Page 3 H STUDENTS ling) FOUNDATION ITY SERIES 1 University Town Hi AUCTIONS, LTD of >00 IK CRITICS AWAR! ith imagination tastt i NEW YORK Pt) magination and beauty' JEW YORK DAILY NEi JRNER & LOEWE “Camelot” $5.00 $2.00 ITORIUM - 8:00 p. m. enter Box Office—845-i kethall Game ounds Of POWER BOX i * 2.5 0 ! 1 2.0 .E t 1-5 S Z) . y t— ls§ sjy ill « ;W SS 5 S£ s Id's i Iv.v.v! : : : : : : : : : : : : : ■XWc r3 ■ I IS uj : : : : '•LuS i s S: Ill IP WEEK BY WEEK POWER USE 1973 - 74 * This chart compares TAMU’s electrical energy consump tion of last week with that of previous week’s consump tion for 1974. It also compares consumption with a comparable week of 1973. Please note that an adjust ment factor (15%) is added to the actual consumption figures of 1973. This factor represents a conservative allowance for essential increases in energy usage due to the addition of new buildings and student/faculty/staff population. Thus, this allowance factor allows us to more realistically estimate how well our conservation efforts are affecting consumption. Interpretation of campaign reform statute criticized THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1974 AUSTIN UP>—The House spon sor of the new campaign finance “reform” law said Secretary of State Mark White has no busi ness interpreting the act. Rep. Ben Bynum, D-Amarillo, made the complaint Thursday at a meeting of the Texas Constitu tional Convention’s committee on the legislature. “Have him read Section I of the act,” White retorted. He re ferred to his duty as the state’s chief election officer to “maintain uniformity in the application, op eration and interpretation of the election laws.” Bynum said he wrote the cam paign finance law and he ought to know. The secretary of states Batt Film Review Boredom follows plastic surgery By BRAD ELLIS “Ash Wednesday” is, generical- ly, a gorgeous movie about the idle rich, which illustrates that tragedy and boredom come even to the beautiful people. Elizabeth Taylor stars as a woman in her 50s who undergoes a face lift operation and similar body surgery. The technical ad visor for the plastic surgery se quence is the highly insured and renowned in his field Parisian Dr. Rodolphe Troques. The scenes of the operation are quite illus trative and proved informative. Henry Fonda plays the Ameri can lawyer whose wife, Miss Tay- allroom >0 $1.50 Stag ctivity nice Committee Local police departments aren’t feeling any effects from Atty. Gen. John Hill’s recent ruling. Hill and a six-man opinions committee ruled last week the new open records law makes police re port information unavailable to the press and public. In the face of Hill's opinion, the chiefs of police of both Bryan and College Station said there would be no immediate change in the availability of police reports to local media. 0. L. Luther, the head of the University Police, also said his records would continue to be open to reporters in The Battalion. Bryan Chief of Police Joe C. Ellisor said the policy in the past would be continued. No local changes in ruling Assistant Chief of Police Maj. Charles Phelps said, “The present information policy will be con tinued unless the courts rule against it, if they do the depart ment will abide by the courts’ de cision. “We’ve always had good ex periences in the past with re porters and I feel that the public has the right to know what their police department is doing.” Phelps said that even if the police “looked bad” he would rather the facts to be known than to allow rumors to spread. Sgt. Gene Knowles community relations representative of the Bryan police department, said he would be willing to cooperate “100 per cent” with the media and add ed that the police couldn’t function without it. Knowles said that the only thing that had ever been kept out of print was references to minors, and certain alarm systems and other property protection devices which don’t need publicity. College Station Chief of Police Marvin Byrd said that his depart ment had always cooperated with the media and would continue to do so. Byrd said he had called the At torney General’s office in Austin but was unable to get any infor mation concerning the open rec ords law. “We’ll just have to wait and see what will develop out of this de cision,” Byrd said. lor, undergoes the surgery to save their marriage. The two have become bored with their relation ship and it shows in the pace of the movie. The cosmetic surgery clinic is underlit and painted a rather demoralizing blue. The mu sic, composed by Maurice Jarre, is indeed haunting, which con tributes to the spookiness Miss Taylor exhibits. This film is directed by Larry Peerce, whose earlier films in clude “One Potato, Two Potato,” “Goodbye, Columbus,” and “A Separate Peace.” The first se quence in “Ash Wednesday” is exposition of the surgical proce dure. The rest of the film em ploys lots of low key glamour and typical jet set activity con trasted with Taylor’s pining for her absent husband. This is the director’s communication without conversation of the continuing boredom which follows the wo man’s operation. The film was shot at the Italian ski resort at Cortina d’Ampezzo. The characters are rather or dinary as this is a very straight forward story about uncomplicat ed people. On the topic of iden tity, character and plastic surg ery, the film “Seconds” with Rock Hudson dealt a few years ago with forging a complete new identity via surgery, and carried much more impact, and presented much more complicated and in teresting people. “Ash Wednes day” was lacking in freshness and spice. The film began a seven day run at Cinema I Wednesday night. office was meant to be nothing more than a place for political candidates to file reports on where they get their money and how they spend it, he said. Later, in an interview, he sin gled out an interpretation that statewide political committees must file special reports with county clerks if they contribute to local campaigns. “That’s BS. They have to file one time with the secretary of state. Then the candidate reports to the county clerk that an or ganization has given him a con tribution,” Bynum said. Bynum advocated a constitu tional state ethics commission to interpret and enforce the cam paign finance, lobby control and conflict of interests laws passed in 1973. Its functions could be combin ed with those of the salary com mission proposed by the Consti tutional Revision Commission, he said. GRADUATE PLANNING SOCIETY Presents Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy W. C. Fields 7 p. m. Thursday, Jan. 24 College of Architecture Auditorium 500 Each -R.ob&tt £ l&f-rv VOctClams TcvuJtt £ Coanii-u Cesxbzr '-bg' ou Pho: 693-2o33 37ZJ-e'ZQ-eh.Sknze.L FADED DENIM Yellow Canvas With Mushrooms Navy Canvas With Tennis Racquets HANDSEWN LOAFERS Values To $24.00 Now $15.00 HAURACHAS WITH SOCKS Now $17.50 Blue, Brown, Natural M 4LE SHOES 15 o $ 40 /c OFF .INE OF SUITS DN SWAN ) to s 135 SELECTION /lEN’S r SHIRTS 'LAND JACKETS R MEN RIA WELCOME BACK AGGIES! from ★ THE BANK WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE TEXAS A&M CAMPUS ★ THE BANK WITH OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF SERVICE TO A&M UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE STATION, AND BRYAN. ★ THE BANK WITH GOOD IDEAS ABOUT SERVICE LIKE DRIVE-IN BANKING AND A WALK-UP WINDOW OPEN FROM 7:30 A.M. UNTIL 6:30 P.M. ★ THE BANK THAT IS EXPANDING WITH TEXAS A&M. OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US! NATIONAL BANK a 711 University Drive 846-8751 “On the side of Texas A&M” A FULL SERVICE BANK KAch (itfpotutor towured UttiJOjDOO FEMi ffOIIAt OIPOMT INSUBANCt COMORAIK)*