The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com CRASH From page lA Thirty minutes after the acci- dent, the goings-on inside the apartment created a surreal tab- leau: Srinivasan and his sister, LSA junior Smrithi Srinivasan,surveyed the mess, mulling over whether to call the landlord and insurance company. Ann Arbor Police Depart- ment officer Renee Bondy took pho- tographs. The rocky descent from the vehicle's front bumper to the floor made Srinivasan's livingspace look like a transplaned mountain ravine. Bondy said this type of acci- dent is common. The woman driv- ing the Grand Prix was not hurt, but the woman whose car hit the building was taken to the hospital, Bondy said. Full accident reports were not available yesterday morning. The basic report filed Saturday night only said that the accident involved one car rear-ending another and that one driver was transported to the University Hospital. If drunken driving was a factor, or if either driver were seriously hurt, compre- hensive reports would have already been completed, AAPD Sgt. Laura Ouellette said. After the debris settled, the Buick sat still, neatly wedged in its brick cubbyhole until a tow truck dragged it away at about 2:30 a.m. The. front bumper remained on the window ledge until the tow truck driver picked through the remains. The Grand Prix had been towed a few minutes earlier. Srinivasan stayed at his sister's place Saturday night. He said he isn't sure where he'll live for the next few days. A service that handles catastro- phes cleaned up most of the rubble and boarded up what was left, he said yesterday. The building was constructed before the 1970s, and there is a chance that the builders used lead- based paint. If a lead test comes back negative, Srinivasan said he would be able to move back into the Monday, December 4, 2006 - 7A apartment 48 hours later. Because he's graduating this year, Srinivasan won't need to worry about renewing his lease. But if he did stay at the apartment complex, there would be certain stipulations. For one, he said he would consid- er moving one floor up. "Or at the very least I would adjust the posi- tion of my bed so it's not so close to the outside." GREEKS From page IA mostly white Interfraternity Coun- cil and Panhellenic Association. But other chapters are increasingly eager to join in. Last year, Kappa Alpha Psi was the only historically black group to participate. Even this was a step for- ward, said Tony Saunders, the presi- dent of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Kappa Alpha Psi partnered with Alpha Chi Omega, a Panhellenic Association sorority that was ini- tially unfamiliar with the other's mission and history. Over the course of the week, Saunders said, the sorority's inter- est in the fraternity blossomed, set- ting a positive precedent for future involvement. According to Seriguchi, at least four NPHC chapters will participate next March. Multicultural Greek Council President Sejal Tailor said that MGC chapters were also enthusiastic, but that the chapters' small sizes often constrict their ability to build ade- quately large teams to compete in the Greek Week activities. This year, Brian Millman, IFC's vice presidentofpublicrelations, and his Panhel counterpart, Andi Reich, said they were aggressively reaching out to MGC and NPHC chapters. Both described an increasing trend toward integration within the councils, citing mutual program- ming. Over the past year, NPHC has planned and staged involvement with K-Grams and the School of Education, often incorporating the other councils. "Historically, this has never hap- pened before," Saunders said. "All of our four councils getting together and doing actual work together to benefit the broader U of M commu- nity - a step in the right direction." Seriguchi, for example, maintains a list of planned joint programs, including a Chinese auction - a raf- fle-like fundraising event. With time, he hopes it will involve all four of the Greek system's coun- cils - regardless of their cultural or ethnic focus. WITHIN CHAPTERS Reid Benjamin, president and main founder of the year-old University chapter of Pi Lambda Phi, lives with three of his fraternity brothers in a Wilmot Courthouse's livingroom. Since its birth at Yale University in 1895, Pi Lambda Phi has billed itself as a "fraternity in which ability, open-mindedness, farsightedness, and a progressive, forward-look- ing attitude would be recognized as basic attributes." Near the end of fall semester last year, Benjamin and a group of Mary Markley and Alice Lloyd residents brought the chapter and its mission to the University. Yesterday, gathered in the living room were 12 of the fraternity's 32 members, a broad spectrum of skin tones and talents. One was a champi- on bowler, another an expert piano player, another an accomplished aeronautics engineer. Most, he said, stray far from the "Animal House" stigma associated with traditional fraternities. Each member of the house's pio- neeringclass had flirted with a more traditional role in the Greek system. Pi Lambda Phi is different, he said. Boyer was raised in a suburban school in Rochester, with one black student in his graduating class. Now, he said, he's found his role reversed. Next year, he'll be the lone white student in a house of four. LSA freshman Keith Binion, who is black and was raised in Detroit, attended a Grosse Pointe high school. After four years, he was tired of juggling two divergentcracial land- scapes: Grosse Pointe and Detroit. Early freshman year, he con- sidered joining Phi Beta Sigma, an NPHC house. But Pi Lambda Phi's diverse atmosphere won him over, he said. Some fraternity members struggled as they sought to pro- vide anecdotes about the house's diversity. "You have to kind of extract it from us," Benjamin said. "We're not really conscious of it." Diversity, they said, is not their explicit goal. Diversity should pro- ceed naturally from their commit- ment to "unity without conformity," he said. "Yeah, I'm never conscious of the race of my brothers. Except when I tell Hecky (Powell) that he hates white people," said LSA sophomore Dustin Frankel, motioning to Powell. Laughter filled the living room. As with most friends, Benjamin said, humor brings them together. "What you just saw Dustin do just there - that's a good example," he said. LSA sophomore Tony Nguyen said one of the best bonding moments the fraternity brothers had had as a group was a night they spent making racial jokes. Some may decry their joking as insensitive, but they say the atmo- sphere of familiarity and brother- hood disintegrates the barriers and hostilities that might otherwise exist. Somewhat ironically, the most effective weapon for engaging the damage wrought by stereotyping and labeling may itself be a label: Greek. LESSONS LEARNED In Angell Hall a few weeks ago, Seriguchi was on his way to Greek 101, a not-for-credit class designed to introduce Hellenic leaders to Uni- versity Greek life. It's programs like this one, where Greeks foster personal relationships, that are integral to success in bridg- ing racial division in the system, the NPHC vice president said. "If you're cool with people, you're more likely to call them for events you're doing," he said. Many executives cited Pike's Hal- loween party - where hundreds of Greeks and non-Greeks of several races mingled - as evidence of what can proceed from personal bonds. Averbuch and Jarrett Smith, president of Phi Beta Sigma, the traditionally black fraternity that cosponsored the Halloween party, met through LeaderShape, a six- day program run by the Office of Student Activities and Leadership to nurture students' organizational skills. "It makes me feel like the Greek system is trying to collaborate," Tai- lor said of the party's success. Like all student organizations, the Greek system is constantly pres- sured by its leaders' often chaotic academic schedules and impending graduations. Imprinting new tradi- tions on institutional memory can be daunting. To combat this, Averbuch sug- gested making the Halloween party an annual event. Tailor said she would leave her successor with tips on formalizing MGC's relationships with the other councils' leaders. The Greek system's wide social appeal and more than 2,000 mem- bers make it a more viable instru- ment than most campus groups, Averbuch said. "All we have to do is provide a vision," Averbuch said. 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