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Nov. 9, 2006 Letter to the Editor: MC Alum questions DU decision So the rumors are true... I understand that in situations where words like “hazing” come up, the college must act as quickly as possible to discipline those involved. This reaction is linked to several other words, like “lawsuit” and “settlement.” However, what I do not understand as clearly is the reasoning behind kicking a group of people out of their home. When I heard about Delta Upsilon’s charter being taken away, I was upset but understanding. Greek life is an intimidating factor to college administrations. For some reason, a large chunk of well-known personalities and leaders on campus choose to be involved in it. These leaders become alumni and trustees who serve on boards that direct the college’s purposes and its administrators. The decision to actually take away the school’s oldest fraternity’s charter could not have been easy, but they had to act due to the implications made about whatever it was that happened in Harmar. But now it has displaced a group of individuals who seem to have had very little control over the incident that is unearthing them. It would have been one thing to give them till the end of the semester to move out. This would have provided a reasonable time frame in which things like roommates, rent and furniture storage could have been settled. In the real world, even an evil landlord could not get away with what the school has decided to do. Marietta is a small town, Marietta College is even smaller and it already cannot house the students that it keeps admitting. In what realm of logic did it make sense to remove enrolled students from the beds that they paid for before the end of the semester? They were disbanded, they have lost a piece of their school experience that most Greek Alumnae consider invaluable, they have been punished. To take away their place of residence and disrupt their school year further seems more like a scare tactic than a meaningful punishment. - Cate Weber |
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