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 . ' -I l - - - - - -- -- - - -- -- _ - - . T } I Colleges appears every Thursday. 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 (Continued from Page 31 LIBRARY users won't have to be surprised to find they owe the library 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. 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