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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.
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the College Station Medical Center said the unidentified worker was still being evaluated last night.
Study warns of cigar risks
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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. This is more
very solid evidence of the dangers
of cigar smoking.”
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