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January 12, 1983
Preacher,
smash art
millionaire
treasures
‘lame
Sleepy days are almost over
staff photo by Octavio Garcia
i shot, taken from the water tower near the
sical plant building, shows a sleepy campus
during the semester break. But the peaceful
won’t last. Students already are returning.
look
mure policy tightened
United Press International
FORT WORTH — Evangelist
James Robison and millionaire
T. Cullen Davis last October
smashed $ 1 million worth of
jade, ivory and gold art objects
relating to Eastern religions be
cause they were “graven images”
which do not “please the Lord.”
Robison, whose ministry is
based in suburban Euless, Mon
day confirmed the destruction
of the objects took place. Davis,
exonerated in sensational trials
in the 1970s of murdering his
stepdaughter and wife’s lover
and plotting to have his divorce
court judge murdered, refused
to comment.
After the trials, Davis — a
onetime flamboyant playboy in
dustrialist — became a born-
again Christian under the
leadership of Robison and it was
because of this conversion that
the destruction of the objects
took place, Robison said.
Davis had donated the rare
pieces, including a 4-foot high
jade pagoda carving valued at
more than $500,000, to Robi
son’s ministry.
They were taken to Dallas for
auction, and Robison said his
reading the Bible as an aide was
driving him to view the objects.
He said he focused on
Deuteronomy 7:25, which says:
“The graven images of their
gods shall ye burn with fire.
Thou shall not desire the silver
or gold that is on them, nor take
it unto thee, lest thou be snared
therein; for it is an abomination
to the Lord they God.”
“It was so clear that the Lord
didn’t want me to receive them,”
Robison said. “It was not biblical,
and as far as I was concerned it
represented a false religion.”
Robison and the aide loaded
the objects into a truck and took
them to Davis’ mansion. Upon
being shown the Bible verse,
Robison quoted Davis as saying,
“If you can’t have it, I can't have
it. We’re going to destroy them.
I don’t want to do anything that
does not please the Lord.”
Davis brought a hammer
from the mansion and he and
Robison smashed the objects in
the driveway.
“I spoke to him (Davis) today
and he told me he doesn’t want
attention about this,” Robison
said Monday. “He said he knows
w'hy he did it. Those were ob
jects he had collected all his life,
and when he thought they might
be displeasing to the Lord, he
destroyed them.”
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A1RIE VIEW — Thirteen
'ous Prairie View A&M Uni-
ity professors are waiting
news that applications for te-
; from all but three of them
be denied by administrators
king down on non-
ductive instructors.
■The ones who were accepted
the ones who were rejected
don’t know yet,” one profes-
, who asked not to be named,
Monday. “The secrecy
tnd this place just can’t be
cracked. The people who really
know what’s going on are afraid
to say anything.”
Acting university president
Ivory Nelson said he will not yet
identify the accepted professors.
“In order to get tenure here,
you’ve got to produce,” Nelson
said. “And that’s the way things
should have been here before.
To be a tenured professor at
Prairie View, you have to have
been here for seven years. You
have to teach and to publish, and
you have to be active in the com
munity.”
In the past, a faculty member
just had to pass the seven-year
level of employment and then
make application for tenure.
Tenured faculty positions are
akin to permanent jobs.
Nelson, who has brought
sweeping changes to Prairie
View in recent months, says fa
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school now can expect to meet
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