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By SARA CRUTCHLEY
Staff writer
Two years after the merging of the governing councils
of USC's black and white greek organizations, sororities
and fraternities appear to be only marginally closer, greek
leaders said.
In 1986, the campus chapters of the National PanHellenic
Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Association
and the National Interfraternity Conference were merged
into what is now the Fraternity Council and Sorority
Council.
Student Life Dean Jerry Brewer said the decision to
I, combine the governments of the predominantly black
NPHC and NPHA and the predominantly white NIC
fraternities and sororities was made to consolidate the
system.
"We didn't call it integration," Brewer said. "But it
was very foolish having a black greek system and a
separate white system so similar that the only reason to
keep them apart was race."
The systems were merged because the greek organizations
were becoming too polarized, he said.
"The USC says that you should not be separate, (that)
race is not a factor," he said.
But he admitted that the benefits of merging the three
organizations ? ostensibly to encourage more interaction
between white and black greek organizations ? have been
slow in coming. The effects of the merger will probably
not emerge for several years, he said.
Only one of the campus' white fraternities has a black
member; none of the black fraternities have a white
member, Fraternity Council President Luke Byars said.
Statistics on campus sororities could not be obtained by
press time.
Despite the apparently limited membership crossover,
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DAC CARVER
Staff writer
An upward trend in the death rate <
Europeans has many Eastern-bloc coun
USC professor puzzled.
j?k j% A The life span of working-age men in c
JB y. Eastern Europe has been declining ste;
the mid-1960s, according to sociologi;
Carlson.
"In the past 25 years, Hungarian mer
more than a half-decade of life exf
{ Carlson said. "The loss has occurred ent
working ages, and that pattern is repeati:
other Eastern European nations."
- , *. v ? V ' * Carlson, who spent the last year in Bu(
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v:;- Academy of Science's Sociology Institute
-J.T. >' '' the death rate increases, which have occui
wor^^n8 class, are strange.
Ifcw''**'" "The white-collar workers, bur
' managers ? these groups do not show th
crease ln death rates. It is the manual
]both manufacturing and in agriculture
* dying at an increased rate."
t' - The rise in the number of deaths per
f - among manual laborers ranges from an ii
150 percent in the 35-39 age group to r
-4 percent among those 45-49 years old, \
*^*A parable increases at other ages.
yT-v^X? C-T In contrast, Western European n<
similar size reveal no changes or even d
j% ' ? >; w, J adult death rates in the same last quarto
I# J*^ In his research to determine the major
||?'"*' death, Carlson said he found some as
statistics. Among Hungarian men aged
K** , r the number of deaths from heart disease
III {$4?^ suicide and various forms of acciden
almost doubled between 1965 and 1985.
During the same period, Carlson also d
~ ? a more than sixfold increase in deaths
* rhosis, bronchitis, emphysema and asthm;
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crease in drinking and smoking.
"Again," Carlson said, "I was struc
her slinky makes significance of age and occupation. Th
ay. death from heart disease and stroke, for
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Byars said the merger "has improved communication
greatly."
He said he sees things starting to change a little as some
blacks begin to join NIC fraternities, an event he said was
unlikely before the merger.
"Now it is something that could happen, as opposed to
a few years ago when it would not have been possible," he
said.
Sheila King, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, said she
also feels that communications have been improved.
But Todd Allen of Alpha Phi Alpha said he does not
see any real improvement in communications among the
groups in the two years since their councils merged.
He said therp,was "probably not" any way that the
situation could be rectified, and he does not see the system
becoming totally integrated until the next century.
At the same time, he said, if a white person tried to
pledge for APA, the person would be treated in the same
way as any other pledge.
Eddie Goode, president of Pi Kappa Alpha, believes
cases of integration are limited. People prefer to stay
within more familiar surroundings, he said.
Greek Life Coordinator Rick Gant endorsed this view.
The greek system's primary role is a supportive one, he
said.
People often find it easier to remain among people of
their own culture and tend to stay within groups
dominated by their own race, he said.
Whatever progress is made toward integration, the need
for independent organizations of black greeks still exist,
King said.
"We tend to get lost in the shuffle because of our fewer
numbers," she said.
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of Eastern "Unlike people in Western natries
and a tions who are drinking more wine
and beer, the Eastern Europeans
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idiiy since are drinking very high proof hard list
Eiwood quor, three times more than they
1 have lost did 25 years ago. Hungarians, for
)ectancy," example, drink a fruit brandy called
rely in the paijnka that is 120 to 180 proof. :
ngitse m many them drink it first
iapest as a thing in the morning, as well as dur- 1
^sakTthat in? the da> and after work."
rred solely Elwood Carlson <
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e same in- ??????????laborers,
years old at the same time that it was nearly doubl- 1
;, who are ing for working age men." ?
Although Carlson and his fellow researchers are (
thousand unable to point precisely to what is causing the proncrease
of blem, they have identified some important physical 5
learly 300 and sociological elements that may be 1
vith com- contributing. - *
"Unlike people in Western nations who are 1
itions of drinking more wine and beer, the Eastern Euroeclines
in peans are drinking very high proof hard liquor,
r century. three times more than they did 25 years ago. 1
causes of Hungarians, for example, drink a fruit brandy call- ?
itonishing ed Palinka that is 120 to 180 proof. And many of I
30 to 59, them drink it first thing in the morning, as well as I
e, stroke, during the day and after work.
tal death "Smoking has jumped tremendously all across i
Eastern Europe and that, combined with the high
iscovered level of air and water pollution and heavy use of e
from cir- pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture, contributes F
a, the last to many health problems." f
nenal in- "Then there are the social intangibles," he said.
"During these same decades, local communities i
k by the have broken up. Many people were moved out of c
e rate of their original towns, and many kinds of voluntary t
example, groups were dissolved and suppressed. a
0 and 84 "Now there is the family and there is the state, I
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over fraternity he
assault and a vandalism of a fraternity
lounge and were involved in a car Nj|
police that she was assaulted bv two
juvenile males at the Benson School University Police were inv
around 12:10 p.m. Friday. a car chase at 1:30 a.m. S?
According to police, two juveniles The driver of the vehicle, wl
were going through desks at the reported stolen from Natio
school when they were observed by a Rental agency, failed to stc
staff member. The staff member pur- traffic light at the corner of 1
sued them and managed to catch one. G? ne streets,
who then kicked her. Universe he vehicle and its three ot
Police apprehended and ident: th :n failed to stop for the Ui
the juveniles, but they were rele jd Police car. The car was pui
after the victim refused to press Cayce, where the subjects e>
charges. vehicle and ran from the off
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity The vehicle was towed
members reported Friday that their University Police impound 1
lounge was vandalized. The car also had a stolen licen
unknown vandal splashed green and from another vehicle which h
black paint on the walls, three sofas turned over to the Columbia
and the pool table. Other crimes investigated i
The fraternity had just repainted A woman reported h
its lounge, which was locked, said a cle stolen from the parking
fraternity member Svho did not want Williams-Brice Stadium S
to be identified. evening. The woman, not
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with almost nothing in between. The only exception
is the church, but that's all they have."
With such staggering mortality rates presumably
due to rapid increases in smoking and alcohol com
sumption, it would seem that the governments of
these Eastern European countries would want to
make every effort to curb these unfavorable trends,
but such is not the case, Carlson said.
"You can't pass laws against behavior," he said.
"Look what prohibition did to us."
Carlson does concede that stiffer penalties
against those found driving under the influence
have helDed to decreasf1 alrr?hnI-rHat*?rl a^ridpntc
and deaths. But people are still drinking the same
amount of alcohol or more, and the results con:inue
to have adverse effects on the population.
"The government doesn't believe there is a
drinking problem because they probably have one,
:hemselves," Carlson said.
Women have not been immune to the giant
icythe of death, either, he said. During the 1970s,
he mortality rates of women began to rise also,
and although they have not reached the same levels
)f men, they are following the same track.
Carlson, whose studies were concerned
ipecifically with the labor force in Hungary, said
he purpose of his research was to precipitate
government policy changes that would bring a halt
o the growing mortality problem.
Whether his work will fall -^n deaf ears in
-lungary and other countries in which he has
gathered statistcs, such as Poland, Czechoslavakia^
lomania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and the Soviet
Jnion remains to be seen.
On his departure from Hungary, Carlson
ronically encountered one of his own statistics.
"As my train left Budapest, it suddenly made an
:mergency stop," he said. "While we were stop>ed,
we learned that a man had thrown himself in
font of our train and was killed.
"This is actually a Hungarian form of suicide,
kbout 100 years ago, a Hungarian poet, in a fit of
lespair, threw himself under a train. In some mor>id
way, his death captured the Hungarian imigination.
Ever since, it has been a peculiar kind of
iungarian trademark."
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llfffPf student, parked her car at 9 p.m.,
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her car was gone.
A woman reported Friday
that her car was broken into at the
parking lot at Williams-Brice. Her
wallet and other items were taken.
Als6, University Police arolved
in rested two students at 12:30 a.m.
iturday. Thursday at 1200 Blossom St.
lich was The male student was charged with I
nal Car disorderly conduct, and the female
?p for a student was charged with public
Bull and drunkenness. Both students were
transported to the Richland County
xupants Detention Center,
niversity Also on Thursday, a student
rsued to reported his car broken into while it
uted the was parked in the Pendleton Street
icer. Garage. Several items were taken,
to the A female student reported a
lot. The burglary of her unlocked dorm room
se plate Friday. An unknown person entered
tad been the room in Wade Hampton and
Police, took several items,
nclude: On Friday, a student
er vehi- reported his car stereo stolen from
lot of his car, which was parked on the
aturday seventh level of the Blossom Street
a USC garage.
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