Thursday, January 26,1989 The Battalion Page? ucas: Bundy’s execution ustified if he was guilty HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Alleged [rial killer Henry Lee Lucas, once linked to hundreds of slayings around the country, said Wednesday the execution of Ted Bundy in Flor- ' ida was justified if Bundy committed He crimes for which he was con victed. H “1 have no reluctance about that,” Hucas, 53, said in an interview on the Hexas death row, where he awaits (Sxecution for the 1979 slaying of an unidentified female hitchhiker Hiown only as “Orange Socks.” ■ “But knowing law enforcement as Ido, did he commit the crimes?” Lu es asked, referring to Bundy, who to by Dean Saiii of a 20 vol- Philosopher •n, w ill be pi; a," VolumeH lovel. First p. was on the lie eral weeks i on the cover 936. le as soon as tl Before Wo: was executed Tuesday. “To me, anybody that commits a crime like he committed should die,” he said. “I can’t be the judge or jury, but that’s my opinion. If they com mit the crime, it’s only right they pay the penalty.” In 1983 Lucas confessed to more than 600 slayings, but later recanted all but one — the bludgeoning death of his mother in Tecumseh, Mich., in 1960. The confessions made him the greatest serial killer in U.S. his tory although some now consider him the perpetrator of a gigantic hoax. A Texas attorney general’s report Students Texas A&M student Wilson S. Geisler IV has been awarded the Frank H. Newman Civil Engineering Scholarship for 1988. Texas A&M students Soma Coulibaly and Vijayabalan Bal- asingam have been selected as Outstanding Young Men of America for 1988. This program seeks to recognize the achievements and abilities of men between the ages of 21 and 36. Salutes is a community service provided by The Battalion to list students, faculty and staff who have received honors and awards (such as scholarships, retire ment, etc.). Space is limited and is provided on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee that your submission will run. Submissions may be re fused if they contain incomplete or incorrect information. If you have any ques tions, please callTbe Battalion at845-3315. Co-op 8 ip was contaJCotitinucd from page 3) of Memory liH „ _ , . ffer for a mow ® nce y ou re on hoard, I think Hu’d really have to screw up to not hnut fwnvpjrH 1 hired,” he said. “Companies in- ind now wtH st 3 * 0t rnone y anc * time in the proposal for * 0 S ram ’ P a y in g y ou “P to $ 1 .2 per to start writinfi ■aid. "After tl here.” aatkamp a t ts in long hoi ntered, “If ur to learn. That’s a lot of inves- Jtg,” he said. ■ Yates said large companies that hire many co-ops also have their own interests in mind while doing this in- ■sting. (“The companies are not altruistic, ring students just to help them fig- 7/ ■ i .He out what they want to do.” Yates 1 C 1 SI1 B; C | “jj y OU think about it, the com- . v Hny will be able to hire a bright, edition tsar® f . . , . , , ® ’ 1 run value ■ 0tlvate"ipanies h f ve ^°- ho had buiklif because ^ f e a PProached by lu.ldingfomp f es , tu T dent : Golden Bear Interna- »f the blueur..'P ona ’ Inc - 18 one such company, e and hisLl was corU acted by Cohn Melton, the waters ( a senior a & ronom y major. Melton Worked with the company from ]une tic, so he ha#™S h December 1988 - . . made and ho . As a co-op, my responsibilities m- Ruded maintaining Jack Nicklaus talked to pm, P ut S n S g reen ’ turf tennis court s j- boats"Wnd trap, croquet court and general Kirf at his residence,” Melton said. w ile that t hei| Golden 8ear i s a company specializ- '• ‘ ‘ 1 ing in design, maintenance, market- li nous 0 0 itig, management and other aspects , . FOfthegolling industry.” i u oes no»l j v j e j ton was a tur f- intern, working 'im ' 1 . )< !‘ 11 n!:! w ‘ t h eight others to keep the prop- i ( e, s e i p rt y j n t ^ e | 3est p OSS ib)i e shape. He ■so was included in projects such as Hghting, irrigation, weed control land taking soil samples, he said. || “I never had a day where I didn’t [ want to get up and go to work,” Mel ton said. “I loved my job, because ev- Brything was a challenge. I joined Ithe program because I wanted to glombine what I’ve learned in school livith hands-on experience. I think tit's been a good trade-off for missing [ that time in school.” I Melton was able to work two of his | tlitee co-op terms back-to-back be cause the golf season runs year- round in Florida. || “I wanted to work at a place that [ wouldn’t shut down for part of the Bear,” he said. “In Florida, the aver- | age temperature is about 78 degrees [ all year. Some places that I called Baid that they couldn’t employ me llgter than October or November, I and that wouldn’t meet the co-op re- srsonal nited at ie of a 11 it free! quirements.” The co-op program requires that students alternate work and school semesters, meaning the student usually works one spring, one sum mer and one fall term. Melton’s major, not being a com mon major for co-ops, gave him the incentive to contact many different companies to find ajob on his own. “I must have contacted over 25 companies and country clubs,” Mel ton said. “My first internship was with Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth,” he said. “My second and third were with Golden Bear. Both times I went into the co-op of fice with the job laid out.” Yates said most students come in with the idea of applying to one of the postions already developed by the co-op office, but don’t have an actual job already set up. Either way, something can be worked out, he said. “Most students that come in to the office with good grades get a job,” Yates said. “But there are some disci plines in which it’s harder to find one than others. “It’s much easier to place engi neering, computer science, account ing, physics, chemistry and other ap plied majors such as Russian or Chinese in ajob, simply because stu dents qualified in these disciplines are harder for companies to find upon graduation,” he said. “The companies have to do innovative things, like hiring co-ops, to get their hooks on these students earlier. “But in non-technical fields like liberal arts disciplines, it is easier for companies to fill their human re source needs from the large number of graduates, without having to uti lize the co-op program as a recruit ing tool.” Even so, Yates said more liberal arts students are finding co-op jobs. The number of liberal arts co-op stu dents from A&M has grown 250 percent, from four in Spring 1988 to 45 working this spring or planning to this summer. A total of 1224 students are in volved in the co-op program, which is a 67 percent increase from the 734 placements in 1981, when the office centralized to include agriculture, business, engineering and science majors. Co-ops were handled by fac ulty, deans or advisers of the individ ual colleges before then, he said. Yates said that in most of these disciplines, grades are important enough that the University requires a student have a 2.5 grade-point ra tio to co-op. It’s YOUR CAREER we’re talking about The 1989 CAREER FAIR Jan. 29 - Feb. 2 -Women in Business Symposium & Luncheon -Company booths -Banquet -Minority Reception -Student Leaders Reception -Retailing Symposium -Take-a-Student-to-Dinner For more info...call the Business Student Council at 845-1320. in 1986 blamed sloppy work by au thorities who accepted the confes sions from Lucas, although police say Lucas remains a suspect in nu merous killings. “A lot of people out there — espe cially law enforcement — still believe I did the crimes,” Lucas said Wednesday. Besides his death sentence, Lucas has at least six life prison terms, two 75-year sentences and another 60- year term. Asked if he still had hopes he would get out of prison, he replied, “If I can ever get this stuff cleared up.” He said he has 365 confessions to clear in Texas alone. Lucas said he spent about 2 1 /z years in Florida from 1979 to 1981, living in the same house in Jackson ville with Ottis Toole, an occasional companion now jailed in Florida. He said he never met Bundy but had heard of him. “Just about anywhere you go, you hear about him,” Lucas said. Lucas estimated he had been in terviewed by as many as 2,000 police and that Florida authorities have asked that he come to that state to be interviewed about cases in which he has been implicated by Toole. “They told me they’d give me top treatment, but I don’t want any part of it,” he said. “Every time I turn around, they’re calling me down to talk on the phone with law enforcement — California, Florida, Virginia, Texas. I told them I wasn’t guilty and wasn’t going to make some confessions.” join us for our new Thursday Night Special! 990 Margaritas, Draft Beer, & High Balls $g95 Prime Rib Special peliccinV wharf 2500 Texas Ave. S./Col/eye Station 693-5113 V '/ / v V V v “Many companies require higher, and many also require that the stu dent has completed at least three se mesters of school before starting,” he said. “Most people tend to think that if you don’t start as a sopho more, you’re too late. But, in fact, 90 percent of our co-ops start the pro gram as a junior or senior.” Yates said the program also in volves graduate students, averaging 10 to 15 each semester. “No matter when the student co ops, he is making himself very mar ketable,” Yates said. “The average co-op has a GPR of 3.1 and has had a whole year of relevant experience by the time he’s through. Common sense will tell you that a graduating co-op student with good grades will be more marketable in terms of find ing and landing a good job.” Yates said he does not want peo ple to think that if they don’t co-op, they won’t find ajob, however. “I encourage students to get any kind of relevant experience possible, whether by co-oping or through summer internships, part-time jobs, unique research opportunities with faculty members on campus or through other ways,” he said. “Com panies by and large are looking for good grades and relative experience. I do, however, think that co-oping is the best way to get this experience.” Yates said he cannot stress enough how important relative ex perience is to many hiring compa nies. “At NASA, for example, 60 per cent of the college graduates hired had been co-op students,” he said. “As a matter of fact, if you’re not in engineering, you must go through the program to be hired.” A&M co-ops have been placed across the United States, but 90 per cent remain in Texas. However, some students in agriculture have been placed on co-op assignments through the International Agricul tural Exchange Association in Aus tralia, Canada, England, Germany and various Scandinavian countries. Generally, though, these co-ops have had a year of relevant experience be fore they co-oped overseas, he said. Yates said that his office will hold a Co-op Career Fair Monday, Feb. 27 for students interested in the pro gram. 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