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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.
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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
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