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Wednesday, April 17,1991 The Battalion Page 9 Police Beat The following events were reported to the University Police Department between April 5 and 11: DISORDERLY CONDUCT: □ Aggressive play during a soccer match re sulted in a fight between several players after a ame on Joe Routt Boulevard and Houston treet. ABUSIVE CALLS TO 911 SERVICE: □ An unknown caller said, "I've fallen and I can't get up." The responding officers did not find anyone in the area. INDECENT EXPOSURE: □ A student reported seeing an unknown man standing by a fourth floor window in Ap- pelt Hall with his genitals exposed. ASSAULT: □ A student reported receiving a scrape on her right elbow and bruises on her right leg dur ing an argument with her ex-boyhiend over property. □ A student reported being struck in the arm during a disagreement between two intramural basketball teammates. □ A woman reported being grabbed on the posterior by an unknown man as she was enter ing the Veterinary Medical School. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: Q Two students were caught spreading toothpaste and shaving cream on a room in Moore Hall. □ A man reported someone damaged the paint, body side moulding and car cover of his Chevrolet Camaro parked in Parking Area 3. □ The windshield and rear window of a 1985 Ford were broken while it was parked on Lamar Street. □ A Cushman Scooter stored at the Poultry Science Center was found pushed into a ditch. □ A student reported someone forced motor oil under a door on the third floor of the Blocker Building. □ A student reported someone scratched the paint on the side panels, trunk and rear bumper on a 1986 Volkswagen Jetta parked in Parking Area 53. HARASSMENT: □ An employee at the Reynolds Medical Sci ences Building reported receiving several ha rassing telephone calls at work. MISDEMEANOR THEFT: □ A student reported someone stole $1.25 in U.S. and $2 in Peruvian currency from an unat tended purse in the first floor women's room in Milner Hall. □ A ski jacket, bib, gloves, cap and sweater left unattended in Parking Area 63 were stolen. □ Three bicycles were reported stolen. □ A student reported his wallet containing $15, which he left unattended, was stolen from G. Rollie White Coliseum. Two Bryan juveniles were caught in possession of the stolen prop- erty. [J Two people reported money stolen from purses left unattended in the Pavilion. □ A student reported someone removed his secured bicycle from a rack at the Engineering- /Physics Building. It later was returned without the lock. □ A student reported someone stole a 26-inch bicycle tire from a Sears 10-speed bicycle se cured to the rack at the Chemistry Building. □ A 1987 Aggie ring and a gold wedding band were stolen from an unsecured backpack in the women's first floor locker room in the Read Building. □ A student reported someone stole his ma roon Eastpac backpack and contents left unat tended in the Commons TV Room. □ A navy-blue purse and its contents left un attended in the Harrington Education Center were stolen. □ An unattended beige backpack and its con tents were stolen from a bookshelf outside the MSC Bookstore. MINOR IN POSSESSION: □ Six students were issued citations for mi nors in possession of alcoholic beverages. BURGLARY OF HABITATION: □ A student reported someone took an Av- anti watch with a maroon leather band and $30 from an unlocked room in Law Hall. □ A student reported a backpack containing five textbooks was stolen from an unlocked room in Law Hall. □ Two students reported someone entered their room in Law Hall while they were asleep and stole a Sony Walkman AM/FM cassette player with head phones and $10. [j A Swatch watch was stolen from an un locked room in Puryear Hall. FALSE ALARM OR REPORT: □ Police received an anonymous report of someone trying to burglarize a room in Neeley Hall. Officers were unable to confirm the of fense. □ Two fire alarm pull stations were activated on the third and fourth floors of Dormitory 9. Act Now Texas A&M's Crime Pre vention Unit of the University Police Department offers tips for dealing with harassing telephone calls. Most telephone calls are le gitimate, but every now and then you may receive a call which is annoying or obscene. Texas criminal laws state that a person commits an of fense if he or she "causes the telephone of another to ring repeatedly or makes repeated telephone communications anonymously or in a manner reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, torment, em barrass or offend another." Here are some helpful tele phone tips: □ If the call becomes obscene, abusive or profane, simply hang up. What the caller wants to hear is your shocked verbal reaction. □ If these calls persist, call the police immediately and file a report. Keep a log of the calls and the times. □ Do not answer questions you would not respond to if they were asked by a stranger on the street. Never give con fidential or personal informa tion over the telephone to someone you do not know. □ Ask the caller to identify himself or herself first. If the caller asks, "Who is this?" or "What number is this?" — do not answer. Instead ask, "What party are you trying to reach?" or "What number did you call?" For more information, call the Crime Prevention Unit at 845-8900. Asthma Study Wanted: Individuals 18-50 years of age with asthma to participate in a short clinical research study involving an investigational medication in capsule form. Pauli Research International® 'vSzoo 776-0400 $2QOJ '92 AG GI ELAND NOW TAKING APPLICATIONS Yearbook positions availiable for: • experienced writers • experienced layout designers • experienced photograpers -must have own equipment and skills in developing Applications are availiable in room 230 Reed McDonald and are due by 4 p.m. on Fri., April 26. WnvvIvXw Student Y Program Director Applications Director Positions Available: Youth Fun Day Sixty Something Project XOXO Share Group Aggie Workshop for kids Bonfire Benefit Aggie Friends Food for Thought Supreme Court limits inmates' appeals WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday nar rowed the right of death row in mates to make repeated appeals in federal court, ^ ruling that could hasten many executions. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the court, said the 6-3 decision in a Georgia case should curtail abuses that contribute to an average gap of nearly nine years between convictions and executions in capital punishment cases. "Perpetual disrespect for the finality of convictions disparages the entire criminal justice sys tem," Kennedy said. The three dissenters accused the court of substituting its own rules for those of Congress to cut back drastically on the rights of criminal defendants without even acknowledging the change. In other decisions, the court: □ Ruled, by a 7-2 vote in an Settlement reduces time between sentencing, death m capital murder cases Arkansas case, that states may tax cable television operators without having to impose the same levy on all other news me dia. □ Unanimously decided in a Florida case that lawyers who represent themselves in success ful civil rights lawsuits cannot collect attorney fees from the los ing side. In the death row case, the court dismissed arguments by Warren McCleskey that Georgia officials violated his rights by us ing a fellow inmate to elicit Mc- Cleskey's confession to the 1978 slaying of an Atlanta police offi cer. Kennedy said McCleskey's failure to raise the issue during an initial federal court appeal in 1981 disqualified him from rais ing it in subsequent appeals. McCleskey's murder convic tion was overturned in 1989 by a federal judge who said Georgia officials had violated his rights by making a deal with another inmate, Offie Evans, to obtain a confession from McCleskey. A federal appeals court re instated the conviction, saying McCleskey forfeited his right to challenge use of the confession by failing to raise the issue in 1981. McCleskey's lawyers said they lacked evidence to challenge the confession until 1987, when they obtained Evans' written statement after the Georgia Su preme Court ordered police re cords made public. Kennedy's 34-page opinion created a new legal standard for deciding when prison inmates will be allowed to raise new is sues after their first round of fed eral court appeals fails. The process, called habeas cor pus, gives defendants federal court access to argue that their rights were violated when they were convicted in state court. Under Tuesday's ruling, the burden is on accused criminals to prove they had good reason for not raising a federal constitu tional issue initially, and that their failure to do so harmed their ability to defend them selves. Attorneys file motion for exam ODESSA (AP) — Federal pros ecutors have filed a motion re questing a psychological exami nation of a psychiatric hospital administrator who has been ac cused of receiving child pornog raphy and burglarizing an em-- ployee's home. Bryan Allen Hale, administra tor of Glenwood Hospital, was arrested Monday in connection with the burglary of a hospital employee's home. Hale, 47, of Midland, was re leased from Ector County Jail late Monday on $50,000 bond. Earlier this month. Hale was arrested following a three-month correspondence with an under cover customs agent in which the hospital administrator alleg edly requested a copy of "Edu cating Valerie," a videotape that authorities said contained expli cit scenes depicting sexual acts involving a young girl and her father. He was charged with receipt of pornography in that incident and was released on a $25,000 bond. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Beery filed a motion Monday to seek a psychological evaluation of Hale to determine if he is fit to stand trial on the pornography charge. 0^0 CAiAC Cesar MSC Political Forum Chavez: Reflections Activism Wednesday, April 17,1991 7:09 p.m. Rudder Auditorium For more information, please call 845-1515 The views presented in this program do not necessarily represent the views of the MSC Applications Available: April 15-19 211 Pavilion Due: April 19th by 5 p.m. Interviews: April 17-26 For more info call: 845-0690 i 5 J. 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