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Omega Psi Phi draws
indefinite suspension
By DAVID MEYER
A campus fraternity, Omega Psi Phi,
has been suspended indefinitely by its
national leadership after a long series of
disputes with its parent organization,
according an area leader of the group.
The national fraternity last month
notified University officials that its Phi
chapter on the Ann Arbor campus has
been officially disbanded for at least
one year because of pledging violations.
THE REGIONAL director of the
national organization said the Univer-
sity's chapter violated fraternity rules
when it inducted two students into its
ranks without first notifying the
national leadership.
But the man in charge of the in-
vestigation into the incident, Ypsilanti
attorney and Omega Psi Phi alumnus
Raymond Mullins, said the pledging
violations last year were only the most
recent of a history of conflicts between
the local fraternity members and their.
national leaders. Mullins said the Ann
Arbor fraternity had frequently
violated fraternity rules regarding
pledging and grade point averages and
said the group had been suspended in
the mid-1970s for similar infractions.
An officer in the Ann Arbor chapter,
however, said his fellow members
thought the suspension was needlessly
harsh. Dwayne Johnson, the Phi chap-
ter's keeper of records, said his group
would appeal the ruling at the frater-
nity's national meeting in Miami late
next month.
"WE'RE GOING to try to fight it,
because we kind of feel it was unjust,"
Johnson said yesterday. "For one little
mistake we made, they suspended us
for a year."
Johnson said his chapter had been
suspended only because it was delayed
in filing paperwork with the national
organization regarding the two fresh-
man pledges.
Mullins, however, said that in ad-
dition to failing to notify the leadership
about the two pledges, the fraternity
also violated rules because one of the
two students did not meet the frater-
nity's minimum 2.5 grade point
average requirement.
Mullins said the fraternity's district
representative, John Epps, will also
recommend to the national leadership
that the Ann Arbor chapter's president,
Zannie Gibby, be expelled from the
group for passing "fraternity secrets"
to the two students, who were not of-
ficially fraternity members.
Mullins called the one-year suspen-
sion "lenient".
Prof'to be charged
With check fraud
business and that he could guarantee
By GREG BRUISTAR them success. Clay said he was willing
The man who claimed to be a visiting to help the students financially and
professor from Syracuse University passed out checks to students for "rent
and wrote bad checks totalling more and tuition" that eventually bounced.
than $600 to University students will be Beaver said he became suspicious of
arraigned tomorrow on two felony Clay only after he was informed that
charges. Clay had issued checks for large sums
Donald Clay, 44, was charged with of money.
issuing bad checks and illegal After being tipped off by Beaver,
possession of a credit card. University security investigated Clay
CLAY WAS arested June 17 after and decided to notify the Ann Arbor
communications Prof. Frank beaver, Police, who made the arrest as Clay
informed University security about was checking out of Cambridge House
Clay's bogus credentials. in West Quad.
When Clsy visited Beaver's com- Clay currently is under investigation
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In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Toll uncertain in Soviet crash
MOSCOW- A Soviet jetliner bound for west Africa crashed shortly after
takeoff from Moscow early yesterday and a Sierre Leone Embassy
spokesman said there were no reported survivors among the estimated 90
people aboard.
Soviet authorities waited 17 hours before disclosing the air disaster, and
then reported only that Flight 411, an Ilyushin-62 headed for Senegal and
Sierre Leone, crashed after it took off from Sheremetevo Airport, 18 miles
northwest of Moscow.
The official Soviet news agency Tass said there were an undisclosed num-
ber of "victims," but gave no figures.
Western airline representatives in Moscow said the plane carried about 90
people and crashed about six miles from Sheremetevo just after lifting off at
12:10a.m. Moscow time (4:10 p.m. EDT Monday).
One source said one of the four engines was ablaze.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said Soviet authorities had refused to say
whether any Americans were aboard the aircraft and deferred inquiries un-
til today.
NEA vows to 'bury' Reagan plan
LOS ANGELES- Thousands of public school teachers marched yesterday
to vent their frustration with President Reagan's policies while union
leaders vowed to "bury" Reagan's promised tax breaks for private
education.
While the 7,000 National Education Association delegates and their
families paraded for a mile through downtown Los Angeles with homemade
anti-Reagan placards, the president was elsewhere in the city for a meeting
with elected officials.
NEA President Willard McGuire, leading the march ina red NEA baseball
cap and three-piece suit, said it was intended "to show the American public
our concern for public education and the current threats to public schools."
"It is a war for the survival of public education, and it is a war that we
must win, not only for ourselves, not only for our children, but for the
freedom of our Republic," McGuire said.
The White House in April turned down an invitation for Reagan to address
the 1.6 million-member association, the nation's second largest union,
saying "it is certain the president will be unable to add this engagement to
his commitments."
Representative claims six
House members used cocaine
OKLAHOMA CITY- Rep. Robert Dornan, who says he is participating in
a Capitol Hill cocaine investigation, said yesterday that officials had found
six or more of his colleagues were cocaine "user-consumers."
The California Republican, who was accompanying Vice President
George Bush on a fund-raising trip here, also said in an interview with The
Associated Press that he knows who the House members are, but declined to
identify them. He called those involved "user-consumers."
"Some of the investigators have talked of as many as a half-dozen or
more," Dornan said. "I was hoping as a member of Congress that there
wouldn't be that many."
Earlier this year, Dornan, a member of the House Select Committee on
Narcotics Abuse and Control, agreed to a request from the federal Drug En-
forcement Agency that an undercover agent work in his office as a
congressional aide.
Doman said only he and two others in his office knew of the agent's
presence.
But yesterday, DEA spokesman Bob Feldkamp said, "The DEA did not
have any undercover agent in Congressman Dornan's office."
Hundreds cross British
picket lines
LONDON- Hundreds of British train engineers defied their union's strike
call and returned to work on the state-run railroad yesterday, operating an
increasing number of commuter trains on the third day of the wlkout.
British Rail said 800 engineers worked yesterday, compared with 550 on
Monday. A spokesman said that by 8 p.m. the railway had been able to
operate 1,312 trains compared with 1,250 trains all day Monday out of a nor-
mal weekday totalof 15,100 on its 11,000-mile network.
The railroad said about half the engineers who showed up for work Mon-
day were from the striking Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and
Firemen (ASLEF). The rest were members of the larger National Union of
Railwaymen, which has not joined the current strike but has ordered its
members not to cross picket lines.
Sir Peter Parker, head of the rail network, said he was "mildly en-
couraged" by the return-to-work movement. But he hinted that the railroad
could be shut downcompletely if.the walkoutlasts long, and added; "We are
expecting a lohng strike."