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South Africa relations questioned
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1974
Page 3
By TC GALLUCCI
Dr. Harriet Murphy, member
of the State Department’s Advi
sory Council on African Affairs,
spoke to a small crowd Tuesday
noon in the Rudder Tower on the
political climate of South Africa.
Murphy, who has the distinc
tion of being the first black fe
male municipal judge in Texas,
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presented slides from her South
African diplomatic mission. She
was the second speaker of the
Black Awareness Week program.
“Just this morning I was ask
ed why we went. Simply because
when we look at American for
eign policy, one cannot help but
wonder why we continue relations
with a country which oppresses
80 per cent of its population, es
pecially when one considers the
ideals we strive for in this coun
try,” she said.
“So we were to go there to find
out what America could do to im
prove the conditions within the
existing political structure. Of
course this was impossible.”
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Murphy showed slides depict
ing the terrain of South Africa,
which she said is the most beau
tiful in the world. The slide also
included examples of the differ
ent categories of people in the
country. “First there are the
whites: the Dutch and the Eng
lish-speaking people; and then
there are the non-whites: coloreds,
descendants of unions between
Europeans and African women;
the Africans, and the Asian In
dians,” she said.
After traveling the entire
country and interviewing hun
dreds of people, the delegation re
commended that the United States
send black diplomats to South
Africa, and that American busi
nesses in that country pay equal
wages for equal work and pro
mote hiring of non-whites.
The four delegates also rec
ommended the American ambas
sador and diplomats not attend
social functions which were not
open to all races.
Murphy compared the situation
of non-whites in South Africa to
that in the United States by quot
ing Kenneth Clark; “‘The black
ghettos in America are political
ly, economically and culturally a
colony in the United States.’ This
also is evident in South Africa,
in that the non-whites are sub
jected to their masters, which are
the whites.”
IF YOU MEET A
HORNY BUU ON AN
ESCALATOR,YOU’RE
GOING THE WRONG WAY.
Autobiographical Fellini film
pictures director’s suffering
By BRAD ELLIS
How difficult is it, really, to
make a film that bears relevance
to the people who will see it?
Do flashes of communicable
truth occur to great directors
often enough to justify their
maintaining a production crew
between films? And how long
can these people stand around,
not doing anything, waiting for
the director to plan a film worthy
of his reputation as an artist?
What happens to a film when
the director decides midway into
its planning that his concept is
a mere lie? Can he justify the
expense and the build-up of expec
tations involved in an aborted
turkey? What happens to his
credibility in the industry?
Federico Fellini’s “81/2” becomes
an answer to all these questions.
An autobiographical film about
a director trying to make a suc
cessful autobiographical film,
“81/2” is loaded with sequences of
personal recollections and fan
tasies which are the film the
director is trying to make. We
see his fantasies occurring every
where. Anything about “81/2”
that seems confusing or out of
place is probably a personal fan
tasy which occurs to the director
while trying to piece his film
together. These fantasies express
facets of the director’s character
in desperate conflict.
The audience must be able to (
understand the film, his producer
tells him. Cinema has a great
capacity to teach, says the tech
nical adviser. His writer gushes
soothing philosophy saying that ,
for a producer a bad film is only
an economic loss, while for the J
director, it may be the beginning
of the end of his career.
Fellini had made seven feature
films and one particularly meri
torious short one before he made
this, his eighth-and-a-half film,
hence the title. Begining with the
somewhat dubious concept of mak
ing a film about not having any
thing much to make a film about,
Fellini pulls it out and depicts
rather well the squirming and
broiling a director suffers run
ning an eager production crew
with a head full of embryonic
images that seem to lead nowhere.
The Arts Film/Directors Series
presents this film Wednesday
night in the University Center
Theater at 7:30 and 10 p.m. for
$1. This may be a particularly
appropriate film for them to show
at this time, due to the current
controversy over the quality and
relevance of art films, as it illus
trates the difficulties involved in
making them.
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Campus Briefs
Senior
Students may now order senior
rings upon completion of 92 credit
hours, announced Dean of Admis
sions and Records Edwin H. Coop
er.
Dean Cooper said the Ring
Committee unanimously endorsed
a change reducing the require
ment by three hours because of
recent modifications in degree
programs.
“The hours requirement for
completing the junior year has
been reduced in a number of ma
jors,” the dean explained, “and
rings
we feel a student who completes
the curriculum table requirements
as shown in the catalog should
be entitled to buy the ring.”
Noting the policy change is ef
fective immediately, Dean Coop
er said any student who feels he
is eligible to purchase a ring un
der the new provisions should con
tact the university’s ring clerk,
Mrs. Carolyn Wells, in Room 7
of the Coke Building.
The Ring Committee is com
posed of students, former stu
dents, faculty and staff.
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Where I Stand
the views of Bob Bell
candidate for mayor of College Station
The Ward System and a
New City Charter:
Basicly I do not support a ward system which sec
tions the city into political areas and elects a repre
sentative to city government from each area. The
disadvantages include representation based on a
small portion of the citizens of the city and fre
quently creates “Ward Bosses" who can control gov
ernment for special interests. Ward Bosses can sus
tain their position on a small but well organized
minority. If a candidate is to be elected to serve the
entire city, then the candidate should be elected from
the entire number of voters.
The city charter needs revision and a committee for
such a purpose has been designated. When their re
port is ready or a new city charter is brought for
ward, public hearings will be held, and after an ex
amination of the report or charter, I will state my
feelings toward the new instrument.
His son, Matthew, attends College Station Public Kinder
garten and his son, Michael, attends French’s Wee Aggie-
land School.
Vote for Bob Bell for mayor of College Station, Tuesday,
April 2, 1974. „. _ .
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