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Wednesday, April 8, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 % nr —mmmst*' ~*m w~i m ?Tl2,r | | . no l a r B ■ K j *> ■ i A ^ ‘ - Bench Warmer Kyle Wilson, a freshman business major, studies for his Management 2 1 1 class on the bleachers at Photo by Tracy Staton the Drill Field Tuesday afternoon. Wilson said he was trying to catch up in his reading. Bed) Co J p nm love i toikli ool studs is tote hasap: ibki ^ollcjti it she i astor: CS churches unhurt y PTL’s ministry scandal eanstl , discs! d stana By Stacey Babin Reporter Sex, blackmail, scandal — no, it’s Jot college football in Texas. It’s licit vision evangelist Jim Bakker who caused a major stir in TV min- |try across the country. I Bakker resigned as president of Sic $172 million PTL (Praise the ord) organization after saying he lad been blackmailed because of a exual encounter with a church sec- hetary seven years ago. The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who has (aken over Bakker’s ministry, calls me ordeal an “unholy war.” But local reaction seems to be Ifairly sympathetic toward Bakker. Dr. Malcolm Bane, pastor of the Sirst Baptist Church of College Sta- Bon, doesn’t agree with evangelists’ theology, but says the situation does joint out that only God is good. “All of us are sinners,” Bane says. “Preachers — we’re sinners just like everybody else. People must put their faith in the mercy of God, not in a man.” He adds that the scandal could be detrimental to those who avidly watch and follow the TV ministry. Bane believes this incident will not affect local congregations, but says it’s too early to tell if it will have any long-range effects on others. “PTL folks probably feel like — since Bakker admitted to this — he did the Christian thing, and they are forgiving him,” he says. Bane says that people, including evangelists such as Oral Roberts, would be better off if no comments were made against one another. “People who are not Christians look at the fighting and start think ing all religion is bad,” he says. Society should not sit in the place of judges and condemn others. Bane says. Reaction on campus is similar to Bane’s. Sophomore Chris Await, a mem ber of the Campus Crusade for Christ, hopes other Christians stand behind these evangelists, although he doesn’t believe in the evangelist theology. “I just hope, putting all the evan gelists’ personal ambitions aside, that (the scandal) doesn’t hurt their mes sage,” he says. “People have to put the message above the men.” Await also says it’s a shame the sit uation had to happen in a religious organization and he feels people should keep things in perspective. “Look at the Iran-Contra affair,” he says. “People are not ready to abolish the presidency. I don’t think this should ruin Christianity’s repu tation,” he says. Await also says the press has only aggravated the problem. lospitalized children find ay to keep up schoolwork Illnesses don't stop youngsters from studying [HOUSTON (AP) — A heart mon- |)i and intravenous equipment are lent schoolmates inside the isola- pn unit that is Carmen LePere’s issroom. Gowned and masked, LePere has arpo® arrived for a few minutes of study htni mpie at the bedside of a critically ill impii"* pupil, a li't' tansas npleti^ “1 think of myself as being one of ; normalizing aspects of hospitali- ition,” LePere said of her job as a lispital teacher. “When you come to a child’s room with the school- oks and pencils and crayons that eyare familiar with, it is very reas suring.” For 15 years LePere has been a [acherin the Houston Independent hool District’s Hospital Program, [isigned to keep children who are in e hospital from falling behind in eir schoolwork. LePere and 33 other teachers in | area hospitals work with school lunselors, arranging to borrow the Ime textbooks, curriculum, and in jany instances, projected lesson Ians being used by the child’s class- bom teacher. For a child to be eligible, his doc tor must verify that the nature of the illness will keep the child out of school for at least four consecutive weeks. That time must be spent in the hospital or at home recuperat ing. Because of the rapidly changing physical condition of some of the “When you come into a child’s room with the schoolbooks, and pencils and crayons that they are familiar with, it is very re assuring. ” — Carmen Lepere, hospi tal teacher children, LePere said she must tailor the class periods to the child’s capa bilities on a day-to-day basis. Headed by Francis Jackson, direc tor of HISO’s community services department, the program serves about 200 students at any given time during the school year. The program is geared to serve children confined to any hospital within the boundaries of HISD, no matter what the child’s home dis trict. HISD also has a reciprocal agreement with other districts. “At one time or another we have had students from every state and foreign counties,” Jackson said. If a child is confined in a hospital within the district where no teacher is assigned, a homebound teacher will be assigned to the child, Jackson said. The homebound program in cludes children with long-term phys ical illnesses who may never be in a regular classroom, as well as chil dren who have a one-time illness or injury and will be going back to school within a period of weeks. The hospital-bound and home- bound programs serve about 1,700 students per year. Although they are geared for a nine-month school year, special arrangements are made for students who are in year-round programs. 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