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A laWsuit against an Alpha
Tau Omega (ATO) coach and
the suspension of the fraternity
from some intramural sports
have been dropped.
A three-member board
established by the intramural
office had suspended ATO
from participating in football,
basketball and softball for one
year because of their alleged
involvement in the beating of a
referee following a football
game this fall.
"ATO appealed their
suspension to the Student
Supreme Court," Robert
Dalrymple, director of in
tramural sports said. "The
meeting for the appeal was
postponed," he said, "but the
lawyers representing USC and
ATO reached a compromise.
solution."
The compromise, which has
to be approved by the Student
Supreme Court, suspends ATO
from football, but allows them
to participate in basketball and
softball.
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Dennis O'Keefe, the head
referee for the game, was hit in
the back of the head during the
fight. O'Keefe had intended to
bring a law suit against the
ATO coach he believed had hit
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him. "I have given up on the
law suit," O'Keefe said,
"because I've already spent
tu iuch time on it and it's not
worth my time.
"I don't feel the compromise
made between the lawyers for
ATO and USC was fair,"
O'Keefe said. "ATO needed
time to think about what they
did wrong," he said, "but
rather they were allowed to get
away free. There was really no
punishment," he said,
"because the suspension only
referred to football and the
football season is over now."
Reggie Chesson, president of
ATO, said the compromise was
fair. "Never were any of the
members of ATO involved in
the fight," he said, "but rather
it was* people who had at one
time been associated with the
fraternity."
O'Keefe said he wasn't going
to officiate any more games
involving ATO. "I think the
school handled the case
poorly," he said. "The whole
situation was very depressing
to me," he added.
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