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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1974
Film censorship
The MSC Council agreed that all films ordered through
the MSC would have to be approved by Hal Gaines, Student
Program Coordinator. An appeals system was set up in
which the Council would have the final say on film program
ming.
Council members argued this procedure was necessary
for coordination of programming. It would also, they con
tended, make film committees more responsible to the Coun
cil, which supports them financially, and insure that pro
gramming be consistent with the stated objectives of the
particular committee.
These are legitimate concerns, but it was obvious from
the start that the resolution calling for a film programming
overseer was introduced to prevent the showing of porno
graphic or otherwise objectionable movies by the Arts Com
mittee or any other MSC group. As soon as the resolution
passed, the Council had its first opportunity to act as a cen
soring board and determine the fate of the film Luminous
Procuress, which is scheduled to be shown Thursday mid
night by the Arts Committee.
Council members now have the final say as to what
movies are of “value,” and will act as a guardian mother
and protect the student body from things it should not see.
This censorship procedure is degrading and totally un
necessary. The Council already has a check on programming
in that it chooses committee chairmen and can dismiss them
at will. This and a good communication with committee
heads should insure that the moral and financial interests
of the Council are maintained. If a movie is truly objection
able the student body will make that known, if not vocally
then through lack of support for a committee’s programs.
Students at A&M, with few exceptions, are legal adults
and should have the right to determine for themselves what
films they care to see. The committee chairmen should be
free of an administrator’s censorship to establish program
ming in the student’s interest.
A student newspaper
To call The Battalion a student newspaper may be mis
nomer. True, the staff is made up of students, and the
paper does concern itself with student related matters. But
the controlling force behind The Battalion, the Student Pub
lications Board, is comprised chiefly of faculty-staff mem
bers and has only limited student input.
Under the present system, the Board is chaired by the
Director of Student Publications, with four faculty-staff
members appointed by President Williams and three stu
dents appointed by Dr. Williams upon the recommendation
of the Student Government head. It is this group that selects
the editor for The Battalion (subject to the approval of the
president) and can suspend that editor, in addition to mak
ing policy decisions for the newspaper and other publica
tions.
The Battalion’s number one responsibility should be to
the student body. The paper acts as an information service
for students and watchdog in the campus community. Its
publication is funded by Student Services fees which supple
ment advertising and subscription income. The Battalion
along with Student Government represent two major ways
in which students can express discontent and work for con
structive change within the establishment of the university.
It is inconsistent with the function of a student newspaper
that it be controlled by a board composed mainly of faculty
members and administrators.
The Student Senate Rules and Regulations Committee
will present changes in the “Blue Book” to be considered by
the Senate at tonight’s meeting. One of the changes will
be to alter the membership of the Student Publications Board
to include five students and four faculty-staff members. The
Battalion supports this change in the hope that students
have the controlling interest in their Student Publications
Board and campus newspaper.
Cbe Battalion
Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of
the editor or of the renter of the article and are not
necessarily those of the University administration or
the Board of Directors. The Battalion is a non-profit,
self-supporting enterprise operated Jby students as a
University and Community newspaper.
Listen Up
Kunstler, ACLU,
Read Battalion CM
freedom hailed
Editor:
We, as students of TAMU, owe
a debt of gratitude to the ACLU
and others who had a role in rec
tifying the great injustice done
everyone connected with this
great institution. The appearance
of William Kunstler re-establish
ed the oft forgotten goal of every
university, the free and untainted
exchange of ideas and views, at
TAMU.
Mr. Kunstler is also to be com
mended for caring enough to in
convenience himself and perhaps
endangering the freedom of his
current clients to bring the First
Amendment back to TAMU.
Partisan politics should never
have entered this situation.
Whether one agrees with Mr.
Kunstler or not is immaterial.
This and any institution of higher
learning finds its life-blood in
new ideas and to suppress them
is to kill progress and promote
stagnation of thought.
Let us hope that this display of
misguided priorities and badly
aimed censorship is not repeated
and that President Williams will
assist in the re-establishment of
free communication at TAMU.
Bradley T. Britt
Figaro
Editor:
Why was there no mention of
“The Marriage of Figaro” in
Thursday’s or Friday’s Batt? The
only mention the opera received
was the paid advertisement im
mediately preceeding its show
ing.
Tom Dawsey
Due to contractual obligations,
no photographs were allowed to
be taken of the opera and no one
on the staff was qualified to re
view one. An advance story was
printed on the front page in the
Feb. 20 issue and the opera was
mentioned later in the MSC Calen
dar and Campus Briefs—Ed.
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