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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MAY 4. 1976
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By MARILOU WOMACK
See films for credit! Thrills,
hills, Metaphysics!” read the
right yellow posters appearing on
ulletin boards around the campus.
The signs refer to English course
39A, a three hour course taught by
of. Harriette Andreadis.
Andreadis says the course is being
Ivertised, because last semester
nrollment totalled only 20 stu-
ents. Next fall will be the third
mester the course has been taught
A&M.
1 m trying to instill an apprecia-
pf how films work and how they
feet us,” Andreadis says.
She says she believes one reason
the low enrollment in the course
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not available in summer
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irovided by the Texas Rehabilitation
. , n Commission (TRC) will no longer he
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ng this year.
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Don Gardner, representative for
that a CBs TRC at Texas A&M, said Friday that
carforatlieB^ ere vv '^ l )e a change in the
philosophy of TRC starting July 1.
Gardner said, “our commissioner
nd his representatives feel that we
are alsobffiBieed to cut back somehow in order
to save money, so the college prog
ram is one of the programs that is
going to be suffering. ”
Gardner said that a lack of funds
was the main reason for the cut in
financial aid.
“We have been getting the same
ons aboutd amount of appropriations for the past
h the FCCi three years and we are probably
iboutmisleai serving three times as many people
than we did three years ago,’ Gard
ner said.
“It stands to reason that you are
either going to have to run out of
money sooner every year or you are
going to have to cut funds, ’’ he said.
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n other departments, such as en-
ineering students, feel hesitant
bout taking an English course. I’d
ike to have some engineering stu
nts in the class. I feel that they
ould present a different viewpoint, ”
he added.
Andreadis said the classes will be
held at night. “We ll see a movie one
night and talk about it another. The
films for the course cost about a
thousand dollars each semester, so I
ask the students to donate ten dollars
each. The public is also invited and
we charge them a dollar,” Andreadis
said.
The course will require two
textbooks and there will be a series of
quizzes. The student has the option
of doing a project instead of the quiz
zes. Andreadis said that in the past,
students have chosen such projects
as a study of monster makeup, Hi
tler’s propaganda films, and Cary
Grant’s acting.
Some of the films for next semes
ter will be: “The Gold Rush”, “Birth
of a Nation”, “The Blue Angel”,
“Triumph of the Will”, “His Girl
Friday”, “M”, and “Citizen Kane.”
They will be shown in the Architec
ture Building auditorium.
Andreadis said advertising for the
course was paid for by the combined
efforts of the department, the film
class students, and herself.
By PRESTON JONES
Gardner said the commission felt
that cutting the hinds only during
the summer sessions would not hurt
the students as much as cutting them
during the fall and spring semesters.
The maximum amount a qualified
student may receive during summer
sessions is $100, while the maximum
during the spring or fall is $250 per
semester.
In order to receive funds, students
have to he permanently disabled and
there has to he a reasonable expecta
tion that they will be able to go to
work after graduating.
There are presently about 250
students at A&M receiving aid from
TRC.
Gardner said that Texas has led
the nation in the past two years in the
total number of people served and
rehabilitated through this type of
program.
Doyle Wheeler, deputy commis
sioner of TRC in Austin, said if a
person is graduating or if there is
severe hardship, funds could be pro
vided during the summer.
Wheeler also said that all states
are having trouble getting binds for
rehabilitation scholarships.
A hand of civil engineering stu
dents and faculty returned to Texas
A&M Monday from Kansas as un
disputed champions of Midwest
concrete canoe racing.
Four Aggie students and two pro
fessors brought back team trophies,
a plaque for the best course time of
3:14.0 and the coveted traveling
trophy denoting the Aggies as best
concrete canoeist in an eight-state
region.
Students John Bugge and Phil
Goode of Brownsville won the finals
of student competition at Kansas
State University, heating all comers
in the event in the Mideast Region
sponsored by the American Society
of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
The region includes Texas, Arkan
sas, North Dakota, Colorado, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Missouri and Utah.
Bugge, Goode, along with San An
tonio students Jim Duderstandt and
Robert Worley, and professors
Howard Furr and Calvin Woods,
trekked to Manhattan, Kan., after
winning the ASCE Texas champion
ship in April.
Duderstandt and Worley marked
the fastest time of the meet and won
their semifinal match, but were dis
qualified after changing lanes.
The faculty members finished
Syria attacks
U.S. policy
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria at
tacked the American peacemaking
effort in Lebanon today as Lebanese,
Moslem and Christian forces ham
mered at each other with tanks,
heavy artillery and rockets.
The Damascus newspaper Al-
Baath, the organ of Syria’s ruling
Baath Socialist party, called on all
“allied and friendly forces in Leba
non “to foil the destructive mission”
of President Ford’s special envoy, L.
Dean Brown.
Brown and the Ford administra
tion have been supporting Syrian ef
forts to end the war and prevent a
leftist Moslem victory that would re
duce Lebanon’s former Christian
rulers to a powerless minority.
But today the official Syrian paper
charged the United States with “aim-
ing at the partition of the Lelmnon
and at foiling the Syrian peace initia
tive in that country.” It accused the
leader of the Lebanese leftists with
“cooperating with the imperialists to
materialize the partition.”
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HEAVY WIN — Texas Aggies Jim Duderstandt and
Robert Worley of San Antonio paddle Texas A&M’s
concrete canoe to the fastest time.
fourth.
Worley, president of The Texas
A&M student chapter of ASCE, said
he plans to contact the society to de
termine if any type of national con
test is planned.
The canoe entered by Texas A&M
weighed in at 131 pounds, about half
the weight of one entered in Texas
competition last year. The canoes,
although completely made of con
crete, must float when flooded.
Kerrville Festival features
various singers, workshops
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The fifth annual Kerrville Folk
Festival will be presented May 27-30
at Kerrville, Tx., featuring some 200
writers, singers, yodelers and musi
cians.
The event includes a mixture of
traditional and contemporary Texas
music, folk, country, Bluegrass, rag
time, blues and old time fiddling.
Performers Peter Yarrow, Guy
Clark, Chubby Wise and Patsy Mon
tana will be some of the artists in
cluded in the festival, located 60
miles west of San Antonio. Various
workshops and contests will also be
offered.
For ticket, camping, motel and
concert schedule information, write
Rod Kennedy, Box 1466, Kerrville,
Tx. 78028, and enclose a stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
Led Zeppelin has trouble with versatility
By PAUL MUELLER
Presence, the long-awaited new
album from Led Zeppelin, finally ar
rived in the stores last month. 1 am
sorry to report that it has not been
worth the year’s wait since their last
album.
Led Zeppelin consists of four
members: Jimmy Page, lead guitar;
Robert Plant, lead vocals and har
monica; John Paul Jones, bass and
keyboards; and John Bonham,
drums.
Their first two albums are classic
collections of heavy metal music and
electric blues, and they sound as
good today as they did when they
were released. After this initial blast,
the band began to experiment with
some new types of music, including
ballards, acoustic love songs, and
even 1950s-style rock ’n’ roll. Until
recently, Led Zeppelin has had no
trouble demonstrating its musical
creativity and versatility, but judg-
Review
ing by Presence, the old inspiration is
finally gone.
It pains me to write such a put-
down of this album, since the Zep’s
earlier works are among my favorite
records. But the fact is that Presence,
for the most part, is just not worth
the trouble of listening to. Its most
obvious fault is that all the songs are
too long. There’s nothing wrong with
a long song, as long as it doesn’t get
monotonous, but with a couple of
exceptions, these songs are boring.
The other two faults are Jimmy Page
and Robert Plant. Page’s guitar play
ing rarely shows the speed and im
agination that made him one of the
best rock guitarists in the world a few
years ago, and Plant’s once-powerful
vocal style has degenerated into a
sort of high-pitched whine that’s
pretty hard to take for a whole al
bum.
I mentioned a couple of excep
tions. One of these is “Nobody’s
Fault But Mine,” probably the most
popular cut on the album. Here
Page’s guitar finally comes to life,
and Plant’s singing and harmonica
playing begin to show some of the
guts they used to have. Another
good cut is “Tea For One,” a slow
blues number on which Page de
monstrates the blues guitar style that
he built his reputation.
Whatever it was that caused the
decline of Page’s and Plant’s musical
skills, it doesn’t seem to have af
fected Bonham and Jones. Their
playing on Presence is as good as it
has been on Led Zeppelin’s earlier
albums, and maybe even better.
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