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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, April 14, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Every Good Demonstration Needs A Good Recipe What g-oes into making a successful student demonstra tion such as those recently staged at t.u. and the University of Oklahoma? After observing the methods used by students at these “great institutions of higher learning”, there have been several ingredients that are standard and must be carefully applied to assure perfect results every time. These are; 1. Roundup anywhere from 75 to 350 idle students willing to devote several hours of their inexpensive time to the success of the project. 2. Find an active student organization with a question able reputation to sponsor your event, such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who recently promoted and sponsored student rallies on both the t.u. and Oklahoma campuses. 3. Decide on an area on which to stage your “happen ing.” A spot close to major thoroughfares, water fountains, parking areas or other places where students naturally gather. A nice, lush lawn is your best bet for gaining stu dent cooperation. 4. An important item of the recipe is the planning of activities of your group. It will be necessary to have on hand such items as paper airplanes, bubble gum, flowers, guitars, bananas (lots of these), toilet paper, peanut but ter sandwiches, watermelon slices, a few balloons, comic books, coloring books, kites and several singing combos. Be prepared for almost anything because someone is certain to want to paly hopscotch or shoot marbles, and if anyone should become disenchanted with your project, he may get mad and leave. 5. Last, but not least, be sure to contact your campus newspaper. “Snow” them into believing your demonstration will show that today’s student is mature, powerful and influential and must be able to exercise any whim he feels is his right, regardless of any established rules or regula tions. Rules tend to be a detriment to his “free expression.” Have the paper publize your event and even condone it if possible. It could prove to be your best ally. Now take your ingredients and carefully combine them into organized choas where there is no evidence of any con structive action or any goals being attained—^milling around is all that is necessary. You will be able to measure the success of your project by the number of onlookers who simply shake their heads in disgust and move along without even considering doing anything about the situation. Usually a crowd numbering several hundred will indicate success. Sound Off “I like th’ new look because it’s so much easier to keep my mind on my studies!” Spy Play Featured Tonight Editor: The Battalion; Dear Sir; As one of the several scores of students on this campus who ride the small, two-wheeled motor- vehicle commonly known as a motorbike or motorcycle, I wish to complain of the treatment we are given. Let me point out that the owner of a motorcycle of all but the largest type usually does not keep it to ride home on week ends as the owner of an auto mobile does; but rather, a motor cycle is kept for the convenience of riding to a distant class or to nearby shopping or amusement areas. A motorcycle takes up far less space than a car and only little more than a bike; and it is therefore a common (though il legal) sight to see motorcycles parked along-side bicycles, both by classes and dormitories. In spite of the obvious virtues of motorcycles for campus use, university regulations forbid their use between the hours of eight and five, and demand that they be parked in the parking lots with the cars. The facilities af forded the motorcycles for park ing in the lots are not only in adequate for the number of ma chines on the campus, but are so far from most dormitories that by the time one gets to the motor cycle lot, he might as well have walked. Neither do these park ing facilities provide any shelter from the winds, which easily and often topple the motorcycles, causing damage and spilling of flammable fuel. Motorcycle owners pay the same university motor - vehicle fees that car owners pay, but due to the regulations, get no use from their machines, since they are not even able to use them to drive home on weekends. A rea sonable solution to this problem would be to lower motorcycle fees substantially or to allow motor cycles to park with bicycles in more convenient and sheltered areas. The present rules are grossly unfair to motorcycle own receiving complaints about t dents revving their motor! too near these areas and am ing other students or prof Powell said that students ij motorbikes may also park tti in any area designed for stit automobiles, regardless of t academic classification or stidt Sincerely, Robert N. Stevenson Walton Hall A check with Campus Security shows that there are 18 specially marked lots on campus for motor bikes and motorcycles near both dorm and academic areas. According to Ed Powell, Cam- pust Security Chief, most of the motorbikes and motorcycles are “two loud for either dorm or aca demic areas. We are constantly In Fallout Workshop At 8 But why even have a “Gentle Thursday”? The answer lies in the convincing words of a feminine participant of one “Gentle Thursday” when asked why she had a penciled butterfly on her forehead. She answered, “Why not?” W. G. What happens when a young recording company representative and his timid secretary find themselves in the newly discov ered country of Pling-Fling Tung, somewhere near the Himalayas ? As they try to record the na tive music, they are out-maneu vered by two spies from U-No- Where. “Our Man in Pling-Fling Tung” will be presented at the Fallout Theater Workshop tonight at 8. The Sultan of Pling-Fling Tung thinks the young secretary would make a splendid addition to his harem. The Sultan’s favorite dancing girl decides the young American would make a nice husband. After a riotous party in the Sultan’s palace, the two Ameri cans are thrown into the dungeon by the two spies. However, the dancing girl helps them escape. The Americans return to Chicago to face the wrath of their em ployer. Nancy Wick directs the cast of 13 ninth and tenth graders from A&M Consolidated High School in the production of the play writ ten by Francis Lynn, modern lan guages major at A&M. Members of the cast include Read Pearson as Mr. Cherry, Debbie Fisher as Miss Sugar- sweet, Shelley Reid as Miss Fras er, Bruce Wick as Mr. Tracey, and Terry Masters as the Sultan. Also, Pam Waldon as Jasmin, Laurs Hines and Jane Bassett as Weather Proved Yesterday To Be No ‘Gentle Thursday’ Student’s Role May Change Last ‘Manners’ A battle-scarred educator named Clark Kerr recently warned that there is a danger our more militant college students will organize unions. While collective bargaining can be effective in industry, it is difficult to see how it would be used on the college campus. Workers do not, after all, join trade unions for the fun of joining. They join to bargain collectively for better pay or shorter hours. Panel Is Tuesday ‘Romance to Marriage” will be Since few American colleges pay their students for attending, the student unions will be forced to concentrate on such issues as the shorter study-week, more holidays, longer vacations, fewer courses and so on. No doubt the students’ collective bargaining for these benefits will succeed in getting them more and more off- duty time outside the classroom. But if they continue on this track, the members will achieve total victory only when they have negotiated so well that they do not have to attend class at all—they will then be triumphant dropouts. The main thing wrong with this striving for equity is that, when it has been achieved, the achievers will no longer be militant students but merely youngsters out of a job. The role of an unemployed bargainer doesn’t pay very well, so they’ll all have to go to work. And that might not be a bad idea either. —The Dallas Morning News the topic at the last of the YMCA’s “Man Your Manners” panels Tuesday night at 7:30. The four Texas Woman’s Uni versity students will be Kathy Nairn, Jill Anderson, Bruni Alaniz and Joe Grisham. They will be discussing these topics: 1. Engagements: A. How long for the en gagement ? B. The Conference with her father. C. The case of broken en gagements. 2. Formal vs. Civil Weddings: A. The bride’s responsi bility. B. The groom’s responsi bility. C. How to hold the recep tion. the dancing girls, James Bassett and David Alsmeyer play the parts of the two spies. Kent Walker, Sparky Moore, and Jim Woods of the “Fifth Dimensions” combo are the native musicians. The stage crew consists of Thel ma McGill, John Gilmore, Greg Sitler and Bill Rowekamp. Pam Waldron in the choreographer. The play will also be presented at the April 21 meeting of the Social Club in the Memorial Stu dent Center ballroom. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane force winds kicked up a blinding dust storm in West Texas Thursday on the heels of tornadoes, hail, fierce thunder storms and even snow. The bizarre spring turbulence contributed to a flurry of weath er-related accidents. At least four persons died on rain-slick Texas highways. Swirling dust swept into the state on winds of 75 miles per hour, trailing a Pacific cold front that churned through East Texas and moved on eastward. The cold front left widespread damage and a million dollar agri cultural rain in its wake. As it disappeared, winds clock ed at 75 m.p.h. hammered Guad alupe Pass in extreme West Tex as. Wink was shoulded in dust. An earlier windstorm ham mered an auxiliary helicopter base at Ft. Wolters near Mineral Wells, damaging some 100 train er helicopters. A spokesman at the Army base estimated dam age between $400,000 and $500,- 000. A newsman who toured the area said the blustery winds, re corded as high as 70 m.p.h., scat tered the helicopters like match- sticks. Some were on their sides. Others were smashed. Twisters struck in the Pan handle and East Texas and scat tered points in between. Dam age was heavy, but there was no loss of life. “We are more lenient to mot cyclists about where they jr park,” he said, “but we still fi them parked on sidewalks mis they leak oil and stain them crete.” PALACE Brqan Z-fim STARTS TODAY Walt Disney’s “BULL WHIP GRIFFITH” T. tee €Mf/m NOW SHOWING Michale Cain In “ALFIE” QUEEN DOUBLE FEATURE Hospital Calls For Unused Supplies 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. repub rep oth' origin matter herein Second-Clasi The Associated Press is entitled ublication of all news dispatcl erwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneoi blished herein. Rights of republication of all oth entitled exclusively to the use for dispatches credited to it r and local are also reserved. postage at College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 or 846-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call 846-6415. bers Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Arts ; John D. Cochrane, College of Geosciences; D A McDonald, College of Science; Charles A. Rodenberger, College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Vet erinary Medicine ; and Dr. Page W. Morgan, College of Agricul- the Student Publications Board are: Jim « Liberal of Dr. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school ar; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to ! les tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas 77843. An appeal has been issued to all A&M students to return any borrowed medical supplies not currently being used to the Uni versity Hospital. According to Nursing Super visor Mrs. Louise Amyx, “Many students use our crutches, canes and bandages but fail to return them. I know many of them are simply left in the dorms after they are used.” Mrs. Amyx says there has been a shortage of these supplies re cently and “that when our supply runs out we will be without them unless they are returned.” She urged any student who has harrowed these items, “especially the canes, since they are the most expensive,” to return them as soon as possible. The Battali lollegt ■, and holiday periods, Sep May, and once a week during summer school. he Battalion, a student newspaper ished in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, toliday periods, September through jblished in College Static: jnday, and Monday, Texas A&M is except Saturda Publisher Texas A&M University Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor Lee Moreno ATTENTION MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising •vices, Inc., New York City, Chici Francisco. News Editor Bob Borders Reporters Pat Hill, Bill Aldrich, Randy Plummer, Bob Galbraith Sports Editor Gary Sherer Sports Writer Jerry Grisham JUNIORS AND SOPHOMORES Deadline to choose proofs for the 1967 Ag-gieland is 19 April at the University Studio, North Gate. Win a free trip home to get money! (Or enough Sprite to throw a loud party every night for a semester.) Don't write home to get money. Just write a college newspaper ad for Sprite. You may win a free trip home to ask for the money in person. What should your ad say? How tart and tingling Sprite is. And how it roars! Fizzes! Bubbles! Gushes! And tastes! (And how!) Not too sweet. Not too innocent. “VON RYANS EXPRESS” & “ART OF LOVE " mu OUt N UhOtBU tIABS IRfi TONIGHT AT 7:00 PJ, 1st Run Bryan DOCTOR youve got to be kidding At 9:00 p. m. “GLASS BOTTOM BOAT” ADDED ATTRACTIONS!! “SON OF A GUN FIGHTER CIRCLE 1st PRIZE 8500 IN TRAVELERS CHECKS or 5.000 BOTTLES OF SPRITE 100 PRIZES OF 825 IN DIMES ...so if you can't go home in person, you can use the telephone to make your point. RULES Write your ad the way you think would interest college newspaper readers. Give it a contemporary, sophisticated flavor. (A few swigs of Sprite will give you the idea --though you don't have to buy anything to enter.) Neatness counts a little. Cleverness counts a lot. Your ad can be any length--if it fits this space. (But remember you're not writing a term paper.) Send each ad you submit to Ads for Sprite, P.0. Box 55, New York, New York 10046. All entries become the property of The Coca-Cola Company. None will be returned. Judges' decision final. Entries must be received by May 2, 1967. Be sure to include name and address. Winners will , be notified by May 24, 1967. ueuj-axuil 1 -LI mu//; LAST NITE AT 7:00 PY “FIST FULL OF DOLLARS” With Clint Esterwood & “FOR THOSE WHO THINK YOUNG” OUR SAT. NITE BIG 3 No. 1 At 7:00 p. m. Burt Lancaster In “ELMER GANTRY No. 2 At 9:25 p. m. ‘WAKE ME WHEN ITS OVER” <29 S No. 3 At 11:15 p. m. Peter Sellers In “THE MILLIONAIRES