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DALLAS (AP) — A tabloid report
ing gossip about Southern Methodist
University’s large fraternity and so
rority population —including who is
sleeping with whom — has rankled
administrators and steamed social
group leaders.
But the publisher of the “Greek
Times” insists it’s all in fun.
The 7-month-old newspaper,
which is not affiliated with the univer
sity, is dedicated to tales of wild par
ties, Daddy’s gold cards and BMW’s.
Booze and sex also figure promi
nently in a column called “Campus
Beat,” a regular feature that makes
coy and sometimes not-so-coy refer
ences to who is sleeping with whom
and who’s passing out on top of
whom at which parties.
And the tabloid names names.
The “Greek Times” is the product
of non-SMU student Henry Shea, 25.
“It’s an R-rated paper because real
ity is R-rated,” Shea said. “We’re just
giving people something to laugh at.”
Shea, a former waiter at a rock ’n’
roll sushi bar in Los Angeles, moved
to Dallas in 1984. He said a friend
suggested that the school would be a
good place to start a publication like
“Row Run,” a spicy gossip magazine
about fraternities at the University of
Southern California.
In fact, SMU is probably better
than USC, said Shea, because it’s
small enough to make gossip worth
while.
“The first issues, all the sororities,
boycotted us,” he said. “They heard
we were going to be satanic and all
this stuff.”
The “Greek Times” has a circula
tion of 6,000 and no longer has to go
looking for news. Shea said he ex
pects the publication to gross
S100,000 this year.
Editor Dana Mansfield said getting
information has always been the easi
est part of his job.
“I don’t go looking for the worst; it
appears that people like to embarrass
their friends,” he said.
About 20 SMU students supply in
formation, and Deep Throat, an
SMU student whose identity is kept
secret, comes up with other tidbits, he
said.
University officials asked Shea in a
meeting to stay away from malicious
gossip and allowed him to limit distri
bution of the tabloid to fraternity and
sorority houses.
Shea has also set his own
guidelines, refusing to print four-let
ter words, nude photos or gossip
about drugs. But he considers sex
and booze fair game.
“There’s a certain way of thinking
in college that you don’t have the rest
of your life,” he said. “There’s an ir-
responsiblity.”
Shea also said he will honor stu
dents’ requests not to print their
names.
But that isn’t enough to appease
the Greek population.
Janet Wilson, president of the Pan-
hellenic Council, said, “It’s not posi
tive Greek PR.”
Steve Jacoby, Interfraternity
Council president, said, “If a fresh
man girl’s name is trashed in that pa
per in the fall, she’s not going to be
able to get into the sorority she wants
in the spring.”
But that’s not stopping Shea.
“We want to raise the conscious
ness level,” Shea said. “Not in a Sa
tanic way. No political overtones.
Nothing real heavy. We’ve still got to
turn these kids on.”
~
Austin mayor drops
sanctuary proposal
AUSTIN (AP) — Austin Mayor
Frank Cooksey, saying the proposal
had divided his city in an emotional
battle, Thursday dropped his propo
sal to make Austin a sanctuary for
political refugees.
Scores of people had signed up
for round two of a public hearing on
the proposal. The council had heard
four hours of testimony last week.
Cooksey opened the hearing with
his emotional speech, and then ad
journed the meeting. He had harsh
words for both sides in the fight, but
saved the strongest words for oppo
nents of his plan.
“I certainly prefer the hypocrisies
of the supporters to the base motiva
tions of the detractors,” he said.
Some 18 cities have adopted simi
lar resolutions. The Cooksey plan
drew opposition from immigration
officials, Gov. Mark White and local
residents who said the proposal
would draw thousands of aliens to
Austin.
“We had opposition, some of it
based on bigotry and fear, anger and
hostility with an undercurrent of
racism and selfishness which tries to
raise itself to some patriotic zeal and
take upon itself and take away from
us the American flag,” Cooksey said.
He branded some opponents as
“superpatriots who label everyone as
a communist conspirator.”
Cooksey added, “We had the po
litical pygmies who would have
taken this issue purely for their own
political gain and bring for them
selves publicity and notoriety.”
He also said local immigration at
torneys who backed the plan might
have been interested in guarantee
ing a “flow of business.”
The mayor would not say if he
had the votes for the resolution. He
previously had said he did.
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