Friday, May 4, 1973
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Greek Veil Seems to Shelter.
University Daily Kansan
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some fined and some given warnings, but no one has ever paid the whole fine.
Other fraternity members agreed that the house officers winked at drug use and sale unless it was blatant. They said no one ever went out of his way to catch somebody unless the offender was arrogant about his crime.
Several of the officers also used drugs, Kurt said, but they had to keep up an acade de respectability to protect the house's imame good.
In fact, Paul said, the officers would let people know that there was going to be a room check for open house periods so that they could see the rooms and bide their drugs temporarily.
THEY ALL AGREED that it was much safer to keep their stash of drugs in their fraternity rooms than in their cars simply because they didn't think the house would ever be raided by the police, though policemen might search their cars.
According to Gene, drugs were brought into the fraternity and distributed by a few friends. The other group pattern he was said followed in most of the houses. Some drugs are sold out of the house or to other houses, but most of it is usually sold within the house itself through a chain
He said two or three guys in the house would buy dope mostly cannibals in quantity from some connection in town or in some other college town, usually a Southern one. Then they would sell it in smaller quantities to a greater number of "in-house" dealers
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'The guys in fraternities have more money, are more willing to spend their money, and they don't know much about the current prices of drugs. So they pay higher prices than the people I sell to out of houses do.'
who in turn sold it to other members or
companies, smaller common
communicator quantities.
"WE WOULD BUY pounds of dope and sell it by lids or pounds to the guys who didn't know how to get it." Gene explained, "I went to Arizona, where I bought it from Arizona or Mexico."
"The communication between me and the guys who bought it was great. They would always let me know if they needed any dope for a date or a friend and I would be able to supply it to them. I could always get rid of a supply within a week."
He said he had sold other kinds of drugs as well but that he dealt mostly with marijuana and hashish, using a growing reservoir of capital to make big purchases at premium prices, then selling smaller quantities at inflated prices.
"I was supplying several fraternity
houses and sororities as well as some people
outside the house," she said.
"The guys in fraternities have more money, are more willing to spend their
Yearbooks
The 1972 Jayhawk will be distributed from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, on the main floor of Strong A. A limited number of yearbooks will be sold.
Folklore Meetings
The annual meeting of the Kansas Folkore Society will be today and Saturday at Presentations of aspects of folk culture in Kansas and internationally. International Room of the Kansas Union.
Bicycle Club
The Mount Oread Bicycle Club will hold its last general meeting for the spring semester at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the home of the club, which will be held for officers for the summer and fall semesters. All cyclists who have ridden with the club at least once are invited to attend. Wine will be available to those who helped with last weekend's races.
Women's Coalition
Women's Coalition will meet at 7:30 Friday night in the Student Activities Building to discuss involvement in the Coalition of Concerned Students.
Book Sale
The American Association of University Women will hold its book and white elephant sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Safeway on the Mall. Proceeds from the sale are donated to the organization's scholarship fund. Bethel Leaver recipent this year, said anyone who had done or magazines to sell were welcome to bring them along to the sale.
Chemistry Banquet
The awards luncheon for the department of chemistry will be at noon Saturday in the Bgi Eight Room of the Kansas Union. The guest speaker will be Gerard Piel, publisher of the magazine Scientific American. Students will be honored at the luncheon for excellence in various chemistry courses and in teaching and research activities.
money, and they don't know much about the current prices of drugs. So they pay higher prices than the people I sell to out of houses do.
"BUT SORORTY GIRLS seem to pay the highest prices and get the poorest quality doe because they don't have any company in their market values. They really get ripped off."
Although Gene admits he was careless (he thinks a fraternity brother arrested for drug dealing made a deal with the police and set him up for the bust), he said another fraternity brother who was also a major student during the same time "is now a rich man."
"He just spends a life of leisure now, traveling around the country and living off his earnings."
If there had been that much use and selling out of fraternity houses, then weren't the members afraid the police would discover it and raid the houses?
"Not really," Paul said. "They knew the dope was here (in the house), everyone knew. They would come over to the house to buy dope who didn't even know people in the house. They had just heard there was dope there. The word was out."
KBI records reveal only one arrest of a KU fraternity member from a total of 4 ap- peries arrested in Lawrence and Lawrence raids, not really an impressive number of arrests from the KU fraternity system, which one street dealer once叫 "the biggest funnel for incoming dope in
If there was that much drug traffic in houses, then what explanation for the drugs could be made?
"They couldn't bust a fraternity." Gene said. "You know it is political. There many influential people connected with this and all the other houses for them to be hostile."
"It looks like Vern was afraid to step on any of its tears,"uck said. "There are a lot of turbulent Faternity屡次 in Wichita, where women and men have some political power there, and in the state."
"That's ridiculous," said Mike Elwall, former Douglas County Attorney, summing up the responses of local and state law enforcement to off base it’s badly worth commenting on.
THIS SAME THEME was reflected by several other fraternity members.
"We tried. We thought we had some dealing around one house, but we couldn't make any buys. There was never any hands-off policy."
Assistant Attorney General Dwight
Generally, all the law enforcement officials contacted reacted similarly. They said there was no real evidence of major drug dealing in houses, explained they were really only concerned with the dealers and not the users, pointed out how hard it would
Parascale said, "Just from our investigations, we know there is a high degree of use in the houses, especially with grass. We are getting better and better. We're only going after dealers anyway."
"In any case, we've never stopped prosecution because of political pressures. We have to keep the process moving."
'But sorority girls seem to pay the highest prices and get the poorest quality dope because they don't have any connections and they don't know the market values. They really get ripped off.'
"IF YOU ARE after hard drug dealers, you won't find them in the fraternities." Elwell said. "And we were working strictly for dealers, and mostly the dealers of hard drugs. The heroin people are on the periphery of the college community."
be to get evidence of drug sales in insular fraternity groups.
But Kurt and Gene argue that the police had the evidence of Gene's three drug sales in March and didn't attempt to arrest him. The police had no idea about most of the students were at home. They say this indicates that somebody didn't want his arrest publicly tied to the police.
"It's very funny they delayed raiding the house until after school was out and the house was empty," Gene said. "That's got to show it was political. As it turned out, no one in the public knew I was a fraternity member."
According to Purdy, that delay was the function of the KBI policy to forego arrests on individuals who have evidence on them so that mass arrests can be coordinated, maximizing the utility of their agents and undercover men.
Not so, says Merwyn Purdy, superin-
tendent of the narcotics section of the KBI.
“IF WE ARRESTED somebody the moment we had the case on him,” Purdy explained, “he would be out on bail the next day. Our (undercover) agent would no longer be affected in that town and he might be physically endangered if he were still at work there.”
He said most of the major pushers lived
off campus and were not students, so they didn't go home for vacations. Those who did get away could always be tracked down as Gene was, he said.
Lt. Vernon Harrell, Lawrence Police Department spokesman, said that local officers sometimes made individual arrests on drug charges, especially for possession, when they were investigating another offense. But they also delay any action in work in concert with the attorney general's office in setting up the big ralls, he said.
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THOUGH THE ARRESTS for possession are usually accidental to other investigations, cases are carefully worked out in an informal manner and the help of an informer or the information given to an undercover agent, drug buys were made from suspects. These buys are then sued as evidence when a warrants are filed and when the arrest and the dealer is taken into custody.
"It's possible that the agents don't work
the houses too hard because it just isn't that
much."
According to Purdy, the agent's inability to infiltrate the closed system of a fraternity and make drug buys might account for the group's failure to find a free rein. He said agents were given a free rein to find dealers unless they got a tip at the KBI headquarters. The agents may find it simply too frustrating trying to gain the knowledge of a group of people in order to arrest one.
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