The Battalion
Tuesday, May 9, 1978
College Station, Texas
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Inside Tuesday
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Briscoe concedes
to Hill in primary
How much do I get?
David Bradley (left), a junior recreation
and parks major, and Rob Colburn, a fresh
man environmental design major, prepare
for the end of the semester by selling
their books at the MSC Bookstore.
United Press International
AUSTIN — Dolph Briscoe acknowl
edged the defeat that would end his tenure
as governor in a terse four-word telegram
and then went riding with his wife near
their ranch in Uvalde.
Briscoe, who spend a record amount in
seeking to extend his governorship to an
unprecedented 10 years, Monday con
ceded the Democratic primary to Attorney
General John Hill after two days of silence
in Uvalde.
Hill showed the telegram to reporters.
“Congratulations and best wishes,’ it said.
“I appreciate it (the telegram),” said Hill,
who had not spoken with Briscoe. “As far as
I’m concerned it’s timely. I intend to con
tinue to be cordial. I’m sure he’ll recipro
cate.”
Returns late Monday with only 15 coun
ties incomplete showed Hill with 51.2 per
cent — 914,375 votes to Briscoe’s 743,962.
Briscoe refused to concede defeat Satur
day or Sunday, insisting Hill’s majority
would evaporate in final returns.
The governor finally telephoned aides in
Austin from his ranch about nOon Monday
and ordered the telegram sent.
Clapp said Briscoe indicated he planned
to return to Austin later this week.
Hill, who left Austin Monday for a four-
day out-of-state vacation, said he hoped to
have Briscoe’s endorsement and the back
ing of his supporters.
Although the Democratic nomination
has been tantamount to election in Texas
for the past 100 years, Hill faces a
November race against Republican Bill
Clements to succeed Briscoe in the Gover
nor’s Mansion.
Hill said President Carter called to con
gratulate him Sunday. The attorney gen
eral said Carter agreed to make time avail
able for a meeting to discuss energy issues.
Hill said he plans to go to Washington
next week to meet with key congressional
leaders on the conference report on
energy.
The attorney general announced he has
detailed a member of his campaign staff to
serve as liaison with state budget writers in
coming months to look at ways the state can
get more for its money.
“I’m going to place my early emphasis on
budget,” Hill said. “I believe that’s the first
job the people want done.”
In the campaign, Hill said Briscoe failed
to properly supervise state spending or
administer allocation of federal grants by
agencies such as the Governor’s Office of
Migrant Affairs.
“I’m not settled in my own mind as to
how the migrant programs should be ad
ministered,” he said. “My main concern is
that the money and programs be delivered
to migrant workers and families in the most
efficient means possible. In my opinion,
the most unfortunate part is that there was
evidence that not enough of the money was
getting down to the migrants.”
Hill declined to discuss what stance he
would take on various Briscoe appointees
such as Insurance Board Chairman Hugh
C. Yantis Jr.
“Most people realize there will be a lot of
new people and a lot of new blood in the
Hill administration,” he said.
The attorney general, who criticized
Briscoe for absence from office and inacces
sibility during the campaign, said he plans
to be available for weekly news confer-
ape
Precaution is best prevention
Berkowitz pleads
guilty to murders
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mytime and to anyone. Regardless of
low, or why or even where it happens.
Be can be emotionally traumatic and
Bmanently scarring.
In this, the first of a two-part story, the
vention aspects of rape are discussed.
here are several ways to avoid getting
a dangerous situation where rape is
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member. As a resident adviser from a Texas
A&M University dormitory, she became
accustomed to listening to people and try
ing to help them solve problems.
Kerry Hope of the Texas A&M Personal
Counseling Center said one important part
of prevention is to check every exit.
Whether a woman is on a street, in a build
ing or even in the home of a friend, know
ing how to get out is smart.
Having some sort of plan in mind in case
of attack is also a way to fend off physical as
well as possible mental damage. Many
If a woman is on one side of the
campus and needs to get to the
other side, especially at night, she
should call the University Police. A
car will come get her within about
10 minutes. — Robert Sorenson,
patrolman
brothers or boyfriends. Mace is a chemical
irritant that can temporarily blind a person
if sprayed toward the eyes. It is also used by
law enforcement agencies to subdue
dangerous people.
A check of local pharmacies and sporting
goods stores turned up only one store that
sells Mace. Tri-State Sporting Goods sells a
six-inch can for $6.95 and a purse-sized
container for $3.95. Rosemary Rawls of the
Brazos County Sheriffs Department said
Paralyzer is the best brand to buy and the
large size lasts about five years.
Rawls also said alleyways and deep re
cessions are places for women to avoid.
Before patrolman Robert Sorensen
joined the Texas A&M Police Force about
four months ago, he counseled sexual as
sault victims. He worked for four years on a
help crisis line at “The Answer,” a Chris
tian counseling center in Northgate. A
spokesman for “The Answer” said they no
longer have the crisis line because there are
not enough staff members to handle calls.
As a student and patrolman, Sorensen
seems to have the most practical advice:
Women simply should not walk alone.
“You can always call the University
Police,” he said.
Sorensen said if a woman is on one side of
the campus and needs to get to the other,
especially at night, she should call the Uni
versity Police. A car will come get her
within about 10 minutes.
In case of an attack or rape, every person
should find out what to do and where; to go.
One young woman who was attacked on
campus earlier this year said she thought
sexual attacks didn’t happen much at Texas
A&M.
The woman — call her Mary — was at
tacked in one of the women’s bathrooms of
the Academic Building by a medium built
man. Mary thought the man was waiting for
her when she entered the restroom. She
said the man grabbed her from behind and
tried to undo her blouse and when she tried
to get away, he began to hit her shoulders
See Methods, p. 3
United Press International
NEW YORK — David R. Berkowitz
Monday admitted he was the notorious
“Son of Sam” murderer and pleaded guilty
to the six .44-caliber slayings that ter
rorized the city for more than a year.
In a surprise disclosure in state Su
preme Court in Brooklyn, authorities re
vealed that Berkowitz had kept a secret
diary in which the defendant, calling him
self the “Phantom of the Bronx,” claims to
have set nearly 2,000 fires since 1974.
“I shot them,” Berkowitz said, his voice
steady and low-pitched, as he told how he
gunned down 20-year-old Stacy
Moskowitz and her boyfriend as they sat in
a car on a quiet street in Brooklyn in the
early morning hours last July 31.
“How many times?” asked Supreme
Court Justice Joseph R. Corso.
“Five times,” replied Berkowitz, who
faces a maximum 25 years to life in prison
for the murders at his sentencing May 22.
Miss Moskowitz died of a gunshot
wound to the head. Her 20-year-old boy
friend, Robert Violante, lost an eye and is
almost blind in the other. They were the
last victims of Son of Sam, who claims that
“howling demons,” speaking through
neighbor Sam Carr’s dog, ordered him to
kill.
Security was unusually tight as Ber
kowitz arrived at the courthouse shortly
after 9 a.m. in a heavily armed motorcade.
A police helicopter hovered overhead, and
police and court guards frisked spectators
and reporters who had to go through two
metal detectors inside the building.
Berkowitz pleaded guilty to the last two
.44-caliber killings in a third courtroom
appearance presided over by Queens Su
preme Court Justice Nicholas Tsoucalas.
“The pleas are accepted,” Tsoucalas said
at 12:35 p.m., ending an extraordinary
morning during which three separate judi
cial district sessions were held under onfe
roof.
In the first session, Justice Corso ac
cepted the pleas on Miss Moskowitz and
Violante.
“Who did you fire at first?” Corso asked.
“Stacy Moskowitz.”
“When you aimed the gun at Stacy
Moskowitz’ head, did you intend to cause
her death?” the judge continued, pursuing
questions designed to satisfy the legal test
of whether Berkowitz knew the conse
quences of his actions.
“Yes,” the defendant replied. Asked
whether his conduct was right or wrong,
Berkowitz replied firmly: “It was wrong.”
“Are you pleading guilty because you
are really guilty?”
“Yes.”
Berkowitz’ attorneys told the judge they
had urged their client to plead not guilty
by reason of insanity, but that their client
had ignored their advice.
ounselor at the Bluebonnet Psychiatric
nter in Bryan. Low necklines and tight
Dthing could encourage some attackers,
e said.
Schubert also advises women to walk as-
rtively — look like they know exactly
ere they are going and what they are
bmg.
I Schubert was a rape counselor at the
luebonnet Psychiatric Center for nine
lonfhs before she became a full-time staff
questions can only be answered and dealt
with in the heat of the moment: “Should I
scream and make a lot of racket?”; “Is it best
to stay quiet and submit?”; “Should I run or
try to talk him out of it?”
Answers depend upon whether the at
tacker is a large person, whether the at
tacker is carrying a weapon, or if people are
within hearing distance.
Some women are beginning to carry
small cans of Mace at the insistance of the
ouston riot
ospitalizes 15
United Press International
HOUSTON — Witnesses say “young
Uigs were responsible for a weekend riot
which 15 persons were hospitalized but a
he leader blames the incident on outside
itators trying to damage relations be-
^een the Mexican-American community
d police.
The riot occurred Sunday between 200
[emonstrators and about 200 police officers
ring a celebration of Cinco de Mayo, a
exican national holiday, at a city park.
A1 Leal, the attorney chairman of the
ispanic Caucus, Monday said a small
roup of troublemakers tried to manipulate
ie crowd and create a breakdown with
olice.
The sensitivity of the Mexican-
fr merican community to police abuse is jus-
Sably critical. Leal said. “But Sunday’s
ccurrence was not the result of the leader-
ip but by agitators who have only one
esire — to promote a breakdown between
dice and and community.
The leadership will make sure this will
ot occur again. The victims are the people
'ho live on the north side. They will suffer
r om this kind of disturbance and outrage, ”
?al said.
These agitators were looking for an op-
^ Ortunity to incite. They came to that rally
with the purpose of creating chaos and not
to protest in a reasonable fashion,” he said.
“When that disturbance broke out, they
manipulated that crowd into a riot situa
tion. They got the microphone being used
for that celebration and started inciting the
riot situation.
Among those injured was Jack Cato, a
reporter for KPRC-TV.
“We knew things were not too good
when a guy threw a bike at us. That was the
first blow. It was teen-agers, young kids,
just wanting to have malicious fun,” said
Cato, who was hit on the head with a brick
and stabbed.
Cato said he and cameraman Phil Archer
were trying to film a city vehicle set on fire
when they found themselves surrounded
by the hostile group. Archer also was stab
bed.
The violence was set off when a young
Mexican-American walked through the
holiday crowd and started beating another
man. Others joined in the fight. Then
police began arriving.
Chaos then erupted: people screamed
and there were reports of sniper fire, but
police said they did not fire at the crowd. A
grocery and gas station near the park were
damaged and there were scattered reports
of vandalism.
Hamblin thoughts
of graduation day
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
I was decked out in my black polyester gown and plastic Peter
Pan collar, mortarboard smartly tipped to one side of my head,
tassel on the left. I slowly marched in with 2,000 other black-
garbed degree candidates. G. Rollie White overflowed with people
in their Sunday best. And the most vivid memory I have is: Oh no,
I have to go to the bathroom.
I feel guilty now. I should have been thinking noble thoughts.
Looking to the future, a future in which I’m unemployed, but a
future none the less.
Instead I plotted how to get out and back into the line inconspicu
ously.
I do have other memories of graduating with a B.S. in journalism
Friday night.
Thousands of people waving and yelling, trying to pick out their
own graduates. Me looking in vain to find my family.
My shoes hurting my feet after standing so long.
The guy to my right in the final throes of a paranoia attack. (“This
all a mistake. They’re going to say I didn’t pass computer science.”)
Jack K. Williams, the Chancellor of the Texas A&M System,
giving a blessedly brief and funny talk based on a few James Thurber
fables. Jarvis Miller, the president of the University, never cracking
a smile.
And the waiting. There is no possible way to make reading more
than 2,000 names interesting and fast. Graduation ceremonies are
inherently boring.
So why did I sit through it? By filling out a few forms, a senior can
get a diploma and go home without paying $7.88 for a cap and gown,
dressing up and sitting two and a half hours.
The graduation is like a funeral. You need to see the body. The
ritual marks the end of an important part of life. College is not just
attended — it’s lived, breathed, eaten, drunk, laughed and cried.
The walk across the stage was important to me.
But it’s hard for me to realize right now what I’ve accomplished, if
anything.
All the hours of studying, football games, yell practices, parties —
what I thought college would be — seems vague to me now, though
I did those things.
What I remember: late nights at The Battalion, walking on cam
pus at midnight, pancakes at Sambos, days at Somerville doing
nothing, tutoring a student from Taiwan, riding my bicycle
everywhere, wondering how to pay next month’s rent, laughing at
the people that got mad at Paul Arnett, falling in love with jour
nalism.
So, in about six months when I’m not in a state of shock. I’ll go
back through my head and come up with what college and graduat
ing from it means to me.
Until then, the memory I’ll have of graduation will be tripping
across the stage and shaking hands with Bob Rogers, the head of the
journalism department and hearing him say:
“Go get ’em doll.”