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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 14, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“Since this is a letter you’re writing- to a box holder at
TWU, I’d suggest that you leave this part out about how
much you love her since you don’t even know her yet!”
Tight
F orecast
Interest
For ’68’
Although it’s known as lettuce, bread, dough, cabbage,
moolah, long green, beans, chips and berries, you can’t bake
it, fry it, or eat it.
Of course it’s money, and it’s never been found in the
frozen foods section, or with the potato chips, or even with
the detergents.
And yet money is an item similar to any marketable
products, and its value and price varies from day to day
and month to month.
A high-pressure system of inflation which has met a
stationery front of refusal to increase taxes has created
gray clouds of tighter money credit over the United States.
Production continues to grow at record levels. Wages
are at the highest point in history and prices are following
quickly behind.
People are buying more luxuries, and enjoying more
expensive housing, clothing and foods.
And with record high interest rates paid on savings,
people are also saving more of their disposable income than
ever before.
President Johnson asked for a 10 per cent tax sur
charge hoping that the spiral of increased spending and
higher prices could be curbed.
But thus far the House Ways and Means Committee
under Democratic Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas has
blocked the tax proposal to the delight of most Americans.
Additional income tax might seem overburdening to
most individuals, but the cost of maintaining government
“by the people and for the people” is increasing. Additional
revenue is needed and the inflation of a booming economy
needs some limiting.
It is an election year and although congressmen may
realize that a tax increase is essential to the stability of
the economy and the future well being of each individual,
few will act for fear of retribution through the ballot.
It is the sham of ignorance and the idiosyncracy of
an entire nation which prides itself on elective government
yet creates an atmosphere where politicians remember that
they’re politicians instead of qualified representatives do
ing what is needed.
The result is that the false sense of security in a boom
ing economy may soon fade into the realities of depression.
Federal Reserve Board managers are preparing to
further tighten credit. In the past that has meant empty
pockets for the housing industry, and at a time when in
creasing population and urbanization would indicate just
the opposite.
Tight credit means that when you want to borrow
money for a car, emergency or home improvements, you’ll
pay more interest, and 7 to 8 per cent doesn’t seem un
likely in the near future.
There is a problem of facing the lesser of two evils,
taxes or inflation. Save your dimes and pencils for hard
times ahead.
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AGGIELAND
John Fuller
A Roar For ‘Greasepaint’
There are several conditions
that a play review absolutely
must meet. First, the reviewer
has to get to the theater in time
to find out if understudies are
filling in for any of the actors
he’s about to criticize by name;
that’s only fair. Second, he’s got
to know a little background of
the play, so he doesn’t waste time
trying to figure out what’s going
on; in the case of a road-show
version of a Broadway play, he
has no business writing- about it
unless he’s seen the original, and
he has no right to criticize the
playwright because that has been
done years earlier by better men.
This, on the other hand, is a
column about “The Roar of the
Greasepaint, the Smell of the
Crowd,” presented in Bryan last
night jointly by the Rotary Series
and Town Hall. So much for the
conditions, none of which we can
meet.
“GREASEPAINT” is set, we
are told in the program, in “A
rocky place.” Period. The props
are basic: three huge stone slabs,
INTERVIEW
(Continued From Page 1)
pated total enrollment of i
20,000 expected by 1976, what
additional housing will be avail
able for students ?
RUDDER: New dormitories will
definitely have to be built for
some of the students. However,
off-campus housing, both in Col
lege Station and Bryan, will also
weigh heavily on the situation.
BATTALION: The 1976 projec
tion includes 6,000 graduate stu
dents, almost three times as many
as currently on campus. What
fields of graduate study will pre
dominate ?
RUDDER: Agriculture, engineer
ing and the sciences will head the
list, because we’re naturally
stronger in those fields. However,
I do foresee great improvements
and increases in graduate studies
in the humanities.
BATTALION: What new gradu
ate programs will be added ?
RUDDER: Aerospace engineer
ing, for one. We’ll also ask for
new master’s and doctorate pro
grams in the humanities. Where
there is a need and demand for
new programs, we’ll add them.
BATTALION: From an $18 mil
lion research figure now, an in
crease to $50 million is expected
by 1976. How will these funds be
distributed ?
RUDDER: I think it will be com
pletely across the board, dis
tributed to all the fields where
it’s needed.
BATTALION: When is the De
partment of Business Administra
tion expected to become a sepa
rate College ?
RUDDER: The Coordinating
Board has approved the establish
ment of this College. It will be
taken before the Board of Direc
tors this month at their regular
meeting.
BATTALION: Are additional
hikes in registration fees and
board fees foreseeable in the
future?
RUDDER: Tuition is regulated
by the state legislature. Board
fees are expected to rise, how
ever, due to the Fair Labor Law,
which has caused the labor cost
to rise. The cost of living, which
includes food, has been going up
every year. We can’t be excepted
from the national economic con
ditions.
BATTALION: Do you plan to
retire any time soon ?
RUDDER: I have no personal
plans to retire. I serve at the
pleasure of the Board of Direc
tors.
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ALL SOPHOMORES
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a few ladder-like structures and
a backdrop dominated by an over
sized disc which becomes sun or
moon or fades into nothing, de
pending on the scene. “Sir,” a
rotund, somewhat pompous, Chuz-
zlewit-style vagrant, is directing
“Cocky,” the Schnook’s Schnook,
in playing “The Game” on the
center slab, which looks like a
cross between a Monopoly board
and an Aztec calendar. A group
of “urchins” fill in the back
ground and double as the chorus.
“The Game” is the play’s ve
hicle. Cocky can’t win for losing,
schnook that he is, because the
tyrannical Sir changes the rules
and blows the whistle at will.
Cocky’s ludicrous position grows
poignant and even tragic when
“The Girl” is suddenly introduced
into the game, immediately be
coming his Love Interest, and is
then brutally snatched from Cocky
in a typical cruel power play.
After a series of similar dirty
deals, Cocky’s tongue - in - cheek
submissiveness gives way to de
fiance. He revolts, changes posi
tions with Sir, and then decides
“The Game” must go on anyway
because “now, at last, I see a
chance of winning.”
IF THIS doesn’t sound like
much of a plot—well, you just had
to be there. This is a symbolic,
surrealistic play, at times border
ing on theater-of-the-absurd, and
aside from their effect on charac
ter development, the events serve
mainly to change the mood so
that all the songs can fit in with
out sounding alike. (A lot of
them do, anyway, but that’s an
other subject.)
Like all symbolic, “message”
plays, this one is thought-pro
voking. If playwrights Leslie Bri-
cusse and Anthony Newley were
fanatical, doctrinaire communists,
then Sir would be seen to repre
sent the stereotyped Capitalist
Pig, Cocky would be the Down
trodden Laborer, the cataclysmic
overthrow would be Glorious Rev
olution and the denouement would
constitute the dialectical Synthe
sis.
In suggesting what they really
symbolize, those Broadway re
viewers (who can comment with
straight faces on man’s inhuman
ity to man) had a big advantage
over Batt columnists. Suffice to
say that the Aggies in the aud
ience didn’t have any trouble
identifying with Cocky.
Edward Earle was outstanding
in that part, getting the audience
first to laugh at him, then with
him—and, intermittently, to cry
with him. H i s songs, notably
“Who Can I Turn To,” we’re
flawless, and especially outstand
ing because they lost nothing in
the translation to cavernous Bry
an Civic Auditorium as most of
the others did. David C. Jones’ Sir
was domineering without being
sadistic, but seemed to lack the
gusto it would certainly have had
on Broadway.
BUT THAT was one of the few
reminders that this was not a
Broadway production. The orches
tra, lighting - , scenery and cos
tumes all exuded as much class
as anything else the auditorium
has seen. It must be duly noted
that several of the funniest lines
and even gestures were just down
right GROSS (prompting us to
wonder what the play must have
been like before it was toned
down for the hinterlands), and
gave a few ladies’ sewing circles
enough fodder for hours of
shocked rehashing.
Nevertheless, the Rotary Series
and Town Hall are to be thanked
for bringing this sort of thing to
Bryan-College Station. Coming as
it did in the middle of a typically
dull school week, “Greasepaint”
was a welcome brig-ht spot for
those students who took advan
tage of the opportunity.
It was almost worth missing
that basketball game.
To avoid detection, spider crabs
pile seaweed and small sea creat
ures on their backs.
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