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Wednesday, November 4, 1981
Police officers capture rape suspect on campus
Man arrested in connection with 18 crimes
By Marc Igler
Staff Writer
University Security, working closely with the Los Angeles Police Department, arrested a suspect Thursday who is believed to be connected with 18 specific criminal acts, including rape, against members of the university community.
Officer Patrick Fitzgerald of University Security and Officer Terry Hara of LAPD arrested Antoine Jordan, a 19-year-oid from Los Angeles, while he was entering Parking Structure
B on campus Thursday morning.
Jordan, who was arraigned Monday, is being held at the LAPD’s Southwest Division on $100,000 bail. He has been charged with 18 crimes committed in the university are* within the last three weeks, including rape, kidnapping and robbery.
In a lineup last Friday, Jordan was positively identified by seven of his alleged victims. LAPD Detective Dave Hudson said four others were not able
to give positive identification.
The arrest ends a two-week undercover effort in which University Security and LAPD worked together.
Officer Carole Steele of University Security said that two weeks ago the security force noticed a similar pattern developing in certain violent crimes in the university area.
“In simple terms, we determined that many of the crimes were committed by a man carrying a knife as a weapon who almost always struck in a park-
ing structure," Steele said.
At this point, University Security contacted the LAPD, and a task force was formed involving a total of 15 officers from the two agencies.
The officers, usually wearing street clothes, began 24-hour patrols of parking structures and lots on campus and in the immediate area.
At 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Fitzgerald and Hara. both in plain clothes, noticed a suspect who fit previous descriptions. At 11:45 a.m., the suspect fol-
lowed a young woman into the parking structure. As she was about to get into her car, she turned and looked directly at her pursuer.
The suspect turned and ran. The officers gave chase and caught him on a stairway. He was carrying a knife.
“He put up no struggle. He knew what we wanted him for,” said Chief Steve Ward of University Security.
Jordan has a previous criminal record involving auto burglaries, an officer in LAPD’s detective division said.
STAR DRUNK DURING SEARCH FOR HOLY GRAIL’
Monty Python’s Chapman talks about career, films
By Dave Fisher
Staff Writer
During the filming of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1976, Graham Chapman was drunk almost every day. The tall, brownhaired member of the Monty Python comedy troupe would get up at seven in the morning, film some physically demanding scenes amidst the cliffs of Tunisia and then settle down to a day of drinking gin and tonics.
“I didn’t enjoy the filming of The Holy Grail at all because I w'as either constantly drunk or trying to dry out,” Chapman said after appearing at Bovard Auditorium for a talk sponsored by the University Speakers Committee. “It wasn't a nice experience.
“There were times when I seriously thought I would die ;n three or four years jnd I didn't care. I finally dried out because I just couldn’t stand being permanently drunk anymore. I saw what it was doing to others, like Keith (Moon, a close friend of Chapman's before the drummer’s death in 1978). It was awful at first, but after the first three days I felt fine and everything was all right.”
Since that time, Chapman has not had a drop of alco-
hol, preferring instead to devote his creative energies to personal projects, such as editing his new movie Yel-lowbeard (“It is not a Python movie,” he insists) and
visiting college campuses in the United States and Canada to plug the book he has just written. The Liar's Autobiography, Vol. IV.
“One of these days I’ll get
around to writing the other volumes,” the 40-year-old actor-writer-producer said. “There will be six volumes in all. I think I'll start writing volume two next.”
Chapman is also working on projects for Monty Python, which include putting the finishing touches on a filmed version of the comedy group’s performances last year at the Hollywood Bowl and writing the script for a new Python movie that will go before the cameras in March, with Chapman as producer.
He declined to talk about the as yet untitled movie, except to say that “it’s filthy.”
Chapman began his comedy career at Cambridge College in England as a member of the Footlights Club, a prestigious performing group that also included Peter Cook and David Frost.
“I always wanted to do comedy, but I also wanted to be dor for,” he said. “That's \ I went to Cambridge. It offered me a chance to do both.”
It was at Cambridge that Chapman met John Cleese and Eric Idle. The trio later formed Monty Python’s Flying Circus, along with Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam.
The group met while writing for a show' starring David Frost.
“After 26 shows we realized that the five of us (Gilliam joined the group later) had written most of the ma-(Continued on page 3)
British comedian addresses crowd in Bovard Auditorium
By Alan Grossman
Staff Writer
Graham Chapman walked onstage in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday and said, “This is not really a lecture. It's less formal than that,” and then asked for two minutes of abuse.
Although the over 100 people w'ho attended the Monty Python trouper’s noon engagement of the university’s Speakers Committee were hesitant at first. Chapman’s constant badgering to attack him (which included a final 10-second countdown) led them to shower him w’ith paper balls, paper airplanes and lots of verbal abuse.
“Thank you for such high quality abuse. I'll be asking for some more later on," said the now seemingly relaxed comedian as he led into ques-tion-and-answer sessions mixed with film clips of Monty Python's Flying Circus television series, which featured Chapman, along with the other members of the group: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Peter Cook.
Some of the questions asked of Chapman were his thoughts on Time Bandits, the new film by Cleese and Gilliam, the Royal Wedding, his thoughts on Benny Hill, what he does for fun. the Monty Python-George Harrison connection, the use of historical settings for Python films, the television series, how the troupe got its name and the future plans of the comedy team.
Regarding Time Bandits, Chapman said, “It’s an adventure story, not like a Python comedy. Although (marquees) have John's name in big letters, he's on for about three minutes and Terry's on for about six. It’s terribly visually interesting, and if you do such things, enjoy a smoke while viewing. A friend did and enjoyed it much more.”
Chapman laughed as he talked about the Royal Wedding. “I hardly noticed it really. I got about eight seconds of it in when John Cleese was turning the television channels looking for a cricket match.”
Jokingly, he added, “I was supposed to cover it for Good Morning America from the Tower of London, but they wouldn't let me near the building . . . they were afraid I might mock it.”
When asked his opinion of The Benny Hill Show, Chapman said, “Benny Hill is a breasts and bottoms man, and once you’ve seen it two or three times, that’s it. He's good at his job. but it’s not our (Monty Python’s) job.”
Many of those in the audience were "Flying Circus” fans, and this was reflected in the amount of inquiries made into the last few' episodes without Cleese, and why the series was not being shown currently' on television.
Then he discussed ex-Beatle George Harrison’s financing of Life of Brian, the group’s most recent film.	(Continued on page 5)