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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, October 16, 1970 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “Couldn’t our outfit have a more positive sign?” Numbers in () denote channels 3:00 3 on the cable. 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night 6:00 3 15 (12) Sesame Street (NET) (Repeat of Thursday) ?:30 3 3:00 3 (5) Gomer Pyle 15 3:30 3 (5) Town Talk 15 (12) University Instructional 3:00 3 4:00 3 (5) Dark Shadows 3:30 3 4:30 3 (5) Bewitched 15 15 (12) What’s New (NET) 4:00 3 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital 4:30 3 15 (12) Misterogers' 15 Neighborhood (NET) 5:00 3 5:30 3 (5) CBS News 15 15 (12) Sesame Street (NET) 6:00 3 (5) Evening News 5:30 3 6:30 3 (5) Brady Bunch 15 15 (12) Campus and Community Today 6:00 3 7:00 3 (5) Nanny and the 6:30 3 Professor 15 15 (12) Civilisation (NET) 7:00 15 7:30 3 (5) Headmaster 8:00 3 (5) Movie—Secret of Blood Island 7:30 3 15 (12) A&M-Texas Tech 8:00 3 Game 15 10:00 3 (5) Final News 10:30 3 (5) Tom Jones 8:30 3 11:30 3 (5) Alfred Hitchcock WEEKEND FOOTBALL 9:00 3 SATURDAY 15 3:00 3 (5) Notre Dame vs. Missouri 10:00 3 SUNDAY 10:30 3 12:00 3 (5) Detroit vs. 11:30 3 Dallas vs. Minnesota Gene Stallings Show MONDAY (5) Edge of Night (12) Sesame Street (NET) (Repeat of Friday) (5) Gomer Pyle (5) Town Talk (12) University Instructional (5) Dark Shadows (5) Bewitched (12) What’s New (NET) (5) General Hospital (12) Misterogers’ Neighborhood (NET) (5) CBS News (12) Sesame Street (NET) (5) Evening News (5) Gunsmoke (12) Campus and Community Today (12) Southern Perspective (SEN) (5) Here’s Lucy (5) Mayberry RFD (12) Black Frontier (PBS) (5) Doris Day (5) Carol Burnett (12) Speaking Freely (SEN) (5) Final News (5) The FBI (5) The Law and Mr. Jones Bulletin Board SATURDAY Texas A&M Sailing Club will hold a free sailboat show at the Bryan Municipal Lake from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Demonstration rides will be given by club mem bers. The public is invited. SUNDAY Alpha Phi Omega will hold a pledge meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Room of the MSC. Alpha Phi Omega will meet at 8 p.m. in room 3D of the MSC. MONDAY Industrial Education Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the ME Shops Building. Dr. Leslie Hawkins will present a film about automobile safety. Engineering Technology Wives Club members will be guests. Flying Kadets will meet at 8 p.m. in the Art Room of the MSC. TUESDAY Junior Class Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. All hall representatives are urged to attend. Cepheid Variable Science Fic tion Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Birch Room of the MSC. Semper Fidelis will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 145 of the Phy sics Building. Capt. Tuttle from the Naval Flight School in Bee- ville will be the speaker. Ag Education Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Henry Ross, 906 E. 32 St. in Bryan. All members are urged to attend. Making the films with Bob Stump “Sunflower” is the story of two people enduring life’s greatest tragedy and most beautiful phe nomenon, love. The movie begins with several scenes depicting Marcello Mas- troianni (as Antone) and Sophia Loren (as Giovanna) falling in love in a small Italian seacoast town and getting married. Just days later, Antone leaves Italy for the Russian front. Thus, he and Giovanna are sep arated after their brief marriage, during which they fell passion ately in love, a fact that is some what hard to believe considering how the director devotes such haphazard shooting to this be ginning of the movie. The vari ous scenes lack continuity and many are too short to be effec tive, serving only to report what happened instead of being sub jective and entertaining. Consequently, the impression is one of a hastily conjured ro- Editor’s note: We have receiv ed in the past two days better than 15 letters similar to most of those below. Some were hand written and illegible. Of those we could read, we have tried to se lect those which best represented the general thought. Due to space limitations, we cannot run all the letters we received. We wish now to declare an end to letters on this topic and the topic of who has more spirit. No more, unless of exceptional quality, will be Editor: Last Friday night a friend and I had the unpleasant experience of attendirtg midnight yell prac tice. We went to the Grove to wait for the street parade to pass by. When the parade started get ting nearer, we got between the curb and the sidewalk to wait until the shoving mass of human ity thinned. As the parade passed, we mov ed out of the way for people who wanted by, and were minding our own business when a gung-ho ca det rushed up and pushed me. My friend broke my fall, and when I had completely recovered we told the guy to slack off a little. The next thing we knew there were two of them, the latecomer brand ishing a crutch in what I consider a striking position. A IxT „ .T ' Although the fellbw with the crutch didn’t strike Us, he surely was tempted; and he probably would have if he had thought he could have gotten away with it. If this is some of that good old Aggie “true-to-each-other-as-Ag- gies-can-be” spirit, then I must have a misconception of what these words mean. Perhaps it is an old tradition to get out of the way of the band, but we weren’t in its way. Even if we were in the band’s way, there was no cause for such conduct on the part of the cadets. This was not the only such inci dent we saw Friday night, so this wasn’t just an isolated case. If this is the type of “man” ROTC casts, then perhaps it should be abolished, as many patriotic American citizens now advocate. David F. Barnhart Michael R. Nagel The immature, uncalled-for be havior you describe is not limited to cadets. Unfortunately, it is considered good practice by some students to be drunk and rowdy and insulting at midnight yell practice. We’re sorry it’s that way and we wish it would change —Ed. Editor: For two years, I watched my black brothers protest for an on- campus organization. In reading The Battalion, I found that a Black Awareness Committee was established in answer to their re quest. I feel that I am not alone in confusion as to the objectives of this group. Furthermore, now that the organization has gained campus recognition, how has it functioned for the past half se mester? I have read many articles in The Battalion concerning the ef forts of this organization toward €bt 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 Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. The Battalion, published in College Sunday, Monday, and hoi May, and once a week during summer s student newspaper at Texas A&M, is Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, oliday periods, September through chool. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscriptio 50 per full year. . Advertising rate fui The Battalion, Room 217, Servi yet sal ar; $6. ions 11 y are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school abscriptions subject to Texas 77843. per full year. All subscriptions subjee Advertising rate furnished on request. Addresi Building, College Static 1969 TPA Award Winner Members of chair: lite liege of of Agriculture; an Lindsey, F. S. Whit. Coll the Student Publication Colleg. e. College of Engineering; Dr. Aoo. ... u .,w UC .o, . of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, Coll. man; H. F. Filers, Cc Board are: Jim ge of Liberal Arts; Asa B. Childers, Jr., The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news 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. try Medicine; d Roger Mill. er, student. Servi. Franc Represented nationally by National E dees, Inc., New York City, Chicago, scisco. nal Educational Advertising Los Angeles and San EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Managing Editor Fran Haugen News Editor Hayden Whitsett Women’s Editor Diane Griffin Sports Editor Clifford Broyles mance on the shores of Italy that is culminated by a spontaneous marriage and tom apart by the war. Then, we are suddenly trans ported through time until sev eral years later, when the war is over, we find Giovanna search ing in vain for Antone on trains returning from the war. This happens without any transition, leaving the viewer to decide for himself what has happened in the years since Antone left. There is a vague feeling that part of the filmstrip was lost and the producers decided not to shoot those scenes over. Giovanna is desolate when she learns from a friend of Antone that he was left to freeze in the snow of winter and there is little possibility that he is yet alive. And now the camera of director Vittorio De Sica moves in close on the face of Sophia Loren, re cording masterfully the images of a woman in utter despair and desperation. From here on, throughout the film, De Sica, forcefully presents this kind of emotion on the screen, turning what started as a rather ordinary movie into a moving display of romanticism. De Sica makes another one of his romantic triumphs when he shows Giovanna in a graveyard on the Russian countryside, searching for the name of her lost husband among the hundreds of graves stretching endlessly across the hillsides. As Gio vanna leaves, De Sica moves from a tight shot of her face to a wide panoramic view of the graves, where she is a mere speck on the screen. This is a splendid illustration of how hopeless her search for Antone is, yet as she is shown walking out away from the graves you can sense the in tensity and the purpose of her quest. Giovanna finds Antone even tually, and chooses at the last sec ond not to talk to him. Antone is left with a fleeting glimpse of her, which haunts him in the months to come, until he returns to Italy and seeks her out. He manages to find her in Milan, married and raising a family just as he was doing when she found him in Russia. Gio vanna refuses to break up her life so they can go away to gether. Now we see the hurt that she felt in Russia working inside of Antone when it becomes ap parent that all is lost for good and both realize, after all the years of separation, what their relationship might have been had Antone returned to Italy after the war. The last scene is of Giovanna watching Antone depart again for Russia, just as she had watched him go for the first time years before. Only now, LISTEN UP l_ the bait forum columns in newspapers through out the country, is for the purpose of allowing students to express themselves on current issues. presenting black viewpoints in The Review; however, excluding this, have the remaining endeav ors of the Black Awareness Com mittee been so trivial as to war rant no publicity ? Leroy Jones See page 1 story Oct. 8 for latest BAG activities—Ed. Editor, In the past I have read the column Listen Up because it rep resented a student’s view of ac tivities. Lately, I have noticed a great percentage of the views ex pressed have been yours. It seems that you could place your biases on the other three and a half pages of the Batt, and let the student body answer each other, as it has been done in the past. As for the word “we” used in a past rebuttal, I hope that you did not mean me. Allan Wade Geery ’72 made points clearer or helped the reader to remember the past statement or occurrence about which the present letter was written The way I see it, if you have a name, either put it at the end of your opinions like everyone else, or keep your snide remarks to yourself. John Collier 71 Jerry Cooke 72 An editor is not supposed to get personally involved with is sues that arise in the letters col umn. It is his duty to present a balanced column made up of oth ers views on various situations. We allow students to complete arguments and air their gripes. We see nothing wrong with com menting on views expressed. In the lower left-hand corner of this page, as every day we publish, you will see the section which in cludes the information that David Middlebrooke is editor. He is held responsible for the entire contents of The Battalion.—Ed. Take a look at other newspa pers (last year’s issues of The Battalion for example) and see how a letters column is supposed to be handled. If you have anything worth while to say about something, you should write an editorial instead of attacking everyone who dares to write into the letters column. We suggest you act like an editor and keep your irresponsible re marks to yourself or quit and let an Aggie take the helm. Robert C. Raiford '72 Louis B. Ullrich ’72 Robert J. Hartel ’72 Paul R. Hilton ’72 Jack D. Bennett ’72 Forrest A. Suehs ’72 “We,” as used on this editorial page, refers to the Batt staff only. It does not always mean the whole staff agrees with what is being said. It is the accepted way a paper expresses its opinions to its readers.—Ed. Editor: My letter is not to Mr. Berger ’71, nor in comment of anything he had to say, but rather to that wily wit of clever cliches, the in tangible and aloof.”—Ed.” There was a time when the Listen Up column was a place for individuals to air their gripes and comment pro or con about campus issues however small. They were safe from interruption and could complete their argu ments and be recognized for them as such, but that apparently has changed. The “—Ed.” of the past Editor: We have been following your comments in the Listen Up section of The Battalion, and we are shocked at your seemingly endless supply of “cute” remarks and bla tant attacks upon everyone who disagrees with you. The heading of the Listen Up column calls it the “Batt Forum,” but you either do not know what this means or you couldn’t care less. This section of the paper, as are all letters to the editors As we said above, we allow stu dents to express themselves. No one, including us, is immune to criticism, as the volume of letters shows. We present other views, but are under no obligation to be balanced, although we try to be. We have seen how other pa pers handle letters to the editor —The Houston Post, for example. We are not at all bound to follow practices of previous Battalion staffs. We believe we have an Aggie at the helm, one who is acting in an acceptable manner for an editor.—Ed. ROSES We Specialize In Them— Red, yellow, pink tropicana We have them. AGGIELAND FLOWER & GIFT SHOPPE Member F.T.D. for out of town orders. 209 University Dr. 846-5825 NOTICE ALL ORGANIZATIONS (Hometown Clubs, Professional Clubs, Etc.) GROUP PICTURES ARE NOW BEING SCHEDULED FOR THE 1971 AGGIELAND AT THE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE Room 216 SERVICES BUILDING Across from Chemistry Bldg. Pictures will be taken on Monday and Thursday Nights. Price — Full Page — $55.00 ^ V 2 Page — $30.00 written deep into her face, is the knowledge that they will never see each other again. It is a fine moment for the film and its actors. The coni' position is excellent, and sud denly the whole meaning and essence of the film become some thing that you can feel identify with. “Sunflower” is at unrealistic, beautiful, and fan tastic love story to be enjoyed by those who have a perceptiot and a conscience for romanticism. CANTEBURY BELTS Stnnus unibrrsitp mtn’g totar 329 University Drive 7 1 3 / 846-2701 College Station. Texas 77840 BROWN - ALLEN MOTOR CO. OLDSMOBILE SALES - SERVICE ’Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2400 Texas Ave. COURT’S SADDLERY... FOR WESTERN OR FOR YOUR WEAR MARE, FOR SHOE REPAIR BRING IN A PAIR. 403 N. Main 822-0161 Friday, Octobe: PALACE Bryan 1:15 NOW SHOWING 3:15 - 5:15 - 7:15 - 9:15 P.!i “SUNFLOWER” With Sophia Loren tmipm TODAY—2:30 - 5:30 - 8:45 PI. “PATTON” With George C. 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