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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1974
Listen Up
Election comments made;
Cycle parking ‘inadequate
Editor:
If you are a motorcyclist, you
are being treated as a second
class parking registrant. Motor
cycle spaces are made of bits and
pieces left over from car spaces,
they are hemmed by concrete bar
riers and curbs, they are poorly
lighted, they provide inadequate
space and they are not designed
for proper storage of cycles, as
anyone who has had their stands
melt into asphalt or sink into
mud knows.
There is a meeting of the Traf
fic Committee Wednesday at 3
p.m. in Room 704 of the Rudder
Tower. I will present a case for
better cycle parking facilities and
would appreciate any support.
Otto Fritz
Because of the timeliness of
this letter we made it the single
exception to today’s election let
ters. The remainder of the letters
deal with the upcoming student
elections—Ed.
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tie Bus which was confusing in
my Battalion interview.
Idealistically, I do not support
the subsidization of the Shuttle
Bus from Student Service fees.
However, I do feel that this is the
only way that this service can
operate at this time, therefore,
I do favor continued funding
from the Student Service fees. In
the future, alternative methods
of paying for this service should
be investigated.
The apartments along the
Shuttle Bus route advertise this
srevice as an added advantage
and, consequently, the rates of
the apartments along the Shuttle
Bus route are generally higher.
Perhaps the apartment owners
could help defray the cost of a
shuttle bus since they also benefit
from the service.
the academic atmosphere which
students have a right to. A recom
mendation could be made after
we have the facts in. It should
be noted that the burden of proof
that this student body is mature
enough to have a “beer bar,” or
whatever, is on the students, and
the insistence on streaking by
some does not point to maturity,
no matter how badly or imma-
turely the administration over
reacts to such.
Error made
I do not advocate cutting off
the funds for the Shuttle Bus,
but merely the investigation of
alternative methods of funding
this service.
Barry Brooks
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Editor:
I wish to call your attention
to the endorsements of candi
dates for the TAMU student
government by the Battalion
staff in the Thursday, March 28
issue, page 2.
So that readers are not misled
by erroneous statements, regard
less of the source of information,
I wish to point out the fact that
Tim Jordan is not the Head Resi
dent Advisor of Law Hall; Tim
is only the President of Law
Hall, which alone is creditable.
I trust that in the future what
is believed to be fact will be veri
fied before printing as such.
Raymond L. Viada
Head Resident Advisor
Law Hall
Badly stated
My apologies for the mistake.
A printed “correction” is in or
der and your prompt reply serves
that function. Thanks—Ed.
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Editor:
I found one of your SG candi
date survey questions to be badly
stated. In answer to “Would you
support legislation approving the
consumption and sale of liquor
on campus?” I had to answer
“No” because I presently do not
support both. On consumption:
by state law, 18 year olds and
above were given all legal rights
and responsibilities of citizenship,
yet present policy, in effect, par
tially denies citizenship rights on
the grounds that a person is a
student, a policy I hardly think
would hold up in court. The Board
of Directors is charged with up
holding the law whether they
agree with it or not; thus, I be
lieve that their present position
is not only wrong but also very
shady.
A final note on an overworked
controversy: I had assumed that
MSC Council objectives included
the programming of activities de
sired by, at least, a significant
minority of the student body. If
this is incorrect, then I beg the
Council’s pardon. Otherwise, the
Council should take action if no
one is attending committee pro
grams (which doesn’t apply in
this case) or if a committee is
being financially irresponsible
(which does seem to apply in
this case). However, I still main
tain that invocation of de facto
censorship is setting a dangerous
precedent, no matter the subject
censored. Besides, such an ap
proach these days will tend to
martyr a cause which, if left
alone, would die of its own filth.
Ralph McNutt
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RHA comment
It’s time someone said some
thing about Residence Hall As
sociation.
Clarification
Editor:
& I would like to clarify my posi
tion on subsidization,^f A the Shut-
On sale: I think that sale on
other campuses should be investi
gated thoroughly by, say, a fact
finding senate committee, to de
termine if the sale of liquor on
campus would be detrimental to
Presently it doesn’t serve as
any kind of voice of the con-
campus student. The Senate con
trols the three most campus stu
dent-oriented committees, Menu,
Laundry and Dorm Improvement.
It’s leaders know one part of the
administration, Ron Blatchley,
Although Casino is coming R-
HA Weekend and most dorms
have rewritten constitutions, R-
HA seems to serve little other
purpose on this campus.
who is their adviser. It’s president
is relatively unknown because
the organization has not confront
ed anything. It’s doubtful that its
constituents even know a new
'MAYBE IT'S JUST MY IMAGINATION, BUT . . .'
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“I understand that he’s strong for pollution control!”
constitution was written which
governs the dorm governments.
The problem at hand is, will
RHA ever have a meaningful role
on this campus? Not if it doesn’t
get some funds from somewhere
and some weight with the people
who make the decisions, the ad
ministration.
Right now, the RHA funds are
given them from the Exchange
Store Allocations Committee. This
single committee holds the fate
of RHA in its hands every year.
To date they’ve been prettly gen
erous, but what should happen if
one year the committee decides
RHA hasn’t done anything to mer
it funds? Good-bye RHA.
How about approaching the
Board of Directors with a coed
dorm suggestion? No, no, that’s
the Senate’s business, or is it?
The Senate is comprised of off-
campus students and Corps as
well as on-campus. These other
two groups don’t have any real
vested interest in coed dorms.
Dorm improvements are a good
example of where the adminis
tration should hear directly from
the dorm students’ representative.
Who knows better that the con
crete in the showers and the walk
ways in the apartment-type dorms
get slippery as glass when they
are wet, than a resident of the
hall?
What group of students has less
an opportunity to get away from
campus and should have a big say
in what kind of programming
should be offered on weekends
The resident hall student, that’s
who. The RHA should work with
the 400 clubs and 20 MSC commit
tees to get some really good activ
ities happening. The RHA should
also have some knid of informa
tion center where on-campus stu
dents can find out what’s going
on in the surrounding vicinity and
how to get involved in what’s hap
pening.
Maybe if RHA does something
about the state they are in im
mediately something can be done
before next year gets here. Oth
erwise the same old problems of
no money and no pull with the ad
ministration, will remain.
Electing the right people will be
the quickest and easiest way to
insure something will be done. If
the candidates don’t look like they
can do the job of getting RHA
moving along the right track,
vote “no confidence” or write-in
the name of someone who will. If
you do write in “no confidence”
circle to indicate that is your
choice.
RHA is potentially the strong
est organization on the campus
because its members are concen
trated in a very small area. It will
be as strong as its leaders and
its constitutency wants it to be.
Mary Russo, Candidate for
RHA vice-president
Normally members of the Bat
talion’s editorial and reporting
staff (of which Ms. Russo is one)
are barred from writing “Letters
to the editor.” However, since she
is a candidate for a student lead
ership position we decided not to
deny her this forum—Ed.
(See STUDENTS, p. 3)
Anyone who would like to help The Aggie
Cinema select a Brand List of Arts Films is
encouraged to contact: Tony Bonnett B-2.
Hart, 845-1515, by April 15. Your interest
and help will be appreciated.
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STUDENT FILM POLL
The Aggie Cinema would like to be more responsive tt
the wishes of the student body. You can help us achiew
this aim by selecting 15 movies from the P0PULAE
FILM SERIES list and 8 movies from the CLASS FIR)!
SERIES LIST. This is to give us an idea of the filmsanc
film types you would like to see, so feel free and write in
selections. (An Arts Film Poll will be in the Batt intlie
near future.)
POPULAR FILM SERIES
-1.
-2.
-3.
A Hard Day’s Night
Help!
Let It Be
4. Elvis On Tour
5. Elvis - That’s The Way It
Is
6. Cat Ballou
7. They Shoot Horses, Don’t
They?
8. Klute
9. Steelyard Blues
10. Little Big Man
11. Straw Dogs
12. Cool Hand Luke
13. Hud
14. Life & Times of Judge
Roy Bean
15. Secret War of Harry
Frigg
16. Dirty Harry
17. High Plains Drifter
18. Play It Again, Sam
19. Take the Money and
Run
20. What’s Up Tiger Lily?
21. The Getaway
22. The Reivers
23. Bullit
24. A Separate Peace
25. Red Sky at Morning
26. Charlie
27. Cheyenne Social Club
28. Vanishing Point
29. Boston Strangler
30. Rosemary’s Baby
31. Beyond the Valley of
the Dolls
32. Cromwell
33. Jane Eyre
37. The Other
38. The Light at the Edge
of the World
39. The Sound of Music
40. Ben-Hur
41. To Sir, With Love
-42. Love Story
-43. Romeo and Juliet
-44. Blume in Love
-45. French Connection
-46. Billy Jack
c
-47. Walking Tall
-48. Deliverence
-49. Poseidon Adventure
-60. Executive Action
-51. Pete ‘n’ Tillie
-62. The Heartbreak Kid
-53. The Godfather
-54. Lady Sings the Blues
-55. Sounder
-56. Five Easy Pieces
-57. The Last Picture Show
-58. Brother Sun, Sister
Moon
-59. Emperor of the North
-60. Johnny Got His Gun
61. Catch-22
62. Hitler: The Last Ten
Days
63. A Clockwork Orange
-64. Guns of Naverone
-65. Battle of Britan
-66. Pollyanna
-67. Sign of Zorro
-68. Prince and the Pauper
-69. Johnny Shiloh
34. Anne of the Thousand
Days
35. Mary, Queen of Scots
36. Dr. Zhivago
-70. Big Red
-71. Dillinger
-72. A Safe Place
-73. The Power
-74. Boxcar Bertha
-75.
(write in)
CLASSIC FILM SERIES
Wild One (Brando)
On the Water Front
(Brando)
African Queen (Bogart)
Dead Reckoning (Bogart)
East of Eden (Dean)
Rebel Without a Cause
(Dean)
■7. Giant (Dean)
8. All About Eve (Davis)
9. Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner (Tracy, Hep
burn)
10. Long Days Journey into
the Night (Tracy, Hep
burn)
11. Howards of Virginia
(Grant)
12. His Girl Friday (Grant)
13. Son of the Sheik
(Valentino-Silent)
14. Blood and Sand
(Valentino-Silent)
15. The General (Keaton)
■16. A Night at the Opera
(Marx Bros.)
•17. Room Service
(Marx Bros.)
-18.
-19.
-20.
-21.
-22.
-23.
-24.
-25.
-26.
-27.
-28.
-29.
-30.
-31.
-32.
-33.
-34.
35.
——36.
37.
-38.
-39.
Gold Rush (Chaplin)
Eternal Tramp
(Chaplin)
Reefer Madness
Sex Madness
Cocaine Fiends
Hitler’s Executioners
Mein Kampf
Blitz on Britain
Nuremberg Trial
Cleopatra
Stagecoach
Mark of Zorro
Lone Ranger
Laurence of Arabia
Ivanhoe
Grapes of Wrath
All Quiet on the
Western Front
Birth of a Nation
The Bad Seed
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
Mutiny on the Bounty
-40.
(write in)
Questionaires may be turned in at any of the following
places anytime before April 15, 1974.
B-2 Hart
J-3 Hart
425 Dunn
425 Milner
333 Fowler
Dorm 6 Rm. 418
Aggie Cinema Cubicle (MSC)
Table in MSC Hall (Wed. Apr. 3,8-5)
Any questions or comments will be appreciated. Thank
you for your responses, Sincerely,
Tony Bonnett—Chairman
Tom Wheeler—PR.
Lyn Taylor—Sec.
Pat Donahoe—Treas.
Louis Corona—Treas.
845-5906
845-5006
693-4569
845-5006
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