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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1970)
, .. V ♦ V. , Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 28, l^TO THE BATTALION Listen Up the halt forum I Editor: I would like to voice my reac tions to the so-called “Spook Spectacular” that was shown by the Aggie Cinema on Jan. 10. I would consider myself to be an ultraist in the field of horror films, and so being, I was great ly disappointed. Instead of view ing what I expected, as was ad vertised, I saw a put-on. A put- on that cut movies to preposter ous magnitudes. This masterful editing job could not do justice to the films “shown.” “The Mum my,” for example, was so badly mutilated that if the mummy himself had seen what was done to his masterpiece, he would have turned over in his crypt or swal lowed his tongue (if he had one). A show such as this has to question the integrity of those who were responsible for the ad vertisement of this travesty. This is where the guilt lies for my criticism. The Aggie Cinema prob ably intended that the student body would take the advertise ment for what it said and there fore bring in a large crowd. The Aggie Cinema advertised three original movies, but in reality they showed one full-length mov ie and two 10-minute “abridged” versions of movies. The length of these movies were about equal to a Johnny Carson show with out the commercials. Future advertisements should tell it like it is, not how one would like it to be. Contrary to popular opinion, I think Aggies have more intelligence than the Aggie Cinema gives them credit for. Thank you, B. Paul Quinn If the sign was taken by a soulless atheist who does not mind seeing some poor kid maybe lose his mind because he can’t find wheer to go, I guess there is nothing I can say. So if the sign was taken by an Aggie, please return it, at no peril. If the sign was not taken by an Aggie, please excuse this letter. Personally, I would like to commend the A&M student body for its actions directed toward Freddy Steinmark. Ricky Leatherwood Sincerely, ★ ★ ★ Editor: Regarding the continuing cow boy vs long-hair controversy: Ob viously these people with hair longer than usual ought to leave A&M to decent folk. But since they are not likely to on their own, I have a solution. Why not have a standardized hair length? And while we are at it, why not have a standard cowboy boot ? And Levies, and cowboy hat, and stitched belt and . . . say! We could have a compulsory Corps of Cowboy Cadets! There would be a compulsory one hour course called Rodeo Science, and influx of calls from students in quiring about phone numbers. Ah yes, the phone company has Tor- gotten to provide us with even a crude form of a directory. But wait, maybe our maternal phone company is looking after our better interests. Not having any long distance phone service to speak of, “The Company” is able to help us save money. The tour of the broken phone booths does make a good deterrant, for who wants to spend an hour searching for a place to make a three minute phone call. We would only like to ask why after all these years of proud Ag gie tradition, General Telephone and/or the University has seen fit to grant its resident students so many additional benefits? Chris Kupper Jerry Hendy Editor: Knowing that I once attended Texas A&M University, Staurt Isgur, a director of the Univer sity YMCA, approached me to day with a problem. It seems the sign of Middle Earth in front of the ‘Y’ had been taken and the get-away car had A&M stickers on it. Later on that night he re ceived a phone call saying the sign would be returned if there would be no prosecution! Stuart assured the caller there would be none. However, the sign was not returned so Stuart asked me to write this letter in hopes of re gaining the sign. Having myself bororwed nu merous items from t.u. during my stay at A&M such as the Kin solving sign and the cannon and the stupid cow, I know the good bull of the rivalry. However these things were eventually returned unless they were at the bottom of the Brazos. We used the good old rationale that the organiza tions we attacked were of the fraternity-sorority nature and they could afford it. But Middle Earth is a non profit organization run by vol unteers to take care of unfor tunate kids who are experiencing bad drug trips. If the sign was taken not in good bull but because of oppo sition to drugs; may I inform the recipient that Middle Earth does not sell drugs but only functions to help those in trouble. After all Christ did not condone prosti- tudes but he didn’t turn the wo man away either, he helped her; this is also Middle Earth’s pur pose. This idea really ought to be looked into. Gary Aven ★ ★ ★ Editor: Do you realize that you and your roommate have the privilege of paying $52 a year for the tele phone on your wall. This $52 is merely a token amount when con sidering the services you receive. For instance, you are entitled to a five-week delay in long distance service. Free of charge, you may make a tour of the broken phone booths in the Bryan-College Sta tion area. Also at no extra cost, you are entitled to a long wait in line when you do find a phone that works. The housing office of your proud school is honored with an Penalty Fee Waived For Language Tests Penalty fee for administration of the Jan. 31 Graduate School Foreign Language Tests here has been waived, according to an Edu cational Testing Service official. Philip R. Harvey, ETS pro gram director of the graduate tests, indicated that students who took the Dec. 6 test have not re ceived test scores due to a com puter system conversion. “This may mean that some stu dents who are waiting for De cember results before deciding to retake the test in January may miss the deadline through no fault of their own,” Harvey said. ETS, therefore, waived the pe nalty fee for the January admin istration of the test. “Those candidates who regis ter for the January GSFLT and then learn they passed the lan guage requirement through the December administration will be refunded the full examination fee upon request,” Harvey added. Inquiries about taking the Jan uary tests should be placed with the Counseling and Testing Cen ter, 845-1651. ‘What line are we in?—Pass it on!” Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptions year; $6.50 per full y sales tax. Advertisin: are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year. All subscriptions subject to 4^4% rate furnished on request. Address: 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. sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station. Texas 77843. origin published here! matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. 1969 TPA Award Winner Members Lindsey, cha F. S. of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Coll leg' College of Agriculture. The Battalion, blished in College Station, T holida Sunday, May, ar student newspaper at Station, Texas daily and Monday, and holiday periods, Sep d once a week during summer school. Texas A&M is xas daily except Saturday, periods, September through Represented nationally by National I Services. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Francisco. Educational Advertising Los Angeles and San EDITOR DAVE MAYES Managing Editor David Middlebrooke Sports Editor Richard Campbell Assistant Sports Editor Mike Wright Staff Writers Tom Curl, Janie Wallace, Jay F. Goode, Pam Troboy, Steve For man, Gary Mayfield, Payne- Harrison, Raul Pineda, Hayden Whitsett, Clifford Broyles, Pat Little, Tim Searson, Bob Robinson Columnists Monty Stanley, Bob Peek, John Platzer, Gary McDonald Photographers Steve Bryant, Bob Stump Sports Photographer Mike Wright Aggie Wife Awarded Ph.T. Mrs. Rocky Bourdeaux was awarded a PHT (Pushing Hus band Through) diploma at the recent PHT Banquet for the In dustrial Education Wives Club. dent wives. Mrs. Donald Clark and Mrs. James Boone are spon sors of the club. Bulletin Board Mrs. Milton Garrett received the Outstanding Member Award and Mrs. Don Effenberger won the Outstanding Officer Award. New officers for the spring semester are Mrs. James Collier, recording secretary; Mrs. Russel McCombs, corresponding secre tary; Mrs. Ray Loyd, treasurer; Mrs. Jerry Eggers, parliamen tarian, and Mrs. Douglas Wright, reporter. Other officers are Mrs. Ronald McCage, president; Mrs. Michael Atkins, vice president, and Mrs. Leon Devlin, representative to the coordinating board of stu- Aero Wives Learn Of Cancer Symptoms The symptoms of cancer and ways of detecting the disease were discussed by the Aero Wives Club in its January meeting. Dr. S. W. Kowierschke of Bry an presented the program, “Can cer Dection and Self-Examina tion.” The club’s next program, “The Real Hat Shop,” will be pre sented at 8 p.m. Feb. 12 in a place to be announced. MONDAY Industrial Education Wives Club will meet at 8:30 p.m. at the Holiday Health Spa, 3008 E. 29th St. Refreshments will be served afterwards at the home of Mrs. Donald Clark, 3801 Still meadow Drive, Bryan. Engineering Technology Wives Club will have a coke party at! p.m. at the home of Mrs. Jeane Glazener, 1012 Edgewood, Bryan, FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Would You Believe? 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