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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 10, 1968 “Maybe she did write that letter because she was counting on a date to the Cotton Bowl, fish Squirt, but look at the brighter side—you saved the expense of a Christmas gift!” UH Strikes Again The University of Houston (our sports editor informs us) is currently under a three-year NCAA probation, sched uled to end in January, for football recruiting violations. It’s one of the few such probations ever to run its full course, he adds, and was one of the stiffest over levied by the NCAA. So much for sports. We now turn our attention to an Associated Press report from Houston, which reads in part: “University of Houston President Philip G. Hoffman proposed Monday that the South Texas College of Law merge with the University of Houston rather than the Texas A&M system • . . C. R. Walker, dean of South Texas School of Law, said ‘we are committed to Texas A&M right now and I don’t want to comment on it.’ ” Somehow, prospects for the proposed merger, which had been favorably noted by directors of both A&M and South Texas, seem suddenly less bright. Maybe we’ve been listening to too many embittered Southwest Conference recruiters. I LISTEN UP I ■■■■■hi the batt fovuTit hb«hshI male students favored women’s dorms on campus, a problem is encountered with alumni who op pose coeducation. PERHAPS THE most contro versial issue being considered by the group is what it calls a “lack of communication between the administration and the students.” “The administration has no trouble communicating with the students; the trouble is in the students communicating with the administration,” Gill remarked. “All you do is pay money to learn to take orders; students can’t make their own decisions,” he continued. “MANY TIMES the students are irked about something the ad ministration doesn’t know about, but would listen to if they knew about it,” Foye commented. “But many times, they (the ad ministration) ignore the prob lems,” added Bill Mbore, a sopho more biochemistry student from San Antonio, and a member of the planning group. THE GROUP suggested a monthly meeting between the ad ministration and students to al low the students to air complaints and ask questions about univer sity policy. Ideally, the group said, Presi dent Rudder would appear in per son before an open student meet ing to explain and defend any administration action misunder stood or opposed by any student. Another suggestion is commit tees composed of students, facul ty and representatives of the ad ministration to hear student sug gestions on matters concerning the students, such as professor selection and courses offered. FOYE POINTED out that both the University of Texas at Aus tin and Rice University have such discussion committees. “When we want to pattern something after the University of Texas, most students (at A&M) are opposed, even though it may be good,” Foye said. Gill suggested modeling the FLEDGLING SDS CHAPTER (Continued From Page 1) discussion committees after the Dining Hall Committees for Corps and civilian students. “OF COURSE, it took some riots here to get that (the stu dent committee). If the students get worked up enough, they’ll raise some hell,” Foye remarked. He was referring to student demonstrations in the spring of 1967 when the university an nounced a policy of compulsory board payments by dormitory stu dents. The disturbances received statewide press recognition. “THEY (THE STUDENTS) got results because the administra tion is so wrapped up in their own image,” Foye added. “When these decisions are made, some students should be there to voice their opinions,” Foye said. “We’ve got to have authority and the committees must have power relegated to them,” he con tinued. MOORE SUGGESTED perhaps strengthening the role of the Stu dent Senate instead of forming committees of students, faculty and administration. Student apathy in university elections was also discussed. they will get the wrong idea,” he emphasized. Foye commented on Larry Car oline, the controversial professor at the University of Texas whose contract was not renewed this “Why should they (the stu dents) care who they elect when those elected have no power?” Foye asked. JEFF DANIELS, the organizer for the SDS at A&M last year, was charged with violation of university rules and barred from registering for the fall term. He is now a student at the Univer sity of Texas. A hearing with the administration was scheduled on Daniels’ behalf, but he did not appear at the hearing. “He did our cause a lot of harm; he said he didn’t want to fool with it (the hearing),” Foye re marked. “IF PEOPLE form opinions of the SDS on observation of Jeff, year. “I DON’T agree with him, but he is a good speaker,” Foye said. “He (Caroline) says the power lies in the petty bourgeois, the merchants, shopkeepers, and small businessmen. I think the power lies in the production line,” Foye added. “THAT IS what I want; to ex change capitalism for socialism. I want people to cooperate, not compete,” he said. “I don’t agree with you; I’m a capitalist,” answered Lynn Zieg ler, a freshman psychology major from Denison, and a member of the planning group. Foye commented on the riots last spring at Columbia Univer sity in New York. “I’VE TALKED to Mark Rudd (leader of the Columbia distur bances), and the guy’s an idiot. He’s got some real bad hang ups,” Foye remarked. Foye said Rudd told him that students at Columbia tried to voice their complaints through administration channels for a year but were thwarted in every at tempt. “THE MAJOR advantage (of the riots) was the shock value. At any university, many of the students are wishy-washy and a small minority can really make themselves heard,” Foye said. Foye commented on the possi bility of violence at A&M. “I don’t think we should rule out violence, but we are opposed to violence,” he said. THE OBVIOUS question has arisen: If the local group is con cerned primarily with problems at Texas A&M, why does it as sociate itself with the national Editor, The Battalion: As the senior faculty advisor to the Great Issues Committee of the MSC Council and Direc torate I have been asked to ex plain why the faculty is charged admission to the Great Issues programs (such as the Black America Seminar, Dec. 10, 11, and 12). The Great Issues budget for 1968-69 is approximately $10,- 000, with $9,000 from student body “pockets” through activity fees, and the remaining $1,000, hopefully, from admission charg es. Thus, the vast majority is paid by the student. The rea son for asking members of the faculty, staff, and community to support this program is to give us an opportunity to share the cost of programs that are timely, informative, stimulating, and truly “Great Issues” in scope. These programs vary in cost. One speaker’s fee may be as high as $1,500, while another speaker may come at no fee. Even when a speaker is not asking a fee, the minimum cost to Great Issues is $200-$250, covering publicity, dinners, housing, meals, etc. We can participate by buying season tickets at $5 for one member of the family or $7 for two members, or paying $1.50 at the door for each of the 40-45 programs. The other faculty ad visors and I urge you to buy season tickets as a civic way of participating in this program. As you can see, if we do not par ticipate, it would mean asking the students to subsidize our share. The next series is the Black America Seminar. Programs for the spring include a week-long Seminar on the Urban Crises where Great Issues will join with the College of Engineering in presenting a comprehensive series of programs. Great Issues, joined by its Fac ulty Advisors, invites you to par ticipate in this program. Sea son tickets may be purchased by calling the Student Program Of fice at 845-1515, or dropping a note to Great Issues Committee, MSC, P.O. Box 5718, College Sta tion, Texas. Sincerely, W. B. Ledbetter Associate Professor Civil Engineering At The Movies by Mike Plake “The Legend of Lylah Clare” Yes, Frances, there is a Kim Novak. You remember, that beau tiful, blonde heroine who stuck by Frank Sinatra in “The Man With the Golden Arm,” that amor ous “waitress” in “Kiss Me Stu pid?” Kim Novak’s top performance I’ve seen was in W. Sommerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bond age,” which also starred Laurence Harvey. Compared with her dual role in “Lylah Clare,” it’s still the top. Press releases describe “Lylah Clare” thus: 1930’s movie queen who died on her wedding day in the home of her husband-to-be, Finch, called Lewis Zarkhan, the director who made her famous. Bart Langner, a press agent, discovers an ac cidental look-alike for Lylah in the form of one Elsa Brinkman (Miss Novak). So he grabs up Elsa, shows her to Zarkan, and the whole sordid mess of remak ing a movie star begins. —“camp spectacle ... if you have seen or dreamed of movies ... a send-up.” “The Legend of Lylah Clare” is camp spectacle, like a rusty roller-type washing machine, or a polluted lake. Instead of a send- up, it’s gargantuan let-down. IT STARRED Kim Novak, Pet er Finch, and Ernest Borgnine, with contributing roles by Rosella Falk and Norman Tobak and the Petersen Company, who produced the dog food commercial. The story is of Lylah Clare, a Zarkhan has made no movies for twenty years or so, since Lylah died. He will make this one, with Elsa, as a tribute to his dead sweetie. This he does, and with the same mistakes he made with the first Lylah. ALL MAY have been interest ing as a teleplay by Robert Thom and Edward DeBlasio. But it loses all it ever had in the hands of producer-director Robert Aldrich. From such great flicks as “Dirty Dozen” and “Flight of the Phoe nix,” he steps down, and gets soggy. close-ups of the space between his incisors and curse loudly. FOR THAT matter, all Finch does is put down everybody, all Rosella does is put down Finch, and: All Miss Novak, alias Elsa, does is start at the beginning at a stage of innocence or semi-in- nocenve, then progressively get aggressively torn to shreds, and, as those damned cameras close in, dies. “You look like a deeply offend ed Tibetan Yak,” Zarkhan tells Elsa as he watches her walk for the first time. That’s how the movie moves — like an offended yak, going uphill, with two weeks supplies on its back and a sprain ed ankle. Miss Novak is named in the Dietrich - Harlow - Garbo - Mon roe tradition by her pressman. Whoever picks her roles needs help. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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