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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1977
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Robert Keen and Sunny Fitzsimmons, members of the
‘Front Porch Boys” singing group, practice for an upcoming
concert. Performers’ auditions are held at the Basement
Committee meetings every Monday night at 7:30.
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By RUSTY CAWLEY
Battalion Staff
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College Station City Council.
’wo proposals are before the
incil. One is to merge the city’s
office with the A&M Consoli-
ed School District s office. The
er is to merge the entire city
Bryan.
[he couneilmen are considering
first proposal but thumbing
ir noses at the other,
n a meeting Wednesday, Coun-
nan Lane Stephenson asked for
informal poll of the council to
ige the members interest in
rging tax offices with the school
Irict.
’he poll was taken at the request
the A&M Consolidated School
ird.
he school board seeks to join the
tax offices. The trustees claim
offices duplicate information,
nding tax money needlessly.
Councilman Larry Ringer moved
instruct the city manager to look
ther into the proposal.
The motion passed with one dis-
it: Councilman Jim Dozier.
We’ll end up with the property
ners screaming at us rather than
school baord, Dozier said.
\t school district is just trying to
id us their problems.
It’s a school hoard problem, not
ity problem, and I don ’t want any
rt of it. "
ity Manager North Bardell said
city had once collected taxes for
school district.
But we just couldn’t put up with
Bardell said. “That’s why the
offices were divorced,”
Councilman Gary Halter said he
ildn’t see that merging the two
es would save any tax money.
Halter said. Still, he favored study
ing the matter further.
Councilwoman Anne Hazen said
the council should consider the
merger.
“We owe it to our taxpayers to
look into this, Hazen said. “If we
turn it down, we should have a good
reason.
But Dozier remained firm.
“We re not going to take over the
school hoard’s problems, Dozier
said. “That’s the biggest mistake this
council could make,
The other couneilmen, however,
want to review the school district’s
proposal.
But Bryan’s proposal to merge
with College Station is another
story.
College Station Mayor Lofence
Bravenee made it clear that the
Council would call no special meet
ing to consider Bryan’s proposal.
The proposal, contained in a let
ter from Bryan City Manager Lou
Odle, has not been received.
Odle called Bardell yesterday and
told him the letter had been posted.
“We should get the letter in the
next couple of days,” Bardell said.
“I guess we 11 read about it in the
paper tonight,” Bravenee said.
“Why don’t they just send us a
paper instead.”
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iTexas A&M University psychol-
fj' professor William R. Smith,
Itice of the Peace B.H. Dewey,
announced Wednesday morning.
Smith was found dead in his car
it Friday on the west feeder road
I Highway 6.
Investigators said Smith shot
iniself in the chest with a .22 mag-
weapon.
Smith resided at 1826 Shadow
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‘Rose’ with thorns
By JEFF GILLEY
Something’s wrong with De
borah.
Deborah is 16 and pretty. She
slashes her arm with a tin can lid,
sears it with burning cigarettes,
pounds her head on the floor, and
lives in a kingdom called Yri. Deb
bie is schizophrenic.
T Never Promised You a Rose
Garden,” starting Friday at the
Cinema I and II, is the fine film ver
sion of Hannah Green’s bestselling
novel detailing a young girl’s battle
with madness. Like “One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Rose
Garden” takes place in a mental in
stitution well-populated with
loonies. “Rose Garden,” however,
doesn’t exploit madness as an alle
gory, hut exposes its anguish with
touching realism.
Newcomer Kathleen Quinlan
plays the young girl bouncing be
tween reality and her own dream
land. Like the other patients in her
ward, Deborah is frightened of the
outside world and the “reality” of
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life in a mental hospital: beatings by
a brutal attendant, attacks by other
patients, being strapped into a co
coon of bedsheets, and so on. With
the help of one humane psychiatrist
(Bibi Anderson), Deborah gains the
courage to fight the security of her
private world of tribal heroes, de
mons, and punishing gods.
Through the doctor we receive
hints of what triggered Deborah’s
illness: a childhood trauma, hatred
of her sister, and an overpossessive
father. But the basis of her illness is
left as shadowy as her parents, two
areas that need further exposition.
The film is also weakend by low
production values and a contrived
baseball sequence, hut these are
comparatively minor annoyances.
Most of the film’s success rests on
the superlative ensemble of players,
led by Quinlan as Deborah. Always
fascinating, her interpretation of a
schizophrenic includes such mar
velous details as a painful, shuffling
walk, an upraised hand caressing
the air, and any motion of a
uniquely expressive face. The result
is a character of depth and power
rarely seen outside the best Broad
way has to offer.
Director Anthony Page wisely al
lows the performances to unfold
without interference. Still, he gives
the film impact without letting it
turn into an “Exorcist ’-styled freak
show.
Easily rising above its faults, “I
Never Promised You a Rose Gar
den” is simple, moving, and agoniz
ing. Like “Rocky” of last year, it is a
brave little film that made good; un
like “Rocky,” it is sentimental with
out being manipulative. In an age of
empty superspectaculars and ex
ploitation cinema, what higher
virtue can a film claim?
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