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pay their dues.
Charles Dean, faculty adviser for
Lambda Alpha Epsilon, a professional
fraternity for criminology majors, said
that pledges go through a simple cere¬
mony and no one is ever excluded.
Alpha Zeta, a fraternity for ag majors,
has a two to three week pledge process
during which members participate in a
community project and also plaque
project in .which they have to go out and
get signatures of the fraternity mem¬
bers.
There is a 3.0 grade point requirement
but there is no blackball procedure
according to faculty "adviser Carl Pher-
son.
"There is no blackball procedure as in
a sociai .fraternity. The only reason a
student would be excluded is grade
point average,' he said. Any other rea-
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son, said Pheraon, would have to "be
pretty drastic and blatant."
Richard Rogers, a faculty adviser for
Alpha Tau Alpha, a professional frat¬
ernity for agriculture education majors,
said the organization is open to all
ag education majors and that no one is
excluded. So why does Alpha Kappa
Pei exclude people?
"We try to make sure we are ele¬
vated," said Richard Hartzell, president
of the organization last semester. "We
like to think we are more than a sign-up
organization. We do purposely require
more. We do test the pledge."
Jim Poptanich, district director for
Alpha Kappa Psi, said "1 don't see the
blackballing system as a bad one. '
The blackballing, he added, is part of the
national guidelines and charter. The
blindfolding of pledges before their
interview "adds some solemness to it,"
said Poptanich.
Jacquie Ham, this semester's presi¬
dent, was unavailable for comment.
Hartzell described the blackballing as a
screening process. "Almost every organ¬
ization goes through a screening pro¬
cess," he said. As for the secrecy,
"Quite a few fraternal orgainizations
remain silent. If you open it up to every¬
one, what's the purpose?"
Hartzell acknowledged that "in some
respects the student is not given a rea¬
son " for being blackballed.
"We are all1 required to maintain cer¬
tain things in a fraternity," he said.
Asked about the secret interview pro¬
cedure, Hartzell said, "I'm not at liberty
to discuss them."
Uncertainty upsets coach
by Karon Krieger
CSUF athletic officials say that the in¬
consistencies in the practice of hiring
men and women coaches are a result of
several factors, some of which can only
be remedied with time.
However, Interim Athletic Director
Jack Wilcox said that the Physical
Education Department was at fault
in the mix-up involving the selection of
a new women' s basketball coach, while
two men' s coaching positions were
filled quickly and without problems.
Tony Peterson, who was hired last
year aa women's head coach, resigned
before the season began and interim
coach Diane Milutinovich took over the
poet.
Milutinovich is upset because she is
unsure of her position at the university,
and the delay in the hiring procedure
could result in the loss of some top
recruits.
Things were much different in the
hiring of Jim Sweeney and Red Estes.
Football coach Sweeney was hired within
15 days after the position of head foot¬
ball coach was announced, while Estes
moved up from his spot as assistant
track coach to take over the head posi¬
tion. The men seem to have been hired
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ball job has been hampered by red tape.
Assistant Athletic Director Joanne
Schroll said that ahe had aaked that the
selection time be narrowed down to SO
days, but her request
was lost in the shuffle and the hiring
period remained the usual 60 days.
It has been nearly six months and the
position remains unfilled and will stay
that way until probably June 1.
"The pursuit of a basketball coach was
late because we had to kind of wait
until the person resigned," Wilcox
said.
Schroll said the short time period in
Sweeney's case was because of the
"iniminence in recruiting, in addition
to other things." The women's basket¬
ball team will miss out on its beat re¬
cruiting period because of the delay in
the hiring of a coach.
"If the women had assistants with a
proven track record, we could move then
up into the head positions," Wilcox
said. "We haven't had the consistency
because men's sports have been going
on longer than women' s."
"The coaching track is a year to year
contract," she pointed out. "This bas¬
ketball situation was really unusual."
Traditionally women coaches are hired
primarily to teach, because women's
sports do not generate the publicity or
financial support that the men' s do.
Even if men are hired mainly for their
coaching abilities, it doesn't mean they
are slouches in the classroom, Wilcox
said.
" None of the coaches have been
turned down yet because of their (lack
of) teaching abilities," Wilcox said.
"If a person came in primarily aa
a coach and did a good job in teaching,
I'd say they had good priorities.
"If we could hire a total coach (no tea¬
ching assignments at all), then we could
cut our search in half," Wilcox added.
"Finding the right coach is like
finding the right word to fit a crossword
puzzle. Sometimes it's there, and i
times it isn't."
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