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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, May 1, 1969 CADET SLOUCH . . and she wants me to get a date for her roommate who has a wonderful personality!” LISTEN UP the batt forum Editor, The Battalion: I urge all responsible AGGIES not to be swayed by the events presently occurring on this cam pus. I refer to the thoughtless burning of some shrubbery be hind Lawrence Sullivan Ross’s statue. I refer to the childish scrawlings on the sidewalks urg ing “Non-reg Power” and “Civil ian Power.” These writings are done to stir up the AGGIES and to cause internal strife between Civilians and Corps. This school has a fine reputation for fair ness and understanding in the student body. The perhaps unfortunate hap penings of the last couple of days are now history. What these immature, childish individuals are doing by writing their some times obscene mouthings on the campus is to try and split this campus preparatory to causing trouble, strife, dissension and fights between Civilians and Corps. AGGIES, we as a student body can keep this campus peaceful. Corps and Civilian Students need to band together and ally them selves to catch these childish, troublemaking individuals whot have no respect for the law and, most particularly, for the fine reputation of A&M and for its buildings, sidewalks and students, both past and present. I want to urge all AGGIES to be on the lookout for these troublemakers and to apprehend them for prosecution as tres passers. If you see an individual defacing our buildings, contact the Campus Security and report them. It is against state law to deface buildings On campus and does much harm to the student body. Corps and Civilian: Unite to stop these troublemakers before it is too late. Stand up and be counted as men who will not stand for these childish mouth ings of people who want to rule by strife and anarchy. Thomas W. Wiley III, ’62 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: I like to think of Texas A&M as a more or less progressive school. During the past two weeks Texas A&M has regressed rather than progressed. Clearly, a precedent should have been es tablished in the A1 Reinert case, and it was. The Election Com mission, the Student Senate, and the majority of students at Texas A&M not only qualified, but chose A1 Reinert to be President of the Student Senate. To deny the rights of a minority is a sad thing, but to deny the rights of a majority is unthinkable. Clear ly, the University Appeals Com mittee has demonstrated to the students the kind of government it prefers (if, indeed, it prefers any). To David Wilks I send my heartiest congratulations for be ing the “smallest Aggie” (with an honorable mention going to the Election Commission mem bers who felt compelled to chas tise Garry Mauro). To the stu dent body: don’t you think it’s about time we started acting like the leaders of tomorrow instead of the children we were yester day? Dan Beckett ’72 ★ ★ ★ Editor, The Battalion: Tuesday afternoon, shortly after The Battalion came out, I received a phone call from a stu dent who called, not to chastise me for my letter, but to question my position. I explained to him that my purpose in writing the letter was not to degrade the administration or the civilian students but to express by view that the business of the student body should be decided by the Student Senate. In the course of our conversa tion, many questions came up about the Student Senate and the unfortunate incident that is now taking place. One of these was about the membership of the Student Senate. I had thought as he did that the Corps held the overwhelming majority in the Senate. But after the call I checked the roster and found that there are 27 civilian members in the Senate and only 24 Corps members. I believe that if there were more students that cared enough to ask their Senate officers and representatives what their posi tion was on various subjects and take the time to find out more about the Senate that the Senate would operate more efficiently and more of the students’ desires could be met. The officers and representatives are responsible to the student body but they can not know how the student body feels unless the students express themselves. The officers and representatives of the Senate serve in order to work for the students. But unless the students care enough to express their views, the officers can only use their best judgment in perform ing their duties. Do you care enough to help your repiesentatives work for you? Richard J. Reese Senate Treasurer ’69-70 TOM CURL Election Commission Makes Letters Home Interesting Bulletin Board TONIGHT Houston Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 321 of the Physics Building. After school party will be discussed. Tonight On KBTX Dear Mom, Well, the Election Commission has done it again. They’ve suc ceeded in becoming so mixed up by their own rules that they had to adjourn; of course, they would have had to anyway because they didn’t have the 22 people neces sary to vote on anything. They met Wednesday night to consider the cases of Andy Scott and Bill Holt, who were charged with leaving their campaign signs up past the deadline for remov ing them. They kicked Gary Mauro out Monday night on the same charges. They couldn’t consider Scott’s case because he still hadn’t been told He was charged with anything until after the meeting started. IT ALL started last week when A1 Reinert was charged with not having the minimum GPR (that’s what you chew me out about every semester) to be a candidate. They said Reinert was qualified (twice, because the first decision was appealed). But the University Appeals Commit tee and the Executive Commit tee did not agree so Reinert was disqualified after he won the election. I don’t know if this was right or wrong and I really doubt if very many other people do either. Well, after Reinert was ruled ineligible, somebody found that the other two candidates (Mauro and Scott) had also committed a no-no and violated a campaign rule saying that signs must be taken down within 48 hours after the polls closed. BOY, THAT meeting was something. Reinert, who had been disqualified, showed up in place of another commissioner to vote on Mauro’s case. Of course, Mauro wasn’t very happy so Reinert decided to give his vote to somebody else. After the wildcats and whoo-ahs had quieted down, some members of the commission proceeded to cut Mauro to pieces and almost re signed en masse to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the ad ministration. But Bill Carter, president of our Student Sen ate, talked them out of it. Fin ally they did kick Mauro out but gave him a light penalty; they said he couldn’t run in another presidential election. It was pretty late by that time so they decided to postpone any action on Scott or Holt until later. WEDNESDAY night at 7:30 they were supposed to have an other meeting to discuss Scott Senate Agenda The following items will be discussed by the Student Senate at its meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the library conference room, according to Senate Presi dent Bill Carter: • Committee and Representative Reports • Old Business A. Activity Fees B. Reapportionment C. Location of Voting Booths D. Aggie Sweetheart E. Speaker’s Policy Revision F. Education Committee • New Business A. Studeht Authority on Stu dent Elections B. Ratification of Constitution al Amendment C. Board of Directors Recom mendation D. Ex Officio Members Consti tutional Amendment and Holt. But at 8 p.m., they still didn’t have enough people to vote on anything. One com missioner said that he found out about the meeting in class that day, and another said that a Senior Council meeting was go ing on and that had claimed some of the members. A third commissioner suggested that perhaps the poor attendance might be because they had their year-end steak fry the night be fore. The people who were there talked about the election rules and decided to postpone the meeting because the rules were not clear enough. But all is not lost. They say next year the Election Commis sion will be made up of nine members. You know. Mom, if students don’t get out and vote to elect nine members who won’t let personalities affect their de cisions, we’ll have the same problems next year. I sure wish there was some way students could learn that elections are important because the winners are the people who will represent them for the next year. That’s about all for now. Send money. Your son (the one at A&M) 6:30 Animal World 7:00 That Girl 7:30 Bewitched 8:00 Thursday Night Movie 10:00 News, Weather, Sports 10:30 The Avengers 11:30 Alfred Hitchcock Dallas Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in rooms 3-8 and 3-C of the MSC. Next year's officers will be elected. Computer Science Wives Bridge Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the home of Mrs. William Tauzel, 1405 Skrivanek Court. Please call Mrs. Gilbert Fox at 846-8090 (or reservations. AGGIES (Continued From Page 1) use her college training. Kathy added that a girl should be will ing to work if the income was needed to help support the family. 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Regular $1.25 99c “Hell in the Pacific” is the first movie I’ve seen in a long time that wasn’t classified as art. It is. It features photography that tightens your attention like arms around your neck, and if that isn’t enough, its simple, wielding, natural plot helps keep you honest. It is a fine movie, maybe one of the finest ever made, any where. It is an entity within en tities, a product amid a sum of products. The fantastic realism of Lee Marvin and Tochiro Mi fune could not have been pro duced without a great deal of intensive effort. TOO MUCH PRAISE? Not when you consider that Director John Boorman only used two people in the cast, along with several islands and an old replica of an old Life magazine. Not when you consider that he makes a contribution, even while producing a film that entertains you with the humanity and in humanity of men to men. If “Hell in the Pacific” could be placed in the middle of a man’s magazine, the one thing which could distinguish it is its quality. It takes two men, an American pilot and a Japanese soldier, plants them on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific the ater of World War II, and lets them react. AND THEY do, nearly killing each other, gnawing at the edges and inner parts of each other’s minds until, in a rage of exas peration, they finally make a truce. They build a raft, to escape this Crusoe land. Neither can decide who will be the man Fri day, and who will be the boss. The raft floats silently and breath-takingly across miles of undulating gray-green sea. The two land on another island, only to find it being shelled by either force. Nobody wins. However, as much as it might resemble the traditional anti-war flick, this one isn’t just that. It is a portrayal of man, in two identities, each strong and proud and frightened to death of death and the holocausts that accom pany it. It reveals their frustra tion, their fears, and their booT- ishness. One quality stands out thruout the film. The photography is like looking through a natural won derland and manipulating it to fit your imagination. Bamboo limbs falling down a green cliff seem to dance instead of fall. Rain dropping on gigantic leaves seems incredulously sticky to their surface. Mud is dirty. It is a fantastic trip, out of superlatives. I’ve run “Live a Little!” How? Cash-value life insurance lets you do your own thing. Ready cash when you need it. Protection when you need it. Special policies for seniors and graduate students. We'll take the risk. You have the fun. Live a Little! Our College Representative can show you how. Robert (aeckle Southwestern Lifts Phone 822-3384 or 846-3111 Highlights of the United Campus Christian Fellowship COFFEE LOFT 8 P. M. — Midnight No Admission Charged Friday, May 2 — “DRUGS IN OUR SOCIETY” Featuring two films beginning at 8:30 p. m. —- “Drugs & the Nervous System” and “Hooked” with discussion to follow. Saturday, May 3 — “WHY ARE SOME LEAVING THE CHURCH?” 8:45 p. m. — A Panel will discuss this theme. Father Greene, St. Mary’s Rev. Wesley Seeliger, St. Thomas Rev. Robert Bray, 1st Christian 10:00 a. m. — A One-Act Play—“AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH GOD” ENCOUNTER SEMINAR LUNCH Noon -— 1:00 P. M. Lunch Provided — 25^ Wednesday, May 7 — Film: “SUPERMAN OR CYBORG?” (30 mins.) The prime question of this film is—-“What does it mean to be Human?” Where does the ordinary man fit into the future?” (Any Student-under-graduate or graduate or faculty/staff member is welcome to par ticipate in any of the above listed programs.) THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stiidetit writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supplied, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should be typed, double-spaced, and must be no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be with held by arrangement with the editor. Address corre spondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Lindsey, Members Isey, cha of the Student Publications Board are airman ; Dr. David _Bowers, College of fine Arts ; F. S. Vfhite, College of Engineering; Dr. Donald R. Clark, College of Veterinary Medicine : and Hal Taylor, Col lege of Agriculture. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. : Jim Liberal Texas 77843. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all new dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. EDITOR JOHN W. FULLER Managing Editor Dave Mayes Sports Editor John Platzer Staff Columnists John McCarroll, Mike Plake, Monty Stanley, Jan Moulden Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Tony Huddleston, David Middlebrooke Assistant Sports Editor Richard Campbell Photographers Bob Stump, Bob Peek Sports Photographer Mike Wright SENIORS NEW CAR FINANCING WITH DEFERRED PAYMENTS. BANK OF A&M For Information: Dennis H. Goehring ’57 - Bob Lynd ’59 - Stan Sommers. Officers Who Know & Understand Your Banking Needs PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz PEANUTS THIS IS MV “ FlR£T PAY OF MAY".PANC£ IT DIFFERS ONLY SLIGHTLY from my "first pay of fall " DANCE, (JHICH DIFFERS ALSO ONLY SLIGHTLY FROM MY "FIRST PAY OF SPRING" PANCE... ACTUALLY, EVfcN I HAVE A HARP TIME TELLING THEM APART... akbeA