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Page 2 • The Battalion Mf Friday • November 18, Baylor regents consider presidential candidate^ Naming of university official suffers delay, professors not supportive of leading contender WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor University facul ty members have asked the board of regents to delay naming a new president until they can re view the credentials of the leading candidate. The board was expected to accept the nomina tion of Thomas E. Corts Thursday with a final vote scheduled Friday, according to several pub lished reports citing unnamed sources. Corts, president of Samford University, a Bap tist college in Birmingham, Ala., would replace Herbert Reynolds, who will become chancellor of the university next summer. However, some Baylor faculty members oppose Corts, and the Faculty Senate voted Tuesday to request it be given more of a say in the selection. Corts, 53, came under fire in 1979 for dismiss ing six professors, including three with tenure, when he was president of Wingate College, a Baptist school near Charlotte, N.C. The American Association of University Pro fessors investigated the firings and published an article criticizing Corts’ actions and the college’s academic freedom and tenure policies. The Baylor Faculty Senate has endorsed a letter written by 15 former presidents of the Baylor chap ter of the American Association of University Pro fessors asking the regents to “thoroughly check out the Wingate story should Corts be the nominee.” Faculty Senate President Raymond Cannon said he did not want to comment about the spe cific actions taken in the meeting. “It is fair to say that the faculty is concerned about issues of academic freedom, but that is all I’d like to say at this time,” Cannon was quoted as saying in Thursday’s editions of the Waco Tri bune-Herald. A message left at Corts’ Samford University office Thursday was not immediately returned. The selection has been overseen by a 14-mem ber search committee, which recommends didate to the board of regents. The board could either concur with the mendation or reject it and delay the appoint® Corts, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., president of Samford University since September, he led the 3,200-student distance itself from the Alabama Baptist Cob tion by removing the state convention’s ro! election of university trustees. Baylor, which has 12,000 students, took a ilar action in removing itself from control o! Baptist General Convention of Texas in IS Both schools said they loosened ties w state Baptist bodies because they feared mentalists might gain control of their bo regents. jie Wrai [will be s< & Dian iarley Ke Rec [drive to b jmmons >re infon dent C< becom | counseli jjiled. Ap] ferson Ha: Irry Hope ‘Abortion pill’ clinical trials draw great response Women from across the nation volunteer for study Jury orders vacuum cleaner company to pay $1.7 million in Seguin rape lawsuit jgie Spe trip to Sh i call Pet exas A& ets: An o in the MS' HOUSTON (AP) — Women from across Texas, as well as other states, have volun teered for the first widespread U.S. clinical tri als of the so-called abortion pill. Since Planned Parenthood of Houston an nounced Oct. 27 that it would participate in the nationwide study, about 100 women have called for information, said Kitty Kahn, the clinic’s surgical services director. The Houston clinic is one of more than a dozen in the United States that will administer the drug, known as RU-486, to about 2,100 women. "Calls have come from as far away as Iowa, and we’ve had a lot from Louisiana, a lot from the Dallas, San Antonio, New Orleans areas, besides the Houston area,” Kahn said. The trials will be conducted in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine. The trials will likely begin in a few weeks to a month. Information from the trials will be used in applying for the registration of a new drug with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The FDA must then confirm the medicine’s safety, as well as its effectiveness, before it can be distributed. Women who participate will take three RU- 486 tablets the first day. Thirty-six to 46 hours later, women will take a second medicine called a prostaglandin, which helps induce contractions. The RU-486 regimen has been under devel opment since 1980 and studied in clinical trials since 1982. In Europe, more than 150,000 women have successfully used RU-486, and more than 52,000 women have used the same combination of pills that is being tested in the U.S. RU-486, also called mifepristone, has been approved for use in the United Kingdom, Swe den, France and China, although it has not been distributed in China. The New York-based Population Council ob tained approval to test it in this country more than a decade ago, but efforts to bring it to the U.S. have languished because of regulatory dif ficulties and other problems. Last May, the drug’s French manufacturer, Roussel Uclaf, said it would donate U.S. rights to the drug to the Population Council, which selected the sites for the trials. Anti-abortion protesters are a fixture out side the doors of the fortress-like clinic, and protests are expected during the trials. However, Susan Nenney, the clinic’s spokes woman, said the number of protesters has di minished jsince the clinic obtained a court order requiring protesters to rdptaip a certain dis tance from the property. Case sparks concern over sales representatives' background checks SC Nova: 30 p.m. in gaming ? in the T In call 84E ck Grac ure for will take [parking k ation call AUSTIN (AP) — A jury awarded $1.7 million to a woman who said she was raped by a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman who had a criminal record. The in-home rape case proves the need for thorough background checks of door-to-door sales people, the woman’s lawyer says. “Our position was that Kirby should have re quired some kind of background check,” said attor ney Larry Wright. “In this case, the company did not call prior employers or anybody. “Kirby requires the only way its vacuum clean ers can be sold is through personal home demon stration,” Wright said. “That is the company’s choice, but it must have an obligation to make sure its (sales representa tives) are not rapists.” Clark Aspy, a lawyer for Kirby, said that the company should not be responsible, under any terms, for paying the damages. Aspy remonstrat ed that the people who sell Kirby vacuum cleaners are independent contractors. The company offers very extensive training for its various distributors, and Kirby officials tell its distributors to do background checks, he said. “They have a three-volume set of manuals that contain at least 18 separate warnings about doing iilippint •rde background checks,” Aspy said. Len Sena, owner of the Kirby sales Antonio that contracted with Carter, has boll requirements for background checks of salf pie. Aspy said that Sena has employees who sure the background checks are done. The verdict, returned Tuesday, will mostdi nitely be appealed, Aspy said. A jury determined that Kirby and the cob? ny’s area distributors should pay $1.7 milliti damages to a Seguin woman who claimed that was raped in her home on March 26, 1993. Tk fender was positively identified as 43-year Mickey Lea Carter. Carter, who lived in Seguin at the time, mPUDAD J probation after being convicted of indecency r: — The fh child, Wright said. sday of a Carter has been indicted, but he hasn’t te isist borde tried in the sexual assault case, Wright said, dominated Carter’s probation was revoked, and he is r: tations of serving out a prison term, Wright said. ing little ti Wright said the alleged assault occurred wk jhcrete sole the woman’s 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daui The Bordei ter were asleep in other rooms. peration C The woman, who was 28 at the time of thell attempt 1 leged attack, and her family have moved outfi ideas pri state, Wright said. i'-breathles The suit named the Scott & Fetzer Co. of Gel through j land, Ohio, as the defendant. The Kirby vacuJet an agem cleaner company is a division of Scott & Fetzer. iwte time lir The lawsuit also named Kirby distributes “1 think it h New Braunfels and S&n Antonio who-'recrf'iteractive,” .B and contracted with Carter. 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