Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Che Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, January 13, 1966 Dresses, Hats, Hair Styles Examined By Critic CADET SLOUCH By HERKY KILLINGSWORTH Battalion Fashion Analyst Editor’s Note: What do wom en’s fashions mean to men? Kil- lingsworth tells all in this final episode. shift shift which is in the process of becoming a knit suit, which also shows great promise. From this simple example of a single type of dress you can see how complicated it would be to discuss everything those sweet young things’ wear to the fullest extent. Of course we must discuss the This year for the very first time there will be a new dress to come into popularity that has been great every time it has hit the market. It’s called hip huggers and features a lower waste line. Just think Aggies, if the hem-line keeps going up, and the waist starts going down . . . skip this also. While we’re hanging around the waist we might as well dis cuss pants also. By now you have figured out that they look better on the fairer sex than they do on you. Well the femi nine pants industry has really boomed since old Ima Gona Ski invented the Ski-pants. Things have really tightened up since. Those ski-pants are going to be a hot item to follow, but their creators are coming up with hip huggin, bell-bottom pants. I don’t know what they’ll look like but they sound great. What I really think all of that means is if you go around hip hugging girls with ski-pants on, the bells are liable to ring. Now if a girl decides definitely against wearing either a skirt or pants, there’s no reason to get excited Ags. They have an in- exhaustibile supply of wearing apparel. After all, there is always the dress. And this is a field so broad, I won’t even attempt to go into it. Yet it is a subject one must consider. So let us examine one cross-section which is representa tive of the field. Many years ago there was a hot item from Paris called the “Sack.” She wasn’t a stripper. She was a dress. Girls soon tired of it be cause of their dates popular ex pression . . . skip this one, too. But the clothing industry hates to retire a good deal, so they shifted it into a new item cling ing to the curves a little better. They called it the shift (which won an originality contest) and it is in, in, in. Now there are all kinds of shifts—demi-fitted skimmer shifts which cling close ly to Eve's original shape. There also are shifts with very long zippers down the front, and a Criminal Code Analysis Part 3 BY GLENN DROMGOOLE Battalion Editor The revised Code of Criminal Procedure contains articles that, while attempting to protect individual rights to a fair trial, tread dangerously on thin ice with other guaranteed freedoms. Perhaps the most cloudy example is in the area of fair trial-free press relations. ~ Attorneys have long held that pre-trial publicity endangers a fair trial. Newspapermen have countered that “the people’s right to know” is likewise important. After a heated debate on press restrictions, the legislature adopted the following clause concerning pre-trial publicity: “It is the duty of the trial court, the attorney representing the State, the attorney representing the accused and all peace officers to so conduct themselves as to insure to the defendant a fair trial upon the presumption of innocence and at the same time afford the public the benefit of a free press.” Now if ever a more ambiguous clause was written into a statute, it would have to be one conceived only after months of con sideration. The fair trial-free press controversy would have been better omitted than to clutter this progressive document with such gobble- dygook. It solves none of the problems arising from pre-trial publicity, but will probably lend even more confusion to the area. However, even this ambiguity is better than the proposed measure in the House of Representatives which was deleted by compromise. That amendment set up definite restrictions on the press and was elimin ated after state newspapers attacked it editorially. The problem-—and it is definitely a problem—of fair trial-free press needs a solution, but not from federal or state statutes. Internal solution is desired by leading journalists, perhaps in form of a code of fair practices. The journalism profession, however, has taken few significant steps to insure defendants an unbiased jury. Neither does the new criminal code alleviate the problem. A court interpretation of the clause will probably be forthcoming. In other areas of personal rights, however, the code is quite explicit: Bail bond—Courts may now release defendants on their own personal oath that they will appear in court. This allows defendants without sufficient funds to make bail instead of remaining in jail until trial date. It is a significant step in equality. Before this code, only persons with adequate funds or property were bondable. This provision has, quite naturally, been assailed by bonding companies that previously had a monopoly on all bail activities. Discovery and deposition—After a hearing, a judge may require the prosecution to make its evidence available to the defense. An accused person is now able to examine the evidence against him, and perhaps inform his attorney why the evidence is incorrect and suggest witnesses and other matter to provide an adequate defense. Also, a defense attorney might conclude from overwhelming evidence by the prosecution to enter a plea of guilty, thereby saving time and expense of a jury trial. Probation—Although this hardly comes under the heading of human rights, it is distantly related. Probation will be permitted for misdemeanor cases for the first time, allowing a person convicted of a minor offense somewhat of a second chance. Juries cannot grant probation; they may only recommend it where the punishment does not exceed 10 yeai’s. Suspended sentences have been left out of the new code. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for ,t rj.7 j. j j. -j. 7 m t republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not are those Of the Student 'ivrxters only. 1 he otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous Battalion is a non tax-supported non- Ser P heriin ed ar h e er liso r^f^ld. 0 * republication of a11 other profit, self-supporting educational enter- Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. pHse edited and operated by students as Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, a university and community newspaper. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-66X8 Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Buser, or 846-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building, chairman; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts ; Dr. For advertising or delivery call 846-6416. Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences ; Dr. Frank A. Me- Donald, College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, College of Mail subscriptions are $3.60 per semester; $6 per school Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veterinary year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% Medicine; and Dr. A. B. Wooten, College of Agriculture. sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address; The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is — ~ published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, EDITOR - GLENN DROMGOOLE Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through Managing Editor Gerald Garcia May, and once a week during summer school. Sports Editor ZZIZZZZZL Larry Jerden MEMBER News Editor Tommy DeFrank The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Photographer Herky Killingsworth REMEMBER YOU AGGIES IF YOU BOUGHT YOUR BOOKS FROM US IN SEPTEM BER WE’D LIKE TO BUY YOUR BOOKS NOW, ALSO YOUR ROOMMATES. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO CONTINUE TO GUARANTEE YOU A MARKET FOR BOOKS PURCHASED FROM US. USED BOOKS AT MINIMUM PRICES. BE RIGHT TOO! ~