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e4 local / state Battalion/Page 5 October 15, 1982 Two ‘Eves' reported at A&M Stress linked to personality split aiiHiiimiiiiiiimiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiL I ^ CALVIN KLEIN | Cord. JEANS in | < < \S > Grey and Tan on Sale for $39°° COLLEGE TOWN, PANTHER and more 20-30% Off! ; one esare nasi- : thal •d or nor- bad- a de- don't nonic isiial- |X)W- e be- ■s. the twers itrof beinf being ment mite. mes- dcr is s allu- m the killed 'jetted as de- killed argir ?. Pro- ■d Dr, ■ tiller wther by Alison Cope Battalion Reporter Only eight cases of multiple personality, a rare psychological disorder popularized bv “T hree Faces of Eve” and “Sybil,” have been published in professional journals. However, psycholog ists believe that many more cases gounpublished because thev are never diagnosed or re|X)rted. Texas A&M University has had at least two of cases of multi ple personality in the last couple of years. Dr. Jeffrey M. Kern, a psychology professor at Texas A&M, said he knows of one stu dent who had multiple personal ity, and the counseling center has reported another. Textbooks define the cause of multiple personality as an avoidance response which senes to protect a person from highly stressful events, and Kern says college life can cause stress. “Often students are brought up in a very strict environment. When they get to college, they can't handle certain situations, so their personality splits,” Kern said. Many times the psychological problems are sexuallv-related. he said. Marriage, divorce, child rear ing and peer pressure, all stress ful situations, also can cause multiple personality in people who have trouble dealing wdth stress, Kern said. A childhood trauma was the cause of one of the most cele brated cases of split personality. Chris Sizemore, the subject of the book, “Three Faces of Eve,” was tw’o years old when she saw tw'o men killed in a sawmill acci dent and then saw her mother badlv cut in a separate incident. She was unable to cope wdth the accidents and developed a second personality which was able to handle the situation. Af ter the accidents, her personali ties always came in three’s. Size more spent 46 years of her life battling 22 different personali ties. Kern said thousands of multi ple personality cases probably have gone undetected and unre- portect because psychologists know little about the illness and often do not report their failures in curing patients. Kern said one example of a multiple personality is when a person, who is normally shy or introverted, becomes bold or outgoing when faced with a situation too difficult to handle. Other people usually cannot tell if a person has multiple per sonality, Kern said. Many times the person does not know he has a problem until he gets into some kind of trouble. He may find himself somewhere and not know how or why he got there. Kern said this is often the time a person seeks help for the problem. To cure multiple personality cases, doctors try to help the pa tient deal with whatever causes the personality split. Judge’s son witness to Wood assassination Next to Gibson’s i across from Culpepper Plaza | 10-6 Mon.-Sat. 693-4096 iiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiitiHiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii United Prc*» International SAN ANTONIO — A judge’s son who was looking idly out the window of his brother’s apart ment on May 29, 1979, said he saw federal ludge John Wood lean into his car. heard a shot and saw Wood tall back onto the pavement. James A. Spears, son of Senior L'.S. District Court Judge Adrian Spears, testified Wednesday tnat he saw Wood, whom he knew personally, leav ing his apartment lor work at 8:30 a.m. As Spears watched from an apartment across the driveway, he said he saw Wood lean through the front door of his Chevrolet as il placing some thing on the seat. “Then right alter that I heard aloud — what I thought was a backfire," Spears said. T turned back and saw a man (Wood) down in the parking lot. 1 he first thing l did was 1 called the emergence numl^er and said there was a man down in the iparking lot." Then he ran downstairs, Iwhere he found Kathryn Wood [standing at the door of her japartment. Mrs. Wood tearfully testified IWcdnesdav that she was on the {telephone just after Wood left [for court when she heard the ■hot. "I just dropped the phone [and went outside.” she said. [“The door to his car was open. I looked down and picked up his ihead and said. 'John, who shot [you? - He didn’t answer me." Six months earlier, Mrs. [Wood said, her husband had re fused the protection ol L'.S. [marshals assigned to him after [someone fired shots at L’.S. [Attorney James Kerr of San Antonio. “He liked the marshals but he didn't like to be followed every minute.” Mrs. Wood said. Charles Harrelson, convicted in a 1968 contract killing, has been charged with murder in the judge’s death. Prosecutors say he killed Wood for $250,000 from Jimmv Chagra of El Paso, who feared a life sentence from Wood in a scheduled drug smuggling trial. Harrelson’s w ife Jo Ann is on trial for obstruction of justice and Chagra’s wife Elizabeth for conspiracy. Mrs. Wood, w ho had made no public statement since the slaving, read aloud a letter she received last month from Mrs. Chagra, who asked forgiveness for Iter role in the slaying. But asked if she bad forgiven Mrs. Chagra, the widow said, “No, I cannot forgive.” The letter had not been made public previously. “I am a newly-born Christian and after making peace with Cod, I decided to trv and make peace with mankind and espe cially you,” the letter began. “Mv name is Elizabeth Nichols Chag- Mrs. Chagra, 28, said she was in the kitchen frying chicken the day her husband said, “I’m going to kill Judge Wood.” “I had heard my husband on many occasions use this phrase. And never before had anything happened to these people,” Mrs. Chagra wrote. “I said, ‘OK, hon- ey.’ “I was not involved in a plot or plan for I never sat down and conspired to have your husband murdered,” she said. “God know’s that I am guilt-free of that crime.” Jimmy Chagra first denied any involvement in the judge's death but later insisted that his wife deliver the payoff money, she said. Mrs. Chagra complied but said she eventually had a ner vous breakdown because of pressure from government and guih. "Regardless of the fact that I did this act out of love and devo tion to my husband,” she wrote, "I am willing to take my share of the responsibility for what I did. But as a Christian, I know I could never repay or repair the hurt and pain you must have felt." Late Night Happy Hour FUIM • FOOD • DRINKS BUT, StU, TBADt OB RENT THROUGH THE I MSC Cateteria Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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