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Judge rules
convicted killer
con file appeal
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas
death row inmate who came within
hours of being executed last week is
entitled to file a new appeal because
his attorneys didn’t hotifiy him of
court proceedings, a judge said.
U.S. District Judge Norman Black
said Monday that Clifford X. Phillips
did not receive adequate notice last
winter after the judge had rejected
an appeal of Phillips’ conviction.
Black issued a written order say
ing he will consider Phillips’ case
again.
Last week, Phillips, 52, was hours
away from being executed for the
1982 slaying of Alley Theatre direc
tor Iris Siff when he received a stay
from U.S. District Judge Gabrielle
McDonald. Phillips submitted a
handwritten plea arguing that his
lawyers had given up on him.
Phillips claimed his two Houston
lawyers — Jim Skelton and Robert
Pelton — did not follow up on an
August 1986 appeal of his convic
tion. He did not find out Black had
rejected his appeal until it was too
late for him to go to a higher court,
Phillips contended.
But the lawyers said they were re
tained to stop Phillips’ scheduled
Aug. 18, 1986, execution, not to con
test the capital murder conviction.
Attorney Michael Charlton, who
agreed a few days ago to represent
Phillips, said Monday that certain is
sues had not been raised in previous
appeals by Phillips.
Charlton told Black that every
death row inmate deserves “one
good shot” at challenging his convic
tion.
But Assistant Attorney General
Robert Walt said granting Phillips
relief would “sanction endless, end
less dilatory tactics” by death row in
mates seeking to block their execu
tions.
Phillips, who prefers to be called
by the Islamic name of Abdullah Ba
shir, was convicted of robbing and
strangling Siff, 58, while she was
working late at the. Houston theater.
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students react negatively to course
By Drew Leder
StnlI Writer
I Three times a week at I p.m., Kyle
m'ilsun tnyns on a television, tunes in
His desired station and watches in
tently for an hour.
■ Kyle isn’t a couch potato and he
iln’t a soap opera junkie — he’s a
freshman business administration
Hiajor and one of about 1,000 stu
dents enrolled in Management 211
at Texas AK.M this spring.
■ Management 211, the Legal Envi-
i|)nnlent of Business, is televised five
Hines a day each Monday, Wednes
day and Friday on Channel 31 and
videotaped lectures are available in
the Sterling C. Evans Library and at
the Academic Computer Center.
I The management department im-
Blemented the program f ive days be
fore classes began this semester, af
ter a request from the Associate
Dean of Engineering, but adminis
trators involved with the experimen
tal program now say some changes
at e needed.
■ “There will be no decision to sim
ply repeat what we’ve done — it
didn’t work,” said Dr. Don Hellrie-
gel, interim dean of business admin
istration.
I Hellriegel said that while the fate
H this experiment will not be de
cided until the summer, the contin
uation of the televised classes will
have to involve some changes.
Dr. A1 Ringleb, associate manage
ment professor and course coordi
nator for Management 211, said that
although he was not content with the
program and would like to see im
provement with it, it was a worth
while experiment and he wants to
continue the class on television.
“It was an attempt to determine
how effective educational television
would be,” Ringleb said.
Hellriegel said student response
to the televised class, indicated by
class evaluation questionnaires, was
negative.
“We’re aware from student feed
back that there are patterns of sig
nificant concern,” he said.
Hellriegel said there will be a
thorough evaluation of the student
responses before a final decision is
made about the f uture of the class.
Ringleb said that due to the large
number of students who enroll in
Management 21 1 each semester,
there are certain advantages to pre
senting the class on television. For
instance, he said, students can watch
the lectures at their leisure instead of
having to walk across the railroad
tracks to the Kleberg Animal and
Food Science Center to attend class.
The lectures had been held there in
the past because of the accomoda
tions there for large classes.
Another advantage of televising
the class, Ringleb said, is that it pro
vides the opportunity for several
guest speakers to address the class.
This was not feasible in the past be
cause of the number of class sections
a guest would have to attend and the
number of students he would have
to encounter. This spring, eight
guest speakers were presented on
the program.
Despite these advantages and an
increase in grades of an average of
five percentage points, many stu
dents have expressed dissatisfaction
over watching classes on television.
Wilson, who is taking the class this
semester said, “I’ve done worse in
this class than in any other because
it’s on television. You don’t pay as
much attention to something you
can’t talk back to.”
Sophomore Robin Summers said,
“T he professors have done a good
job in their lectures, but there’s a big
weakness — no discussion.”
The lack of two-way communica
tion also is noted as a problem by
Hellriegel. If the class is to be tele
vised in the fall, he said, “a minimum
condition is that it’s televised with a
live class,”
Hellriegel said the choice to
implement a televised class is that of
the college in which the class is of
fered.
“The college of business will not
expapd the program (to other clas
ses),” he said, “and if we continue,
there will be major changes.”
In addition to Management 211,
Educational Technology 645 classes
at A&M are partially presented in a
video format.
The idea for broadcasting classes
on televison is by no means a new
one. Other colleges and universities
have been doing it for years and, in
fact, A&M had an extensive lecture
broadcasting system in tbe 1960s
and early 1970s.
KAMU-TV’s General Manager
and Director of Educational Broad
cast Services Mel Chastain said
classes ranging from English to ac
counting to engineering were pre
sented on closed-circuit television as
early as 1964.
Chastain said that A&M signifi
cantly reduced the number of classes
taught this way in the early 1970s,
after the influx of low-cost video re
corders and tape recorders made it
easy to make tapes in class, he said.
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