The Battalion
STATE & LOCAL 3
Wednesday, March 7,1990
Ogden asks students to keep district seat Republican
District judge candidate points to docket experience
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
A candidate for district judge says he can
effectively handle the heavy case loads re
quired of district judges, because he has al
ready redesigned his dockets as county court-
at-law judge place 4.
J.D, Langley told the College Republicans
Tuesday that no one has to wait in his court
because of baddogged dockets.
Entering his fifth year as a judge, Langley
said he has never let politics enter the court
room.
“Litigants need to walk in the courtroom as
equals^ Langley said. “I’m running because
they’re not walking in as equals.”
Langley is a member of the Class of ’74,
served in the Marines for five and a half years,
and graduated from the South Texas School
of Law.
The county court-at-law jurisdiction is de
termined by the legislature which created the
position to handle special case loads. Langley
said that the only other county court-at-law
judge that handles more cases than he does is
in El Paso.
A district judge handles everything a
county court-at-law judge deals with except
cases involving disputed land titles. Langley
said he has handled such cases in private prac
tice.
Langley has served as a chief felony pros
ecutor in the same courtroom that is now pre
sided over by the judge he is trying to unseat.
“I don’t know of one judge in Texas who
has ever had as many writs of mandamus is
sued to him by the Court of Criminal Appeals
as the one I’m running against,” Langley said.
Judges are not issued such writs unless they
have grossly misused their discretion as a
judge, Langley said.
Langley said he remains optimistic about
his candidacy although a sitting district judge
has never been unseated in Brazos County.
Langley was the first Republican judge to
ever be elected in Brazos County in 1985.
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
The Republican candidate for
District 14 State Representative
asked for student support Tuesday
to keep his seat Republican.
Stephen E. Ogden, a Bryan oil
and gas producer, told the College
Republicans that a Republican gov
ernor needs to know House Republi
cans will back him up when he has to
veto bills.
Out of 150 House members, 60
are Republicans and 90 are Demo
crats. 100 votes are needed to over
ride a governor’s veto in the House.
Ogden was a naval officer and nu
clear engineer in the U.S. Subma
rine Force from 1973-83 and has
served as the industrial division
chairman of the Bryan-College Sta
tion United Way and an area Little
League baseball coach. He received
an M.B.A. from Texas A&M in
1987.
“I believe that anyone who offers
to represent the citizens of Brazos
County assumes an obligation to be
an effective spokesman and a tireless
advocate for the best interests of
Texas A&M,” Ogden said in his
campaign announcement.
A credible criminal justice system
will be one of Ogden’s priorities.
“We have a criminal justice system
where convicted felons would rather
go to Huntsville than be on proba
tion,” Ogden said. “They know they
will only have to serve one-tenth of
their sentence.
“Minors lie about their age so they
can be tried as adults. They know
the punishment in juvenile court is
more severe than adult court.”
Additionally, Ogden favors:
• Building more prisons.
• Harsher penalties for drug us
ers. Ogden says the drug buyer has
been let off the hook for too long.
• Continued necessary im
provements in the transportation
systems between the local area,
Houston, Waco and Austin.
• Taking a fresh look at the ad
equacy and quality of the county’s
fresh water supply.
• A hearing on the House and
Senate Floors aimed at “modest”
regulation of abortion which would
include requiring parental notifica
tion and consent before a minor
could obtain an abortion.
“This is my promise to the voters
of Brazos County,” Ogden said. “I
will listen to your concerns. I will
study the issues and then I will act in
a straightforward and decisive man
ner.”
Battalion brings awards
home from competition
By STACY ALLEN
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Battalion has
received two new awards to hang
on the walls of the Reed McDon
ald Building.
In the Associated Press Colle
giate Press Contest in San Fran
cisco in February, The Battalion
won second place in page one
broadsheet design and first place
in page one news coverage.
Sixty-one schools from
throughout the nation were rep
resented at the contest.
“This is one of the first na
tional contests that we have en
tered in a long time and winning
shows what I knew all along —
that the Batt is a great community
newspaper,” Scot Walker, editor
of The Battalion, said. “Getting
national recognition is great and
winning this encourages us to en
ter more contests in the future.”
Page one news coverage is
judged on how well the subject
matter covered on the front page
pertains to the students and how
well the articles are written, Mon
ique Threadgill, managing editor
of The Battalion, said.
Threadgill said the broadsheet
design category is judged on how
appealing the front page is, in
cluding art elements and head
lines. The broadsheet category
includes full-size newspapers as
opposed to tabloids. Tabloid
newspapers are shorter in length
than The Battalion.
Bob Rogers, head of the jour
nalism department, said the
awards are a mark of how well the
Battalion staff has done this year.
“I think this is one of the best
staffs in years,” said Rogers. “It
has improved in scope and qual
ity. The awards are well deser
ved.”
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Center promotes safety for spring break
Campus events offer helpful guides to students planning to party
By NADJA SABAWALA
Of The Battalion Staff
Students planning to party during spring
break need to know a little more than where their
next bottles of beer are coming from — they
must know how to drink responsibly.
And this week’s campus events can inform
them how to do that.
The Center for Drug Prevention and Educa
tion is giving out information to Texas A&M stu
dents to help them have a safe and fun spring
break, Tim Keen, a graduate assistant with the
Center, said.
Volunteers will hand out information packets
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Thursday in
the MSC. In each packet are pamphlets about
AIDS, date rape and the use of sunscreens to
avoid over-exposure to the sun. Also included is
a condom and information on its proper use. A
brochure by the University Police Department on
personal safety is included as well.
Keen said the Center is sponsoring SEA-n-SKI
Spring Break-Fest ’90 — a free party from 8 p.m.
We’ll also give out the names of
places where students can go and
have a good time, but that alcohol is
not necessarily involved.”
— Ann Harding,
MSC Hospitality
to midnight Thursday at the Grove promoting
safe behavior for spring break.
Music, dancing and even a stand-up perfor
mance by comedian Jason Porter are among the
activities, Keen said. The Department of Food
Services will provide non-alcoholic refreshments
at the party.
Area restaurants and merchants have donated
services and merchandise to be given away as
door prizes during the festivities, Keen said.
Various organizations on campus will have
booths set up with information about popular
spring break vacation spots, he said.
Ann Harding, vice chairman of MSC Hospital
ity, said the booths will be decorated according to
their regions.
“We will give out the phone numbers of police
and emergency services in the area,” Harding
said. “We’ll also give out the names of places
where students can go and have a good time, but
that alcohol is not necessarily involved.”
Along with the information to prepare stu
dents for the week to come, will be a speech by
junior Bill Huddleston. He was the last person to
see Mark Kilroy alive. Kilroy was the University
of Texas student who was kidnapped and mur
dered in Matamoros last spring break.
Keen said Huddleston will talk about his expe
riences and give students a brief message of
safety from his perspective.
“He will tell how to avoid the problems that
arose from the type of behavior that his group
exhibited that week,” Keen said.
Harding said that in case of bad weather,
Thursday night’s festivities will be moved in
doors to 224 MSC.
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- STEVE
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Elect an experienced, conservative judge
to the County Court at Law Number 2
Steve Smith is the most ex
perienced candidate running for
the Republican nomination for
judge of Brazos County Court at
Law No. 2. As a municipal judge
of College Station, he has heard
almost 4,000 cases involving a
variety of misdemeanor criminal
matters. Judge Smith has earned a
reputation for being firm and fair
and he shows equal concern for the
rights of the victims of crime as he
shows for those accused of criminal
acts.
Judge Smith’s professional credentials are outstanding: he is
the only Republican candidate certified by the Texas Board of Legal
Specialization (Civil Trial Law) and is the only candidate selected to
help train Texas Municipal Judges at the state Municipal Judges Courts’
Training Center. He is also the only candidate to serve as a law instructor
to the Brazos Valley Study Group of the AIB.
Judge Smith has an enviable record of public service in the com
munity. He has served many, many civic and charitable organizations
with distinction including OPAS, Leadership Brazos, Crimestoppers,
Optimists and the March of Dimes, among others.
He and his wife, Becky, have two children: they are concerned parents
and involved citizens.
Qualified • Experienced • Committed • Concerned
Promote Judge Steve Smith to
JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW No. 2
PD. POL. ADVERTISEMENT BY Steve Smith Campaign, Ann S. Brown, Treasurer, Box 9642, College Station, TX 77842.
Vote Absentee Before Spring Break
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