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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following guest editorial contains excerpts of a recent ad­dress to directors of Rockhurst College by Lawrence Kimpton. Now vice president of one of the largest oil companies in the na­tion, Kimpton was formedly chancellor of the University of Chicago.

By focusing our attention on what are, by most accounts, a relative minority of the inhabitants of our campuses, we run the risk of inaccurate characterization of the entire group as untidy young people with dangerous ideas. While I do wish some of them would shave and bathe more often, and behave a bit less arrogantly, it is still true that when you see them in large num­bers the majority are quite presentable. The bearded, long-haired fringe among our students is not noticeably any more numer­ous than were the wearers of coonskin coats in the twenties, although the current minor­ity does make more noise. To take the beat­nik as truly representative may be to mis­take a few saplings for the forest.

Nevertheless, behind the extremists are some new attitudes which seem to be fairly widespread among the entire student body. There appears to be a strong element of selflessness in the aspirations of many of those on today’s campuses, in terms of want­ing to serve a cause, to build a better world. Some of the more aggressive of these stu­dents have caused alarm in a number of quarters since they seem to think that the quickest way to build a better world is to start out by tearing down every institution now in it.

I recognize that this is an area in which I need to walk with caution, since I have not been in daily contact with the life of a university for some years, and it may be that you can’t get a true feeling of the situ­ation from the outside. However, there are undeniable positive elements in what is frequently termed the student revolt of which we read so much, along with the undeniable negative elements.

It is no doubt in part the bias that comes of having once been a university admini­strator that causes me to view student de­mands to take over the running of the place as intolerable. I happen to know that run­ning a university is one of the most com­plex and difficult of tasks, and I can’t help but be appalled at hearing some callow youths assert they can do it better.

Such demands, if met, would violate the very concept of an institution of higher learning and would greatly exaggerate the capabilities, the wisdom, and the sophistica­tion commonly found in those of under­graduate age and experience.

The likely result would be chaos, but it is not very likely that the experiment is going to be tried. My good friend Father Ted Hesburgh gave some commendable, and pointed, advice to the students of Notre Dame on this score when he told them “Your primary role as students here is to learn, not to teach. Students who think otherwise should go out, found their own universities, and then take lessons from their students.”

Part of the criticism of students for marching around carrying placards de­manding that the U. S. get out of South Viet Nam strikes me as intemperate — so long as they don’t presume to take matters illegally into their own hands by lying down in front of troop trains. If all they are doing is voicing an opinion this is surely their right, however little we may happen to think of that opinion. Any war is a subject of understandable interest to those of draft age, and the First Amendment to the Constitution gives them the right to legi­timate expression of their views on the sub­ject. When some of them wander over the border of commonsense and legality by burning their draft cards and the like, they can be given an opportunity to think about the matter in a jail cell.

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State Capitol Roundup

AUSTIN — Both ultra-liberals and ultra­conservatives have indicated they want a place on the 1966 general election ballot.

Texas liberal spokesmen hint they may run a candidate for governor and perhaps one for the U. S. Senate if Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr is the Democratic senatorial nominee.

Conservative party already has adopted a resolution of intent to nominate state candidates next year.

Two new candidates have announced for state­wide office.

They are State Sen. Galloway Calhoun of Tyler for attorney general and State Rep. Paul B. Haring of Goliad for railroad commissioner.

Haring will take on Commissioner Byron Tunnell of Tyler. Tunnell was appointed by Gov. John Connally last January to fill the unexpired term of Ernest O. Thompson, who re­signed because of ill health.

Secretary of State Crawford Martin of Hills­boro and State Sen. Franklin Spears of San Antonio announced earlier for attorney general.

Reapportionmerat Overrated?Equitable reapportionment of the Texas Legis­

lature will bring no major switch toward liberalism, according to University of Texas Institute of Public Affairs study.

Both theory of constant urban-rural conflict among lawmakers and assumption of big city liberalism are mainly myth, study concludes.

Votes on 45 selected roll-calls were carefully analyzed. Reapportionment, the study maintained, will bring few if any major policy changes in the State Legislature. A number of experts and would-be experts strongly disagree.

Appointments AnnouncedTerrell Blodgett of Austin, director of the

Texas Economic Opportunity Office, will join the administrative staff of Governor Connally Dec. 1.

Blodgett will be replaced by State Sen. Walter Richter of Gonzales.

Connally also announced these appointments:William P. Hobby Jr. and C. T. Parker, both

of Houston, to University of Houston Board of Regents. Reappointed to same board were James T. Duke of Johnson City, Col. William B. Bates of Houston and James A. Elkins Jr. of Houston.

E. C. Pannell of Fort Worth, A. M. Willis of Longview and Raymond L. Tollett of Big Springs to the Board of Regents of North Texas State University.

Robert W. Kneebone of Houston, reappointed to Texas Youth Council.

W. G. IMcCampbell Jr. of Goliad to the San Antonio River Authority.

Poverty ProgramsEleven more Neighborhood Youth Corps pro­

jects have been approved by Gov. Connally.New programs will be conducted in Dallas,

Eastland, Mathis, Mercedes, Olton, Orange, Padu­cah, Robstown, Slaton, Sweetwater and the Uvalde area (comprised of Uvalde, Kinney and Real Counties).

Washington officials have submitted a revised project, sponsored by the Texas Farmers Union, to Gov. Connally for his approval. Connally vetoed an earlier proposal.

Lavon Enlargement ApprovedTexas Water Rights Commission voted to

enlarge the storage capacity of Lake Lavon from 100,000 to 380,000 acre feet.

Lake Lavon serves Dallas, Farmersville, Fate, Forney, Garland, McKinney, Mesquite, Milligan, Murphy, Nevada, Plano, Princeton, Richardson, Rockwall, Rowlett, Royse City, Sachse, Sunnyvale and Wylie.

I Mortimer's NotesFOR THE RECORD: The Veteran’s Day

observances on campus didn’t quite go according to schedule ....

Corps Staff showed up at the World War I Memorial at West Gate on time, but somebody forgot to bring the wreath the Corps Commander was supposed to place there ....

Somebody had forgotten to order it.........The wreath was put in place about two hours

later ....The only good that came from the Rice paint

job Thursday was that the Liberty Bell replica in the Academic Building finally got shined . . . .

It was beginning to get a little dingy . . . .Some fish also shined the base of the flag­

pole, probably for the first time since it was erected ....

OFF THE RECORD: It is highly probablethat the Bull Ring is on the way back ....

Last enjoyed by this year’s senior class, it served as a method of reducing excessive demerits instead of sitting restriction ....

Corps members eligible for bull ring were drilled for 55-minute whacks by a military of­ficer. They were allowed a 5-minute break be­tween periods ....

Each hour in the bull ring would work off a specified number of demerits ....

Despite rain and mid-term quizzes, attendance at the Aggie Players’ production of “Death of a Salesman” has improved each night . . .

Only 75 turned out on a rainy opening night, but for ensuing performances attendance figures have numbered 162, 332, and 369 respectively ....

The play runs through Saturday and has a possible chance of replacing “Macbeth” as the all-time box office success at A&M. Produced in the late 1950’s, “Macbeth” played to 1,500 people, 500 on one night ....

Making the record harder to break is this weekend’s Corps Trip to Houston .... — See Ya ’Round — MORTIMER.

CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Glenn Drontgoole

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£AfU~e A/o\t 6 s“Naw, it’s not my selective service card—It’s my credit card! I’m protesting their policy of wanting to collect my unpaid bills!”

LOS ANGELES—It’s my fa­vorite time of the year again: the national convention of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journal­istic society.

Helpful hints for diversion from the business at hand were provided in the convention’s offi­cial publication entitled—quite aptly—“Sigma Delta Chi Con­vention News.”

Pages two and three of the four-page sheet were devoted en­tirely to tipping visitors off to the more entertaining aspects of convention life that abound here.

Flicks, theaters, restaurants, ice rinks, golf courses, nightclubs and — yes, verily — burlesque houses received prominent cover­age. And that’s good, because quite a large percentage of con­vention activity will be centered around these places (primarily the latter two).

Los Angeles is big, so big in fact that it took us seven minutes to reach the airport after we first sighted the city’s lights beneath us. Imagine—seven minutes by jet! And I doubt that we got half­way through the city. As far as

At the Movies with Lani Presswood

Sean Connery departs from his James Bond identity to star in “The Hill,” a supposedly meatier slice of cinema. But after view­ing “The Hill,” I’m almost ready for another shot of Bond.

This is an unusual movie, yes, but also a slow-moving and a disappointing one. It’s supposed to be the vehicle in which Con­nery proves he’s a genuine actor but all it really reveals about Sean is that he can grimace and scowl on cue rather nicely.

When Connery decided to get away from Bond, he did a bang- up job, though, because you can’t get much further away from sensuous women, swift sports cars and coddled martinis than the bleak setting of “The Hill.”

All the action unravels in a unique desert prison camp in the Middle East during World War II. The British have set up the prison, not for captured Germans but for the assortment deserters who inevitably turn up of thieves, boozers, cowards and in His Majesty’s Army.

Inside the walls of this un­happy enclosure lies a manu­factured hill. It took several tons of dirt and rock and un­doubtedly a good deal of sweat to put the thing together, but there it is, an unchanging symbol of the inhumanity of the place.

The hill is used as a device for punishment, a use for which it is well suited. Offenders are required to run up one side of the hill and down the other, with a full pack on their backs, un­derneath a blazing sun. Up slow­ly and then down ... up slowly and then down again, over and over. And when someone passes out, his face is lashed by the stinging force of water being hurled at him.

None of the scenes on the hill are pretty ones.

Most of them involve Connery, who has landed in prison be­cause he struck his commanding officer rather than send his men on a suicidal mission the officer had ordered.

Connery and four other new prisoners are shown from their first day on at the prison. One of the five dies, driven to death by a sadistic officer named Wil­liams. Connery appears headed for a similar fate when he de­cides to report the inhuman activities at the camp to higher authority.

The story line deals with Con­nery’s attempt to see that justice comes to the prison’s tyrannic

overseers. The climax of his attempt is sharp, sudden and completely unexpected and when “The End” flashes on the screen you won’t be ready for it. But really, you’ve seen all you need to see, and any further story­telling would be superfluous.

Why aren’t you ready for the conclusion when it arrives ?

For the very same reason that “The Hill’ is not a successful motion picture. There’s not enough depth, either in the characterization or the plot. There’s simply not enough ad­vance buildup for the ending to hit the audience like it’s sup­posed to.

One thing about this abrupt ending, though. It’s almost chil­ling in its intensity and may take a while to forget.

The photography during the final scene as well as through­out the show is daring and imaginative and adds much to the stark, atmosphere the movie seeks to create.

Several characters come through more strongly than Con­

nery, including the hated Wil­liams and a Negro prisoner who adds needed comic relief to the production when he “quits the army” and stops taking orders from anyone.

One of the finest elements in the picture are the scenes show­ing the drunken, near-insane act­ions of men driven by exhaustion and pain to the edge of the breaking point.

An irritating factor in the show is the thick English accent used by most of the cast, making parts of the dialogue completely undecipherable to non-Anglican ears.

Ironically, following hard on the heels of this sexless produc­tion at the Palace Theater is an Italian export bearing the title, “Casanova 70.”

Sound OffEditor,The Battalion:

SMU students attending the game Saturday afternoon wish to commend the A&M student body on your fine display of sportsmanship. Aggie spirit coupled with Aggie courtesy is an inspiration to us all. The hos­pitality shown by the Corps to our band, students and visiting alumnae helped make this trip to College Station one of our most enjoyable.

Surely our t w i r 1 e r Sandy Smith enjoyed one of her most exciting performances before three sections filled with respon­sive Aggie men!

Your own band is terrific, your football team is hard-hitting, your new student center is de­lightful — but most of all, thanks for your lesson in good sportsmanship.

Commander-in-Chief to show their approval of his actions in Southeast Asia. It had been only a couple of days before when I remarked that there would never be any anti-government demon­strations at Texas A&M. You all bore me out!

Aggies have died in Viet Nam, more will. Some will be those who are students now. Aggies have been trained for soldiering, and we have proven our caliber. By their latest action, the new­est Aggies are showing our cali­ber is still outstanding.

Capt. Melvin M. Driskill ’57

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Donna WestCommunications Committee SMU Students’ Association

★ ★ ★Editor,The Battalion:

I am very proud to see in the Pacific Stars and Stripes that

2,136 Aggies telegraphed our

Editor,The Battalion:

If the Food service would cut down on the amount of potatoes and other starchy food they serve, and concentrate on the better preparation of the meats they already have, I feel sure the amount of wasted food would be reduced.

Carl C. Prescott ’67 Food Service personnel must

be mind-readers, Mr. Prescott. The evening meal in Sbisa Hall Thursday was served without potatoes.

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And one unusual feature of the movie is the almost total lack of femininity present. Only a few seconds’ exposure of the naked shoulder blades of a local prostitute break up the masculi­nity.

the eye could see were lights in every direction.

The jet flight was somethin} else in itself. We left Houston at 5 p.m. and arrived in LA st 6:15. I’m not lying! Of course, we gained two hours switching from time zone to time zone, tat that’s still pretty quick by any standards. However, we time for a movie, a rerun pnfe sional football game, several magazine articles and a few other luxuries like scoping out the stewardesses—all while aboani the plane.

Our visit to Disneyland Thurs­day afternoon was quite enjoy­able, with one exhibit and a ride leaving the greatest impression on me.

The exhibit was a house made entirely of chemicals—a plastit home—almost impossible to de­scribe. Called the Home of the Future, it looked like somethin} out of Playboy Magazine-s cross-shaped bachelor pad raised on stilts above ground level, ex­clusively furnished and exquisitely designed. The exhibit caretaker said it would cost $600,000 to build one just like it because its the only one of its kind.

Mass production would reduce the cost considerably—perhaps to a mere $100,000. Anyway, it ii the Home of tne Future, though probably not yours or mine.

The ride that impressed most was a “Jungle Cruise” and consisted of a boat ride through simulated jungle danger areas Our illustrious guide, a clever young man, kept us in stitches with his dramatic descriptions of the sights. He concluded the trip by saying, “Now we enter the most dangerous part of our voy­age—civilization and those Los Angeles freeways.”

And indeed that is true, T) drive a car out here you need nerves of iron, abundant courage and a degree of insanity. So far we haven’t seen a common street —they don’t have anything but freeways. Oh, they say their streets downtown are plain old, everyday downtown streets but don’t believe it. That’s what I thought at first, until a double trailer-truck almost ran me down | at about 70 miles per hour at 2 a.m. right in the middle of tbe business district.

All has not been strictly pleas­ure. There has been some busi­ness, too. Thursday night we heard Bernard Kilgore, pmiteA of the Wall Street Journal vd honorary national president o! Sigma Delta Chi.

Friday we were to have attend­ed a panel discussion concerning race riot coverage and new tech­niques in journalism. Malcolm Browne, ABC Saigon correspond­ent, will speak Friday night on “The Challenge of Covering a Hot Cold War.”

Friday afternoon students were to interview Rep. Gerald Ford (Republican, Michigan), House minority leader. Friday night Art Linkletter will emcee “Stars Night.”

They told us today that 20 per cent—or one of five—of us would return to Los Angeles to live, and that half would come back to visit our children or grandchildren.

Well, I hope I’m one of those other four. This place is too fast, too big, too imperspnal for me. Okay for a convention, but not to live. Carry be back to old College Station.

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Library Observes Thanksgiving BreakCushing Memorial Library will

observe its first holiday of the school year Thanksgiving Day.

The main Texas A&M library will be closed only five days dur­ing the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s periods, an­nounced Acting Librarian Rupert Woodward. The door will remain locked Nov. 25, Dec. 24, 25, and 26, and Jan. 1.

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