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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
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Women from across the nation volunteer for study
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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.
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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
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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
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leged attack, and her family have moved outfi ideas pri
state, Wright said. i'-breathles
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land, Ohio, as the defendant. The Kirby vacuJet an agem
cleaner company is a division of Scott & Fetzer. iwte time lir
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