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Listen Up
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1974
Film decision said abuse of minority rights, freedom
Editor:
To say the least, I was appal
led to read the headlines in last
Thursday’s Battalion: “Koldus
Bans ‘Flamingoes.’ ” With the
now officially recognized power
of the MSC to determine which
programming is to be allowed on
campus and which is not, even if
no student funds are involved, a
very serious precedent has come
into existence.
The question is no longer
whether a certain movie should or
should not be shown or by whom.
The matter changed to one of
principle, that being ultimately
whether academic freedom is al
lowed at this university. Also in
volved, it seems, is another battle
over whether the in loco parentis
concept of this university will be
allowed to stand.
There are “pragmatists” among
us who have no use for principles.
To them I point out the principles,
including that of freedom of ideas,
written into our government al
most 200 years ago.
There are those who condemn
the film involved for its content.
I agree with them. But I do not
agree that this alone gives a
small group of people an excuse
not only to set themselves up as
a review board of what is and
isn’t moral enough for the stu
dent body to see, but also to use
this incident to extend this pow
er to control what we see and
hear on this campus as effective
ly as the Kremlin controls what
is seen and heard in the Soviet
Union.
There are also those who be
lieve that programming should be
a function only of what the ma
jority want. To them, I would
point out the principle of minor
ity rights in our system of gov
ernment and the example that
Socrates was in the minority when
condemned to death for “corrupt
ing the morals of youth.”
I do not think the administra
tion consists of unreasonable men,
but I do think their present ef
forts in this case are terribly
misguided. If the administration’s
stance remains unchanged, I hope
that the Student Senate will re
ply to Mr. Guerrero’s inquiry
with: “We are here and are go
ing to investigate this matter.”
I also desperately hope that this
does not become necessary. I,
therefore, appeal to the reason
of those in charge to recognize
the full extent of what they are
doing, and allow the movie to be
shown so that this whole affair
can be forgotten and we can
move on to more important busi
ness.
Ralph McNutt
Brick wall
Editor:
I attended the Student Publica
tions meeting concerning the fir
ing of the managing editor, Steve
Goble, on the basis that he is a
non-student.
Mr. Harrison, one the board
members, stated that it was “a
frivolous imposition on the board”
to hold such a meeting. Why was
it that the board was concerned
more over the indignanty of hav
ing to hold a public meeting rath
er than the issue at hand?
Throughout the meeting, impor
tant points made by Steve Goble,
Rod Speer and members of the
audience were repeatedly passed
over—maybe “The Board” should
be re-termed “The Brick Wall.”
Front row
Marisa Galvany
by Kaino Kalos
A coloratura soprano voice is
a musical instrument possessed
as a gift of nature by a fortunate
few that, when trained and dis
ciplined, can be as expressive as
a violin, as powerful as a clarinet,
clearer than a flute and exceed
all three in range and flexibility
while combining poetry with
sound. Marisa Galvany is a dra
matic coloratura soprano, and dis
played that voice in the Rudder
Center Auditorium Tuesday night.
It is traditional for coloraturas
to begin a program by gradually
displaying the innate qualities of
their Voices and the versatility of
techniques acquired. Usiially this
requires that they start with
light, romantic songs in which the
music and lyrics have been blend
ed by the composer and thus pre
sent no serious challenge to eith
er voice or dramatic skills. Miss
Galvany, however, began with a
rather difficult selection by Bee
thoven that required immediate
intensity of control and dexterity
in modulation. In the lower con
tralto range her voice was as rich
and warm as an alto sax and the
higher notes were properly soft
and clear, but the demandingly
rapid transitions between were
sometimes nasal and her voice
caught and broke on the sudden
descents.
Next came Schubert’s Die
Krahe with reversed demands of
softness and clarity for the lower
notes and power and vibrancy for
the higher. Her lyrical articula
tion was excellent and when she
followed with Auf Dem Wasser zu
singen, displaying both lyrical
and musical articulation of sup
erior quality, it was clear that she
possessed the necessary skills, her
voice was now under control and
something memorable was about
to be heard.
A little Brahms to show
smoothness of tone and stage pre
sence, a recitative to show that
pitch and tempo would present no
problem and then Sempre libera!
All previous talents and skills
combined like honey and hot but
ter, and not even the “Women’s
Lib” lyrics or her failure to sus
tain the final note could prevent
that mingling of warm eyes and
chilled spines by which we ack
nowledge a performance to be a
new work of art.
For the sake of Miss Galvany
and my own I wish I had left at
intermission.
She began the second half of
her program with the kind of
classical novelty songs that can
be tolerated as only warm-ups.
She did try and almost succeed
in making “Fleur Jettee” sound
like an aria, and the Spanish
songs that followed almost made
me homesick for Rosa’s Cantina.
I was waiting for Puccini and
hoped that she was, too, but her
voice did not remain clear under
the pressure of the tempo and
range of the aria from “Turan-
dot,” and although it responded
well to the more modest demands
of “Un bel di,” the closing was
again more than a measure too
abrupt.
The two encores were pleasant
and predictable but in themselves
hardly deserved a standing ova
tion. But what the hell! We give
standing ovations at every perfor
mance and this was just not any
performance. So we should have
given her three; one by custom,
one for trying to start at the top
and one for breathing new beauty
into Verdi’s old aria.
Kaino Kalos is the pen name of
a faculty member who would pre
fer to remain anonymous. Kalos
will be providing The Battalion
with reviews of cultural events
brought to TAMU—Ed.
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In the course of the meeting
it was acknowledged by some
members that, yes, Steve Goble
is a good managing editor. Steve
also clarified that he dropped his
courses in the middle of the se
mester in order to devote his full
time and effort to the job. No
where in the Rules and Regula
tions Handbook does it say that
a person employed by the news
paper had to be an attending stu
dent of A&M. Yet the board de
cided that because The Battalion
is a student newspaper it should
be operated by students, despite
the excellent point made by Ms.
Tommerup that in some of the
best universities all over the
world there is a special system
where the students are exempt
from taking courses in order to
give their full attention to such
important jobs as newspaper pos
itions. Yet the Board had already
made up its mind to fire Steve
and would not be deterred (the
principle, you know).
Not even being objective enough
to listen to all the students’ opin
ions, the meeting was adjourned
and members quickly dispersed.
To the board members, maybe,
this meeting was a “frivolous im
position.” I, as a student, consid
ered it a serious matter as to
whether we have any voicet|
in detennining how our i
newspaper should be run, Ij
thoroughly disgusted wit!
meeting from start to finish,si
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