The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1980 Page: 4 of 16
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Karen Strecker
O'Halr's son repents,
leads counter-crusade
Bill Murray, son of famed
American Atheist Madalyn
Murray O'Hair, visited Austin
recently with plans to create a
new foundation that will combat
atheism.
"1 want to apologize personally
to the people of Austin for my part
in the establishment of the Atheist
Center in Austin," Murray said at
a press conference. The Daily
Texas reports that Murray was
active in the atheistic movement
until this past April, when he
publicly renounced his mother and
her beliefs. He says his conversion
began "several years ago" when he
bagan to realize "the negative and
destructive work" being carried
out by the American Atheist
Center. The William J. Murray
Faith Foundation, based in
Washington, will either be a profit
or non-profit organization,
depending whether or not the
group decides to become
politically active. Supporting the
reinstatement of school prayer
with the passage of Senate Bill
n450 is the foundation's immediate
goal, but their pro-religious
platform will touch many other
controversial subjects, such as the
oppositions of federally funded
abortions.
While son Bill was recanting his
past and making plans for the
future, Mom O'Hair initiated a
new weekly television program to
be shown in Austin. "American
Atheist news Forum" will expose
to the masses the hypocrisy and
greed in today's organized religion,
reports The Battalion. O'Hair
hopes the show will counteract the
"enormous amount of time" that
are given to religion on television
and radio networks. Written and
directed by O'Hair, the show is
"going to be dealing mostly in
exposes of what's going on in the
religious community, how
organized religion interferes with
the political process, the churches'
vast real estate holdings and how
organized religion rips people off
selling bonds in violation of SEC
regulations and then defaults."
The show will be seen on Austin
Community Television Station, a
local cable affiliate, Tuesdays at
8:30 pm.
"We oppose any effort to allow
the government to intrude in the
most sacred of parental
responsibilities, even if the parents
have chosen to give their children
no religious training, The
Battalion quotes the Rev. M.
William Howard, president of the
national Council of Churches in a
statement he made before
Congress. These comments were
given at the opening of the House
Judiciary subcommittee on courts,
civil liberties and the ad-
ministration of justice, which is
examining a controversial
proposal that would remove
Supreme Court jurisdiction over
the issue of school prayers.
Dr. Robert C. Campbell,
general secretary of the American
Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.,
said the "government's lack of
competence in religious matters is
a fundamental legal principle of
the United States. The
involvement of government in
writing a prayer for others to say,
in appointing someone or
everyone to say a prayer, in
defining prayer, is tantamount to
the destruction of the true nature
of prayer."
Campbell further concluded
that there is general confusion over
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the interpretation of the Court's
1962 and 1963 decisions
concerning school prayer. "God
was not excluded from schools.
Any construction of the decisions
which asserts that individual free
exercise of religion was curtailed is
false. Only the power of the
government was curtailed."
Baylor coed graduates
despite Playboy pose
Baylor coed Judy Wardlaw will
be permitted to receive her
diploma from Baylor as planned,
in spite of threats from University
officials concerning her recent
debut in the September issue of
Playboy. Miss Wardlaw, who
posed semi-nude in the "Girls of
the Southwest Conference" article,
will not be allowed to complete
graduation exercises, however.
Baylor University has experienced
considerable hoopla from local
and national media since their
announcement last spring that any
Well water used
city restrictions
by Anita Gonzalez
Now that Houston Mayor
Pro Tem Johnny Goyen has
reinstated in Mayor Jim
McConn's absence the emergency
city ordinance on water
restrictions in the city, Rice
administration officials are
emphasizing that water used on
campus lawns comes froih the
university's' own wells.
According to Vice President for
Administration William Akers,
Rice's wells are filled with water
from pumps in Sewall Hall that
collect the campus' large amount
ol underground water. This water
would normally be pumped into
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Baylor student who posed for and
identified themselves as such in
articles of the "Girls of the
Southwest Conference" genre
would be subject to disciplinary
action. In an apparent about-face,
university officials announced
this month that Miss Wardlaw, the
only Baylor undergrad who defied
this restriction, would be able to
receive her degree from Baylor
after all.
"There was never really any
problem," Wardlaw told The
University Daily, referring to
Baylor administration officials'
decision. "They just didn't want
me to go through the graduation
ceremony; they were afraid it
might turn into a circus.
Graduation is important, and they
didn't want to turn it into a fiasco.
They didn't want to get any more
bad press. The first thing 1 heard
from them was 'Come on over and
drink a Coke with us, and we'll talk
about it [graduation]."
for Rice lawns;
being obeyed
sewer lines but is enstead diverted
to water the Quad lawns.
Other well water is electrically or
steam driven through a turbine
that produces low pressure steam.
This water is normally used for the
kitchens and showers but is now
being condensed to provide water
for the grounds.
The city ordinance, originally
passed in June, calls for the
restriction of water used for
outside watering. All outside
watering may occur between 12:00
noon and 5:00 pm. Hand-held
hoses may be used between 10:00
and 11:00 am. Outside watering
prohibited at any other time. The
ordinance was lifted by McConn
August 19 and reinstated Monday.
During the summer's heat wave,
the turbine was not in use and city
water was exclusively used. Thus
Rice was committed to following
the city ordinance.
Russell Sullivan, Physical Plant
Mechanical Engineer, stressed that
using Rice's well water helps the
city of Houston by taking this area
off the city system thus reducing
the strain for water city-wide.
"The city's problem is
distribution," explained Sullivan.
"Our use of well water of course
reduces that distribution load."
Sullivan added that any water
produced by the underground
flow, some 400 to 800 gallons a
minute, and not used by the
university, is allowed to flow into
city pumps. The university thus
bypasses nearly 600 to 800 gallons
a minute to the city.
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1980, newspaper, August 28, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245444/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.