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Page 2 • Thursday, June 10, 1999 — N EWS The he Bi .P- BU professor Worker injured in fall at construction site wins lawsuit AUSTIN (AP) — A former Bay lor University professor who claims he was fired for question ing whether the Baptist school’s president put too much emphasis on faculty members’ religious be liefs has won a judgment from a Waco jury. Jurors decided Wednesday that the private university in Waco, north of Austin, breached its contract with John Fox, a for mer anthropology professor. While not ruling on the reasons for his firing, they said he was not given due process and a fair hear ing before his tenure was re voked. Fox was awarded $153,788 for two years’ back wages. “This has significance for tenured professors everywhere,” Fox, who in 1996 called for a no- confidence vote in the Faculty Senate on President Robert B. Sloan Jr.’s leadership, said. Fox, who was fired in 1997, was among several faculty mem bers who had questioned whether Sloan was making reli gious beliefs too large a part of professors’ teaching qualifica tions. Baylor officials, who said Fox was fired because of unrelated behavior, characterized the ver dict as “a hollow victory for the plaintiff. ” “Although the jurors appar ently concluded that Baylor made some procedural errors in its dismissal of Dr. Fox, we be lieve the relatively small finan cial award indicates that the jury agreed with the university’s po sition that Dr. Fox should not be teaching at the institution,” Bay lor spokesperson Larry Brumley said in a statement. Brumley said the university has not decided whether to appeal the state district court decision. LaNelle McNamara, Fox’s attor ney, said the main issue at the month-long trial was the concept of tenure, which typically guarantees professors life-time job security. “The significance is that the president of Baylor University was attempting to change the rules of tenure at the university and retroactively apply them to professors that had been tenured in the past, and in doing so, they deprived him of due process and a fair hearing,” McNamara said. oi u Ha i i Lz n ‘ Bdt Th HpriJ P|>e ir A construction worker fell from a scaffold at the site of The Callaway House Wednesday, battalion chief George Spain of the College Ste* , Fire Department said. The worker fell from the fourth floor to the roof of the first floor, sustaining multiple fractures, Spain said. OffeH' TERRY ROBERSOtr the College Station Medical Center said the unidentified worker was still being evaluated last night. Study warns of cigar risks Nutz Smokers twice as likely to develop mouth, throat cancer AP — In yet another warning about the dangers of one of the hottest trends of the ’90s, a study found that cigar smokers are twice as likely as nonsmokers to get cancer of the mouth, throat and lungs. They also run about 1 1/2 times the risk of all smoking-re lated cancers together and are more likely to develop heart dis ease or chronic obstructive pul monary disease. The study, published in Thurs day’s New England Journal of Medicine, was conducted by Dr. Carlos Iribarren, an epidemiolo gist at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oak land, Calif., who examined the medical records of 1,546 cigar smokers and 16,228 nonsmokers from 1971 through 1995. The risks are not as high as they are for cigarette smokers be cause cigar smokers do not usu ally inhale the smoke and hold it in their lungs. “Our study shows conclusively that there are very serious health consequences associated with chronic cigar use." Dr. Carlos Iribarren Study’s conductor Cigarette smokers have about three times as high a risk of coro nary heart disease as nonsmok ers, 10 times the risk of lung can cer and 20 to 25 times the risk of coronary heart disease, Iribarren said. “But our study shows con clusively that there are very se rious health consequences as sociated with chronic cigar use,” he said. Surgeon General David Satcher, who has been trying to get the Federal Trade Commis sion to require warning labels on cigars like those on ciga rettes, said public opinion has made informing people of the danger more difficult. “Cigar smoking seems to have become a fad,” he said. “The im plication is that people don’t think its dangerous. 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