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Page 12 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Wednesday, September WS Nation * Greeks Continued from Page^Z 1 W UPI photo Engineering freshman Amy Grishkat of Hamburg, N.Y., is be­ lieved to be the first disabled woman to have pledged a sorority at the University of Illinois. Grishkat, 18, pledged the Phi Mu sorority. Champaign any weekend night, es­ pecially during football season, of­ fers a wide selection of parties. A quick turn north along Fourth Street, Just west of the center of campus, offers even more. Sinnock, a senior accounting ma­ jor from Springfield who lived in the dorms for one semester, said the . parties are what non-Greeks re­ member because the parties are so apparent. "That's what is evident to every­ one outside a fraternity. Once you get in it, there's so much more," he said. "It's a distortion that many people think that's our sole purpose." Grishkat, who broke her neck div­ ing into a swimming pool as a youngster, said she Joined a sorority looking for "a lot of friends (and) somebody who can help me out with studies." Grishkat, who is majoring in com­ puter science, is believed to be the first disabled woman to pledge a sorority at the U of I, said Adlon Jorgensen, the sorority adviser for seven years. Another disabled wom­ an rushed this fall, but did not pledge. Grishkat said she was a little hesi­ tant about going through sorority rush and said she could tell some of the sorority women were uncomfort­ able around her. "1 found some of them did just by their attitude, but not the majority," she said. "If people don't want me for me, that's their problem," Grishkat said. She does not know if she will move into the Phi Mu house. Chapter President Laurel Dennison says plans are being made to make the house more accessible. New fraternity and sorority mem­ bers say they find older students usually give more practical advice about classes and professors than university counselors trying to serve a student population of more than 30,000. :< David Broadbent, a senior and the president of the Phi Kappa Tau chapter, said more freshmen are interested in their grades and less worried about their social life. He said most rushees are afraid joining a fraternity will doom them to poor. "That's the number one fear," he said. "Since I've moved in the house, the type of guys we're getting is so much different -- books are first." A very real danger exists that freshmen -- or even the students who wait until their sophomore or junior year to join a house -- will find themselves overwhelmed by the variety of parties, exchanges and dances available to them, said Su­ san McKieman, the pledge trainer at Kappa Alpha Theta. "I've just got to keep telling them that the studies come first," she said. Fraternities and sororities at Illi­ nois, as at other schools across the country, continue to be rated separ along racial lines, although the linds are slowly blurring. Few black st i dents participate in the formal rus es for the white fraternities and 1 y rarities, but some do and some h^e pledged houses. In the last five years, a handful cjf fraternities and sororities hav£ pledged a handful of black students, with the only apparent concern bd- ing the reaction of the older alumni, whose financial support is needed. "I like to see that," said Sinnocl who said he could not recall a blacl student ever rushing the Alpha Tai Omega chapter. "I was really si prised, just that in it never ha before. 1 was pleased to hear it." Ecstasy may cause brain damage ByJanZiegler UPI science wi science writer WASHINGTON -- A study used by the government to ban a popular "designer drug" showed a similar hallucinogen can cause brain dam­ age, but whether brain function or behavior deteriorates as a result re­ mains uncertain, a researcher said Thursday. The study was based on a drug called MDA, or 3,4-methylenediox- yamphetamine, which has been banned by the government. The drug is chemically close to amphet- a m i n e s a n d m e s c a l i n e , a n hallucinogen. The Drug Enforcement Agency used the results along with those of other studies to ban on July 1 a Murder of TV producer considered By Kevin Flynn Scripps Howard News Service SEATTLE -- A neo-Nazi group accused of assassinating a Denver radio talk show host also considered killing TV producer Norman Lear and an Atlanta attorney because they are Jewish and opposed the white supremacy movement, a group member testified Monday. Denver Daw Parmenter II, a founding member of the violent splinter group The Order, said the group also considered murdering free-lance journalist Peter Lake, who infiltrated the organization. Ten members of The Order are on trial under heavy guard in the U.S. Courthouse. They face racketeering charges that include allegations ranging from murders and robber­ ies to counterfeiting and weapons violations. Parmenter said Berg was target­ ed because he "had made some out­ spoken remarks, or had interviews with white movement people and was very belligerent toward white movement people. And he was main­ ly thought to be anti-white and lie was Jewish." Lear and Morris Dees, an attorney who heads Klanwatch, an anti-Ku Klux Klan group, were others dis­ cussed at a meeting to select the group's first assassination target. Dees, as a Klan opponent, had several confrontations with Louis Beam, Texas Grand Dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "Mr. Dees is also a Jew," Par­ menter said. "He was monitoring white movement groups and had been harassing them." Lear was the producer of such successful television shows as "All in the Family," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "Maude " He also brought to television shows that centered on blacks, such as "The Jeffersons,""Good Times" and "Sanford and Son." "He was a Jew, and all of his programs were thought to be anti- white," Parmenter said. Parmenter, 32, testified that Or­ der leader Robert Jay Mathews ex­ plained to him how the June 1984 killing of Alan Berg was carried out. "He told me first about the sur­ veillance (of Berg) that was done prior to the murder by an old lady who was the mother of Zillah and ran the message center in Wyo­ ming," said Parmenter. Zillah Craig was Mathew's girlfriend and the daughter of Jean Craig, who operat­ ed an answering service for the gang in Wyoming, the prosecution has charged. "He (Mathews) told me they then went to Denver, Colorado, that they were waiting outside ( Berg's) home. He and Mr. Scutari were flanking the house of Mr Berg, Mr. Lane was driving the getaway vehicle and Mr. Pierce did the killing." Those accused of Berg's murder are Bruce Carroll Pierce, 30; David Lane, 46; Richard Scutari, 38; Jean Craig, 50; and Mathews. Pierce, Lane and Ms. Craig are" among the defendants here. Math­ ews was killed Dec. 8 in a shootout with the FBI and Scutari is still at large. Parmenter told the jury that three of the five people accused of taking part in the Berg murder later admit­ ted to him their roles in the slaying % chemically similar drug called MDMA, or 3,4-methylenedioxymeth- amphetamine, known on the street by names such as "Ecstasy" or "Adam." University of Chicago researchers reported in the journal Science that a study of rats showed MDA de­ stroys nerve cells that are part of the brain's serotonin system. Seroto­ nin is a neurotransmitter involved in regulation of sleep, pain perception, mood, sexuality, aggressiveness and other functions. They cautioned that the study may not apply to humans because it was done in rats, because the amount of the drug given to rats was three to five times higher than the dosage taken by humans and because the drug was injected rather than tak< in pill form as people do. ) However, they also said it tak< much less MDA per pound of. I weight to kill a human than it aoes a rat, so people might be more sensi-j tive to the drug. Lewis Seiden, professor of pharj macology and physiological sciem and of psychiatry, said in a tel phone interview with UPI that MDA "should also be used in humans with reasonable care." "J "Although we haven't tested hu{ mans, we have tested (MDA) in five! other species. 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