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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 9. 1981
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Male nurse applicant wins suit
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A federal
appeals court has ruled an all-
women s university cannot ex
clude a Mississippi man from en
rolling in its nursing program be
cause that would be discrimina
tory and “cannot be squared with
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals reversed a lower court
ruling that Mississippi University
for Women (MUW) could exclude
Joe Hogan from the school s nurs
ing program even though he was a
qualified applicant.
Hogan, who owns a home and
worked near the university for
several years, applied for admis
sion to MUW’s nursing program
but was rejected because of his
Hogan filed suit against
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ary injunction so he could attend
the university until the courts
ruled on the merits of his case.
The U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Mississippi
rejected his requests for injunc
tive relief and Hogan appealed.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court re
versed the lower court ruling and
said MUW was discriminating
against Hogan under the Four
teenth Amendment.
“The Maintenance of MUW as
the only state-supported, single
sex collegiate institution in the
state cannot be squared with the
Constitution,” the court’s opinion
released Friday said. “The policy
of MUW that excludes Hogan be
cause of his sex denies him the
equal protection of the law as
guaranteed by the Fourteenth
Amendment.”
The university contended it was
not discriminating against males,
but merely wanted to achieve “the
moral and intellectual advance
ment of the girls of the state.”
State officials said Hogan could
attend co-educational state uni
versities in Hattiesburg and Jack-
son, and therefore the single-sex
university in Columbus was not
discriminatory.
But Hogan wanted to attend the
state university in his hometown,
so he would not be forced to give
up his job, move his family and sell
his house.
“These consolidated appeals
present the question whether the
maintenance of a state-supported
university that accepts only
female applicants violates the
Fourteenth Amendment right to
equal protection of an otherwise
qualified male applicant,” the
opinion said. “On the facts of this
case, we hold that it does.
Pemex director resigns
over oil price dispute
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Jorge Diaz Serrano, the
director of the state-run Mexican oil company
Pemex, has resigned in a dispute over his decision
to reduce the price of Mexican crude.
Saturday’s resignation came on the eve of a
U.S.-Mexican summit meeting in Washington,
where Diaz Serrano was to join Mexican Presi
dent Jose Lopez Portillo in talks with President
Reagan. It also came four days after Mexico, the
world’s fourth largest producer, dropped its oil
prices by $4 a barrel.
The government news agency Notimex
announced that Serrano would be replaced by
former Treasury Secretary Julio Rodolfo Mocte-
zuma Cid, now special projects coordinator for
Lopez Portillo.
Diaz Serrano presided over a 23-fold increase
in Mexican oil revenues between 1976 and 1980.
Mexico now provides about 9 percent of total
U.S. oil imports.
But last week he ordered a slashing of Mexican
oil prices from $34.60 to $30.60 a barrelamidstij
world oil glut that forced down prices for Noi
Sea oil as well and drove OPEC to frcezei
prices until the end of the year.
“In virtue of the fact that my decision to red*
the price of crude did not receive the unanimonj
approval of the economic cabinet and notwa
it to constitute an element of discord, I prefcrlij
present before you my irrevocable resignations
director general of Petroleos Mexicanos,” Senij
no said in a statement.
Diaz Serrano once was partner in a Houst»|
based firm, the Golden Lane Drilling Co.,nil
Vice President George Bush.
Diaz Serrano was known as an effective pii
negotiator who demanded together with Lop
Portillo that major industrial nations suclu
Japan and France provide aid for industrial
velopment in r.\( hang( for Mexican oil exportil
Oil industry sources said that as a formercoml
mercial oilman, Diaz Serrano was aware ofiiinl
ket realties.”
Commission cab drivers
go on strike in Chicago
Charges not yet filed
against Ray’s attackers
United Press International
CHICAGO — More than 5,000
commission cab drivers for Check
er and Yellow taxi companies went
on strike today when contract
negotiations reached an impasse,
union officials said.
The drivers went on strike at
12:01 a.m. Monday, shortly after
officials of the Production Work-
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cab driver locals, met with Mayor
Jane Byrne in a last-minute effort
to avert a strike.
“The mayor worked very hard,
but the cab companies’ represen
tatives didn’t show up,” Howard
Gilbert, attorney for local 707,
representing lease drivers, said af
ter the meeting late Sunday.
Members of local 707 voted to
strike at 5 a.m. Monday.
The two locals represent 2,200
cab drivers in the nation’s second
largest city. About one-fourth of
the drivers are commissioned.
Frank Stroud, national vice
president of the union, said earlier
Sunday a walkout would be hard
to avert.
Jerry Feldman, president of
Checker Taxi Co., has said a strike
would not be supported by
enough members to he successful.
“There is a history of the cab
companies trying to break the un
ion,” Stroud said, “hut we feel
we re together enough now so it
(the strike) could go on for
months.
Stroud said drivers will picket
Checker and Yellow taxi garages.
Uvwled Pycss lutevwaUvuval
PETROS, Tenn. — No charges
wall be filed immediately against
the black militants believed re
sponsible for stabbing James Earl
Ray, who is watching TV, reading
and visiting with family while re
cuperating under heavy guard as
the only patient in the prison infir
mary.
Ray, 53, serving 99 years for the
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., was moved during the
weekend to the six-bed infirmary
at the fortress-like Brushy Moun
tain State Prison to recover from
22 stab wounds inflicted by fellow
inmates last Thursday. He was de
scribed in good condition today.
"He seems sort of in a state of
shock. But I think the realization
of the attack is just now catching
up with him,” Ray’s artist wife,
Anna Sandhu Ray, 32, said
Sunday.
“They (the attackers) were defi
nitely trying to kill him. The cuts
on the neck indicate they were
going for the jugular.
Mrs. Ray said because Hay ex
ercised regularly with weights he
was able to prevent his attackers
from killing him.
“He has the survival spirit. He
knows he has to survive, ” she said.
“By doing this every day (lifting
weights) he was strong enough to
hold them off. ”
Ray, his head bandaged, his
arm in a sling and his fingers in
splints, was transferred from a
hospital in nearby Oak Ridge back
to the prison in the East Tennes
see mountains early Saturday.
Other Brushy Mountain in
mates were to be released today
from “lockup” or extra tight secur
ity, which has been imposed since
Thursday.
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black militant group at the;:
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attack while Ray was in I
library.
However, no charges!
been filed since thedistrictj
ney has elected topresenttl
to the Morgan Countygra
next month.
Attorney Mark Laneofll
phis said Ray could notidenif
attackers, but even if he d! I
would not testify againsttk I
cause “you just don’t raid |
other prisoner if you wantto!
Arzo Carson, director!!
Tennessee Bureau of lims ftdmire
tion, said officials may to Budwei
groups such as Alkebu-lan: World
closely in the future.
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WASHINGTON — The Sup
reme Court Monday, in one of
several actions in death penalty
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Texas death row inmate who
argued prosecutors violated his
right to cross-examination.
The justices declined to hear
the appeal of Murriel D. Crawford
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Jr., who has been sentenced to
death for the fatal shooting of a
cashier at a convenience store in
Amarillo.
Crawford’s case stemmed from
an Oct. 22, 1975, incident, when
Crawford and David Mabra rob
bed a convenience store in Amar
illo. During the robbery, cashier
Edith Whitfield was shot and
killed.
Mabra eventually gave a state
ment to police claiming Crawford
carried the gun into the store and
fired it twice at the cashier.
In response, Crawford gave a
statement claiming Mabra had
carried the gun into the store and
that it had accidentally dis
charged. Crawford said Mabra la
ter intentionally shot the cashier
when she moaned from the wound
of the first shot.
Mabra then gave authorities a
second statement, admitting he
had carried the gun into the store
and that Crawford grabbed it
when Mabra threatened the
cashier. Mabra said the gun
accidentally discharged when
Crawford grabbed it.
Crawford and Mabra both were
indicted for murder “during the
course of committing robbery.”
Crawford was tried separately
from his co-defendant and
pleaded guilty to the charge. After
a trial on the issue of punishment,
the jury decided the state could
impose a death sentence.
During the sentencing phase,
the prosecution had introduced
Mabra’s first confession, accusing
Crawford of carrying the gun into
the store and firing it twice
cashier.
Appealing to the Su
Court, Crawford had argi
a general proposition, thee
duetion of a non-testifjisifej.^,^. j
defendant’s confession ini| p n j.
mg the defendant violatestl fl ouston
fendant’s 6th Amendments :f exas
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Texas man sentenced tod
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the robbery-slaying of Age» |!
rick Randel, who had'« lead at the
undercover to purchase i par 214.
drugs from Skillem and ■ even-par
defendant. Kfirooks
—Declined to hear tkcas doubled ti
Mississippi man sentencestjudgej a ,
death for the 1978 beatingd®- shots beli
a Jackson, Miss., man. Cra^
Bullock Jr. was found git'
capital murder in the rohh
slaying of Mark Dickson.
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Georgia man challenging
death sentence on grounds
lawyer was “under the influx
illegal drugs” at trial. John!
was convicted of murder and:
enced to death in Bibb ft
Ca. He noted his lawyer
pleaded guilty to drug chartf l
ter representing Young
lawyer also testified his
periods of drug abuse”
during Young’s trial.
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