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The North Texas Daily
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1980
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY. DENTON. TEXAS
64TH YEAR NO. 50
Dilbeck testifies to receiving money from Taylor
By CAROL RUST
Staff Writer
Former NT student Karen Dilbeck
testified in a deposition Tuesday that
City Attorney C.J. Taylor gave her
envelopes with money to file her lawsuit
against Dr. Donald L. Whaley, director
of NT's Center for Behavioral Studies.
Ms Dilbeck is suing Dr. Whaley, al-
leging she was sexually harassed by him
while undergoing counseling in 1977.
Dr. Whaley has filed a countersuit
against Ms. Dilbeck, charging her suit
libeled him.
Dr. Whaley's attorney, G. Brockett
Irwin, introduced into evidence two
envelopes with Taylor's return address
on them and three 3-by-4 foot
photographs of Ms. Dilbeck's diary
entries that said, "Meet C.J. at counter
for money."
Taylor is a former student legal ad-
viser at NT.
At an Oct. 27 pretrial hearing, Taylor
testified he had envelopes printed with
his return address on them for his per-
sonal use and that he did not give Ms.
Dilbeck financial assistance for her suit
against Dr. Whaley. Ms. Dilbeck
testified that she did not know if the
money she said she received from Taylor
was his or someone else's.
In a telephone conversation taped
July 4 by Ms. Dilbeck's former co-
worker, Kris Anderson, Ms. Dilbeck
said she thought the money she said was
passed to her by Taylor might have been
given to him by J. Newton Rayzor.
ON THE TAPE Ms. Dilbeck said,
"He (Rayzor) would definitely, most
definitely be on our side. He's suing
Hermas Miller right now for libel.
Hermas is one of the big a s—
at NT. Vandiver fired him in Dec-
ember. And he was one of Whaley's
... I mean ... he told him 'I'm going to
get those a over at the
Counseling Center for hurting Dr.
Whaley."'
Ms. Dilbeck said she received "several
or four" envelopes from Taylor contain-
ing money. She said she received $400 or
$500 at most, and that the money was
supposedly given anonymously from dif-
ferent people for filing and retainer fees
in the lawsuit.
Baptist clergyman
pleads for funding
DALLAS (AP)—Members of the
First Baptist Church of Dallas — the
largest Southern Baptist congregation in
the world — are being asked to dredge
up as much as $7,000 each to cover ris-
ing expenses that threaten to "kill us,
slaughter us, murder us, slay us, an-
nihilate us, pulverize us," according to
the pastor Dr. W.A. Criswell.
The fiery and often controversial Dr.
Criswell made two appeals for money
this week, admitting for the first time
that the church is struggling with its
finances.
Dr. Criswell said the 2i,000-member
congregation must pay for a $7.5 million
parking garage or it may have to sell one
of the church's buildings. First Baptist
carries a $10.3 million debt on four of
the more than one dozen buildings it
owns in a lucrative 6-block area in
downtown Dallas, he said.
"We can carry the debt on other
properties if we pay for the parking
building," he said in a tearful appeal for
money from the pulpit Sunday.
He asked members to pay $7,000 each
for 1,100 parking spaces in the new gar-
age to "liberate the church from the
blood-draining $1.4 million a year we
pay in interest."
Interest payments are taken from the
weekly offering.
The parking garage is open to the
public during the week, and the church
pays taxes on the revenue it earns from
public parking.
"Parking is increasingly needed," he
said. "This building is a blessing of God
. . . Take a parking space for $7,000 and
pay for it. Some will take several, others
just a part. Give anything, just so it is a
sacrifice."
First Baptist also is $600,000 behind
in paying its expenses, said Dr. Criswell.
who took over the dying church 36 years
ago and promoted it to one of the largest
and most powerful in the denomination.
The vast church complex includes
educational buildings, a gymnasium and
a bowling alley. Sunday services are
broadcast with church-owned television
equipment and conducted in several
languages and in sign language.
"The debt is too large," Dr. Criswell
said in a newsletter. "The interest pay-
ments kill us."
The church-owned buildings are a gift
from the Lord, the 70-year-old pastor
wrote, and the congregation should "ask
the Lord to help us pay for them."
Church leaders asked the congrega-
tion in October to subscribe to a $5.6
million budget for 1981. The congrega-
tion had exceeded the budget goal on
Nov. 7 by $700,000, Criswell said.
Iran, Algeria confer
on terms of release
BLIRUT, Lebanon (AP) —The
speaker of the Iranian Parliament said
Tuesday that Iran was discussing with
Algerian intermediaries ways the United
States could meet the terms for releasing
the 52 U.S. hostages. He declined to say
whether the demands were negotiable.
Parliamentary speaker Hashemi Raf-
sanjani addressed a news conference
here as U.S. officials in Washington
awaited an Iranian message requesting
further explanation of the U.S. position.
The message was being delivered by
three Algerian envoys scheduled to ar-
rive Tuesday.
The message was being kept secret un-
til it was handed over to Secretary of
State Edmund S. M uskie, but officials in
On the tape, Ms. Dilbeck said Taylor
was the go-between, and the situation
was "just like a big spy thing." Ms.
Dilbeck said she subsequently dis-
covered money to continue the suit was
being cut off. She said Taylor told her
"it didn't pan out."
Ms. Dilbeck testified she filed the suit
because she felt responsible for people at
NT who lost or were losing their jobs
because they had backed her up in a
previous complaint against Dr. Whaley.
In another taped telephone conversa-
tion, Ms. Dilbeck said, "Taylor was try-
ing to get me to do something because I
guess they all knew they were going to be
fired." She said she was refering to Drs.
Peter Cimbolic, Rollin Sinninger and
John Hippie in that conversation.
In a conversation taped April 4, Ms.
Dilbeck said she decided to file suit
because the university was "hatcheting
and getting rid of a bunch of people."
Ms. Dilbeck said former University
Attorney Jim Neill sent memos to
various departments of the university
seeking Ms. Dilbecks' private counseling
records. She said when she heard about
it, she felt like she was "being backed
into a corner." She said she believed she
had to file the suit to protect herself.
After a recess for lunch, her attorney,
Charles Davis, said he did not believe
Ms. Dilbeck understood his warnings to
her regarding the Fifth Amendment
because of her emotional state that
morning.
SI A IE DISTRICT Judge Bob
Scofield asked him if he believed she was
mentally competent to be a plaintiff in a
lawsuit, and after Davis said she was,
Scofield ruled she would continue to re-
spond to deposition questions.
Irwin spent most of Tuesday's five-
hour hearing attempting to establish Ms.
Dilbe.ck's sexual promiscuity prior to
receiving counseling from Dr, Whaley.
Her petition states that she had little sex-
ual experience prior to the counseling.
During the hearing, Irwin twice
renewed his request that Ms. Dilbeck be
incarcerated for six months or until she
begins to cooperate during cross-
examination. Scofield denied his re-
quests.
Scofield dismissed NT from the suit
Monday Ms. Dilbeck charged the un-
iversity with negligence in hiring Dr.
Whaley and allowing him to continue
his employment at NT.
The plaintiffs petition charged that
Dr. Whaley used state property while
sexually harassing Ms. Dilbeck. Under
the Texas Tort Claims Act, the state
waives sovereign mmunity when there is
a case of personal injury or death due to
the use or condition of state property.
However, Scofield ruled that the use
of state property described in the peti-
tion was not encompassed by the Texas
Tort Claims Act.
Irwin continued to seek a file he
claims contains exoneration of Dr.
Whaley in a previous complaint. He al-
leges the file was illegally removed from
NT and that a picture of Dr. Whaley,
now in possession of Assistant Attorney
General James P Allison, came from the
file.
In an Oct. 27 pretrial hearing, Irwin
called NT employee Karen Stevenson to
the witness stand. Mrs. Stevenson ex-
amined the picture of Dr. Whaley and
testified that "News and Information
Service" was stamped on the back of it.
However, Irwin said he recently
Washington said they did not expect it
to amount to a yes-or-no response to
U.S. proposals flown to Algiers by
Deputy Secretary of State Warren M.
Christopher.
"I would imagine we are going to have
some difficult questions on financial
matters and timing," said a U.S. official,
who asked not to be identified.
Rafsanjani, speaking in Arabic, told
Lebanese reporters that "discussions are
under way in Tehran between the Ira-
nian government and an Algerian
delegation on how the terms can be met."
He made no mention of the contents
of the Iranian message and dodged a
question on whether Iran's terms for the
captives' release were negotiable.
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Photo by MARK WILLIAMS
BIRD'S EYE VIEW—The tower of the Administration
Building can be seen through trees losing their leaves
as winter sets in. Temperatures today are expected in
the low 40s with a slight chance of freezing rain and
snow. Highs are expected in the 50s Thursday for
Thanksgiving Day.
received a call from Rick Gray of the
Texas Attorney General's office, who
said the picture had "Public Information
Office" stamped on the back of it.
Davis questioned Ms. Dilbeck about
her association with Ms. Anderson, who
taped most of the telephone conversa-
tions used as evidence against Ms.
Dilbeck.
MS. Oil.BECK said she had known
Ms. Anderson since May 1980, and that
Ms. Anderson had made sexual ad-
vances to her. She said they had en-
gaged in group sex together, and that
Ms. Anderson had encouraged her to
perform various sexual acts.
Ms. Dilbeck said Ms. Anderson had
stolen the appointment book, envelopes
and a copy of a letter introduced as
evidence for the defendant.
During an Oct. 27 pretrial hearing,
Irwin produced as evidence II poster-
sized photographs depicting Ms.
Dilbeck engaged in sexual acts. Ms.
Dilbeck testified Tuesday that Ms.
Anderson had hidden cameras and a
strobe light in her apartment to get pic-
tures to discredit her.
Witnesses
link suspect
to shooting
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man con-
victed in a 1968 murder-for-hire plot was
seen near the home of federal judge John
H Wood Jr. a short time before Wood
was killed by a sniper, the San Antonio
Express reported Tuesday.
Witnesses, one of 'hom underwent
hypnosis to aid his memory of the
events, told the FBI they saw Charles V.
Harrelson in the judge's townhouse
complex the morning of May 29, 1979,
the day Wood was shot, as he got in his
car to drive to work, the newspaper said.
Tuesday the FBI had filed no charges
in Wood's death or in the assassination
attempt against Assistant U.S. Attorney
James Kerr in November 1978, despite
what the bureau described as one of the
most intensive investigations in its
history.
Harrelson, 42, was convicted as the
trigger man in the death of a Hearne,
Tx., grain dealer and was paroled in
1978. He told a San Antonio grand jury
investigate the Wood killing he was in
Dallas the day the 63-vear-otd judge —
known as Maximum John" for his stiff
drug-offense sentences — died from a
gunshot wound in his back.
The newspaper quoted unidentified
sources as saying Harrelson has been a
suspect in Wood's death since the
shooting.
Nine women reportedly viewed last
Thursday's heavily guarded Houston
lineup which included Harrelson, who is
now being held on state charges of pos-
session of cocaine, altering gambling
paraphernalia and illegallly carrying a
firearm.
Attorney Bob Tarrant of Houston,
who represents Harrelson on the
charges, said U.S. Attorney Jamie Boyd
told him two months ago that Harrelson
had offered a sound alibi to the grand
jury which met last October.
"Boyd told me they had checked his
alibi and found that it was true, that he
had an excellent alibi," Tarrant told the
Express Monday. "He told me that Mr.
Harrelson had been a prime suspect
from the beginning, but that after check-
ing Harrelson's alibi, they shifted the in-
vestigation to other suspects.
"Now, all of a sudden, it has shifted
back over here to Harrelson," Tarrant
said. "I think they're doing something
unfair."
Universities attempt to deter financial challenges
Administrators receive commissioner's proposals for reaching economic stability
Editor's note: T his is the second in u series con-
cerning state plans for higher education.
By KAREN BALL
Staff Writer
Efforts must be made by universities in the
coming decade to reach and maintain economic
stability, Dr. Kenneth Ashworth, commissioner
of higher education, said in a recent long-range
report on financial problems facing Texas
schools.
The challenges universities are predicted to
face in the '80s, declining student enrollments,
inflating expenses and tight budgets, must be
countered by the strategic planning of governing
boards and administrators, Dr. Ashworth said.
NT representatives are planning to attend a
Dec. 4 hearing on Dr. Ashworth's economic
plan, which is scheduled to be presented to the
Texas College Coordinating Board for con-
sideration Jan. 30.
Dr. Ashworth made recommendations in the
report to the 67th Legislature, which is
scheduled to convene in January, and to colleges
and universities.
"Several schools have streamlined ad-
ministrative structures and initiated program
reviews to eliminate certain programs with
declining student interest. Some institutions also
have instituted campus-wide systems for more
effective monitoring of energy usage," the report
states.
UNIVERSITIES should ensure that "ap-
propriate" policies are being enacted to prevent
or minimize the risks of illegal actions and
improprities of judgement made by university
administrators and governing boards, the report
states.
"In Texas, a number of events and disclosures
have been damaging to the reputation of in-
dividual schools and the higher education com-
munity," he said.
He lists damaging events and disclosures as il-
legal and imprudent investment policies, the
transfer of funds between institutional founda-
tions and school accounts, disregard for stan-
dard bidding procedures, exorbitant expen-
ditures for presidents' homes, flagrant misuse of
legislative intent in scholarship programs to
qualify nonresident students for resident tuition,
falsified enrollment reports and injudicious and
inappropriate use of public funds.
Utility bills, which have increased annually,
comprise about 12 percent of the costs of higher
education, he said. "Institutions should con-
tinue to improve the efficiency of energy usage
in all facilities through building modification
and improvements in energy monitoring."
Tenure policies should be re-evaluated by uni-
versities so that they are in accordance with
guidelines published by the Coordinating Board
OR. ASHWORTH also recommended that
universities determine policies for selecting new
presidents, with carefully defined definitions of
leadership roles.
In a more specific recommendation, Dr,
Ashworth said the University of Texas and
Texas A&M University systems should use part
of their incomes from the Permanent University
Fund to establish endowed chairs. "Since most
privately endowed chairs arc in law, engineering
and business, the fund income can be especially
useful to bring continuing support to the liberal
arts, humanities, fine arts and sciences and other
fields not usually supported by private en-
dowment," the report states.
Re-evaluations of curricula also should be
considered so universities can meet the changing
needs of students, including a re-evaluation of
the conflict of general education for society vs.
short-term employment interests of students.
NEW PROGRAMS, such as new doctoral
programs, should be considered carefully before
being adopted. Dr. Ashworth recommended He
said cost effectiveness and a possible need for
reallocating or reducing funding for present
programs arc factors to be considered when
implementing new programs.
"Larger universities facing continuing growth
of students should establish staggered dates of
acceptance notices to admit highest ranking stu-
dents early and postpone acceptance of less
qualified students until later, encouraging them
to apply and be accepted at other schools," the
report states
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