Fraternity existence
benefits community
Jared Paben's story about Student
Judicial Affairs Director Chris Loschi
avo ("Fraternity incidents elude Uni
versity sanctions," ODE, March 12) is
not the objective news story it pre
tends to be. It is an opinionated, one
sided at
tack on our
greek sys
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-—- unfairly pi
geonholes
fraternal organizations for their scat
tered mistakes. It leaves out the nu
merous great things members of the
greek system do for this community.
First of all, suggesting that mem
bers of greek organizations are the
only students on campus who make
mistakes that most young people
make is absolutely ridiculous. The
only* difference between the greek
community and the general student
body is that we are accountable for
our actions and we allow ourselves to
be judged by the general public,
whereas others can often elude the ac
countability that comes with being af
filiated with an organization.
Secondly, our endorsement stan
dards are second to none on this cam
pus. Who else on campus attends Im
pact Leadership retreats and hears
successful speakers such as John
Spence and other social issues speak
ers? Who else pushes themselves to
achieve a better GPA than the
all-men's and all-women's averages,
which are currently above a 3.0?
Those are hardly easy marks to attain
as a group. Each house has a yearly
philanthropy event to raise money for
organizations such as the Boys and
Girls Club of America, the YMCA,
Looking Glass shelter and more. How
come nobody on campus hears about
those things from their campus news
paper? Every member of a fraternity is
also required to volunteer five hours
every term to give back to his commu
nity, but the reality is that many do
more on their own because they want
to do something for their communi
ty. Delta Upsilon, in winter term, vol
unteered more than 500 hours with
just 30 members. Many of those
hours came from coaching YMCA
basketball along with members of
Sigma Chi. Where is the front-page ar
ticle on that?
When you focus on the scattered
mishaps of a few people, you leave
out all the great things greeks do for
the University. Maybe Paben should
stop attacking greek organizations
with his opinion and over-emphasis
on the negative. He should start do
ing some real news reporting and
write about all the great things and
accountability that greeks bring to
this university.
Westin Mclean is a sophomore
studying accounting and a member
of the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
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