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The Campus Chat
49TH YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DENTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY OCTOBER 0. 1965
NO. 7
Four Accused Students Post Bond;
Dr. Matthews Suspends Fraternity
An Eye Lost
Michael Port man lies in a Baylor Hospital bed as his roommate, Howard Blackburn
and neighbor Joyce Caldwell, TWU sophomore from Dallas, comfort him.
I'h.rf.. !>y JULIAN BISHOP
Tkm Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity member*
ami a pledge were released on bond from
Denton County Jaii Thursday and their fra-
ternity was placed on indefinite suspension
following the men'* arrest in connection with
n beating spree early Tuesday morning.
The students are Byron L. McClellan Jr.,
22, a senior from Gatesville; Robert H.
Glenn, 22, a senior from McKinney, Trenton
L Torregrossa. 20, a sophomore from 'ialves-
ton and Emir I„ Bovio, lit. a freshman from
Galveston.
They were arrested Tuesday and charged
Wednesday with maiming and aggravated
assault concerning separate attacks on three
NT8U men.
The victims were:
• Michael Portmm, a freshman from Hal-
las who suffered the loss of hi* left eye. He
in in Baylor Hospital in Italia*.
• Joe Bourn, a sophomore from Itallas who
suffered a cut shoulder He is in Flow Me-
morial Hospital here.
• Joe B Cole, a senior from Cleburne who
wi s roughed up but not seriously hurt.
President J. 0 Matthews said Thursday
morning: "The I'i Kappa Alpha fraUrnity
this morning was placed on indefinite sus-
pension from all campus activities."
He alao said the four rharged men had
Iteen suspended from the university indefi-
nitely.
Denton police officers obtained a descrip-
tion of two of the attackers and their car
from one victim.
The car. a 1966 Mustang, was found in a
lot behind an apartment house on West
Hickory Street,
Detectives arrested two of the men at
5:110 p.m. Tuesday. The other two surrender-
ed at 0 p.m.
Police Chief Wayne Autrey said the men
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TOR It EG ROSS A
Port man To Come Back
From Pain, Hazy Memories
Lying in separate hospitals, each in pain
and stunned by an early Tuesday morning
attack, Michael Portman and Joe Bourn told
their stories Thursday
Portman has lost his left eye, and, possib
ly, a prospective dental career Bourn has
an immobile, gashed shoulder Kach recalled
hazily the details of their one sided battle
with four men
Portman said a noise awoke him and.
though he didn't know what it was. he got
up "It sounded like an emergency," he said
Howard Blackburn. Port man's roommate,
said he slept through the incident. but he
vaguely remembers someone standing over
his bed "There were no lights on and they
were in the room no more than three min
utes" Blackburn said
Blackburn said he escaped injury because
"apparently they didn't see me; I was under
the covers "
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Mrs Don J. Portman. the victim's mother,
said her son told her "the four men were
screaming and yelling like wild people "
The mother said the parents were called
by a doctor at Flow Memorial Hospital's
emergency room about 2 HO am She said
the waiting was "pure hell "
Another student. David Smith of Wichita
Falls, had driven Portman and Blackburn to
the emergency room, after Blackburn called
the police. About lf> minutes after they ar-
rived, Blackburn saw Bourn hrought in by
ambulance
Mrr Portman reluted a conversation she
had with the attending physician, Dr. Albert
K Meisenbach
SEVERELY M AIM ED
"He said it was the worst mutilated thing
he has ever seen in his life," she said of the
eye "He said it was not put out by shattered
glass, that it hail to be a direct blow with
the round end of the bottle "
Mrs Portman said "Michael has asked re
pea ted I y about the possibility of transplant
ing a complete new eye The doctor said
there is no possibility "
With Portman were both parents. Black-
burn and a neighbor. Joyce Caldwell, a TWU
si phomore from Dallas.
Mr and Mrs Portn.an are former Denton
residents who sold some property to the
university last year on the site where Clark
Hall is now being built Mrs, Portman is a
1967 NTSU graduate and her husband went
to elementary school here
The doctors are waiting for final X rays
to determine when Portman will be released.
Portman wants to return to North Texas,
hi." mother said He was a lab technician for
the chemistry department and had helped
set up supplies for a freshman chemistry
class the night of the assault
Tower Will Speak
To USNT Nov. 9
By DON FVFRKTT
S. Sen John Tower has accepted
USNT's invitation to address North Texas
students and Denton residents Nov iV
In The News
This Week
YRs, YDs To Debate
Young Republicans announced plans
Tuesday for a debate with Y'oung
Democrats Nov. 3 at 7:10 p.m. in the
Business Administration lecture Hall.
John Ferguson, a graduate assistant
with the speech faculty, and Cathy
Stricklin will be the YR speakers. The
topic will be section 14-B of the Taft-
Hartley act.
"We hope to have a coordinated drive
to get everyone on the campus to see
this debate." YR president Rusty Wood-
ford said.
Avesta Needs Editor
Any student interested in editing the
Avesta should contact the magazine's
faculty adviser, Dr. William Gnrner
of the government faculty, immediate-
ly _
The editorship will be considered by
the Student Publications Committee
Oct. 16.
Qualifications for the position in-
clude previous college or university
publications work, Dr. Garner said,
Geophyticisf To Talk
"Some Results of Marino Magnetic
Survey" will be the topic of a speech
by Dr. Ian Gough of the Graduate Re-
seach Center of the Southwest at 8
p.m. Monday in room 102 of the Phys-
ics-Math Building
The announcement of the acceptance was
made Wednesday by tius Fargarson, CSNT
president He said USNT is sponsoring the
visit, but has not set the time and place
The address is tentatively scheduled for 7
p m in the Business Administration lecture
Hal
"Tower's topic is not yet definite. We stili
have not completed the final arrangements,"
Fargarson said.
"USNT, however, is in hopes that he will
stay clear of politics in his speech. A general
discussion of present government issues and
national problems is what we had in mind,"
he said.
After the speech there will be an informal
question and answer session.
"Tower has been very agreeable to our
suggestions so far," Fargarson said. "We
are looking forward to his visit,"
Fargarson said USNT is asking the Young
Republicans for help with the arrangements.
One problem did arise in planning the
Tower visit: he may soon become a candidate
for re-election.
School policy keeps governmental candi-
dates from speaking publicly on campus.
Dr. James L. Rogers, administrative vice-
president, explained that the policy is used
to keep candidates from "using state prop-
erty for platforms."
However, since Tower has not filed for
office and because of his "outside of poli-
tics" speech, that technical problem has been
solved.
Last year the senator addressed members
of the Kappa Signin fraternity and their
rushees here at the group's formal smoker
Oct. 5. He then went to the North Texas Fair-
grounds for a Republican rally.
Senate Okays Elections
USNT senators unanimously approved
Tuesday the schedule for the fall elections as
proposed by Joe Pickett, election board chair
man.
The schedule started with freshman cheer-
leader tryouts Tuesday and ends with elec-
tions Oct. 20.
"He wants to come back," Mrs Portman
said, "He'll just have to try twice as hard "
Meanwhile in a Flow Memorial Hospital
b d, sophomore Bourn told the story of his
attack.
"I had been to a friend's house and he
brought me back to University City. He had
a trailer on his car so he just let me out in
the parking lot and 1 walked to the building,"
he said
"These guys were walking in front of me
and they stopped by my apartment. I walked
past them and then one of them asked where
apartment 221 was. I pointed to where it
was and they all jumped on me
"They hit me and kicked me, I think one
of them hit me with a bottle or a stick or
something because once it was too hard a
hit just to be somebody's fist," he went on.
"I was spinning, twisting and trying to
get away when they pushed me through the
window of my apartment. As the window
broke the top pane came down on my arm ^
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"Then they ail went running off One of
them was laughing real loud 1 guess he
thought it was quite a lark." he said.
Bourn's roommate then came out of the
apartment and anotbei man came from a
nearby apartment The two men called an
ambulance and one held a blood vein in
Bourn's badly cut arm to stop the bleeding.
At the hospital a nurse told the attack
victim the glass cut his arm like someone
had used a butcher's cleaver
When Bourn asked a doctor how many
stitches were necessary to close the wound,
the answer was: "two hours' worth."
The Dallas business major still can't move
his arm without severe pain.
"1 certainly don't feel sorry for the boys."
he said, "1 feel sorry for their parents be
cruse they have to live with the fact they
raised kids like that."
When asked whether the assailants had
been drinking. Bourn said flatly, "They
didn't appear drunk at all."
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Piecing it Together
Joe Bourn, his left shoulder and arm almost immobile, tries to describe what happen-
ed to him when he was attacked by four men early Tuesday morning.
- Photo by W. B HAKV1CK
had gone to Oklahoma after a fraternity
meeting Monday night and had started drink-
ing.
Autrey said one of the men signed a writ-
ten statement admitting the acts. He de-
clined to identify the man.
The first incident occurred at University
City where Bourn was stopped by four men
and asked for directions. He was then kicked
und beaten and knocked through the plate
glass window of hi* apartment.
The group then drove to the College Inn
and forced their way into Portman's apart-
ment. Portman said he was beaten inside the
apartment. He blacked out when hit in the
eye with a soft drink bottle.
His doctor* said the blow from the bottle
caused the loss of Portman's left eye.
The third incident occurred at the Gregory
Arms apartments on West Prairie. Several
men tried to force their way into Cole's
apartment, but he managed to close the
door and call police.
The three attacks took place within a
half hour.
The $8,500 bond on each of the four men
is a combination of bond on the two charges.
On the maiming charge, a felony, bond was
set at $2,500 by Justice of the Peace Herman
Skiles. Bond on the aggravated assault
charge, a misdeameanor, was set at $1,000
by County Sheriff Wylie Barnes.
The charges are identical on all four men.
District Attorney John Lawhon's office
said the charges will be presented to the
grand jury in three or four weeks.
Conviction on the aggravated assault
charge carries a maximum penalty of two
years in jail A maiming conviction could
bring a two- to five-year term in the state
penitentiary
At Pledge Acceptances Wednesday
Greeks Display 137 New Pledges
New fraternity pledges and actives can
rest from shaking hands, smiling and trying
to remember names— at least until next
year for fall rush has ended.
The fraternities held open house Wed-
nesday to present the 137 new pledges to
the public. It was the first formal meeting
of the pledges.
Delta Sigma Phi led the list with 24
pledges, and Sigma Phi Kpsilon and Kappa
Sigma were next with 21 This was the low-
est total of pledges, for all fraternities, in
the last four years.
Lunula Chi Alpha chose not to submit any
bids and hasn't completed the chapter re-
organization. Theta Chi did not participate
in rush this semester because the fraterni-
ty is on probation.
Pi Kappa Alpha has no pledge class pend-
ing action on an indefinite suspension im-
posed Thursday (see story above).
This fall's new pledges are:
DELTA SKiM \ PHI
Joe W. Allen, John Allen, A. Kent Blohrn,
Larry W. Britton, Ron Cameron, Jimmy
Love Is A Ball'
To Open Series
"Love Is A Bait," opening presentation
of the 1HH5-6H Fine Arts Series, will begin
at 8:16 p.m. Tuesday in the Main Auditor-
ium.
It i« a show with muair. dancing and comic
skits — an integrated romp. It ia not a
musical comedy or a revue, according to
J. Marks, the San
Francisco director
and choreographer
■who put the show
together.
Everything is con-
nected, but there i
no master of cere-
monies, no revue
format, no narra-
tive continuity.
The star of the show is Alice Ghostley,
winner of last season's Tony Award as the
best actress of the season in New York
for her performance in "The Sign in Sid-
ney Hrusteins's Window." She will sing her
well-known "Boston Beguine" anil six other
of the show's numbers.
In an opulently-designed ballet number,
"Goddess of I.ove," an unusual European
novelty will be used. It is called "The Magic
Screen," a means of projecting silent film
sequences into a scene with living actors and
dancers so the actor* seem to In- doing mi-
raculous things as they step into and out
of the projections
Special material and lyrics are by James
Hi ^
OHOSTl F.Y
Thurber and Jules Feiffer. The fables of
Thurber'a authorship in "Love Is a Ball"
are being staged by permission of his widow.
Featuring the San Francisco Dance The-
ater Company, the show ia now touring in
preparation for an appearance in New Y'ork
in the spring.
The company consists of 22 actors, singers
and dancers, an orchestra of eight jazz
musicians and a miscellany of Btajce hands
and other staff people.
Compositions by Henry Mancini, Franz
Wuxman, Dave Brubeck, Stan Kenton and
John 1^-wis are among the musical arrange-
ments.
Settings will lie from designs by the late
French artist and poet Jean Cocteau and by
television designer Peter Girolami.
Among eye-catchers will be a circus gazebo
with 6,000 colored lights and a ballet set-
ting of billowing chiffon suspended in a net-
work of crystal chandelieres,
Student* must present ID cards at the
ticket center in the University Store to
Kit tickets to the production and must
show the ticket and the ID card for admit-
tance to the auditorium
Distribution of the tickets was delayed by
late delivery from the printer, but tickets
Air nVHilnble lit>w Dr .lames L. Rogers, ad-
ministrative vice-president said Thursday,
"The Fine Arts Committee regrets this late
delivery and apologizes to those who were
inconvenienced
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You've Gained Weight'
Dancers Raymond Evans and Nancy WoHe
perform a routine from the show' Love Is
A Ball," the opener in the Fine Arts Ser-
ies due Tuesday.
Dawson, Thomas B. Dennia, John G. Dick-
erson. Darrell J. Edwards. Donald L. Jack-
son. Alan Kantor, Jimmy La I-iaume, Mike
Mathews, John A. Mayfield, Charles Miller,
Raoul Rodriques, Michael F. Schultz, Joe F.
Spafford III, Donald R. Vrana, Michael Da-
vid Wims, Ronald G. Williams and Edward
R. Wulfe.
KAPPA SIGMA
Mike Baldwin, Frazier Brignon, Monty
Collins, Roy Paul Dotson, Bill Ewing, Mich-
ael W. Giles, Sonny Glasco, Jimmy Howard,
John Howie, James D. Huggins Jr., Rich-
ard Kappel, John Lee, Hill Long, Mike Mc-
Anally, Walt Parker, James Poe, Pat Reese,
Roy Scruggs, Ronnie Stark, Gregory M.
Swanaon and Grant Williams.
SIGMX PHI EPSII.ON
Gerald Averitt, Michael Averitt, Phil
Baird, G. Brown. Harmon Caldwell, Paul
Crawford, Drew Frantzen, John Gray Ful-
ton, Richard Gilbert, (juentin Bruce Hand.
John Hargis*. I.arry Lynn, Bruce McDonald.
Aaion Michaul McGrew, Van A. Morse, Rob-
ert A, Patton Jr., Donny Richardson, Dale
Clifford Shaffer, Bruce T. Staffeld, David
Stailey and John W, Westerbeck.
KAPPA ALPHA
Robert M. Anderson, Andy Chambers,
Steve Cupp, Michael K Dansby, William E.
Dooley, Travis E. Foreman, Charles Gideon,
Terry Graham, Dan Hubig, Allen P. Hund-
ley III, Charles l.angram, Jim Lee, Bill
I.lies. J. Mitchell l.ohmann Doyle M Roaa,
Jerry I) Stiles, B. J. Williams, Jimmy Wolff
and Roger Y'oung.
SIGMA N I
K<i C. Blackwood Ji , Fred Day, Robert
Elliott, Helmut Hartley (Skip) Frit, Peter
Scott Hamilton, Kenneth Harris Jr., Roes
Hull, Tommy Mack Kirhy, Archie R Maaaie,
Stephen H Spencer, Jame* David Splawn,
Robert Lee Stanley and Bruce Stewart.
PHI KAPPA SI(iMA
Dennis Ashworth, Bob Foahee, Robert D.
Kile. Buford Nance, Oary Roe rig, Mike Sub-
lette, Mack M Scoggms, Tom D. Taylor,
Don W. Y'olpert and Kenneth E. Wilaon.
GF.EZLES
Joe Culwell, Robert Greenhill, Gilbert Al-
len Holmes, l.upe Munot, Rex Pitta, Tens
Robinson, Frankie D Smith, Keith
ton and Charlie Tesar
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Pouncey, Temple. The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1965, newspaper, October 8, 1965; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth307239/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.