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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, October 22, 1971 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle m LOVE Listen up Activity fees are still attacked Editor: Town Hall is not required to give students tickets to their shows, but students are required to pay activity fees for their shows. In fact, I thought a stu dent was paying for tickets to school activities through the ac tivity card but, as Hawkins point ed out, I am wrong, a student is just paying for the right to try and get a ticket, if he can. To quote the Battalion “there are, however, far more students en titled to tickets than seats avail able at performances.” The word “entitled” says “a legal right” to a ticket, strange. I realize that the amount Town Hall gets from each student through the activity card is small. But if it is so small why don’t they refuse to accept in excess of the number of seats ? Could it be they need the money and don’t mind “screwing” students who don’t get tickets because they are in the minority? Hawkins makes an appeal to get not-to-be-used tickets back. Students who got tickets for gen eral admission free can now turn around and sell them. Even after the tickets are all out will the Carpenters be full (absolute) ? I seriously doubt it. I have yet to see Town Hall turn down money for lack of seats, what kind of integrity do they have? David John Hastie *74 ★ ★ ★ Editor: Do you know that Texas A&M has a soccer team ? There cer tainly is a soccer team, but as a minor sport, it does not have support from the University. The Southern Soccer League is made up of well prepared and school supported teams, such as The Uni versity of Texas, Houston, Dal las, Rice and many other colleges. Our team is also in the same ’eague with the difference that it is abandoned by the Athletic De partment. Several problems have to be Steve Hayes Industry is major polluter “It’s a trick!” See hear Hoffman is great By D. P. FONTANA Note to the reader: As this is the first of what I hope will be a weekly column, I thought a small introduction would be in order. This column shall be an attempt to provide the reader with a short, practical guide and critical review of those artistic expressions (movies, records, plays, exhibits, etc.) which are available on or around the cam pus. If the reader is familiar with any such occurrences which might not be general knowledge on the campus, this reviewer would be grateful for the opportunity to include such events and can be reached at 846-0174. Good news for everyone. This weekend there will be two films playing in B-CS which—between them—should appeal to everyone. One is an unqualified superior flick and the second is—artistical ly — ordone but super-entertain ment. The former is Thomas Ber ger’s Little Big Man which start ed its run at the Campus Thurs day and will run for about a week. The latter is Jacqueline Susann’s The Love Machine which will play at the Palace until Tuesday. Dustin Hoffman walks away with Little Big Man, which also stars Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam and Jeff Corey. Despite its GP-rating, this is a fantastic flick! I would give it an enthusiastic 3.8 on a 4.0 film G.P.R. scale. It’s a flick that has a lot to say and gets it all said. I will refrain from telling you anything about the plot, etc. so that, if you haven’t already caught this film before it found its way to the “Pits,” you can take it all in for yourself. Then there is the other movie, which is a flick which has noth ing to say and gets it all said. The Love Machine is a super- starred, big budget, high gloss product of Hollywood. It is also VERY entertaining. Stars num bering in its constellation are John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, David Hemming, Jackie Cooper, Robert Ryan, Shecky Green, and a cameo apeparance by the little lady who writes those dirty books. Miss Susann herself. It is basic ally a move about the creme de la creme at the top of the TV world. However, if you don’t like the way people live in the wicked, big cities—or those with money or strength of character live in little ones—you probably better pass this morsel by. (Film G.P.R. equals 2.5.) The oft-used phrase of some en vironmentalists, “we have met the enemy, and he is us,” first re phrased by Walt Kelly of Pogo fame, implies that the major source of pollution is people, their carelessness and wastefulness. Thus, it would seem logical that if each of us, as individuals, just did our own little thing in clean ing up the environment, the world would be an immeasurably better and healthier place. If this belief prevails, there is a likelihood that more harm than good will come from the con cept of environmental salvation through self-improvement. While pollution is surely attributable to people, it is mainly the result of our collective agents rather than our own individual acts—our col lective agents are large private corporations and public agencies, and it is they who are most re sponsible for massive degradation. Even with his self-indulgence, the individual pollutes very little. Recent research in California of fers an excellent example of the gap between individual and ma jor pollution. WATER: Eighty-five per cent of California’s water supply is used by agri-business, and then discarded with pesticide and ferti lizer residues. Industries and municipalities use the remaining water supply. In other states, the proportion used by industry in creases but water used by in dividuals remains proportionally low. AIR: Most air pollution is the result of auto emissions. While walking and bike riding offer per sonal benefits, such efforts in curbing air pollution are obvious ly, extremely diffuse. So again, automobile standards must be en forced, along with accelerated development of a mass transit system. Individual action should not be discouraged, but it is hardly ethi cally sound for corporations and governmental agencies to urge the 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. 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. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press are $3.50 per semester; $6 pe: ir; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject sales tax. The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, Texas 77843. Mail subscriptions are $3.60 per semester; $6 per school $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 5% Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: College Station, Lindsey, chairman; H. F. Eilers, College of Liberal Arts ; White. Colleg — ary of Agriculture ; and Layne Kruse, student. F. S. White, College of Veter e of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., Medicine; Dr. W. E. Tedrick, College The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatchs 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. Servic Franc Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising 'ices, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San icisco. EDITOR HAYDEN WHITSETT Managing Editor Doug Dilley News Editor Sue Davis Sports Editor John Curylo Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry Be A “TEACHER-Student High School juniors and seniors need your help with subjects in which they have problems. If you are proficient in any subject, please attend the organizational meeting of the“Y” Tutoring Club at 7:30 p. m., Monday, October 25 in the All Faiths Chapel. If you’d like to help, but can’t attend the meeting, call Rick Lambert at 5-1769, or Alvin Stewart at 5-5876. Student Y Association backyard gardener, (as is being done by the ‘Keep America Beau tiful’ campaign), to do his part in curbing pollution, while at the same time agencies fail to regu late, for instance massive use of pesticides, especially since one large farm may use as much hard pesticides in one application, than all the backyard gardeners in the state of California use in one year. If we, as individuals, are prodded to change our habits, then what must the collective agents be urged? The limitations of individual action should be understood. Un less we appreciate the need for reform of our organizational and agency polluters, we run the risk of mistaking individual trees for the collective forest. To rely on individual self-improvement to solve our problem is a cop-out. Such delusions divert our ener gies from substantive activities to a preoccupation with minutiae, and convert a growing movement to a nebulous utopianism. Necessary channels for most are through participation in well- directed organizations which clearly see and define targets, and have the means to confront the targets. It is essential that the sources of pollution be attack ed at its very roots, and it is equally essential that the attack be united. (Material for this column sup plied by Bruce Keenedy, Sierra Club of California.) encountered, they range from lack of transportation, equipment, coach or manager, to complete apathy on the part of the news paper, The Battalion. Enthusiasm is not enough to keep up a team on a league. A team fighting the colors of the University, needs more than just the spirit of the young players. All players are regular students who dedicate time each week for practices and games. Players also have to pay for uniforms, equip ment, referees, transportation to games and all other expenses needed. Now the question is: Why should we pay for student athle tic activities when nothing is re ceived by our soccer team, which by the way, is not a losing team. Oswaldo Cuevas ’72 The sports department of the Battalion is too small to be able to cover all the minor sports. If you wish to provide the informa tion for the articles in The Bat talion, as rugby does, we will see to it that the articles are run. We do demand, however, that the information be submitted early enough for us to be able to fit it into the sports page.—Ed. AGGIE PLAQUES Plaster Accessories Finished - Unfinished Working Area Free Instructions GIFT - A - KAMA Redmond Terrace College Station North Gate OUR SPECIALTY 1/5 Carat Eye Clean Diamond For Senior Ring, $40 plus tax C. W. 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