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Page 8/The Battalion/Monday, October 31,1983 Haunted house held in basement by Darla Bucaram Battalion Reporter Just listening to the eerie organ notes from Bach's Tocca ta and Fugue was enough to make a few witches anti baller inas ask their mothers to take them home even before they passed the gypsy fortune teller who sold death passes to the en vironmental design depart ment’s haunted house Sunday night. And perhaps it was a good thing, for the music was nothing compared to the experience awaiting the strange sorts who made it through the narrow black entrance at the basement of the Langford Architecture Center. HOWDY FRESHMEN % Interested in joining a Freshman CBA Activity Group? Then, the FRIENDS of FISH Program is for you! FRIENDS OF FISH '83 Activity Groups (4 freshmen, 1 counselor) are being orga nized now for the Fall Semester. Visit the B.S.C. booth in the lobby of the A&A (Blocker) Bldg, this week. Contact the B.S.C. AT 845-1320 for more information. If you're a freshman or an upperclassman in the College of Business- . WE NEED YOU! Nobody was prepared for tne ghost that came flying out of a dimly lit hallway, but even less were they ready to see the torso of a man sticking out of the ground, his intestines spreading smoothly beneath his sliced waist. Since there always are excep tions to the rule, a few people were not too scared—or so they affirmed—after coming out of the haunted house. One such person was 9-year- old Justin McCue of College Sta tion, who claims he even was “scaring the monsters in there.” Perhaps if you want to Find out if you have the nerves of steel that Justin does, you should J try the environmental design department’s haunted house anytime from 6 to 1 1 tonight. Special detective division A&M cops solve crimes let by Tricia Parker Battalion Reporter Although it may lack the drama of Hill Street Blues and the life and death confronta tions faced by officers on “The Hill,” the Texas A&M Univer sity Police department does have a criminal investigation division. The criminal investigation division of the University police, headed by Maj. Josephine Hoelscher, is made up of four plainclothes offic ers, all proficient in finger printing and composite drawing. Hoelscher and her small staff investigate every stolen bicycle, every missing wallet, and every case of disappear ing office equipment re ported to the department. The criminal investigation di vision also investigates violent crimes such as rape or assualt, that although rare, do occur on campus. But Hoelscher says, “We haven't had a problem with se rious crime here.” Last year, 70 liquor viola tions, 26 assaults, 15 drug offenses, two robberies and one attempted rape in the area were reported. “Our biggest problem here,” Hoelscher says, “is with theft — theft of bicycles, bill folds and money left in plain sight. Students leave their purses open and in plain view. Someone just comes along and picks it up.” Thefts last year totaled $225,425. Of that amount, bi cycles accounted for $44,990, miscellaneous books, plants and construction materials accounted for $52,615, office equipment accounted for $28,011 and radios and televi sions accounted for $31,430. Only $46,908 worth of the property was recovered. Recovering stolen property is difficult because often it takes victims of crime a few days to realize they’ve been robbed, Hoelscher says. Peo- f )le think their belongings lave just been borrowed until they don’t show up for a few weeks. By then, she says, it’s hard to find a lead. Inevitably there are cases for which the division has no leads. Detective Bill Wade says that when this happens the di vision doesn’t give up. In stead, he says, it tries to find a pattern in the crime. W'ade says anything the detective finds is important because it may be useful in solving a case later on. Sometimes the detective’s job is hampered by a witness’ inability to remember signifi cant details. But the investiga tors have an answer for that — detective Will Scott, a hyp notist. “It’s not like a lot of people think," Scott says, “like getting up on a stage and turning peo ple into chickens. It’s not like hypnosis, Hoelscher saysi that at all. You actually are aware of everything that’s going on around you.” Scott says the technique merely puts subjects in a more relaxed frame of mind so they can recall details with greater clarity and accuracy. Scott, who was trained at the Therapeutic and Forensic Hypnosis Insitute of Texas, says hypnosis mainly is used to recall mundane things like license plate numbers. However, last year, Scott used it to solve an armed robbery case in Bryan. The clerk at the robbed store could not remember enough about the suspect to give police any real leads. Under hypnosis the clerk re- trea menibered the man’s features more clearly as well as other bits of information that helped solve the case. Scott says hypnosis is never used on suspects. One reason is that a subject cannot be hyp notized against his will. And if he were, Scott says, the suspect possibly could lie even better under rsaysihc usually used to are a bit more com The detectives row fingerprinting and drawing technique!, | t,ni,ed Press Officer Rick Flores JALLAS investigator’s jobbers,1,^ m< ; n V someone reportsaoiJ s '“ en . 1 I°> larently are Hoelscher says iltj J 1 ^ n 8 w ‘ l t ' the suspect isastuk case is referred loil^ ment of Student Afliitj j that, the police de^, has no control oven] Department of Si Affairs chooses to do, Another little kno»i tion of the criminalim tion division is totem rants for the artesi ■ T/ f dents. Hoelscher!,! Keu "* d y’ sometimes student!k| s 0,1 0 . v ' pay tickets, andtheteH"S th < partmem issues an anft® e [\ r ° n ‘ Ian, which thedivisi®®!* 1 Ueor to the student. Hoelscher saysthci is asked to go to the tion to post bond. When the invest® must arrest someone,] take themtotheBraosd l y j ai| . . M 1 he jurisdictionolti tectivesand thepolicefn general is limited loib on campus. event wh anniversa in. alias Cou ver, said tl ess, despite ie national ht have cor d. he progr , prayer 11 a.m.-9p.m. Mon.-Thurs ’Til 11 p.m. Fri. & Sat 11:30-9 p.m. on Sun. Couple battles to save son HAPPY HOUR WITH FREE APPETIZERS Sunday thru Thursday 2pm-9pm Friday and Saturday 2pm-7pm and lOpm-llpm & ' CHICKEN FRIED STEAK SPECIAL wlfrench fries & toast $2.50 (every Mon. & Tues. evening of Nov.) DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS (served from I lam-2pm) Monday Steak & Peel S3.00 Tuesday Steak delight sandwich $2.75 Wednesday Best of the West Potato $3.00 Thursday Super Nachos $3.50 Friday Soup and Salad $2.75 LIGHT APPETITE? TRY OUR SOUPS AND SALADS Loading Zone of Aggieland 404 University Dr. East “Aggie Owned & Operated’ United Prats International VAN — A pediatrician advised Gary and Yvonne Cosel- mon to let their son die. If the 1-year-old lived, he would lie a vegetable, the doctor said. Bacterial meningitis, a com plication from an undetected ear infection, was ravaging the baby’s nervous system. Daniel did die — twice. His heart stopped five minutes once and 22 minutes another time. He was revived, but remained in a coma. Fluid built up in his head. An operation might save him, the doctor said, but advised the Coselmons to let the infant die. They ordered the operation, and Daniel lived. He has a severe brain injury, and is what society calls a vegetable. But the Cosel- mon’s aren’t buying society’s labels. Yvonne spends 14 hours seven days a week trying to bring ~ A, tni Ccufta fLG/itif, uuttt flutuny MSC TOWN HALL I IIMMY presents A* BUFFEl AND THE CORAL REEFER BAND Wednesday, Nov. 2- 8pm G. Rollie White Tickets 8.50, 9.50, 10.00 Also, Plate Lunch Specials 1 Choice of meat, choice of fresh vegetable coffee or tea- 03.95 Townsliire Shopping Center 2025 Texas Ave. Daniel back. Slowly, they have seen him re-establish contact with life and his environment. Yvonne recalls the “blue, embryo-shaped little baby” four years ago, unaware of anything except perhaps his mother’s presence, stirring from a seven- week coma. Daniels’s skin tone has since returned. His alert blue eyes are only slightly hooded now. Today almost 5, Daniel lies in a relaxed fetal position on the couple’s living room floor. The room, now Daniel’s room, is a dimly lit reminiscence of a scien ce-fiction dungeon. A harness hangs from a swing-like apparatus. A coffin sized wooden box with a trans parent plastic lid holds cluster of stadium-sized light bulbs. Wires and electric buzzers line the sides of the box. A three-feet-wide ramp in the center of the room leads no where. So does a path of blue- and-white checkered tiles on the protrude from the walls. Only a solitary corner bookshelf hints that this was once a living room. In this room, Yvonne and dozens of volunteers bombard Daniel's senses with stimulation. They are trying to reach him. Except for two daily 30- minute naps, the assault on Daniel’s senses is constant. From the moment he awakens until the day ends 14 hours later, Daniel is subjected to the rigors of about 300 exercises and routines. The average exercise lasts three minutes. “There was never any talk of the future. They told us not to expect anything from him. They didn’t have the hope of potential for our son that we had.” Gary, 29, and Yvonne, 26, have been on this schedule since February 1982, but they could not have done it without a net work of volunteers who share the family’s hopes for Daniel and assist in the daily therapy. COOL 6 CLEAN 7 Days a Week <UcmJ& \ LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANING 3702 S. College Bryan, Texas 846-2872 OPEN 24 HRS. PER DAY They Ixrgan with 24,a paneled to 35 early thin Yvonne doesn't halts cook for Gary andthts second son, Nathan, S doesn’t do the laundna the house. Voluntttn that. They started the tia ter discovering Philait Institute for the Achteia Human Potential.Pie they had gone to a strait apists for three yeat! Daniel’s operation. "We became frusittl world the therapistswn to create for uvYvonnt "There was neveranynl future. They told usim |K*ct anything from hi didn’t have the hope of | for our son that we had. But the Coselmons hope in a program dew (ilen Do man is his* brain-injured ladelphia. Domantah Institute for the Achicv® Human Potential. "He became fnistnttt conventional therapy injured people andweni his own," Yvonne sin knew brain-injured|W]i| more potential than the given credit for. “The institute many others, that even; use only about their brain," she says dies, then why not teach that’s living? Insteadofji ing for him todiejefsl) to his potential." 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