The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1982 Page: 2 of 6
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When that didn’t work out, Imelda
tried to arrange matches with other
suitable men, "all of them rich and
famous. Instead, Imee fell in love with
Tommy Manotoc, a handsome but
footloose athlete. He was politically and
socially unacceptable to the Marcoses.
the lovers were secretly married in Arl-
ington, Virginia, and Imee later con-
Layout Editor: Mikal Trimm
Feature Editor: George Copeland .
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Distribution Manager: Kenneth Lieck
Staff: Beth Atkinson, Gregg Loggins,
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Contributors: Tom Buckner,
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Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that he saw nothing . fronted her father with the news. Tommy
wrong with that. But, in fact, there might
posters and buttons advocating respon-
sible use of drugs, and alcohol, and
plans to publish a yuide to Boston
social and cultural spots that don’t en-
courage drinking.
'attributed to them. When the news of
Phi Mu’s withdrawal from rush was cir-
culated I half-expected the sororities to
be thankful that there were now less
competitors for the young blood. What I
saw, however, was a lot of crying and
distraught girls, upset for their friends
who, although not in their sorority, were
important to them for who they were and
what they stood for.
Surprised at this apparent contradic-
tion, this confused editor was sat down
and explained that the sororities (God,
how I wish there was an abbreviation for
that word — I’ve typed it a hal-dozen
times already), while each different and
independent (I’ll bet you never thought
I’d use that adjective to describe a Greek
organization) were close to onesanother
and saw the strength of their half of the
Greek system as lying in their mutual
social system that draws its alliances
from friendships made in three days of
punch-and-cookie parties. I do realize,
however, that it takes a big man to admit
his mistakes and, according to my tailor,
I have a lot of admitting to do. In the
past, much of my polemicization has
had its basis in conjecture; one might
say, but not with impunity, that I didn’t
know a lot about what I was attacking.
Now, although my three-day crash
course makes me far less than an
authority in the field, I can say that I
think I have more information and can
judge (although I shudder at that word)
more fairly.
One of these judgements is that the
sororities have far more cohesiveness
man, wants to conduct a thorough in-
vestigation of that luncheon — or non-
luncheon, as the case may be — we
have some suggestions for him:
— Track down a waitress who worked
at Prudenti's, the Long Island City
restaurant where the alleged luncheon
occurred. She was once the girlfriend of
Jerry Liguori, one of Donovan’s ex-
ecutives. LIgouri’s former lady friend
might be able to tell the special pro-
secutor whether Ray Donovan ever had
lunch there. She might even remember
seeing him there with the union official
and the guy who allegedly made the
payoff.
— Turn to page 345 of the Senate
transcript of Donovan's confirmation
hearings before the Senate Labor Com-
mittee. Donovan admitted that he used
the Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club to
entertain union leaders. He told Senator
happens, however, extenuating cir-
cumstances (mainly the phenomenal
lack of news) prevented me from putting
out the first paper of '82 before Women’s
Rush. It was this social event that I saw
as my greatest target — a real chance to
go for the bejeweled throat of. the
Greeks. I went to the events expecting to
be so appalled at the falsehood and
superciliousness of it all that I would •
commit to memory all of the inane
atrocities that were to be perpetrated
against the unwitting freshpeople. While
what I found was not perfect, it was far
more enlightening and informative than I
could ever have expected.
I had expected all of the girls to wax
more and more sympathetic and, of
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friendship and cooperation, not rivalry
and petty feuding.
the other four sororities showed a
great deal of compassion and caring
toward the Phi Mu's and were truly upset
at their friends' withdrawal. They realiz-
ed, though, that no real organization
that is as close as Phi Mu ever closes so
long as the last person remains and as
long as someone remembers.
I suppose that the greatest thing that I
learned over these past few days Is that
these people that i saw as the nemesis
to free-thinking in general and civiliza-
tion as we know it in particular are just
human beings. Nothing more and cer-
tainly nothing less. I am angry that I
have helped to perpetrate a myth of
sororal insensitivity that I find to be not
true at all. And, although I'm not about
to don sackcloth and ashes, I do want to
apologize; not so much for the things
I've said in the past, for they were true to
me then, but for the fact that I, a sei-
proclaimed great liberal thinker, did not
take the time to do my research and at
least make my lambasting well-based.
Mind you, I do not regret any of the
things I have written for they were
neither too brutal nor too base (while I
didn’t know a lot of things for sure, I had
some pretty good guesses. Although, if I
were to guess that a Martian horse had
six legs, two heads and a beak and it
turned out to be true, I wouldn't be smart
— just lucky) I just regret the fact that it
took me so long to bother to find out
what the hell I had been talking about
for four months. I haven’t been as stupid
as I have stubborn.
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told his family afterwards that the presi-
dent gave them his blessing. Then Imee
asked Ferdinand about Imelda. Tommy
quoted the president as saying, “I’ll han-
die her.”-------------—: -----------
On the night of December 28, Tommy
noticed that two of Imee’s bodyguards
remained behind when they parted. He
reported to his family that they seemed
to be watching him.
The next night, Tommy and Imee din-
ed together, they were the next to the
last couple to leave ‘he restaurant. She
then departed for the presidential
palace. Tommy was never seen again.
At 10:30 the next morning, Imee called
Tommy’s family to ask where he was
and why he hadn’t called. Tommy’s
brother informed her that Tommy had
not come home.
There was an exchange of urgent
calls between Imee and Tommy’s family.
Once, President Marcos got on the line
and assured Tommy’s father that he had
ordered a full search.
In later phone calls, Imee was Incon-
sistent. She seemed to be torn between
love for her father and love for her hus-
band. It was as if she were suspicious
about Tommy’s disappearance but
wanted to believe her father.—
At the time we went to press,
Tommy's family was beginning to lose
hope they would ever see him alive
again.
were to arrived. What I found was not
diabolical sweetness or angelic
dishonesty, but a group of women who
sincerely wanted to get to know the
freshman better and to cull from them
those to whom they felt the closest.
While I still disagree with the whole
system of chosing your friends in such a
cocktail party atmosphere, I am forced
to admit that all of the upperclass sorori-
ty women I saw take part were nothing if
not sincere and I got the impression that
they didn’t really give a damn that I was
there: everything they said was said
because they meant it, not for fear of the
ink of my poison pen.
Now, before my faithful reader
decides that I have suffered a concus-
sion ove the holidays and am lapsing in-
to conformity and treachery let me simp-
ly say that I still come down against any
Anyway, enough of self-abasement. In
conclusion (hooray) I would like to say
that I am thankful that Southwestern
has Phi Mu’ now and we should all be
so lucky to have girls like them as
friends. Their strength and attitude are
very admirable and they will be sorely
missed, but never forgotten. I am glad
that I was around here to see thm in ac-
tion and I'm sure that this will be a great
semester for all of them.
I would also like to congratulate the
new freshmen sorority women. I know
full well that I would never have done It
before last week and I don’t think that I
could have been that thoroughly white-
washed in just three days.
Most of all, I would like to thank the
whole sorority system, for it is indeed a
tightly-woven system, for allowing me to
learn more about them. Now that I know
whereof I speak, I can see that the
Medusae I saw last semester are neither
vicious nor venal and that their interests
are not at all that far away from
everybody else’s — to be around those
people you care about and who care
about you. The Greek system is not for
everybody, and I should know, but for
the people that are to take part in it, it is
an important part of their lives.
I’ve learned to appreciate the
sororities much more this past week, but
I hope only so much that it has helped
me take off my rose-colored glasses —
not replace them: besides, men’s rush is
still to come.
I haven’t changed that much.
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be something wrong with it. The
Fiddler's Elbow Country Club is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Donovan’s con-
struction company. And labor law ex-
perts told us that Section 302 of the Taft-
Hartley Act forbids employers from of-
fering anything of value to uion of-
ficials.
That might include dinner and drinks
at a fancy country club.
LOVE STORY: Imee Marcos is the
beautiful 26-year-old daughter of Philip-
pine President Ferdinand Marcos. Tom-
my Manotoc is 32 years old, divorced,
and a member of the family of President
Marcos’ most bitter opponents.
On December 4, 1981, Imee and Tom-
my eloped. On December 29, Tommy
disappeared. The end of the story must
still be written, but it’s a tale that poets
someday will write about.
According to sources close to the
Marcos family, Imee is very fond of her
father but quarrels with her mother, Im-
elda. The mother had grand ambitions
for her daughter. At one point, she
wanted-Imee to marry Prince Charles of
the United Kingdom.
WASHINGTON — A special proscutor
has been appointed to look into Labor
Secretary Raymond Donovan’s possible
connections with the underworld, the
specific accusation that triggered the
probe is that Donovan was present at a
luncheon one day In 1977 when an ex-
ecutive of his construction company
made a $2,000 payoff to a union official. .
Donovan has vehemently denied be-
ing present at any such luncheon. In
fact, the Labor secretary has denied that
he has ever been in the restaurant where
the meeting supposedly was held.
If the special prosecutor, Leon Silver-
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This past Saturday the Chapter of Phi
Mu Women’s Fraternity on this campus
formally withdrew from Women’s Rush
and later announced that it would close
at the end of this semester. As far as I
know, this is the first time that such a
thing has happened here, and all that I
can say is that I am very sorry.
I have a lot of friends that are Phi Mu's
and I know that the news, while not a
shock, was very sad for them. Due ngain-
ly to low response and high rush quotas
they are going to end out this semester
and then all be put on alumni Phi Mu
status. But I have to hand it to them —
they took it very well and scuttlebutt has
it that they are planning a "Going Out of
Business Party" for their spring formal. I
don't know exactly what those girls are
up to, but that is or party I certainly
would like to attend ( nt, hint).
I did not, however, want to write a sim-
ple eulogy on the "passing" of a sorority
on campus; it is only officially that Phi
Mu ceases to exist — not in our hearts
or minds or friendships. I do want,
however, to take this opportunity and
this typewriter and praise the sororities
for what I saw this opportunity and this
typewriter and praise the sororities for
what I saw this past weekend.
Before Christmas break I could hardly
wait to come back to this office and get
started on my first nasty editorial
against fraternities, sororities, cliques, *
coteries, Elks, Lions, Shriners, Jaycees,
B’nai B'rith, the Mickey Mouse Club and
any other social organization that meets
for any reason other than to fight a war,
sing the Messiah or play football. As it
students is now expressly forbiddeh at
Carnegie-Mellon University. The presi-
dent of that school announced creation
of a hotline students may call if they
think they are victims of spying. Any stu-
dent found guilty of spying on others
could face expulsibn. The action comes
after a Carnegie-Mellon student died
mysteriously on a return trip to his
native Taiwan. Other .Taiwanese
students claimed his alleged suicide
was actually government retributon for
4pq his anti-government activities in this
8a country.
— NOCR — An anti-drug campaign, put
together by a student advertising agen-
cy, is drawing attention at Boston
University. The campaign furnished In-
come freshmen with brochures describ-
. Ing state drinking laws, distributed
Editor: Kevin Warburton
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