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Tuesday, April 10, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 4 ( >n Around town Muse Air president to speak Michael Muse, president of Muse Air, will be speaking to students, faculty and community members tonight at 7 p.m. in 206 Memorial Student Center. Muse will discuss entrepreneurship and its future. A question and answer ses sion will follow. The program is sponsored by the Society of Entrepreneurs and New Ventures. Theatre Arts presents play Theatre Arts will present Shakespeare’s Romeo and Ju liet April 10-14 at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. Tickets are available at the Rudder Box Office and are $3 for students and $4 for non-students. Departments to show movies The English and history departments are sponsoring movies. The English department will show Butley tonight at 5 and 8 p.m. in 207 Harrington. The movie, written by Simon Gray and starring Alan Bates and Jessica Tandy, is about a university professor. Admission is $1.50 for stu dents and $2 for non-students. The history department will show The Go-Between to night at 7 p.m. in 100 Harrington. The movie concerns the mores of 19th century society in Edwardian England. Ad mission is free. BILL HUGHl its pizza to ultural joun Gonzales, i Pizza Inn ntivetocusiii since delm ago. Chanel i pons on e i twice a mor; >yera, assisi I niello's, add! pons bring nt of the a s has deli't dth 90 perct delivery, n Bryan bin nt of its sab tichard El® )es case nternational 0 - A N jrand jury Wells mans nurder ind ilh of awo« I last Mayab man and an 1 Monday 1 Bible eath of Pai 1, whose i wooded 11s. appeared ommate, Tm infant son,J< Battalion hiring summer, fall staff The Battalion is now accepting applications for summer and fall staff. All staff positions are open. Anyone inter ested in a staff position should come by 216 Reed McDon ald for a application and interview appointment. Deadline for applications is Wednesday at 5 p.m. Variety Show tickets available ‘y u t MSC Box Office. The show will be Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $3 for students and $3.50 for non-students. Defensive driving course offered The Brazos Valley Safety Agency will conduct a de fensive driving course today and Wednesday at the Ra- mada Inn. The eight-hour course will be from 6 to 10 p.m. both evenings. Students must attend both sessions. Regis tration begins at 5 p.m. at the Ramada Inn or students can pre-register by calling 693-8178. Cost for the course is $20. Tickets on sale for Casino ’84 Tickets are now on sale for RHA Casino ’84 at Rudder Box Office. Casino will be Friday from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center. Tickets are $3 in advance and $4 at the door. ech-bound athlete s bodies » f! I o^qound shot to death and Wealth I leath could r T . because of* Un,ted Press Internatlonal icialssaid.pi ITUGUMCARI, N.M. — Au- arged in tb* lorities Monday investigated |e apparent suicide of a popu- was Pow« ar all-slate athlete found shot disappS' 1 } death outside his home in after the 11 [is eastern New Mexico com- fant were 6 |utmyof'8,000. uithoritiess 11 Rod David, 18, was found 1 in Floridi tad around noon of an appar- turned udTni self-inflicted gunshot acre he isWiound. Authorities said a 20- §imge shotgun was found be- 'ethe body. The youngster, a standout hlete in football, basketball |(| track, had planned to at- fnd Texas Tech in the fall on a jiotball scholarship. His j other, Stan, a Red Raider de rive back, had been named all-conference performer ierelast season as a senior. Tech spokesman Joe Horna- y expressed shock Monday at iwsofthe youngster’s death. "Everybody at the Texas ;d Wll ig Foods, us Tax Abused children need more funds United Press International ARLINGTON — Witnesses told state lawmakers Monday the Texas Department of Hu man Resources was critically underfunded and no longer able to cope with rising number of child abuse cases — nearly 60,000 last year. “Child abuse is a horrible cy cle,” said Stephanie Boucher, spokeswoman for Mothers Against Murder. “Sexual, psy chological and physical abuse is taking place this very minute. We cannot wait. Being sorry is not enough.” Mrs. Boucher’s group has proposed a bill creating a new agency to intervene in early abuse investigations, a role gen erally reserved for DHR or law enforcement agencies. “We can lake up a little slack in the system,” she told a public hearing of the House Study Committee on Child Abuse and Pornography. “Right now, there is very little justice for the abused child. We need an agency that specializes in pro tecting them.” Mrs. Boucher cited the death last year of a 5-year-old Monta gue County boy. “The story still consumes me,” she said. “It’s why I got in this fight in the first place.” Two years ago, the boy barely survived a beating he received from his parents. A judge tem porarily removed him from the home. “But the court chose to re turn him to his parents, under protective custody. That cus tody turned out to be a visit by a DHR worker once a month. DHR petitioned to have the case dropped, but no action was taken. It was too late. “Eight days after the petition was filed, the boy had died of abuse. “The truth is that children in this state are treated lower than animals,” she said, and state funding priorities do not per mit proper DHR investigation of the cases it handles. Nearly 60,000 child abuses cases were reported to Texas authorities last year, said Dr. Hal Dewlett, director of the Dallas-Fort Worth health re gion. “There is evidence that the abuse cases are actually much more frequent,” he said. Witness says Lucas swings back and forth to sanity Tech athletic department is very distressed about it,” Hor- naaay said. “And our sympathy goes to the family.” The death of the popular teenager also plunged Tucum- cari into shock, and officials dis missed classes at Tucumcari High School 10 minutes early in David’s memory. Authorities said well supervi sor Tony Baca and Raymond A. Ruiz, a utility man with the city water department, found David outside his home. It was believed the youth had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but authorities said the case remained under investiga tion. Basketball coach Lucky Car ter said he had spoken with Da vid and his parents during a track meet Saturday. He said the teenager had seemed in high spirits and indicated he was looking forward to attend ing Texas Tech in the fall. United Press International SAN ANGELO — Mass mur derer Henry Lee Lucas would have been legally insane if he killed an unidentified hitch hiker four years ago as he has confessed, an Austin, Texas, psychiatrist testified Monday. “It’s not a license he asked for. It was a gene that he was born with,” Dr. Jay Fogelman said of Lucas, described as a chronic schizophrenic. The 47-year-old drifter, who has implicated himself in more than 150 slayings nationwide, is charged with capital murder in the rape-strangulation of a women whose body was found in a culvert along Interstate 35 near Georgetown, Texas, on Oct. 31, 1979. Lucas has pleaded innocent. The defense, which had con sidered calling Lucas to the wit ness stand, rested its case Mon day without allowing him to testify. The attorneys said they decided against calling Lucas because it would be too stressful for him. The case was adjourned for the day and prosecutors said they would call rebuttal wit nesses on Tuesday. Fogelman said Lucas was ca pable of being mentally out of control briefly and then regain ing logical thinking afterward. “He’s able to cover his Correction In Monday’s edition of the Battalion a couple of statements were incorrect in the article en titled “Mini-snack bar relocates, giving computer a home. ” ; * The coke and candy ma chines being replaced by the CYBER computers in the lobby of the Zachry Engineering Cen ter are relocated on the third floor of the building. Also, the computers are new only to the students who didn’t know that the snack machines were replacing them. The sys tem has been used for one and a half years. The CYBER plan was a five-year proposal and the location for the computers has always been in the plans, says Larry Bradshaw, a junior com puter science major working as a computer technician for CYBER. tracks,” Fogelman said when asked if an insane person would hide a body. “That’s where the anti-social behavior comes in.” Lucas is said to have person ality disorders in addition to be ing schizophrenic. Fogelman described Lucas as sometime psychopathic and anti-social. Fogelman said Lucas has taken many mind-altering drugs in his life — including PCP, commonly known as angel dust, and LSD — but that he does not believe those drugs are responsible for any of Lucas’ personality disorders, i Defense attorney Don Hig ginbotham said Lucas falsely confessed to the Georgetown slaying as “legal suicide” be cause he was so remorseful for having killed his 15-year-old common-law wife. Lucas was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Frieda “Becky” Powell of Jacksonville, Fla. He also received a 75-year sentence for killing an elderly Ringgold woman. “I think he had empathy for Becky,” Fogelman said, adding that Lucas cries whenever he talks about the girl. “That’s the crazy part,” Fo- gelman said when asked why Lucas would kill someone for whotn he cared. Fogelman said he believes Lucas “feels guilty enough about the murder of Becky” to seek the death penalty. Lucas has told authorities and doctors that he wants to die. He has attempted suicide repeatedly while in jail. Fogelman said Lucas “wasn’t blatantly psychotic” during a vi deotaped confession he made last year at the spot where the hitchhiker’s body was found. “He has this sense now about flip-flopping on the confes sions,” Fogelman said. Lucas has been taking Thora zine, an anti-psychotic drug, for most of the past year. Fogelman said that during the weekend he increased Lucas’ medication to 300 milligrams daily. “He was so upset that he was virtually begging for more med ication,” Fogelman said of Lu cas, who wept in the courtroom Friday. Lucas cried when a psycholo gist described how he was abused by his mother, whom he killed in 1960. Fogelman said Lucas de scribed hearing the voices of his mother and brother. “Henry thinks that his mother was probably crazy,” Fogelan said, adding “she used to be involved in intercourse with multiple partners in front of him when he was a little boy.” /Sfiatfa- Day Coffee " Sat., April H, I9&t 9-oo-ii‘-oo*.tm. Sponsored by fSlocker Hm. lOl a t m CAMPUS Walk, Cycle, or Shuttle. It’s only 8 Blocks. 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