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THE BATTALION
Colleg'e Station, Texas Tuesday, October 1, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Candidates Draw Fire
For Racial References
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It looks as if the ‘Year of the Homs’ has been extended!”
Listen Up
Editor,
The Battalion:
We wish to congratulate Leg
gett Hall on winning the best
civilian dorm award of 1967-68.
The standards used — overall
grades, participation in special
activities, and intramural stand
ing — are fair and just means of
deciding the recipient of this
award. Certainly there are other
factors involved which enabled
their dorm to excel in these fields.
These are the factors which unify
a dorm, and they cannot be de
fined just as one cannot define
the term “spirit.” Everyone must
admit that Leggett Hall has these
qualities.
We realize that this is not the
first time they have received
this award, and that evidently
they must be deserving of it.
However, it is not only our in
tention but also our determina
tion to see that the award for the
year 1968-69 is placed in the hall
which we know will prove even
more deserving than Leggett.
This hall will show more spirit
and effort in this coming year
than any other dorm. The faculty,
staff, and the whole student body
will be proud to boast that the
prowess bold of the school they
think so grand, the spirit that
can ne’er be told, has never been
relized more than in the hall which
will receive the award for the
year 1968-69. It is our intention
and desire to see that we are
that hall. We issue this challenge
to everyone, and it is our hope
that they will strive to surpass
us even though we already know
it is highly unlikely.
MOORE HALL
Bulletin Board
TODAY
Associated General Contractors
will meet in the Architecture
Building at 7:30 p.m. Cotton
Bowl film will be shown.
The supra-consciousness of race,
ethnic, and religious differences
in the U. S. reached a new high
during the past week when two
sources involved in the political
campaigns of 1968 were called
to the fore for certain statements.
The first occurrence of this
“racial derision” occurred last
week when Republican Vice Presi
dential Candidate Spiro T. Agnew
referred to a reporter covering
the campaign as “the fat Jap.”
The second occurrence reached
its peak after U. S. Rep. George
Bush (R.-Tex.) denounced a story
in a Republican-oriented maga
zine in which the woman author
said she expected to see rich
“Hebrews” surrounded by long
haired women at the Republican
National Convention in Miami.
AGNEW PREVIOUSLY HAD
found himself in hot water when,
earlier in September he had used
the word “Polacks” when refer
ring to some Americans of Polish
descent. His referrence to Gene
Oishi of the Baltimore Sun as
“the fat Jap” brought howls of
protest from U. S. Rep. Spark
M. Matsunaga (D.-Hawaii), who
is not a “Jap,” but an American
of Japanese descent.
Bush’s denunciation of the mag
azine story referring to “rich
Hebrews” brought an immediate
apology from the magazine’s edi
tor and a promise to closely
watch further editorial matter for
such “offensive” material. The
strange part in the Bush case is,
who was offended by reference
to rich Hebrews ? It is almost
as strange as what any Hebrew,
described by Webster’s dictionary
as “a member of the group of
WEDNESDAY
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. on the second
floor of the MSC. Beginners are
welcome.
Orange Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the rotunda
of the Academic Building.
The Finance Society will or
ganize at 7:30 p.m. in the Art
Room, third floor of the MSC.
Aggie Christian Fellowship will
meet at 5:30 p.m. upstairs in the
YMCA. Topic will be “Sunrise,
Sunset or, What Did I Get Done
Today?” Speaker: Steve Atkin-
tribes of the northern branch of
the Semites,” would be doing at
a U. S. political convention.
Aerospace Engineering Wives
Club will have a reception honor
ing new members and faculty at
8 p.m. in the home of Mrs. James
Stricklin, 2318 Kent, Bryan.
THAT THE author of the mag
azine story used the word “He
brews” points to a racial-ethnic-
religious consciousness in itself.
She obviously meant “Jews,”
which is also becoming a word
with a low “acceptance quotient.”
The unfortunate part of these
two episodes is not the possibility
of “slurs,” but that this high
racial - ethnic - religious consci
ousness threatens to perpetuate
the very situation it seeks to eli
minate.
Even the word “nigger,” con
sidered the most derisive of ra
cial terms, did not gamer its
contemptuous meaning among all
people until the battle to out
law the word. Another unfortun
ate thing is that the people who
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The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Photographer Mike Wright
used that term derisively will
conjure the same image whether
they use the terms “Negro,”
“Blacks,” or “Americans of Af
rican descent.”
LIKEWISE, PEOPLE will see
the same image whether they use
the terms “Bohunk” or Bohemian,
“Polack” or Pole, “Jap” or Japan
ese, and even “Kraut” or Ger
man. And the fear of using the
wrong term for some group of
different racial - ethnic - religious
origin can only increase the
awareness of the difference.
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THE PROBLEM is
whole approach to ending pre
judice in these areas seems to
be backward. Instead of trying
to change the image in man’s
mind, our society seems content
in denouncing the use of certain
terms, happily attacking the term
rather than the intent. And there
is no hope of erasing these ra-
cial-ethnic-religious prejudices un
til the image, regardless of the
term, means man—be he black,
white, red, yellow, Jew, Baptist,
Mohammedan, or Hindu.
(Editor’s note: This is the
first in a series of biweekly
columns by Mitty C. Plummer,
president of the Graduate Stu
dent Council, concerning grad
uate student activities.)
New graduate students, wel
come to the fastest growing seg
ment of the student body. With
2,650 graduate students now on
campus, it is becoming increas
ingly difficult to leave the steps
involved in obtaining an advanced
degree to rumor, or to an indi
vidual’s knowledge of what
“Jones” did last year.
To give a clearer view of the
requirements of the Graduate
College to its new students, the
Graduate Student Council is spon
soring an orientation program at
3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Bi
ology Building, Room 155.
The speaker is Dr. G. 1
Kunze, the new ' dean of the
Graduate College. Dr. Kunze has
prepared a step by step procedure
to be followed from registration
to graduation, an explanation of
the Graduate College Calendar,
and tips on the use of a properly
filed degree program.
Time is being allowed for a
question and answer period to
cover subjects of interest not
mentioned in the discussion.
At The Movies
by Mike Plake
To sustain you through this
massive exchange of information,
Club Sbisa has prepared its VIP
blend of exotic coffees and sur
passed itself in the preparation
of the delicate European pastries
(les cookies du vieux armee)
which will be served.
It’s funny how people react to
movies. Not think about—but re
act. Friday night, after observing
a professional, beautiful film pro
duced by a skilled directoress,
Agnes Varda, I heard it described
thus:
“All that movie was, was a
bunch of scenes where the bed
sheets were down to the waist.
All those nekkid women and
everything—it was a shame, I
tell you.”
The female continued her nar
rative; however, far be it from
this writer to quote curses up
and down this column. One note,
however: The woman was in line
to see the late feature of “Rose
mary’s Baby.” I hope she didn’t
receive another shock.
“LE BONHEUR” (French for
“Happiness”) was shown Friday
in the MSC ballroom as one of
the Fall Festival of Films series.
It received Prix Louis Delluc Of
Paris (1965) and the David O.
Selznick Laurel award’s (1966).
It was a good movie. Made in
1965, in color, French language
with English subtitles, it was
easy to watch and understand
from the audience viewpoint.
The plot was simple: Francois,
a young carpenter, lives happily
with his wife and children. He
spends his life at work, at home
with his family, or in beautiful
woodland excursions.
UNTIL HE meets a postal clerk
and falls in love with her.
Francois returns home, aware,
happy,, and in love with his wife
more than ever. He meets the
mistress, played by Marie France
Boyer, on Weekends and in spare
time. After a month, on a trip
with his wife and children to
the country, he decides to come
out with it.
His wife is stunned at first,
but she listens and acknowledges
that he has been even more lov
ing to her since he met the mis
tress. They make love and go to
sleep, while the children nap near
by.
AFTER AWAKENING from
the nap, Francois gathers up the
children, only to find Mother is
nowhere around. The intensity
grows until the terrible moment
arrives: Therese, his wife, has
drowned herself in the quiet lake,
unable to live with the thought
of a second love for Francois.
Here is a touching moment in
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movie slows, the mood darkens.
What to do with the children?
The relatives ask. Francois pass
es a summer, the children with
out a mother, living with an
uncle, his employer. He then in
vites the mistress, Emilie, to live
with him and mother the child
ren. Emilie does, and the theme
of the movie, happiness, begins
anew.
Jean-Claude Drouot stars as
Francois; hig wife and two child
ren play his wife and two child-
ren.
THE MOVIE is filmed in East
man color, by Jean Rabier and
Claude Beausoliel. It is beautiful
to look at, easy to listen to. Its
theme of happiness goes beyond
a frivolous laugh or quick smile.
It goes to the deeper meanings
of happiness that real people
feel — the happiness of having
children, watching their antics,
enjoying their love.
Varda’s use of color to show
the moods between husband and
wife and mistress are subtle and
effective. Warm tones between
husband and wife smell of love—
cooler tones and slightly harsher
colors used in the scenes of Fran
cois and Emilie reflect a different
relationship.
IF I HAD to choose the most
special feature of the film, how
ever, it would be the photography.
Cameramen these days are learn
ing to paint in liquid, celluloidal
motion. They are opening eras
that are limited only to the con-
campus at a reasonable price—
movies that most of us would
not otherwise take the time or
have the opportunity to see.
cept of visual perception itself.
“Le Bonheur” is a good movie,
with a strong, simple plot and
competent acting. It is also some
thing more: an 85-minute long
painting, a beautiful piece of art.
Mark Schumann, director of the
film department of the Contem
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bringing these films, said he’s
sold out of tickets. Schumann is
to be commended for his efforts
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