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By Carol Ellison
Repairer
Texas A&M students last night
voted 270 to 21 against installing a
competitive grading system to cure
grade inflation at A&M.
Johnna DeAngelis, a freshman
speech communication major, spoke
at a debate in Rudder Tower against
the system and Sherry Allison, a se
nior industrial distribution major,
spoke for it.
Allison said grade inflation, like
monetary inflation, must be con
trolled. She said there has been an
increase in the number of A’s given
to students at A&M.
“If most of the class makes an A or
B, then our grades are not worth
what they would have been,” Allison
said.
She said that’s fine for students
who want to get good grades for av
erage work.
Allison said competitive grading
uses a bell-shaped curve as its grad
ing scale. Using an example of a class
with 100 students, she said the
grades would be ranked from one to
100 depending on how each of the
students performed. She said this as
sures that only a limited number of
students get high grades.
Allison said the competitive grad
ing system would challenge students
in their classes.
DeAngelis spoke against the com
petitive grading system, saying it
doesn’t judge people on an individ
ual basis.
She said if two students missed the
same questions on an exam but were
in different classes, they could still
receive different grades because of
different curves in each class.
DeAngelis also said that if com
petitive grading was implemented,
students would not experiment with
new classes.
A student in favor of competitive
grading asked those against it what
they will do when they have to tom-
pete in the real world.
They replied, “We’re out here to
learn, not to get out and step on the
guy beside us.”
AUSTIN (AP) -
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to see “Star I rek IV —Ilf
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for the 2:45 a.m. show.
T he theater has been
during most “primetime'scj
ings of the film, they said
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Repairer
“Not a Love Story,” a powerful and extremely
graphic illustration of the pornography industry
in Canada and the United States, will be shown
tonight at 8:30 in 501 Rudder.
The film is presented by the Texas A&M chap
ter of the National Organization for Women.
T he film, a documentary produced in 1982 by
the government-funded National Film Board of
Canada, shows short clips from porn movies,
scenes from live sex shows and interviews with
the actors, photographers and publishers of por-
nOgraphy.
David Wells, a publisher of pornographic
magazines appearing in the film, attributes the
growing demand for pornography to the wom
en’s liberation movement.
“Men want to dominate these women,” he says.
“The greatest turn-on for a man is have a woman
at his feet performing fellatio.”
Mark Stevens, a former actor in pornography
movies, says, “I finally had to quit. Everything
was so performance-oriented. Everytime I actu
ally came I got an extra $50.”
The film uses 1982 statistics to demonstrate so
ciety’s saturation with the pornographic image:
Playboy and Hustler have a greater circulation
than T ime and Newsweek combined and there
are 32 porn magazines on the market today com
pared to eight three years ago. X-rated video c as
settes outsell regular movies by 3-to-1.
The film display more than mere facts.
Women are shown gagged and handcuffed and.
in an unsettling fusion of sex and violence, a
woman in chains is shown rubbing her face
against and sucking a handgun.
Kate Millet, a well-known feministauilit
in the film, “Porn plays an educational toil
a point. . . . We got porn; we needederoiie
Dr. Wendy Stock, faculty advisorftti
ii.is icse.iM bed the effects <>l violent pm B'li
phv on women.
“Bc< .iiise ,i siiinnlus is sexually arousit;
not mean it is good.” she said in an i
Monday. “When sexuality is mixedwitlni
against women, we may be creating an:
tance ol hostility toward women in aj
coated package.
“I think when people see the film then
dei stand wh\ some feminists are crilicalsl
nographs Poi nography distorts ours
eroticizing subordination, rape and detl
lion.”
Stranded holiday travelers
leave Hobby after fog lifts
HOUSTON (AP) — Thanksgiv
ing weekend travelers stranded at
William P. Hobby Airport were able
to return home Monday after a
dense fog closed the airport Sunday
night, an airport of ficial said.
“Everything is back to normal,”
Bill Ainsworth, city aviation spokes
man, said Monday. Flights resumed
about 7:30 a.m., he said.
Ainsworth said 18 flights were di
verted from Flobby to Interconti
nental Airport in north Houston
while 24 flights were canceled.
The runway visibility range
dropped below 1,200 feet about 7:45
p.m. Sunday, thus prohibiting take
offs and landings, he said. Fog also
caused the airport to close for a few
hours Sunday morning.
Traffic was up 47 percent at the
beleaguered airport for the record-
breaking live-day Thanksgiving hol
iday period that ended Sunday.
Ainsworth said he counted people
“in the low thousands” at Hobby
about 1 I p.m. Sunday. By around 2
a.m. Monday only about 200 people
were camped out at the airport, he
added.
The Wednesday before Thanks
giving traditionally is the heaviest air
travel day of the year, while the Sun
day after is the second busiest,
Ainsworth said.
In Advance
Student Senate to discuss football field
The Student Senate will disc us>
a ticket distribution bill and a
t ickei s are distributed befotta
home football game.
moped i
ack hill
n its final meet-
Unc
ler the
present distrfc
ing of
he year
Wednesday at
systen
, ticket
s are allottednit
7:30 p.m
. in 204
Harrington.
dom.
1 hi
hill rt
‘commends thu:
The
icket di
stribution bill is
tickets
be iss
ued first from
designee
to gu
arantee seniors
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33-131
>, 230-233 and l 1
and gr
iduate
students better
333.
seats at
Texas
A&M football
The
mope
1 t ack bill prop:
games.
c< > n ve i
ting a
bicycle rad on
The bill calls f<
>r a system to be
north
end o
the LF. Pete:
initiated
next fal
in which tickets
Buildit
ig into
a mopedrad.
would be dvawn
Eipm the middle
The
senate
doesn’t plan toi
sections
of Kyle
Field on senior
cuss at
ty new
legislation Wed?
day, which is the first day that