Wednesday, March 31,1993
The Battalion
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Senior yell candidates campaign in MSC
KYLE BURNETT/l'hc BaUnlwu
Senior yell leader candidates lead a crowd of about 100 students in along with junior yell leader hopefuls and student body president
a practice yell in the MSC Flagroom Tuesday night. The candidates, candidates, were given the opportunity to pitch their campaigns.
Four Baylor professors asked to retire
University could lose half of journalism faculty over gender bias complaints
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO— Administrators at Baylor Univer
sity have asked four journalism professors not
to return next semester in the wake of com
plaints involving gender bias, according to a
published report.
If the offers are accepted, the university's
journalism department could lose more than
half of its full-time faculty members. Baylor of
ficials have also decided not to renew another
professor's contract, according to the report
published March 17 by the Waco Tribune-Her-
ald.
Michael Bishop, acting department chair
man, offered an early retirement package to
tenured professors Loyal Gould, William Mc-
Corkle and Adrian Vaughan, according to the
newspaper.
The newspaper said that Baylor officials
also decided to present Professor Roger Van
Ommeren with a buyout option for the last
year of his contract.
The actions followed an internal investiga
tion by Baylor's Sexual Harassment Mediation
Board and the filing of a complaint by Sara
Stone, an associate journalism professor, with
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis
sion.
The complaint by Ms. Stone, filed in late.,
November, specifically alleged gender bias by
Gould, a former department chairman.
Gould, McCorkle and Van Ommeren all re
fused to comment on the matter, referring
questions to their attorneys.
"It did catch me by surprise," said Vaugh
an, who has been at Baylor for nearly 30 years.
"I really had no indication it was coming."
Vaughan said his attorney was reviewing
the Baylor bid.
The offers would be effective at the end of
the semester in May if accepted.
Baylor President Herbert Reynolds said a
new journalism department chairman will be
hired from outside the university. Gould
stepped down as chairman in earl ^December.
Reynolds said Ms. Stone's complaint was
related in part to her treatment iniggard to
time she spent off campus in professional du
ties.
Railey defense investigates reports of black man
seen running from home during night of attack
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO- The defense
grilled a Dallas detective Tuesday
about reports of a black man seen
running from the direction of ex-
minister Walker Railey's home the
night Railey's wife was attacked.
Railey's attorneys also zeroed
in on half a dozen other investiga
tive issues, including an unidenti
fied white van parked in the
neighborhood before the assault.
Even the defendant's younger
brother, Gary Railey, came under
scrutiny.
Testifying on cross-examina
tion, Det. Stan McNear said a jog
ger reported spotting the man
about 9:30 p.m. and said he was
running at a "high rate of speed."
The man was never identified
and McNear indicated the report
was but one of many that police
checked out and discarded after
the choking assault on Peggy Rai
ley April 21,1987.
Now, six years later, Mrs. Rai
ley, 44 and essentially brain dead.
lies in an East Texas nursing home
and her. husband is on trial for at
tempted murder.
Railey, 45, former pastor of the
6,000-member First United
Methodist Church of Dallas, says
he was researching a book at
Southern Methodist University at
the time his wife was attacked.
The state hopes to use mobile
phone records to prove Railey
was nowhere near the SMU cam
pus at the time he says he was in a
recorded telephone call.
Prosecutors allege the calls and
recordings were part of a counter
feit alibi and that Railey wanted
his wife out of the way so he
could continue his love affair with
Dallas psychologist Lucy Papillon.
State attorney Cecil Emerson
said Ms. Papillon probably will
testify Wednesday and no later
than Thursday.
The defense has hammered
away all week at police and crime
scene officers in an effort to show
that investigators overlooked, ig
nored or mishandled potential ev
idence.
In a brittle confrontation, lead
defense lawyer Doug Mulder
questioned Det. McNear about the
jogger's story, the white van, a
suspicious brown foreign car,
threatening phone calls, finger
prints and several other topics.
He also brought up some notes
in which Peggy Railey mentioned
her husband's brother, Gary Rai
ley.
"She didn't like him, did she?"
Mulder asked.
"No, sir," McNear replied.
"She said so in no uncertain
terms?"
"Yes, sir."
"In fact, she wished him dead,
didn't she?"
"Yes, sir."
Mulder made no attempt to ex
plain the relevance of the notes
but presumably the questioning
was part of a defense effort to cast
suspicion on people other than the
defendant.
Another Dallas police detective
testified that Railey complained
about having trouble with his
brother but the FBI had checked
him out.
As he skipped through differ
ent suspects and subjects, Mulder
quizzed McNear about the ex-
wife of another Dallas minister
who received threatening phone
calls two days after the attack on
Mrs. Railey.
"Did you know that...someone
was stalking and threatening" the
woman? Mulder asked.
"...It appeared to me to be
more of a prank call," McNear re
sponded.
Moments before excusing the
officer, Mulder questioned him
about Railey's appearance in the
early morning hours after the at
tack.
"Did you seek any scratches on
his face?" he asked.
"No, sir," he replied.
"Did you see any scratches on
his hands?"
"No, sir."
Prosecutors also brought wit
nesses to show that a security sys
tem was operative at the Railey
home in April 1987 but no alarm
sounded the night of the attack.
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