Editor,
While I am ecstatic to see that the seedy Greek underbelly of UNM is finally getting some much needed attention by way of Sigma Chi's charter revocation, I am appalled that it took so many incidents to garner this notice.
It wasn't enough to viciously vandalize an illegally parked car - in Klu Klux Klan fashion no less - and rain down upon UNM a torrent of bad press and public outcry. And it wasn't enough that the "philanthropic" Sigma Chi flagrantly ignored the conditions of their suspension - does anyone recall the huge gaudy banner adorned with their much loved letters draped over the bigots' house that read "Get Better So-and-So" or the parties that continued to take place even though the frat was supposedly out of commission?
Instead, it took a culmination of these and other utterly ridiculous acts for the national chapter to take action. In their inimitable fashion, the boys of Sigma Chi continued their sophomoric spree by redecorating ski resort hotel rooms Mîtley CrÅe style.
But let's not stop there, why don't we throw in drunken roof top catcalls for good measure? And along the way our University administration has seen fit to do no more than slap the fraternity's proverbial wrist and gently encourage them to mend their ways.
It seems somehow ironic and weird that the members of Sigma Chi will walk away from this with little more than the need to find a place to stay next semester. In stark contrast, a history professor makes a flip and thoughtless comment and is threatened with academic extinction.
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Or maybe it's not weird at all, given UNM's track record of caring exponentially more about athletic standings and who the next basketball coach is than academics and who is going to take the helm once President Gordon is gone.
In fact, maybe it fits snuggly into the priority matrix for which UNM is becoming infamous.
Leslie Rutkowski
Undergraduate student
