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Or come by our convenient location on the lower level of the Memorial Student Center. Monday - Friday *12 noon - 10 pm Friday - Saturday • 12 noon - 5 pm Lower Level MSC/J S The Battalion TATE Wednesday • September 10,19 Lfednes Court date set for senator Carthage Republican faces weapon and prostitution charges AUSTIN (AP) — State Sen. Drew Nixon will stand trial next week on misdemeanor charges of prostitution and illegally carrying a weapon, a Travis County judge decided Tuesday. Selection of the six-person jury that will hear the case against the Carthage Republican will begin Monday, County Court at Law Judge David Puryear decided at a hearing Nixon did not attend. Austin police arrested the lawmaker in front of a church during a Feb. 18 sting in which un dercover female officers posed as prostitutes. Court records show Nixon offered the officer $35 for oral sex. The senator has apologized for his arrest and has admitted talking to the female officer, but has declined to comment on their conversation. Nixon’s attorney, Dain Whitworth, would not comment on his client’s defense, but said the tri al could take up to 2 1/2 days to complete. The illegal weapon charge stems from a loaded pistol found under Nixon’s car seat at the time of the arrest. He did not have a permit to carry it. If convicted, Nixon faces up to six months in jail on the prostitution char ge and up to a year on the illegal weapon charge. However, he would not be forced from office. His current term ends in 2000. On Monday, Travis County Attorney Ken Police look for clues to body finds SAN ANTONIO (AP) — After an alyzing bone fragments dug up from a San Antonio couple’s back yard, police will begin examining other artifacts unearthed in the search for bodies at the home. Police have gathered more than 140 items in the search of Leonard and Monika Rizzo’s back yard. Re mains of the 44-year-old mother, last seen alive in May, were found there along with the scattered bones — dozens in l-to-2-inch fragments — of three other unidentified peo ple. No arrests have been made. Rizzo’s parents, Bill and Monika McKinney, scheduled a memorial service Tuesday night at Holy Name Catholic Church. Rizzo and his two adult sons say they will not attend and are plan ning a separate ceremony. According to a document filed with state District Judge Raymond Angelini, police searching the cou ple’s home looked for anything that could be used to “inflict death or serious bodily injury” or to cut or saw bones. They collected a bench grinder, four knives, a garbage disposal and a pair of pruning shears. Police also took six T-shirts from the Bandido motorcycle gang, a backyard barbecue pit where finger like bones were found, and assorted knives and gardening tools. aat v able Oden said there will be no plea bargain. “I don’t think the politics and the enforc ment should get mixed up,” is quoted assaji in Tuesday editions of the Austin Amelia Statesman. Bill Miller, a spokesperson for Nixon, saidj senator had not sought a plea bargain. Itball. Com “It’s always been straight ahead. We’rego; S e an infant to trial,” Miller said. ea dy challe In 1993, Nixon pleaded no contest in Dai m ics. For o County to a weapons charge after he was ant: helming exi: ed with three women in his car who police calt I Texas A&M known prostitutes. Nixon did not face a pro | overcome tl tution charge in that case. : lAfterrushi Convicted murderer faces lethal injection HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Condemned killer James Carl Lee Davis was set to die Tuesday evening for fatally beating a 15- year-old Austin girl in a vicious at tack that also claimed the lives of her two small brothers. Davis, 34, lived next door to the victims and once told a police of ficer to refer to him as “Mr. Mean.” He would be the 26th inmate to re ceive lethal injection in Texas this year, extending a record for execu tions in a single year. The unemployed roofer was sentenced to die for the March 3, 1984 rape-slaying of Yvette John son, 15, at her home. The girl, along with brothers Tyran, 6, and Tony, 4, were battered with a lead pipe. A cousin and another broth er at the house that night identi fied him as the attacker. The vic tims’ mother was out visiting a friend at the time of the attack. “This is my fate,” he said last week in a death row interview. “I don’t feel sorry for myself. I don’t expect nobody to feel sorry. I don’t expect any sympathy. “I think any death matters, but I don’t feel sorry for the surviving people because they had to lie to get a conviction.” Asked what he had learned af ter a dozen years on death row, he replied: “I’ve learned to hate a lot more efficiently.” “1 think he says things to shock, does things to achieve an effect on people,” said Brenda Kennedy, who prosecuted Davis and is now a Travis County Court-at-Law judge. “It’s very calculating on his part.” Ms. Kennedy recalled how Davis during his trial made inap propriate and obscene gestures to both her and the jury. “I don’t know if it’s just a bad case of antisocial sociopathic be havior,” she said. “I don’t have any doubt if placed back into society he’d be a continuing threat.” Asked if he would kill again, she answered: “No doubt in my mind whatsoever.” The victims’ cousin, Angela Va- nardo, who was 14 at the time, said she was awakened in the middle of the night when Davis grabbed her and began beating her with the pipe. Her screams awoke her cousin Yvette, who then cried out. Angela was released as the intrud er moved on to Yvette. Angela said she tied to a neighbor’s home to call police. Timothy Johnson, then 13, told authorities he was awakened by the screams of his sister and saw Davis appearing to be having sex with the girl, court documents say. Davis, who was arrested minutes later, said he was at home | the night of the murders andl week denied any involvement. Prosecutors, however, linked! clothing hidden behind Davis’resJ idence to him and Yvette Johnson I Semen samples taken fromtkjj victim also were tied to Davis.Ai the pipe, which he found forau thorities, was shown to have beenf used to beat and sodomize At the time, in 1984, it wasthe] worst single killing spree in Austin! since the infamous University of Texas Tower sniping siege by Chak Whitman, whose rampage nearly l years earlier claimed 16 lives. Travis County authorities sale Yvette died after 17 blows tohei head with the 2-foot section of lead pipe. Her brother, Tyran, was truck eight times with the same pipe.I Brother Tony had been hit six times. | Timothy Johnson told police! Davis rubbed the pipe against his j foot to see if he was awake, but he pretended to be asleep and hid un der a blanket to avoid any attack. Davis had no previous criminal record. He had been expelled froiTL the ninth grade after he was ac-f cased of pulling a knife on a teacher, jj In unsuccessful appeals, attorneys said Davis had mental probleir | because of an abusive childhood NO \ Court overturns lawsuit against UTS) SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a University ofTexas-San An tonio faculty member was not the victim of sex ual discrimination when the school denied her a promotion to full professor. The decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Ap peals in New Orleans reverses a lower court rul ing in favor of professor Betty Travis. The 5th Circuit determined there wasn’t enough evidence of bias in the case against UTSA. At the heart of the case is the changing nature of San Antonio’s only public four-year university. For years, UTSA primarily was a teaching institu tion, but officials have recently stressed research. UTSA President Samuel Kirkpatrick now re quires faculty members to distinguish them selves through scholarship, an area where Travis was found to be “marginally adequate,” accord ing to Monday’s ruling. That and not sexual discrimination was the basis for the school’s 1994 refusal to promote Travis to full professor, the court said. “We can find no more than a sliver of a sug gestion that sex had anything to do with this em ployment dispute,” the court wrote. Travis sued after Kirkpatrick refused her pro motion. The case came to trial in 1996 and, fol lowing a week of testimony, a federal court juiy sided with Travis. The university was ordered to make the “We can find no more than a sliver of a suggestion that sex had anything to do with this employment dispute.” 5TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS woman, who was awarded tenure in 1985, a full professor and pay $70,000 in back pay and damages. That order also was reversed byils 5th Circuit. “We are pleased that the court found we did ft discriminate on the basis of sex,” Kirkpatricksai “This has always been a case about the stand® one needs to merit promotion to full professoi Travis did not immediately return a telephft; message left by The Associated Press on Tuesd: Both years she applied for hill professor inti; r school’s math department, Ms. Travis wasret ommended by a committee of Division ofMatk ematics and Statistics faculty, a committeet College of Sciences faculty and the college dear But Kirkpatrick and another final reviewerfei her scholarship and the number of articlesstn had published were too thin. The 5th Circuit also validated Kirkpatricb record of promoting female faculty members Since 1990, when he came to UTSA, 12of2! male applicants and seven of 13 female appi cants have been promoted from associatet full professor. 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