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MARCH 21,1997
2 UNC fraternities prepare for substance-free living
■ Sigma Nu and Phi Delta
Theta will ban alcohol in
chapter houses by 2000.
BY KAREN JOYCE
STAFF WRITER
“Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s
1999, a quote from the artist formerly
known as Prince, has taken on new
meaning for the members of Sigma Nu
and Phi Delta Theta fraternities.
Anew national policy, which has
been talked about since 1994, will make
Sigma Nu and Phi Delta Theta the first
major fraternities in the nation to ban
alcohol from chapter houses by the year
2000.
“(This policy) is just the next step
from the dry rush which goes into effect
next year,” said Sigma Nu president
Reece Jones, a junior from Richmond,
Va.
Jones said most fraternity members
have known about the policy since it was
first introduced in 1994, so it did not
come as a surprise. He said the policy
would lessen the chance of liability for
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STAFF WRITER
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Barry Nakell of his termination.
In the six-page letter, Hooker stated
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chapter houses.
“It’s a form of
risk reduction
management,”
Jones said.
“Almost any acci
dent (that occurs)
in the house is
associated with
alcohol.”
Phi Delta Theta
secretary Win
Bear said plans
had already been
made for the
University to
enforce the policy.
“They’ll proba
bly be sending
Director of
Greek Affairs
RON BINDER said
the new policy would
not mean the end of
fraternity social
events.
folks around during rush to make sure
everything follows policy,” said Bear, a
junior from Montgomery, Ala.
Bear said that most Phi Delta Theta
members had been informed of the new
policy and that flyers were posted
around the house.
Ron Binder, Director of Greek
Affairs, said fraternities at other schools
had tried the policy and he believed the
new policy was very realistic.
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rosis,” Hooker stated in the letter, refer
ring to Nakell’s 1991 incident of
shoplifting.
“The record also shows that (Dean of
the UNC School of Law Judith Wegner)
counseled with you about the 1991 inci
dent and that you understood that the
misconduct should not be repeated," he
stated.
Following the 1991 incident of
shoplifting, Nakell was to be suspended
without pay but instead agreed to be
placed on leave without pay for six
months and to issue an apology to the
University.
On Oct. 1, 1996, Nakell was again
caught shoplifting $36 of merchandise,
including deli meat and a shopping
guide, from A Southern Season in
Eastgate Shopping Center. Nakell pled
guilty to the charge.
Though the Hearings Committee
found that the extenuating circum
stances of Nakell’s mental disorder and
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“The Farmhouse fraternity has been
substance free since 1974,” Binder said,
“and all sororities are substance free.”
The Farmhouse fraternity, an agri
cultural fraternity, has been the only
national fraternity to ban alcohol.
Binder said the substance-free policy
did not mean that fraternity social
events would discontinue.
“(This policy) is not designed to stop
the events, just to move them to other
locations.”
Binder said most fraternities on cam
pus already held many of their events
outside of the houses. All formals are
held at hotels, and many social events
are held at local bars, he said.
As of now, only Sigma Nu and Phi
Delta Theta are affected by the new pol
icy. Members of some other fraternities
on campus said they were not even
aware of the imminent changes.
But Binder said he would not be sur
prised to see a lot of other fraternities
follow suit.
He said chapters across the country
have experimented with the substance
free policy and have had successful
results.
“I think it’s going to be very positive.”
Cortes-Speaking
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BY MARY WILLIAMSON
STAFF WRITER
“Cortes speaking.”
The brief words of Julio Cortes,
UNC’s only Arabic professor, mean
much more than a telephone greeting.
Cortes, who juggles the roles of
admin
istrator,
teacher,
text
writer
and janitor of the Arabic division of
the Department of Romance
Languages, speaks more languages
than we have fingers to count on.
Cortes is the ringleader of a one
man show.
This connoisseur of words has
translated the Koran, the cornerstone
of Islam, thrice.
He has researched, written and
issued the first Modem Standard
Arabic to Spanish dictionary.
And despite his commitments out
side of class, he remains a guru and
friend to his students.
Born in Basque, Spain, Cortes
attended a Jesuit school where he
learned six languages. He later attend-
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Fraternity alcohol bans might spread
BY VICKY ECKENRODE
STAFF WRITER
Now that two national fraternities
have announced their intentions to
become substance free in the near future,
other Greek organizations might not be
far behind.
The actions of Phi Delta Theta and
Sigma Nu fraternities reflected a grow
ing trend in the national Greek system,
said Marc Mores, national director of
risk management for Phi Delta Theta.
“It’s an idea that’s been tossed around
the fraternity world in recent years,” he
said.
Other national fraternities have
observed the substance-free movement
and have experimented with alcohol
free chapters.
“We’re keeping an eye on the situa
tion, and we’ve received a lot of infor
mation about it from the National
Interfraternity Council,” said Jennifer
Armstrong, director of marketing and
public relations for Pi Kappa Phi frater
‘Equitable funding’ should not
hurt large schools, officials say
BY KANIKA HEARTLEY
STAFF WRITER
UNC-Chapel Hill students should
not be concerned about losing resources
or money allocations as a result of a
funding-equity study, new and returning
members of the UNC Board of
Governors said.
Recently appointed members had
cited funding equity as a goal of the new
BOG. Such statements led to concern
from UNC-CH officials that funding
equity attempts in the university system
might result in resource and funding
cuts from larger schools.
“The study should not have generat
ed any significant concern for any of the
universities,” said new member Robert
Warwick. “Obviously, anyone is con
cerned when the pie is sliced different
ly.”
BOG member Mark Bibbs agreed
that the purpose of equitable funding
was to pull smaller schools on a more
equal level with larger research institu
ed the University of Madrid where he
majored in Semitic Philology, the
study of Arabic and Hebrew lan
guages.
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Spanish Professor Julio Cortes is the first person to compile an Arabic-to-
Spanish dictionary. He also translated the Koran (shown) into Spanish.
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nity.
“We are supportive of anything that
helps the Greek community overall,”
she said.
Abe Cross, executive director for
Delta Upsilon fraternity, said he com
mended the effort.
“Virtually all of the fraternities are
exploring this option,” Cross said. “This
is something we are considering.”
Chris Campbell, director of chapter
services for Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity,
said there were several newer chapters
that were being implemented as sub
stance free.
“We had a substance-firee chapter at
UCLA that has received a lot of positive
reaction,” he said.
“But it’s too soon to tell how effective
it is.”
Mores said a return to the fraternity’s
core values motivated Phi Delta Theta
to adopt its plan to ban alcohol at all
their chapters.
“Phi Delta Theta exists to promote
leadership skills, scholarship, communi
tions.
“(Equitable funding) does not mean
taking resources away from Chapel
Hill,” Bibbs said.
“It means allocating resources to
underfunded schools to get them to the
level of parity they need to compete.
“It would be a grave mistake for us to
take away needed resources at the flag
ship institutions, diminishing its stature
in order to bring other schools to that
standard,” he said.
Timothy K. Moore, the youngest new
BOG member, said university funding
should be proportionate to UNC-system
needs.
“Funding is based on the (school’s)
mission statement, the number of stu
dents, and the school’s budget,” Moore
said.
“We are trying to determine how
funding matches with students,” he said.
BOG Secretary John Cecil said the
welfare of the entire system should be
considered, but he agreed it was unfair
to cut from larger institutions to help
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began his
career in the
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where he
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diplomatic ser
vice with the
Spanish
Embassy in
Lebanon,
Qatar and Syria.
It was in Syria where, out of neces
sity, Cortes began work on his Arabic
to Spanish dictionary.
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ty service and brotherhood,” he said.
Armstrong agreed that drinking was
not the only function of the fraternity
system.
“Pi Kappa Phi is not in the business
of throwing parties,” she said.
Cross said he understood the con
cern that dry fraternities might lose
prospective members to other fraterni
ties without the ban, but he thought
other factors would weigh heavier on
the minds of potential members.
“I don’t know if (losing prospective
members) is a definite reality. But the
proponents of this policy think that
alcohol is not the determining factor,”
he said.
“The principle and mission of the
fraternities will continue to attract
members,” Armstrong said.
Cross said that a substance-free poli
cy was one of the smartest moves that a
fraternity could make.
He said, “I think a lot of fraternities
are going to participate in this move
ment.”
smaller ones.
“You don’t make it equitable by tak
ing away from some and giving to oth
ers," Cecil said.
“The whole idea is to draw in more
funds for all campuses,” he said.
H.D. Reaves Jr., a returning BOG
member, said several things were exam
ined when evaluating fairness in the uni
versity-funding system.
“It is a system of weighted factors
designed to be equitable to all schools,”
he said.
“The biggest difference is based on
semester hours rather than student
enrollment.
“You have to take into consideration
the various factors to be fair.”
Warwick said the BOG wanted to
make the university system one in which
all citizens of North Carolina can be
proud.
“Everyone should recognize that we
have one of the finest university systems
in the state,” he said.
“We want to keep it that way.”
“I was in Damascus at the time of
the Suez Canal War for my doctoral
dissertation,” he said. “I needed
(access) to a French library, but it was
closed, so I began my own dictionary
in 1956. This is the work of my life.”
After 30 years of poring over books
and newspapers, Cortes completed the
dictionary.
The finished product has made an
astounding impact on Hispanic com
munities at UNC and across the
United States, said Rkia Cornell, a
professor in the African languages
department at Duke University.
“Cortes did a real service for the
Mexican communities in California,”
said Cornell, referring to one of the
groups that Cortes influenced.
Cortes’ publications did not stop
with his dictionary. He also translated
the Koran three times —one version
complete with commentaries.
Cortes said the devout faith of the
Muslim people moved him so consid
erably that he decided to present them
with these translations.
“People give their lives for the
Koran,” he said.
Dr. Frank Dominguez, chairman of
the UNC Department of Romance
Languages, said worldwide academics
consider the translations as a staple.
“It is a fundamental work to many
scholars,” Dominguez said. “In fact, it
was immediately pirated in the Middle
East and published on CD-ROM.”
Cortes’ dedication translates from
his studies to his students.
Amy Nelson, who has taken
Cortes’ class for three years, said
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