B)~UPEtt 8TBEAB)! Now it's time to get EVERYTHING out in the openlll On April 1. campuses across the country will streak to the tune of: This is it Kidslll The ultimate streak - SUPER STREAKll Fellow Streakers, we have nothing to lose but our clothes. This is our chance to lay bare all the facts' to get at the naked truth! Wear Nixon masks, crowns, and tennis shoes. If you're modest, a royal purple robe is appropriate. STREAK FOR IMPEACHMENTll And remember the words of our immortal poet: "Even the President must stand naked! !" Bob Dylan 4PIUL~ Send results of ~ school ' s SUPER STREAK to -- The Emperor Wears No Clothes, P.O. Box 6078 , Washington , o.c . 20005 of the BDllE &Ellli By Ben Rayland thing Usually, in a typical film tunity seems heaven-sent. Only, Serpico 1s 129 minutes of based on the true life adventures there's one hitch. Due to medical action-filled. gutsy. gritty film ­ of a New York City detective. as regulations, Baggs 1s issued a making. It overflows with the well as a bestselling novel, little Cinderella libery, which sweat. anxiety. graft. moral attention 1s given to demands that he return to base pollution , and four - letter characterization. The character each evening before midnight vocabulary a New York City emphasis provided in Peter He meets Maggie (Marsha detective must contend with. Maas' bestseller. for example, Mason) in a Seattle bar Aher Frank Serpico (Al Pac1no)Joins would normally give way to she " puts out" to repay Baggs a police force with the intention episodic sensat1ona Iism. for a pool game debt, John of finding himself. With a few Thanks to Pacino's careful becomes concerned about Doug, well-conceived ideals at his timing and initiative, however, (Kirk Ca I loway), her eleven -year­ disposal. he intends to work his and to Sidney Lumet's intelli­ old, half-black, half-white, foul­ way up to a detective post. gent direction , Serpico mouthed. knife-wielding son. where he can work first-hand in transcends its overly-familiar Grudging compan1onsh1p filtering the scum of life he so base, and becomes. in the blossoms into compassion and despises. manner of The French Maggie, Doug, and Baggs make Unfortunately, the very steps Connection and z. an illumi­ a trio. For a while. Eventually he takes work against the nating glimpse into the structure Mag gives birth to another child established corruption of his and ethics of 20th Century law (not Bagg 's) who dies a few days department. Growing a beard enforcement. after birth. Heartbroken and dis­ and moustache to help him By contrast. Cinderella illusioned, Maggie leaves her mingle with the common people. Liberty isn't very illuminating, or son and her lover in order to Frank is told to get a shave. More particularly original. Although resume her profession important, and of considerable Darryl Ponicsan (The Last All this fa irly trite stuff. And concern to his partner, detective Detail) has provided a sharp, the mother-son relationship 1s Tom Keough (Jack Kehoe). Frank witty screenplay based on his so vague as to be nonexistent refuses to take bribes ' Who can novel, the material 1s altogether Yet director Mark Rydell (The trust a cop that doesn 't take too familiar: who hasn't heard Reivers. The Cowboys) and money," Tom inquires. The the story about the ~failor who cinematographer Vllmos department gets word of fell 1n love with the golden­ Zsigmond (Deliverance. Serp1co 's honesty, and Frank 1s hearted prostitute? McCabe and Mrs. Miller) have branded. Because of a medical appoint­ filmed and paced Cinderella Serpico 1s nothing if it isn 't Al ment, John Baggs (James Caan) Liberty 1n an accessable, Pac1no, and Pacino is some- must stay on shore. His oppor-' likeable fashion. The acting 1s superb , from Mason ' s ingratiating Maggie. to Caan 's Ellington cancels vunerable Baggs, to Eli Wallach concert as a has-been sailor Cinderella Orchestra leader Duke mus1c1an not to perform or travel Liberty 1s. despite 1ts source. Ellington. scheduled to appear at this time. quality filmmaking. Saturday night in Bozeman for A committee spokesman said two concerts sponsored by MSU. refunds on tickets bought in has canceled the engagement advance are available from the - ANNOUNCEMENT - due to illness. committee's ticket counter 1n the Attention Alpha Phi Gamma MSU student union. Those who members: There will be a The MSU Campus Entertain­ ordered tickets by mail can send meeting Wednesday, April 3rd, ment Committee was told by those tickets back to the Campus at 5 pm in Room 303 of the SUB Ellington's booking agent that Entertainment Committee, and Plans for spring activities will be physicians had advised the their checks will be returned. discussed so please attend. FINE FILM SERIES: GREAT DIRECTORS OF THE WORLD SPONSORED BY CEC OF ASMUS Spring Quarter 1974 April 3 The Seven Samurai, Japanese, Directed by Kirusawa ....................... 7:30 pm April 10 Persona, Swedish, Directed by Bergman ....................... 8:00 pm April 17 The Clowns, Italian, Directed by Fellini ............................. 8:00 pm April 24 Night of the Hunter, American, Directed by Chas. Lawton ................ 8:00 pm May 1 Orpheus, French, Directed by Cocteau ........... .. ............. 8:00 pm May 8 Some Like It Hot, American .................. 8:00 pm May 15 Kanai, Polish, Directed by Wdaja ........... 8:00 pm May 22 Ballad of a Soldier, Russian .................. 8:00 pm May 29 Performance, English ............................. 8:00 pm MSU SUB BALLROOM ADMISSION: FREE 2 - THE EXPONENT - Friday, March 29, 1974 Prize Bunuel flick tonight I Williams medley plays Sat. I The Spanish Undergraduate With Los Olvidados. Banuel The Speakers Theatre The Flathead Valley group's Film Committee at MSU will be returned to world acclaim after a Saturday night's performance Company will do readings from appearance here is sponsored by showing Los Olvidados (The long period of inactivity. The film will include scenes from ''The three Tennessee Williams plays the MSU theatre arts program. Young and the Damned) in the examines the life of a gang of during "An Evening With Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for Glass Menagerie," ''The Last of Missouri Room of the Student juvenile delinquents living on Tennessee Williams" starting at children under 12 and free for My Solid Gold Watches" and Union Building Friday night at 8 the outskirts of Mexico City. 8 p .m. Saturday (March 30) in MSU students. Tickets will be Prize-winning pm This film, directed by Luis Through an intensely realistic Williams' Pulitzer the Student Union Theatre. available at the door. Bunuel, won the Grand Prize for depiction of the violence and "A Streetcar Named Desire." Direction at the Cannes Film poverty in their lives, Bunuel Festival when it was released. creates a nightmarish, irrational Bunuel is the internationally world which is closely related to known director of such films as the surrealism of his earlier Un Chien Andalou (with work. Dream and reality, erotic Salvador Dal i), The and violent images, combine to Exterminating Angel, produce a powerful, shocking Viridiana, and The Discreet vision within an outwardly Charm of the Bourgeoisie, "realistic" film. among others. His films combine a surrealistic vision with disturbing erotic imagery, black The film is in Spanish with .humor, and biting attacks on the English subtitles. The show is Church and middle-class open to the public with no morality. admission charge. STYLES TODAY, VISIT FREE CONCERT/ MULTI·· MEDIA EX PERIENCE th e corner of milin and tracy 8pm 4j1j-----------------74 madison/ jefferson room, s. u.b. ---t -------------------- 't :t Anne Murray :t t I i April 20 10:30 PM SUB Ballroom i t I I t I I i Tickets: $3.00 MSU student ID : I I i $3.50 non-students : l $4.00 at the door I I t 1 only 400 tickets at the door. 1 I t I I I I ' Tickets on Sale Starting Monday 1 I I I I I 1 by the Ba l room 1 I t t------------- ---------------------------THE EXPONENT - Friday, March 29, 1974 - 3 Guest Editorial (Editor's Note: The following guest editorial was written for the Exponent by Bill Vaughn, a member of the Borrowed Times Collective.) Government propagandists have been boasting lately that Montana's plans for a new $4 million prison are "unique in the nation." The goal of the new prison, the.y promise, "will no longer be custody of men, but. the1.~ education and treatment for release as soon as possible. But even an administration headed by a former public relations man can't pretty up the fact that four walls still make a prison, no matter what color they're painted. The question arises: "How can an unjust society build just institutions?" Fancy new equipment, clean s.parkling buildings. teams of eager young soc1olog1sts and millions of dollars will not change the fact almost a quarter of the prison population is Indian and more than 90 per cent of the population comes from low income .backgrounds. T.h1s society exploits the poor and crushes minorities by keeping inflation soaring and unemployment high. Those that rebel are put in prison. The crumbling fortress at Deer Lodge and the new prison have one thing in common: a society based on private profit and the rule of force couldn't exist without them. And while officials mouth platitudes about "rehabilitation," their own plans speak louder. The new prison. they say, will separate inmates into four groups. Each group will be guarded with different degrees of ~I will be allowed varying degrees of II intensity and each group 1111 freedom. Most of the prisoners will be segregated into three 96-man blocks, each in the rifle sights of a separate guard tower.