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Nation/World
Tuesday November 3,1998
Fraternities to lose booze privileges
Mizzou officials trying to polish off binge drinking
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — When 2000 arrives on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus, some fraternities won't be allowed to party like it's 1999.
University of Missouri officials are requiring fraternity houses with freshman residents to dry out by the year 2000. The goal of the substance-free policy is to reduce binge drinking on campus, said Charles Schroeder, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Freshmen pledges make up 30 percent of the total number of students living in the university's fraternity houses. Twenty-six of the school's 30 fraternities have houses adjacent to campus, and they must decide by next spring
whether to go dry or to forego freshman residents.
Schroeder said the university had been considering the move for more than two years and that it mirrored a national trend. Three campus fraternities already are dry and seven more had planned to make the move by 2000.
Dave Sosnoff, a freshman pledge of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, said his house's decision to go dry had made it easier to study and get things done.
Sosnoff said a dry house did not mean older fraternity members could not drink.
"There's a lot of functions that go on outside the house," Sosnoff said. "...like organized parties at bars."
Schroeder informed fraternity presidents of the new policy last week.
"Allowing alcohol to be served in fraternity houses where underage students live creates an environment conducive to alcohol abuse, and we are encouraging fraternities to go substance free rather than displace freshman who live in the house," Schroeder said yesterday in a news release.
Reaction to the announcement
has been m i x e d , Schroeder said.
The loss of freshman residents could create a financial hardship if those students are not replaced with juniors and seniors who otherwise would be moving out of the house, he said.
Josh Borgmeyer, a sophomore member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, said the change would be difficult to make.
"It would probably decrease house morale to some extent," Borgmeyer said. "But we could find other ways to boost house spirit."
In October 1997, the Beta Theta Pi
house was hit with sanctions after police found a freshman pledge drunk and injured following a fraternity function. The pledge was unable to explain his injuries.
Last week, a member of the Kappa Sigma house was arrested on suspicion of rape for events related to a fraternity party where alcohol was being served to minors. An investigation by police is ongoing, and the university is investigating the incident as well.
Last month, the university's Wellness Resource Center was one of six schools to get a $186,000, two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Drug Free Schools Program. The money is for programs that seek to dispel myths among students about how much their peers drink.
Research done by the center indicates that only 23 percent of University of Missouri-Columbia students drink more than once per week.
The university's binge drinking rate dropped 9 percent last year, Schroeder said.
Netanyahu, Arafat agree to delay peace agreement
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — In a surprising show of good will, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat agreed yesterday — the day the new Mideast peace agreement was to take effect — that implementation would have to be delayed.
In a telephone call, Netanyahu promised Arafat that their land-for-security agreement would be carried out as efficiently as possible. Specifically, Israel said it would attempt to meet the target date of Nov. 16 for the initial troop pullback from the West Bank.
the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
However, an overdue Palestinian action plan to fight terrorism could knock back implementation even further. Israel said the plan, at the heart of the new accord, needed to be submitted today so the Cabinet could ratify the deal.
Led by Faisal Husseini, the senior Palestinian official in Jerusalem, Arab residents protested construction of a Jewish enclave just outside
And in traditionally Arab east Jerusalem, where Jewish settlers continued preparations for a new enclave, violent scuffles broke out yesterday between Israeli police and Palestinians.
Some 80 police officers blocked Husseini and his supporters. The two sides began pushing and shoving, and police used clubs to beat back Husseini and his bodyguards. At one point, officers put a Palestinian in a choke hold and wrestled him to the ground.
Three Palestinians and five policemen were injured.
The Palestinians hope to
Netanyahu: Seeks efficiency in implementing peace plan
establish their capital in east Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war. The final status of the city is to be determined in future negotiations.
Israeli Cabinet Secretary Danny Navhe said Israel would continue building in Jewish settlements and denied reports that the United States received assurances from Israel that it would not do so.
"Iisrael will continue its policy of strengthening and developing settlements in the West Bank." Naveh
Palestinian parliament speaker Ahmed Qureia said "Israel's continuation to build settlements comes regardless of the signed agreements ... and it is an outright breech of the agreements."
Israel has set aside $114 million from its 1999 budget for Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, according to the Israeli group Peace Now, which monitors settlement activity.
The budget passed its first reading in the Knesset yesterday with members of Netanyahu's hard-line coalition, who back the settlers, voting with the prime minister.
Also yesterday, a coalition of Damascus-based radical Palestinian factions condemned the new peace accord and pledged to continue armed struggle against Israel.
At a joint news conference in Syria, the leader of one radical Palestinian group threatened to "severely punish" those who signed and helped negotiate the peace accord.
The militant Islamic group Hamas, which claimed responsibility for a suicide-bombing aimed at school children last week, also has
threatened Arafat's leadership.
Reacting to the criticism, Arafat said, "It's not the first time and won't be the last time." Waving his hand dismissively, the Palestinian leader said, "I don't care."
There were no signs that Hamas' threat had altered Arafat's determination to keep his commitments.
militiam to keep his commanders. Brig. Gen. Ghazi Jabali, the Palestinian police commander, said his men were under orders to open fire on Hamas if they felt their lives were in danger.
After the suicide attack last week, in which an Israeli soldier was killed, Arafat ordered the arrests of Hamas members and placed the group's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, under house arrest.
Yassin had to be silenced because he relentlessly criticized the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and was getting directions from other countries, including Iran, Jabali said.
"Sheik Yassin ... says many things against the agreement, and he received telephone calls from the outside, from Tehran, from many countries," Jabali said. "So we took this decision, the house arrest, to protect Ahmed Yassin from Ahmed Yassin."
Hurricane Mitch kills about 7,000 in Central America
The Associated Press
CHINANDEGA, Nicaragua Overwhelmed by death and chaos, Central American officials yesterday estimated more than 7,000 people died in floods and mudslides triggered by Hurricane Mitch.
As many as 1,500 people were buried near Chinandega in northwest Nicaragua when the crater lake of the Casitas Volcano collapsed, sending a wall of mud and debris onto villages below.
"It looked like a line of helicopters flying really low and coming at us. You could see houses, trees, everything being covered," said Ricardo Antonio Garcia, a 23-year-old farmer whose leg was amputated after being crushed in the mudslide.
Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos said the slide apparently killed 1,000 to 1,500 people and that some 600 other people died elsewhere in the country.
"We perhaps will never know how many people died," be said.
trips will never know now many people died," he said. In neighboring Honduras, more than 5,000 people probably died, Dimas Alonzo, operations chief for the National Emergency Committee, told a local radio station. He said the exact number would never be
known.
Many parts of Honduras remained cut off almost a week after Mitch barreled into the Bay Island of Guanaja with 180 mph winds. The storm pounded across the isthmus, dropping up to 25 inches of rain in a six-hour period, before dissipating yesterday in southern Mexico.
The president of Honduras told CNN's Spanish-language network the flooding was so extensive that 70 percent of the upcoming harvests had been lost.
"There are many hundreds of dead," President Carlos Flores Facusse told CNN. "There are bodies that are floating in the rivers," and people on rooftops awaiting rescue, he said.
Associated Press photographer Victor Caivano, who visited Guanaja, said only 10 of the 146 houses in Mangrove Bight survived the storm, which hovered over the island for two days. The island, where flowers once abounded, was a desolate gray, with naked sticks of trees jutting out of the mud.
Virtually all of Honduras suffered flooding, from the lowland marshes on the Atlantic Coast to the mountains, hills and plateaus of the interior.
Many victims have waited days without aid.
Hurricane Mitch area of destruction
MEXICO
BELIZE
Gulf of Honduras
GUATEMALA HONDURAS
Nicaragua total deaths- 2,100
Honduras
total deaths- 5,000
EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA
Posoltega *
Managua.
Pacific Ocean
COSTA RICA
Source: National Civil Defense
Jason Benavides/Kansan
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