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Posted on July 8, 2009 4:54 AM
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Editorial offered naïve take on Phi Delta Theta situation

Your June 6 editorial, "It's time for Phi Delt drama to end," is a bit naïve but not unexpected. The fraternity has done everything in its power to try to survive. They have fought against the national organization, they have fought against the town (who was in Penn State's pocket) and they have fought against Penn State, which went out of its way to make sure that the actives could not fill the house with enough members to survive financially.

Your editorial did get something right. It is about the money.

Not because we need to make a killing, but because the organization that owns the house cannot meet its financial committments and keep the house going. Penn State's actions have made it impossible to get alumni financial support.

We have battled every step of the way and the actives, students like yourselves, have done an unbelievable job in trying to straigthen things out, but at the end, they could not muster enough financial support to overcome the tactics of Penn State President Graham Spanier and Penn State. It's been a long battle, and it is time to move on. I have lost a lot of respect for Spanier and his kind, but I still love Penn State and Phi Delta Theta.

Ed Nunez

Class of 1977



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