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College Station, Texas
Friday, January 21, 1972
THE BATTALION
Nixon’s State of the Union
President Nixon’s State of the Union message Thursday night
reads like something from the 1950’s.
Once again we the see the bigger defense budget, an increase in
technology, and Vietnam.
The budget would have drawn no complaints during the era of
Joe McCarthy when spending more money on guns would have shown
“patriotism” but that was. 20 years ago.
We cannot agree that the program is “statesmanlike ... apoli
tical . . . realistic” as House Republican Leader Gerald Ford called it.
To us it seems highly political and very unrealistic.
There are more pressing needs than keeping up with the Russians
these days. We are living in a time that could bring collapse, or at least
great distrust, from within rather than from without—as Nixon seems to
think. Yet do we see mentioned in his speech things dealing with the
ecology, integration, urban problems—things that involve one part of
the country being able to live with the other?
No, the most important thing is the continuation of building the
nuclear wall between the United States and Russia higher.
The president is willing to give $2 billion more to the Navy, but
little or nothing for oceanography.
He is willing to spend $900 million on increasing technology, and
therefore industry, but scarcely a representative amount on pollution
research and prevention.
He seems convinced that an ocean-going nuclear deterrent force is
good, but there is no indication of funds to help deter the turmoil in
our cities.
A very much used, probably overused, phrase of these times is
that calling for a “reordering of priorities.” What it means is that we,
the nation, must decide what is essential and what is not—such as the
eradication of a slum area or a shiny new warship to appease some Navy
admiral.
It means that we must turn within and solve some of our own
problems rather than be in such a hurry to solve everyone else’s. This
wouldn’t be so hard to do and it would be worth so much to this
nation.
President Nixon campaigned under the slogan of “Bring us
together again.” Perhaps he should try keeping his promises.
Three of the best are reviewed
See-Hear
Very often it is difficult for
the reader of movie review col
umns to differentiate the role of
the movie critic from the pejorita-
tive definition of the word “criti
cal.” While I have striven
throughout the last semester to
avoid the easy temptation of fal
ling into the somewhat egotistical
habit of NEVER saying ANY
THING un-“eritical” about any
movie; I wish to further reaffirm
this optimistic approach by list
ing here three movies which I
have seen since the last column
which are so excellent that they
break the Film Grade Point Ratio
Scale of 4.0 and each deserve the
ultimate rating of 4.5.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
They are Johnny Got His Gun,
Straw Dogs, and Sunday Bloody
Sunday. Each of these movies de
serve an Academy Award Nomi
nation for Best Picture and I wish
to list them here so that should
any reader spot one of these films
at any theatre, he won’t pass them
by for lack of foi*ewarning.
As to the features which are
playing in B-CS this weekend,
they are both excellent. Also very
pleasing, is the prospect of very
interesting flicks in the near
future. However, this weekend
Summer of ’42 will play at the
Palace and Play Misty For Me at
the Campus. Summer of ’42, star
ring Jennifer O’Neill and Gary
Grimes, is a charming little story
about “growing up” and deserves
a Film G.P.R. = 3.7. The photog
raphy is beautiful. The story
captures too much of the reality
and innocense of 1942 America
and too much of the ackwardness
and discoveries of adolescence to
be anything but completely dis
arming.
Play Misty for Me, starring
Clint Easterwood and Jessica
Walter, is a great flick to take
a date to if you are in to arm
grasping and tight clutching. This
movie will definitely scare the
squatty-do-do right out of you!
Misty is a hell-of-a chiller about
a sexy radio disc-jockey who has
a girl problem and is guaranteed
to make you lock up every knife
in your pad. Filmed in God’s gift
to the world, Carmel, Calif.;
Misty’s G.P.R. = 3.5.
Listen up
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Editor:
I am completely disgusted and
ashamed of some fellow students
who I gladly, here and now, dis
own as any fellow students of
mine. The 2 o’clock Thursday Bi
ology 114 class was dismissed
half an hour early by Dr. Elenor
R. Cox because she could not talk
over the noise created by about
a dozen students. She twice cau
tioned them to give her their at
tention and be silent, but it had
no effect on the handful of pre
schoolers. Yes, pre-schoolers!
Only pre-schoolers who knew no
better would be so rude and ob
noxious to a teacher.
Dr. Cox stopped the class, told
why we were all dismissed early,
and that the slides she had in
tended to show would be on the
test next Tuesday and that it
was a pity the whole class would
have to suffer. She also stated
that she was sincere in teaching
a class that wanted to learn, but
a class that disrupted her while
lecturing was not to be tolerated.
Her position is entirely under
standable. The twelve or so who
caused the disruption are not un-
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wanting to learn would be so in
considerate and stupid. So, would
the ones not wanting to learn
please get out of Biology 114
2 o’clock class because I and the
rest of the class do want to learn.
When a professor is as brilliant
and interesting as Dr. Cox, a per
son wants to be able to enjoy her
and not be deprived of her lec
tures due to some immature brats.
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Defense, technology high on Nixon’s budget
(Continued from page 1)
Minnesota, campaigning for a
1972 presidential rematch with
Nixon, said Nixon had delivered
“a frontal assault on Congress
without giving credit for some
very constructive work.”
Sen. Henry M. Jackson of
Washington said Nixon had de
livered “a political platform in
stead of a program that will help
those in distress all over Amer
ica.”
In his written message, Nixon
recited the administration record
of troop withdrawals from South
Vietnam, saying that by May 1,
he will have cut forces by 87 per
cent.
“It is my hope that we can
end this tragic conflict through
negotiation,” he said. “If we can
not, then we will end it through
Vietnamization. But end it we
shall—in a way which fulfills
our commitment to the people of
South Vietnam and which gives
them the chance for Which they
have already sacrificed so much
—the chance to choose their own
future.”
Nixon also said he is confident
that by the middle of 1973 “we
can achieve our goal of reducing
draft calls to zero.”
He cautioned Congress and the
nation not to expect “too much
too quickly” from his forthcom
ing visits to Peking and Moscow.
“My visits will mean not that
our differences have disappeared
or will disappear in the near fu
ture,” he said. “. .. The impor
tant thing is that we talk about
these differences rather than
fight about them.”
The President guaranteed a
major fight in the Senate with
his proposal for increased de
fense spending. He said it will
be required by rising research
and development costs, pay in
creases and a need to proceed
with new weapons systems.
He did not say how big the
increase will be but did detail
$3.7 billion in additional defense
spending to be included in his
budget next Monday.
Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D-La.,
chairman of the Senate Appro
priations Committee, said he had
been told the overall defense
budget would come to some $83
billion, an increase of about $3
billion.
“We’ll have to do what we did
this year—trim some of it,” he
said.
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