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A study in faith
Wiews on academic freedom at church-affiliated schools examined
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the Mormon church-owned
righam Young University are more
ontent to have their academic free-
|om limited than are professors at
iaptist-affiliated Baylor University in
aco and Catholic Notre Dame, a
itudy found.
Less than one-third of BYU facul-
agree they should have unre-
tricted freedom to explore or write
about academic issues that question
or challenge church doctrine, ac-
:ording to a Baylor-BYU study.
In contrast, 70 percent of Baylor
faculty and 75 percent of Notre
ame faculty agree they should be
fee to pursue any idea, even if it
uestions tenets of faith.
About 15 percent of the BYU fac-
Ity support unlimited inquiry into
objects that might weaken The
hurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
aints’ support of BYU.
“It probably indicates how much
tronger the framework is here for
aith-based learning,” Keith Wilson,
i BYU religious-studies professor
who administered the Baylor survey
in campus, said. “It appears that
Jaylor and Notre Dame universities
nave shifted so that the more domi-
overataifftant sphere is the intellectual sphere,
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“This says that when we have an
issue that strains at the very roots of
these two ways of learning, we will
defer to the faith system as a higher
“[The faculty of
BYU] will defer to
the faith system as
a higher priority”
— Keith Wilson
Brigham Young University professor
priority,” Wilson said.
A second study on academic free
dom at BYU made a similar finding.
The survey, published in the current
issue of the journal Dialogue found
66 percent of BYU faculty agree they
should avoid research that might
draw into question Mormon or uni
versity procedures. The survey was
conducted last year by then-under-
graduate psychology student Paul
M. Rose.
Both surveys found a high degree
of acceptance of university policies
regarding academic exploration,
with most faculty reporting they feel
unfettered in their ability to discuss
controversial or unpopular ideas.
In the Rose study, nearly 92 per
cent of respondents said there is no
“widespread pattern” of infringe
ment on academic freedom at BYU.
The Baylor-BYU study found 88 per
cent of the faculty, report experienc
ing more academic freedom at BYU
than at other universities where they
have worked.
The Baylor-BYU study is part of
Bailer’s “Faith and Learning Pro
ject,” launched in 1995, which
looked at how faculty at five church-
affiliated universities make sense of
their religious orientation. In addi
tion to BYU, Baylor and Notre Dame,
the project included Boston College
and Christian-based Pepperdine.
The BYU portion of the project
will be published in next month’s
BYU Studies. Baylor professors
Michael Beaty and Larry Lyon were
co-authors of the survey.
Lyon told The Salt Lake Tri
bune that the varied faculty re
sponses to academic freedom
highlight the researchers’ argu
ment that religious institutions
are as different from each other as
they are from secular schools.
14-year-old to face murder charges
HOUSTON (AP) — A 14-year-old boy accused of
atally stabbing a fellow student with a screwdriver
oon will face murder charges, authorities said.
The seventh-grade suspect, whose name was with-
teld, remained in custody yesterday on aggravated as
sault charges stemming from the Wednesday attack
lywelht" )nSamuel Avila, 13.
hancesioa Police said the older boy admitted stabbing Avila in
?atreinaife behead during an 8:30 a.m. fight in the second-floor
tallway of Deady Middle School at in southeast Hous-
Avila was pronounced dead eight hours later at a
orsesep nearby hospital.
Prosecutors have decided to upgrade the suspect’s
charge to murder but have not decided whether to
againreta seek to have him tried as an adult, said Elizabeth God
win, chief of the Harris County District Attorney’s ju-
Cage’sd venile division.
A detention hearing has been set for this morning,
and Godwin said the murder charge would be filed as
soon as paperwork is complete.
Meanwhile, classes at the got under way yesterday
with an increased police presence.
“We do have beefed up security there today,” Hous
ton Independent School District (HISD) spokesperson
Holly Roper said. “We also brought in a counseling
team including four psychologists and two extra coun
selors for any students that need to talk.”
Several parents who accompanied students to
school worried aloud about safety.
“It kind of shocked me,” Lisa Jent said. “Being here
at the school where you’re children go, it’s kind of
scary. I wanted to make sure their security was all right
and everything. ”
Investigators now believe the fight grew out of a
two-week-old dispute between rival gangs, HISD po
lice Sgt. John Campos said.
“The two boys have not been documented as
gang members, but we do believe it [stabbing] was
gang-related. ... The screwdriver had gang symbols
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