Tuesday, April 7, 1998
Community Briefs
Honor society awards scholarship to student
Alpha Lambda Delta, the national academic honor society for
college freshmen, recently awarded Michelle Sharee Toy the M.
Louise McBee Fellowship of $3,000 for the 1998-99 academic
year.
This fellowship is just one of sixteen awards given every year
by the society to qualified members for graduate study.
This year’s fellowship recipients, pursuing such various
academic areas as organic chemistry, American literature, surgery,
and business administration, represent 15 chapters from all over
the country.
Toy, a fourth-year business-economics student, plans to pursue a
juris doctor in law in fall.
Members may apply for the fellowships during their senior year
or after earning their baccalaureate degree. This year, 159 members
applied for the 16 fellowships. The applicants were judged by a
committee of National Council members on such criteria as
academics, activities, and a personal statement.
Berkeley fraternity faces investigation
The Office of Student Conduct is investigating an alleged
fraternity hazing, discovered when UC police pulled over a car
early Saturday morning on Durant and Piedmont avenues and found a
student in the back seat with his hands and feet bound up.
Around 2:30 a.m., officers discovered Kyle Glankler, a UC
Berkeley freshman and a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity,
in the car with his hands and feet tied up with rope, plastic ties
and chains, along with two other members of the fraternity in the
car.
When police questioned the driver and passenger about the
situation, both said it was a fraternity prank.
According to Mason Foster, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon,
Glankler and the other passengers in the car were taking part in a
fraternity activity known as a "sneak."
He said pledges arrange and organize retreats in which the other
members of the fraternity are taken to unknown destinations without
any warnings. But he said these retreats are all voluntary.
"(The brothers) know that will be taken to a place so these are
not forced abductions. The retreats are voluntary," he said.
Glankler, who was not injured, did not press charges or a file a
complaint against the fraternity or its members.
Funding growing
for women’s sports
Sports aren’t just for boys anymore – and neither are millions
of dollars devoted to athletics.
At CSU-Stockton, in fact, women athletes are gaining ground in
scholarship funding and in the the athletics budget, according to
figures provided by Judith Davidson, the university’s athletics
director.
More than $700,000 — 51 percent of the university’s 1998-99
scholarship funding — is slated to go to women. The increased
funding is mandated by Title IX, the federal civil rights statute
prohibiting sex discrimination in academic and sports programs.
Jill Haas of the CSUS softball team is a direct beneficiary of
Title IX.
"We are pretty much equal when it comes to equipment, fields and
management," said Haas, who plays third base. "The baseball team’s
field may look better with a bigger scoreboard, but we are both
going to get new stadiums next year – actually upgrades to both
fields — by spring 1999."
Davidson said CSUS expects to be in full compliance with both
Title IX and a subsequent court decree known as CAL NOW. In that
1993 consent decree, the California State University system agreed
to require all its campuses to "immediately and continuously make
progress toward achieving equity in campus intercollegiate athletic
programs."
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports.