The Battalion
w Vol. 74 No. 16
14 Pages
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Tuesday, September 22, 1981
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
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[Joel Ancieto Quintans, charged with capital
murder in the April 20 slaying of a former Texas
A&M student, enters the courtroom Monday
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
following an afternoon recess. If convicted of the
charge. Quintans faces life imprisonment or the
death penalty.
Military investigators
for clues in transport
search
crash
United Press International
INDIAN SPRINGS AIR FORCE
BASE, Nev. — Military investigators
famed out across the desert today to
clues in the crashlanding of an
Air Force C-130 transport plane that
■ssed a darkened runway during
oighttime maneuvers, killing seven sol-
irs and injuring 61 others.
Nineteen of the 61 Air Force and
ly troops who survived Monday’s
ish remained hospitalized today, but
|ne was reported in critical condition.
The other 42 were treated and released.
Rescuers said it was “miraculous”
more men were not killed. The survi
vors scrambled to safety through side
exits in the rear of the plane, minutes
before flames spread to its fuel tanks and
flares and smoke grenades stored inside
the aircraft.
The plane, on a joint Air Force-Army
night training mission, slammed into
the ground 1 mile short of the darkened
landing strip at Indian Springs Air
MSC Council approves
lounge, fountain rules
By NANCY FLOECK
I Battalion Staff
|The MSC Council approved two poli
cies Monday night aimed at controlling
Muse of the Rudder fountain area and
the MSC lounges.
After lengthy discussion about
Ihether the council has the right to
gulate speech at the fountain area, the
uncil unanimously approved the fol-
wing policies:
— fountain areas will be designated
to sections for tables, exhibits and
eakers
— these areas will be assigned to
ffldividuals or Texas A&M University-
cognized organizations only after a
rmit has been obtained from the Stu-
lent Activities Office
— the scheduling office will grant
mission for more than one activity to
he held at the same time only if the
office decides they are compatible
— a permit will be issued for no more
than five days out of a 28-day period
I — noise from activities must not dis
turb events in surrounding facilities
j —activities scheduled in conjuction
Aith information handed out from a
table must be within six feet of that table
— permits must be clearly visible
— appeals or exceptions to the above
ules should be brought before the
BlSC Council Building Studies Com
mittee.
Part of the MSC Lounge Use Policy,
Passed after revision by a 12-2 vote, says
won’t be allowed in the MSC
lounge areas except in conjunction with
scheduled events.
The council returned part of this poli
cy to the Building Studies Committee
for additional research. The returned
section deals with whether approved
activities, such as dinners and parties,
can be furnished with food other than
that supplied by MSC food services.
Another section of the policy
approved by the council states: “Any
excessive disruptive behavior causing
complaints by other users shall not be
allowed in the MSC lounge areas.”
This resulted partly from complaints
to the MSC Building Studies Commit
tee that members of Gromets, a war-
games club of the MSC Recreation
Committee, were disturbing other peo
ple and leaving trash in the lounges.
Paul Fischer, vice president of opera
tions, said the committee and Gromets
will meet with representatives from
other campus departments in order to
find other space for the Gromets.
In other business, the council
approved a proposal by the MSC
Camera Committee allowing it to pro
duce and sell postcards of Texas A&M
through the MSC bookstore. In approv
ing the proposal, the council agreed to
reimburse the committee if sales don’t
cover the initial expenses.
The committee will spend $2,800 in
production costs for the first batch of
postcards and must sell 11,200 post
cards to the bookstore at 250 each to
recover that expense.
Force Base. Air Force Col. Mike Wal
lace said it was common for the air base
to be dark and without landing lights
during night training.
“The Military Air Lift Command con
ducts night training missions of this type
on a routine basis providing proficiency
training for their crews that are qual
ified for night operations,” the Penta
gon said in a statement issued in
Washington. “The exercise is designed
to deploy Army personnel in realistic
field operations.”
A team of 40 to 45 military investiga
tors arrived at the scene after dawn and
fanned out into the desert to gather
clues as to the cause of the accident.
The troops aboard the plane included
personnel from from Fort Lewis,
Wash.; Fort Campbell, Ky., and Dyess
Air Force Base, Texas.
Pentagon officials expected to release
a list of victims today following notifica
tion of relatives.
Slain student s father
testifies in murder trial
By MARCY BOYCE
Battalion Staff
Frederick Axel Youngberg IV, the
victim of a fatal April stabbing, was
neither a drug addict nor a dealer, the
victim’s father testified Monday in what
appeared to be the prosecution’s
attempt to dispute defense testimony to
the contrary.
Had his son, a Texas A&M freshman
prior to his death, been addicted to
drugs, Frederick Axel Youngberg III
said he could not imagine how his son
could have been graduated from an
Irving high school with an A + average,
served as president of his junior class
and been offered a special scholarship to
Harvard for gifted students.
“To my knowledge, he did not take
them (narcotics); to my knowledge he
did not sell them,” the victim’s father
said in the cross examination phase of
the trial of Joel Ancieto Quintans, an
acquaintance of the victim charged with
the April 20 slaying.
Youngberg’s body, with 24 stab
wounds, was discovered two days later
in his College Station apartment. Both
Quintans and Youngberg were fresh
man pre-med majors at Texas A&M
University when the incident occurred.
Quintans, also of Irving, testified Fri
day that he repeatedly stabbed Young
berg to death in self-defense following
an argument with the victim but then
left Youngberg’s apartment without
notifying police.
Early Monday Quintans’ attorney,
Doug Mulder, paraded four witnesses
before the jury in what appeared to be
an attempt to impeach Youngberg’s
character and further the defendant’s
self-defense claim.
The four individuals, all who said
they knew Youngberg in high school or
in college, contended the victim was a
known narcotics user and supplier who
frequently provoked fights and carried a
knife.
“We were close friends when we
were young, but we fell off because of
the drugs he was involved in,” said one
of the witnesses who had known Young
berg since grammar school. “I never
knew what he was going to do. ”
Another witness recounted a fight
with Youngberg in high school. But,
when pressed by Travis Bryan HI, Bra
zos County district attorney, the wit
ness declined to testify that Youngberg
was a violent person.
“He (Youngberg) was a little guy that
liked to talk a lot, wasn’t he?” Bryan
asked. He was answered affirmatively.
In later testimony the district attor
ney continued to try to draw upon the
sympathy of the seven-woman, five-
man jury by depicting Youngberg as a
5-foot-6-inch, 110-pound good student
who had been the target of burglars
twice within the two months prior to his
death.
Yet, in another attempt to discredit
the victim, the defense was quick to
offer testimony which indicated that
someone filed a fraudulent insurance
claim on behalf of Youngberg which
sought compensation for the loss of
more expensive models of equipment
than what belonged to the victim.
The victim’s father testified that
Quintans admitted to him that he stole
some of Youngberg’s stereo equipment
during one of the burglaries last spring.
But the defendant later changed his
story saying that he only found the
equipment after someone else had
burglarized the victim’s apartment,
Youngberg III said.
In previous testimony, Quintans said
after killing Youngberg in self-defense
he took the knife used in the stabbings,
a $3,500 check and stereo equipment
belonging to the victim. The missing
items led investigators to initially cite
burglary as the motive for the slaying.
However, a gag order issued by Bra
zos County District Judge Bradley
Smith prohibits participants in the case
from discussing further developments
in the case.
Youngberg’s body was discovered
April 22 with his blood-soaked shorts
down around his ankles. The defendant
previously testified that the pants came
off as he dragged the body away from a
window before leaving the apartment.
However, Bryan, attempting to de
monstrate for the jury that what Quin
tans said was not possible, dragged
Youngberg III, who was dressed in
shorts similar to some his son was wear
ing April 20, across the floor of the cour
troom holding onto the waist of the
shorts.
The shorts did not slide off the wit
ness, who is about the same height and
weight as his son.
Testimony in the trial resumed this
morning and closing arguments are ex
pected on Wednesday, Bryan said.
If Quintans is convicted of capital
murder, he faces life imprisonment or
the death penalty.
Regents study options
for additional dorms
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
The Planning and Building Commit
tee of the Texas A&M System Board of
Regents reviewed three options Mon
day concerning the construction of addi
tional University dormitories. The mat
ter was presented for discussion only;
no recommendations were made and no
action was taken.
The options, presented by Howard
Vestal, vice president for business
affairs, are:
1) a 2,000-bed modular dormitory on
the intramural field south of Duncan
Dining Hall; estimated cost — $46.9
million
2) a 2,000-bed modular complex with
kitchenettes in the married student
housing area; estimated cost — $48.8
million
3) a 2,000-bed modular complex
(similar to the Commons) on the west
campus; estimated cost — $55.2 million
Although Vestal presented no re
commendation to the regents, he pre
sented three conclusions drawn from
the study:
— construction of a 2,000-bed facility
is feasible, but will cause a 60 percent to
80 percent increase in dormitory room
rates
— the increase in room rates may
have an adverse effect on the demand
for on-campus housing
— if demand for on-campus housing
decreases, the University will be left
with a tremendous long-term construc
tion debt.
In March, the regents approved a 20
percent increase in dormitory room
rates which took effect this semester.
Regents appoint Samson to
new University position
Dr. Charles H. Samson, who served
the past school year as acting presi
dent for Texas A&M University, has
been named vice president for plan
ning for the University.
Samson today was appointed to the
newly created position by the Texas
A&M System Board of Regents upon
the recommendation of University
President Dr. Frank E. Vandiver and
System Chancellor Frank W.R.
Hubert.
This is the first staff appointment
Vandiver has recommended since he
took office Sept. 1.
Samson, who holds faculty rank as
professor of civil engineering and
aerospace engineering, joined the
University in 1960 and served as head
of the civil engineering department
for 15 years.
No room at the inn,
local managers say
The least expensive dorm fees increased
from $219 to $263 a semester, for Hart,
Law, Puryear and Walton halls. The
most expensive dorm fees increased
from $546 to $655 a semester for the
four Commons dorms.
Construction of new dormitories
would cause an overall dorm rate in
crease of 60 percent to 80 percent. Ves
tal said. With construction of dorms be
hind Duncan, for example, dorm fees
currently at $263 a semester would rise
to $418 a semester and dorm fees for the
Commons would rise from $655 a
semester to $1,041 a semester.
Vestal said of the 7,792 students on
the on-campus housing waiting list in
April 1981,. 3,470 students or 44.5 per
cent were assigned spaces. This left
4,322 students without on-campus
housing, students who had requested
such, he said.
Despite the demand for on-campus
housing, however, Vestal said there are
now about 350 vacancies in the dorms.
After listening to Vestal’s presenta
tion, Regent Royce E. Wisenbaker of
Tyler commented that the entire hous
ing program may be in need of a com
plete overhaul. One plan he suggested
to alleviate the large number of no-
shows is doubling or tripling the $100
room deposit.
Following the committee meeting,
the Board met as a committee of the
whole and agreed to recommend nam
ing the Kyle Field track in honor of
Frank G. Anderson, a former Texas
A&M track coach.
That recommendation, along with
the following recommendations agreed
upon Sunday, are expected to receive
approval by the full Board today.
Additional recommendations are:
— a $15,000 appropriation to cover
the cost of an appeal in the lawsuit re
questing the University to release the
list of candidates considered for the
University presidency
— a $110,000 appropriation for the
preliminary design of the Medical Sci
ences Library
— a $100,000 appropriation for the
40,000-square-foot addition to the Hal-
bouty Building.
The Board also will vote on a plan to
alleviate crowded conditions in the Col
lege of Engineering. The Board is ex
pected to approve an interim plan call
ing for the conversion of the Engineer
ing Research Laboratory Center, now
under construction on the south side of
the Zachry Engineering Center, to
laboratories and office space.
By ERICA KRENNERICH
Battalion Reporter
Visitors to Bryan-College Station this
weekend looking for overnight lodging
most likely will discover there’s no room
at the inn.
Many motels in the area were booked
a year in advance for Texas A&M’s 1981
home football season which begins
Saturday.
“I don’t have anything for any of the
games,” said Billie Pophan, reserva-
tionist for the 126-room Holiday Inn of
College Station. “We normally book up
to a year in advance since people start
making their reservations a week or so
after the last (Texas A&M home football)
game. ”
Pophan said she keeps a waiting fist
for each home game weekend in case of
cancellations. Each list has about 20
names, she said.
Maher Awwad, a desk and room clerk
at the 114-room La Quinta Motor Inn in
College Station, said he doesn’t keep a
waiting list but believes he would have
about 300 names on one if he did.
If people are trying to find rooms at
the last minute, Awwad said, he doesn’t
send them to motels in town since he
knows they will be full.
Mavis Edwards, reservationist at the
170-room Aggieland Inn in College Sta
tion, said the inn was booked for home
football weekends shortly after Jan. 1.
“Most of our guests are the same people
who come back each year,” she said.
Pophan said the Holiday Inn guests
•usually reserve a room for all five Texas
A&M home games. “The people we
have coming, come in year after year, ”
she said.
Prices for the 22 local motels range
from $28 to $48 per night, depending on
the number of people and beds in the
room. Also, many motels require a two-
night minimum stay and an advance de
posit on rooms reserved for Texas A&M
home football game weekends.
Many local motels are also booked
months in advance of other Texas A&M
special events — commencement cere
monies, Parents’ Day and Final Re