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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thuijsday, September 19, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
KERB
by Jim Earle
At The Movies
by Mike Plake
“If any of us added up the time we spent standing in line
for a box, the time spent checking it for mail, the cost of
box rent and divided it by the number of letters we got,
we wouldn’t be here! 4 ’
In Memoriam
The following letter was received here this week and
forwarded to The Battalion. We offer it here in accordance
with the wish expressed in the fourth paragraph.
Lt. Col. AF Res. (Ret.) Stephen E. Tubre, Jr.
6913 Weddigen Way
North Highlands, California
Dear General Rudder,
The Army has advised us our son, First Lieutenant
Stephen Renier Tubre, died in Vietnam 31 August 1968 from
injuries he received when the aircraft he was piloting
crashed. The crash was the result of hostile action.
Stephen will be returned to California under escort,
Lt. Glenn R. Donahoe, former class of ’66 roommate.
We have selected Golden Gate National Cemetery as
final resting place. Date of burial is pending arrival of
remains from Southeast Asia.
Stephen has “carried on” in tradition of a fine soldier
and a great Texas Aggie. Please remember him to the
Cadet Corps, to which he was extremely dedicated and
loved so much. His young wife, Carmen, and daughter
Tiffanie, a brother, Brent, and sister, Linda, join in wishing
the best of everything to the Aggie Corps and may God
bless and keep them all.
Respectfully,
Stephen and Carol Tubre, Jr.
Stanley Kramer’s film, “Guess
who’s coming to dinner,” is im
portant. Not important because
of any problems it proposes or
attempts to solve; it does, and it
doesn’t.
But it brings in another as
pect of the race problem beset
ting the nation. “Skin pigmenta
tion,” as Spencer Tracy, in the
finest role he ever played, said
it.
The idea of making a movie
to bring about a face-to-face ex
posure to the problem of inter
racial marriage is one thing; what
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”
does is quite another. In the first
place, it’s a little far out to hope
that if a white American father’s
daughter were to marry a Ne
gro, that he would have the list
of impressive credentials that
Sidney Poitier as the good Doc
tor Prentice had.
IT’S EVEN further out to hope
that that particular father had
been a crusading newspaper man
who happened to have fought
against racial prejudice during
his career.
The problem faced by Poitier
as a handsome young Negro doc
tor, and by Katherine Houghton,
reared and educated to have no
prejudices against such a man,
is real, however. This is the film
industry, particularly the Holly
wood film industry, in its first
attempt to raise the question of
realistic attitudes with Negroes
and interracial marriage.
So, you, the reader, ask your
self, what does all this rigama-
role mean? Is the movie-reviewer
just trying to take up space ?
PLACE YOURSELF, as an Ag
gie or Maggie, teacher or admin
istrator, into the future, or into
a similar situation. Place your
self having to decide whether or
not you would give your child
permission to marry outside his
race.
Would you?
That’s the message; the medium
is the film, which netted Katha
rine Hepburn an Academy Award,
Juvenile Officers To Meet Here
Fifty juvenile police and ju
venile probation officers will meet
here Sunday through Thursday
to discuss their respective roles
with one another, Ira E. Sco^t an
nounces.
“We feel there is a need to
bring these two groups of of
ficers together on a common
ground,” said Scott, head of the
Police Training Division of the
Texas Engineering Extension Ser
vice.
Scott pointed out a “void ex
isting between juvenile and pro
bation officers” and said he hoped
such “meetings as this one will
help ease tensions that have ex
isted for years.”
The course, directed by former
police chief Charles Wirasnik,
now an instructor with the train
ing division, is the second of its
kind conducted at A&M. A simi
lar course was held last year.
Participants will include adult
probation officers in addition to
juvenile and juvenile probation
officers. Courses will include ju
venile law, functions of the ju
venile court and briefings on re
cent judicial decisions on indivi
dual rights.
The four-day meeting will start
at 7:30 p.m. with a banquet in
the Memorial Student Center ball
room. It ends on the eve of the
Southeastern Regional Confer
ence of Juvenile and Juvenile Pro
bation Officers which will hold
its annual meeting at A&M.
Senate Shorts
By BILL CARTER
Student Senate President
Howdy and welcome back to
Texas A&M.
This is the first in what I hope
to be a series of widely read re
ports from me about the Student
Senate.
From all standpoints, it looks
like this may be “The Year That
Was” at Texas A&M. The foot
ball team is going to be Number
1 and the various student organi
zations have excellent programs
outlined for the coming year.
Our first senate meeting is
Thursday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m.,
in room 3B-3C of the Memorial
Student Center. I want to re
mind you that all senate meet
ings are open and that we en
courage your attendance.
This should be a great year for
the senate. It will be a year of
transition, in which the Senate
will start assuming the role of
a real student government. You
will be hearing more of the Sen
ate’s plans in future articles.
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COFFEE LOFT
1 Block East of Post Office
Friday — 8 til Midnight
Saturday evening- in the Coffee Loft football listening- party and film
highlights of 1967.
which she deserved, and nominat
ed Spencer Tracy for the same
Award, which he deserved but
missed. The massage, as McLuhan
calls it, is the rub, a problem
which must be met and solved
by every individual who hopes
to live without continuing con
flict between races.
The rub is skins, and how they
are colored.
THE LOCAL theater owner-
operator here, Bill Schulman, is
to be complimented both for his
choice of films being offered at
present and for some for which
to watch in the future. \
After running “Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner” at the down
town Palace Theater, he switched
it to the Campus. And likewise,
he switched “The Odd Couple,”
which was at the Campus, down-
tow-n. Both films are worth see
ing and both present some truths.
But while “Guess Who” pre
sents the truth in a dramatic fas
hion, “The Odd Couple” is op
posite.
It’s the funniest movie I’ve
ever seen.
TAKEN FROM a play written
by Neil Simon and run for many
seasons as a hit on Broadway,
the movie is one and a half hours
of thunderingly hilarious one-line
gags. There are so many funny
lines in this movie that you catch
yourself attempting to catch your
breath while attempting to catch
still another joke that you did
n’t. The “Odd Couple” you could
see once, twice, or even three
puf^s longer than most comedies.
Not only do you laugh at this
movie, you laugh at the truths
in it that you’ve seen come in
life; you’ve seen Felix Ungars,
and typically, they always get
the girl.
Walter Matthau, as the sloppy
sportswriter, and Jack Lemmon
as immaculate Felix, and the
whole cast of poker players who
play such an important part in
the movie, are cast with excel
lence and played the same.
It’s impossible to describe the
movie, as it is impossible to de
scribe the tears of laughter that
come from viewing it.
As the advertisements say:
“Say No More.”
The Campus Theater, which in
the past was a movie house, is
now a theater. Remodeled with
maroon tile offset with white
“T” ’s on the outside, with new
carpet and re-upholstered seats
inside, it has changed. Cutting
classes to go to the flicks is
not only fun, it is comfortable.
The same applies downtown at
the Palace, with its new carpet
and wood - paneled interior, de
serves mention here. I don’t know
whether “Happiness is Bryan-
College Station” strictly applies
to Aggies, but movie-going was
never better.
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