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' The Press/Friday, March 25,1988/THREE .......-.-----Cafiipus clips._..------~ Fraternities close I FBI watches campuses (CPS) - One fraternity was banished from the University of Rochester for allegedly holding a group sex party, while the University of Pennsylvania suspended one of its houses for hiring strip- pers to perform at a party. The incident at Penn, moreover, threatened to escalate into a conflict bet- ween campus Jewish and black groups. Rochester administrators banned the Theta Delta Chi house for ten years in the wake of a February party in which eight students reportedly had sex with one, apparently consenting, woman. The 19-year-old woman, whose name was not releas- ed, attends a college in Ohio. Rochester administrators said they may contact the woman's college about fur- ther disciplinary action. On March 4, Penn ~u spended all-white, predominately Jewish Zeta Beta Tau for one and a half years for holding a September party at which two hired strippers, both black, performed. Some audience members shouted racial epithets as they danced and engaged in \sexually explicit acts.\ ZBT's members issued a public apology and offered to make a donation to the campus women's center, but Penn President Sheldon Hackney suspended the house anyway, adding that ''behavior that dehumanizes any individual or group will not be tolerated.\ At the same time, the Dai- ly Pennsylvanian. the cam- pus paper, received a death threat against Conrad Tillard, head of the Organization of Black Con- sciousness at the school. Tillard quickly blamed the anonymous threat on the radical Jewish Defense League - which denied it sent the note - and related it to a Feb. 29 rally at which he called for ZBT's ouster. Black and Jewish students argued publicly in 1986 when Tillard's previous group brought Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whose anti-Zionist preachings often spill over int() criticisms of Jewish theology as wrong and Jewish people as unsavory, to speak at campus. But Rabbi Howard Alperg of Penn's Jewish Campus Activities Board condemned Tillard for ~ting, without evidence the ZBT affair as an ech 1986 tensions. . \The Jewish co munity does not support what hap- pe!led at ZBT,\ added Daniel Gamulka of the Jewish Student Council. \They find if offensive, just a~ anyone would.\ Sy MIKE O'KEEFE (CPS)-Stanford University student Susan Poff returned fr<>m a 1984 trip to Nicaragua upset and wanting to tell the world about what she- saw. ~cross the country in Virginia, Michael Boos read a news story about Poff's feelings. So Poff's name ended up on Boos' list of people who oppose the Reagan ad- ministration's policies in Central America, and some of his lists end up in the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion files of dissenters who might bear watching. Poff found the process of being made into some sort of potential traitor Provost search continues Gaston visits SUCC By KATHRYN ZONA Staff Writer A second candidate for the position of Provost and Vice President of Academic Af- fairs visited the State Univer- sity College at Cortland March 7 and 8. Dr. Paul Gaston met with faculty, staff. and students in open meetmgs. Gaston has been Associate Vice President for Academic Programs at Southern Il- linois University at Edward- sville. He is responsible for academic program develop- ment and evaluation, directs and manages the summer university, and partiCipates in . tenure and promotion decisions. Gaston was asked his views on the honors pro· gr:am. He said SUCC .sfipuld a~tract academically gifted and over.;achiever stiiaents and make sure they're suffl- ciently c}!allenged. Gaston said SUCC is a cl<>sely intergrated college with the ability to attract talented athletes. Gaston said although athletics are part of the college experience, the st11dents education is the first priority. Another question for Gaston was on the recruit- ment of minority faculty and st11dents. Gaston said in order to· recruit effectively, staff and administration needs to be willing to call otller faculty at other institu- tions and build caucuses. Gaston said SUCC should offer things that aren't of- fered at other colleges. . . Lastty, Gaston was asked his·· petsonal view of what a Provost does. He said the prov;ost !!hould be an acadelnic leader not a 'technicrat'. The. Provost sbould be .an important credible member Qf the facuJ:.. · ty but remain engaged as a scllohnr, said Gaston. ''unnerving.'' Boos, who heads a na- tion.al student group called Young America's Founda- tion, called her \naive.\ She is, in any case, an un- witting player in the widespread spying on cam- pus activists that came to light in a late-January release of FBI documents. The papers reveal the FBI \monitored\ students at Florida State, Wichita State, Tennessee State, the univer- sities of Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota and Penn- sylvania, and other students who worked with any of the campus chapters around the country of United Campuses Against Nuclear War. Most of the students being watched, however, were members of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), a group opposed to U.S. policy in Central America. \We weren't doing anything illegal,\ said Poff. ''I shouldn't have to be ac- ·ountable to anyone. This makes me angry.\ In the four years it follpw- ed CISPES members,the FBI never did uncover any wrong doing, the documents suggest. The documents also sug- gest \the right to dissent, a basic tenet of a democratic society, is increasingly en- cumbered,'' said :Margaret Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR}, the New York group which obtained the FBI papers through the Freedom of Information Act. While the FBI's spying on campus dissenters recalled the extensive Nixon-era sabotaging of student groups it didn't like - a policy that- provoked the passage of the Freedom of Information Act to control future ad- p~s briefs Deadlines are .approaching for Student Financial Assistance applications. The 1988-8!» Financial Aid Form (F AF) is to be mailed to Princeton, NJ. The institu- tional application for assistance is to be submitted to Cortland's finacial aid of- fice. The re.ceipt date for both documents, for on time consideration, is April 1st. Those received after this ~deadline will be considered .based on availability of :runds. Copies of 1987 family tax returns are required as soon as filed. 1988 summer work-study applications are also due in the financial aid office by April 1st. The 1988-89 Finan- cial Aid Form and family 1987 federal tax returns, documents required for finacial need determination, are subject to the same deadline. ministrations the documents indicated a well- organized unofficial network of people who watched cam- puses for the government. \The constitution,\ charged Chip Berlet, a Cam- bridge, Mass. journalist and investigator who monitors right-wing groups, \is being short-circuited by a private spy network.\ Berlet names Boos' group- -along with the Council for Inter-American Security and the Capital Research Center, among others--as part of the network. The groups clip newspapers, scan cables, compile lists, gather memos from campus friends and then forward them to FBI and other federal agencies, the documents reveal. The FBI accepts such information--which may or may not be true--because the laws passed after the Nixon administration's domestic spying scandal restrict it from doing much campus monitoring on its own, Ratner speculated. She noted the documents in- clude a memo telling FBI agents \specifically not to question how 'individuals ac- ting on their own inititive' · obtain information.\ ''Just because articles are kept in a· file doesn't mean we're working with outside sources,\said FBI spokeswoman Sue Schnitzer. ''Our mandate is to follow up on allegations we receive, but it doesn't mean a full- blown investigation is taking place.\ Boos' article accused CISPES of supporting ter- rorism, and was later published in Young America's Foundation's \The American Sentinel\ magazine. Some critics fear even un- substantiated reports like Boos' enjoy special clout in agencies th~t should know better because the private groups· have impressive ties to the nation's leaders. Young America's Founda- tion, according to financial records obtained by San Francisco television station KRON, has received more than $100,000 in recent years from the federal United States Information Agency. White House aides Frank Donatelli and Ken Cribb serve on Young America's Foundation's board of direc- tors. Retired U.S. Army Gen. John Singlaub, a major figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, and former White House staffer Pat Buchanan are on the Council for Inter- American Security's advisory board. \Our files on 'tne .. organiz- ed left are the most extensive in the nation,\ Lynn Bouchy, President of the- Council for Inter-American Security (CIAS) said in a re- cent fund raising letter. Recycling results By CHRISTINE SAN- DGREN Staff Writer The New York Public In- terest Research Group held a press conference in Cheney Hall at the State University College at Cortland, to discuss the results of the recycling project on campus, on March 10. All fourteen residence halls have united in a suc- cessful effort to recycle. For two weeks students have placed their cans and newspapers in a bin. on the main floor of their residence hall. At the end of the week, the goods are bundled and sent to local recycling com- panies. The amount each dorm has contributed is recorded and the money received from the recycling is added to their Programing Assistance Committee. This lends PAC an opportunity to fund more residence hall functions. Todd Warren, a represen- tative from NYPIRG said campus.\ The problem is New York State generates · over 17 million tons of garbage each year, which is dumped into leaky landfills. Government officials are suggesting the alternative of huge mass- burn incinerators. Almost 400Jo of the garbage that is burned is turned to ash residue which is usually land- filled. According to a flyer recently distributed by NYPIRG, ''the most sophisticated incinerators generate and release over 5,000 highly toxic chemicals, including dioxins, the most potent low dose cancer caus- ing agents ever evaluated by the Environmental Protec- tion Agency. Incinerator ash is not safe. The ash frequent- ly contains hazardous levels of toxins that can con- taminate our drinking water supplies when landfilled. When the chemicals are in- gested over a period of time, birth defects and cancer can result. ' \We feel the program has However, recycling is a shown great success, they feasible answer to the plum- (the students) have shown meting garbage crisis. Jen- . . how really easy it is. There is nifer Parker, a representative a vast resource available of NYPIRG said \We have bere. '' Terri Barney, · ··to get the people to realize Residence Director of there is a problem and, \illite, Cheney Hall feels· that the joining other camp11ses · project is \well organized\ in promoting full scale .._..._~~------~~~~J. and it, \unites the whole recycling.\ -~~ \'~ .•
