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Police arrest 2
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By Robert Morris
Staff Writer
As part of an effort to halt an out-
rak of auto thefts, the University
xilice began a large-scale series of
takeouts Monday night in student
larking lots. The effort paid off.
An A&M student and a Houston
esident were arrested early Tues-
lay morning in Parking Annex 56
ifter detective Will Scott saw non-
ludent Richard Allen Logan, 19, try
o force open the window of a 1985
'ontiac Grand Ain, said Bob Wiatt,
lirector of the University Police De-
artment.
Marcus Lutan Davis, 22, a senior
Ingineering technology major, and
flgan were charged with felony
fglary of a motor vehicle, which
arries a penalty of two to 10 years
lnd/ora$5,()()0 fine, Wiatt said.
Logan also was charged with
ading arrest, a Class B misdernea-
ioi, which carries a penalty of up to
ix months in jail and/or a $1,000
ine.
Davis, who lives at 4441 Old Col-
rnment a is well 1!?' Rd. in College Station, was re
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vis was driving pulled up to the
Grand Am, Wiatt said, and Logan
stepped out and put on gloves.
Logan attempted to pry open the
front window but was unable to do
so, Wiatt said.
As Logan pulled out the back win
dow, it smashed on the ground and
the noise apparently scared him into
running back to the car, Wiatt said.
However, before Davis could leave
the lot other patrol cars arrived and
blocked the car’s path.
As Davis surrendered to the po
lice, Logan jumped out of the car
and ran toward the northeast corner
of the lot, Wiatt said. He eventually
was caught near the tennis court
parking lot.
Wiatt said he doesn’t think the
pair was involved in the car-theft
ring that apparently stole at least
three of four vehicles that were
taken from Parking Annex 24 be
hind the Commons earlier this
month. But he said the investigation
is continuing.
The stakeouts will continue until
the end of the semester in most stu
dent parking lots, Wiatt said.
iarris County gives
second indictment
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 29, 1987
Sink Or Swim
Kate Thompson, a senior chemistry major, dives in Wofford Cain
Pool in an attempt to help clear up a mechanical problem that closed
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
the pool Monday. Pool officials were optimistic the problem would be
resolved by today. Thompson has been scuba diving for two years.
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By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Senior Staff Writer
Harris County officials, unsatis-
iedwith the 20-year prison sentence
teted out to former Texas A&M
aotball player David Charles Lang-
fora kidnapping conviction, in-
licted him Tuesday on burglary
arges.
Harris County Prosecutor Chuck
losenthal said the purpose of the
econd indictment is to secure a life
irm for the 1968 A&M finance
[raduate.
On June 25, Langseth kidnapped
he one-year-old daughter of an-
icr A&M graduate, Gary T. Lese-
tan, Class of’73, whose name Lang-
found in A&M’s Directory of
dimer Students. Langseth received
20-year sentence Monday in a
larris County district court.
The 41-year-old Langseth, who
forked in a variety of jobs since his
|raduation from A&M, testified that
le was in financial trouble and re-
orted to kidnapping as a way out of
lisdifficulties, Rosenthal said.
As Leseman left his home at 8:30
e morning of the June 25 kidnap
ping, Langseth met him in the back
yard with a gun, Rosenthal said.
When Leseman sought refuge in his
house, Langseth bodily broke
through the sliding-glass door, tied
up Leseman and his wife in a bath
room and made off with their
youngest daughter, demanding
$30,000 for her release, he said.
Throughout the morning, Lang
seth led the kidnapped girl’s father
to a series of telephone booths
around Houston until the two met in
the parking lot of a shopping mall
and exchanged two bags containing
$30,000, he said.
The FBI and Houston police had
Langseth under surveillance long
before he made physical contact with
Leseman in the parking lot, Rosen
thal said, but he wouldn’t elaborate
on how they learned Langseth’s
whereabouts. Police found the kid
napped girl in a service station res
troom shortly after the exchange of
cash, Rosenthal said.
To ensure Langseth had no ac
complices, police followed him back
to his home before arresting him,
Rosenthal said.
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Dollars! Board nomincites senior
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By Christi Daugherty
Staff Writer
The Texas A&M Student Pub
lications Board has selected and
nominated a student to be editor
of the troubled Video Aggieland.
Gregory W. Keith, 21, a senior
theater arts major from Beau
mont, was unanimously chosen
by the board, and that recom
mendation will be passed on to
Dr. Donald McDonald, provost
and vice president of academic
affairs, who will make the final
appointment.
The 1986-87 video yearbook
was canceled during the fall se
mester after the majority of its
staff members resigned in the
wake of charges that the equip
ment they were given by KAMU
to use was consistently faulty,
damaged and inappropriate for
the work they were trying to do.
Keith, who currently works at
Bryan television station KBTX as
a cameraman for the morning
news show, said he thinks all the
trouble has calmed now. He said
he pursued the editorial position
because he thinks a successful 90-
minute video would be excellent
experience as he intends to study
film in graduate school and A&M
has few facilities for the study of
filmmaking.
“The first thing I’ll do is make
Gregory W. Keith
sure everything is cleared up with
this before we start,” Keith said.
Since he is a member of the
Corps of Cadets, he said he con
siders the Corps an integral part
of the University, and he plans to
make them a central part of the
yearbook. At the same time, he
wants the video to be an exten
sion of A&M, so he’ll try to in
clude a bit of everything, from
football games to fraternity func
tions, he said.
“It’s called the Video Aggie
land, but I think it’s more the
sights and sounds of Texas
A&M,” Keith said. “And that’s
how I plan to handle it.”
Tour of '/ax' embassy in Moscow spurs subcommittee vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Accus
ing the State Department of with
holding information, a House sub
committee voted Tuesday to
subpoena department files on secu
rity at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
“I am shocked and chagrined that
the State Department would act in
this way when they had indicated
that they would cooperate,” said sub
committee chairman Rep. Dan.
Mica, D-Fla. who toured the embassy
earlier this month and reported lax
security.
“We understand they set up a spe
cial task force to try to withhold this
information,” said Mica, chairman
of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee
on overseas operations.
The panel voted 6-0, with three
absent, to issue the subpoena for
files dealing with security proce
dures at the present U.S. Embassy in
Moscow, the building still under
construction to replace it, and possi
bly other American missions in the
Soviet bloc.
At the State Department, spokes
man Charles Redman said a com
puter search produced thousands of
documents about embassy security
and a task force was assigned to de
termine which were relevant to the
committee’s request.
AUSTIN (AP) — While students
have been doling out more and
more money for higher education,
governments have been cutting fi
nancial aid programs, making ob
taining a college degree unafforda
ble for many, student groups say.
Three statewide student organiza
tions sponsored a Higher Education
Awareness Day Tuesday to urge leg
islators to find another place to trim
state spending.
“Students have borne the prob-
Materials were provided to the
subcommittee Friday, Monday and
Tuesday mornings, Redman said,
but he acknowledged that some
highly classified cables have not been
provided. He said the State Depart-
lems of the state three times, said
James Aldrete, co-director of the
University of Texas at Austin Texas
Student Lobby.
Aldrete said students already have
had to dig deeper into their pockets
to pay for higher tuition costs, while
higher education funding was cut
and sales taxes were increased.
At the same time, federal and
state government reduced financial-
aid funding, he said.
Texas has one of the “worst sys-
ment is trying to work out an
agreement with the subcommittee
concerning these documents.
In response to Mica, Redman
said, “I just have no idea on what ba
sis he could make such a statement.”
terns of higher education in the
country” in terms of efficiency, said
Rep. Eddie Cavazos, D-Corpus
Christi. “South Texas has never had
a governor, therefore South Texas is
very deprived” of quality higher ed
ucation institutions.
“What it will take to correct it is
unfortunately not what Gov. Clem
ents is trying to do,” Cavazos added.
“The appropriations bill ... is $640
million more than Clements wanted
for higher education.”
Students sponsor event to evoke
sympathy for higher education
Gay students at A&M learn to adjust
Homosexuals fight inner conflicts
By Doug Driskell
Reporter
Two people walking across cam
pus catch one another’s eye. They
each get a special feeling. Each is
compelled to go and talk to the
other, but they cannot. The reason is
not because one is shy; not because
one is black and the other is white; it
is because each is homosexual and
attending Texas A&M.
“I feel suppressed when I walk on
campus,” says Kyle, a construction
science major from Austin. “If I go
out with someone I must be careful
where I go. We can’t go walking in
the Floral Test Gardens, or any
where on campus for that fact. I
really don’t want to get my teeth
knocked in. I have a real concern for
other people and I don’t want to of
fend somebody if they cannot han
dle our public affection.”
Kyle had fought the thought of
homosexuality since he was 12 years
old, he says. In October, 1985, he
came out of the closet.
“1 had a roommate who was gay,
and he more or less pressured me
out by telling friends that his room
mate was a closet case,” he says.
“One day it hit me like a brick wall,
and I could not go along pretending
that I was not gay.”
Pretending is a game that is
played by homosexuals at A&M. It is
not played as much after coming
Homosexuality at A&M
Part one of a two-part series
out, but is inherent in their thinking
while in the closet.
“I used to act out a different part
before I came out of the closet,”
Dave Martin, vice president of the
Gay Student Services, says. “I was
careful to control everything that I
did, everything I said and how I said
it. I had to even control the gestures
I made with my hands.
“I would dress in dull grays and
browns in order to avoid being no
ticed. Many people who are gay go
through this struggle, and they are
in conflict with themselves. They are
trying to hide what they are because
everyone is telling them that they
should not be gay.”
Rex says, “Walking to class is
hard. I don’t want to look at them
wrong. People who are sure of them
selves look at you in a different way.
C.T.’s are very enjoyable. Many of
them know who they are and are not
offended when I look at them. But
there are many other students who
get uncomfortable. I tend to think
they may have tendencies toward my
type.”
Rex is a sophomore studying psy
chology. The monitoring he does is
not because he fears the students at
A&M, but like a guy checking out a
girl, he does not want to be too ag
gressive in his actions, he says.
“Occasionally I feel suppressed,
but it is more like shyness,” he says.
“People get pissed off when I check
them out too much, and I do not
need people pissed at me. I know
that they like it deep down inside at
first, but they eventually get irate.”
Scott, who is president of the GSS,
says, “I would gladly choose hetero
sexuality in a minute, but I can’t be
cause it is in my nature, and I am
making the best of my life as it is. Be
ing here at A&M is a little better
than being at home. There, I wduld
have to hide all my feelings in fear
that my relatives would find out.”
How many people can be assumed
to be homosexual at A&M?
In a study taken out of Alfred
Freedman’s comprehensive text
book “Psychiatry II” based on inter
views with more than 5,000 white
American men, 10 percent of white
men are more or less exclusively ho
mosexual.
The survey also reported about 13
percent of the sample revealed “a
potentiality for homosexual behav
ior, in that they reacted erotically to
other males despite the fact that they
had had no overt homosexual con
tacts after the onset of adolescence.”
If this figure were applied at
A&M, about 2,160 men would be
homosexual.
If every homosexual were visible
and displayed his affection toward
another, how would students feel?
“I would be really grossed out,”
says Kim Pautson, a sophomore in
environmental design. “I mean I
have a lot of friends who are homo
sexuals, but I just don’t like to watch
them show affection toward each
other in public. It offends me.”
Matt Garnett, a former student at
A&M, says, “If I saw two men hold
ing hands on campus I would take it
in stride. Homosexuality has been
with man since the beginning of doc
umented history.”
Senior mechanical engineer major
Ed Dumas comments, “It would not
bother me. I would be worried for
them because they may be shot. Ac-
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