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DALLAS — A sorority's na
tional office on Wednesday sent
a representative to the University
of North Texas to investigate ac
cusations its chapter there partic
ipated in hazing and should be
disciplined.
The Denton school, meanwhile,
decided to delay a decision on
possible punishment against Al
pha Kappa Alpha that could
range from verbal admonishment
to probation or an outright ban
from campus.
Jacqueline Edwards, a board
member representing the sorori
ty's south central region, will re
port back to the Chicago-based or-
ganization, said Dr. Mary Shy
Scott, the sorority's international
president in Atlanta.
"She is taking a look at what
Alpha Kappa Alpha representative
sent to Denton to investigate hazing
the school says, what law enforce
ment says and also Alpha Kappa
Alpha's policy against hazing,"
said Scott.
"Every member knows this. The
practice of hazing and other unac
ceptable practices during the mem
bership intake process are not toler
ated in Alpha Kappa Alpha."
The sorority's Denton chapter
has been suspended from group
activities since the hazing was re
ported in April. The university
had planned to decide on the
chapter's future Wednesday.
"There will not be a decision
today," said Susan Rogers, UNT
associate vice president-market
ing and communications. •
The sorority's national office
told the school it would forward
its recommendations to Denton by
next week.
"We will not make a decision
until they have made their recom
mendations," Rogers said.
Scott said the UNT chapter's
situation will also be discussed
at a national sorority board meet
ing during the first weekend in
November.
"We have thousands of mem
bers in that area" of North Texas,
she said.
Seven members of the sorority
were charged with hazing, a mis
demeanor. Five of them were con
victed last month and sentenced
to 90 days in jail. They were ac
cused of striking the pledges with
paddles and food and forcinl
them to eat hot peppers.
But the other two membetil
have not yet been tried.
Rogers said the pledges werett|
portedly harassed over the last yeJ
in a series of separate attacks.Prl
Reynolds, a Denton County assif
tant district attorney, said sororiti
members were accused of "verbal
mental and physical hazing."
The sorority chapter's DentcJ
telephone number was not listed [
The members convicted inSe:|
temher, in addition to their90-dii
jail sentences, received oneyeai;l
probation and 24 to 40 hoursofl
community service.
Dean of Students Greg Sawvtl
said that UNT will considerill
sorority's previous hazing recoi:|
in making its decision. Hesaidiui|
versity regulations also ban phyj
cal and psychological hazing.
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HUNTSVILLE — A Texas appeals court Wednes
day blocked the execution of a Vermont man about
six hours before he was to be put to death for rob
bing and fatally stabbing an Alabama man more than
10 years ago.
Robert Drew, 34, of West Pawlet, Vt., faced lethal
injection early Thursday for the Feb. 22, 1983 slaying
of Jeffrey Mays, 17, of Birmingham, Ala. Testimony
showed Mays was stabbed in the heart and his throat
was slashed before his body was dumped in a ditch
off Interstate 10 east of Hous
ton.
more important to hold due process of law than
rapid executions," Kuby said. "I am surprised and
pleased. It shows that maybe this awesome machin
ery of death which seems to grind on and on and on
isn't unstoppable, and in some cases at least fairness
and justice will triumph.”
"It's off," Bill Zapalac, an assistant Texas attorney
general, said.
He said an appeal by his office of the civil court's
decision to the Texas Supreme Court would require a
written record of the hearing Tuesday and that could
not be completed in time to comply with the execu
tion warrant, which expires at sunrise Thursday.
Drew had just arrived at
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by Drew s attorneys, the 3rd now has £ elt } t ' s more important cell outside the death cham-
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her when word of the re
prieve arrived, prison
spokesman Charles Brown
said. He immediately was re-
-Ronald Kuby, turned to the Ellis Unit, about
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ClCjCnSC attorney home to the Texas death row.
Drew would have been
the 16th inmate to be put to
Court of Appeals in Austin
issued an order barring the to hold due prOCGSS of law than
execution rapid executions."
"Our ruling today should
not be construed as any indi
cation of how this Court will
ultimately decide the appeal
on the merits," the court
said. "We act only to give us
sufficient time to perform our basic constitutional
and statutory duty of reviewing the propriety of the
district court's decision.
"Clearly, to proceed with the execution as sched
uled would affect the parties' right pending the dis
position of the appeal from the district court order
and would destroy the subject matter of the lawsuit,"
the court said.
The appeal by attorney Ronald Kuby came after a
state district court judge in Austin denied a request
that would have forced the state Board of Pardons
and Paroles to hold a hearing on Drew's claims of in
nocence. The board earlier Wednesday refused, on a
15-0 vote, to deny Drew a clemency hearing, com
mute his sentence or grant him a 120-day reprieve.
"It's gratifying at least one court now has felt it's
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far are the highest in the nation.
"I'm not scared," Drew said last week. "I don't
see being scared would be any good."
Drew was hitchhiking from Florida to Oklahoma
when he was picked up by Mays in Lake Charles, La.
Drew contends Mays was killed by a companion in
the car, Ernest Puralewski, who is serving a 60-year
prison term after pleading guilty to murder.
Puralewski, from Chicago, has recanted his testi
mony that named Drew as a participant in the slay
ing and says he alone did it.
"I didn't do this," Drew said. "I don't feel it's
right to die for something I didn't do."
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BOSTON — Doctors have
gathered the first direct, scien
tific proof that using sunscree:
really does prevent skin cancer
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cream has long been recom
mended as a way to protect tb
skin from the sun's harmfulei- !
fects, including cancer.
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based on circumstantial evi
dence, such as animal experi
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summer-long ex penmen:
showing that people who use!
sunscreen before going outsits
cut their chances of develops
the first signs of skin cancer.
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Rigel of New York Universi:
Medical School. "It's the fir;
time we have been able to
finitively show that sunsem:
lowers the risk of getting ski:
cancer later in life."
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less form of skin cancer. The
also signal increased risko:
melanoma, the much rarer an!
lethal skin cancer, although
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these cancers.
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morning with a church service
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Week has the same theme as I-
year, Leday said she thinks t-'
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