LET TERS

Cheers for Great Sports

I was delighted to read the article about sports clubs at the University in the January/February 2007 issue (“They’ve Got Game”). It’s exciting to read that clubs are thriving, expanding and helping a wide variety of students enjoy the thrill of representing the University in the United States and overseas. The robust state of sports clubs today is partly the result of the hard work and dedication of thousands of students who have led the clubs in the past several decades. They have gone door to door selling doughnuts, hawked T-shirts, organized tours and learned how to get over bureaucratic hurdles — all to make their club work. Leaders of clubs, some initially reluctant, have learned vital organizational and marketing skills that prove extremely valu- able in the business world. But it’s today’s leaders who are so important when it comes to maintaining the viability of

sports clubs — so I was excited that you have recognized their hard work.

Scott Martin ’ 88

Chair, Sports Club Council, 1985-87

Charlotte

Sigma Chi Incident
Cited As ‘Raw Deal’

After reading the news article in the January/February issue (“Sigma Chi Found Guilty of Hazing, Tries to Suppress the News”), I write to protest the raw deal I

perceive being given to the local
Sigma Chi chapter of Alpha Tau.
I note that the Interfraternity
Council received an “anonymous”
call. I thought it was a basic prin-
ciple of English law that the
accuser must identify himself. I am
dismayed that the judges in this
matter have apparently so little
regard for correct jurisprudence.

Also, I believe that a basic tenet of our legal system is “innocent until proven

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guilty.” (Another disregard for justice by the University.)

The University is a great preacher and promoter of equality, legality, justice, fair play, etc., but apparently only when it suits the whims of those in charge.