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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, March 2, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Oklahomans Say Playboy Not Bad Is Playboy “the worst magazine in the world” 7 According to “The Oklahoma Daily”, the student news paper of The University of Oklahoma, the majority of the Norman, Okla. and OU campus retailers “don’t think so!” In a recent survey conducted by that newspaper, local store owners voiced their opinions concerning Oklahoma City civic leader A1 Kavanaugh’s proposed indictment of Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, and the sales of his magazine. The paper says that the majority of OU campus variety and grocery stores cater to the college age group. Out of this group, Playboy receives the most attention from men, “but the women are not far behind in sales,” state one store owner. Asked if a customer’s right to choose between maga zines should be altered by the state legislature, one re tailer said “that’s why they’re (college students) going to college ... to gain knowledge to choose between differ ent things.” At least one retailer thought Kavanaugh was doing the right thing and said she wished she could take some magazines off the stands right now. The paper continues that upon entering a campus variety store and gazing at the magazine rack, only Play boy, with its usual “good taste in cover design,” stands out. “Come back at the end of the month and you won’t find one of them (Playboys),” stated one store owner. The paper states that it seems that Playboy outsells any other magazine in the OU campus area as reported by the majority of the retailers. If this is true, then according to Kavanaugh, the Norman area and its inhabi tants should be steeped in moral decay and depravity, yet there are statistics that prove the OU crime level is “lower than that of the majority of college campuses.” When asked if Kavanaugh’s attempts to remove the magazine from the newsstands are casting a bad light on the state of Oklahoma, most of the retailers believed it was not hurting the state, but it certainly was not helping it either. “I don’t think any of the other states are paying at tention to us,” stated one store owner. Another thought Oklahoma was setting an example for other states to fol low, and if other states weren’t watching Oklahoma, some body should tell them to do so. This is exactly what the Battalion has attempted to do. It will be interesting to see what happens as several Oklahoma businessmen try to curb the flow of “girlie” magazines into their state. Will they succeed? In the words of one businessman, “Kavanaugh doesn’t have a prayer!” At The Movies A. with Bob Bordt nee mil< War flicks are currently en trenched in theaters around A&M, with the Marines across the street and the British Army downtown. If you’re torn between the two, you may be swayed by the billing outside the theaters. “Tobruk,” the movie downtown, is carried along by Rock Hudson and George Peppard, while the Marine flick, “First to Fight,” has to make do with Chad Ever ett. Another determining factor may be the fact that “Tobruk” has no female interest whatso ever, while “First to Fight” is overflowing with it, or seems to be from the previews. Yes, for the purpose of this review, the British won out over the Marines. QafitAjz- “If they have elevator shoes, why not elevator helmets?” Rock Hudson is still his same old self, and when he speaks his lines, you almost expect to hear Doris Day answer. She never does, though, and everybody else carries on just as if Hudson were a good actor. George Peppard almost makes up for this, however, and most of the other actors do a passable job. The factor that really holds the Borders 9 Miscellany movie up is the action, and some times the suspense. The producers must have used enough flammable liquids to de foliate South Vietnam, with enough left over to take care of the bonfires indefinitely. They were able to go big on this item because they used the Sahara Desert as a set. Briefly what the plot entails is a plan to blow up the fuel sup ply of the Germans in North Africa, and thus turn the course of the war in favor of the Allies. Don’t all good war movies turn the tide for the Allies ? Rock Hudson is a British ma jor, without accent, and he is en listed to lead the project, al though he has a superior officer and is being carried across the desert in a German convoy as a prisoner. Sound complicated ? It seems the only way the Brit ish can get through the German- held territory is to pose as war prisoners, with German - born Jews posing as their captors. Naturally there is animosity between the two factions, and it is brought to a head when it is discovered that there is a traitor among them. It’s pretty obvious who he is, but the odd thing about this movie is that the one who looks most likely to be the traitor is the traitor. And then if you can stani >e m 13; you can always come back to ( lege Station and watch the ot:” ee war movie, which ought to be least a little different. Local Lions Clule Sponsors Dinner /ure iakc wixil It mee let ivill mee C will For BasketballeU ^ Cen The Bryan-College Stat: a t 7 Evening Lions Club will sponso:pj c t banquet this Monday night hoii: jr ing the area basketball teamsciul The banquet is to be at iof t Ramada Inn beginning at 1 p^lut The guest speaker for the eve P ing will be Bill Glass who plsmee end for the Detroit Lions. MS< Glass played his college fobere ball at Baylor University u S after graduation signed upcClul the Canadian League. of t Later, Glass went to thet^ or where he was selected all-proa ^ three times. met City Council Okays Street Repair Job The College Station City Coun cil’s recent monthly meeting in cluded the discussion of city ordinances calling for extensive street improvement in the city and the rezoning of certain dis tricts. The council voted unanimously to accept the street improvements of fiscal year 1965-66 and began the study of proposed improve ments for the coming year. Among the streets considered were portions of Winding Road, Langford St., Park Place St., Live Oak St., First St., and Spruce St. The council voted unanimously to accept the im provements. Also discussed was the renewal of the city franchise with the Southwestern States Telephone Co. The council voted to ask for 2?4% of gross receipts, retroac tive to Jan. 1, 1967. Since the proposal must be read three times, no final action could be taken, but Rex Bailey, local man ager for the telephone company, said he would go ahead with ef forts to have his company ap prove the ordinance. Bailey then asked that the council consider allowing the phone company to make the fran chise payments on a semi-annual basis instead of the present quarterly basis. The council approved this without discussion. Consolidated Hosts Open House Event YDs To Honor Texas Senator The A&M Young Democrats will honor Texas Senator A. R. Schwartz of Galveston with a reception following his Political Forums speech here Friday. The reception will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Presbyterian Student Center. Coffee and cookies will be served. Sen. Schwartz will be the fifth speaker of a Political Forum ser ies at an informal lunch in the Memorial Student Center Assem bly Room. His topic will be “Secrecy in the Legislature.” The program is jointly sponsor ed by the MSC Great Issues and the History and Government De partment. A&M Consolidated High School will hold an open house for the entire Consolidated system this week. Activities are scheduled at both elementary schools, the junior high school and the high school. A&M Consolidated Elementary will hold its open house Tuesday evening from 5:30 to 7. The junior high will begin acti vities at 6 p.m. and will include discussions between the parents the teachers. During the day, parents will take part in a “back to school” program and will at tend classes with their children. The high school will hold an open house during the day and will present a parent-teacher dis cussion that night. College Hills Elementary will begin its program at 6:30 p.m. with the combined 60-voice choir of the fourth and fifth grades. Later the sixth-grade band will perform and the students taking such electives as drama and art will present the play, “The Little Red School House.” The public is invited to attend. Editor; The Battalion Attn: Office of the Official Censor This letter is to blank the peo ple responsible for the food blank at the mess hall for blankety- blank to their blank responsibili ty—turning a blank on the blank in the last blank weeks. I feel that they really deserve a blank for turning themselves to such blank measures in their blank at tempt to lower W;he blank over head involved in running such a blank operation. Of course, their blank strategy is obvious and twofold: to cut prices paid for blank to the blank, and to make it as nearly blank as possible so that less will be consumed. Fortunately, blank goals are blank, since the blank food will almost always turn out to. be the blankety-blank in the long run. However, several other blank aspects of their strategy have become apparent, and de serve blank. Among them are: —Blankety - blank everything possible. Not only does this ren der blank foods blank, it cuts down on blankety-blank by the kitchen. —Use of blank grass clippings for salad, rather than blankety- blank. Clippings blank over from summer and blank in coolers are obviously blankety-blank. —Failure to provide decent blank, thus cutting down on blank consumption. —Serving blank as often possible. Since this item can blankety-blank, and since there is blankety-blank of blank, this is more blank than blank. Blank but equally blank tactics include blank of portions of cush and denying blank of more blank ones, making blank as blank as possible to cut down blank, and placing as much blank as possible in blank, (accidental pun—ed.) Certainly the blankety-blank at the end of the semester. Of course, those who blankety-blank are blank, and since blank, and not blank is the most important thing around this blank, they should be blank. The problem with the above is that I can’t prove it—but since it all blank, they can’t blank. If they blank, I’d like to blank it so I can blank. Go on and print my blank name—Blankety-blank. Ric Locke ’70 Thanks one blank of a lot for your blank-fine letter, Ric. As you blank-well may have noticed, I had to alter some portions. I’d like to offer my blank apol ogies if I censored too blank much of it, but I got blank car ried away. You see, your blank letter was the first to come my way in several months, since the other guys just don’t give me Sound-Off letters any more, but since your’s was addressed to me, I made them give it to me. So thanks a blank for your letter. Official Censor It’s usually just the opposite. Master of Ceremonies will Ridley Briggs of the 1st Bj: T and Trust in Bryan. maj Tickets for the banquet i eco * $3 per person and may be j); m y s chased at the University Natioi Bank in College Station, the ft National Bank and the 1st Bs: and Trust in Bryan. Or youm purchase them at either of t high schools. 3n« < Three Named To Join Eco Staff Three new assistant professors of economics will join the Texas A&M faculty this fall, announced Dr. M. L. Greenhut, the depart ment head. They include Dr. Robert Eke- lund, now on the Louisiana State University faculty, and W. Philip Gramm and Charles Maurice, now doctoral candidates at the Univer sity of Georgia. Dr. Ekelund received his PL with honors at LSU in DecemL He is the author of a techniiT L WO 1 ai paper published recently in Cg t “Southwestern Social Scierlarch Quarterly.” Dr. Greenhut said Gramm 1 Maurice expect to receive Ph.D this spring. McIntyre To Visit TSU Next Week Professor John A. McIntyre, Associate Director for Research of the Cyclotron Institute, will serve as a visiting lecturer at Texas Southern University Thursday and Friday, March 9 and 10. He will visit under the auspices of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Ameri can Institute of Physics as part of nationwide program to stimu late interest in physics. The pro gram, now in its tenth year, is supported by the National Science Foundation. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not therwise credited in the paper and local news of spontam erwise credited in the paper and local news of spor origrin published herein. 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The Battalion, a published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through student newspaper at Texas A&M is Station, Texas daily except Saturda May, and once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Service*. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor Elias Moreno, Jr. Amusements Editor Bob Borders Features Patricia Hill Sports Editor Gary Sherer Sports Writers Jerry Grisham, Charles Rowton Staff Photographer Russell Autrey