Thursday, January 26,1989
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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
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“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.
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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
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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-
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■ 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<a stuc ‘ ent to work that can
5 ‘ ' Be paid less and trained w hile on the
Bb. The program also allows compa-
Res to evaluate the student on some-
Hing other than just an interview
when hiring.”
■ Although some companies are
■town for extended co-op pro-
ns” he said R™ 8 -l'k- e NASA, IBM and General
unics, and idJp' namics ’ otl ? er «>"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
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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.
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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.”
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“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. Twenty companies will have
booths set up in Blocker and Zachry
from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Students
interested in learning more about
the co-op program can go to the co
op office in 110 Pavilion or call 845-
7725 to set up an orientation to the
program.
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