Georgia
Charges that a University of Georgia
fraternity forced pledge members to
brand themselves with Greek letters
were dropped last month.
University officials investigated the
charges to determine if Omega Psi Phi,
a black fraternity, was violating the
school's hazing regulations and con-
cluded that pledges had not been forced
to brand themselves.
COLLEGES
Officials ruled the branding was a
voluntary choice of the fraternity's
members because it was not part of the
group's formal initiation ceremony.
They did agree, however, that peer
pressure was largely responsible for
the branding. The investigation was
launched after an article appeared in
the campus newspaper, The Red and
Black, reporting that the chapter's
members branded their arm or leg with
the Greek letter omega.
drops b
Omega Psi Phi is a nationally
recognized black fraternity with chap-
ters on most major college campuses,
including the University of Michigan.
- The Red and Black
Pitt basketball
coach resigns
The assistant basketball coach at the
University of Pittsburgh, Seth Green-
berg, resigned Monday following repor-
ts that he violated NCAA recruiting
regulations.
Greenberg allegedly offered a
basketball recruit a ride home from a
game last September, according to the
student newspaper, The Pitt News. A
second charge, reported by a Univer-
sity of Nevada coach, alleges that
Greenberg arranged to pay a Nevada
recruit's round trip plane ticket to Pit-
tsburgh out of booster club funds.
Under NCAA rules it is illegal for
coaches to offer students rides or sub-
sidize any travel expense.
Greenberg resigned after several
meetings last week with the school's
athletic director.
The Michigan Daily - Thursday, July 14, 1983 - Page 7
randing charges
he NCAA is investigatin
charges. - The Pitt News
Iowa paper
sued for libel
An Iowa City police officer filed a
libel suit against the University of
Iowa's student newspaper claiming
that an article printed in October
falsely charged him with assault.
The Daily Iowan printed an article
about a NAACP investigation of
charges that Officer Daniel Dreckman
allegedly assaulted a female university
student for racial reasons. The article
also said Dreckman was previously
charged with assault which Dreckman
claims is untrue.
Although the university student
dropped the assault charges in Novem-
ber, Dreckman said the paper defamed
him by citing the past charges which he
claims are false.
Columbia votes
not to divest
The Trustees at Columbia University in
New York voted not to divest $41.5
million of stock from 19 corporations
which operate in South Africa.
Students, faculty members and ad-
ministrators at Columbia urged the
Trustees to divest as a statement
against South Africa's apartheid
policies. Instead, the Trustees voted to
reaffirm the school's 1978 policy
requiring divestment from companies
that are not working to improve South
Africa's racial policies.
Since 1978, Columbia has divested
from three companies doing business in
South Africa.
Regents at the University of
Michigan voted in April to divest of 90
percent of the school's holdings in com-
panies operating in South Africa.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Daily Iowan Compiled by Halle Czechowski.
Publisher denies owning stolen sex tapes
From AP and UPI
LOS ANGELES - Hustler magazine publisher
Larry Flynt reacted to a statement by his office
yesterday that he had the videotapes that a lawyer
claims show government officials in sex acts.
"I do not have the tapes," Flynt said. "I'm still
negotiating."
Flynt claimed he tried to negotiate a deal with at-
torney Robert Steinberg to buy the tapes for $1
million. He said his secretary misunderstood his
messages, resulting in the relase of an incorrect
statement that he had the tapes.
Steinberg has claimed the tapes showed Alfred
Bloomingdale, the late millionaire and confidant of
President Reagan; Vicki Morgan, Bloomingdale's
one-time mistress; two "high-level" government of-
ficials and two prominent businessmen.
Steinberg has said he obtained the tapes over the
weekend from someone who thought they might help
the defense of Marvin Pancoast charged with beating
Morgan, 30, to death with a baseball bat last week.
Flynt said he talked with Steinberg by telephone at
9 a.m. yesterday.
"I told him if, in fact, the tapes existed, I would pay
him $1 million, no questions asked," Flynt said.
"He said, 'We've got a deal.' I made an 11:30 a.m.
appointment at my house with him. He never showed
up," Flynt said, adding that his subsequent phone
calls to Steinberg were not returned.
Flynt's spokesman, Robert David, told reporters
yesterday morning that the publisher had obtained
the tapes and would identify the people on them. But
Flynt said David had misunderstood a message he
left with his secretary about the impending deal with
Steinberg.
Flynt said he would have identified the participants
and published still prints from the videotape in his
magazine, one of the most sexually explicit of the
adult glossies. But Flynt said he doubts there are any
tapes.
Steinberg ignited the controversy Monday when he
claimed to have three video tapes showing sexual
escapades that "could embarrass everyone right to
the top of the country."
Shortly after he was asked Teusday to surrender
them to authorities investigating Morgan's murder,
he reported the tapes missing.
A few hours later, prosecutors obtained a subpoena
ordering Steinberg to produce the tapes or explain
their disappearance. Then Steinberg said the tapes
had been stolen from a gym bag in his law library by a,
reporter he refused to name.
The New York Times quoted Steinberg as saying
Los Angeles Times reporter David Johnston had "ac-
cess to the tapes." Johnston called that "a
bald-faced lie," adding I have never seen or had
access to any purported tapes."
Steinberg, 46, said famed Boston asttorney F. Lee
Bailey, host of the "Lie Detector" television show, is
a consulting lawyer with his firm. Bailey's business
manager, Wayne Smith, told the Post that Bailey
hasn't been associated with Steinberg for seven
years.
GEAC eomes
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money, however, since library officials
say they hope to install several public
terminals where patrons can check
their records to see if they have fines.
Patrons will also be able to use these
terminals to see whether a book is in
circulation, or what books the library
says they have checked out.
While library administrators won't
say how much the system will cost the
University, they predict it will be more
economical in the long run. "The cost of
the system will be recovered in three
years by not using (the current
system)," Norden said.
Dougherty said several universities
already use the GEAC system, in-
cluding Yale, Princeton, and the
University of Ontario.
But while officials seem excited at
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the prospect of the new system,.student
users are taking "wait-and-see" at-
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that is, speed things up, great," said
LSA student Tony Gensterblum, who
has used the system once so far. "But
CRISP is supposed to speed things up,
too," he added.
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