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UT system told
it can continue
religion courses
AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney Gen
eral Jim Mattox said Wednesday that
the University of Texas system need
not cancel its “Bible chair” religion
courses just because of a legal opin
ion he issued earlier this year.
“I recognize the value of the study
of religion at state colleges and uni
versities and . . . emphasize that ‘Bi
ble Chair’ courses can be structured
in a constitutional manner,” Mattox
said in a letter to W.O. Schultz, asso
ciate general counsel of the UT sys
tem.
The system recently announced
that it would cancel the programs to
avoid “excessive entanglement” be
tween government and religion.
University officials said last month
the system would discontinue official
connection with Bible courses taught
by instructors who were selected or
paid by religious groups.
James Duncan, executive vice
chancellor for academic affairs, also
said transfer credits would be lim
ited to religious studies courses of
fered by accredited institutions.
Under procedures dating to 1919,
UT-Austin has offered credit for
courses taught by instructors who
hold Bible chairs affiliated with the
Biblical Studies Association, an off-
campus, interdenominational
group. Holders of the chairs were
approved by UT-Austin but had
been paid by denominations belong
ing to the Biblical Studies Associa
tion.
In his letter, Mattox said state col
leges and universities may grant
elective credit for religicya courses
affiliated with or supervised by reli
gious organizations “when those
courses follow certain constitutional
guidelines.”
Mattox said his office has offered
to work with schools to help them
meet constitutional rules so outside
religious study programs can con
tinue.
“All they need to do is pay them
themselves and choose them them
selves, rather than having some reli
gion choose the instructor and pay
the instructor,” said Ron Dusek, a
spokesman for Mattox.
What’s up
Thursday
PROVISIONAL STUDENTS: will hold a mandatory meet |
ing to discuss fall registration at 4 p.m. in 224 MSC.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will hold a Bible studyail
6:30 p.m. outdoors between Rudder Tower and the MSC.
Friday
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will hold their weeldd
“Friday Night Alive” meeting at 6 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be }
fore desired publication date.
Criminal court judgei
announces intention
of running for top job
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals Judge Michael
McCormick said Wednesday that he
will seek election to the court’s top
job, presidingjudge, in 1988.
Presiding Judge John F. Onion
announced last week that he won’t
seek re-election after 22 years on the
court.
McCormick, 41, first was elected
to the state’s highest criminal court
in 1980, and was re-elected in 1986.
“I feel very strongly that the court
does need someone with experience
on the court to be presidingjudge,”
he said in announcing his candidacy.
“Since I don’t have to resign my
current seat on that court, my phi
losophy will be maintained there.
What I feel is important in the pre
siding judgeship is the ability to ad-
minstrate,” he said.
Ir
McCormick said that ode of his
priorities would be to work with the
Legislature to seek a solution to the
court’s staffing and equipment prob
lems.
“Even though our state Constitu
tion recognizes three distinct and in
dependent branches of government,
the state of Texas spends lessi
one-third of 1 percent of its buj
on the judicial system,” he said
McCormick said he also 4
seek expanded jurisdiction <
criminal court dockets in thes
lower court system.
“Justice delayed is justicedei*
he said. “The control of the cr:::!
dockets in our local courts shou
supervised by the court whidifc |
timate jurisdiction and response
— the Court of Criminal Appeal'!
IT
McCormick, a Democrat good;
graduate of the University ofli\fcy
and St. Mary’s University lawstt| m issit
A former briefing attorney fotlsHerif
Court of Criminal Appeals andalthc s
tant Travis County district atKtht ot
he also served as executive d: lity.
of the Texas District andCou® fl Th
torneys Association. jvarel
Texas Supreme Court ChieHnorth
ticejohn Hill has advocatedce||“W
ing the system by which Tijit, tha
judges are chosen, and McCorcytllat v\
said he would favor some ion: coord
appointment process for appe^Lo]
court judges. But election otds|taken
judges should continue, he said shipn
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Insurance companies stop
coverage of AIDS victims
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AUSTIN (AP) — Fearful that claims from AIDS vic
tims could cost them millions of dollars, some Texas in
surance companies have started to exclude coverage of
the deadly disease in their group health plans, accord
ing to records of the State Board of Insurance.
The so-called exclusion riders are precautions that
many companies take in writing individual policies, but
group insurers, because the risks were spread over
broad segments of the population, generally had not
considered such precautions necessary.
Five companies recently made unilateral changes in
contracts already in effect, records show.
Lee Jones, a spokesman for the State Board of Insur
ance, said the board does not keep track of how many
firms had taken other steps to restrict or drop coverage
of the disease. Such steps could include re-writing con
tracts as they expire or including AIDS in riders that
apply to other diseases.
Jones said none of the practices violates state insur
ance regulations.
One company’s policy c hange sparked a protest from
at least one person.
Robert Mooney, owner of J.R. Mooney Galleries in
Austin and San Antonio, said he complained toj
state board, legislators and congressmen after GH
surance of San Antonio notified him of the change
“And I’m not beginning to finish writing lelti
Mooney said. “If they can single out something,®
no reason cancer shouldn’t be next, or transplant A
they’re expensive — until all it covers is an occas®^ en
accident. And that’s not what a major medical poll: I0! 1
for.” i° ut L
week
dalu
Other Texas insurers who have filed exclusion
with the state board are American Security Life Iiffl .J 0
ance Co., Durham Life of Raleigh N.C., Emplij m ' ss ’
Health Insurance Co. of DePere, Wis. and Texaslf; Wate
tors Life Insurance Co. of San Antonio. , Balk
Texas Investors president Jim Long said the: 5 lrn ’
pany has excluded AIDS coverage since itwasfoin|f , | )rt '
two years ago. ■ T1
“We just felt at the time, and still do, thatc»«J 48 *
for AIDS, because of the tremendous expenseo(|J Ver
trie case, for a vouncr cnmnanv liW#» mire wacnr# The
gle case, for a young company like ours wasprf
itive,” Long said. “It could just put us outofbusir ers ^
and •
Drug smuggling conviction nels
4 prison sentences for ex-lowye\
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Pr
teers
PECOS (AP) — Saying “a waste
has been committed,” a federal
judge sentenced a 63-year-old one
time trial lawyer to 25 years in prison
for continuing criminal enterprise
and to three concurrent 20-year sen
tences for cocaine smuggling.
“You flat misspent your life,” U.S.
District Court Judge Lucius D. Bun-
ton II declared moments before he
sentenced ex-trial lawyer John
Webster Flanagan, 63, of Austin.
Before pronouncing sentence,
Bunton briefly reviewed Flanagan’s
criminal life following his 1969 con
viction for income-tax evasion and
subsequent convictions for cocaine
and marijuana smuggling.
Flanagan was suspended from the
State Bar of Texas in 1970 and was
disbarred in 1972.
Since then, Bunton noted, the
government has recorded “page af
ter page after page of Flanagan esca
pades in dealing in dope” and in his
being “in and out of prisons” and a
fugitive for years.
Bunton told the graying ex-law-
yer, who was convicted July 2, that
many other dope-related defendants
often are “not very smart” and are
poor and let other people use them
as paid “mules” by hauling mari
juana and cocaine into the United
States from Mexico and Central and
South America.
“You stand before me begf] »•
mercy,” the judge said. E- se
judge was not lenient.
“Mr. Flanagan, it is with a g
heart that I sentence you," EL.j
told the defendant. “Mr. Flat
can’t be expected to be freedsC*,.'
Following a 1 Vz-day jury 'M
early July, Flanagan wasconftK
Pecos on July 2 for continuin£ij|
nal enterprise and cocaine s j
gling. A continuing-criminal| t0
prise conviction carries a manj r j
20-year sentence and a possilf
sentence.
But the judge noted that Flanagan
was intelligent and had three college
degrees, including those in engi
neering and law. As a practicing at
torney, Flanagan had “commanded
good fees” and “the respect of other
lawyers and the court,” the judge
continued.
In the trial’s closing arpj
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mil
Donald of El Paso noted dial]
gan in 1986 had importer
pounds of cocaine, valued all
per ounce. The cocaine i
amount to almost $40 millr
UHt sales.