Page 2-Sunday, September 26, 1982-The Michigan Daily MSU gay student drops frat suit By SCOTT KASHKIN With wire reports A Michigan State University senior this week an- nounced he will not file charges of discrimination against a fraternity he says expelled him for being a homosexual. Joht? Nowak, 20, decided against legal action in or- der to spare his family further hassles, according to his legal counsel, Matthew Gatson. LAST JANUARY, Delta Sigma Phi ousted Nowak because, fraternity President Scott Pauley told The Daily at the time, "his lifestyle was incompatible with the members of the house and he was getting ex- tensively involved with an organization (MSU's Lesbian-Gay Council) whose goals and methods we don't agree with" Delta Sigma Phi appealed a ruling five months later by MSU's Judicial Committee that ordered the fraternity to reinstate Nowak. MSU President Cecil Mackey overturned the ruling, claiming the univer- sity has no jurisdiction in the case. "People may criticize me for not taking my case to court, but they are not in my shoes," Nowak told the United Press International Thursday. "I think I had a strong case, but I still had to consider my family. I don't want to hurt or upset my family any more." MEMBERS OF the gay communities in Ann Arbor and East Lansing have expressed sympathy with Nowak. "He's still dependent on them (his parents), and more or less tied to them, and he probably goes home during the summer," said a coordinator of the Lesbian/Gay Collective Hour on WCBN-FM. "Why put them through more hassles in this long, drawn- out kind of thing?" Gatson, Nowak's counsel, said that although con- cern for his family prompted Nowak to end his battle with Delta Sigma Phi, it will not interfere with his role as director of the MSU Lesbian/Gay Council. Even though Nowak is finished with the case, Gat- son intends topursue the Mackey decision, which he said is exemplary of the MSU administration's "selective discrimination policies." ACCORDING TO Gatson, the university punished a different fraternity, Theta Chi, in a similar incident. Administrators placed the fraternity on probation for a year after it ran an advertisement which the university considered racist in the school newspaper. The ad contained a photograph of fraternity mem- bers holding a wide-eyed black doll, and a caption identifying the doll as "Willie." Moses Turner, vice president for student action at MSU, said the two cases are different because the university has jurisdiction over race discrimination, but not over sex discrimination. Turner also said the university is not considering changing its policy. Gatson argues that MSU has power to act under a 1977 anti-discrimination policy that protects mem- bers of the university community not only on the grounds of sex, but on the grounds of sexual preference. Mackey's statement last June about Nowak's case "specifically ignores" this policy, ac- cording to Gatson. MSU officials could not be reached to comment on Gatson's charge. Prison guard slays 13 in Pa. shooting spree WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (UPI)- A convict turned prison guard massacred 13people, including four girlfriends and tlhe . children they bore him, and critically wounded a man yesterday before surrendering to police after a three-hour standoff. 4Authorities said George Banks, 40, of Wilkes-Barre, killed two women and two children at a trailer park outside of town, drove back to his home and killed three more women, five children and a neighbor, and finally surrendered at a house 2 miles away. HE WAS THE father of five of the seven slain children.: The shooting spree began around 2 a.m. when Banks killed four people at the Heather Highlands Mobile Home Park in Jenkins Township. The victims there were- his estranged girlfriend, Sharon Mazzillo, 24, their son Kissmayu, 5, her mother, Alice Maz- zillo, 47, and brother, Scott Mazzillo, 7. A neighbor said Sharon's brothers Keith, 10, and Angelo, 9, survived. Keith hid in a closet but Angelo saw the shootings. "Angelo saw the whole thing," said Sandy Groner, 19. "HE TALKED about his mother being shot in the head and the brains on top of the TV set." Another neighbor said she head Banks say "I'm gonna kill them all now" as he left the scene. Banks then went to a house in Wilkes- Barre, authorities said, and killed Regina Clemens, 29, and her child, Montanzima Banks, 6; Susan Yuhas, 23, and her children, Bownedy Banks, 4, and Maritanya Banks, 1, and Dorothy Lyons, 29, and her children, Foraroude Banks, 1, and Nancy Lyons, 11, who was not related to the gunman. AUTHORITIES said they did not know the motive for the mass killings, but a minister, who said Banks "had quite a little harem," reported the guad had been threatening to kill one girlfriend for the past six months and had been in a custody battle over their child. Banks, was arraigned on first-degree murder charges before District Magistrate Joseph Verespy. Only one other killer in U.S. history claimed more victims on a single day. Charles J. Witman killed 16 and woun- ded 31 people in a rifle barrage from a University of Texas tower in Austin in 1966. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Armed Soviet emigrant seized following Italian hijacking ROME - A Soviet emigrant armed with a knife hijacked an Alitalia jetliner that was carrying 108 other passengers and crew members on a flight to Rome yesterday, but the pilot overpowered him after the plane landed in Catania, Sicily. Police said there were no injuries during the 3 -hour ordeal aboard the Boeing 727 that had been on a direct flight from Algiers to the Italian capital. The sky pirate had allowed all of the pasengers and five of the eight crew members to leave the plane within a half hour after it touched down at Catania's Fontanarossa Airport. Police identified the hijacker as Igor Shkuro and said he was a 37-year-old native of Leningrad who had been living in Rome. They said he was carrying severa1 passports, including one from Australia, and they had not determined why or when he left the Soviet Union. Officials gave no motive for Shkuro's action, but police sources said he had flown to Algiers Friday hoping to establish residence there. They said Algerian authorities refused to issue him a visa however, and put him on the first available plane back to Rome. Honduran rebels free hostages SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - A dozen leftist rebels freed 32 hostages yesterday and took off "empty handed" in a Panamanian Air Force plane headed to Cuba via Panama, ending a 8-day crisis. A Honduran government communique said 12 "Cinchonero' guerrillas "did not achieve a single one of their demands," including the release of 57 leftist prisoners and expulsion of American military advisers from Hon- duras. "The group of bandits ... left the country empty handed," said the com- munique, issued after a Panamanian Air Force plane carrying the rebels lif- ted off from the San Pedro Sula airport. The government said the rebels were accompanied on the flight to Panama by an unidentified Panamanian official, stating that the crisis was resolved with "the cooperation of the friendly government of Panama." Arrest made in Manila bombings MANILA, Philippines - Police said yesterday a former U.S. army sergeant admitted trying to bomb at least four luxury hotels and led in- vestigators to a bomb factory in suburban Ijanila. Some of his bombs, planted in sofas in the hotel lobbies, did not go off because people sitting on them ruined the timing devices, police said. Elvin Laurel, 36, a Vietnam veteran from Buena Park, California, was arrested last Sunday after a bomb he was tinkering with went off in his lap in a bar of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Manila. Laurel suffered minor burns in the explosion. Nobody else was injured. Arrested with Luarel was his uncle, Santoa Abellanosa, 44, who was also in the Hilton bar during the blast last Sunday. He and Laurel were charged with illegal possession of incendiary devices. Marietta takeover ends in humiliation for Bendix chief NEW YORK- William Agee, the 44-year-old chairman of Bendix Corp., who launched a hostile takeover drive for Martin Marietta Corp. but ended up being forced to accept a takeover by Allied Corp., will become president of Allied in title only, the Allied chairman said yesterday. Allied Chairman Edward Hennessey Jr. said Agee's position as chairman and chief executive of Bendix, which will become a subsidiary of Allied, will be a "full time job" and he will not be given responsibility for oversight of the entire chemical and oil parent concern. The remarks reflected a deeper professional humiliation for Agee than originally speculated. Under the peace agreement approved Friday which ended the most bizarre takeover battle in Wall Street history, Agee was ex- pected to get the president's title and a supervisory role for the entire com- pany in addition to his chief executive's position at Bendix. Zimbabwe search hopes fade HARARE, Zimbabwe- An official involved in the manhunt for two Americans and four other foreign tourists kidnapped 10 weeks ago in the western province of Matabeleland said yesterday that "there aren't many hopeful signs" that the captives will be found alive. Police said their last confirmed report about the hostages came in early August, when officials learned that the kidnappers had clad the foreigners in Zimbabwe army camouflage in a bid to confuse the search team. Since then, there have only been unconfirmed reports of Matabeleland villagers sighting the group, officials said. "We haven't yet given up hope we'll find them alive, but there aren't many hopeful signs," a Harare-based police officer involved in the search said yesterday. Americans Brett Baldwin, 23, of Seattle, Washington, and Kevin Ellis, 24, of Bellevue, Washington, were kidnapped along with two Britons and two Australians July 23 as they were traveling 40 miles north of Bulawayo, the Matabeleland administrative capital, on the last leg of an overland African safari. The kidnappers freed four other members of the tourist party with a note for the government saying they would kill the captives unless several demands were met, including the freedom of political prisoners of opposition leader Joshua Nkomo's minority Zimbabwe African People's Union. bhe Micbigan Ufl4 Vol. XCIII, No. 16 Sunday, September 26, 1982 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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Ironically, black student leaders say, the decline of the BSUwas caused partly by the existence of smaller mknority organizations such as minority dorm councils, which it was instrumental in setting up or strengthening: Now, organizers say, the BSU will face tremendousrchallenges - especially in mustering willing ac- tivists. The current political climate on campus is significantly different from that of the '60s and early '70s. In today's conservative atmosphere, ac- cording to some black faculty mem- bers, any attempt at a strike similar to BAM's would be unthinkable and doomed to failure. A more affluent set of black students currently at the University may make it harder for the Union's leaders to gain support, according to one new organizer of the Union. Agreed most leaders: Failure to reach any sector of the black community would detract from the strength of an activist movement, and also raise questions concerning the legitimacy of the organizing group. 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