Panhel, WQWK
to hold run-a-thon
Weekend joggers and serious
runners alike will find an added in
centive this Sunday at a three-mile
run-a-thon to benefit the American
Cancer Society.
The event, co-sponsored by the
Panhellenic Council and radio station
WQWK, begins at 1 p.m. at the
Westerly Parkway Junior High
School.
This will be Panhel’s first run-a
thon, but chairperson Denise Long
said she hopes to make it an annual
event.
“I’d like to emphasize that this is
an annual event,” she said. “Please
come out and suppoit us and the
kids.”
The money raised from the run-a-
thon will be donated to the American
Cancer Society, which will then
EUberg says he is innocent of allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Joshua Eilberg told the
House ethics committee yesterday he is innocent of
allegations that he violated House rules and federal law
by receiving money from his former law firm for work
it did for a federal agency.
He also asked the committee to provide him with
specific details of the money he was alleged to have
received, the dates he received the money, and the
basis for any allegation that he knew any money was for
work done by the firm before a federal agency.
' The statement was filed in a response to the com
mittee’s three-count allegation issued last month which
said Eilberg violated House rules and alleged that his
actions on two occasions may have violated federal law.
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distribute the proceeds to a local
leukemia foundation.
Participants in the run-a-thon will
be divided into six divisions, three for
men and three for women.
The men’s division will be split into
three age brackets: under 17,18 to 39,
and 40 and over.
Likewise, the women’s division will
be divided into three parts: under 17,
18 to 35, and 36 and older.
The winner of each' of the six
divisions will receive a trophy.
Registration for the run-a-thon is
being held this week from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. on the ground floor of the HUB.
There is an entrance fee of $3, which
includes a t-shirt.
Participants may also register .an
hour before the event, in the parking
lot of Westerly Parkway Junior High.
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Copies of the Eilberg response were made available
by the committee.
The two-page document gave no details of Eilberg’s
defense, it only stated that he denied each alleged
violation and repeated the allegation against him. Two
more pages listed specific information he was asking
the committee to provide him.
The committee’s allegations known technically as
a statement of alleged violation must be acted on by
the end of this session of Congress or they automatically
expire. The current session is expected to end next
week.
If the charges die, the committee could bring a new
Professors poll Venezua/a presidential race
Two University political science
professors recently traveled to
Venezuela to conduct a public opinion
poll for the Social Democratic party
there and to examine political parties in
developing countries.
David J. Myers, associate professor of
political science, has just returned from
Venezuela, where he and a colleague
compiled a poll indicating that the Social
Democratic candidate has a §light edge
in a race, he said, which is too close to
predict. As of Oct. 1, Luis Pinerua is
leading in the presidential race, he said.
“Venezuela is one of the few countries
in South America that has a democracy.
Studying them helps us to understand
our own country,” he said.
“We got a fantastic amount of
research out of it,” Myers said. Robert
O. Connor, associate professor of
political .science, also i$ invloved with
the poll and is in Venezuela on a sab
batical.
Myers said the poll was mutually
beneficial for both the political science
department and the Social Democratic
party as the department was about to
research a. developing democracy
without having to get grants for ex
penses.
“They paid for taking .us down there
statement of alleged violation against Eilberg when a
new Congress forms in January.
If the committee were to act on Eilberg, it could
recommend action ranging from a reprimand to ex
pulsion from House membership. It also could
recommend the case be turned over to the Justice
Department for possible prosecution.
The committee accused Eilberg of accepting favors
and benefits totaling more than $lOO,OOO from his for
mer law firm and two related law firms “under cir
cumstances which might be construed by reasonable
persons as influencing the performance of his govern
ment duties.”
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and they provided the interviewers,” he
said. “It would have cost about $150,000
of grants.”
Myers, who spent three years teaching
at a major university in Venezuela, said
the people are sharply divided.
Post to hit streets today
NEW YORK (UPI) Members of
the Newspaper Guild last night
overwhelmingly ratified a contract
with the New York Post, clearing the
way for the afternoon tabloid to be
distributed for the first time in 57
days.
The Guild approval of the contract
could put the Post back on the streets
today a little more than eight
weeks after the Post, New York
Times and Daily News were shut
down by the pressmen’s union strike.
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"The Christian Democrats, the other
major party, are saying that the Social
Democrats have been corrupt and are
not using the oil money to benefit the
poor.”
He said $l3 billion a year from oil
exports have had a great impact on the
society.
“The issue is, who can best administer
this money,” Myers said. His own
preference is with the Social Democrats.
“They need at least another five years
to establish a program. They’ve done a
reasonable job.”
Myers was pleased with their poll
which was taken in only two states of
Venezuela.
“Ours was extremely close to the
Gallup Poll that was being taken all
across the country,” he said. “Our
polling.technique was just as accurate as
Gallup’s.”
Myers said 20 percent of the 98 percent
voter turnout is still undeceded and
could vote either way at the last minute.
The Post had earlier reached'
agreements with the pressmen and
two other striking craft unions.
While the paperhandlers’ union still
had not ratified its accord a
meeting was scheduled for yesterday
evening the Post management
said it expected to have all the
striking unions back on the job during
the evening.
Roger Wood, editor of the Post, said
the paper would resume publication
today.