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. .• ■ . Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, February 12, 1971 At the cinema CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earie ‘Three in Cellar/Attic’ boredom lessons^ SOOH "MLFUMCTIOM jciwct/om " filmed S* L&SETr HALL iCAH AU-A66/E By PAT GRIMES If you’re bored, really down- and-out bored, by all means go to the Campus Theater this week. You’ll get a profound lesson in real, total and complete BORE DOM. First prize goes to “Three in the Cellar,” a wild, funny now- generation picture it ain’t. But for general excitement it offers about 45 seconds of the naked, top half of a supposedly ugly chick. A Playboy bunny she’ll never be. The story line is thin and the acting genuinely insults your in telligence. The gags also are overly obvious. To begin, we have this easily swayed collegian poet being re jected by a computer and having his home (a vacated building) demolished, all on the same won derful day. In a beaten down state he joins a “clean-cut” revolutionary group intent on ruining the political aspirations of the university’s gung-ho president. Several attempts of suicide by our hero fail, so he formulates a photographic plan whereby he seduces, one by one, the daughter, wife and mistress of the presi dent, the human source of his trouble. He succeeds or should I say they succeed. The daughter is convinced she’s ugly, except on film; the wife is an astrological nut with a capital N; and the mistress is a racial bigot. The poet is downright mindless and the university presi dent takes the cake for the most ridiculous modern-day imitation of a cowboy I’ve ever seen. Anyway, to continue, the poet falls for the daughter and fails in his revenge attempt against her father. It seems, upon ex posure, the people sympathize with the old man, thereby in creasing his popularity poll. Another suicide attempt fails, which is a real shame, but at least he tries. So the grand finish offers poet, daughter and ex-wife driving off into the astrological sun. The film runs about 86 minutes and that is 83 minutes more than it should. Second place goes to “Three in the Attic.” Although a definite cut above the other, it, too, dragged. The premise again dealt with revenge that ultimately backfires in the end. Paxton Quigley is a frat rat known for his sexual mores be ginning way back when. He attempts to give the viewing audience an illustrated study on the female, but after his conquest of the bookworm type, he gets sidetracked, twice. His lacrosse-oriented roommate suggests he should re-establish his record, since he had three girls on the hook anyway. A schedule is planned and we see Quig in continuous action. The truth finally comes out and Quig is locked in an attic. The three vengeful girls rotate every hour until he is sexually ex- DPS director favors laws allowing oral statement use mg!’ ‘What they’re working on now is getting an “X” rat- Bulletin Board SATURDAY Game Club will meet at 9 a.m. in room 3D of the MSC. SUNDAY First United Methodist Church will host Rabbi Roy Walter of Temple Emanu El in Houston at 7:30 p.m. His talk is the second in a series on the Psalms. All in terested are invited to attend. MONDAY Wildlife Science Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 1301 Timm Drive, College Station, for a “testing party.” A&M Veterans Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Room of the MSC. Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 7:45 p.m. in the lobby of the MSC to have pic tures taken for the Aggieland. Alpha Zeta Fraternity will meet at 7:30 p.m. in rooms 2C-D of the MSC to hear a guest speaker. A&M Go Club will meet at 7 p.m. in room 2D of the MSC. It’s a new club and all interested per sons are invited. Mid-Jefferson County Home town Club will meet at 7 p.m. in room 3D of the MSC to elect officers and view the A&M-LSU game film. Cepheid Variable Science Fic tion Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 346 of the Physics Build ing. Freshman Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the conference room on the second floor of the library. Industrial Technology Wives Club will tour Accents Contempo rary, 3219 Texas Ave. at 8 p.m. After the tour, a meeting is scheduled for Denny’s. For infor mation or a ride, call Karen at 846-6919. TUESDAY Marketing Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in rooms 2C-D of the MSC to hear a talk on “Promo tion Plans for 1971.” Sociology Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the home of Dr. Rob ert Skrabanek, 307 Gilchrist in College Station. WEDNESDAY Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 101 Church St. in College Station (the old city hall). THURSDAY El Paso Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the MSC front desk to have pictures taken for the Aggieland. Class A win ter or coat and tie should be worn. The Director of the Texas De partment of Public Safety called Thursday for new laws that would allow the use of oral con fessions and changes in the pun ishment of persons convicted of drunk driving. Col. Wilson E. Speir told the 13th Annual Judges and Com missioners Conference here that arrests by the DPS for driving while intoxicated have more than doubled in the past few years. Modern equipment has made pos sible more positive testing of per sons suspected of being drunk; and that recent state laws have made apprenhension easier, he said. missioners that peace officers should also be allowed to use electronic surveillance in the ap prehension of criminals. He claimed this such use would help break up car theft rings and other forms of organized crime in the state. Habitual moving traffic viola tors were also mentioned. The head of the DPS said that at this time if a person receives four moving traffic convictions with in a year, or seven within two years, he must have a hearing before a judge or justice of the peace to determine his punish ment. Speir said the DPS should set the punishment to achieve equal ity over the state and let the courts serve as the appeal routes for the habitual violator He also called for strengthen ing of the “implied consent” law, a “no knock” law that would allow peace officers to enter a building without warning upon authoriza tion of a judge and more effective regulation of pawn shops. He added that under current statutes, a person convicted of first offense DWI is assessed a one-year suspension of his drivers license. Speir said often juries are reluctant to prescribe this penality because of its hardship on families. Instead, he said, a law is needed whereby a person with a final conviction has no and a mandatory suspension of 60 days. “We believe that a 60-day sus pension would be a positive de terrent that would not work the undue hardship that many of our juries are unwilling to give on a 12-month suspension,” the direc tor added. Speir told the judges and com- Cbe 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. student newspaper dail The Battalion, „ published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through at Texas A&M, is except Saturdi May, and once a week during summer school. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 500 words in length. 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