Oregon Daily Emerald A trip to the high seas in search of gray whales See Page 9 Monday. March 3. 1986 Eugene. Oregon Volume 87, Number 109 Alphi Phis appeal council’s ruling of conduct violations By Michael Rivera CM Mmi ► mu aid The Alpha Phi sorority was charged by the Panhcllenic Council with violating University and sorority conduct guidelines last month dur ing winter term Initiation of pledges..The Sorority appealed the ruling to the Student Conduct Board Thursday, but the verdict has nett been released.*. Susie McElhaneyV outgoing Alpha Phi presi dent, said the house! was charged with ' embar rassing” its pledges while they were out . serenading during initiation . week' She said members were not informed by'Panhellonic of the specific charges against them.- . A membership hazing agreement sighed' by . all members of all Creek houses defines hazing as “any action taken or situation'created.:.to pro-' • duce mental or physical discomfort. embarrass ment, harassment or ridicule." . . V,.. The Panhollenic Council-learned of the a I log-, : ed infrac tion through.a letter.it received-from the " Pi Bela Phi sorority •' *' . ••••••','•.•' . ; •Beth Blue. Pi Beta Phi .president,-said .the |»i • • Phi pledges were- out serenading the same, night .-; and saw the Alpha Phi initiates‘engaging in-'ac tivities .that might .endanger them.-Blue said the ... Pi' Beta Phi ’ pledges "‘saw -the Alpha ".Phi's •• serenading and fell laid for what they were going, through ". ..' . . * ': Blue said the Pi Phi hedges'described the’ .Alpha Phispledges as being "intoxicated, blind. folded arid being led'dir-ough an alleyway and up. concrete stairs The i»i Phi.pledges become concerned when they saw. that, the only way the Alpha Phi pledges, were able to tell where they were going was by holding onto the person- fn front of them : They, believed’ the,’ circumstances would increase . ; chancos.fof a possible/injury,; Blue sajd... . . ' ^ " The- 1’i PH i -pledges' tbld. Blue; that -the Alpha' Phiiiutiife8'were^''vi8ibJyiiitoxi6lited‘r’^Accorr' . ding * tot he'.stbry , tHiMJi "I’hi pledges -related!'to Hlqe.ihe Alpha 1*hi-initiates weit! staggering^ and » . several came up to pledges they knew in the' Pi , phj group and said. ".Tm-so'drunk."' Mi.Elhaney disputed this version of the irici-' ; o rient She said the pledges were led up tbthe fraternity and told therrcwas a surprise inside;. If. , they wanted it to reiuain a surprise; the girls were?; told to put bh blindfolds. She said tHey were not /; reipiired Jo,wear blind fold s~and that only a few chose to do so McElhaney denies the pledges were ever led through the.alleyway blindfolded The allegation .that the pledges were intox-'’. ic'.ated is also untrue. McElhaney said.; “They werent drunk.. Theywere rowdy .they wen? hay ing a gtiod time, but that doesn't mean they were drunk." she said. She did admit, however, that earlier in the evening, a fraternity had invited the pledge class over for about'40 minutes, and that there was a keg present. McElhaney said that a few of the girls had one or two beers but didn't drink enough to become Intoxicated. "Several of the girls drank nothing at all," she said: McElhaney said-at a tribunal .held in late January the Patihellenic found the Alpha Phi House guilty of embarrassing .' its pledges but - cleared ‘the members of/'a.ny ehdaiigerment ... .. charges.' • ’ -. '/ V Panhelleiuc penalized the Alpha Phis by placing members on social probation until the end of spring term, which prohohils them from holding u function with any other Greek house. They still are allowed to hold one house dance each term and participate in all-Greek activites, McElhaney said. The Alpha Phis appealed the Panhellenic tribunal's decision to Bill Ballester, the student conduct coordinator, and although the hearing was held Thursday, the results were not released. Photo by Derrel Hewitt U.S. aid to rebels and involvement U:$: - support of;. By Kim kaady • Of Ihefmprairf\ ofCounterrevolutionary; (Cohtra) . furies.in Nicaragua and U;S'Involvement iji n'ther;Cen tral American countries sparked-.a protest, injfront of ’ , E.u'gene"s Federal Building Friday, About IJHj peo'ple at* ; tended the peaceful protest,-cd-sponsored by^thcvir.en tnil-American Response Network arid th’ejGoni m i t)ee. i n ' .Solidarity With The Central A'rriericair;Pestipje. President. Reagan is asking.('4 n gress tr> approve V $.100 million in’aid. to Cbntra- forces rin "Nicaragua, primarily for military purposes.. lasFyear/Corigress'ap-;.o proved more than $900 million in aid to Central • America. - - V\v \ : ' . Eugene City Councilwoman Cynthia Wooten kick-1 v .ed.off the rally by reading a siatriment" from OhS> Rep.' J.im .Weaver, B-Ore.i in support of the protesters i Reading from the state'meritWpoten; said, X"R.ep■ Weaver is particujarly outraged at Reagan for-proposing $100 .million to overthrow- thegovernment in Nicaragua .'(The protest | serves as a notice to Reagan' ' that taxpayers won't stand.idly by. and yvafch thieir tax I dollars,being used to overthrow any:government.’"' •; ' v-, Another speaker. Chris Orsinger. Updated the ac v tiyities of the Contadora Groupmf Nations. a gro,up that •• v has; been working on.a Latin American peace effort for .three* years. The Coritadora . is working to create a balanced plan that takes into account the concerns of all Central American nations, Ctrsiriger said. Mexico, Venezuela..' Colombia and .Panama; the countries that initially formed the Contadora group, have' beeri joined by Argentina, Brazil. TJiruguay” and Peru. (jrsinger said all 13.Lafiri American countries are backing Contadora principles. ' ° .t. ; * ...... He.said. the principles include the suspension of all foreign 'milijarj? maneuvers and a halt to the continued • support of.guerrilla armies in LalinAmerica. The Con • tadqfca is-a 1st) Working; to maintain, respect of the self determination and territorial sovereignty of each coun try.- he.sai(d. • '• . • • ■ ...- !)lhtej-natfpnaJ support is dear for C’ontadora prin ciple’s.'-'Orsinger ^aid. ■ He.said"Senate FOreign-Kelations Com mittee hear • ihgs'on Reagan's"aidrpirdpdsal are a "slap in the face to ' the'l<t‘llafin-Ainferifcari’cpuptries working diligently for ■-peace...;v,■,/'/;/ . *. • "• ' - ■".'-/“The .U.S';’government has"a clear choice. It can .'take the - o'ppprtuhityv for peace and travel the road of ‘democracy by backing the Contadora. or it can pursue the warfior's path and send another $100 million in aid to.the Contras]," Orsinger said.' - : y • |ayier-; C.astro. a Salvadoran refugee living in Eugene-. Said U.S: citizens must “remember Vietnam. I don’t.want to see.mv,people killed by Marines or see niy people killing Marines; either," he said. Castro sai’dhe believes people in Nicaragua are ask ing the United States for economic support, hot for weapons. • :/.’ ^ More money for weapons in Nicaragua means Con tra forces will be able' to kill more civilians and peasants, Castro said. "We have for the first time in our history a chance for self-determination," he said. Demonstrators peacefully protesterI Reagan's request for $100 million in aid to Nicaraguan Contras Friday in front of Eugene's Federal Building. — Assembly to review ROTC’s policies By Andrew LaMar af*»SNwraM Does the University's ROTC program discriminate? This is the question faculty members will ex plore Wednesday when the University Assembly considers two motions. One motion proposes eliminating ROTC from campus, and the other proposes suspending ROTC from campus until it complies with University affir mative action and equal opportunity policies. In the spring of 19B3, the last time the Assembly considered similar motions, concern for the issue prompted two student demonstrations at lohnson Hall and a public debate of the issue involving University President Paul Olum. "The military science program is a department at the University of Oregon that has to abide by military rules in certain areas, and those rules are in compatible with the policies of the University of Oregon.” said Cheyney Ryan, the head of the University's philosophy department. But Col. Richard Meredith, head of the ROTC program, disagrees. "The department of ROTC here at the Universi ty of Oregon does not discriminate as charged by professor Ryan and McConnaughey,” Meredith said. Both Ryan and Bayard McConnaughey. a biology professor, contend ROTC discriminates against homosexuals and thereby violates the University's equal opportunity policy. McConnaughey has been trying to rid the University of ROTC since 1967 on charges the pro gram promotes militarization of the United States Ryan formally entered the protest in 1983 by propos Continued on Page 4