Wednesday, October 9, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
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Religious school’s ‘sin play’
being investigated by state
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Associated Press
!. El. PASO — Slate olf ieials are in
vestigating a religious school that
^presented a play depicting "sin” be
ing removed from a person in a sur
gical operation in which a hypoder-
mk syringe, a knife and ketchup-
PPly to goffered cotton balls were used,
ment.ItJ Pat Ayala, public information offi-
one cal ^!§f ()r the local of fice ot the I exas
ars ai Dep.ii ttnent of Human Set vices,
said Monday that the drama was
performed Sept. 20 at the Commu
nity of Faith Christian School.
relaintcrH
uroffret drama was put on by mem-
ters of the Jesus Chapel West, ;t
( ion-denominational church at-
y entled by some families with chil-
^ ithlujren at the school,
tie. To ^
• Howctti^Bhe play, which focused on a pei -
i son who “wotdd not praise the
Lord,” was attended by children as
, ' voting as 2V-j years old. Ayala said.
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1 lie oldest children were third-grad
ers, she said.
“There were people dressed as
doctors and a person Iving down,”
Ayala said. “The doctors pretended
to inject him with a svringe, minus
the needle, and they rubbed a knife
on the table, symbolizing cutting his
neck.”
She said cotton balls covered with
ketchup were held up, labeled with
reasons why the person would not
praise the Lord. “Then the person
got up and said he could now praise
the Lord,” Ayala said.
Ayala said her agency, which in
vestigates alleged child abuse and li
censing violations at child-care insti
tutions, was looking into the
presentation to determine if it in
volved questionable content for chil
dren.
The investigation was prompted
by a complaint from a parent who
said the play upset his child, she said.
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i Student Senate to discuss
"vi/bs/ ticket replacement
By FRANK SMITH
Stulf Writer
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■ The Texas A&M Student Sen
ate will discuss a hill tonight rec-
■nmending the Athletic. Depart-
Bent allow free replacement of
lost or stolen student sports ticket
books.
■ The bill, sponsored by Mark
Browning, was assigned by
Bleaker Laurie Johnson to the
Student Services Committee at
the last Senate meeting.
■ Carol Ellison, ' ice president of
|h,ii committee, will report the
Status of the bill tonight and make
the committee’s recommenda
tions to the senators.
I The Senate also will discuss two
e trudjjnij ■her bills:
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through the installment of video
monitors or the addition of more
locker spaces.
It also was assigned to the Stu
dent Services Committee at the
last Senate meeting.
• The other bill on tonight’s
agenda calls for the non-cadet
constituency, of Gainer Hall
(Dorm 5) to he added to the con
stituency of Krueger, Briggs and
Spence halls until the Senate re
apportions in the spring. The
bill's sponsor, Beverly Ro/novskv,
currently represents Krueger,
Briggs and Spence.
She said at the hist Senate
meeting Gainer was converted
this semester from a Corps dor
mitory to one which houses both
cadets and non-cadets.
About 120 non-cadet residents
are living in Gainer without area
representation in the Senate,
Ro/novskv said.
Ayala would not release the name of
the parent.
Although she referred to the per
son in the drama as a man, officials
later said the performer was a
woman.
School Director Anthony Mixer
said that the drama was performed,
but said it was done in an upbeat,
happy style.
“The program was one of instruc
tion,” he said, adding that the chil
dren were shown the play’s props
before the performance and that
they knew it was pretend.
Mixer said that during the drama,
children were laughing, singing arid
clapping.
“I don’t perceive any negative ef
fects on the children, though some
may not have known what was going
on,” he said.
One parent who agreed with
Mixer, Amy Reynolds, said she feels
the incident has been misrepre
sented.
Reynolds said her son, Kirk, 4, has
attended the school for a year. She
said he came home after the play
and told her his teacher “wouldn’t
praise the Lord and they knocked
her in the throat.”
“I checked, at the school about
what had happened, then talked
about it with Kirk,” she said. “He
said he knew it wasjust pretend.”
Reynolds also defended the
school, praising its strong discipline
and good academics. She said the
school includes prayer, praise and
Bible study in its curriculum.
Ayala said the Department of Hu
man Services has sent letters to par
ents of the children who saw the
play, describing the complaint and
asking permission to interview the
children.
She said that the agency’s investi
gation probably would be completed
by the end or the week. If found
guilty of violating state licensing reg
ulations, the school probably would
be given a citation and asked to com
ply with standards, Ayala said.
Mixer said that regardless of the
investigation’s outcome, the play was
a one-time thing — we've never
done it bef ore and we’re not going to
do it again.
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