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The Battalion
Thursday, October 1,
White UT students claim discriminatio
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AUSTIN— Admission policies
at the University of Texas law
school are under challenge by two
women who contend they were
denied admission because they
are white.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District
Court, Cheryl J. Hopwood of Uni
versal City and Stephanie C.
Haynes of Austin said they are
victims of reverse discrimination.
The women said they met re
quirements and would have been
admitted to the UT law school this
fall were it not for preferential ad
mission policies that give special
treatment to blacks and Hispanics.
Their suit was filed Tuesday,
one day after the federal officials
announced they had found that
the minority admissions program
of the law school at the University
of California at Berkeley violated
civil rights laws. The government
said that program improperly
shielded minorities from competi
tion with other applicants.
Austin lawyer Steven W. Smith,
who represents Hopwood and
Haynes, said it was no accident
that the suit against UT was filed
after the Berkeley announcement.
"Our claim is similar to the one
made in the Berkeley case. We're
saying that anyone who gets fed
eral funds can't discriminate on
the basis of race," Smith said.
UT officials defended their ad
missions policies, saying they are
in compliance with federal laws.
They also said UT was different
from Berkeley.
"We're in conformity with the
Office of Civil Rights. We're very
proud of this program. We have a
significant number of minorities,"
said UT law school dean Mark
Yudof.
"In a state as diverse as Texas,
it is very important that minorities
have access to the legal profes
sion," he said.
Law school figures show about
22 percent of the 512 students ad
mitted to UT's law school this fall
are minorities. Of those, 11
black, 55 Hispanic and 16 Asia
The lawsuit names the stall
Texas and the LIT system as
fendants. It asks that the cour,
clare UT's affirmative action^
cies unconstitutional. The
women also are seeking to be
mitted to next fall's law sell
freshman class and are asl
monetary damages thatinc
attorney fees.
UT officials said there are
ferences between UT
ley.
"One difference is that thiss
had segregation (by law),
a history of discrimination,"!
of said.
Convict receives discharge from prison after
serving over 26 years for rape-strangulation
Man poses no threat to society after 1965 slaying of student, attorney says
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HUNTSVILLE— James C. Cross, convicted
in the 1965 rape-strangulation of a University
of Texas student, walked out of prison a free
man Wednesday after serving more than 26
years behind bars.
Cross, who confessed to two slayings but
was only tried in one, had served enough
"good time" on his 80-year sentence to be dis
charged from prison with no parole restric
tions. He had been denied parole 20 times.
"He's completed his sentence," prison
spokesman Charles Brown said. "Once he's
completed his sentence he's free.'"
The gray-haired Cross, now 50, walked
down the steps of the Walls Unit about 8 a.m.
Wednesday.
Without responding to reporters' questions,
he jumped into the back seat of his attorney's
blue Cadillac, putting his arm around the
women he had married several years ago
while out of prison for a second trial. The car
then sped away.
Although the slayings of the two students
stunned the state. Cross has led a seemingly
quiet life in prison, earning several college de
grees.
His attorney, David Botsford, read a brief
statement Wednesday in which he promised
Cross would be a productive member of soci
ety and posed no threat to the public.
"Prison guards, wardens, psychiatrists, psy
chologists and friends that have known Jim
Cross, lived with Jim Cross, seen him on a day-
to-day basis over the past 27 years, unani
mously say he will not be a danger, he will not
be a threat," Botsford said.
Brown said Cross "has been pretty industri
ous" while in prison. "As far as model prison
er, I don't use that term."
Cross was sentenced for the July 18, 1965,
slaying of Susan Rigsby, 21, of Dallas. Rigsby
and her Chi Omega sorority sister, 21-year-old
Shirley Stark, who had dated Cross, stopped at
Cross' apartment on their way to register for
school.
Both women were strangled. Their bodies
were found 12 days later in an Austin field.
Cross initially helped console the victims'
families and offered police phony clues in the
search for the two women, but he confessed
two weeks after the slayings.
Cross, then a 22-year-old English major at
UT, told police he put the two bodies in his
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closet, covered them with clothes and wet
visit friends.
He brought a date to the apartmentlii
that night and had sex with her a fewfeelfn
where the bodies were stashed.
Travis County jurors found Cross
Miss Rigsby's capital murder in 1966,seta
ing him to life in prison.
In the 1970s, the murder case aeainsthii
volving Stark was dismissed, with prosecut
saying the facts and circumstances alreadvii
been presented during Rigsby's trial andth
key witness had since died.
Cross won a second trial in Rigsby's
after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about del
mining whether a defendant is competenl
stand trial became state law and retroactive
He posted bond and gained freedom dm
a six-week period in 1987 while awaiting:
second trial.
While out, he married Gloria Nancanc
whom he met three years earlier when
conducted a prison interview with him w
working on ner master's degree in crimr
justice.
Jurors in the second trial convicted Cross
murder with malice and sentenced him to!
years.
Freight train
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IRVING— More than a
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Wednesday, said authoritieswi
evacuated some homes and te
nesses while a hazardous mat®
als team checked for spills.
Several of the 15 derailed®
were leaking, but the material!
were not determined to betosii
or hazardous, an Irving FireDf
partment spokesman said.
Cars from the Burlingtoj
Northern freight train d(
about 11:30 a.m. near dowrtov'
Irving, a suburb west of Dallas.
Occupants of houses and store
in a two-block area just westo
the tracks were evacuated, saii
Chet Marder, a fire departing
dispatcher.
Some tankers contained liq^
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did not pose a danger.
Irving officials closed
streets at the derailment site.
Oil rig blows
out in Gulf
Spill creates sli
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