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IFC '2l-policy' delayed by police busts
By DAMON CHAPPIE
Collegian Staff Writer
The Interfraternity Council moved
to restrict fraternities from serving
alcohol to minors 10 days before State
College police charged 16 fraternities
with serving students younger than
21-years-old as part of a two-month
undercover investigation.
The IFC recommendation resulted
from work by its Alcohol Policy Re
search Committee and was passed
overwhelmingly by the IFC Nov. 24.
It took the form of a non-binding
recommendation to fraternity houses
to card guests at the door.
IFC President Patrick Conway said
the recommendation probably would
have become binding policy early
next semester.
But the timing of the policy’s impli
mentation is now in doubt, Conway
said, because the police investigation
has forced the delayed reaction of
IFC executives and has ruptured
relations with the borough.
In a telephone interview yesterday,
Conway expressed dismay over the
handling of the incident for the follow
ing reasons:
• The IFC was moving quickly to
implement the “21-policy” after
more than 18 months of continuous
tightening of the rules governing fra
ternity parties. Borough officials, in
cluding Mayor Arnold Addison and
State College Police Chief Elwood
Williams, were notified of the “21-
policy” by IFC.
• Borough officials never express
ed any change in attitude over the
issue of underage drinking at frater
nity parties during monthly meetings
with IFC, according to Conway.
• It remains unclear why police
initiated the investigation of IFC be
cause police never found what they
said they were looking for: high
school students being served alcohol.
Williams said members of the com
munity “raised concerns” with mu-
Many fraternities stiffen their door policies
By MARTY IRVIN
Collegian Staff Writer
Last weekend, fraternities watched their
doors more closely because of the State College
police investigation that ended with 16 fraterni
ties charged with serving alcohol to minors.
Many fraternities stiffened door policies,
others said the investigation didn’t affect their
plans and still others refused to comment.
Acacia, 234 Locust Lane, one of the fraterni
ties charged, instituted a much stricter door
policy since the charges were made, said
Acacia President Earl Good.
Ag research a PSU tradition
Editor's Note: This is the third article
in a five-part series focusing on Uni
versity research and its applications.
Today's article focuses on research in
agriculture.
By CHRISTINE KILGORE
Collegian Science Writer
In 1859, a portion of today’s Univer
sity campus was the homeland for the
Farmers High School. Now, 127 years
later, the University houses a nation
ally-recognized program in agricultu
ral research, with research
expenditures totaling $34,214,000 a
sum higher than the expenditures of
any other college.
“We’ve had agriculture at Penn
State right from the beginning. It has
been a central part of the University
for a long time,” said Lamartine F.
Hood, dean of the College of Agricul
ture. “Over the years, we’ve had an
enormous impact on Pennsylvania
agriculture, which is now the No. 1
industry in the state. Many of our
projects are also long-term. . . we’re
addressing issues that are of impor
tance to tomorrow.”
The University’s departments of
dairy and animal science, its depart
ment of frozen desserts and choco
late, and its program in fresh
mushroom production are just some
of the areas that have won national
and international titles, Hood said.
Funding from the state and federal
governments and private industry
has backed research in all depart
ments, he added. “Within the private
sector, we have a tremendous num
ber of sources, from individual grow
ers to major industries like DuPont
and industrial associations such as
the American Dairy Association.”
Hood and Charles Krueger, asso
ciate dean of research for the Univer
sity’s College of Agriculture, are both
quick to point out that agricultural
research, which benefits not only
farmers and rural communities but
consumers and urban communities
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nicipal council members, police and Conway said drinking by underage
school district officials over the serv- college students should be expected
ing of high school students. “There is in a college town but that IFC was
a very serious concern when it comes attempting to move ahead to change
to high school students,” he said. a system marked just a few years ago
But Conway said IFC had ad- by open parties where beer flowed
dressed that issue last year when it freely from taps,
required that fraternities check col- “No community official brought up
lege IDs at the door. “After a two- the concern that we move to a 21-
month investigation they didn’t find policy. We know it’s the law but its
one high school student. That’s indie- never been a big issue before. It
ative of the fact that we are serious would have been much easier if they
about addressing community con- would have told us that’s what they
cerns.” were interested in. We might have
He said although Acacia had its usual Thurs
day night party, only people known by fraterni
ty brothers were allowed in. Good also said the
fraternity’s formal was the only social function
held over the weekend.
No changes were made at Sigma Nu, 340 N.
Burrowes Road, President Karl Schwartz said,
because a closed in-house function was held.
However, he said if an open party had been
held, changes would have been made in the
door-checking process. ‘
He also said he foresees many changes
taking place at open parties next semester, but
would not elaborate until a formal statement
has been made.
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At Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 200 E. Beaver Ave,
President Geoff Blatt said “no changes were
made in SAE’s activities.” However, he would
not say what those activities were.
Blatt was uncertain what IFC will do con
cerning the charges, but said he believes IFC is
waiting until it receives the citations to plan the
best course of action.
Phi Kappa Tau, 408 E. Fairmount Ave, held
an in-house formal, but did not have any
parties, President-elect Craig Cullinane said.
He added he was unsure of IFC’s future plans,
but when asked about possibile formals in the
future, he said it “all depends upon the out
come of the charges.”
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been able to move much quicker,”
Conway said.
“But they never, ever raised the
issue of 21,” he added.
Williams said he thinks “it would
be a very wise move on (IFC’s) part”
to adopt a 21-policy. “That’s the ac
tion that needs to be taken.
“We want to make this clear: no
body is saying that underage people
can’t go into parties. You can invite
anyone you want. But if you’re under
21 you,don’t get served.”
Conway maintains that “the best
S. African educator quits
Tober criticized apartheid at PSU
By DAMON CHAPPIE
Collegian Staff Writer
When Karl Tober spoke here in October, he lashed
out at white radical students who don’t want blacks to
attend the South African university where he serves as
vice chancellor. He called them “bastards.”
Since Tober’s return to the University of Witwaters
rand, he has been embroiled in controversy because
those same radicals obtained a copy of The Daily
Collegian’s report of his speech and have used it to call
for his resignation.
Sources here say the incident illustrates why South
African students attending the University under its
SHARE scholarship program are afraid to speak out
on such issues as divestment and racism. If they do,
they place themselves in jeopardy: Their families
might be harassed, they might not be able to return
home or if they do, they might be thrown in jail.
The controversy surrounding Tober began soon after
he returned from a tour of the United States, where he
spoke at leading universities such as Harvard, Prince
ton and Yale for the improvement of education for
blacks in South Africa.
The Nov. 8 issue of the Johannesburg Star carried a
story titled “A campus in turmoil” that examined the
problems that have rocked Wits (pronounced Vits)
University, a leading English-speaking university in
Johannesburg that is seeking to increase the number of
blacks despite the barriers imposed by racial hatred
and apartheid.
The article quoted the Collegian’s front-page story of
Tober’s speech here before the University Faculty
Senate. The speech attacked a far-right student group
called the Moderate Student Alliance, saying it made
“the KKK look like a heavenly choir.”
The Star reported that Tober declined to comment
after he was shown a copy of the Collegian and that
“later that day he announced he was to retire at the
end of 1988.”
Sources at Wits denied that the Collegian article
played a part in Tober’s decision to retire, adding that
he had privately announced his decision last April to
Wits University’s trustees.
However, pro-apartheid groups used the article to
call for Tober’s immediate resignation. J.R. Lambson,
chairman of the University Freedom of Speech Asso
ciation, 'said Tober’s statement “demonstrates his
Pat Conway
way to facilitate that would have been
to come and work with us. We could
have combined our resources.”
He said he doesn’t know how fast
IFC would move on the 21-policy now
because much of his and other IFC
executive’s time is “being taken up
by answering questions from the
press over this incident.”
Williams said: “Certainly I ex
pected there would be some strain of
relations with this investigation. It is
incumbent on both sides now to pick
up the pieces and move ahead.” '
Those fraternities that were not charged did
not seem to be affected this weekend, and some
of them have previously adopted a policy
against underage drinking.
Dave Turetsky, a brother at Tau Epsilon Phi,
328 E. Foster Ave., said his fraternity has not
been affected by the police charges, because
“we have always followed a policy in which no
one under 21 drinks at our parties. It is a
national policy.
He noted that people must be on a guest list
when entering one of the fraternity’s open
parties, and that over-21 identification is
checked at the door and guests’ hands are
stamped if they want to drink.
Wednesday, Dec. 10,1986
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©1986 Collegian Inc.
State College Municipal Council
members expressed disappointment
yesterday at the results of the under
cover investigation of underage
drinking in 16 fraternities.
At Monday’s council meeting, rep
resentatives of the Interfraternity
Council and Organization of Town
Independent Students said the inves
tigation breached the trust between
fraternities and the borough.
Council member Mary Ann Haas
said she was disappointed that IFC
was not able to carry through with its
plans to reduce underage drinking
under recommendations made by
University President Bryce Jordan’s
Task Force on Alcohol in November
1985. Haas served on the task force.
It seems the fraternities are contin
uing-in their “old ways” and ignoring
the law, which has to be obeyed, Haas
said. Haas said she believes the po
lice investigation was necessary.
The borough knows parties are
taking place and is still receiving
noise and vandalism complaints in
fraternity neighborhoods,.Haas said.
“As elected officals, we must try
something. We can’t do nothing,” she
said. “(Fraternity members) are res
idents of the borough and have the
same rights and privileges (as other
residents), but no more.”
Haas added the borough appre
ciates the work that student groups
do for the community, but that
“doesn’t give them the right to do
anything they want.”
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Council member Daniel Chaffee
said he disagreed with the way the
students came before municipal
council members during its Monday
night meeting, saying that students
were “making a big hoopla about how
(the borough) broke the faith.”
IFC and the OTIS expressed their
views to council concerning the plain
clothes police action, warning that
the student/borough relationship had
been shaken.
“But what are the fraternities’ re
sponsibilities?” asked Chaffee.
Chaffee acknowledged that it
wasn’t easy for students to go before
the council, but said IFC would be
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prejudice against moderate students and his abject
failure to control and discipline radical students re
sponsible for violence and intimidation on campus.”
The Nov. 22 Star reported that the deans of Wits
University unanimously signed a letter of support for
Tober, who they said “met the demands of his office
... with dignity, sympathy and courage.”
W. LaMarr Kopp, Penn State’s deputy vice president
for international programs and a “close friend” of
Tober’s, said he has spoken to him recently and that
Tober stands behind everything he said while he was in
the United States.
Tober has been watched by the South African gov
ernment and pro-apartheid groups because of his
strong commitment to bring blacks into the educatio
nal system, Kopp said. The Moderate Student Alliance,
“which is anything but moderate,” Kopp said, claims
that Tober is “blackening the university.”
Their purpose is to undermine the students opposed
to apartheid, said Etienne Maraic, president of Wit’s
Student Representative Council —■ a group similar to
Penn State’s Undergraduate Student Government.
A secretary in Tober’s office said Tober was unavail
able for comment but confirmed that Tober’s decision
to retire was not linked to the Collegian article. When
asked who sent the Collegian article to Johannesburg,
she said, “We don’t know but we sure would like to find
out.”
“There are eyes and ears everywhere,” said Kopp,
adding that most South Africans maintain a low profile
because of the dangers they face at home if they speak
out here.
“If this could happen to Tober, think of what would
happen to one of us,” said a black South African
student.
Several South African students here declined to be
interviewed for this article because they said they fear
for their families in South Africa.
A white South African student said he knows his mail
has been opened and that he has been followed either
by agents of the South African intelligence network or
sympathizers of the Pretoria government.
A black South African student said: “The South
African espionage system is very sophisticated. We
suspect even there are agents in (Penn State) who are
watching.
“That is why we lie low,” the student said.
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Council
upset at
findings
By VALERIE BAILEY
Collegian Staff Writer