Sorority suspended for hazing violation
By Steve Padilla
Editor
The Alpha Delta Pi sorority has been suspended for two months because of a hazing incident during which a pledge could have died of alcohol poisoning.
In addition to the suspension, during which the sorority cannot sponsor activities or complete rush activities, Alpha Delta Pi will be put on probation for the 1982 fall semester, spokesmen for the university and the sorority’s national chapter said Thursday.
Jeremy Stringer, assistant vice president for Residential Life, said this was the first time he had heard of a university sorority being suspended for hazing.
“The university and the national sorority were shocked by this occurrence, which — although unintentional — may have put the pledge in serious jeopardy,” Stringer said.
Stringer would not elaborate on the incident but did say that the poisoning took place at a scavanger hunt sponsored by the sorority last fall. The pledge consumed a large amount of alcohol and had to be rushed to a hospital where her sto nach was pumped, he said.
“It (the incident) could have led to her death,” said Stringer, noting that not long ago a pledge died under similar circumstances in New York state.
“The student was fortunate in that there was no lasting illness or consequences. But if not caught, it could have been fatal,” he said.
The probation includes a number of stipulations, including a requirement to develop a program to raise campus awareness of the dangers of alcohol abuse. The sorority must also initiate programs to improve pledge education.
“Both USC and Alpha Delta Pi sorority regret the necessity of this severe action," Stringer said in a prepared statement released just hours before the sorority was toid of the suspension Thursday evening.
“The sanctions were developed to hold the group accountable for its behavior, to help the sorority members learn from the experience and to enlist the local chapter as a partner in ridding the fraternity and sorority system of hazing.”	,
Stringer said that an adminstrative review panel consisting of two administrators and one student found the sorority guilty of hazing. The sorority has 10 days to appeal the decision to the Student Behavior Appeals Panel through the office of the vice president for Student Affairs.
Representatives from the national chapter, including grand president Virginia Stafford of Ames, Iowa, have met with sorority members in recent weeks to discuss the matter. Stringer said.
The national chapter, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, has requested that sorority members not comment on the case in hopes of treating the matter internally.
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University of Southern California	Friday, January 29, 1982
Volume XCI Number 14
CHARGES OF A THLETIC MISCONDUCT
University to respond to NCAA
By Wendell Mobley
Assistant City Editor
The university plans to submit its response today to the National Collegiate Athletic Association in answer to allegations involving questionable procedures that involve the athletic department.
The administration and NCAA authorities have maintained a “no comment” policy regarding the nature of the allegations and the university’s response.
University President James H. Zumberge told the Daily Trojan Thursday that the NCAA sent a letter to the university last September outlining 21 points pertaining to “basic catagories of allegations.”
Zumberge said some points covered multiple allegations that occasionally overlapped. He declined to comment further.
The president, although refusing to comment on the nature of the allegations, said the university admits to some of the charges.
“We found that some of the allegations have some truth to them,” Zumberge said, referring to an investigation conducted by the university.
The NCAA investigation consists of several steps. The first is a preliminary inquiry that determines whether a formal charge will be made and whether it will be investigated by the NCAA.
After the athletic association made the decision to investigate, it sent a letter to the university raising a series of questions and allegations.
“We then have to conduct our own investigation.” Zumberge said. Richard Field, a trial lawyer with the Los Angeles firm of Adams, Duque and Hazeltine, led the investigation.
The university then must respond to the NCAA
allegations with a report of the findings from the university’s investigation.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 5 and will take place in front of the NCAA enforcement staff. The university will also face a Feb. 19 hearing before the association’s infractions committee.
Finally, the NCAA will send Zumberge a confidential report of the association’s final ruling sometime in mid-March. Zumberge will have 10 days to appeal the decision.
Ron Stratton, assistant director qf the NCAA Enforcement Department, refused to address the issue. “I cannot even confirm or deny what you have,” he said.
The university slipped into the shadow of NCAA investigations in 1980 when it meddled with the transcript of Billy Mullins, a track sprinter, and implemented a speech class that 34 members of the "football team were not attending.
The Pacific-10 Conference ruled the university’s football and track teams ineligible for post-season competition. It also stripped the track team of its 1978 national title.
When asked to comment on what he thought the final outcome of the NCAA investigations would be, Zumberge sounded unsure. “I really don't know'. The NCAA is not going to be lenient with anybody.
“It’s not unusual for everybody to be shooting at a team ... that can stay on top of the heap,” Zumberge said, referring to the football team — a team credited with eight national championships
Students threaten walk-out over tuition increase issue
Staff photo by Pam Veasey
HAUNTED MANSION — The fourth floor of the Student Union takes on a ghostly appearance as it is reflected in a puddle after Thursday's rain hit the campus.
Security enlarges as campus expands
By David Wharton
Assistant City Editor
University Security is interviewing applicants for new officer positions in a hiring push that officials hope will improve patrol coverage of the expanding campus.
“The campus is getting bigger area-wise as off-campus apartments are going out farther (from the campus). The more it spreads out, the thinner we spread ourselves,” said Lt. Gary Rus, who oversees the applicant selection process.
“It’s not just a matter of covering more territory,” said Steven Ward, chief of University Security. “We are getting more calls because there are more people living out there (in off—campus residences).”
University Security is ottering
20	jobs, 15 of which will fill vacancies left by officers who either retired or moved on to other departments. Rus said the other five are newly created positions which were scheduled to be added during the normal yearly hiring in July.
The lieutenant explained that the recent loss of officers has forced the department to take applications just six months after the last hiring.
“We lost five officers to UCLA,” Rus said, explaining that UCLA offers its patrolmen better pay and officer status.
Because that university is a state school, UCLA campus police have peace officer status. Rus said university administrators are investigating the acquisition of this status for Uni-(Continued on page 3)
By Eric Onstad
Staff Writer
In a further attempt to pressure the administration on the tuition issue, student members of a university budget adv isory committee are prepared to walk out of Monday’s meeting if their demands are not met.
“We’re not playing their game anymore,” said Mark Slavkin, a student senator and one of four students on the Resource Management Committee of the President’s Advisory Council. The committee also includes faculty, staff and budget office staff.
The students on the commission requested more detailed budget information than the administration was willing to provide at the first meeting of the commission on Dec. 18.
This information was needed to make an intelligent response to administration budget figures and formulate student needs and concerns, Slavkin said.
The request for specific information and the threat to walk out if that information is not given are contained in a memo the student representatives sent Jan. 27. to the committee chairman, Doyle Williams, dean of the accounting school.
The requested information included:
. The plan for restructuring or improving Student Administration Services.
. The line-by-line budget of the entire SAS, to allow for office-by-office review.
. The amount of student aid that will be available for university students next year.
. The increased commitment to
campus security and how will it translate into a better security program.
. How the $22 million in “general administration and general expense” is being spent.
“If the above information is not made available to the full committee in the very near future,” the memo concludes, “we will have no choice but to walk out of the committee and pursue other avenues of influencing the budget process.”
“In past years the student members on the commission tried to beat them (the administration) at their own game,” Slavkin said. “Students came up with impressive cost-benefit analysis and intricate mathematical equations.”
“The students have been intimidated in the past, but this year it’s different,” he said. “The students are the ones who are taking the leadership role.”
It is the university’s responsibility to justify a tuition increase, Slavkin said.
“It’s their responsibility to sell the university on a 11.5 percent jump in tuition. They should go around and tell everyone what a great school this is and all the good things they’re going to do with the money,” the student senator said.
“Maybe the students will agree, but until students tell us to stop, we'll keep the heat up on them.”