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.
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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.
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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,
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tion in the budget for the Office
of Saline Water, under the U.S.
Department of Interior.
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