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*. . 1 *v ^ MSC • TOWN • HALL 'W r presents formerly of “A,MERICA, y \ HORSE WITH NO NAME r HN MAN” “VENTURA HIGHWAY’’ “LONELY PEOPLE” Friday, February 7 8:00 Rudder Theatre for ticket information call: MSC box Office or Dillard’s-Ticketron $3.00 Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, February 6, 1986 Hospital won’t say if worker was fired for value judgment AFTER COLLEGE: AIR FORCE EXPERIENCE Graduating soon? Tied to an unchallenging job? Get involved. Move up fast with Air Force Experience. You’ll do important work in your chosen field. Experience a challenge. Opportunity. A special life style. Talk to your Air Force recruiter today. Let Air Force EXPERIENCE start you toward A GREAT WAY OF LIFE. Contact SSgt Paul Broadus at (409) 696-2612 'wr : ■ «■ - •!!!: . SSipii-- " All Majors welcome when: Thursday, Feb. 6 t i me : 8:00 where: Ramada Inn ^1209 Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Associated Press SAN ANGELO — Officials of a Catholic hospital won’t say if a letter written by an employee chastizing anti-abortionists had anything to do with the worker’s firing. Nursing assistant Noel Singleton, 32, defended freedom of choice for women faced with unwanted preg nancy in a letter that appeared Jan. 27 in the San Angelo Standard- Times. Richard Boyd, vice president of business services, refused to say if Singleton was fired because of the letter he wrote. “We have no policy that prevents employees from speaking out freely. They have a right to say and express whatever opinions they have and we have a lot of people who write let ters,” said Boyd, who is in charge of hiring and firing at the hospital. San Angelo Bishop Michael Pfeifer has asked for an investiga tion into why Singleton was fired the day after his letter was published. Pfeifer said Tuesday he was not aware of Singleton’s dismissal from the Catholic hospital or any of the incidents leading to it. He said he would check into the hospital codes and procedures and examine how hospital officials explain them to em ployees. Singleton said he did not rep resent himself as a hospital em ployee in his letter, which read in part: “Let them (pro-life cam paigners) march a trench around my courthouse! their right to judge, ac cuse and deplore ends exactly where the individual woman’s rights be gin.” He said, “Sane women ought to come forth to sign that petition (call ing for an abortion ban) with the meaningful pseudonym, ‘Frita Choose.’ ” Singleton said his dismissal was upheld by the director of employee services, Robert Rastellini, who han dles employee grievances. Around tom Baylor Law School Scholarships: Baylor University’s School of Law offers three tuition fra id arships annually to outstanding Texas A&M siudems entering J lor’s Law School. T hese are the Joseph Milton Nance Schote 1 good for one year, but are renewable for the second and third J of law school on condition the recipient is doing g<x>d work.Sti for one of these interested in making applications scholarship!; come effective at entrance in the Summer or Fall Quarter, i obtain application forms from Dr. J. M. Nance in 560 Harris; Building. College of Liberal Arts. It is essential thatacopyof L$AT scores accompany your application. Applications artdsf Feb. 7, 1986. The Big Event: All individual students and student organizations areetre aged to volunteer their services to “The Big Event” on Matdi Applications are available on the second floor of the MSCintht! dent Programs office and on the second floor of the Pavilion: Student Government office Applications are due Feb. 21. For; information call 845-3051 Hart Hall: ; A square dance will be sponsored by Hart Hall and thtBr College Station Chamber of Commerce to promote Adopt-a-fc as a community service project l ot student organizations ati Adopt-a-School is a project organized bv the Chamber of Coiie to improve the quality of education at the public schools. Anyoa terested in Adopt-a-School should come to the square dance ware Field House on Feb. 8 from 9 p m. to midnight. Off Campus Aggies: npuj tne domino tournament at' Monday at the Dixie Chicken, happy hour at Casa Tomajl: >.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, and a "sock hop" Friday in Dewart Louse with benefits going to the MDA. For more informaa: Joyce, 696-3826. 6: Alpha Kappa Alpha: In recognition of Black History Month the Pi PsiChaptei pha Kappa Alpha Sorority, In< presents ‘Hidden Racism'' Verna Keith, assistant prof essot of Sociology . Saturday at lit: 607 Rudder. Court overturns conviction of man in daughter’s killini Associated Press s PI SIGMA EPSILON AUSTIN — The state’s top crimi nal appeals court Wednesday threw out the conviction of an Arizona man found guilty of strangling his 4- year-old daughter, a girl he said was in a fight with the devil. In a 6-3 decision, the Court of riminal Appeals ordered David huessler acquitted. The court bar red further prosecution of Scimessler, who had been sentenced to ^0 years in prison in the Jan. 24, 1981), death of Collette Marie Schuessler. The girl’s body was found by a Border Patrol agent alongside Inter state 10 near Sierra Blanca. Schuessler offered an insanity de fense but was convicted. The El Paso Court of Appeals later reversed the decision aryd sent the case back for retrial. But the Court of Criminal Appeals said Wednesday there should be no.retrial because the re versal was necessitated by insuffi cient evidence. Judge W.C. Davis said in the court’s opinion, “We hold that no ra tional trier of fact could have found that (Schuessler) failed to establish his affirmative defense of insanity by a preponderance of the evidence.” Defense lawyer Charles Mallin of El Paso said his client faces several years of psychiatric treatment in a mental health facility. “He won’t be on the streets,” Mal lin said. “The man is mentally ill, ex tremely mentally ill. He should be in a mental institution. At this point I think he has a problem for many years to come.” El Paso County Assistant District Attorney Robert Dinsmoor said that “The man is mentally ill, extremely mentally ill. He should be in a mental in stitution. At this point I think he has a problem for many years to come. ” Defense lawyer Charles Mallin. £c bly had some problems. We did not feel he was insane by the legal stan dards.” According to court records, fam ily members said Schuessler’s behav ior changed in October 1979. The Phoenix family noted that he “be came withdrawn and expressed baseless fi jeopardy.” On Jan. 16, 1980, hemei and daughter at a Phoenix mat and asked themtoflet to the San Carlos Indian Rest 1 in Arizona, where his wifela I The next day, SchuessleM daughter and drove towanii | He was stopped by all uty and fined for driving*’ license. The girl was notwal Schuessler told deputies his daughter were “hexed A deputy said Schuessler that “a devil in the form oil horse was trying to takete 1 ter’s soul, that he hadseenl* swell and her arms andlejij and that he had killed herijS save her soul.” He said he disposed od| but did not recall where Several psychiatrists calW defense testified thatScW L suf fering from acute para® |; chosis. J ucfges W.C. Davis, T(® 1 Marvin Teague, Charles & Sam H ouston Clinton anil Miller voted for acquitia 1 John Onion, Michael | and Bill White dissented writing an opinion. 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