Another Excellent Rebecca C. Brown Column
This time I'm not just linking to say how great it is. I've got some brief additional comments.

The big screen TVs are awesome and the abundance of nachos is rad too.

Hell yes they are. I've got some nacho cheese in my mini-fridge with your name on it, Rebecca.

Now maybe I’ve gotten a little cynical, or maybe I just find it amusing when grown men voluntarily invite physical harm onto their bodies, but the university’s response to this incident appears to be little more than an empty assertion of administrative authority over a vulnerable campus group in an attempt to appear effectual to the media and a clamoring noncampus community. In short: It’s just for appearances!

Oh god I hope Dean Kenney read that. Also, it would be nice if those details the administration promised they would provide us about the moratorium were actually provided [hint hint]. If the administration were really concerned about hazing (the recent hazing problems were cited as one reason for the moratorium) there was plenty they could have done with the previous 48 incidents adjudicated by Student Judicial Affairs since 1999. [More comments on this soon.]

Or maybe we could hold mandatory alcohol safety conferences at all Greek houses.

Um, Rebecca, we do this every semester, and we get put on social probation if we don't. I'd bet that, hands down, Greeks know more about safe drinking than anyone else on this campus (not that we always do what we should).Email This Post!