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By Jimmy Olsen
Staff Infection
The Daily Halfaskan sports depart
ment was informed Thursday by the
National Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion's Student Newspaper Infractions
Committee (NCAA-SNIC) that it has
been placed on three-year, full-sanction
probation.
The announcement ended a five
month investigation by the NCAA-SNIC.
Members of the DH sports staff were
cited for 198 separate violations, most
for improper use of complimentary
media passes provided to them by var
ious college sports information de
partments for the coverage of sporting
events. However, some of the violations
were more severe.
Six members of the DH sports
department including sports editor
Chuck Green were apprehended by
Lincoln police officers Thursday morn
ing and late Thursday night for some of
the major violations.
"They were doing some pretty bad
stuff," said Lester K. Hardass, NCAA
SNIC director. "There was a lot of
under-the-table money involved, and
Green and some of his higher-up staffers
were involved in some very unorthodox
recruiting methods."
According to the report released by
the NCAA-SNIC, Green was cited for 41
violations, ranging from misuse of
complimentary media passes to the
allocation of payments from a secret
DH sports slush fund that was used for
the recruitment of sports writers.
Green also admitted to receiving
more than $100,000 in August 1985 to
sign with the DH.
"I have pretty expensive tastes,"
Green said from his jail cell Thursday
night.
The payments approved by Green
were used to buy cars, meals, clothes,
jewelry and other gifts for recruits.
There is also strong evidence that
Green had sold several of his compli
mentary media passes for as much as
$1,000 each.
"That's ridiculous," Green said. "I
never got more than $800 for them. Hey,
wait a minute! Don't write that down!"
NCAA-SNIC bylaw 8,345,378, sub
section C-4, paragraph 11 states:
". . . College newspaper sports editors
may not, under any circumstances,
allocate payments in cash or property
form, to potential writers who are not
yet employed by iie respective publi
cation. After th i who cares?"
The other five .iaff members arrested
include:
0 Jeff Apel, next fall's DH sports
editor. Apel was cited for three counts
of improper use of media passes and
four counts of improper contact with
female athletes.
0 Rich Cooper, a third-year member
of the DH. Cooper allegedly made three
trips to his home in San Jose, Calif,
between October 1985 and December
1986, and was improperly reimbursed
by Green. The amount paid to Cooper
was more than four times what the
original airline tickets cost.
Mark Derowitsch, a new member
of the DH staff this spring. Derowitsch,
who admitted taking gifts and cash
payments to join the DH, offered new
recruits up to $5,000 cash to sign on at
least three occasions. Derowitsch also
arranged for a $400 check to be turned
over to a prospective writer for the pur
chase of a set of automotive snow tires.
O Tim Hartmann, DH sports senior
reporter. Hartmann was cited on 23
counts of improper use of media passes
including the sale of 11 media
passes and 13 counts of improper
cash payments to DH sports-department
recruits.
"Green made me do it," Hartmann
said. "Yeah, he made me do it. He ... he
told me that ... that it was OX. Yeah!
That's the ticket!"
Hartmann also admitted to receiving
cash payments to sign with the DH last
fall.
O Steve Sipple, a sophomore repor
ter on the staff. Sipple was cited on
three counts of misuse of media passes
and is still under investigation in con
nection with a 1 986 Greenwood Corvette
being driven by another unnamed sports
writer. Sipple allegedly gave the writer
a ride to a cflnvenience store in which
he contacted a loan shark to finance
the payments for the Corvette. NCAA
SNIC bylaw 13,445,720, sub-section A4,
paragraph four states: ". . . No writer
can provide transportation for another
staff member to meet a loan shark at a
convenience store unless the ride occurs
between the hours of 3 p.m. and mid
night, and can occur only on aTuesday."
The ride Sipple provided was on a
Friday. An unidentified source close to
the situation said that the unnamed
reporter "could already have an agent."
The six staff members face penalties
that could place them in pri n for up
to 25 years and ban them om ever
writing for a news publicat? . again.
The DH sports depar ;nt as a
whole also will suffer a ? - of severe
penalties handed dr ; ..he NCAA
SNIC. They includ
O Only one dia pas s for the next
three academ ears for any sporting
event.
O No free food will be allowed to
DH sports writers in the, press box or
designated press area.
O DH sports writers will be required
to sit in the back rows of sports press
conferences for the next three aca
demic years.
O No media passes will be pro
vided by opposing schools for road
games.
O Administrative changes must be
made throughout the DH sports
department.
Daily Halfaskan administrators are
planning to appeal the penalties,
according to Dan Shattil, DH general
manager.
Jeff Korbelik, DH editor, said he was
very unhappy about the ruling.
"I'm very unhappy about the ruling,"
Korbelik said. "We're very, very angry.
This is a travesty."
The NCAA-SNIC will meet for an
emergency session Sunday to discuss
further sanctions that may be imposed
on the DH.
Nebraska Chancellor Martian Coffi
nail said he was very unoptimistic
about the fate of the six DH staffers.
"I'm very unoptimistic about the
fate of the six DH staffers," he said. "I
really don't know what to say. Person
ally, I hope they get what they deserve .
. . but don't write that down."
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Chuck Green, DH sports editor, Is approached Thursday by Lincoln police officers about major
violations cited by the NCAA-SNIC.
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prevent further attempts at getting away.
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