NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1984
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500 Amherst students protest college's ban on fraternities
By United Press International
AMHERST, Mass. — About 500 angry Amherst College students shouted, hissed and booed yesterday as administrators tried to explain why their fraternities were being banned.
Acting College President G. Armour Craig was repeatedly interrupted by laughter, yelling and shouts of "fascist" during a 10-minute presentation and a half-hour of questions.
"The trustees have resolved to bring Amberst fully into the 21st century, which may be difficult for those who prefer other centuries." Craig said.
Students — wearing T-shirts that said "the massacre of 1984" and "we'll do what we want." — packed the statety Johnson Chapel. Although students had threatened to pelt Craig with tomatoes, none were thrown.
The trustees, unswayed by last week's hunger strike by seven students hoping to save the frats, announced Saturday all eight of the college's fraternities would be closed at the end of the current semester.
Craig told students several committees would be set up to determine how much money they were going to save.
James Carter, 21, a senior from Columbus, Ohio, said his father had gone to Amherst College with Craig and asked the president to explain his part in a fraternity prank in which an owl belonging to one fraternity was taken.
Craig said he was not involved and the owl was returned.
The trustees said the quality of campus life had "become inadequate and cited a five-month study of rooftop gardens" as part of the fraternities, which are co-ed.
The ban move began with a report by former President Julian Gibbs, who disbanded one house after finding a phallic ice sculpture on its lawn and a naked pledge on his front stoop.
Meantime the National Interfraternity Conference, an Indianapolis, Ind-based group representing 57 national fraternities including two at Amherst, yesterday issued a statement denouncing the Amherst ban.
African organization is threatened by debt
By United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The chairman of the Organization of African Unity opened a meeting yesterday with an appeal to member nations to pay their debts amid concerns that group may face financial collapse.
Delegates learned of the fiscal crisis only hours before the opening of the meeting from a document that has been accrued a $45.1 million deficit.
The document said $21.9 million of the shortfall represented unpaid dues of member states, some of which had not paid fees for 10 years.
"I fear that we have escaped a political problem only to find that we are involved in a financial one, which might leave us nothing," said one delegate, who asked not to be identified.
Another $23.61 million of the shortfall is from outstanding 1983-84 budgetary items, according to the
document signed by acting OAU Secretary-General Peter Onu.
"The time will come soon when the secretariat will be unable to pay even the salaries of staff, as well as the expenses." Omi warned in the document.
The documents showed that 26 of the 51 members had paid $7.4 million of their debts and the rest either had nothing or had not raised a rent.
Mengistu Haile Mariam, leader of Ethiopia and OAU chairman, opened the session with an appeal for payment of debts.
Mengistu blamed Africa's two year drought, global recession and low prices for raw materials for the continent's poor economic progress and said African governments must build their own economies.
"It is evident that the only lasting solution to this depolarable situation is not handouts from others, but the united resolve of Africa to strengthen its own economy," Mengistu said.
Marines watch battles from offshore sidelines
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighting between Muslim rebels and the Lebanese army shook Beirut and the overlooking mountains yesterday, and for the first time in 17 months, U.S. Marines blasted flashes from the safety of offshore ships.
The new battles came on the day that President Amik Gemayel originally had hoped to reconvene peace talks in Syria, and that were begun last October in Geneva.
Druse Muslim rebels traded intense artillery fire with Lebanese army troops in the mountains, with Christian Phalangon radio saying that shells of the enemy ambushed palace and the residence of U.S. Ambassador Reginald Barkholmew.
Clashes also occurred along the green line separating Muslim west Beirut from the Christian east of the city. Phalange radio reported that a 10-year-old boy had died, and newspaper reports also said that a man was
killed. At least 30 people were reported injured.
Offshore, the U. Marines watched from 6th Fleet ships a day after the completion of the withdrawal of the French navalist's multinational peace-keeping force
Units of the Lebanese army, who refused to fight the rebel takeover of west Beirut, settled into the vacant compound at Beirut airport that the Marines had occupied since September 1982.
Three weeks ago, even as the streets of the capital erupted in fighting, government officials spoken of resuming the national reconciliation
Muslim leaders have demanded government concessions before continuing discussions, and fellow Christians in Israel may attack against, giving away too much.
Instead of more talks, which had been scheduled by the government, peace efforts appear to be stalled, awaiting the return of Saudi mediator Rafik Hariri.
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