In Focus " II Weather Notes Esteban and Interfraternity "Fraternities Need on I5-Year Anniversary, Tau Michael Davirro, Then 20, Hitchhiked "If All Else Fails
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- . .. ":' ' .. ~ .. :~ .... ~ --.. -- .. , ' :'.. :-:. -.. :~., I;f / .'1 J Art:hivt'l~ 'Ii r..o729.6 C5 075 Orion. I VOl. 40 no. 4 :1 • 'The 1 FQb lB/ 199B Meriam Libra.ry- -Cgu vonn 1l1t=: ll1e .. I golden road to finding !I . frfends. Credit I. .. State J,I Credit is a rite of passage for students. How 'i do you cope? I,I Volume 40, Issue 4 California State University, Chico Wednesday, February 1.8, 1998 I I Matt Notley ,! Managing Editor Campus puts hazing -in focus " II Weather notes Esteban and Interfraternity "Fraternities need On i5-year anniversary, Tau Michael Davirro, then 20, hitchhiked "If all else fails. talk about to think about the back to town, retrieved his car and shut , the weather." Well, all right, I'll Council take stance against message they are Gamma Thetas still deal with 'tied the other pledges back to the frater take your advice. sending," Esteban nity house. On his second trip, he struck' An increasing amount of wire silence surrounding hazings said. "There are ways Chico's only hazing death and killed pledge Jeff Long, 23 .. 'i Ij stories are filling local newspa pledges can demon ------- It was the only hazing-related incident pers reporting the potential, and Elisa Bongiovanni strate their loyalty to Manuel Esteban Elisa Bongiovanni that has ever been reported on the Chico 1\ I already felt, damage of the Senior Writer the fraternity without University Senior Writer State campus. ! dreaded El Nino. Recent fore physical abuse. Pr.. sident Charlie Preusser, founding father of : casts predict a line-up of four Lead by example, said Manuel "I know it goes on, The events of the final night of Rush Tau Gamma Theta and currently a sales storms to smash into California. Esteban, Chico State University presi and I can· understand the reasons," Week started out innocently enough. associate of Viking Sleep Center, said the Beyond that, the weather gurus dent, to the Inter-fraternity Council Esteban said. "I am concerned wi th the It was Sept. 25, 1983. A group of Tau pledge's death attracted attention from say EI Nino will wreak havoc Monday. safety of the students. I am not trying to Gamma Theta fraternity pledges were around the country. for another two to three months Esteban came to speak to the IFC after a be prudish or intolerant, I just wanl help taken by the pledgemaster and president "Some faculty members started a and should pass up 1982-83 as recent trip to Whitney Hall, where he said from the student leadership to combat the to River Road, several miles out of Chico. rumor that it was a drag race," Preusser the wettest year in history. some resident advisors had reported seeing problem." They were instructed to find their way said. "They said that an active member So, if yoUr umbrella is getting fraternity pledges with bruises, possibly Hazing is detined in the Califomia back to the Chico State University cam pushed Jeff in front of the car. Why limp right about now, you from hazings. It was the first time a presi pus and work as a team. Each pledge was should think about buying a new dent has spoken to the IFC in 17 years. see Hazing p. 8 I given a dime to make a phone call. see Frat p. 8 I one. : Or you ,hight want to call EI Nino himseIf and tell him off. There's a physical education teacher in San Gabriel by the name of Eliseo Nino. He has a Quayle draws full house -Man arrested custom license plate that reads "L NINO." EI says people constantly ask him for the forecast, and he has fun with it. But not so for Al Nino, who's for molesting been getting phone calls griping about the rain. Nino told an Student accused of The neighbor said after he Associated Press reporter how chased the girl out of the room, he one night at 2 a.m. an irate molesting i2-year-old told her father what he had seen. caller woke him up with "I told Anthony, 'This is just obscene complaints about the Rick Randolph inappropriate,' and I told the girl weather. Assistant News Editor to get out of the room," the "Usually it doesn't bother me, neighbor said. but that one was really disturb After pJiJ.ying pool and invit Sgt. Mike Simpson of the ing. She was really mad," Nino ing his 12-year-old companion Chico Police Department said told the AP. up to his room, police said. a the two met in the recreation Chico State University student room at the Colony Inn apart Cable talk \ was arrested and booked into ments, where they both live, and I got a voice md~l from the ~utte County Jail. for child then went up to Bowles' room. chair of the journalism molestation. "There were some allegations department last week. Dr. Katie Anthony Bowles, 25, a dietet that he physically drug her into Milo left a brief message alert ics and food administration the room," Simpson said. ing me to an interesting news tip major, was arrested by police Simpson. said Bowles was about one of our competitors - Thursday at his home at the booked and held on $50,000 a story about CNN, she said. Colony Inn apartments. He has bail. He was released from jail CNN? I called her on it. been a student at Chico State but charges were not dropped. "Did you mean the CNR, the since January, 1996. Simpson said suspects who post . Chico News and Review?" Bowles' neighbor, who is also bail are often released on their "No, CNN," she explained. a Chico State student but asked own recognizance as long as Damn, I was hoping for some that his name not be used, said they are not considered a danger dirt on the News and Review. he saw the girl sitting on to society. It seems CNN, the all-news Bowles'lap. Simpson said he didn't know cable channel, had the bright The Orion/laura Florez "I was sleeping when I heard if Bowles had any prior arrests. idea to set·up a phone-in onner Vice President Dan QuayJe addressed a crowd of neariy 600 at the Elks lodge in Chico little girls' voices outside," he The neighbor said Bow~es comment line, something similar Thursday. An all but official presidential candidate in 2000, Quayle lobbied support for a said. "His door was part-way played pool in the recreation to "Tell-it to the E-R." All you Freduction in taxes, better education and an emphasis on community rather than government. open and I saw her sitting on his have to do is call 1-800-TALK lap. He just was laughing." see Anest p. 4 I CNN and you can tell Ted Turner where to stick it. But wayward dialers of the dyslexic sort who punched in the number backwards, Practice clothes catch 'fire 1-800-CNN-TALK, weren't connected to the all-news Laura Florez "But they wouldn't go out so I perature in the dryer got too hot, network - more like the Staff Writer picked them up, took them out causing sparks to fly inside. The . all~nude network. A recording of side and when I did they just clothes began to melt and when a breathy, lusty voice greets When Erika Sanchez put the burst into flames," she said. they were exposed to air they callers offering to fulfill erotic women's basketball practice Student Chris Chergoski was caught fire. and sexual fantasies. clothes in the men's equipment coming in from a run on the track Batie said he was not sur Ted Turner owns everything room dryer Wednesday, she when he saw the smoke and went prised that the dryer malfunc else so he might want to never expected them to come out over to see if he could help. tioned and said that the tire was consider cashing in on the billion in flames. "At first I thought it was steam not a surprise. dollar sex industry. He might . But when Sanchez checked on coming from the pool, but then "Like any other piece of already have a few customers in the clothes she found the unex as I' got closer to the gym I real equipment it was bound to mal the journalism department. pected had happened. 'ized it was a fire," Chergoski function at one point or another," "I looked over and saw little said. "I tried to help smother it he said. "It is not an uncommon Matt Notley can be reached at sparks' in the dryer," said Erika with my feet. Then two other occurance for me to get a phone 898-4033,/ax 898-4799 or Sanchez, Chico State student and guys ran over from the track and call saying 'Hey there's a fire or i' e-mail [email protected] equipment room employee. got fire extinguishers to help put a leak in the building'." I' I Sanchez got the clothes out of it out." . Batie said the dryer has been 1 !, the dryer, put them on the floor Don Batie, director of athlet repaired and is glad that the Inside and tried to stomp out the sparks ics and recreational sports, said women's basketball clothes were "he Orion/Jeanne Woodb""Uij before the clothes caught fire. the fire occured when the tem- the only casualties. A firefighter checks Erika Sanchez' hands for bums after a fire Feb. 11. Opinion 7 This girl says boys are trouble.