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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PING PONG TOURNAMENT November 8 and 9 Beginning at 7p.m. Register by Wednesday November 6 10c Registration Fee Sign up with a partner or as single Sponsored by baptist Student Union on College Main behind Loupot’s Maxwell refuses elaboration in ‘Marat\Sade y cancellation THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1974 Page 5 1 Liberal Arts Dean David Max well refused to elaborate on his reasons for cancelling “Marat-Sade” in a reply to a letter by John Tyler, student vice president of rules and regulations. Tyler sent a letter to Maxwell on Oct. 24 asking his reasons for cancel ling the play and requesting names of students Maxwell has said ob jected to the play. Maxwell’s reply of Oct. 25 stated the dean had nothing to add on his previous statements. The letter said the students’ names were not germaine to the reasons for cancelling the play. It was the students’ perogative as to whether their names could be re leased, said Maxwell. Commenting on Maxwell’s reply, Tyler said, “It was prompt and po lite. I’m not surprised he didn’t give me the names. I can’t really blame him. He’s not a hard guy. “I’m going to try to meet with him Friday or sometime next week to try to persuade him.” “I personally think we should have “Marat-Sade” on campus,” said Tvler. Tyler discussed “Marat-Sade,” liquor on campus and election pro cedures in a Battalion interview. Explaining his position on “Marat-Sade”Tyler said, “It’s partly a personal thing since I’ve been in Aggie Players every year except for this year. Dr. John Joy, head of the theater arts department, came in new this year and I think he should get a break. Marat-Sade is a very good play for training actors since it requires playing mentally disturbed people,” said Tyler. “I’ve heard Maxwell cancelled the play after only reviews of it. I’ve read about half of it. Brooks, student vice president of services, has read all of it. There is no nudity in it. It’s not really an obscene play. Whether or not it’s obscene, becomes an issue of academic freedom, of whether we can have a play of art if it offends sensibilities,” Tyler said. “Dean Maxwell has the power. And I think he has to be given power to do his job. But he doesn’t morally have the right. Let them open it up. Nobody’s going to force people to see it. Let the attendance show if it meets community standards,” said Tyler. One of Tyler’s major objectives for rules and regulations this year is getting liquor on campus legalized. Under present university policy, a student can theoretically be expel led for having liquor in a dormitory. But TAMU President Jack Williams promised last year that enforcement would be limited, said Tyler. “I’d feel much better about it if it was in writing though,” he said. If the student senate passes a re solution legalizing liquor on campus it goes to the University Rules and Regulations Committee and the administration and board of direc tors. - The liquor issue has met the most hard lined opposition in the Univer sity Academic Council which de feated it last year, said Tyler. He said, “They generally feel it is not in the traditional image of A&M. “That’s just human nature. Any body associated with an institution tends to resist change. “You just have to be patient, not get discouraged and keep plugging away. I think it has a better chance this year but I don’t know if its time has come. There’s been too much change already in other areas. “I will introduce the bill this year and am almost sure the senate will pass it. From there, it’s really out of our hands,” said Tyler. A major project of the rules and regulations committee was the re solution on election procedures pas sed at the last senate meeting. As written by the committee, the re solution eliminated the sixty dollar limit on campaign spending. The senate reinserted the limit before passing the resolution. Tyler said the resolution re stricted the number of flyers, size of signs and designated campaign areas. The committee reasoned these restrictions would mean less cam paign money spent on campus which would be beneficial since the majority of students live off campus, he said. The committee will make a new proposal to the senate on how campaign spending should be li mited. The resolution on election proce dures also shortened the campaign Weather forecasting contest set A weather forecasting contest is being sponsored by the campus chapter of the American Meteorological Society. The contest begins Nov. 4 and contestants continue forecasting for three separate cities for a two week period each. Daily minimum and maximum temperatures as well as precipitation quantities will be pre dicted. The contest rules are posted in room 1003 of the Meteorology and Oceanography building. Anyone may enter. time from three or four weeks to two. Tyler said the new time limit would mean less money spent and less time taken away from studies. Under the resolution, the judicial board can issue an injunction halt ing a campaign action while deter mining if it is an election violation. “The judicial board is expanding its function to what it should be. I’m happy with how it’s controlled it self,” said Tyler. “There has been a lot of confusion and infighting. It has been dormant too long. It’s good to have a three branch system with checks and balances,” he said. Tyler said that he supported the board’s recommendation to extend the certification time limit from two days after elections to after the ap peal period. But he said since the recommen dation would mean a constitutional change, it would require a student referendum. Tyler is senior philosophy major in pre-law. He became active in se nate projects and Texas Student Lobby his sophomore year and plans to attend Harvard Law School. Two plays on tonight “Hairy Falsetto” and “Hello Out There” are being presented Friday and Saturday by Aggie Players’ Fallout Theater. Fallout is theater for students, by students, with students. “Hairy Falsetto” is a satire on what happens to the Big, Bad Wolf when he’s taken to court by Little Red Riding Hood for eating her grandmother. Craig Macintosh, Anel Doup- hrate and Nancye Gandy play the leads in the play. The second play to be staged, “Hello Out There” deals with a man in protective custody who takes an interest in the jail cook as a soul in search of freedom. Brad Ellis and B. J. Storde play the leads. The soundtrack is by Pink Floyd. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. Admission is 75 cents. The presen tations will be in the Forum, first floor at the back of the theater com plex. 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