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Wednesday, May 3,1989 The Battalion Page 5
Officials allow boy
to miss Friday class
for Moslem sabbath
ARLINGTON (AP) — A father’s
request for his son to attend Moslem
prayer services every Friday has
been granted by public school offi
cials who said the decision could af
fect hundreds of non-Christian stu
dents.
Arlington school officials said
Shawn Ryan, a Carter Junior High
School eighth-grader, will miss phys
ical education classes each Friday,
the Moslem sabbath, to attend 1 p.m.
prayer services at a local mosque.
Other Moslem students who applied
for time off may also qualify, officials
said.
“We want to do what’s right,”
Jerry McCullough, associate super
intendent for administration, said.
“And this is a tenet of their faith.”
Mohamed Salem, the 14-year-old
boy’s father, said he was relieved
about the decision.
“Now, even Texans are accepting
the fact that there are other kinds of
people besides Texans,” Salem said.
The decision was announced after
top school administrators’ regular
staff meeting Monday morning.
School officials said they would con
sider other Moslem students’ re
quests individually.
Salem began asking for the ex
cused absences three months ago,
but Friday was the first time school
officials granted his request.
“Certainly, this is the kind of deci
sion that gladdens the heart of a civil
libertarian, said Jim Baerwaldt,
spokesman for the Texas Civil Lib
erties Union’s greater Fort Worth
Chapter.
“And this is the kind of problem
that will be faced in a variety of
forms as Arlington becomes more
culturally diverse. I’m very pleased
that the schools have begun talking
about this.”
Boys who have reached puberty
must attend prayers on the sabbath
under Islamic law. The Texas Edu
cation Code recognizes students’
right to miss school for religious rea
sons.
“In terms of what the law says
about religious observances, if it is a
tenet of that person’s faith that he be
absent that day, then that is to be an
excused absence,” Joey Lozano,
Texas Education Agency spokes
man, said.
Committee offers poor
property of failed S&Ls
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House Banking Committee voted-
Tuesday to offer poor people and
non-profit groups the first chance to
buy houses and apartment buildings
owned by failed savings institutions.
As it pushed to finish four days of
debate on President Bush’s pro
posed S&L bailout, the panel
adopted, 33-18, an amendment of
fered by Rep. Barney Frank, D-
Mass.
The amendment requires the Res
olution Trust Corp., the new gov
ernment agency that will liquidate
failed S&Ls, to offer poor people
and non-profit groups at least a
three-month option to buy low-
priced residential properties.
Two Republicans joined the 31
Democrats on the panel in passing
the amendment. The eighteen Re
publicans opposing it argued that
Frank’s proposal would dangerously
restrict the government’s ability to
sell property from failed S&Ls, open
the government to lawsuits and
eventually add to the taxpayer cost
of the bailout.
“Anybody who knows anything
about rights of first refusal knows
they are incredible impediments,”
Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, said.
Frank, however, said his plan af
fected only $2 billion to $3 billion of
the $200 billion to $300 billion in
real estate the government will in
herit from sick institutions and ar
gued that it was a modest way to
channel a few of the benefits of the
massive S&L bill to the public.
Bush is proposing to spend $157
billion over the next decade, the
bulk of it from taxpayers, to close or
sell more than 500 S&Ls.
Court verdict opens door
to suits against MHMR
AUSTIN (AP) — A jury’s award
of $505,000 to a 70-year-old woman
who was improperly kept in public
mental hospitals for 51 years could
open the door to other suits.
The award to Opal Petty followed
16 days of deliberations by a Travis
County jury.
Officials said the verdict was sig
nificant, not so much because the
monetary settlement is large —
roughly the equivalent of $10,000
per year — but because the finding
of negligence against the Texas De
partment of Mental Health and
Mental Retardation clears the way
for similar legal action.
Dennis Garza, an assistant attor
ney general who defended the state
agency, said he will ask the court to
set the verdict aside because the
judge wouldn’t allow testimony that
Petty has received state funds to help
her resettle.
Although Petty was not available
for comment after Monday’s verdict,
family members expressed delight at
the verdict, which came after five
weeks of testimony and 16 days of
deliberation.
Were pleased, were excited,”
said Petty’s niece, Linda Kauffman
of San Angelo, who has been in Aus
tin for the trial. “(Petty’s future) is
now something we can talk about. ”
The jury award is “an opportunity
for Opal to spend the rest of her life
not only meeting her needs but en
joying her life for the first time,”
Kauffman said.
Petty, committed to Austin State
Hospital when she was 16, claimfed
her liberty was improperly denied
because she was held in the hospital,
and later at a state school in San An
gelo, against her will. She was re
leased in 1985 to a foster home.
Named as defendants were the
MHMR department and four
agency employees, including former
commissioner Dr. Dennis Miller.
Miller resigned in March 1988.
The jury in Judge Harley Clark’s
state District Court ruled that the in
dividual employees were not liable
for the damages and named the
MHMR staff as the party that
treated Petty negligently. It was the
first case of its type filed in Texas,
according to MHMR officials.
What’s Up
Wednesday
MUSIC PROGRAM/ DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & HUMANITIES:will
meet at noon in 402 Acaderpic Building for a brown bag concert. Contact Char
lotte at 845-3355 for more information.
EPISCOPAL STUDENT CENTERiwill meet at 6:15 p.m. for Holy Eucharist fol
lowed by dinner at the Episcopal Student Center.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY:will meet at 6 p.m. for a supper honoring graduat
ing seniors at A&M Presbyterian Church.
TRIATHLON CLUB:will meet at 6 p.m. for an end of semester gathering and of
ficer elections at Parkway Circle Apartments Swimming Pool, 401 Southwest
Parkway.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:will meet at noon. For more information call the
C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
S.O.T.A.(STUDENTS OVER TRADITIONAL AGE):will meet at 8 p.m. in 440
Heep Complex. For more information contact Nancy at 845-1741.
Thursday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E at 845-0280
for more information.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-
0280 for more information.
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no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
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