Lack of
witnesses
postpones
rape trial
By LISA BABCOCK
The trial for Griffith Neal -
accused of raping a 21-year-old
University student during a Greek
Week party at Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity house - was postponed
until September because the attor-
neys claim they were unable to
gather enough witnesses during the
summer.
Neal was to stand trial for first
degree criminal sexual assault this
week.
Dennis Bila, a partner of Neal's
attorney, said the Michigan Appeals
Court postponed the trial because
"the prosecution was lax in his
duties and didn't seek out all of the
witnesses." Neal is represented by
Attorney Stephen Boak.
"Whenever anybody tries to
postpone a trial it's to buy time,"
said Julie Steiner, director of the
University's Sexual Assault Pre-
vention and Awareness Center. "It's
important not only that this will
take place around the time of
sorority and fraternity rush, but that
the trial will become more emo-
tionally charged with all the
students on campus."
Since Neal pleaded not guilty,
Steiner thinks that his attorneys
will attempt to discredit and "blame
the victim" during the trial. "I want
to make sure that she gets as much
support from the community as
possible."
Fraternity officials do not
believe their chapter will shut down
if Neal is found guilty. "If a
member is convicted of a crime, we
would not close the chapter just for
that reason. We expect that our
chapter will continue to operate in
the fall," said Bill Martin, executive
director of Phi Gamma Delta.
But a Fiji chapter at Cornell
University shut down at the end of
last semester for problems
including sexual abuse, said Cornell
spokesman David Stewart.
Friday, July 10, 1987-The Michigan Daily-Page 3
MSA officials plan
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By MARTHA SEVETSON "In terms of the services we
Michigan Student Assembly provided last year, (the fee) will not
members are working to allocate hurt any of them. The question is,
their recently approved budget, to what extent can services be
which will include funding the improved and broadened?"
internal MSA budget, Student Weine was not certain what
Legal Services, the Ann Arbor percent of the fee would fund
Tenants' Union, Advice, and the PIRGIM, but said it would have to
Public Interest Research Group in be high enough to finance an
Michigan. optional refund system and prepare
The University's Board of Re - PIRGIM for a probable lawsuit.
gents increased the annual MSA fee Some believe that forcing students
to $7.00 per student for next year, a - who voted overwhelmingly to
29 percent jump from last year. fund PIRGIM - to finance a
MSA President Ken Weine re - potentially political group is
quested a $8.35 fee at the meeting. unconstitutional.
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