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6 Focus. The Battalion Thursday. November 19, 1981 THURSDAY Midwest Community 0KPRC e e 0KBTX 0 0 QKCEN 0 0 OKIBC O 0KUHT 0 0 ©KHOU © © ©KIRK © © ©KAMU © © ©KVUE O o ffiKTVV O o Tarper Valley Lewis & Clark ffi KHTV © © Rockford Files HBO O Standing Room Only CBN National Geographic CINE MAX Movie: 'Wood- stock'' GALA Movie: "Bloody Marlene" MOV Movie: "Superdome" ^:00 I 15 I :30 1 :45 Harper Valley Lewis & Clark Work And Mindy Best Ot The West Harper Valley Lewis & Clark Magnum, P.L Business Report Sneak Previews Magnum, P.I. Mork And Mindy Best Of The West Sneak Previews Righteous Apples Mork And Mindy BestOt The West ;00 Barney Dift’rent Knots Governor’s Knots Barney The Barney Diff'rent Movie: "Sherlock 700 V 15 Strokes Miller Strokes Landing Report Landing Miller Governor's Miller Strokes "Hombre Holmes - Club fV30 Gimme A Tani Gimme A Taxi Report Taxi Gimme A The Strange \J:45 Break Break " Break Case Of A :00 Hill 20-20 Hill Jessica Cousteau Jessica 20-20 The 20-20 Hill Alice Limosna 0:15 Street Street Novak Odessey Novak Lawmakers Street Faulkner' De Amor M:30 Blees " Blues Camera Blues Sing Out Movie: V:45 ” ” Three America "From 4 A:00 News News News News Doctor In News News Dick News News Movie: Nashville Hell To 1 lVl5 The House " Cavett "Fade R.F.D. Victory ; I 1:30 Tonight ABC News Tonight All In The Dick Quincy ABC News News ABC News Tonight INN News To Black" Another Movie: Deportes X V .45 Nightline Family Cavett Nightline Nightline Life "Willie De Gala 4 4 :00 •• Vega$ Movie: Classic Bonanza Presente Vega$ " Benny Burns & And Phil" v.- 1 1 15 " “Sands Country " Hill Allen I :30 You Asked Tomorrow Of The " Circulo Tomorrow Ko|ak Jack Movie: X X:45 For It - ’’ Iwo ” Saint Tres Inside Benny "Sunday 4 A:00 Tomorrow Mission Jima” VegaJ Alfred ” The NFL Life Of Lovers" 1 y 15 Impossible Hitchcock Riley # :30 " ” Ironside My Little Movie Movie X mm :45 ” " " Movie Margie Teasip Continued from page 9 Squadron 14 The members of Squadron 14 are women. Despite some men's disbe lief in the women's ability to chop wood, what I saw was quite the opposite. No less than any other group. Squadron 14 was methodical and careful. First, the commander de cided how large an area to cut, and then she started giving orders. Within half an hour, the under brush in their area was cut and stacked out of the way. The com mander picked an outfit log and the freshmen cleared a path for drag ging the timber to the road. Squadron 14, like the other cadet units, has its own traditions about its outfit log. The commander has to pick the tree; then a woman climbs it and hangs a banner from it. I kept trying to read the banner until I was told it was inscribed in a foreign language. Every year, the squadron's juniors insult the seniors in a foreign tongue; the seniors have to discover which lan guage it is and then try to have the insult translated. After the banner hanging, the commander started to chop into the tree. While she did, the juniors did push-ups in time with the blade, which flashed 14 times for the unit number. The high point of the morning, though, was the entertainment. Since freshmen are not allowed to use axes, and since they are idle un til a log is dropped, they are re quired to entertain the seniors and juniors with songs and dances. When I left them, the freshmen were doing push-ups and the unit commander had just felled their first tree. The amount of work they had done in just an hour would have tired me; I saw no basis for the argu ment that they could not pull, or cut, their own weight. Lunch The morning's playfulness had subsided by lunch into a steady, grim determination. I heard no com plaints, but then I heard no singing, no more chanting. A teasip's conclusion I still don't know what it is about bonfire that can draw 2,500 students out to the country to cut and load wood all day. I can't say that bonfire seems any more logical than it did before I vi sited the cutting site, but anything which produces the kind of enthu siasm and cooperation which bon fire does produce cannot be value less. It may be that bonfire is a useless, dangerous and wasteful activity. I certainly would have said so before I went to see the cutting. But thousands of Aggies find bonfire so important that they sacri fice hundreds of thousands of man hours for it. And hundreds of Aggies spend an enormous amount of time trying to prevent accidents. And as the redpots say, the trees out there would have been bull dozed and burnt as trash if it we ren't for the bonfire cutting. Just having transferred here from the University of Texas, I can't say bonfire fills me with emotion — it doesn't. But I know now that this unique institution is valuable and important to thousands of people. Bonfire and the people who build it are worthy of a great deal of respect. They have mine. IN NEE HAIR DESIGNERS 303 College Main (Down From Loupots Next to White’s) Phone 846-8528 NOW OPEN!! Monday-Saturday 9 a.m. till ? 846-8528 Thursday Movies MORNING 11:30CBN ★★ "The Fighting Chance” (1955) Rod Cameron, Ben Cooper. A jockey and a horse trainer clash over a beautiful wom an. AFTERNOON 3:00© ★★ “Frankenstein, The True Story" (Part 2) (1973) Michael Sarrazin, James Mason. Dr. Frankenstein creates his image of the perfect man and woman. 3:30 CBN ★★ “Captain Kidd” (1945) Charles Laughton, John Carradine. The notorious pirate of the Seven Seas is brought to jus tice by the trickery of one of his own men. EVENING 8:00© ★★★Vs “Hombre” (1967) Paul Newman, Fredric March. An Apache-raised white man is forced to protect the lives of those he hates. recalls with horror her experiences while institutionalized. 4:00© ★★Vs “Thunder On The Hill” (1951) Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth. A nun becomes involved with a convicted murderess who is hiding in the convent and tries to prove her innocence. 11:000 ★★★ “SandsOfIwoJima” (1949) John Wayne, John Agar. The tough training that a U.S. Marine sergeant gives his rebelli ous recruits results in the capture of Iwo Jima. 1:30© ★★★★ “The Snake Pit” (1948) Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens. A former mental patient Friday Sports AFTERNOON 1:00© SOCCER MADE IN GER MANY Argentina vs. Germany Friday Movies MORNING 11:30 CBN ★★★ “Storm In A Teacup” (1937) Rex Harrison, Vivien Leigh. A bold reporter tan gles with a powerful politician over his endorsement of a mongrel dog. AFTERNOON 3:00 © ★★ “The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll” (1961) Paul Massie, Dawn Addams. A researcher studying good and evil in human nature degenerates into his evil self, but the good self attempts to do away with the other. 3:30 CBN ★★Vz “Web Of Evidence” (1959) Van Johnson, Vera Miles. A young man attempts to prove that his imprisoned father is innocent of murder charges. EVENING 8:00© ★★Vz “Rescue From Gilli- gan’s Island” (1978) Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr. Seven shipwrecked castaways encounter hilarious problems when they return to a much-changed civilization after spending years on an uncharted isle. 10:30© ★★★Vz “French Connec tion II” (1975) Gene Hackman, Continued on page 7