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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, February 9, 1973 Listen Up— cadet slouch by jim Earie Parker Knocks Renovation Editor: Speaking in behalf of a large percentage of the residents of Legett Hall I’d like to voice our disapproval of the proposed plan of renovation in our dorm. As we understand it, the University is going to appropriate some $40,000 to restore our dismal hallways and to add two more electrical outlets to each room. This is fine, but the so-called “contract” also stipulates that no such action will be taken until the students paint their rooms (on their own time) to meet currrent University stand ards. The students at Legett ap preciate the concern of the Uni versity, but we would much rath er have fluorescent lighting, new er furniture, and other room im provements equivalent to other dorms instead of a paneled, well lit hallway to sooth the eyes of visiting onlookers. tion of those concerned, Puryear Hall residents who pay only $19 more per semester, have these ad vantages over Legett: 1. carpeted hallways 2. a phone in each room 3. fluorescent lighting in the rooms That’s quite a lot for $19. How ever, if we had such improve ments in Legett Hall, the resent ment to painting our crumbling walls would be lessened, consid erably. The concerned students thank you for printing this letter. Brad Parker # 14 Legett Hall Just to bring it to the atten- Editor’s Note: The proposal for students to paint their own rooms was presented on strictly a voluntary basis as a means of making the available funds go further in the total renovation project. Nixon’s Budget Cuts Force Desalinization Plant Shutdown “I’m sorry you!” I’ve forgotten what I was going to ask FREEPORT, Tex. <#>> — The huge federally operated desalina tion plant here will be shut down next month because of budget cuts ordered by President Nixon. Batt News Summary By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vietnamese radio, the Defense De- on the Mississippi Democrat still PHILADELPHIA — An emer- partment said Thursday. described him as being in a very gency resolution swiftly passed serious condition. by Congress to end the crippling The equal rights amendment to Stennis was shot in the chest Penn Central railroad strike lack- the U.S. Constitution is inching and thigh Jan. 30 during a rob ed President Nixon’s signature its way toward ratification, but bery in front of his house. late Thursday and the strike con- has run into trouble in several tinued. states. SAIGON—Officials of the In- c , - ., j . Thus far, 26 states have approv- ternational Commission of Con- 28 000 t ‘k* 1 ‘d th ^ the amendment, but two states trol and Supervision announced . , ,. XT . are considering measures to res- today that 27 American and 3,000 strike would continue until Nix- ..... , * T - / • * ... ^ • j .u cmd their approval. Vietnamese prisoners of war will on, in California, signed the reso- lution re ^ ease ^ three sites in South LONDON — The two-week-old Vietnam Monday morning. international money crisis under- The Americans and 700 South ALAMEDA, Calif. Searchers mining the strength of the U.S. Vietnamese will be freed at the removed a total of seven bodies dollar appeared Thursday to be Quan Loi airstrip, in rubber plan- by late Thursday from the ruins headed for a climax, possibly by tation country just east of An of an apartment building destroy- weekend. Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon, the ed in the crash of a Navy jet, but officials said. officials feared the toll might WASHINGTON — Sen. John Another 300 South Vietnamese go higher. Stennis is showing continued im- will be freed in Pleiku province, provement in his recovery from in the central highlands, and the gunshot wounds suffered in a rob- South Vietnamese will release WASHINGTON — No charges bery, a spokesman for Walter 2,000 North Vietnamese and Viet will be filed against returning Reed Army Medical Center said Cong prisoners at Quan Loi and war prisoners for making propa- Thursday. at Dong Ha, just below the de- ganda statements over North However, the afternoon report militarized zone. Movie Review — ‘The Train Robbers’ By TED BORISKIE Wayne is presented as some make great targets. John Wayne’s new movie, “The sort of god-like figure and imme- What is sad is that this is ex- Train Robbers,” should have been diately wins over the two neu- actly what one has come to ex- called “The Time Robbers” be- trals who become ridiculously en- pect in a John Wayne movie, cause no train is actually fobbed amored of him for the rest of Watching him on screen is more and the movie is truly a waste of the film. painful with every new release, time. Wayne and his crew recover the “The Train Robbers” does not re- The film’s only bright spot is gold, kill off the gunslingers and call great John Wayne movies of Ben Johnson and he doesn’t de- put the widow and the gold on the past; it is a signal of poorer serve to be caught in a movie the train. films to come, like this. Wayne, Rod Taylor and There is a supposedly touching Ann-Margret are apparently head- scene where Wayne and his o ed for the last roundup and it friends, even the two new ones, k^dlclX'C can’t come too soon. decide to give the widow their Ann-Margret is the widow of a share of the reward money. ^ on ,nUe rom page ' train robber who knows where $4 The mysterious stranger iden- dent Senate recorder and corres- million in gold is hidden and tifies himself and there is a sur- ponding secretary will remain wants to give it back to the rail- prise the-joke’s-on-John-Waync elected positions or be made ap- road to clear her husband’s name. ending. pointed positions. She’s got this 6-year-old 1 son or Burt Kennedy directed the mov- Before the vote, Campbell told something that was named after ie but there are no real traces of the Senate that these positions his father and she can’t bear to style anywhere. There are a lot of are n °t policy making positions think of him going through life scenes of cowboys riding across an( t n eed to be considered on an being associated with a train rob- the desert and plenty of cigarette appointed basis, ber. She meets Wayne or he meets commercial music to help them The second half of the academ- her and he talks her into letting ride. There is dialogue that is ic portion of the University Rules him and his friends retrieve the best (and easily) forgotten. and Regulations handbook with $4 million so they can share a This is an incredibly impersonal revisions was approved by the $50,000 reward. movie with no character develop- Senate. The first half of the Stu- Wayne, three friends (Taylor, ment present anywhere. It is hard dent Life section was presented Johnson and Bobby Vinton) and to tell the lead characters apart an ^ k® voted on at the Feb. two neutrals (Christopher until Ann-Margret’s shirt starts 22 meeting. George and Jerry Gatlin) ride in- shrinking. The mysterious strang- The resolution presented by to Mexico with the widow to pick er doesn’t speak until the last 30 Debi Blackmon concerning the es- up the gold. Popping up occasion- seconds and, worst of all, there tablishment of a committee to look ally are 20 or so “two-bit gun- is no villain. The gunfighters have into the idea and facts on pub- slingers” who want the gold for neither names nor lines and ex- lishing a student magazine for the themselves and a mysterious ist solely as targets for Wayne 1973-74 year was passed by the stranger (Ricardo Montalban). and company. They apparently Senate. €be Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those Ol Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising the student writers only. 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Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. Tom Adair, Dr. R. A. Albanese, Dr. — " H. E. Hierth, W. C. Harrison, J. W. Griffith, L. E. Kruse and EDITOR MIKE RICE J 1 !!!! : Managing Editor Larry Marshall Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through bportS Editor Bill Henry May, and once a week during summer school. Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey The city of Freeport, which received about one-third of its municipal water supply from the plant as a by-product of its test ing, will have to dig more wells for its water needs. Editor: I found your article on long hair very slanted and one sided. After finishing college (U.T.E.P. & U.C. Berkeley), I’ve spent the last few months traveling around the country. People’s hair, if anything, is getting longer! How can you use what hair stylists say to make your point? They obviously would do anything they could to pro mote a “short hair” trend so as to boost their business. What you should have done was look up the STATISTICS on the barbershop business. You’d find that they are doing less business now than in the past. Another thing I disagree with is that the army cuts hair short for “sanitary reasons.” I believe it is done to stifle individuality. It has been shown in research at Stanford University that the more you take a person’s indi viduality away from him, the eas ier it will be for him to commit anti-social acts such as harming other human beings. Long hair is a political and eco nomic issue as well as a social issue, and if you are going to write about it, it is only fair to show both sides. Steven Fischer Factory Direct Prices On Cassette and 8-Track Tape Decks Free Catalog- TAPES UNLIMITED P. O. Box 4043-T, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103 A special session of the city council has been called for Mon day night to discuss the new wells. City officials said they had plan ned for some time to develop new sources of water. “The plant was never intended as a supply for Freeport,” said John Newton, manager of the de salination project. “When we be gan testing and producing water, it was there for them to use, and they used it.” The closing, set for March 23, was ordered as part of a reduc tion in the budget for the Office of Saline Water, under the U.S. Department of Interior. Barcelona RLN IAL OFFIU NOW OIM N I OK si FI ( ll<)\ 700 Dominik ( .ill X-l<> I 700 f<>i Inloim.ilinti • A&M Shuttle Bus • 1 Mile to A&M • All Utilities & T.V. Cable Paid 4 Students in large 2 Br. - 2 Bath — $62.50 ea. Family & Adult Sections. 1 Br. - 2 Br. 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