Page 4=Wednesday, July 7, 1982-The Michigan Daily 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 munication class, he reportedly told and is suspected of illegal activities at severalstudents that he had valuable several universities around the coun- connections in the communications try. EAS YSUMMERLIVA(G ray IMarkley nSi // Undergraduate-Graduate ' Single or Double Rooms With or Without Meals Recreation and Social Activities * Social & Study Lounge Near CCRB Pool Apply at the Housing Information Office 1011 Student Activities Building 763-3164* 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."