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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, October 23, 1970
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Making the films
With Bob Stump
Occasionally a movie comes
along that is well done and en
tertaining biography of a per
son’s life.
“The Christine Jorgensen
Story” is not one of these.
It is the most inaccurate, soap-
opera style movie I have ever
seen.
The movie’s theme deals with
the struggle of George Jorgensen
(played by unknown John Han
sen) to adapt himself to living in
a society as a man, although he
is biologically a woman.
The show traces his develop
ment from childhood through
school, as a soldier and finally
as a person earning a living in
contemporary American society.
In a desperate attempt to find
himself, Jorgensen becomes the
first successful patient of a sex
change operation that transforms
him physically into a woman.
The life of Christine Jorgensen
is a dramatic and controversial
one, but the movie fails to do her
portrayal justice. It has an air
of cheap thrills about it.
★★★★
“The Hawaiians” is, on the
other hand, a very entertaining
film, the kind of movie that you
can relax with and enjoy.
Charlton Heston and Geraldine
Chaplin give excellent perform
ances, accompanied equally as
well by a dozen others under the
direction of Tom Gries, who
proves to have a special ability
to mold several plots together in
to one film.
The filming is excellent and
well accompanied by the music
of Henry Mancini, long known
for some of the finest motion
picture musical scores.
The movie revolves around
Heston as a retired ship’s captain
who has settled to farm a pine
apple plantation near Honolulu.
Heston proceeds to build himself
a sizeable estate from a barren
piece of land left to him by his
father, and in the course becomes
involved in a plot to overthrow
the native queen when she
threatens the economic security
of the whites living on the island.
He gets arrested for treason
and is thrown in jail, and his
brother, the prime minister, at
tempts to persuade the queen to
release him instead of hold an
execution to discourage further
such actions.
At this point, I’m not s u r 6
what happened. The local thea
ter at which I saw “The Hawa
iians” deleted one reel of the
filmstrip here, and all of a sud
den the scene jumped from Hes
ton standing before the queen to
Heston standing before the
statue of his brother, who turned
out to be the father of the coun
try.
It was as if a whole world had
passed by unnoticed, and I was
left wondering what happened to
several thousand people. Hope
fully, the theater won’t be re
peating this incident in future
showings. It just rips the hell
out of the director’s otherwise
good film.
If you can manage to see it all,
“The Hawaiians” is a good bet
for the weekend.
LISTEN UP
the bait forum
“Have you ever thought of how much would have been
saved on holes if th’ campus had been built six feet off
th’ ground?”
Numbers in ( ) denote chan
nels on the cable.
2:30
3 (5) Edge of Night
15 (12) Sesame Street
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
Society of Iranian Students will
meet at 6:15 p.m. in the Social
Room of the MSC. G. R. Djovadi
will give a lecture on economic
development in Iran.
TAMU Women’s Glub will meet
at 2 p.m. in the Baljroom of the
MSC. Mrs. Willie Belle Bogard,
home economist, will comment on
colored slides of Europe and
Russia.
Chemical Engineers Wives Club
will have a Halloween party from
7-10 p.m. at the old College Sta
tion city hall, 101 N. Church.
Please wear costumes.
SATURDAY
Game Club will meet at 9 a.m.
in room 3D of the MSC.
MONDAY
Campus Committee of Concern
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Lu
theran Student Center. All those
interested in attending or pro
viding transportation to the Oct.
31 antiwar rally in Austin are
invited to attend.
TUESDAY
Dairy Science Club will meet at
7 p.m. in the Keep Building.
Texas A&M Students for
George Bush will meet at 8 p.m.
at the old College Station city
hall, 101 N. Church. President
Nixon’s Texas visit and Bryan
canvassing will be discussed.
WEDNESDAY
Texas A&M Sports Car Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the old
College Station city hall, 101 N.
Church.
3:00
3
(5)
(NET) Repeat
of Thursday)
Gomer Pyle
3:30
3
(5)
Town Talk
15
(12)
University
4:00
3
(5)
Instructional
Dark Shadows
4:30
(
(5)
Bewitched
15
(12)
What’s New
5:00
3
(5)
(NET)
General Hospital
15
(12)
Misterogers’
5:30
3
(5)
Neighborhood
(NET)
CBS News
15
(12)
Sesame Street
6:00
3
(5)
(NET)
Evening News
6:30
3
(5)
Brady Bunch
15
(12)
Campus and
7:00
3
(5)
Community
Today
Nanny and the
15
(12)
Professor
Civilisation
7:30
3
(5)
(NET)
Headmaster
8:00
3
(5)
Movie—Bus
15
(12)
Riley
A&M-TCU game
10:00
3
(5)
Final News
1:00
10:30 3 (5) Tom Jones
11:30 3 (5) Alfred Hitchcock
WEEKEND FOOTBALL
SATURDAY
3 (5) Florida vs.
Tennessee
SUNDAY
3 (5) Philadelphia
vs. Dallas
3 (5) Gene Stallings
Show
1:00
4:00
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EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Managing Editor Fran Haugen
News Editor Hayden Whitsett
Women’s Editor Diane Griffin
Sports Editor Clifford Broyles
Editor:
In response to the letter of Milt
Garrett.
Members of the faculty staff
should not be members of the
Graduate Student Council (GSC);
however, under the present oper
ating rules of the GSC they are
legally entitled to a position on
the council if they have been
accepted by the Graduate College
as a graduate student, are regis
tered for at least 12 graduate
hours and have been elected to
membership of the GSC. This
may seem paradoxical that I say
faculty should not be on the GSC
but it isn’t, as anyone who has
bothered to attend meetings
could probably tell you or anyone
who has bothered to talk to me.
The present president of the
GSC:
—indicated at the time of elec
tion of the possibility of becom
ing a faculty member in the fall
of 1970.
—notified the GSC as soon as
the faculty appointment was
made.
—is still qualified—i.e., 12 se
mester hours, under the present
constitution.
I have urged constitutional re
vision to insure this type of situ
ation does not occur again. I ap
pointed Ernie Davis as chairman
of that committee on Sept. 17 and
any interested graduate student
may make recommendations to
that committee.
If full-time faculty members
would be swayed by the paycheck
in a controversy, would graduate
assistants (who also receive
checks from University funds) be
swayed any less?
I am not in a tenured position
and am only on a 9-month con
tract prior to graduating next
summer and going elsewhere for
employment.
On Thursday in the Art Room
of the MSC, there will be a meet
ing of the GSC at 11:30 a.m. We
encourage all interested graduate
students to attend; lately, we
haven’t had many visitors—The
Battalion reporter has been there.
In the interest of moving on
to things which are probably
more important to most graduate
students than the qualifications
of a president, this should be
construed as a letter of resigna
tion if the members of the GSC
feel that it is in the best interests
of all concerned. If there is a tie
vote, I will break the tie—and
resign as president to become a
voting member of the Council.
M. Land
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PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schulz
EXCEPT YOU DON'T PIG., AMD IT'S
ONLY OCTOBER, AND SCHOOL LASTS
UNTIL JUNG, AND THERE'LL BE MORE
E55AY TESTS AND MORE A60NY, AMD...
To you . . . intentionally obscure. To us ... an unsolvable
problem. The Student Senate and the Graduate Student
Council really exist and labor in their efforts. What do we do
in our labors? Are we obscure? We meet and we function
effectively, but too often the results fail to get back to the
university community.
Enigma
The Student Senate and the Graduate Student Council are
guests of VIEWPOINT in a new approach to improve
communication between student government and the univer
sity community.
On VIEWPOINT we will explain the purposes and aims of
these organizations. Why do we exist? Why does the Student
Life Committee exist? Welfare Committee? and others?
VIEWPOINT will also explore such problems as . . . Does the
student employee have to pay income tax? teacher retirement?
in absentia registration?
Listen—Tuesday the 26th on KAMU TV at 8:30. We bet we
can justify your viewing time and maybe encourage a new
viewpoint.
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