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OPERATIONS
meet at 6:30 p.m. at Mr. Gatti’s
mixer — $5,00 all you can eat.
MSC POLITICAL FORUM: Gubernatorial Seri.
man Tom Loeffler. 8 p.m in 308 Rudder.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES;
8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder (for girls) and 14
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dassic film “Virgin Spring” at 8 p.m. hTthe ;
Auditorium.
TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIA1
in 115 Kleberg.
Wednesday
LA TERTULIA (SPANISH CLUB): will ’
p m.-10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato at ]
is still collecting dues.
MSC AGGIE CINEMA: presents
press” at 7:30 p.m. in 801 Rut
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Hotel.
MSC TRAVEL: will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
STUDENT SENATE: will meet in 204 Harri
Bldg.
SPEECH COMMUNICATION /
at 7 p.m. in 114 Blocker.
TAMU CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION/GA1
SERVICES: brings Tim Coleman of the
Rights Foundation to speak on the Texas
8:30 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: has e
p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Chore
CIRCLE K:wdl meet at 8:30 p.m. in 60
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m, ii
der.
STUDENTS AGAINST APAR *" '
p.m. in 410 Rudder.
Items for What’s Up
216 Reed MeDom
Recent slayings
frighten people
living in Brenham
Associated Press
BRENHAM — There was no spe
cial reason for the Bible passage Dr.
Thomas Currie selected for his con
gregation to read on that hot and
muggy Sunday.
As did other worshipers at the
Brenham Presbyterian Church,
Kathy Coppedge and her son Casey
repeated: “O God, insolent men
have risen up against me; a band of
ruthless men seek my life.”
But those words from Psalms 86
have come to haunt the population
of Brenham and Washington
County.
Less than an hour after reading
the verse Aug. 11, the Coppedges
were abducted from the church
parking lot. Their bodies were dis
covered in the trunk of their car
about 10 miles from church.
Kathy Coppedge, 35, a school
teacher, had been strangled. Casey,
11, suffocated in the trunk, where
temperatures reached 150 degrees.
The assailants remain at large, de
spite an investigation by Texas
Rangers and city and county law
men, and a $ 17,000 reward offer.
“1 don’t know' that Brenham will
ever get back to normal,” Currie told
the Austin American-Statesman.
“I want justice to be done for the
people who did this, because they
need to be brought to justice. And I
want justice for the people of Bren
ham, because they need to close this
chapter,” Currie said.
The initial alarm that hit Bren
ham after the killings — and three
other unrelated crimes — has dimin
ished. But residents still talk about
things that no one can remember
discussing before — buying guard
dogs, locks and floodlights for
homes and signing up for firearms
instruction.
City officials have authorized hir
ing six more police officers and ad
ditional patrols. There is talk of im
plementing a 911 emergency
telephone system.
In several residential neighbor
hoods, crime watch organizations
formed. Neighbors pay closer atten
tion to nearby homes and take notice
of strangers. Women have bought
whistles and Mace and tear gas.
“People are afraid, and they’re
trying to defend themselves,” said
Mike Buddell, owner of Custom
Gun Shop in Brenham.
Although it was the most serious
crime — and to date the only un
solved homicide case recorded in
Washington County — the Cop
pedge slayings aren’t the only major
crimes that have shaken Brenham.
Shortly before the Coppedges
were killed, two women were sex
ually assaulted by men who haven’t
been arrested.
Seventeen days after the Cop
pedges were killed, two burglars
broke into the home of businessman
Eddie Van Dyke and shot him. Law
officers arrested a man four days
later, charging him with burglary
with intent to commit murder. But
the second burglar remains at large.
Van Dyke is recovering from
wounds in the leg and abdomen.
“For a while, people were think
ing, ‘Who’s going to be next?’” Bud
dell said. “It was pretty random.”
Brenham Mayor Dorothy
Flisowski, who was acquainted with
the Van Dvkes and the Coppedges,
said that despite it all, the town is
gradually returning to normal.
“But I don’t think people will ever
forget it,” she said. “They’ll always
talk about it, which is sad. People are
still a littly leery, and some are won
dering why these terrible crimes are
happening to a town like Brenham. I
want the city to be known for Blue
Bell Ice Cream, not for the crime
spree.”
50 athletic hostesses
to join recruiting efforts
When athletic recruits and their
families visit Texas A&M, a little-
known organization shows them the
campus and answers their questions
about the University.
Athletic hostesses, a group of
about 50 women, talk to the recruits
and their families, eat a pre-game
meal with them and escort them to
the football game.
“If they feel at home, that might
make them decide to come to A&M,
and that helps the program,” says
John Rigas, Texas A&M Athletic
Council student representative.
Robert Crouch, the Athletic De
partment representative, says,
“Compared to the Twelfth Man
Kick-off Team, where men can help
the Aggies, the women now have an
opportunity to help.”
The group also answers many
questions the parents ask, such as
what the colleges are like and what
they have to offer, Rigas says.
The group is part of the Student
Government Athletic Committee.
The hostesses not only help foot
ball recruits, but all sports’ recruits.
Before this year, the hostesses
were a volunteer organization. Now
they must apply. Crouch says.
Hostesses must have a 2.5 grade-
point ratio, sophomore standing and
E )ass an interview by faculty mem-
)ers. They are tested on their knowl
edge about the University and their
ability to express themselves. They
also should know how to talk to both
recruits and to coaches.
Dr. Timothy Leary to speak Wednesday in Rudder Tower
By MEG CADIGAN
Staff Writer
“Think For Yourself, Question
Authority” is the topic for Dr. Timo
thy Leary’s lecture Wednesday.
MSC Great Issues will present L-
eary’s speech at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder
Theater.
The admission charge is $ 1.50.
Turn on, tune in, drop out was L-
eary’s motto during the 1960s when
he carried out hallucenogenic drug
experiments at Harvard University.
IT’
“(What) I’ve done in my 25 years
of public — shall I say? — service has
been guided by two goals: to encour
age and empower individuals to
think for themselves, and to ques
tion authority.
Not necessarily to rebel or fight
authority, but to demand a dialogue
with authority,” Leary said in a Santa
Monica Evening Outlook article.
In the 1970s Leary “demanded a
dialogue” with the Nixon adminis
tration.
Nixon called Leary “the most dan
gerous man alive.”
In addition to running for gover
nor of California and lecturing at
Harvard. Leary wrote and published
“Interpersonal Diagnosis of Person
ality,” a text used for many psychol
ogy classes.
He initiated humanistic psycho
therapy techniques and also started
a new program of rehabilitation at
Concord Prison which cut the prison
return rate by 90 percent.
Leary has also written an autobi
ography entitled “Flashbacks.”
The American Library Associa
tion Booklist describes “Flashbacks”
as a “whirlwind tour of the life of
Timothy Leary, who, as Harvard
f isychology professor, and later,
ree-lance LSD evangelist, was at the
vortex of the drug revolution of the
1960’s.”
Admission to the lecture is $1.50.
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