University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 29, 1978
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Sorority says mix-up overblown
By MARY ERNST
Staff Writer
The decision last week by Sigma Gamma Rho, a black sorority, not to join the Panhellenic Association was only a misunderstanding, not a controversy, the presidents of both organizations said yesterday.
Michelle Frasure, president of Sigma Gamma Rho, said that her sorority had considered joining Panhellenic but that they had notified Panhellenic last week that they were no longer considering joining because of the decision. A delay in the sending of a formal invitation.
Sigma Gamma Rho, established in October 1976, has five active members this
**WE CONSIDERED** the formal invitation to be a prerequisite for our joining Panda.
However, Katie Rhauds, president of Panhellenic, said she had never sent an invitation to Sigma Gamma Rho because she had assumed that the sorority was already a member when she took office in mid-November.
When new officers were elected, Rhoads said, she was told by former president Dina Oness that Sigma Gamma Rho was a member of Panhellenic.
"I WAS always under the impression that the letter had been sent," Rhoads said. "I guess it was a communication gap between Cinda and me."
Osness said that she had sent a formal letter of invitation to Sigma Gamma Rho in April. She also said that when she talked to the group, her colleagues were the so-called supporter it was ready to join.
They told me on the day I left office that
they wanted to be a member of Panellenic," Osness said. "We talked about guidelines, but I told them we didn't need to worry about formalities then."
Oness said she then considered Sigma Gamma Rho as an associate member of Panhellenic and she told Rhoads to announce it.
FRASURE SAID she did not consider the letter sent in April to be a formal invitation, particularly because the question of their relationship was the year and Ossesset letter was from last year.
"It would have heightened communication with other Greeks on campus," she said, "but our organization is governed by a different body than theirs."
Frasure said, however, that the decision not to join Panhellenic did not mean that there were not advantages to being in that organization.
"There could be an All-Sorority Council that would bring all sororities together to discuss those things that we do have in place, and maintain a high scholarship," Rhoads said.
"It would be much more positive."
All twelve member sororities of Panhellenic are members of the National Panhellenic Conference and are governed by Panhellenic bylaws. Sigma Gamma Rho is governed only by the bylaws of the national chapter of that sorority.
sororites, might be one such alternative, she said.
RHOADS SAID SAID Gamma Rho could do other constructive things that would be better for the user.
Rhoads said she thought the differences in the organizations, including the problem of Sigma Gamma Rho not having a house, pointed toward other choices as being more
constructive in establishing greater cooperation between Sigma Gamma Rho and Panhellenic. The establishment of an Al-Greek Council, for both fraternities and
"IM VERY positive about the other possibilities," she said.
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Workers begin spring cleaning of KU campus
By TIMOTHY TANKARD
Staff Writer
Taking advantage of yesterday's Mediterranean—like sunshine, Facilities Operations workers attacked Mount Oread with brooms, rakes and shovels to begin regroaming a winter-worn University of Kansas campus.
Sand, dirt and cigarette butts that had accumulated during the winter on campus walkways and terraces had to be either vacuumped with a machine or sweat by hand.
One worker, who was sweeping a sidewalk behind the Kansas Union, said the vacuuming machine could not pass by the workers because the workers were sweeping the sand and dirt.
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“BESIDES” HE said, “the thing seems to spit out more sand that it picks up. Somebody has to follow behind on foot just to et it all.”
More than 1,000 rolls of bluegrass soil were laid down on the ground and watered by noon in various places around campus, mostly in the area near old Green Hall and the two women's scholarship halls east of Fraser Hall.
"But that's just starters." Jim Mathes, assistant director of land maintenance, said. "We'll be laying much more than that throughout the spring, particularly at construction sites, like the new computer science center."
Mathes said he did not know yet whether they would be patching some of the d.. trails that students leave behind when they return to school, he said there were more pressing priorities.
"Sometimes we can just press the sack over the dirt but otherwise." Mathes said. "I will always press it."
One unsightly effect of the winter, yet man-inflicted, is the sod that snow plows to up along campus walkways. The sod on the walkways in front of Wyson Library.
The street cleaners also were out giving campus streets a good bath.
Naval strength battle brewing
Meanwhile, defense officials countered by saying the sharply reduced Navy ship-building program they recommend "is the largest we can responsibly propose" to Congress. And they implied the Navy has given in past years that with the money it was given in past years,
The developments brought into the open a growing battle between senior defense officials and the Navy brass. The main event will be fought before Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP)—A Navy study made public yesterday suggests that a future fleet of about 500 ships projected by Defense Secretary Harold Brown would fall below "minimum acceptable risk" for U.S. security.
The new plan calls for financing 70 new ships and 13 life-stretching ship conversions instead of the previously planned 156 new ships and 20 conversions through fiscal 1983.
The catalyst for the controversy was Brown's submission to Congress—with President Carter's approval-of a 5-year shipbuilding plan slashed more than 50 percent from what was approved by the Ford administration.
This projection falls below the 535-ship total which a month's long Navy study contended would carry "minimum acclimation risk" for the United States by the year 2000.
In a letter to Congress last Friday, Brown said "the logical extension" of the administration's new five-year plan "should include more jobs and better ships through the turn of the century."
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