to
win, they must fight Red China
directly.”
“The United States cannot de
feat the Viet Cong by bombing
Hanoi, because Red China is sup
porting the North Vietnamese,”
adds W. S. Chang, 26, Depart
ment of Civil Engineering.
Ming Hung You, 30, Depart
ment of Genetics, claims the Viet
Cong propaganda program tells
the Vietnamese peoplet o dislike
the democratic South Vietnamese,
because the Southerners are sup
posedly helping the Americans
colonize Viet Nam, as the French
did once before.
“I believe the Americans should
launch a stronger offensive in
the war, for if the United States
doesn’t the war will go on for a
long time,” You said.
All were in agreement about
demonstrations staged at certain
American colleges.
“The college students believe in
what they are doing, but they
don’t understand the true situ
ation,” Chen pointed out.
“Their actions are understand
able,” Wang asserted, “because
nobody likes fighting at the risk
of their own life. Other people
should explain to them that it is
necessary to America’s freedom
that they fight.”
Now that the Christmas holi
days have come and gone, can
mid-term be far behind ?
The annual arrival of mid
term heralds good tidings for
most, because a five-month bur
den has bee lifted and a new line
up of courses and profs can be
anticipated.
But the semester break is also
a time of concern for many of
those who face the prospect of
shelling out at registration for
the next four months of academic
life. Every student handles
this economic problem a little
bit differently but a majority de
pend on some amount of help
from their parents.
In many cases this help is the
deciding factor in whether a col
legian can stay in the school of
his choice.
Parents of college students
often encounter a real financial
squeeze for their efforts but help
may at last be on the way.
Connecticut Senator Abraham
Ribicoff plans to push for a
“tuition tax credit” bill when
Congress reconvenes later in the
month. He started the legisla
tive wheels moving on his bill
last year and should stand a
good chance of success this time
around .
If you plan to fire off any
letters to your congressman this
session you could do worse than
pick this particular bill to sup
port.
In the form the bill took last
year, tax credit is given the par
ent for the first $1,500 he pays
annually for tuition, fees, books
and supplies per college student.
The actual amount of the credit
breaks down like this: 75 per
cent of the first $200, 25 per
cent of the next $300, and 10 per
cent of the next $1,000.
Maximum credit allowed a
parent is $325 per year.
This is not just a tax de
duction now, this $325 is cold
cash which is subtracted from
the amount of income taxes the
parent owes. In other words, if
the parent had to pay $1,000 in
income taxes but was eligible for
the maximum tuition tax bene
fit, he would only pay $675.
The bill would apply not only
to parents but to any individual
who contributed part of his in
come to help a college student
defray necessary expenses.
Sixty-two per cent of the dol
lar relief would go to families
in the $3,000-$10,000 income
bracket, with 91 per cent of the
benefit going to families with
annual incomes under $20,000.
This proposal seems to be a
sensible, equitable long-overdue
plan to benefit American higher
education and those seeking it.
There is only one apparent ques
tion dissenters could raise—how
much would such a program cost
the federal government ?
At the Movies
wzf/i Lani Presswood
One word best describes “The
Knack.” Well, make it two
words.
Far out.
This British comedy, the cur
rent offering at the Campus
Theater, captured first prize
honors at the 1965 Cannes Film
Festival.
It’s offbeat, kooky, and zesty.
And also good in a strange sort
of way.
Director Richard Lester has
put together a refreshing, origi
nal, avant-garde film which has
its moments but also its let
downs.
Lester, who earlier gave the
world “Help” and ‘Hard Day’s
Night,” throws out Robert’s
Rules of Order completely this
time. He employs such devices
as subtitles, Keystone cop-type
chases, sudden scene shifts, back
ward action, and speeded-up se
quences.
The “knack,” as you have al
ready guessed, is the ability to
woo and win women. Rita
(“Taste of Honey”) Tushingham
becomes the target of a couple
of roommates, one with the
knack and the other without.
A tight-fitting suit, long hair,
and a calm nerveless air of de
tachment mark the former, a
guy who just calls himself Ton-
del. Tondel’s prowess at attract
ing the opposite sex is really
something else.
He spends most of his time
leading buxom British lasses in
to his room “to listen to rec
ords,” motorboating out to an
island pulling three lady water-
skiers, or donning a pair of sun
glasses and motorcycling off to
who knows where with an at
tractive traveling companion.
Collin, who owns the house
Tondel rooms in, cuts a far dif
ferent figure. He’s a tall, lanky,
uncoordinated schoolteacher who
spends a good deal of the show
trying to find out just what the
knack is.
One more madcap, a nutty
Irishman named Tom, rounds out
the four characters who domi
nate the movie. Tom is really
the farthest out of the group.
His most noticeable trait is an
obsession to paint everything a
light color. Browns especially,
Tom doesn’t go for browns at
all.
These four race through what
is either a very deep or very
shallow plot and I’m inclined to
go along with the latter. The
quality of this movie doesn’t
come to be found in the complete
whole, but rather in several in
dividual scenes which sparkle
briefly but brilliantly.
One is the chase episode, which
finds Tom and Collin running
frantically after the other two,
who are speeding away on a
motorcycle. The two pursuers
are determined to rescue the un
suspecting country girl from the
seusous clutches of the guy with
the knack.
Another memorable interlude
has the girl’s vocabulary dwind
ling to one word—‘rape’—and she
keeps repeating it, with different
levels of volume and inflection.
Natually, every time she says
it out in public the three guys
cringe and pretend to be thor
oughly absorbed in say, picking
up leaves off the grass.
To give you some idea of how
far out “The Knack” really is,
it makes “What’s New, Pussy
cat?” seem like an orderly, or
dinary, orthodox show.
Yet beneath this kaleidoscope
of offbeat antics runs a unifying
undercurrent, a suitably subtle
message which says ‘viva youth’
and ’viva life’ and then equates
the two.
Another equation is that fun
ny scenes equal an enjoyable
movie, and “The Knack” does
contain enough high spots to
place it in that category.
Cost of the measure to the
Treasury has been estimated at
$750 million for the first year,
rising to $1.25 billion by the fifth
year. This figure of $750 mil
lion represents only 9 per cent
of what Washington outlayed for
higher education back in 1962.
In 10 years, some observers pre
dict the government will be
spending over $20 billion annual
ly to finance higher education.
You can’t put a definite price
tag on what higher education
is worth to America, or any other
country. But it is upon educa
tion that we have rested our
hopes for the future of man
kind.
The cost of higher education
will continue to accelerate as
College Students
Favor Republicans
While the large majority of
U. S. college students and their
faculty agree that President Lyn
don B. Johnson will be re-elected
to a second term, the students
favor a Republican candidate.
This is the finding of the Playboy
College Opinion Survey—covering
200 campuses, including Texas
A&M—conducted one week after
the election of John V. Lindsay as
mayor of New York City.
The survey shows a majority of
the students—55 per cent—would
vote for a Republican candidate
in 1968. On the other hand, 66
per cent of the faculty would
prefer a Democratic candidate.
Despite their preference, how
ever, 91 per cent of the students
believe that a Democratic candi
date will win the election. Eighty-
six per cent concede the election
to Mr. Johnson while 5 per cent
think Sen. Robert Kennedy of
New York might win.
Among the faculty polled, 95
per cent believe that the Demo
cratic party will again be vic
torious, and only 1 per cent of
these believe it will be someone
other than Johnson.
The Playboy College Opinion
Survey also asked “Since Ameri
can males are eligible for the
draft at the age of 18 and are
serving their country, should the
legal voting age be lowered to
18 years in all states?” Only 55
per cent of both the students and
faculty agreed this should become
law. The principal reason offered
by the survey’s respondents
against the lowering of the voting
age was that intellectual matur
ity is more important than phys-
iscal maturity.
Of those students who chose
Republican candidates, 11 per cent
cast their ballots for Barry Gold-
water, 10 per cent for New York
Mayor Lindsay, 9 per cent for
Gov. William Scranton of Penn
sylvania, 8 per cent for Michigan
Governor George Romney, 8 per
cent for former Vice President
Richard M. Nixon, 4 per cent for
Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon and
4 per cent for Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller of New York.
Among the students who prefer
the Democratic party in 1968, 29
per cent chose Mr. Johnson as
their favorite candidate; 12 per
cent. Sen. Kennedy; 2 per cent.
Vice President Hubert H. Hum
phrey, and 1 per cent, Gov.
George Wallace of Alabama.
Among faculty members who
prefer a Democratic candidate, 48
per cent selected Mr. Johnson as
their favorite; 9 per cent, Mr.
Humphrey; and 6 per cent. Sen.
Kennedy.
Nine per cent of the Republi
can - oriented faculty members
chose Gov. Romney; 7 per cent.
Gov. Scranton; 6 per cent, Gold-
water; 5 per cent, Nixon; 4 per
cent, Lindsay; 1 per cent, Gov.
Hatfield; and 1 per cent, Gov.
Rockefeller.
Of the 9 per cent of students
Sen. Yarborough Reviews
Congress’ Major Actions,
Predicts Bright Future
enrollment increases and opera
ting expenses mount higher and
higher. Both private and state-
supported schools are being
forced to hike their tuition rates
and fees to keep up with the
spiraling cost of providing a
quality college education.
Federal aid to education is a
valuable contribution and it will
become even more so in the
future. But the proposed tui
tion tax credit bill helps serve
the same purpose and does it
without the waste and ineffi
ciency of benefits channeled down
through the tunnel of bureau
cracy.
Senator Ribicoff’s bill, if
passed, will be an encouraging
important step, but hopefully it
will only be a first one.
By SEN. RALPH YARBOROUGH
As we turn the Calendar to a New Year, millions of Texans
will have a brighter future as a result of the many major laws
which we passed during the first session of the 89th Congress.
The prospects of the New Year are filled with hope and
prosperity as we look back on 1965 as a year of progress for
the United States and the American people.
As we begin the second session of the 89th Congress in Janu
ary, the following are among the millions of Americans whose lives
will be changed by the new federal legislation:
SCHOOL CHILDREN will have better educations because of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
COLLEGE STUDENTS will have better opportunities through
the Higher Education and the extended National Defense
Education Act.
be better rehabilitated because
HANDICAPPED persons will
of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act.
UNSKILLED WORKERS can be re-employed with new job
qualifications under the expanded Manpower Development and
Training Act.
SMALL BUSINESSMEN will benefit from increases to the
Small Business Administration’s loan fund.
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CONSUMERS will all have more money in their pockets from
the Excise Tax Reduction Bill.
RESIDENTS OF DEPRESSED AREAS will have new hopes
of prospex-ity under the Public Works and Economic Development
Act.
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VOCATIONAL STUDENTS can get loans under the Vocational
Education Act.
who believe a Republican candi
date might emerge victorious,
Governors Romney and Scranton,
Goldwater and Lindsay each are
conceded a 2 per cent chance.
Two per cent of the faculty
thought Nixon might be a win
ning candidate, while 1 per cent
said Gov. Romney had a chance.
The survey determined that 76
per cent of the student respon
dents will be eligible to vote for
the first time in the next Presi
dential election. It is significant
to note that 98 per cent of all
those eligible students say they
will vote in 1968.
The Playboy College Opinion
Survey is based on responses
from a representative sample of
approximately 1,000 students
from all classes, ages and back
grounds who serve as a perma
nent “sounding board” on ques
tions of current interest. An
other permanent panel of 200
faculty members—one representa
tive of each campus, comprising
a wide variety of educational
fields—have been polled. The
survey also reflects opinions from
campuses on a regional basis—in
the East, Midwest, South, South
west and West.
Analysis of returns on a
regional basis shows that among
students who chose the Demo
cratic party, Eastern colleges
gave their vote to Mr. Johnson by
39 per cent, while in the South
the President pulled only 18 per
cent. Among the Democratic
faculty, the South went for Mr.
Johnson by 58 per cent; the East,
49 per cent; and the West, 41 per
cent.
Gov. Scranton received 12 per
cent of the Republican student
vote in both the East and West,
while Goldwater pulled 21 per
cent in the South and 6 per cent
in the Midwest. Republican
faculty members in the East pre
ferred Gov. Scranton by 22 per
cent, while the Pennsylvania
Governor received 9 per cent in
the West, Goldwater received 12
per cent of the Midwestern Re
publican faculty vote and 3 per
cent of the Southern instructors.
Copyright, 1965, by Playboy Mag
azine.
POSTAL WORKERS AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES will be
paid better under the new Federal Employees Pay Act.
FARMERS AND RANCHERS will receive improved benefits
under the new Farm Bill.
DISABLED VETERANS will get more money under the
Disability Compensation increase.
SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS will receive a 7 per cent
increase as a result of the new Social Security Amendments.
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OLDER AMERICANS will
under the new Medicare Law as
under the Omnibus Housing Law.
receive
well
better medical treatment
as better housing facilities
UNDERPRIVILEGED AND POVERTY STRICKEN Americans
will be given new opportunities under the Economic Opportunity Act
Programs.
MENTALLY ILL AND MENTALY RETARDED Americans will
have increased hopes under the Mental Retardation Facilities and
Community Mental Health Facilities Act.
STA
RURAL RESIDENTS benefit from the continued REA, Farmers
Home Administration, and loans under the Housing and Urban
Development Act.
SO
ALL AMERICANS will benefit from the Drug Abuse Control Act
stopping illegal traffic in drugs.
SERVICEMEN will
Military Pay Raise.
get better pay and benefits from
ALL AMERICANS will be better off because of the programs
instituted under the Highway Beautification Act.
ALL AMERICANS will benefit from the Air Pollution Act and
the Water Pollution Bill.
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Dallas area with its complex sys
tem of government agencies,” he
noted. “This indeed offers fertile
possibilities for Arlington State to
participate in.”
Despite only a 300 student in
crease over last year’s 11,500
(caused by limiting size of the
freshman class for the first time),
skyrocketing enrollment will con
tinue to be the biggest headache
confronting school officials for
the next few years. The class
rooms were overflowing last year
and help will not be forthcoming
until the mathematics-language
building is completed in the fall
of 1967.
But Woolf is confident the
hookup with UT will help ASC
in its quest to become a first-rate
institution.
“The Board of Regents and
chancellor have exhibited a very
positive approach to our develop
ment and see the potential of
our institution for the future,”
he said. “They understand the
significance of our geographic
location and the impact this has
in structuring our academic pro
gram.
“They are not only willing —
they are insistent that Arlington
State College be developed into
an outstanding high-quality
school in all aspects, and we are
very optimistic and confident for
the future.”
‘DE
Flowers Named VP
Of Vet Association
Dr. A. I. Flowers, head of the
Department of Veterinary Public
Health, has been elected first vice
president of the Texas Veterinary
Medical Association.
Flowers and other officers will
be installed at the annual conven
tion in Corpus Christi Feb. 7.
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