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STATE & LOCAL
Monday, October 23,1989
Plano coach gets reassigned
after charges of fondling girl
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PLANO (AP) — A high school
basketball coach accused of fondling
a cheerleader has been reassigned
as part of an agreement that in
cludes his resignation next year.
Gary Moseley, head basketball
coach at Plano East Senior High
School, was placed on leave with pay
Sept. 21, a month after the 16-year-
old girl complained he had touched
her breasts.
The agreement for Moseley’s re
assignment and resignation was
reached by his attorney, Steve Rog
ers, and school officials during a
three-hour emergency school board
meeting early Saturday.
The board agreed to reassign
Moseley as assistant athletic direc
tor, pay $5,000 of his legal fees, and
give him a good reference.
Moseley agreed to resign from
the school district, effective when
his contract expires Aug. 31, 1990.
Moseley has been with the Plano In
dependent School District for 18
years.
School board President Allan
Bird said the board’s agreement
does not mean board members be
lieve Moseley is guilty of the allega
tion.
“You can say it (the reassignment)
was a mini-promotion,” Bird said.
Moseley, 42, was unavailable for
comment. His attorney said his cli
ent supports the agreement.
“He just feels that he has given
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Photo by Kathy Haveman
Squeaky Clean
Pre-med Society President Tammy Gerdes and a fundraiser Sunday afternoon at Jack-in-the-Box
Vice President Dan Kisthardt dry off a car during on Texas Avenue in College Station.
everything that he possibly could to
basketball and it was time for him to
move on,” Rogers said. “He doesn’t
feel that his long and loyal service
with the Plano ISD has been re
turned with loyalty.”
Board member Howard Shapiro
said it was hard to accept Moseley’s
resignation but the allegations
would have detracted from the bas
ketball season, which begins Mon
day.
“I think it’s best for all concerned,
considering the allegations,” Sha
piro said. “It was a hard decision.”
The student, who has requested
anonymity, said she was talking to
Moseley in his office during
cheerleading practice Aug. 24 when
he shut the door, turned off the
lights and pulled her close to him,
touching her breasts.
She said she yelled, and Moseley
told her he was just kidding.
The girl filed a complaint with
the Plano Police Department, but
police decided against seeking a
charge of indecency with a child
against the coach.
The girl later filed a Class C mis
demeanor assault complaint in
Plano Municipal Court against Mo
seley.
A trial on that complaint is sched
uled for next month.
Howard Breckenridge, president
of the Plano chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and an adviser to
the girl’s parents, said Saturday that
he was not satisfied with the
agreement reached between Mose
ley and the school board.
“They (school board members)
are trying to hide and protect this
man,” Breckenridge said. “I’m more
concerned with what the courts are
going to say.”
Breckenridge also said he was dis
turbed that the board had decided
to pay Moseley’s legal fees.
“I think that it’s a shame that the
school board will misappropriate
tax funds to pay for the wrongs that
the coach has done,” he said.
Minority conference
builds leadership skills
By Steven Patrick
Of The Battalion Staff
A minority leadership confer
ence held in Dallas Friday pro
vided Texas A&M students with
the chance to increase both lead
ership skills and their under
standing of different cultures.
Sponsored by and held at the
University of Texas at Dallas, the
conference, “Preparing Today’s
Minority Students for the Lead
ership Challenges of Tomorrow,”
was designed to increase current
leadership abilities and the future
success of minority student lead
ers.
Leaders from various student
organizations at A&M attended
the conference including rep
resentatives from the Corps of
Cadets, Fish Camp, the MSC, and
Student Government.
While many students, such as
Michelle Alvarado, MSC chair
man of the Committee for the
Awareness of Mexican-American
Culture, viewed the conference as
a means to gain new information
and sharpen leadership skills;
others saw the conference as a
way to increase cultural under
standing.
Dub Oliver, a graduate assis
tant in the Department of Stu
dent Affairs, said his primary rea
son for attending the conference
was to learn ways to improve the
University through increased mi
nority involvement.
“I hoped to gain a better un
derstanding of how minority stu
dent leaders can impact the cam
pus, and how we can further
involve minorities in regions of
our campus to create a better
overall environment, a life-learn
ing environment at A&M,” Oliver
said.
Todd Guidry, assistant direc
tor of Fish Camp, said he also at
tended the conference to increase
his understanding of minorities
as well as to learn how to increase
minority representation at Fish
Camp.
“I hardly think I could speak to
a minority group without under
standing the concerns of minori
ties,” Guidry said.
Gloria Williams, head coordi
nator of the conference, said
goals of the minority conference
included furthering the devel
opment of existing leadership
skills and providing visible role
models for minority students and
professionals in the local area.
Co-coordinator Steven Brooks
said another goal of the confer
ence was to “open lines of com
munication between different
university students.”
Speakers at the conference,
representing minority leaders
from the Dallas region, discussed
ways of improving leadership
skills and how minorities can fur
ther increase their leadership
roles in such fields as education
and business.
A common view of the speak
ers was that success necessarily in
volved open-mindedness and the
ability to take in new ideas.
Hugh Robinson, chairman and
chief executive officer of TETRA
Group, Southland Corporation,
spoke on the significance of di
verse thinking. Robinson attrib
uted his business success to “a di
verse background, a willingness
to try new things, and a belief in
challenging myself.”
Williams said this was the first
year of the conference, and its de
velopment was inspired by her at
tendance at the Southwest Black
Leadership Conference held last
January at A&M.
Williams said she wanted to
create a conference similar to
A&M’s that would also be affor
dable for students from the local
Dallas area to attend.
Attendence to the conference
by A&M students and staff was
encouraged through Multicultu
ral Conference Outreach, a pro
gram that supports conferences
which contribute to cultural di
versity.
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Wednesday, Oct. 25 from 10-4pm
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