I NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 24, 1996 - 7 Old garbage pit is clue to fraternity's history AP PHOTO Supporters of late Murtaza Bhutto, the brother of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, gather for condolences at the entrance of the residency. The entrance is decorated with posters of Bhutto's brother Shahnawaz Bhutto, left, who was poisoned in 1985. *Gunmen kill 21 worshippers t Sunni mosque in Pakistan BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - They sometimes ate cheap cuts of meat, probably smothered with ketchup - and had the stomach medicines to show for it. They lived in fear of being taken down to the basement and dunked in "the tub," and were punctilious about personal hygiene. They drank beer - quite a lot of it, apparently - but also sipped coffee from dainty demitasse cups embell- ished with their house crest. Meet the young men of Zeta Psi, circa 1920 - fraternity brothers whose lives and times are being studied by archaeology students combing through the contents of a garbage pit left by the not-so-ancient Greeks. Does 70-year-old trash qualify as archaeological research? Yes, says Laurie Wilkie, the University of California-Berkeley assistant professor of anthropology directing the analysis. "They're part of the puzzle in terms of understanding how California came to be this ... land of the dream," Wilkie said. The trove of trash came to light by accident. In the summer of 1995, Wilkie looked out of her office - which is in what was the Zeta Psi house until they moved to another building in 1957 - and saw the garbage being unearthed by a construction crew clear- ing the way for a new building. She sprang into action, stopping the bulldozers for a brief excavation. During the following school year, her students studied the relics and dug up written and photographic records of the time as they tried to put together a pic- ture of turn-of-the-century fraternity life. "The sorts of things that we end up studying archaeologically are things that don't really get talked about in his- torical documents," she said. For instance, among the artifacts was formal china decorated with the frater- nity crest, including demitasse coffee cups. The china indicates a since-lost din- ing formality as well as an effort to reinforce community spirit through the use of the crest, placed on the cups so it would face right-handed drinkers. Wilkie notes those niceties clash with the modern stereotype of party-hearty "frat rats." "You have to remember that ... these are individuals who are from the upper middle and upper class and part of the fraternity setting was these were young men getting ready to go out and start on (There wasn't) any of that monkey business" -John Thomas Beales Zeta Psi brother their own," she said. Still, there was evidence the brothers weren't averse to a party or two. The trash pit yielded a number of alcohol-related bottles, most made between 1917 and 1925 despite Prohibition, which ran from 1919 to 1933. Some of the beer may have been the "near-beer" legal under Prohibition and at any rate, the cache amounts to only about 20 six-packs. But a diary, kept on a rotating basis by freshmen at one point, indicates that at least some occa- sionally indulged. A record of a quiet Sunday found that "most of the few fellows who are here were nursing a great, big, large, immense, huge, colossal, and stupen- dous head." Ninety-year-old John Thomas Beales, who served as manager of the Zeta Psi house before graduating in 1929 and still lives in the east Sar Francisco Bay area, recalled those days with a chuckle. "People would patronize the bootleg- gers down in Emeryville. Or even some of the doctors would issue prescriptions to buy prescription whisky," he said. "But not in the house. We never permit- ted it in the house." Drink may have flowed freely, but the food wasn't always so choice. Analysis of meat bones found showed several were from poorer cuts of meat. That - along with the abui_- dance of flavor enhancer and sauce bot tIes found - led Wilkie and her crev to theorize school meals had the same rep- utation then they enjoy now. They also found a number of bottles that had contained medicines for upset stomach. But Beales defended the frat fare. "Ketchup was a normal thing. We loved corned beef hash. What more db you want with corned beef hash than ketchup?" he asked. Also found in the pit were items of feminine dress, notably a hat pin and some beads. Those seemed anomalot in light of the strict prohibitions on women in the house, until researchers found old pictures of young men dressed up in women's clothing, proba bly for skits or parties. Beales trenchantly declared he was- n't aware of "any of that monkey busi' ness." But Wilkie theorized that skits in skirts may have been one of the ways the young men worked on male bond-~ ing. The fraternity's initiation rites remain- a secret, but Wilkie's students did dis- cover written records showing that new pledges feared being "tubbed," dunket in a cast iron wash tub in the basement They also found evidence of fastidi- ous personal habits. * Boys from a religous school killed while they prayed Gos Angeles Times NEW DELHI - Rivalry between two Muslim sects in Pakistan erupted -again in murderous violence yester- day as masked gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a Sunni mosque, slaying 21 people, many of them boys from a religious school, as they prayed. The blood bath in Multan, a city in the eastern province of Punjab, came one day after the killing of a leader of tlie minority Shiite sect in a town 60 ,miles to the south. -. Infuriated by the attack on their sanctuary, Sunnis in Multan came out on the streets to stone Shiite neigh- borhoods, shout anti-Shiite slogans and block roads with burning tires, ':itnesses said. @7 The back-to-back incidents high- lighted the increasingly hostile relations JACKSON Continued from Page 1 The upcoming elections will have a -rofound effect on the country, Jackson said. He said he is working to steer those effects in the right directions, a responsi- bility too important to set aside. "It's my ministry. It's my mission. I think this is important," Jackson said. "I think the strength of our nation is at stake, that all of my work for all of my life is at stake, that 1996 could become like 1896, the end or the reversal of our gains." One of his key beliefs, Jackson said, is that someone must reach out to younger voters. "The youth have the numbers, the energy, the innocence and so much potential for change," he said. Education and higher education issues should be stressed the most, Jackson said. "There are many qualifiable youth who are denied opportunity for lack of aid," he said. Jackson said a move must be made to between militants of the two rival branches of Islam in a country founded nearly a half-century ago so the sub- continent's Muslims would have a state of their own. Elsewhere in Pakistan, in the town of Larkana, ancestral home of the family of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, police battled followers of her estranged broth- er and political rival Murtaza, who was slain by police in Karachi on Friday in still murky circumstances. Some commentators predicted Murtaza Bhutto's death would further erode the mandate of his sister, whose leadership of Pakistan since 1993 has seen a sharp downturn in the economy and increasing lawlessness in much of the country. Witnesses said early morning prayers had just started at Multan's Masjid Al- Khair when the armed men invaded the mosque and showered the worshippers with submachine-gun fire. The gunmen, said to number four, managed to escape. All of the victims were Sunnis, the majority denomination in Pakistan. According to hospital officials, many of the slain worshippers were students, ages 10 to 16, from the religious school next to the mosque. At least 33 people were wounded in the fusillade, many of them seriously, and the death toll was expected to rise. The matting where the Sunnis had been been praying was soaked with blood. The dead, their faces covered with cloths, were wheeled away in handcarts. Friends and survivors sobbed at the sight. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but authorities said they believed the attack was in retaliation for the murder of the Shiite leader in Bawahalpur the previous day. Since August, tit-for-tat attacks between Sunnis and Shiites have occurred in Punjab, the port city of Karachi on the Arabian Sea and in the lawless North West Frontier Province. The last was the deadliest: more than 100 people were killed in running battles there earlier this month. London police raid hideouts focus on youth. "There must be much more investment in universities," he said. "The present focus is to build first-class jails at the expense of schools. The very emphasis of using jails to lock youth up after the fact, rather than lift them up before the fact, is a misguided directon. "It says much about the cynical view that many leaders have of youth." He said the youth today cannot be characterized by apathy. "Some stu- dents are removed and cushioned and soft, but some are active," he said. "I see young people coming on," Jackson said, citing his son, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., 31, and others. But more youth activism and involve- ment are necessities, Jackson said. "Students must register and vote. If you don't register, you can't get to class. If you don't get to class, you can't grad- uate," he said. "If you don't register to vote, you can't get in a political class and you cannot therefore impact upon the political process. "Every student that registers for class must register to vote." Jackson said student activism should be directed at "voter registration, voter participation at every level, bottom-up, not just top-down, rejection of drugs and violent culture, having an ethic that's higher than immediate gratification." Jackson takes his commitment to America's youth very seriously, he said. He was visibly upset when he found out he was running more than an hour late for his address at Hill Auditorium yes- terday. "Somebody's got to run the ship," Jackson told his coordinating team. "Tell me if I'm talking to people too long. People have got classes to go to. They can't sit around waiting for me all day." When Jackson left campus yesterday, he didn't head off for a vacation. He was bound for another stop in a long string of speaking engagements. Jackson plans to work in five more states this week alone. He said the pace will not slow down for him, as what's at stake is too important. He must keep going and keep hope alive. 10 tons of explosives seized from IRA The Washington Post LONDON - Police seized about 10 tons of explosives in dawn raids on sus- pected Irish Republican Army hideouts yesterday, during which they arrested five men and fatally shot another in West London. Authorities said they believe the seizures prevented "imminent" attacks of a "significant" scale, noting that the quantity of explosives taken yesterday was six times larger than that which the IRA used to devastate Manchester's central shopping area in June. It was the third major police haul of what were believed to be IRA bombs and bomb-making materials since the terrorist organization, based in Northern Ireland, ended an 18-month cease-fire in February by exploding a powerful bomb in London's Docklands office and apartment complex. The West London raid was the first of the series to involve gunfire. Police, acting under Britain's strict rules of pre- trial secrecy, did not disclose details of the shooting, which took place outside a Astronaut Lucid says goodbye SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Astronaut Shannon Lucid gave her col- leagues aboard the Russian space sta- tion Mir a farewell embrace yesterday and then floated into shuttle Atlantis, the hatch closing behind her for the ride home. The shuttle was to undock from Mir last night and return to Earth on Thursday, ending Lucid's record-break- ing stay of 188 days in space. "I'm really happy and I also feel just a little sad," said Lucid, who holds the space endurance record for a woman and an American. "This has been my home for six months, and I've had a great time here. But obviously I'm very, very anxious to go back to my real home back in Houston, Texas, with my family." guest house in the Hammersmith sec- tion of London -just west of the cen- tral city - or the name of the dead man. Despite the string of raids, law enforcement sources said they could not be confident that they have disabled seriously the destructive capacity of the well-organized paramilitary group, which operates in independent cells across the British mainland and in Northern Ireland. "I have no doubt that today's opera- tion has frustrated an attempt" by the IRA to "carry out significant and immi- nent attacks on the mainland with the possibility, indeed the probability, of grave loss of life, serious damage and disruption to mainland cities," Sir Paul Condon, chief of the Metropolitan Police, told a news conference. Most of the seized materials - including fertilizer explosives and the chemical explosive Semtex - were taken during a raid on a warehouse storage facility in North London. Police also recovered three Kalashnikov rifles, two handguns, and trucks and other vehicles that they said likely would have been used to deliver the bombs. Police provided no details about pos- sible targets. During the past two decades, the IRA has set off hundreds of bombs, wreak- ing billions of dollars in property dani age as part of its campaign to force Britain to relinquish control of Northern Ireland. The illegal organization - which has a legal political wing called Sinn Fein= - declared a cessation of hostilities on Aug. 31, 1995 and was soon joined by terrorist organizations from Northern Ireland's Protestant "loyalist" commu= nity, which favors continued British rule in the province. The IRA abruptly reversed course in February, declaring its impatience with the British response to the cease-fire. As a result, Sinn Fein has been exciud= ed from multi-party talks which have resumed in Belfast under the chairman- ship of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell. Those discussions - involving both Catholic and Protestant parties - art designed to lead to a permanent settle, ment of the sectarian strife that has claimed more than 3,000 lives in the past 25 years. They have yet to achieve substantive progress, however. SERVICES Continued from Page 1 V niversity. Harris said the University seemed like an ideal place, back when he was at a small Farmington Hills college and looking to transfer. "All the things that I would need, they offered in their brochure," he said. Because Harris relies on his periph- eral vision, even minimal reading tasks are difficult. After reading one para- graph on a closed-circuit television, eye fhtigue usually sets in. During his first year, the office had more people in place to accomodate disabled students, Harris said. But "last year and this year it's been worse." According to SSD rules, visually impaired students are required to check with the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic lending library in New Jersey before turning in class material to the University's reader service program to ,be taped. Sam Goodin, SSD director, -explained the office's procedure. "We ~ get the books, we start to record and we give it to them two weeks prior to when However, students say this procedure isn't always followed. Harris had to stay in Ann Arbor over winter break last year to complete his classes.d Hedid not get some of his early readings~ until October. "I went from that semester to the next without resting my eyes," he said. Slow Improvements "The problems with my books have been my main reason for staying this long" said Day, who refers to himself with a smile as a sixth-year senior. He is afflicted with congenital cataracts and glaucoma, but still has some eyesight in his right eye. He says of the University's visually impaired program, "It's better than it was in 1991." Meyer said the start of each school year is the most hectic. "A lot of (vol- unteers) don't stay in Ann Arbor over the summer and we have to rush," Meyer said. "Fall semester's worse." Currently the program has more than 40 volunteers reading 30 books and 10 coursepacks. Last year the program's move from Haven Hall to West Quad caused confu- materials for some students, Meyer said. Goodin said the student can also be responsiblewhen readingsare taped after their due date. "Are there other instances where students don't do their piece? Yes," he said. "They need to do their end of the thing also" Goodin noted that often the students do not hand in their syllabuses to the office early enough for them to tape the readings by their due dates. "We are not the ones who prepare the syllabi," Day said. "I myself have already tried to get materials to them in a timely fashion. It is stupid and irrespon- sible to want to commit academic sui- cide. It's absolutely ridiculous," he said. A Fair Shot Visually impaired students say they don't want to fight - they just want a fair shot at an education. "(Visually impaired) students are not getting the same educational opportuni- ties as sighted students," Rose said. "This is why we continue (to have problems)," Day said. "No one hears our voices. 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