Eastern Illinois University The Keep May 1987 5-1-1987 Daily Eastern News: May 01, 1987 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_may Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: May 01, 1987" (1987). May. 1. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_may/1 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1987 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in May by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Frat members file corliplaint over hazing By ERIC WEDEKING Campus editor Three Delta Sigma Pi fraternity membersand one former member claiming the oranization hazed its members filed a complaint with Student Activities Director Anita Craig Thursday afternoon. Junior Lisa Hawkins, the former member, and seniors Susan Heien, Crag Matthis and Richard Stipe met with Craig from 4:30 until 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the student activities office in the Union Addition. "They have made a complaint to the student activities office and an investigation will be followed," Craig said. "There is an allegation of :, hazing" against the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity, she � said. ''That is all I can say about it," she added. 1 Delta Sigma Pi is a professional business !� fraternity. Delta Sigma Pi President Randy White said he has not been contacted by Craig about the hazing allegations and he maintains the fraternity does not practice hazing. "No, we don't haze," White said. "I have to wait and see what she (Craig) has to say." ... However, White did say paddling was a part of DAN REIBLE I Photo editor activation ceremonies but, "It's one pat and that's Five tenants wear paper bags over their heads plexes in Charleston. The protesters were it," White said Wednesday night. they protest Thursday outside the main office angered by terms in their leases and the recent Eastern's Student Conduct Code states "paddling as of Aztec Investments Inc., 91 6 Woodlawn Dr., a towing of cars from the apartments' parking lots. in any form" as an example of hazing. company which owns several apartment com- Matthis, a finance major and former chancellor of Delta Sigma Pi, said of the meeting with Craig: "She sat and talked with us and we told her what happened. She said she had to pursue this further." Aztec tenants stage protest Hawkins alleges she was made to scream ob­ scenities at an activation ceremony in December of By CHRYSTAL PHILPOTT time period," Young said of the contracts, which Heien claim they City editor include a 91/2-month lease. "You can't rent (the 1985 in Blair Hall. Mathes and enough to develop bruises A crowd of people gathered around the main apartments)like a hotel. You can't just check out were paddled severely a former office of Aztec Investments Inc., 916 Woodlawn in the middle of the month," he added. which lasted severa1 weeks. Stipe, claims initiation Drive, at about p.m. Thursday to watch and The participants were protesting against Aztec president of the fraternity, 2 hand. participate in a protest in frontof the building. Investments, which owns Youngstowne, ceremonies have gotten out of two color Five protesters, wearing brown paper bags Oldetowne, Heritage, Pinetree and Lincolnwood Matthis said he also showed Craig photographs he had previously showed with eyeholes cut in them, paced the sidewalk in apartments. The Daily of the bruised back of his right leg. front of the building carrying signs and chanting The controversy stems from a discrepancy in News Eastern the alleged messages. Aztec leases. He said the photos were taken after One protesters bag said 'Aztec victim' across Some residentshave been contacted by Aztec's paddling incident in 1985. and we the top. lawyer John Ewart of Mattoon for possible "Maybe we're just grown up a little bit e, a The slogans, which usually ended with the lawsuits if the rent discrepancies are not paid by don't want to play the game anymore," Stip crowd chanting along, included slogans like, April 30. finance major, said Tuesday. "We put up with the · in a "First month's rent, last month's rent and then The discrepancy involves one and a half hazing because we thought it was great to be ·· professional business fraternity. I it. But some!" months of rent that the tenants say they paid loved Aztec property manager Evelyn Warner prior to moving in. By paying the month and a things started getting off course. not refused to comment on the demonstration half rent that Aztec is requesting, tenants say "The thing that's stressed the most is social, · Thursday and stayed inside the building during they will be paying for 91/2-months rent instead professional," Stipe said. tell you 'You don't the protest with the rest of those from Aztec. of the eight they agreed to in the lease. "They (the fraternity members) (initiation).' But However, Aztec project manager John Young, The Aztec controversy became further m­ have to go through this stuff said the lease situation has been blown com­ flamed when Aztec Investments ordered cars there's so much pressure," he added. Hawkins said she acted against the fraternity pletely out of proportion. "Everybody knew the (See AZTEC, page 9A) (See FRAT, page 9A) Stricter smoking policy to take effect at intersession , JEFF BRITT to look at our policies and look at the "It is a university policy," said •There will be no smoking in area By s Senior reporter policies of other institutions and Armstrong in regard to enforcement. where smokers and non-smokers Eastern faculty, staff and students organizations," she said. "If the need (to enforce it) arose it work. , returning for intersession May 18 will The council solicted the opinions of would be dealt with in the same way -•It-is also prohibited meeting and ill face stricter smoking niles because a governing bodies on the campus. The any other problem would be." conference rooms and in indoor lines new smoking policy, passed by the policy was endorsed by the Faculty Provisions of the policy are: for tickets, registration, food and President's Council, will go into ef­ Senate, the Student Senate, and the •Smoking "shall be specifically other services. fect. Residence Hall Association. Of prohibited" in academic areas in­ •Private offices are to be designated The council passed the policy Feb. Eastern's residence halls, only cluding classrooms, theaters, storage according to the occupants' President Rives, a smoker himself, Stevenson Tower opposed it. areas, places where woodworking is preferences, but the occupant 11. adopted the policy following Surgeon The members of the President's done and areas with .volatile, flam­ "should" refrain from smoking in the General C. Everett Koop's assertion Council, according to Norma mable or explosive materials. presence of a non-smoker. that secondary smoke is as dangerous Winkleblack, assistant to the •Smoking will be prohibited in •Residence halls and University as primary smoke. president, are Rives; Edgar Schick, elevators, mail rooms, restrooms, and Apartments may also be designated as "We have had a smoking policy in vice president for academic affairs; lounges except where "specifically the occupants wishes, but they the past, but this was a revision," said Armstrong; Glenn Williams, vice designated" otherwise. "should" refrain from smoking in the Verna Armstrong, vice president for president for studenLaffairs; Daniel •With the exception of designated presence of a non-smoker. administration and finance. Thornburg, director of university "smoking areas," Booth Library is off •"Smoking permitted" areas will "He (Rives) appointed a committee relations, and Winkleblack. limits to cigarette smokers. (See STRICTER, page 9A) I.A Friday, May 1, 1987 The Dally Eastern News Associated Press Illinois base to. be transportation State/Nation/World command for military branches_ gu WASHINGTON (AP)-Scott Force Base California-it could have been ahywhere. Linder to be buried in Nicara a Air So Nicaragua-The family of Benjamin. in Southern Illinois has been chosen to house a we're really glad they put it at Scott," said MANAGUA, Mike Linder, the American the government says joint transportation command that will com­ Mansfield,an aide Rep. Melvin Price, D-Ill. was killed by· tO Contra rebels, arrived Thursday for a tearful encounter. bine services provided by three branches of the Both Dixon and Price are from Belleville, Ill., with Sandinista officials and said their· son would be. military, Sen. Alan J. Dixon said Thursday. the city closest tothe base. buried inNicaragua. "By putting them all together in one place, "This is a sensible military step for the life here, and he must it's going to prevent the duplication that country and a welcome economic step for "He worked here and he gave his all part be buried here.He belongs.here," the father, David Linder, takes place right now," the Illinois Democrat of our state that has had more than itsshare of Airport. said. the long it save the difficulties," Dixon said. of Portland, Ore., said at Sandino International "In run, will "He wantedto make this a better place for people to live." military ...hundreds of millions of dollars." He said creation of the new command was not asked who killed his 27-year-old son, Linder President Reagan signed orders this week to a tradeoff for Scott's loss of the 23rd When Air Force killed Ben? Someone who paid someone form the U.S. Transportation Command from headquarters, but acknowledged he is responded, ''Who with· so on down the units of the Army, Navy and Force, a move drawing language from a military construction who paid someone who paid someone and Air president of the United States.