This is not a letter to list all that is positive concerning fraternity men and women. My audience neither hears nor cares for that side of the story, so I will not waste my time. Instead I would like to ask a few questions to James Panichi and his followers.

Have I done something to offend you? I ask for I have become the victim of an unprovoked attack. Would you even know me if you saw me, or be able to identify me as one of "them?" I do not think you could. And on what basis do you make your accusations of excessive drinking and promiscuity? You have no basis, you do not know me, and as shown through your column, you do not know many Greeks either.

Instead, you are a product of ignorance, Collegian group-think and possibly one bad experience that gives you the education and thus the right to label and degrade thousands of people. What behavior does this sound like, James? Alienating one distinct group, forming a blanket judgment before all the facts are known, degrading and insulting those you have never met and about whom you know nothing? Does it then follow that someone with one negative experience with say, an ethnic group has the right, no, the duty, to spread the word about their evils?

Just when you think that things are possibly getting a little better there is regression. Thank you for this column James, for at least I will leave Penn State knowing that some things will never change. As with tradition, those who champion themselves most open, liberal and sensitive are guilty of the same mistakes as those whom they accuse.