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■ •• ^ • — CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Making the films ‘Student Nurses’ flunks out oec 7Q By BOB STUMP Riding on all the hip themes of the new free-wheeling cinema, “Student Nurses” goes out the same way it came in — through the back door. The film's writer must be an avid reader of Newsweek, Life and his daily newspaper, not to mention seeing all the evening news shows on television. His film is a giant stab at the con temporary social problems of to day’s America, intermingled with rumpled bed sheets. He runs the gauntlet in por traying socio-economic issues, in cluding abortion, racism, the morality of free sex, freedom of the press and poverty. To top it off, he includes the anguishing side drama about a patient-nurse relationship for a piece of “real life” interest. There are loud overtones of the love and peace culture clash ing with the establishment, repre- Listen up Motives seen questionable Editor: I found the article “Students Discover Alternatives” in the Nov. 24 edition very interesting. How ever I question the motives of the participants. Why, for instance, did this group wait until Bonfire weekend to render this service to the local community? And why don’t we hear of these fine cit izens carrying on this type of work year around ? I submit that these people are not half as concerned with the public service rendered as they are with drawing unfavorable publicity toward the Bonfire. I might add that it also speaks ill of the local school system if it must rely on free labor and ma terial to maintain the school buildings. It will be interesting to observe the projects which will follow in the coming semester. I would hope that this group of students would continue its unselfish serv ice throughout the year; in which case I would owe them an apol ogy. But I doubt it. David R. Calvert ’72 ★ ★ ★ Editor: I dislike joining the group that uses Listen Up to air gripes. However, in this case I have an other motive for writing: to create an issue. The married students in the College View area have been notified that maintenance costs have increased and rent will be raised seven dollars per month. As though we do not have enough pressures with family, monetary, and academic sources, now we are confronted with an other rise in out-take without rise in income. I will not use your column to present the pros and cons of this issue, but we believe there is more evidence in the resi dents’ behalf than in the admin istration’s behalf. Please print this and any other letter pertain ing to this issue. Help us make it a real issue. The living standards of Col lege View do not warrant an in crease in rent. R. M. Sanders ★ ★ ★ Editor: My faith in your generation has been restored. The Nov. 10 issue of my sub scription to The Battalion ar rived today carrying on the front page a picture of a freshman by the name of John Walker. His answer to the question, “Do you think university policemen should be armed?” is what I wanted to hear: “They do on other campuses but not at A&M.” With all I read about my country, I have clung to my firm belief that Texas A&M is a big island in a huge ocean of violence, ignorance, rule by minorities, and timidity of the majority. John Walker in a few words said that my faith in my “big island” is not in vain. Campus cops these days are required to do more than give out parking tickets. I hope that’s all they will ever be required to do at Texas A&M. But other campuses are different. There is nothing sacred, neither the tax dollars we are required to pay, nor our bequests. Exponents of a “little learning” are proving it is “a dangerous thing.” Young Walker seems to be steered in the right direction. He seems to be a big rock of the big island I thought was crumbling. He appears to be going far. He bears watching. Jack Bell Jack Bell is a member of the Association of Former Stu dents, although he did not at tend the university. He con tributes to the Association’s work. —Ed. Numbers in ( ) denote chan nels on the cable. 2:30 3 ( 5 ) Edge of Night 15 (12) Sesame Street (PBS) 3:00 3 ( 5 ) Corner Pyle 3:30 3 ( 5 ) Town Talk 15 (12) University Instructional 4:00 3 ( 5 ) Dark Shadows 4:30 3 ( 5 ) Bewitched 15 (12) What’s New (NET) 5:00 3 ( 5 ) General Hospital 15 (12) Misterogers’ Neighborhood (NET) 5:30 3 (5) CBS News 15 (12) Sesame Street (PBS) 6:00 3 ( 5 ) Evening News 6:30 3 ( 5 ) Brady Bunch 15 (12) Campus and Community Today 7:00 3 ( 5 ) Nanny and the Professor 7:30 8:00 ( 5 ) ( 5 ) (12) 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:30 15 (12) Civilization (PBS) Headmaster Movie The Nader Report (PBS) This Week Our Vanishing Wilderness Final News Tom Jones Alfred Hitchcock (12) (12) ( 5 ) (5) ( 5 ) WEEKEND FOOTBALL SATURDAY 1:30 3 ( 5 ) Texas vs. Arkansas 6:30 3 ( 5 ) Charlie Brown Christmas SUNDAY 12:00 3 ( 5 ) Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington MONDAY 2:30 3 ( 5 ) Edge of Night 15 (12) Sesame Street (PBS) If you’re on Midwest Video’s cable you are going to see more. (adv) 3:00 3 ( 5 ) Gomer Pyle 3:30 3 (5) Town Talk 15 (12) University Instructional 4:00 3 ( 5 ) Dark Shadows 4:30 3 ( 5 ) Bewitched 15 (12) What’s New (NET) 5:00 3 ( 5 ) General Hospital 15 (12) Misterogers’ N eighborhood (NET) 5:30 3 ( 5 ) CBS News 15 (12) Sesame Street (PBS) 6:00 3 ( 5 ) Evening News 6:30 3 ( 5 ) Gunsmoke 15 (12) Campus and Community Today 7:00 15 (12) Southern Perspective (SEN) 7:30 3 ( 5 ) Here’s Lucy 8:00 3 ( 5 ) Mayberry RFD 15 (12) Soul (PBS) 8:30 3 ( 5 ) Doris Day 9:00 3 ( 5) Carol Burnett 15 (12) Speaking Freely (SEN) 10:00 3 ( 5 ) Final News 10:30 3 ( 5 ) The FBI 11:30 3 ( 5 ) The Law and Mr. Jones Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is U,e student writers only. The Battalion is a non-ta*- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter- May, and once a week during summer school. prise edited and operated by students as a university and MEMBER community neivspaper. Associated Press, Texas Press Association LETTERS POLICY The Associated Collegiate Press Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and „o more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writers name Will be Withheld by sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, exaa —‘ — College Station, Texas 77843. 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 1969 TP A Award Winner origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. Lindsey, chairman ; H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts ; F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., TT'nTT'riT? TV A ATT TV TVTTTVTVT T7 1 'RT?rVfVTn7' College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, College ,, JJAAU . K UAV1D MiUULLUKUUJAL of Agriculture; and Roger Miller, student. Managing Editor Fran Haugen r ——-—„ . __ .. rr-— . News Editor Hayden Whitsett Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Wnmpn’a LVlitnr TVi'ano CriP-fin Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Women S ihOltOr JJiane Erntlin Francisco. Sports Editor Clifford Broyles sented a bit unfairly by a few cops and some hospital adminis trators. The show has a river water thin plot about four girls in nursing school who bring the hos pital’s male staff home with them after hours. (That may not be so thin, if you live by certain rivers.) One of the student nurses walks the streets of Los Angeles until she finds a real head, com plete with California chopper, and takes off with him into the wild life to discover he is really an acid chemist who turns her on and makes love to her by the ocean. She takes a bad trip and hallucinates. She is being watch ed by the turned-off world, little old housewives in curlers shaking their fingers in moral disgust. Done in slow motion, this sur realistic scene doesn’t look at all like a drug trip as it tries to be symbolic of the conflict between the old guard and the new cul ture. The theme of self-determina tion is carried out when she tries to get an abortion and has to settle for an illegal one by one of the resident interns from the hospital. The show deals with some very significant issues with little skill, giving them superficial treatment and being more concerned about gaining favor with the sex-ob sessed set. While the story suffers from some very poor dialogue sound ing like it was taken from a grade-school playwright, some of the photography is excellent. Much of it reflects amateurism, but there are some very beauti ful scenes filmed in natural light which are really turn-ons. Once, when the camera is foc used on a flower, it changes foc us to the nurse and her hip friend on a hillside, creating a transition that lets you sit back and smell the warmth of spring time, despite the permeating odor of popcorn. “Student Nurses” belongs to that braket of low-budget films made by shoestring people, and the only one with any talent was the photographer. They put to gether a lot of good ideas for about six films and tried com bining them into one movie, sac rificed actor quality for actor quantity and made a rather bland show that will never, never make the late night television runs. Bulletin Board SATURDAY Wildlife Science Wives Club will have its fall PhT banquet at 7:30 p.m. at 204 N. Alamo (the Hermann Sons’ Lodge). Each couple is to bring a tree orna ment and a food item to contribute to the party. Electrical Engineering Wives Club will hold its Christmas party at 8 p.m. in Cashion Cabin in Hensel Park. For more informa tion, call Mrs. Turner at 846- 5653. Aggieland taken. Class A winter or coat and tie should be worn. WEDNESDAY Abilene Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Academic Building. THURSDAY Elementary Education and Kin dergarten Student Teachers will hold an Idea Fair at 7:30 p.m. in room 401 of the Academic Build ing. SUNDAY Alph Phi Omega will meet at 7 p. m. in room 3-D of the MSC to elect officers and vote on pledges. Wings and Sabers and SAME will hold a joint meeting at 7:30 p. m. in room 210 of the Military Sciences Building to hear a joint program on “Military Engineer ing.” Majs. Thorp and Hass from the Air Force and Capt. Janairo and Eller from the Army will be speakers. Informal discussion, and coffee will follow. Fine arts photos subject of exhibit Asst. Prof. Howard F. Eilers of the Journalism Department will have an 18-print nature pho tography exhibit hanging in the Architecture Building lobby the next two weeks. The assistant professor of journalism teaches photography and visual communications. The one-man show includes black and MONDAY Industrial Education Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Clark, 3801 Stillmeadow Dr. in Bryan to elect officers for the spring semester and hold a “Holi day Tasting Bee.” TAMU Veterans Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in rooms 2C-D of the MSC. white studies photographed in Minnesota, Colorado, Texas and Ontario, Canada. Four of the prints are 20 by 30 inches and the remainder at 16 by 20 inches. Eilers used 35 mm and 120 roll film to photo graph the studies. TUESDAY Orange County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p. m. in the MSC to have a picture for the perma-crease Westbury Slacks giurt 5 In nt cr. unibergitp men’s toear 329 University Drive 713/846-2706 Cbllefte Station, Texas 77840 CASH FOR USED BOOKS WE BUY, SELL OR TRADE Come Down Our Way, Trade Your Way LOUPOTS SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! After December 1, 1970, the TRI-COUNTY TEACHERS CREDIT UNION will not have a permanent representa tive in Brazos County. Brazos County school employees interested doing credit union business should contact the Credit Unions home office direct. TRI-COUNTY TEACHERS CREDIT UNION 5925 Highway Boulevard Katy, Texas 77450 Phone: (713) 852-7555 Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, December 4,191 BUSIEK AGENCY Cann REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loani ARM & HOME SAYINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 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