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University Theatre is offering a spe
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ples who wed after March 1. Bringing
a marriage certificate to the EMU Ticket
Office or the Robinson Theatre box of
fice will allow couples to purchase two
"Wild Nights With Emily" tickets for
the price of one.
The play — which tells the story of
poetess Emily Dickinson's relation
ship with longtime friend and sister
in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson —
runs tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. at
the Robinson Theatre. Tickets are $5
for University students, $9 for seniors
and University faculty and $ 12 for the
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LGBTQA to host drag show
Saturday in EMU Ballroom
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans
gender, Queer Alliance is hosting a
"Sizzle Drag Show" Saturday in the
EMU Ballroom. The show begins at
8:00 p.m. and will feature a perform
ance from popular drag performer
Dred. The event will also include an
amateur night section.
The free show is open to everyone.
Interested participants should arrive
between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the
EMU Ballroom on Saturday to regis
ter. Sizzle is being held to raise aware
ness about AIDS and HIV. The Lane
County Public Health Department
and the IIIV Alliance will be offering
on-the-spot HIV testing.
"The purpose of the event is to en
joy ourselves and educate people in a
non-abrasive way," LGBTQA member
Jose Soto said.
— Jeremy Berrington
University food drive
exceeds 90,000-pound goal
The University has gone beyond its
original goal for donations for the 25th
Governor's State Employees Food Drive.
"We've passed our goal of 90,000
pounds," Governmental Affairs Coor
dinator Karen Scheeland said.
The drive, titled "Caring Now ...
Hunger Won't Wait!," ended March 5.
During the food drive, faculty and
staff from about 40 departments col
lected non-perishable food and mon
ey, including funds from payroll de
ductions, auctions, candy sales, bake
sales and raffles.
Scheeland said the University raised
$16,345.58 in cash contributions
alone, which translates to about 98,073
pounds of food since $ 1 can buy six
pounds of food.
Scheeland said the Lundquist
College of Business raised $3,163 from
its auction, not including other fund
raising efforts. The Psychology Depart
ment collected $2,565, while Facilities
Services turned in $1,040 from payroll
deductions alone. The School of Jour
nalism and Communication also
raised $640.26 through various events.
Scheeland said the total number
of pounds collected is higher be
cause different departments still
need to do some weighing.
"We may come close to last year,"
Scheeland said. Last year the University
donated a total of 113,917 pounds.
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INCIDENTS
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"I get more concerned when we have
an anonymous report from a female
student saying that she was sexually
assaulted at a house," he said. "To me,
that's a real serious issue."
Incidents in which fraternity mem
bers damage property or minors drink
alcohol frequently cruise under
Loschiavo's radar, however. Student
Judicial Affairs is not out looking for
rule breakers, Loschiavo said, and the
office is not planning to start because
the resources to investigate every lead
simply don't exist.
For example, Loschiavo said, Delta
Sigma Phi members damaged a rental
facility in Waldport in spring 2003,
but the fraternity was not punished by
the University. Loschiavo, who is also
the group's faculty adviser, said the
fraternity made an agreement with
the rental agency to resolve the issue.
The fraternity was never officially cen
sured, even though Loschiavo knew
an incident had occurred.
Loschiavo wouldn't elaborate on
how the group resolved the issue, but
he said his office didn't punish the fra
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ternity because the group's self-im
posed punishment was exactly what
he would have suggested.
Delta Sigma Phi spokesman James
Runge said he couldn't comment on
the incident. Efforts to interview chap
ter president Jason Breaux were not
successful, despite Runge's assurance
that Breaux would comment.
A self-governing greek system
Loschiavo said he allows IFC and the
Panhellenic Council to handle many of
the violations he hears about, even the
serious ones. Both councils have been
more active in recent years, he said,
adding that this system allows mem
bers of the 12 University fraternities
and eight sororities to take responsibili
ty for their own violations.
IFC Judicial Vice President Jay
Gentzkow, who oversees the greek judi
cial boards and is a member of Theta
Chi, would not return repeated calls
and could not be reached when calls
were made to the Greek life Office dur
ing his scheduled office hours.
Kagan, who is a member of Sigma
Phi Epsilon, said IFC's judicial board
will impose sanctions on fraternities
that violate greek rules.
"The ultimate goal of basically all
of the greek community is to be self
governing," he said.
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ward education, not punishment, Ka
gan said. A common sanction would
be for fraternity members to apologize
for the harm caused and to begin an ed
ucational program that is "related to
whatever infraction they caused."
Kagan said the first step in the greek
punishment process is to send the rule
violator to his fraternity's judicial board.
Next, they may be sent to IFC's judicial
board. If the violator breaks a student
conduct code rule, the case goes to Stu
dent Judicial Affairs, Kagan said.
Jesse Harding, who is a Student
Conduct Committee co-chairman and
current member of Pi Kappa Alpha,
said fraternity members tend to take
the punishment process more serious
ly when referred to Student Judicial Af
fairs because the office has the power
to impose more sanctions than the
greek councils.
On the other hand, Harding said,
University-imposed rules such as the en
dorsement only work to undermine the
"self-governance aspect" of the fraterni
ties, which is a large reason for joining.
Harding said he supports higher
GPA standards for fraternity mem
bers and for holding fraternities ac
countable "so long as that's some
thing they're comfortable with, they
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Stopping the incidents
The responsibility for preventing off
campus incidents fails on many groups,
Loschiavo said, not just Student Judicial
Affairs. Members of the fraternity need
to be responsible, he said, and national
organizations, advisors and alumni
boards need to actively work to en
hance fraternity culture
"I'm not sure there's anything we
can do," Loschiavo said. "We're very
limited in the types of consequences
we can impose."
Loschiavo said the University could
disaffiliate itself from a fraternity if re
peated instances of property damage
and rule-breaking occur; however,
since he came here in 1999, the Uni
versity has not taken such drastic steps.
"I think, ultimately, the students
have to decide that it's a problem," he
said. "They have to take ownership
over their system."
When the University implement
ed endorsement standards in fall
2002, Sigma Nu and Pi Kappa Alpha
were disaffiliated because they re
fused to sign the substance-free com
pliance agreement.
Harding said "big incidents," such
as property damage at fraternity par
ties, are nothing new, adding that
groups are just now getting caught.
He said fraternities have calmed
since the endorsement standards
were introduced.
Loschiavo agreed, saying he's no
ticed a decline in fraternity-related in
cident reports to his office since the
standards were invoked. He said it's
too soon to start questioning whether
those standards have worked and there
will never be a "greek organization that
will never make a mistake."
"I don't really know what's going
on," he said. "I'm not out there. Is it a
concern to me that we've had some
complaints recently about property
damage? Yes. Have we worked with
those chapters to address it so that it
won't happen in the future? Yes. Will
it happen in the future? I don't know."
Kagan said progress toward a more
academic-oriented greek system "has
been exponential" since the endorse
ment standards were introduced. He
said the greek community's culture has
also changed.
"We're based on community service,"
he said. "We're based on scholarships,
and we're based on philanthropy now."
Contact the people/culture/
faith reporter
at jaredpaben@dailyemerald.com.
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