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Friday, April 24, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 7
Director of Meese commission:
Anti-porn laws must be enforced
Photo by Tracy Staton
Alan Sears, left, discusses the pornography program with Barry Haggard at a Thursday press conference.
By Daniel A. La Bry
Staff Writer
The executive director of Attor
ney General Edwin Meese’s Com
mission on Pornography discreetly
used gory stories, statistics and re
corded facts in an attempt to con
vince an audience of about 50 peo
ple that the majority of pornography
is harmf ul and that society would be
abetter place without it.
“The bottom line is, a society free
of harmful forms of pornography is
not going to be a perfect society, but
we believe it will be a better society
— a place with less rape, less sex dis
crimination, less violence against wo
men,” said Alan Sears during the
MSC Political Forum program
Thursday night in Rudder Tower.
“The message the pornography
commission is wanting to get across
to the American people is far be
yond anything about what law can
do or what private citizens can do to
get this stuff out of stores, grocery
markets and so forth,” he said. “It is
to teach people that it is unaccepta
ble to view a woman or a child as an
object to be bartered and sold in the
marketplace.”
Sears, now with the legal staff of
Citizens for Decency through Law,
Inc., said the present laws are more
than adequate to combat pornogra
phy if they are aggressively en
forced.
“As far as the illegal material, the
law is adequate to resolve the prob
lem,” he said. “Any community that
choses to do so can enforce its laws
and send these guys to the slam
mer.”
Sears said the commission con
cluded that pornography is a civil
rights violation and paralleled it to
19th century slavery. He said once
the American people become fed up
with pornography, it — like slavery
— will no longer be tolerated.
The commission’s findings were
divided into five categories: child
pornography; sexually violent
material; degrading, humiliating or
subordinating material; mere sexual
activities and mere nudity.
The first three categories make
up the majority of pornographic
material available in the marketplace
and were linked to agression and vi
olence, Sears said.
Mere sexual activity — sex with no
violence, degradation or humiliation
— was found to make up a small seg
ment of the market. He said it
usually contained no evidence of
harm, except when exposed to chil
dren.
Mere nudity —just naked bodies,
no sex, no violence, no degredation
and no children — was found to con
tain almost no evidence of harm, ex
cept when inappropriately exposed
to children.
The commission made 92 recom
mendations as to what federal, state
and local governments could do in
the investigation and prosecution
when dealing with pornography.
“It’s our conclusion that if we had
an all-out campaign, any community
can rid itself of hard-core, harmful
pornography in about two years by
aggressive law enforcement action,”
Sears said. “We found the biggest
problem with the present law in a lot
of areas was under-investigation, un
der-prosecution and under-senten
cing.”
Cities such as Atlanta, Ga. and
Cincinnati, Ohio have totally elimi
nated obscene and harmful material
from their city limits by using ag
gressive enforcement, he said.
One-man show gives life to stories,
fables, cartoons of Thurber at A&M
By Karl Pallmeyer
Reviewer
“It’s better to go nowhere slowly
than somewhere fast.”
That was the opinion of one of the
characters in a fable that William
Windom, as James Thurber, told to
an audience of about 1,100 people in
Rudder Auditiorium Thursday
night. The fable was about about two
police dogs on the trail of an escaped
circus leopard, and that line is also a
pretty good description of the pro
gram. Windom took the audience on
a slow and enjoyable tour of the sto
ries, fables and cartoons of Thurber.
“Thurber I,” one of Windom’s
two one-man shows based on Thurb-
er’s works, was sponsored by MSC
Town Hall Broadway. For the first
half of the show, Windom stood be-
By Debbie Monroe
Reporter
Actor William Windom is at home
with himself and his career. Strolling
to-and-fro on a nearly empty Rud
der Auditorium stage, he alternati
vely calls out instructions to the crew
setting up for his one-man show,
and tells his audience of one, a re
porter, a humorous tale about an
English actor with no talent. Despite
his nonchalance, Windom’s profes
sionalism is apparent. His storytel
ling is smoothly interupted with an
occasional word to a stagehand, and
neither his co-workers nor audience
feels neglected.
“(Acting) gives me a chance to do
something I’m good at, and perhaps
can contribute with,” Windom says.
hind, in front of and around a desk,
the stage’s only decoration. After in
termission, the desk was moved to
the right of the stage and the cur
tains were drawn back to reveal a
screen on which slides of Thurber’s
cartocms were projected.
Windom began the evening with
Thurber’s accounts of his “wan
derings” around the world. Because
of poor eyesight, Thurber couldn’t
wander too far. When he did make it
to exotic places, he was surrounded
by bead salesmen and large elderly
women carrying postcards instead of
finding the excitement and romance
Joseph Conrad used to find during
his travels.
The audience seemed a little un
comfortable at first with the extrava-
“I’m not much better (at selling in
surance) than the guy who normally
sells insurance, not that much better
at driving a truck than the guy who
drives it.
“But I am a little bit better than
some of the actors I’ve seen, so why
not do that (act), where I’m a little bit
better, in my own opinion.
“An actor has got to feel that way
or he’d better not be in there (in
show business).”
Sitting at the simple wooden table
that is one of the few props he’ll use
during his performance as author
Janies Thurber, Windom lazily
smiles as he answers questions about
himself. The silver-haired, 64-year-
old actor is dressed for comfort in
green coveralls. A round Texas
gance of Thurber’s language, but
the fable about the police dogs
gained the first round of hearty
laughter from the crowd. In the fa
ble, one of the dogs, a German shep-
ard named Plunger, was real gung-
ho over his job and ran all over the
place trying to follow the leopard.
The other dog, an easygoing blood
hound named Plod, was more cau
tious about his role in the chase. He
saw no reason to hurry.
Plod’s discreetness paid off in the
end when he refused to follow the
leopard into a house. Plunger did
follow the leopard and ended up be
ing embarrassed. The moral of the
story was that you should be careful
about what you chase because you
just might catch it.
A&M patch is pinned to his front,
and a tuba mouthpiece swings from
a string around his neck. The
mouthpiece, which he occationally
toots, is the only indication he gives
that he’s heard the questions and
said the answers before. Windom
blows on it, he says, to pass the time
and relieve boredom.
“I still audition (for roles) because
now all the producers are 24, and
they don’t know me from Adam,” he
says. “I’m not sorry.
“There’s no use being huffy. You
can’t go through life saying, ‘Who
are they that they haven’t heard of
me before?’ I’ve been around 50
A story about a French phrase
book Thurber found in Paris pro
vided a few good laughs. Thurber
looked at the phrases as a great epic
poem of an American couple’s disas-
terous experiences overseas. He said
the book was of dubious use since
most of it was dedicated to emer
gency situations and most Ameri
cans tend to scream in English in
stead of trying to solve their
problems in French.
The book was divided into sec
tions of phrases that would be useful
in various situations, such as “On a
Train” or “At the Hotel” or “In the
Customs Shed.” The section titled
“An Airplane Trip” contained use
ful French translations for the
phrases “I feel sick” and “Do you
have any paper bags?”
Windom read from Thurber’s list
of “Rules for a Happy Marriage.”
Thurber had ignored such obvious
things as praising your wife’s hat or
not keeping a blonde in the
guestroom. He concentrated on
three things that could be done to
avoid maritial tension: 1) A man
should make an honest effort to get
the names of his wife’s friends right;
2) If a husband is not listening to
what his wife is saying he should not
grunt affirmative replies; and 3) A
wife’s dressing table should be
treated with respect.
The slides of Thurber’s cartoons
were well-received. It’s hard not to
be charmed by the sad dogs he used
in many of his strips. Windom would
narrate story sequences or provide
the caption to the cartoons.
Windom seemed perfectly at
home with the role. His familiarity
with Thurber dates back to 1969
when he starred in the Emmy
Award-winning television program
“My World and Welcome to It,” a se
ries of sketches based on Thurber’s
works.
years.
See Windom, page 14
Emmy winner enjoys life of acting
despite lack of public recognition
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