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January 2,1997
San Antonio Rggisier
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The ionan, whom police helped probation and there have been no
to remain In seclusion
could not he reached for
Two friends of the woman said
stecame to them for help Monday
morning. The friends, who asked
not to be identified, said the woman
told, them the men threatened to
haCItar if she didn’t “act like she
was "having fun” during the attack.
“She had braises all over her
legs and back,” one of the friends
said. “She was having trouble walk-
ing. It took over an hour to get her
cabned-fown.”
The friends said the woman, who
works in a cosmetics department at
an area shopping mall, met the play-
ers while working as a makeup art-
ist for the Dallas Cowboys cheer-
leaders. They said she told them she
stopped by Mr. Williams' home Sun-
day evening to offer holiday greet-
ings.
The woman told police she saw
illegal drugs inside Mr. Williams’
home during the incident. Police
said -they did not seize any sizable
amounts of drugs, but they are test-
ing several confiscated items for
possible drug residue.
BVestigators plan to meet Thurs-
day~With Mr. Irvin and Mr. Wil-
liam§, said Sgt. Jim Chandler, police
spokesman. The woman who report-
ed the rape will remain in seclusion
until she has a secure place to stay,
he said.
“We’re providing her with a safe
place to stay,” Sgt. Chandler said.
“She had concerns about her safety,
and we’re Just trying to ensure her
safety.”
It was unclear Tuesday precisely
how the rape report surfaced. Po-
lice said they first learned of the
allegations Monday evening, when
theljpoman contacted a Dallas po-
lled detective she knows. That de-
tectfye referred her to the depart-
ment’s sexual assaults unit, Lt.
Goefien said.
the woman’s friends said she
did$ot report the incident Sunday
nigQT because she was scared and
dld]Dt want her boyfriend to learn
of t**!^ attack. The friends said the
woiuan has known several Cowboys
players, including Mr. Irvin and Mr.
Williams, for several years, but nev-
er had A sexual relationship with
any of them.
“She thinks everybody is nice
just like she is,” one of the friends
said. “She is extremely naive.”
Lt. Goelden said the delay in re
porting the incident or any previ-
ous relationship the woman mry
complaints about itM
Mr. West termed the ellegHon
against Mr. Irvin a “rumor.”
“I wish the media would allow
Michael to take care of his business
on probation and do what he wants
to do, which is play football,” he
said.
The Cowboys team, which plays
the Carolina Panthers in an NFC
,p£yo4FMfme Sunday, issued a brief
statement about the incident.
“We understand that the appro-
priate authorities are looking into
this situation,” said Rich Dalrym-
ple, the team’s public relations di-
rector. “We do not know all of the
details involved, but we are trying
to gather as much information as
possible. We may have more to say
at a later time.”
If police file charges against Mr.
Irvin, he could face up to 20 years in
prison for violating his probation
on a felony drug possession charge.
A judge could order Mr. Irvin to
prison without a conviction on any
new charge.
Mr. Irvin pleaded no contest to
the drug charge in July and was
sentenced to four years of deferred
adjudication probation. The charge
stemmed from the arrest of a top-
less dancer who was with Mr. Irvin
in an Irving motel room where po-
lice found cocaine and marijuana.
Dallas County prosecutors said
Tuesday that if police do file charg-
es against Mr. Irvin, they will seek
to have the receiver’s probation re-
voked.
“We want the police to finish
their investigation and get those
results to us so that we’ll know
whether to go forward or not," said
Assistant District Attorney Mike
Gillett. “And if we do proceed, we’ll
do it expeditiously.”
State District Judge Manny Alva-
rez warned Mr. Irvin at the time of
his sentencing that violating his
probation could land him in prison.
Shortly after the sentencing, Judge
Alvarez said in an interview that he
was inclined to be strict with proba-
tion violators.
"Once they come back to me, I’m
very impatient with excuses," the
judge said.
On Tuesday, the judge refused to
comment specifically on how he
might handle a request to revoke
Mr. Irvin’s probation, saying only
that he would treat Mr. Irvin fairly.
He did say that the allegations, if
true, would warrant a harsher pun-
ishment than violating probation
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have had with the players does not in some other way such as failing to \
hamper the investigation.
“If she was sexually assaulted as
alleged, it doesn’t matter what hap-
pened previously,” Lt. Goelden said.
Dallas police searched Mr. Wil- judge said, “and yes, it’s viewed
liams’ home in the 4700 block of more severely and dealt with more
Hollow Crest Court for several severely.”
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vlde^cainera JOne of the videotape^
.. 1* ■. ^ stemmed from an October 1904 inci-
dent in which Mr. Williams crashed
According to the police report, bis car on a ramp leading from t.Ri
Mr. Irvin held a gun to her head Freeway to the Dallas North Toll-
while the two other men had oral way
sex and intercourse with her Any charges in the case would
against her will. be filed in Collin County, where Mr.
The incident reportedly took wuiiams’ home is located. Collin
place in the same house where a County District Attorney Tom
17-year-old woman reported being O’Connell said any cases filed will
sexually assaulted by Mr. Williams not be tnnm»»w-AH by the suspects’
and a friend of his in April 1995. celebrity status.
The woman later declined to seek “Vmi Hr»n*t nufwwHiy ,vwhiiitt
War of words
over 'Ebonics*
Debate intensifies after
Calif, school system’s vote
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As pundits, pwdagnp** and
poets pile on in the uproar over
black English, some ling
say there’s nothing wrong with
officially recognizing African-
American vernacular as a dis-
tinct system of expression.
The American Speech-Lan-
guage-Hearlng Association,
which certifies speech and Ian-
guage professionals, recog-
nized this in 1962 and classiled
black English, or “Ebonics,” as
a separate dialect with its own
lexicon, syntax and semantics.
Some schools are even using
black English to teach stu-
dents. In Ann Arbor, Mich., a
1979 lawsuit by black parents
led to a court order that teach-
ers be trained to recognize
black English and learn howto
teach standard English without
forcing students to give up
their primary language.
“Children come to school
speaking a language that is rag-
ular, systematic, with well-or-
ganized rules,” says Stanford
University linguist John Rick-
ford. “It is not slang.”
By recognizing this, and us-
ing some of the teaching tech-
niques of bilingual education,
teachers can be more effective
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vice.
“This would be a violation of the
laws of the state of Texas,” the
Jackson: Attacks Oakland deci-
sion on 'Ebonics’
in helping students improve
their skills, he says.
The debate intensified last
week when the Oakland, Calif.,
school board voted to stop
treating black English as mere-
ly “incorrect English” and rec-
ognize it as a separate language
that can slow some students’
learning of standard EngiMi
In the outcry that followed
— from people as diverse as
activist Jesse Jackson, poet
Maya Angelou and conserva-
tive commentator Rush Lim-
baugh — some critics assumed
that Oakland planned to teach
only Ebonics.
Not so, Oakland officials say,
although the resolution they
ity standpoint and a truth f and-
point.”
Point from Page 1
School District Board and has been
chairman of the City's Civil Service
Commission.
Williams, however, may need to
woric more with inner core East Side
neighborhood organizations to bol-
ster his name recognition and politi-
cal stock in this contest
prosecution after reaching a civil the case in terms of the who, as
settlement with Mr. williams. Nei- much as you do the what,” he said,
ther Mr. Williams nor the friend “We're looking at it from a credibU-
M. LAUER, ANCHORMAN: nbc n<** t. ex-
pected to make it official today: Today newsreader Matt
Lauer succeeds Bryant Guipbel on the No. 1-ranked morn-
ing show next month. Ann Curry is expected to fill in as
newsreader, but no replacement for Lauer has been
picked. Gumbel has said he’ll make no decision on his fu-
ture until he leaves Jan. 3. But the latest burn is that CBS
News, thought to be a distant contender for his services, is
back in die game and mak-
ing a hard push. ABC News
Is considered the front-run-
ner, but ABC News chief
Room Arledge says not to
count out NBC, which he
predicts will fnake *4i major
move to keep him.” Gumbbl
“Is terrific Anybody would
like to have him.”
RISING STAR? At
ter two weeks subbing on
the news de* at ABCs.
Good Momma America, the
buzz on 20/20 correspon-
dent Deborah Roberts: Ex-
ecs liked what they saw.
Specifically, the glvennd-
. take between her and GMA
* weatherman Spencer Christian. Roberts, wife of Today
weatherman A1 Roker, left DaUtom NBC tor 2000 In 1965
end has bed a thirty low profile at ABC News. But thereh
talk shell be filling la more — an GMA a-1 elsewhere.
Robert* who has anchored • handftil of weekend edMoro
of World News Tonight, is expected to do more of that
Roberta: Raportw may get a
Ngfrar profit on ABC.
* Nancy Bohmhn isa72 yea old city
retiree with solid church, social, civic
and career credentials. She worked
for several years as administrator of
the Metropolitan Office on Aging
and the Elderly.
Older voters apparently will hold
the key to her making it to City Hall
as a council member. An ally of
current Mayor BiD Thornton, who is
naming for re election in a tough
race himself, Bohman is considered
a conservative and status quo-type
person. f . .
As the campaign progresses, she
will have to show voters that she is
indeed serious about serving all the
constituents of District 1
*Byron Miller, at 39, is the youngest
contender so for. He has yet to dis-
play a working campaign organiza-
tion, but there is lots of time left to do
so. Obviously, be is an underdog
MiDer is a member of the Freeman
CoUerora board of managers and isa
chief officer of the family founded
Miller Child Development Center.
There you have it, a quick look at
the four eatnntsas they get this sore
to be interesting political mat un-
derway for 1997.
pareed tort dear on that point.
Oakland ofidals say they
wantonly to do a better job of
teaching standard English to
blnck students, who make up
more than half the S2,009etu-
dent district and nearly three-
quarters of the students in re-
medial English eounea
“We are not going to glorify
black English,” school board
President Lucilla Harrison
said. “But weYe not going to de-
value children who use it”
Alan Purve* a former Eng-
lish professor, says most teach-
ers already understand that
denigrating students is not an
effective teaching method.
“Oakland is just (recogniz-
ing) the standard operating
teaching procedures of the last
20 years,” Purves says.
The school district also
hoped to win federal bilingual
education hinds to help pay for
teacher training
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