The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 10, 1977, Image 5

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    omen ‘flashed’ in library
THE BATTALION Page 5
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1977
xposure cases reported
| By MARY HESALROAD
Battalion Staff
iThree incidents of indecent expo-
sijre in the Texas A&M University
library were reported this week, al-
jhough no cases have been filed
juith campus police.
[One woman said she was
lashed" Monday afternoon on the
Krd floor of the library.
She said she was sitting on the
|or looking at social science books
ien a man approached on her left.
ooking up to see if he wanted to
she said she saw that he was
[zipped and exposed. "My first
ight was that this couldn’t be
Ippening to me," she said .
he man had his face turned away
lavoid recognition, she added.
■She described him as being about
loot-1 with a stocky build.
I'd didn t show' any emotion at
ill she said. T just got up and
int over to sit near a bunch of
iple."
She did not report the incident to
lice or library personnel because
B said it was nothing to really get
set about.
Another female student encount-
)se
ry
ielmets for motorcyclists
io longer are required
ie is
, Croud
ther
restec.
it orgaii
iniminf
ered an exhibitionist Tuesday at
noon while thumbing through some
books on the first floor.
She said a man about 6-foot-l
with thick, sandy-brown hair and
glasses walked up to her and asked,
“Are you working on English?”
She looked up, replied yes, then
continued reading.
“He stood there for 15 minutes
and made little noises like clearing
his throat, but I ignored him,” she
said.
When she started to walk away
she said she noticed he was ex
posed.
“I just kept on walking and acted
like I didn’t see anything. As far as I
know that guy doesn’t know if I saw
him or not. ”
While she was checking out her
books she said the man walked by
and grinned at her.
“I acted like nothing had hap
pened.”
The incident was not reported to
police because he said she felt
nothing would be done about it.
Still another woman was flashed
late Tuesday afternoon.
She said she was studying by the
map room on the fourth floor when
she glanced up to see a tall, dark
haired man reaching for a book on a
top shelf.
She saw that he was exposed.
“It was odd, because I was read
ing about deviants at the time,” she
commented.
She reported the incident to one
of the library clerks, Pam Rowe.
Rowe said she tried to get a male
employe to see if the man was still
around but no one was available.
Instead, she called a librarian on
the third floor who commented,
“Well, it’s spring!”
“I asked her if this was something
to expect every year and she said
yes,” Rowe added.
University Police Chief O.L.
Luther said, “We have had reports
of similiar incidents in the past but
it has been several months.
When the police receive reports
of indecent exposure they investi
gate immediately, Luther said.
“We caught a guy a couple of
months ago. When we catch some
body we usually turn him over to
the administration,” he added.
"What happens to him depends on
the seriousness of the case. ”
United Press International
[AUSTIN, Tex. — A Senate com-
ttee, watched by more than 100
M ptorcyclists with beards, dirty
Hue jean vests and obscene slogans
eed, sk wn onto their jackets, has voted to
|peal a bill forcing cyclists to wear
ilmets.
The committee, which voted
animously to repeal the 1967 law,
ard six witnesses — all in favor of
aling the law — and voted less
Em 30 minutes later to nullify the
lOfficials summoned extra security
lards to the Senate chamber for
hearing before the Senate Eco-
Imic Development Committee,
lere were no incidents.
at we i
“They got what they came for,”
said Capitol Security Chief Bobby
Williams.
Most of the blue jean vested, long
haired bikers sat in the Senate gal
lery during the hearing. Witnesses
complained the bikers’ bad public
image was one reason the helmet
requirement originally was im
posed.
“If a mandatory helmet law was
passed for all vehicle drivers, it
would be termed outrageous and an
infringement on individual freedom
and repealed as quickly as the seat
belt law,” said Beth Arnold of San
Antonio, representative of the Texas
Motorcycle Riders Association.
Thomas E. Finch of San Antonio
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Campus
AGGIE Parents of the Year appli
cations are available in the Student
Programs Office, MSC 216, and are
being accepted now through March
25.
WINGS and Sabers today pres
ented $1,300 to the Brazos Valley
Rehabilitation Center. The money
was collected from proceeds from
the Elephant Bowl game held last
weekend. Army/Navy defeated Air
Force/Marines 16-7 in the game.
TEXACO INC. awarded the sec
ond half of an annual $4,000 unre
stricted grant to Texas A&M Uni
versity’s petroleum engineering de
partment yesterday. R. J. Rowalt
and Curtis Cook of Houston pres
ented the $2,000 check to Dr.
Douglas Von Gonten, head of petro
leum engineering at A&M, and
Robert L. Walker, University de
velopment director. The first half of
the annual award was presented in
September 1976.
STUDENTS planning to leave
cars at Texas A&M University dur
ing spring break are asked by Uni
versity Police to park in Lot 9,
which is west of Law Hall and north
of the main drill field.
FILING for student body presi
dent, vice presidents, yell leaders
and student senators opens March
22 and closes March 28. Filing will
take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
Room B of the Student Programs
Office.
Texas
LEGISLATION requiring indi
vidual gas and electric meters for
apartment units has been approved
by the Senate and sent to the
House. The bill, by Rep. Ron
Glower, D-Garland, would require
installation of individual meters on
any apartment units built after Jan.
1, 1978. “When individual meters
are used, the tenant knows how
much gas and electricity he’s using;
energy consumption decreases on
the order of about 25 per cent,”
Glower said.
DALLAS POLICE who worked
to find missing Ladina McCoy, 7,
now think more in terms of locating
her body. McCoy, disappeared the
morning of Feb. 11. She lived with
her mother and stepfather six blocks
from her elementary school. Police
immediately sought the girl’s
natural father, but he passed a
polygraph test and is not suspected
of involvement. Door-to-door
searches were made, but nothing
has come up, police said.
A 1973 LAW prohibiting advertis
ing of drug prices or claims by a
pharmacy thaf it offered “discount”
prices, has been upheld by the Texas
Supreme Court. Earlier, the law had
been declared unconstitutional. The
high court yesterday said the prohib
ition on advertising amounted to an
improper extension of the state’s
police power.
H. B. GONZALEZ, former head
of a congressional committee inves
tigating assassinations says the na
tion has been infiltrated with a large
number of secret agents, and those
agents succeeded in stopping the
committee’s work, according to an
interview with The San Antonio
Liqht yesterday. Gonzales, D-Tex.,
said committee counsel Richard
Sprague met with Cuban agents.
National
Gen. Curt Schneider’s first closed-
door interrogation of the 29-year-old
legislator.
AN OIL-SPILL detection system
will be launched in satellites by
1978 and will be capable of spotting
pollution trails as small as those left
by ships pumping bilge, according
to an Environmental Protection
Agency Scientist. The detection sys
tem uses a scanner that notices color
and temperature changes in the
locean. It will be able to spot spills as
small as 100 barrels.
A METHOD to speed surgery
and minimize bleeding by shooting
laser beam radiation from a scalpel’s
cutting edge has been developed by
scientists at the University of Wash
ington. The device is expected to be
especially useful for removing dead
tissue from burn patients and for op
erations on areas such as the liver
where blood vessels are more con
centrated .
KANSAS legislator, Rep. Mike
Glover, D-Lawrence, has refused to
cooperate in an investigation of drug
trafficking after he admitted using
marijuana since he was in college,
the Kansas attorney general says.
Yesterday’s questioning was Atty.
World
COREY MOORE, an ex-Marine
who held police Capt. Leo Keglovic
hostage for 44 hours, received a
promised phone call from President
Carter.
said helmets may actually cause ac
cidents because they impair cyclists’
vision and hearing.
“Safety is not something you buy
and put on,” Finch said.
Michael Anthony Stanisci Jr. of
Hurst, spokesman for the Cycle
Club of Fort Worth, said accidents
increased after the helmet laws
were imposed because, “it gave the
wearer a false sense of security.”
“He feels like he has his head in a
phone booth while he’s flying down
the highway at 60 miles per hour,”
Stanisci said.
Stanisci said temperatures inside
helmets go as high as 120 degrees in
warm weather, cause stress and
fatigue and slow driver reflexes.
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Texas A&M University
OP AS presents
RUDOLF SERKIN,
renowned concert pianist
Thursday, March 24, 1977
Rudder Auditorium
8:00 P.M.
"Artist and teacher, he has given the classical tradition of the piano new life in a disordered
age."
President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon presentation of
the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
. . Something extraordinary .. . one of the most commanding pianists of our age!"
Herbert F. Peyser, New York Times
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Texas A&M University’s
OPAS presents
The Dance
Theatre of Harlem
Thursday, March 31, 1977
Rudder Auditorium
8:00 P.M.
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"An irresistable group brimming with vitality, beautifully trained with a dear, fluid technique
Robert Jackson, Cue
"It is the sense of awakening that makes the Dance Theatre of Harlem what it is "
Eastchester Record
"The Dance Theatre of Harlem virtually explodes on stage .
Patricia Mandell, New London News
Ticket prices:
Regular:
A&M Student:’
Zone 1
$6.50
$5.20
Zone 2
$5.20
$4.15
Zone 3
$4.15
$3.30
Ticket prices:
Regular:
A&M Student:’
Zone 1
$7.50
$5.50
Zone 2
$6.00
$4.40
Zone 3
$4.80
$3.50
"Special discounts for A&M students can be obtained by coming by the MSC Box Office.
Tickets and information available — MSC Box Office — 845-2916.
This outstanding performer is presented by the Opera and Performing Arts Society of Texas
A&M, an MSC Committee.
"Special discounts available for A&M students at the MSC Box Oftice Tickets and Information:
MSC Box Office 845-2916.
This outstanding group is presented by the Opera and Performing Arts Society of Texas A&M.
an MSC Committee.
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David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s film
The man who fell to Earth
Also starring Rip Torn • Candy Clark • Buck Henry • from Cinema 5
Thurs. March 10
Rudder Theatre
8 and 10:30 p.m.
$1 with A&M I.D.
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