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Positive aspects
Greeks fig
By Susan Muir
With the stigma of alcohol abuse
and hazing dampening the positive
aspects of the greek system, USC
fraternities and sororities have
developed and promoted stricter antihazing
policies over the past two years,
according to nffirink in StnrliMit
Affairs.
Since the 1980 death of Sigma Nu
pledge Barry Ballou, whose parents are
suing USC and Sigma Nu for $3
million, greeks have been prompted to
strengthen their stance against hazing
in order to deter negative feelings
against the greek system.
But despite their anti-hazing stand,
Carolina's greeks still have a tarnished
reputation and have trouble promoting
the positive aspects of sororities and
fraternities to anti-greek individuals,
said Julie Busch, coordinator of Greek
Affairs.
"THE ATTITUDES about hazing
are the hardest things to change.
There's been so much said about
greens ? uuu its supposedly pan oj
tradition to ha/e ? that it's hard lo bring
the positixe out," Busch s;iid.
Although ttie university had an antiha/.ing
policy at the time of BallouVs
death ? a policy still efffective ? the
greeks have intensified their own
adherence to anti-hazing policies.
The university policy states: "No
organization, licensed or otherwise,
officially or in lact, shall participate in
the activity of hazing.
"Hazing consists of a group or
organization, subjecting members to
activities which harass, intimidate,
physically exhaust, impart pain, cause
undue mental fatigue, or cause mental
distress.
"SUCH ACTIVITY includes, but is
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Panhellenic Association
not limited to, tests of endurance, submission
nf mem here to nntentiallv
d a n g e r o 11 s or ha z a r d o us c i r cumstances,
activities which have a
forseeable potential for resulting in
personal injury, or any activity which
by its nature is so profound as it would
have a potential to cause severe mental
anxiety, mental distress, panic,
humanly degrading, or publicly
embarrassing."
Uddie Green leaf, president of the Interfraternity
Council, said, "We've
always had it (an anti-hazing policy) in
our laws, but in the last two years
we've revamped the hazing policy.
"It (the hazing policy) was around,
but it wasn't quite as specific. When
something bad like this (Ballou's
death) happens, it makes you more
aware and it creates a reaction to it,"
he said.
Cindy Price, president of the
ranhellemc Association, said although
the policy was familiar to the greeks
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throughout July as moving began
yesterday to relocate the campus
branch to the Veterans Administration
Hospital, according to a school
The moving operations will proM8pT
' bably not be completed until the
\-#J: end of July, said O.M. Higgins,
m associate dean for administration.
1|.: "It'll probably take the rest of
m the month to move," Higgins said.
l| "The reason for that is we are mov?
ing delicate scientific equipment
that has to be disassembled, packed
miH rpactcm
"WE'LL HAVE to work
;gradually, but should get through
liQ, by the end of July. We will be in a
- / " transition period as we move
building by building, department
t'liotoby oa.eGrimky by department."
Only departments in the campus
branch will be moved to the VA
Hospital on Garners Ferry Road,
(art of the day's Higgins said. Those needing to be
ating. See story moved include the dean's office and
the departments of anatomv.
physiology, pharmacology,
t microbiology and pathology.
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reputations 0f Pam P?
before the incident, it might not have From Staff Reports
been as widely publicized as it is now. With two strikes aga
While the governing bodies of the went to bat against a foi
sororities and fraternities were familiar _ and struck out.
with the policy, the individual . A federal judge refusi
members might not have known the wome?.s basketball co,
extent of it. 1nffi^ioie
"IT'S TOO had that it took USC attorneys had
something as tragic as that to get the former football coach*
every day member to know about it "alter ego" of the sta
(the policy) ? to get it clarified," she agreed to be sued. Botl
sa' , , ,rr . I3 u ,, District Court Judge
Panhel IFC and the Pan-Hellenic was not barred from ,
Council (the governing body of the becauSe ofanemployir
black greek system) have adopted their she resigned,
own policies on hazing. IFC and
Panhel require each organization's Hamilton said he mij
president to read the policies and sign a based on that agreeme
statement of understanding of the haz- like Parsons', since tl
ing policy. The fraternity president, were made after the ag
faculty and chapter adviser and pledge Former head footba
trainer are required to sign the head football coach an
statement. filed breach of contrac
The II C statement of position on
hazing and other pre-initiation ac- Parsons is suing I
tivites defines hazing as "any action Holderman and Chris
taken or situation created by the university relations, fo
members of a fraternity intentionally, Tl , ,
. . .. . the suit is because
whether 011 or oil ol Irate,mly Sou|h (aro|ina.. ,hat
premises, to produce .u,y physical or g IUustrale(l
psychological harm to the individual. resigned
It also states that policy violators
will be prosecuted and that hazing in- She-is asking for $2
cidents will be referred to the IFC million punitive darna]
Tribunal for resolution. All chapters part on quotes from V
are required to inform pledges of re- her of being a lesbian
quiremcnts needed to complete the destroyed her life and k
? 1 l -? ? .. -
pieuge program. career.
? ..... . .. .. , The magazine was no
SIMILAR IO the IK policy .s whidl was discussed Tl
Panhel s statement ot position on ha/ing.
In its opening paragraph it states: Holderman and Vial
"It is the opinion ol the Panhellenic answers to the complaii
Association that ha/ing is noi in con
lormity \yith any of out member Arsons, .coached
. ? 0 resignation .Ian. 4, 198;
ot:u uiunna, poyo *j j
Medicine
hospital
'It'll probably take the rest
of the month to move ...
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lutfuause; we are moving
delicate scientific equipment.'
Associate dean of
administration
O.M. Higgins
The medical library and departments
of radiolnpv nrf>v?>ntivp
0y 1 r. v - v?.l. ? V
medicinc, medicine and surgery are
already at the VA Hospital, according
to Higgins.
"Only the portion here on the
campus will be moved," Higgins
said. "We already have some
departments elsewhere."
OTHER MEDICAL school
departments are at Richland
Memorial Hospital and the William
Hall Institute
"We don't plan to be closed
down at all," Higgins said.
"Each of these departments is of
pretty good size. We've already
started moving the dean's office, so
it should be the first part to be back
in schedule."
uses dismissal
arson's lawsuit
linst USC, university legal consels
-mer athletic coach suing the school
?d Thursday to dismiss former USC
ach Pam Parsons' lawsuit against
tried to dismiss lawsuits of two
ss claiming the imiversitv was an
te and couldn't be sued unless it
1 appeals were denied.
Clyde Hamilton said that Parsons
suing the university or its officials
lent release she signed in 1982 when
?ht dismiss a sex discrimination case
nt, but not a libel and slander suit
le allegedly slanderous statements
reement had been signed.
ill coach Richard Bell and former
d athletic director Jim Carlen have
t suits.
ime Inc., USC President James
Vlahoplus, senior vice president for
r $75 million.
V1 Mil tl[UV.!V OIKi II1V VVCUIHCI <11
appeared in the Time-published
gazine about a month after she
5 million actual damages and $50
a;es, claiming the article, based in
lahoplus and Holderman, accused
involved with one of her players,
illed her successful college coaching
t part of the motion to dismiss that
lursday.
loplus were given 20 days to file
nts listed in Parsons' lawsuit.
I USC: from May 1, 1977 until her
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