Gay man's bid
to re-enter MSU
fraternity denied
EAST LANSING (UPI)- John
Nowak, a gay student ousted from a
Michigan State University fraternity,
said yesterday he is "shocked" at a
rebuff from MSU President Cecil
Mackey, but torn over whether to keep
fighting.
Nowak and members of the campus
gay community discussed the surprise
decision against reinstatement at a
hastily called news conference, and
said lawyers from the American Civil
Liberties Union are considering alter-
natives for legal action.
BUT NOWAK, a 20-year-old from
Westland, said continuing to fight his
ouster from Sigma Delta Phi presents
him with a difficult personal dilemma.
"It was a difficult decision to fight it"
in the first place, he said. "There were
a lot of other factors involved."
Nowak said his father "is still having
a rough time" because of the dispute.
"I REALLY have to look at all the
alternatives," he said.
Mackey, in an apparently un-
precedented move, overruled MSU's
Anti-Discrimination Judicial Board
which held in May that Nowak was the
victim of discrimination and ordered
him reinstated in the Delta Sigma Phi
fraternity.
The president said the MSU frater-
nity system is not actually a part of the
university and all MSU policies do not
apply.
"SOCIAL fraternities and sororities
have long been recognized at MSU as
having a special relationship to the
university but not as being part of the
university," Mackey said.
"I'm quite shocked, quite
distressed," Nowak said. "It really
hasn't sunk in yet."
While stressing he would not feel
comfortable moving back into the
fraternity house, Nowak said he would
like to participate in its social ac-
tivities.
Matt Gatson of the MSU Gay-Lesbian
Council said Mackey's decision means
"there is going to be no recourse within
the university.
"If anything is to be done, it will have
to be done outside the university," he
said.
Those attending the news conference
said the ACLU is looking into the rpat-
ter, and may file a lawsuit or ask the
city of East Lansing to proceed under'
its anti-bias ordinance.
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Doily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT
Whitewash
The neighbors that paint together stay together. At least that seems to be the
case for the Woods family as they spend yesterday helping the Camden
family paint their home.
Court may presume Hoffa dead
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DETROIT (UPI) - Exactly seven the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox
years to the day former Teamsters Restaurant in suburban Bloomfield
President Jimmy Hoffa vanished Township.
without a trace, the legal process began Authorities have said they believe
yesterday to have the longtime labor Hoffa went to meet Anthony "Tony
boss officially declared dead. Jack" Giacalone, reputed Detroit
"It is the end of a long, hard road," crime syndicate figure. Giacalone
said his son, James Hoffa Jr. "We have denied it.
no hope left at all. We assume he's
dead. INVESTIGATORS and Hoffa's son
"This is a very difficult thing to do," believe the reason for the abduction and
Hoffa, a Detroit attorney, said as he presumed murder was Hoffa's attempt
prepared to petition Oakland County to regain control of the giant inter-
Probate Court to declare presumption national union.
of death. Hoffa got his start at Local 299 in
UNDER Michigan law, heirs must Detroit and served as international
wait seven years before taking such ac- union president from 1957 until he was
tion. sent to prison in 1967 on bribery and
Hoffa disappeared July 30, 1975, from fraud charges.
House votes to supplement
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against which 1983-84 proposals would
Passage of the supplemental bills be made.
might have an impact on 1983-84 finan-
cial aid legislation, according to Butts. Mike Riksen, legislative director for
"If it passes the Seante and it is signed Pursell, said he expected the Senate to
into law, it would send a clear signal to act on the bills sometime next week.
the White Bouse about their proposals "My inclination is that it will pass," he
(for 1983-84) of last February" said.
"IT WOULD also increase The draft authorization bill, which
Congressioml awareness of public con- unless vetoed by the president goes into
cern aboutffunding education," he said. effect on July 1, 1983, was passed by a
Additional funds, he added, would also "substantial margin," Butts said.
. cre ae the appropriations base According to Grotrian, the financial
Frank Fitzsimmons then took over
but when Hoffa's sentence was com-
muted by President Richard Nixon in
1971, Hoffa announced intention to
retake control.
After his disappearance, the FBI
launched its biggest manhunt in
history. They checked thousands of
tips, including rumors he was buried in
a vacant lot in suburban Detroit, that
his body was burned in an incinerator in
nearby Southfield or dumped in a trash
heap in New Jersey.
Earlier this summer, a organized
crime informant testified before a
Senate committee that Hoffa was or-
dered killed by Fitzsimmons, and his
body dumped in a Florida swamp.
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... missing seven years
student financial aid funds
aid office is opposed to the bill, which administer. "There's no way in the
requires male students to prove they world federal computers can match
have registered for the draft before student recipients with Selective Ser-
being eligible for aid. vice files," he said, adding that the
"WE WOULD be opposed to that kind process would be "very complex, very
of eligibility criteria," Grotrian said, expensive, and very time consuming."
adding there would be "extreme dif- The bill was hotly debated in
ficulty in verifying the students' Congress, according to Butts who said
registration." many congressmen felt the bill singled
"Administratively" he said, "it out a specific class of citizens.
wouldbe a nightmare."
Butts agreed that such a requirement It does have an income
would be difficult for the University to discriminatory festure, Grotriangaid.
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