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Paranoia still reigns
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle p a ^ e 2 College Station, Texas Friday, March 12,1SI1
Representatives of a minority group on this
campus Thursday night defeated by two votes (that’s
what one and one-third votes comes to) a proposed
constitution which would have established a student
association on this campus.
They defeated a new governing system which
would not be any less effective than the present one,
and probably would allow student government at
Texas A&M to grow and become more effective as
the organization representing the student body.
They defeated a plan which would have kept
the college representation system on a reduced basis,
and added living area representation and day student
representation. In fact, one-fifth of the Senate under
the plan would be day students—about the same ratio
now existing.
Often during debate on this new constitution
members of this minority, have piously claimed to be
representing the student body. All were elected to
represent their respective colleges.
But we can only wonder if that’s what they
were doing. We can only wonder if the constituents of
those 26 senators were represented, or if another
organization, to which all 26 belong, was being
represented.
Was it the best interests of the student body, or
fear of loss of “power” and an increase in representa
tion of the student majority that caused them to vote
as they did?
How each Aggie answers the last question, and
how he then votes when some of those 26 seek
reelection this spring, will determine who really was
represented Thursday night. Think about it.
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At the cinema
McCain’ mediocre at best
By PAT GRIMES
“Machine Gun McCain” takes
a mediocre look at the internal
workings of organized crime in
the United States.
It deals mainly with one man’s
effort to not only beat the Cosa
Nostra out of $2 million, but to
also escape its all-encompassing
bounds.
John Cassavettes is a rather
compassionate McCain, which
somehow does not ring too true
when you think about it. Killers
are far from compassionate, but
as killers go he appears to be
somewhat just.
His long-standing prison sen
tence is cut short with the finan
cial assistance of the West Coast
boss, Peter Falk. It is Falk’s in
tention to “use” McCain for his
own financial gain. This is to
take the form of a casino heist
in Vegas.
Unknown to Falk is the fact
of the real ownership of the place.
It seems that it is the combined
property of none other than the
top three East Coast bosses. To
Falk’s everlasting regret this fi
nally becomes evident.
Meanwhile our anti-the-mob
hero has plans of his own which
include the money, a certain
young thing and personal free
dom.
His accomplice in his robbery
plans is played by the Swedish
actress Britt Ekland. She doesn’t
exactly emote sex, but manages
to pout her way through it all.
To get back to this exciting
story, we witness the smoothest-
running theft you will ever see
The entire production is an
Italian attempt at civilized crime
which manages to show the view
er that there is no way out and
nothing anyone can do against
the Mafia. If you’re in, you’re in
all the way and if you’re out,
you’re poor.
The script dragged, regardless
of the actor’s attempts to salvage
it and as gangster pictures go,
it missed the mark.
which shows chaotic depth people
can reach when panic stricken.
Next McCain is faced with the
problem of escape. It is at this
point the story finally gets a
little interesting and the long-
awaited blood bath, that never
really comes, takes place. We fi
nally see him bullet riddled, but
free.
The Palace offers a Disney pro
duction, “The Wild Country” that
like all Disney productions is well
worth it, if that happens to be
what you want to see.
The story is sound, the per
formances are fine, the photog
raphy is beautiful and without
Jack Elam adding that touch of
authenticity, I wouldn’t have
gone.
The scenery is captivating and
the trials the family goes through
make you forget your coming
exams.
Betrothal revival advocated
LONDON —A former Arch
bishop of Canterbury proposes
reviving old-style betrothals which
would permit young unmarried
couples to sleep together with
the church’s blessing.
Lord Fisher, 83-year-old retir
ed head of the Anglican Church,
says sexual intercourse between
betrothed couples pledged to wed
“would not be regarded in the
moral sense as fornication.”
But he does not give the green
light to the permissive society.
He stresses that young people
must be “responsibly involved,
with a settled desire to incur full
responsibility for one another.”
In a lively collection of essays
called “Touching on Christian
Truth,” published Thursday, Lord
Fisher notes: “There are some
Civilians hear
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question a doctor in his specialty,
or an engineer in his specialty,
but everyone seems to know eve
rything about editing a newspa
per.”
Middlebrooke said The Battal
ion will cover Civilian Week-
Weekend in what it considers to
be a proper manner, adding “We
did not put the CSC out on their
‘limb,’ and we’re not going to
work either at cutting them off
or getting them back off of it.”
After the topic was discussed,
Olson said the often brought up
matter “is closed.”
Leon Drozd, Walton Hall presi
dent, announced the addition of
a movie to Civilian Student Week
end activities. It will be shown
on Thursday in the Grove in col
laboration with Aggie Cinema,
the title will be annoiinced later.
“Existing facilities are not ad
equate” was the reason Olson said
he had been told for the Board of
Directors voting against on-cam-
pus housing for women in the fall
of ’71.
Larry Hansen of Mitchell Hall
suggested that dorms start a let
ter writing campaign to the board
to attempt to change their posi
tion. Olson suggested all letters
be screened by dorm presidents,
so that only “constructive” let
ters are sent.
Olson told members that the
council’s executive committee
sent a vote of “yes” to Thursday
night’s Senate meeting which re
jected the proposed constitution.
A motion that the council as a
whole officially support the con
stitution was rejected for fear
of biasing views of students to
ward the constitution.
The council’s next meeting will
be held March 25.
young people today for whom,
for many good reasons, marriage
is not an immediate possibility.”
The Church, he suggests,
should update its theology of sex
to meet their needs.
Lord Fisher proposes that for
mal betrothal be revived, with
practical as well as social signi
ficance. He says betrothal “would
have to take place with the full
consent of the two families con
cerned. It would in fact be a sac
ramental act . . . After that, sex
ual intercourse between the couple
would not be regarded, in the
moral sense, as fornication.”
Lord Fisher’s definition of “be
trothal” is close to the traditional
meaning, where a betrothed cou
ple entered a religiously binding
vow to marry.
His proposal is likely to create
a storm in the Church, whose
officials already have expressed
belief that it is not likely to be
come part of Church doctrine
now or ever.
tonight on the tube
Bingo—Weekdays at 5,
Numbers in
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5:30
3
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CBS News
on the cable.
15
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Sesame Street
2:30 3
(5)
Edge of Night
(PBS)
15
(12)
Sesame Street
6:00
3
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Evening News
(PBS) (Repeat
6:30
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Brady Bunch
of Thursday)
15
(12)
Campus and
3:00 3
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Comer Pyle
Community
3:30 3
(5)
Town Talk
15
(12)
University
Instructional
7:00
3
(5)
Nanny and the
4:00 3
(5)
That Girl
Professor
4:30 3
(5)
Bewitched
15
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The Great
15
(12)
What’sNew
American Dream
(NET)
Machine (NET)
5:00 3
(5)
General Hospital
7:30
3
(5)
Andy Griffith
15
(12)
Misterogers’
Show
Neighborhood
8:00
3
(5)
Movie — This
(NET)
Earth Is Mine
8:30
15
(12)
This Week
9:00
15
(12)
The Best of the
Week
BCS*TV/9.
Nothing to
10:00
3
(5)
Final News
i present to
win.
10:30
3
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Alias Smith and
11:30 3 (5)
Jones
Alfred
Hitchcock
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Assistant Editor Hayden Whitsett
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Economist believes
SST subsidy folly
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MONDAY
Industrial Education Wives
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at
Bryan Building and Loan to hear
Clyde Blum of the local cancer
association and see a film on
preventive measures and the dan
ger signs of cancer. A local phy
sician will be present to answer
any questions.
Wildlife Science Wives Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Wigs
by Jeanette in the Manor East
Shopping Center. Jeanette Law-
son will talk on “The Wig and
You.”
Host and Fashion Committee
will meet at 6:45 p.m. in the
Birch Room of the MSC to inter
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THURSDAY
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WASHINGTON UP) — A Nobel
Prize winner denounced contin
ued federal subsidies for the su
personic transport Thursday as
“colossal economic folly.”
Other witness before the Senate
Appropriations Committee called
the super plane a lemon, an eco
nomic albatross, and a dangerous
pig-in-a-poke.
Nobel economics laureate Dr.
Paul A. Samuelson said continu
ing the SST project will not cre
ate more new jobs, may harm
rather than improve the balance
of payments, and may cost the
nation hundreds of millions of
dollars if demand for the plane
falls below hopes.
“Sober experience shows that
when one does not cut one’s losses
early on what is essentially an
uneconomic enterprise, one sinks
deeper and deeper into the mire,”
Samuelson said in urging Con
gress to withhold further funds
for SST development.
Meanwhile, Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass., predicted anti-
SST forces led by Sen. William
Proxmire, D-Wis., still have the
votes in the Senate to kill Presi
dent Nixon’s request for further
SST development subsidies.
Samuelson, now on the staff of
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, contended the Anglo-
French SST, the Concorde, is al
ready in serious economic trouble
and said aeronautical engineers
“universally regard the Concorde
as the biggest lemon ever de
vised.”
Another witness, transportation
expert Karl M. Rupenthall, suj.
gested that the government stl
its interest in the SST projectIj
the highest bidder and let prit.
ate enterprise take over.
“The economic prospects of tit
SST are so dismal that no pm-
dent investor would willingly in.
vest in this dubious project," It
said.
Ruppenthal, an airline pilot lot
26 years who now directs tit
Transportation Center at the Uni.
versity of British Columbia, Vat.
couver, said it is no secret tit
British government would like to
scrap its SST project.
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