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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1986)
Wednesday, October 1, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 5 1 fraternities will affiliate Sfrith A&M through council rl ING IMON 5 ps WARRIORS 15 li By Dawn Butz Staff Writer (Texas A&M fraternities belong- ng to the Interfraternity Council e agreed to affiliate with the Uni- [sity under the umbrella of the ncil, which is the governing body he fraternities. he 21 member fraternities voted he IFC’s Sept. 21 meeting to ac- itthe proposal from A&M. astyear, fraternities were invited ecome recognized student orga- tions. But because of the Univer- s fiscal policy that requires stu- t organizations to bank through thl Student Finance Center, only Ml of the fraternities sought recog- lon. Ijnder new provisions offered ony to Greek organizations, the IFC « remain a University-recognized oipnization and will have the au- ih rity to recognize its member fra- I lities. Ifodd Ousley, student activities atjiser, cited two differences be- len recognition and affiliation, I ng that individual fraternities not be required to bank in the fi- Bce center out instead will be able |ontinue their own financial struc- s off campus. he other difference, he said, is the groups won’t have on-cam- advisers unless their national ups require it. However, Ousley ' many do. ffiliated groups will receive the e recognized student organiza- privileges, including half-price ertising in The Battalion, build- rams for . ountirg |>OllCe B©at d in {tie financia! )tain the ^9- n in the ie Quad' ri. lEUVERl atuniaj ieMSC The following incidents were Iported to the University Police Department through Monday: CRIMINAL TRESPASS: • Seven University of Texas Indents were arrested by Uni ver ity police after they were caught in the steam tunnels. The men laid they had walked to A&M lom Austin and were in the tun- Is because they had heard it [as"the thing to do at A&M.” They were taken to the Univer- ity Police Department, where it |as found that four of them had ven false names and dates of rth. All seven were taken to the razos County Sheriffs Depart- ent, where they were jailed for iminal trespass and/or failure to lentify themselves. TERRORISTIC THREAT: • Somebody reported a bomb [as set to go off in a dormitory. 'he building was evacuated and arched by police. No bomb was found, ana the students were al lowed to return to their rooms. HARASSMENT: • A woman reported she has been receiving several prank ihone calls daily. The caller joesn’t say anything, but the oman said she occasionally [ears music in the background, [olice informed her of the proce- iure for setting up a phone trace. DISORDERLY CONDUCT IPUBLIC INTOXICATION: • While patrolling the cam- |us, two University Police officers eported they heard someone houting obscenities. When they tent to investigate, they said, bey saw two men walking be- veen Crocker and Moore halls olding another man’s arm be- ind his back and pushing him orward. The officers reported bat when they approached, one if the men told them to mind their own business. The officers reported the man eing held broke free and ran way. One of the officers chased and caught the man and gave him a citation for disorderly conduct, fhe other men were given tickets or public intoxication and were eleased to the custody of the lead resident at their dorm. “Fraternities will receive the rights of recognized organizations by being recognized by the IFC. ” — Todd Ousley, student activities adviser. ing use, around-campus advertising, University vehicle rental and pages in the yearbook. “What that means for groups like Phi Delta Theta that are currently recognized by the University is that they are going to have to go through a process of changing that to an affil iation,” Ousley said. “For most of them it’s not going to matter because the only thing they ever did was put a little money on campus — if any thing — and their faculty adviser was an adviser in name only. The real power was off campus. “It was decided that fraternities and sororities function differently from the kinds of organizations that we have recognized by the Univer sity. They’ve got a strong national structure with rules and regulations and policies and procedures, espe cially financial procedures. “So, it was redundant in one sense, and in another it was placing a less-developed system on top of a more well-developed system they al ready had.” The finance center is set up to as sist student organizations that don’t have the regulations and procedures the Greek organizations have, Ous ley added. “In looking at dealing with na tional Greek fraternities and sorori ties, we decided that it would be in the best interest of both A&M and the fraternities that we do something to kind of clean up that relation ship,” he said. “What we decided is that fraternities will receive the rights of recognized organizations by being recognized by the IF'C.” Ousley said sororities have the same option; if Panhellenic — the governing body for the sororities — chooses to become recognized by the University, then all the sororities will have an affiliation with the campus. But he said Panhellenic is not acting upon this. “We’ve made some efforts to com municate with the individual sorori ties as well as Panhellenic, and quite honestly I don’t think we’ve been re ceived as openly as we should have been,” Ousley said. “We’ve made some mistakes in the past and we recognise that,” he said. “Now is the opportunity for us to be gin to work together.” Ousley said the IFC officers were looking for a way to integrate the system. Because half the groups were recognized, the other half were not communicating, and rules were being twisted around. He said he believes the new ar rangement will allow everyone to work together instead of in different directions. Photo by Tom Ownbey Linda Gale White, wife of Gov. Mark White, met with teachers Tues day in a campaign stop at the Brazos Center. 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