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ROBOT TECH TALK
The case of the murdered cat
Fraternicies near campus
have a variety of reputa-
tions. Cat killers isn't one of
them.
That wasn't always the
case. On Dec. 6, 1980, five
members of the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity captured
their house cat, cut off its
paws and set it on fire. This
incident led the took of the
fraternity, Earl Carl of Ann
Arbor, to resign six days
later, as reported in an issue
of The Michigan Daily from
Fehruary 10, 1ean.
O Friday February 8,
1980, Carl filed a lawsuit
against the fraternity in
Washtenaw County Circuit
Court accusing the frater-
nity, located at 556 S. State
St., of covering up the iden-
tities of the members who
killed the cat, according the
article.
Carl demanded at lean
$10,000 in financial com-
pensation to cover the
remainder of his contract
which would have expired it
May, and to offset emotions
distress he said he faced.
.The defendants in the
trial were Douglas Hamlir
the chapter president at the
time of the incident, Davic
Froikin, the former house
steward, and the fraternity',
alumni association hoardo
directors.
Carl told the Daily at the
time that there were "three
people directly putting pres.
sure on me to say nothing tc
the media or the police." He
went on to say that the three
people were Gene Hand, the
CRIME NOTES
Valet backs into
another car
WHERE: University Hospital
parking lot
WHEN: Tuesday at about 7
WHAT: A valet driver backed
s car into another vehicle,
knocking the glass out of the
passenger side window, Uni-
versity Police reported.
Backpack stolen
WHERE: Central Campus
Recreation Building
WHEN: Tuesday at about 6
p.m.
WHAT: A backpack contain-
ing an Apple MacBook Pro,
worth $2,000, was stolen from
the men's locker room while
its owner was in the restroom,
University Police reported.
Man thrown out
of Union
WHERE: Michigan Union
hasement
WHEN: Tuesday at about
11:30 p.m.
WHAT: A non-affiliate was
escorted out of the basement of
the Union for smoking, Univer-
sity Police reported.
Extinguisher
swiped
WHERE: Mary Markley Resi-
dence Hall
WHEN: Wednesday at about
3:30 am.
WHAT: A Housing staff mem-
her reported a fire extinguisher
missing during a round of
checks. The extinguisher has
been missingosince April, 2, Uni-
versity Police reported.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Findinggrants Talk on social
for grad students computing
talumni hoard's president,
Hamlin and Jeff Ducomb, a
;tmember of the board.
i- Carl also said that "he
eknew there was a cover-up
t,(that Hamlin initiated),"
nand specifically cited Hand
1 as "orchestrating the cover-
up" of the incident.
.e Carl said that he had tried
ito advise the members of
;ethe fraternity to release the
d identities of the cat killers,
ebut to no avail, according to
'sthe Daily article.
)f gill Holmes, the chapter
president at the time the
.estory was written, did not
,comment on the lawsuit
-and Alumni President Gene
o Hand was not available for
ecomment, according to the
!eDaily.
.e - CHELSEA LANGE
1Yesterday was National
Chocolate Day. Accord-
ing to an ABC report the
Smithsonian Institute found
the first modern chocolate bar
was made by Joseph Fry in
1947 when he created a mold-
able chocolate paste.
2The "Good Samaritan" law
- which would exempt
underage drinkers who
call for help for intoxicated
friends from receivingminor in
possession charges - recently
passed in the state House.
>>FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4A
3After the city of Hamp-
den, MD charged s8oo
for a permit to erect a
flamingo statue at a local res-
taurant, supporters of the res-
taurant planted hundreds of
pink flamingos on the city hall
lawn in protest, the Baltimore
Sun reported, In response, the
city lowered the permit fee to,
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