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GI IN JIM FARRELL MGN. ED. ED19 Lega liz Abortion should be Although many per statement, for religiot people cannot deny ft especially since Cong Amendment (ERA) nc have a right and are decisions. This right of women I to make their own dec laws making abortions laws must be remove, own lives. Why should a womar regardless of whether married she usually 1 She can give the child keep it herself, or obti the child to be adopte someone who is unat plenty of babies and c If the woman decidc interfer with her educ, marriage. If the won risks her health, her children. The same alternativ but why should she ai child they do not yet wi Psychology courses, I emotional problems of their parents and are wanted, cared for anc It is time that havinc If a woman, married o should have one, no qt intelligent and capablE accepting responsibilii decision to end a pres Sunsh Somehow these day war'' is between the E both of whom are notoriously lethargic off Saturday with 30 pe Somehow it's great th long enough to get ur But the coalition is action because: 1) E< "in'' this year. Too n "greening" and not demonstrated in May they can get stoned, br mad. 3) They make The weather got cold, that the weather is nic The editorial policy war, but we seriously new, ineffective andi anything comes abou IENDA MILLER TERIM EDITOR ART FRANK AD MANAGER [ORIALS e a bortions legalized. sons will disagree with the above )s, personal or other reasons, these iat women, living in today's world ress' passage of the Equal Rights w pending before state legislatures, fully capable of making their own to determine their own destinies and isions is being interfered with when illegal remain on the books. These d and women allowed to live their i have a baby that she does not want, or not she is married? If she is not as three alternatives open to her. up for adoption, have the child and 3in an illegal abortion. By allowing d she may be providing a baby for le to bear children, but there are ildren who need homes and prents. ,s to keep the baby, the child may Etion, career, social life and future ian obtains an illegal abortion she life and her ability to bear more 7 es are open to the married woman, id her husband have to care for a int? This is unfair to the child, also. >ooks and literature tell us of the children who are not welcomed by treated as a liability rather than a I loved human being. h to bear unwanted children ceases. r unmarried, wants an abortion she st, estions asked. Today's women are "f of making their own decisions and be y for these decisions, including the ;nancy by abortion. b m me protest tr s one gets the impression that "the arth Day coalition and the Eco '70s, P! contending for the attention of S student body. The coalition kicked ople picketing the Federal Building. at finally somebody stayed straight p' a campaign. m gr not exactly stirring the masses to a :ology and Women's Liberation are m iany people are concerned with the et the ''reddening.'' 2) As was cc 1970, people will be happy as long as di Jt take away their dope, and they get pretty bad public relations people. al and nobody heard from them. Now gi e, they are back out. te of this newspaper is opposition to the si question the methods involved in this a< nefficient anti-war pseudo-effort. If Id t April 22, it won't be to their credit. thi 01 he watermark )ne great p By BOB CRAFT town called Anai Features Editor focused on a Vith the possible exception of becoming a mar itizen Kane," "The Last Picture place over the ti: )w" is the best motion picture I year, when the /e ever seen. from high schoo Vhen one sees a movie of this and make his ture, it transcends the tag of going to college ick" and becomes what can only you might ima described as a work of art. frightening. Hi 'o begin with, Peter beyond his hon2 danovich, the director, uses, seems fated to eCk and white as the physical The adults of ~dium for the film. After seeing colorless people much color in motion pictures affairs partly effect is grabbing and im- selves that they ~diately gives the viewer the town's entertain pression of loneliness and en- pool hall and pment. house, which ~urther, the film has been decaying and s< >cessed so that there is con- The only persi erable grain in the texture of the a spark of life le n~, much like an overenlarged Lion, who owns1 oto. and the "pictur rhis fragments the physical Sam is a ge; :ture and with the man who holds >nochromatic film, the impact is the town within eat indeed. The black and white whose memorii es not smooth over the feelings and a man wh, d emotions of the film as color any chances c ght; it gives the viewer no money but who ance to throw his attention to the envied. lor; to be distracted from the The picture op< ama that is taking place. morning with to rhe use of monochromatic film by the townspe o gives the effect of the such a lousy fo eyness of the town and its night he takes aple. really ugly girl, Bogdanovich also uses the to see "Father thnique of extensive close head it is during ots, almost portraitlike, to really marvelo bieve the effect of closeness and place. He isi 'ntification with the character theatre with i at it is focused upon. they're necking rhe drama itself is about a small pulls rnd ar cture show -ene, Texas, and it kissing this ugly girl and staring at boy who is fast young Elizabeth Taylor who is on . The action takes the screen. This sequence says 'ne span of about a volumes about the town and the boy is graduating boredom that engulfs it and even I and has to go out more than that the media fantasies iving. He is not that we all have. so the prospect, as The boy breaks off with the girl gine is somewhat and then quite coincidentally a has no horizons becomes the lover of the high e town, where he school coach's wife, who is por remain . trayed masterfully by Cloris he town are bored, Leachman. When she first comes who have sexual on the screen, she is a woman who to remind them- has the pinched look of an old are still alive. The crone. After her sexual ment consists of a renaissance with the boy, she a motion picture becomes a smiling and lovely like the town, woman. samy places. I can't really reveal too much of mn in the town with the storyline of this movie because rt in him is Sam the to do so would nullify many of the :he pool hall, a cafe shocks and much of the effect of e show." the film. ierous and happy There is a tenet in the drama all the life force of that tension that is built up in the him. He is a man audience must be relieved in some ~s are happy ones manner, either by laughing or has never taken weeping. Since there are many r amassed much sexual themes in this motion is still a man to be picture, there was a lot of laughing, but no jokes. This film ns on a Saturday struck home and the laughter was e boy being ribbed there to relieve the tension, ople about having proving that we aren't as sexually tball team. That sophisticated as we might think or out his steady, a believe ourselves to be. to the picture show This film takes close looks at the of the Bride." links between loneliness and sex this scene, that a and the sexual games that are Js sequence takes played by everyone from the high ni the back of the school homecoming queen to the is girlfriend and wife of the richest man in town Then the camera from the high school boy to the d you see the boy (Cinue o Pg.t