Dartmouth puts pressure
on fraternities, sororities
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) - A com
mittee at Dartmouth College - the
school whose extracurricular
debauchery inspired “Animal House”
- recommended Monday that only
seniors and a few juniors be allowed to
live in fraternity and sorority houses.
It also urged a tightening of the
rules on serving alcohol at parties.
The committee of students, staff,
trustees and alumni proposed specific
moves to meet the goal announced by
school officials last year to end frater
nity and sorority life “as we know it.”
That pronouncement caused an
outcry at the Ivy League college,
where half of all juniors and seniors
belong to single-sex “Greek” houses*
Supporters said that in snowy
Hanover, the fraternity system is a
major part of the social life on the
rural campus of 4,300 undergradu
ates.
But school trustees, President
James Wright and some students
argued the system contributed to
underage drinking, exclusivity and a
lack of respect for women and minori
ties. They also said Dartmouth’s repu
tation as a party school was leading
some minority students and top
ranked applicants to choose other Ivy
League schools.
Now, after months of discussions,
” Some of the reasons I initially came
to Dartmouth are being undermined.”
the committee has recommended a
softened plan to reduce the influence
of the fraternity system, but not elipii
nate it entirely.
Among other things, it recom
mended making on-campus living
more attractive by remodeling dorms
and adding more social spaces to them
that students would control.
Dartmouth has asked students,
staff and alumni to review the recom
mendations and comment. The
trustees are expected to begin consid
ering a final plan in the spring.
The proposed rules are aimed at
ending the fraternity-house debauch
ery of the type spoofed in the 1978
comedy “Animal House,” co-written
by Dartmouth graduate Chris Miller.
The rules would allow only
seniors, and juniors who are officers
of a fraternity or sorority, to live in
Greek houses.
Currently, students may live in the
houses starting the second semester of
their sophomore year.
Fraternity parties would be much
Alex Hocherman
* senior fraternity member
more carefully monitored to stop such
hallowed traditions as “booting and
rallying” - drinking to excess, vomit
ing, and drinking some more.
Even privately-owned fraternity
houses would have to hire licensed
alcohol servers for parties and allow
campus police free access.
Alex Hocherman, a 21-year-old
senior and fraternity member, said he
is glad he will graduate before the
changes take effect.
“Some of the reasons I initially
came to Dartmouth are being under
mined,” Hocherman said. “They’re
telling students, ‘We don’t trust you to
make good social choices.’”
Hocherman said under the pro
posed rules, drinking would simply
move into the dormitories, and some
students would party off-campus,
increasing the chance of accidents
from drunken driving.
“Anyone who believes that
because of the changes there’s not
going to be any alcohol abuse or
underage drinking is naive,” he said.
Israeli, Syrian peace talks recess
■ Negotiations resume
on Jan. 19, but no major
agreement has occurred.
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. (AP)
- Peace talks between Israel and Syria
recessed Monday without agreement on
new borders or any other major ele
ments of a land-for-peace treaty despite
rigorous American mediation.
As the two delegations packed to go
home, State Department spokesman
James P. Rubin said they would resume
negotiations Jan. 19, probably in the
Washington area. “We are on the right
track,” he said. He gave no indication
how the gaps might be closed quickly.
The basic shape of a treaty has been
clear since Prime Minister Ehud Barak
took office last July. Israel would sur
render virtually all of the Golan
Heights, a strategic plateau on the
Syrian frontier, for peace, provided that
security measures are found to take the
place of the highland Israel has held
since the 1967 Six-Day War.
Syria insists on a pullback to the Sea
of Galilee, thereby letting it recover a
stretch of land it captured in the 1950s.
Another scenario would push Israel
back to borders set in 1923 or patches of
land might be swapped.
But Barak has not specified what
line he wants drawn between Israel and
an Arab country with which Israel has
----
fought three major wars.
In Tel Aviv, an estimated 100,000
Israelis massed in pouring rain to
protest Barak’s apparent willingness to
cede the Golan Heights for peace with
Syria.
Demonstrating in Rabin Square, Tel
Aviv’s main plaza, where former Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabjh was assassinat
ed for trying to make peace with
Palestinians, the mostly youthful crowd
was smaller than previous rallies for and
against peace agreements.
Considering the weather, however,
the protest appeared significant
Two of Barak’s ministers joined the
demQnstrators, as did several high-rank
ing military officers. Polls show that
support has dropped among Israelis for
withdrawal from the Golan since the
talks began, largely because of coolness
toward Israeli negotiators by their
Syrian counterparts.
“We have not resolved the border
issue, but we are working on it,” Rubin
said in Shepherdstown, “and work will
hopefully continue at the resumption of
the talks.”
Similarly, othettough issues were
not resolved in eight days of talks at the
old West Virginia town, including peace
terms, division of scarce water and
security measures.
“I’m not going to declare that a
major obstacle has been overcome in
any of the particular areas,” Rubin said.
“We did not reach agreement.... We
did not even get near” one, Israeli
Foreign Minister David Levy said on his
return to Israel.
A source close to the Syrian delega
tion said that the talks had not reached
the objective - a commitment to with
draw to the Sea of Galilee.
“Procrastination and maneuvering
will never lead to... peace because they
will keep the roots of occupation and
instability in the region,” the govern
ment-run Syria Times said in an editori
al.
> In Washington, President Clinton
said that he is not discouraged. Clinton
intervened in the negotiations, some 70
miles from the Capitol, for parts of five
days and nights.
“These people really talked about
the substance of their differences for the
first time,” he said.
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