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Page 11 Says UT-EP Prayer and Sports Do Not Mix EL PASO, TX (CPS)-University of Texas-El Paso football coach Bill Yung has agreed to keep religious practices off the playing field after he provoked the wrath of a number of spectators by holding a public team prayer meeting before a re cent game against Baylor University. “It was really a spontaneous thing,” says Bill Walker, UTEP’s communica tions director. “Grant Teaff, the Baylor coach, and Yung are good friends, and decided to hold a joint team prayer out on the field before the game.” But the incident subsequently drew the ire of spectators and observers who felt the religious service was out of place at a state school and an event which has no ostensi ble connection to religion anyway. “We did receive some complaints, and some letters appeared in the campus and local El Paso papers, in all cases condem ning the prayer at the football game,” Walker says. “Our coach has told us it was a spon taneous, one-shot event, and likened it to a locker room prayer between the two teams.” The on-field prayer—in which athletes from both teams huddled in the middle of the field and recited the Lord’s Prayer—also drew extra attention “because it wasn’t broadcast over the p.a. system, and a lot of people didn’t know what was going on,” Walker adds. “Bill Yung is a very religious man,” ex plains a spokeswoman in UTEP’s sports information department. “One of the players wanted to lead the team in praver on the field. It’s not a customary gesture on the field, but they may do it (regularly) in the privacy of their own locker room before the game.” Yung saw this as a special occasion because he was orice TeaK’s assistant at Baylor, notes Maxey Parrish of Baylor’s sports information office. “Both men are dedicated Christians, and didn’t see anything wrong with it given the circumstances (of their first meeting as opposing coaches),” Parrish says. Baylor, however, is a private, Baptist- run institution, and regularly holds a “convocation” before its games, he notes. State schools, of course, have been legal ly barred from mixing religion and events they sponsor since 1962, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against forcing peo ple to pray in classrooms. President Reagan, among others, unsuc cessfully has pushed to “restore” group prayer in public schools, but all efforts have been rebuffed by the courts. In October, a federal judge overturned a New Jersey law which required a “moment of silence” in state schools. U.S. District Judge Dickinson Debevoise ruled the law advanced “the religion of some persons by mandating a period when all students and teachers must assume the traditional posture of prayer of some religious groups.” The Supreme Court overturned a similar Texas community’s school prayer or dinance earlier in 1983. At UTEP, “there is no likelihood of (on-field prayers) happening again,” Walker says, no matter how badly the team does. UTEP, incidentally, lost the Baylor game. APMISSION PACKET I Sex - $5.00 I Sets - iT.OO 3 SeXi - $9.60 ♦ 4 Siti - SU.OO ■ You Can Be A Winner This Christmas At PARKVIEW BINGO 3065 Waughtown Ave. Parkview Shopping Center 784-4101 5 - 13.00 * ! FREE 6 SeXi - 15.00 ♦ 2 FREE I FREE 7 SiUi - 17.05 * f FREE ■ J FREE S SeU - 19.DD * I FREE EAXLV BimS/UlGHT OULS $1 pzA. ofi 3 $2 KlUG m> QUEEW RECEIVE $5.00 EVERy TIME THEIR NUMBER IS CALLEP PURTMG THE UJGHT !!! GAME ••••SPECIAL GAME TYPE lojily &vid6 [Caltzn.'Choice) EaxCy Bl^d Choice) PRIZE $10.00 exLch $35.00 Any Two BotgoA VzAJticiit Poutn "W” Row M/CofinzA^ Sp^td TfUptz uj/5th Ball Wild PROGRESSIVE LETTER X $50.00 $75.00 $50.00 $100.00 $200/ coru $50.00 BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK Von pick thz tacky znvzZopz a.nd u)in $5.00 to $75.00 Instant. Caih !!! b Voublz Bingo (Wo Po&tage.] $50.00 7 TfUple. {Any ^iuee) $75.00 !•••• BONANZA (GUARAAfTEEP) 9-12 CoveAoll Any Bingo $25.00 Any Two Bingo6' $25.00 Any ThAee Sijigoi $50.00 CoveAoU $400,00 tJ-cgkt Owl6 Mill follow AzgaloA game p^ogcun. Hoaie. E^jc'tyonc moA-t AegisteA to A.ejnain in game oAea. CkildA.en moA-t Aemain with poAent6 during the garner {they have to be A.egl&teA.ed al6o). Wo ^totting o^ ipecials. Wo outride ^ood # - • •1# 1 1 — - 1ST - LETTER X VERTICAL VOUH THE "W" ROW IMSm SQUARE 4 CORKERS POSTAGE STAMP AW SINGLE BINGO I I i \T\ □cnnc ccnaa*nnnn:: nncLjs nnnnr: CDUDZ rBnsHn □Icinci AHV SrUGLE BINGO ANV SINGLE BINGO CRAZy JCITE Ray’s Bone Fish House Serving the Biggest and the Best Bone Fish in Town GOOD LUCK RAMS Business Hours: Mon.-Tue.-Wed - 11:00am to 10:00pm Thur. - 11:00am to 11:00pm Fri. and Sat - 11:00am to 1:00am Open On Sunday Call in Orders Accepted Specials: 5 pc Fish Box - $2.99 3 Hot Dogs - $1.50 ALL ORDERS PREPARED AS YOU ORDER Nothing Precooked All W-S.S.U. Students with I.D. will receive s 10'%discount Telephone 724-2019 »r AMcmcA*** cfofjyftnMts jKf W7 or AiMiemcA*^ douytinuts KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS So good you can’t get home without eating one. Delivered fresh daily
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