Tribunal fines fraternity
for rush rule violation
By DANE CLAUSSEN
Of ttw Emerald
The Inter-Fraternity Council
(IFC) Tribunal last night found
Sigma Phi Epsilon guilty of
violating a Rush rule prohibiting
recruiting practices They were
cited for recruiting during the
Sept 26 football game between
the University and the University
of Washington
Fraternity president Todd
Ruberg pled not guilty to the
charge, saying Rush par
ticipants were not present at the
house's pre-game tailgater
He said an invitation to Rush
participant Pat Maginnis, the
main piece of evidence tor the
prosecution, had been "poorly
worded ”
The Tribunal's contentions
that Sigma Phi violated the rule
by a note to Maginnis “were
pulled out of the sky,' Ruberq
said
Maginnis never received the
invitation. Ruberg added
The invitation, called "a form
of Rush" by prosecutor Scott
Wong, read, "Pat: Hope to see
you at the tailgater and barbque
(sic) this Saturday and Sunday
The Sig Eps ”
The five-m'an tribunal fined
Sigma Phi $100 and required
the house to submit to the !FC
itemized schedules of its Spring
and Fall 1981.
Tribunal chaiman Kurt Engel
mann admitted "it wasn’t a hor
rible violation,citing the
"pivotal" need for rules to be
enforced as fraternities initiate
programs during New Student
Week
Ruberg charged misconduct
on the part of the IFC for open
ing a personal invitation and for
not providing proper notice of
the tribunal
IFC President Mark Hallquist
said after the trial the penalty
was stiffer than the "30 hours of
community work" sanction on
Chi Psi house this summer
This is because Rush activi
KWAX fundraiser
nets over $20,000
From Portland to Roseburg,
Coos Bay to Bend, support
poured in last week for the
University's public radio station
KWAX — 91 1 FM — exceeded
its $20,000 tall fundraiser goal,
picking up 500 new contributors
in the process, according to
station manager Janet Kenney
Kenney says she is delighted
by the record amount of
pledges, which exceed the
previous record for a single
fundraiser by $4,000
Of the 840 people who
pledged an average of $24, 31
percent were either University
students, faculty or staff, she
says, illustrating the continuing
popularity of the station among
the University community
The private contributions will
supplement state funds, allow
ing KWAX to continue through
this academic year — or at least
until a spring fundraiser, Ken
ney says
Last spring, the Legislature
cut all state support for KWAX
from the University's budget
But after protests from listeners
around the state, legislators
later restored 75 percent of the
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budget for 1981-82
However, support for the
second year of the biennium is
uncertain, Kenney says Pres
Paul Olum's presentation at a
faculty meeting Oct 28 may give
KWAX some sense of direction,
she says
“I would hope that there's a
political possibility of some state
support," she says, adding that
listener support offers the ra
tionale for continued funding
Kenney says she thinks it's
clear both the University and its
radio station will have to rely on
more private support in the fu
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ties are new to New Student
Week and the IFC needs to
convince the Council of
Academic Deans, which must
approve all new programs, that
fraternities will act responsibly.
The University wants to keep
the week academically inclined,
Hallquist says
It will be difficult to prove Sig
ma Phi violated the rule, Ruberg
says The fraternity plans to ap
peal the decision to the IFC's
appeals board through its vice
president
Ruberg says the decision
makes him feel "bummed out'.'
Directors
appointed
Nine faculty members of the
University's College of Arts and
Sciences have been named as
new department heads
The new appointees include
Peter von Hipppel, Chemistry
department; Stephen Kohl, East
Asian Languages and Litera
ture; Mary Fulton, director of the
general science program; Wil
liam Loy, department of geo
graphy; Thomas Givon, Lin
guistics; Robyn Dawes, Psy
chology; Joseph Hynes, direc
tor of the Russian department;
Miriam Johnson, Women’s
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