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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
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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.
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organization of SDS, which has
a dubious reputation?
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organization with power. The ad
ministration must know that we
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swered.
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thizers and supporters,” Foye re
marked. He said the SDS chapter
in Austin has only 300 members,
but a called demonsti-ation would
produce 1500-2000 marchers.
“People would join us if they
knew we could accomplish our
purposes,” he continued.
“Unless you organize, you can’t
accomplish anything,” he added.
Foye said the young local chap
ter now needs publicity.
“Many students may reject our
ideas, but at least they know
what our ideas are,” Foye con
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Council Historian was established as a permanent office of tbf
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position whose duties are as follows:
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rent activities of members of the Council or Directorate since
the founding of the MSC program in 1949. This list would
be kept updated, on a year to year basis, in order that news
letters and other MSC news items could be sent out pencil
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2. To bring up-to-date changes in address, family status, and
the business status of these men.
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