The entire column is embarrassing, but what I find personally offensive is: “The blame of this defamation of our character falls on the shoulders of your typical frat boys and sorority girls. With their nice clothes and talk about scholastic integrity and Greek letters, the frat crowd tries to pass itself off as a decent bunch of human beings. However it has been well documented that people of this ilk are really all about partying and drinking things that would make Jack Sparrow think twice. This reckless behavior is not healthy for a college student’s image and these people should be shipped off to an isolated island of raucous behavior.”

I shiver at the shallowness of the author of this column and the editors allowing him to publish something reflecting on the university as a whole. I am a current member of a sorority where I have worked 25 hours a week to pay to be a member of. I will be attending law school in August and would not surround myself or be a part of anything representing “reckless behavior” any more so than non-greeks on this campus.

By downgrading “greeks” you are also downgrading last year’s 64,000 volunteer hours in the university and surrounding community for an average of 33 hours per “reckless human being,” as you call them of course. In addition, our chapters hosted 94 events to raise both awareness and dollars for charity. 55 percent of our members are above the all student average, but we aren’t decent human beings? 

At this point, I can only hope moving forward the students involved in journalism at North Carolina State University pursue the actual world of journalism after they leave Technician, so they may quickly unlearn your definition of freedom of the press. 

Erika

Angles

senior, business administration