IFC to call for fraternity charter withdrawal
By S.A. MILLER
and LORI MUSSER
Collegian Staff Writers
The University's Interfraternity
Council Board of Control voted -
unanimously last night to
recommend that the University
revoke the charter of Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity for four violations
relating to an incident involving a
female University studeht earlier
this semester.
IFC Board of Control Chairman
Martin Sharpress said in a news
conference last night that the IFC
will recommend that Alpha Tau,
Omega be dismissed from IFC
effective Oct. 3 at which time all
outstanding "financial and other"
obligations must be paid —Juntil•
Jan. 1, 1986.
The IFC said Alpha Tau Omega
violated: written University policy;
local, state or federal law, causing
an adverse effect on the University
or members of the University
community; state alcoholic
beverage laws; and rules
concerning physical abuse of a
Martin Sharpless, chairman of the Interfraternity Council Board of Control, left, and Adam Levinson, IFC president,
announce the board's decisibn at a press conference last night.
Freeze resolution
sent to Senate floor
By MICHAEL NEWNAM
Collegian Staff Writer
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee yesterday voted 10-7 to
send a nuclear freezeresolution to
the Senate floor "in
disagreement," a committee
spokesman said.
The resolution, which has been
awaiting action for more than a
year, met with opposition from all
nine Republicans on the the 17-
member committee. In addition,
Senator Edward Zorinsky, D-
Neb., cast a negative vote for the
resolution.
The committee could have sent
the resolution to the floor either
recommending approval,
disapproval or making no
recommendation. Failing to agree
on how to report the resolution, the
committee voted to report it "in
disagreement."
Senate Majority Leader Howard
H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., will be
responsible for announcing the
date for the full Senate vote
The terms of the resolution.call
for a mutual, bilateral, verifiable
nuclear freeze between the Soviet
Union and the United States. The
freeze, according to the bill, would
be followed by a build-down
(destroy two old missiles for each
new one constructed) of all
nuclear weapons.
At a press conference before the
vote yesterday, Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass., one of the co
sponsors of the bill, said he would
get the bill to the Senate floor even
if it should be defeated in
committee.
"No matter what the result of
the committee mark-up, (Sen.
Mark 0. Hatfield, R-Ore.) and I
are committed to take our
resolution to the Senate floor,"
Kennedy said.
Steve McMahon, a press aide to
Kennedy, said Kennedy has
specific reasons for wanting to get
the
daily
person on University-owned or -
controlled property or at any •
University-sponsored or -supervised
function.
Sharpless said specific plans for
the future of the fraternity and its
house at 321 E. Fairmount Ave.
would be determined by the national
headquarters of Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity.
The disciplinary
recommendation, which followed a
four-hour hearing of the IFC
Standards Board concerning a
complaint Riled Aug. 29, will be
forwarded to Vice President for
Student Affairs Raymond 0.
Murphy.
Although The Daily Collegian was
able to reach Murphy last night, he
refused to comment, saying he had
not yet been officially informed of ,
IFC's decision.
The fraternity will have five days
from the time it receives a written
notification of the proposed
sanctions to appeal the decision to
the IFC. According to IFC bylaws,
any sanction that recommends
dismissal from the IFC must be
the bill on the Senate floor.
"The important thing is that
every member of the Senate will
be on record as voting for or
against (the resolution),"
McMahor! said.
McMahon said he was not
surprised by the way Republican
members of the committee voted.
Margaret Arteaga, coordinator
for the Centre County campaign
for a nuclear weapons freeze, said
the Republican members of the
committee were simply voting the
way the Reagan administration
wanted them to.
"We are going to have difficulty
passing the resolution in the
Senate because of the Republican
majority," she said.
Arteaga also expressed
dissatisfaction that the resolution
was voted on just a short while
after the downing of Korean Air
Lines flight 007 by the Soviet
Union. She alluded to the fact that
the defense budget passed the
Senate with relatively few
problems.
"I've been really hoping they
were going to sit on (the
resolution)," Arteaga said.
Alan Safran, press secretary for
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said no members of
the committee issued a formal
statement for their reasons in
voting the way they did.
Another resolution, which called
for a two-for-one-build-down, also
failed yesterday in committee by
an 8-8 vote with Zorinsky voting
present.
The build-down resolution,
which was co-sponsored by
Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman Charles H. Percy, R
111., called for the retirement of
two older nuclear missiles for
every new one constructed.
Both Arteaga and McMahon
said the build-down was an
usatisfactory alternative to the
freeze.
olle • ian
granted an appeal hearing.
While refusing to grant details
because "(IFC) has promised never
to tell anything that happened as far
as the specificities of the case," both
Sharpless and Levinson said they
believed the incident was grave
enough to warrant this type of
punishment.
"I think with the severity of this
type of case (the board) handled it
with the utmost delicacy and took
into consideration the caliber of
these types of offenses," IFC
President Adam Levinson said.
IFC found Alpha Tau Omega in
violation of physical abuse rules, but
the term "rape" cannot be applied
to this case unless the complainant
files charges in a court of law. The
complainant, who testified at the
hearing last night, has not filed
criminal charges.
"It is not the purpose of IFC to
decide whether individuals violated
a criminal code," Levinson said.
"We focused instead on whether
house members conducted
themselves in a mature and
responsible manner with due
Kissinger says
could indicate
By ANNE CONNERS
Collegian Staff Writer
ERIE The Soviets' response to the downing of the
South Korean airliner Flight 007 is incomprehensible
and may reflect a power struggle among top Soviet
leaders, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
said last night.
While Kissinger said the incident may have been the
result of an accident or bureaucratic mix-up, he,
maintained that Soviet conduct since then has been
"shocking" and "outrageous."
"As brutal and callous as the shootdown was, it does
not concern me nearly so much as the behavior of the
Soviets since then," Kissinger said.
Instead of explaining the event, the Soviets have
attempted to paint the United States as the instigator of
the deed, Kissinger said in a speech commemorating
the 35th anniversary of the University's Behrend
College.
"Instead, the Soviet Union has insisted from the
beginning that this was a preplanned American
intelligence maneuver, a deliberate American
provocation."
These accusations by the Soviets are groundless,
Kissinger said to an audience of about 750 people at the
Erie Hilton.
"No sane American leader of whatever party would
use a civilian airline of a foreign country for any kind of
intelligence mission," he said.
But Kissinger said the incident can teach us about the
Soviet government.
The tragedy illustrates the "rigidity and
bureaucracy of their command structure" in addition
to raising questions about the'stability of the Soviety
hierarchy.
"What exactly is their policy direction?" Kissinger
asked. "In the 18 days since the accident, no one has
heard a word from (Soviet leader Yuri Andropov) who
is supposed to be running the country."
Andropov's lack of response may demonstrate a
schism within the communist party, he said. The West
may be witnessing the beginning of a kind of "Soviet
Bonapartism" in which internal organizations are
battling each other for control.
And Bonaparte, Kissinger warned, "did not exactly
make life more comfortable for countries on the
boarder of France."
The former assistant to the president for National
Security Affairs also said the United States should not
expect an apology from Moscow.
"It's almost impossible for the Soviet Union to
apologize for the plane shootdown," he said. "What are
they going to say? That their top military made a
respect for the rights of all persons."
He added that "any future
violations of this sort will be handled
with the same force."
According to a source at The Daily
Pennsylvanian, the student
newspaper at the University of
Pennsylvania, the number of
fraternity members involved in this
case was greater than one.
However, Sharpless and Levinson
would not verify this.
Earlier this year, a University of
Pennsylvania female student
alleged that she was raped by 11
members of that university's
chapter of Alpha Tau Omega after a
party.
The Collegian was able to reach
the local Alpha Tau Omega chapter,
but a member of the fraternity said
"no comment, goodbye" after he
asked the reporter to identify
himself.
Local Alpha Tau Omega Adviser
William Stevick said in a telephone
interview early this morning that he
believed the hearing "got the whole
thing pretty well out in open."
He added, however, that he
"really feels the fining .was far too
harsh based on what I heard at that
hearing."
Stevick said the fraternity, which
he described as "in a state of
shock," would appeal the IFC's
•
decision.
Stevick also refused to comment
on the specifics of the case because
of the pending appeal.
IFC/Panhellenic Council Adviser
Gayle Beyers said in a telephone
interview this morning that because
of the nature of the case the
reasoning by the Standards Board
was "what they felt was needed."
When asked if she noted any
similarities between this incident
and the alleged gang rape at Penn's
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity,
Beyers said she is in no position to
know the specifics of the Penn'case
or to offer information about last
night's hearing here.
"It is unfortunate for the
fraternity system," Beyers said.
"But two incidences that happened
at two different universities can't be ,
compared."
Melvyn S. Klein, director of
student activities at Penn State, said
the review was carried out in a "fair
and equitable manner."
"I won't comment on the specifics
of the case because (Alpha Tau
Soviet
power
Omega) has the right to appeal,"
Klein said. "I won't interfere with
the due process entitled to them."
Klein said no attempt was made at
the hearing to compare this incident
to the alleged gang rape at Penn.
It has been almost eight years
since Penn State's IFC has handled
such a case. In November 1975 a
female University student charged
that she had been drugged and raped
at Phi Gamma Delta fraternity Oct.
10 of that year. In December 1975 the
IFC Board of Control found that
fraternity guilty of a charge of
response
struggle
mistake?"
Focusing his attention on other world issues,
Kissinger said the United States could not continue the
status quo in Lebanon.
Rather than remaining stagnant, the United States
must decide whether it wants to escalate or scale down
its military presence in the Middle East:
"Our force that was introduced which was
introduced for one purpose has now lost its mission,"
he said. "It was introduced as a buffer between
Lebanon and Israli forces . . and the Israelis have
withdrawn unilaterally "
Several prominent people attended last night's gala
event, including University President Bryce Jordan,
Gov. Dick Thornburgh, Behrend Provost and Dean
John M. Lilley and Erie industrialist Everett F. Zurn.
Henry Kissinger
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1983
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"physical abuse of any person on a
University-owned or controlled
property, or at a University
function, or conduct that threatens
or endangers the health or safety of
a person," as well of a charge of
disorderly conduct.
The board dismissed all drug
charges and the original charge of
rape due to a lack of evidence, but
did place the fraternity on social
probation for that term. Also, the
University disciplined tw,o of the
male students involved in the
alleged rape at Phi Gamma Delta.
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• Members of the Association
of Residence Hall Students have
come up with what they think is
a "workable system" for accept
ing dorm contracts at the Univer
sity, said Leslie Horn,
chairwoman of the ARHS Dorm
Contract Acceptance Commmit
tee Page 2
• The analysis of the Universi
ty's academic advising system
and a proposal for professional
advisers may be brought before
the Calendar Conversion Coun
cil meeting next Wednesday.
• With the advent of the fitness
boom in the late 19705, many
people turned to jogging as a
way to burn off excess pounds
and get their bodies back in
shape. That's the topic of Sports
Plus this week Page 10
• If you haven't heard of Big
Country by now, you soon will.
Big Country is an English band
which has enjoyed moderate
success in England with a Top
10 single called "Fields of Fire."
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