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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, March 3, 1972 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “No offense, Squirt, I just wanted to be sure that you weren’t Howard Hughes!” Convicted congressman jt full voting membership to undergo examination WASHINGTON (A>) _ The House Ethics Committee Thurs day agreed to examine “the ap propriateness” of convicted Rep. John Dowdy, D-Tex., remaining as a full voting member of the House. The agreement came at the re quest of Reps. Charles Wiggins, R-Calif., and Jerome Waldie, D- Calif., who had asked the com-t mittee to investigate the bribery charges on which Dowey was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in jail and a $25,000 fine. Rep. Melvin Price, D-Ill., chair man of the committee, refused to say, however, if it would look in to the facts of the bribery charges against Dowdy or only at the constitutional aspects of the House’s action relating to a member in trouble. There was no time deadline put on the committee’s examination and report of recommendations to the House but Price said the probe would continue “as expedi tiously as is consistent with the Bulletin Board Tonight Chess Committee will meet in room 3C of the Memorial Stu dent Center at 7:30. Tournament will be held. Judo Club will meet in the Judo room of G. Rollie White Coliseum at 5. Monday Zero Population Growth will meet at 7:30 at St. Thomas Epis copal Church, Jersey St. Fort Bend HTC will meet in room 3C of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30. sensitivity of the case.” Asked if the committee had ac cepted Wiggins’ and Waldie’s re quest for a probe of the Dowdy case, Price said, “I think we’ve honored their request.” The most freshman member of the Ethics Committee, Rep. Floyd Spence, R-S.C., came out first after the one-hour, 15-min ute meeting and said the mem bers had unanimously reached an agreement, but “I don’t think it means a whole lot.” “They had to argue about a lot of words, like ‘appropriate’ and ‘looking into it’,” Spench said. Price issued a three-paragraph statement and refused to go be yond it. The statement said: “The committee, by a unani mous vote today, agreed to con tinue to examine and report to the House its recommendations with respect to the appropriate ness of John Dowdy, member of the House of Representatives from the state of Texas, to con tinue as a fully entitled voting member of the House of Repre sentatives in the 92nd Congress. “The examination will con tinue in accordance with estabn lished House and committee rules and will focus on the precedents and constitutional aspects of the case. “Given the many completely unique matters which must be examined in depth, it is not pos sible for forecast when the in vestigation will be completed. However, the committee will pur sue the assignment as expedi tiously as is consistent with the sensitivity of the case.” AARGH! Listen up Gripes about Moffitt, Dear Editor: I find the new comic strip (if that’s what you call it) “Aargh! drawn by John R. Moffitt to be disgusting, vulgar, and anti- Corps. At a military institution such as Texas A&M with its great tradition of producing officers and Southern gentlemen, such a depraved, distorted form of jour nalism has no place. Prof Earle would never think of having the characters of “Cadet Slouch” ex emplify anything but the best of Aggie traditions, while “Aargh” perverts them. Today’s strip about Aggies dating sheep might make some father force a future Aggie to attend TU or someplace else where the guys date only girls and don’t become real men as those who have at tended have become. If this “sickie” Moffitt is a student he should join the Corps and get straightened out as to what A&M traditions are really like. If he is on the staff, he should find another position at some other college which doesn’t have as much pride in its fine institutions as A&M does; or if he is not connected with the col lege should not appear in a news paper by Aggies and about Ag gies. Paul Richard ’70 Thanks, Moffitt needed a little excitement this week anyway —Ed. ★ ★ ★ Dear Editor: One of the more disgusting as pects of TAMU life is opening “The Batt” and finding a picture depicting destruction of a natural resource. I am referring to the Febuary 29 issue showing a group of students skinning rattlesnakes. It is ironical and somewhat hypocritical that such a picture should occur in a student publica tion of a land grant and a sea grant university which supposed ly is concerned with conservation and wise use of our natural re sources. Rattlesnakes and all wildlife are resources which should be carefully conserved (trees are al so included in this category). Rattlesnakes perform several functions which are beneficial to man; some men return the com pliment by participating in rattler round-ups. I hope that in the future The Batt will be more discriminating in its selection of pictures and Dear Editor: I am compelled to express my dissatisfaction with the frq^t page story on the rattlesnake round-up rattlesnake kill, and rat tlesnake skinning. Such activities are usually he donic displays of want on killing and plebian sadism. For what other reason would students wait to “do their thing” until they return to our campus? I wonder if this incident is a violation of paragraph 55 (page 20) of the 1971-1972 University Regula tions? Or do we care? Texas A&M University is heav ily involved in teaching, research, and extension programs pertain ing to the conservation of na tural resources. It is a paradox to see a major news item which by its presence serves to promul gate the destruction of life. In stead, for educational purposes, we should be concerned about the effect of such rattlesnake kills I hope you will not publish another story of this kind in The See here Weekend movies irrelevant, not worth the time or money Several years ago, the word “irrelevant” was brandished about all across the country. It became what is known as a “buzz word” and, subsequently, lost most of its meaning. If you want to know what the word irrelevant is sup posed to mean, you have your pick of two irrelevant movies this weekend. The Honkers is filling the screen at the Palace, and Cis co Pike is at the Campus. Both of these flicks are so mediocre that I strongly advise you to save your money or buy a good paperback with it. The Honkers stars James Co burn — in one of his first really offensive roles, Slim Pickens, and Lois Nettleton. There is also a small part written into the script for Larry Mahan — a real rodeo champ. This tells you what the flick is about — rodeo. Unfortu nately, this film is what is called an “exploitation flick”. This means that the movie doesn’t have anything to say about “ro deo” — it also has nothing to say about the reality of the life style rodeo competitors, the American Indian, sex, cars, drugs, or anything else. However, this does not keep this movie from exploiting all of the above (if you saw the previews of this film, you saw it all!) The only re deeming point of the film was some of the photography of rodeo events — and if you saw J. W. Coop, this stuff looks like some thing Coop’s film editors left on the floor. Missing man honor formation scheduled for Saturday flight James Cobum is beginning to run a little thin on his reputation for “cool”. From him to Slim Pickens is a downhill slide. Slim was actually once a rodeo, clown— the part he plays in the film — and he tried out for several such parts in Hollywood in his early career. The story goes that the producers rejected him for the parts because he didn’t “look like” a rodeo clown. Now, at last, Slim has hit the screen as a rodeo clown, but he has gone the Holly wood producers one better. He not only doesn’t “look like” a rodeo clown, he can’t act. All in all, the movie comes off some thing like “the roar of the cow- flop, the smell of the crowd” and deserves a film G.P.R. = 1.0. A flight of Air Force F-4 Phantoms in the “missing man” formation will fly over A&M’s parade field Saturday to signal the start of Military Day review activities. Flown in honor of prisoners of war and men listed missing in action in Southeast Asia, the for mation consists of four planes in a “V.” An empty slot next to the flight leader signifies the “missing man.” Air Force Col. Robert F. Crossland, professor of aero space studies, said the flight will be over the Memorial Student Center drill field at precisely 2 p.m. It will approach the campus from the west. Members of the 45th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron from Bergstrom AFB near Austin made a photo recon flight over the campus Wednesday. They promise the Saturday missing man pass within plus or minus three seconds of 2 p.m., when the Military Day Corps of Ca dets review is scheduled to be gin. After the review, the defend ing national champion Fish Drill Team will march in exhibition and the Army Parachute Team’s famed Golden Knights will pro vide a precision free-fall demon stration. Colonel Crossland said the Air Force F-4 flight will come from the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, the only such unit west of the Mississippi River. The 67th is commanded by Brig. Gen.- select Walter G. Daniel. The 45th TRS is headed by Lt. Col. Dannie Waddle. The director of operations under whom the flight was arranged is Col. Gus tav B. Klatt, a 1950 A&M grad uate of Houston. Nor is there any relief in Cisco Pike at the Campus. It stars A&M’s favorite Kris Kristoffer- son, Karen Black (remember 5 Easy Pieces), Gene Hackman, and Viva (Andy Warhol’s Superstar! Remember, Bang! Bang!) Cisco is also an “‘exploitation” thing. Unfortunately, exploiting Kris What’s-his-name around this cam pus is like selling cow-patties at a rodeo grounds. To be complete ly honest, I was hoping that I could say something tacky about Mr. K’s performance (you know, to sort of even the score for the evening he gave me a while back), but NEVER in my wildest dreams did I think he would be SO bad! (Compared to him, Joe Namath doesn’t look so bad!) So, if you want to pay $1.50 to hear 4 Kristofferson songs played as background music, you’ll enjoy Cisco Pike. Otherwise .... you will probably agree that this film deserves its 1.0. ... John R. Moffitt Cbe Battalion Opinion expressed in The Batiolion are those o, JSt the student writers only. 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Assistant Sports Editor Bill Henry TOWN HALL WILL ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE 1972- 73 TOWN HALL COMMITTEE FROM MARCH 1st THRU MARCH 10th. Application Restricted To Present Sophomores and Freshmen. Application Forms Available At MSC Student Program Office snake killers not encourage destructive activi ties such as rattler round-ups by giving participants front page coverage. Fred Paine Battalion. Richard J. Baldauf Using a picture of something does not condine the practice. If such was the case you would never see a war photo, car acci dent, murder story or anything else distasteful. We provide in formation and providing it does not support the particular sub ject. The photograph lets you know that such practices were taking place on campus. Now you can oppose them if you wish. You wouldn’t have known of it if we hadn’t printed the photograph —Ed. ★ ★ ★ Editor: Next Tuesday the students of Texas A&M will be confronted with the opportunity to improve not only student government, but all of Texas A&M. You will be presented the opportunity to vote for or against a new constitution for the student body. I urge every student to consider the ad vantages of this proposal, and to vote for the constitution. There are those students who WASha: are against the measure si: ^ co " & because it represents pro® [ ™ s Those students who are mil formed of the benefits of scess '' r constitution, corps and civi ^ alike, know that it is a desj ly needed proposal. For once, is one issue that all should be united for. Opposition against this projoi constitutes opposition againstiliore tha. only student government, l Hue Shi< against you as a student. En j the Jfc: student must VOTE and 1 you to vote YES for the constitution next Tuesday, John Sharp ft ispe; we,;! 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