Show Greeks Present Answer In Discrimination Issue Wells has been looking for a defense of the and unfortunately has not yet received No one but Bybee and friends have seen fit to answer his charges and Bybee and friends did a very poor job of THERE IS MORE to be said in favor of the fraternity system than too bad you were bunged out of we is a more rational Wells seems to feel that fraternities have no right to discriminate and cannot possibly defend their This is not The fraternities have the right to discriminate because their purpose it's no is to provide a congenial atmosphere for young men of similar and All members of a fraternity are to be close friends of every other member of the We're sure that even Wells discriminates when it comes time for him to pick his friends evidently discriminates against affiliated WHY SHOULDN'T members of fraternities have the right to do the This by the is known as the freedom of and is a right of affiliated or independent fraternities discriminate on more than just race or although these are indeed important They also pick their members on the basis of such things as scholastic and We don't deny that fraternities but so do all There is always someone who would not and for their welfare and happiness and for the welfare of the they should be and This is true of such groups as bridge country and the Young IN OTHER if you don't meet the qualifications you don't To state or imply that fraternities are the only groups that discriminate is both untrue and We assume that Wells would advocate the abolition of since they By this same he should also advocate the abolition of the groups just and if he he possesses some strange We feel that Wells should become a little more familiar with the fraternities before he makes such rash statements regarding their Lynn Farrer Allan L. Larson Lynn Hanson An Unaffiliated Response Dear A certain American statesman was fond of the statement that for the right is the noblest sport the world For many conflict with other people is the most interesting diversion in life and they would not exchange it for any SINCE ENTERING the University five years ago I have never felt compelled to introduce my viewpoints toward some of the childish little boy battles that we read in the In regards to the articles written by Quentin T. they remind me of a person w h o lives by His only means of alleviating his feelings of inferiority is to get someone to take issue with them on some point and then try to beat him down in argument THIS IN ESSENCE strikes me as Well's objective and his feelings seem to have been hurt because he received no response to his first Wells also seems to be taking a few things for granted in his latest literary attempt such The rest of the unaffiliated students are The Greeks are afraid of his vast verbal which up to now have been highly inadequate and That the unaffiliated accept the Greeks as superior while in reality very few of the Greeks have this feeling about That discrimination exists only in the Greek When was the or shall we say the time Wells sat by a person of the Negro race in the church of his j ALL IN the chain rattling done so far by Wells seems to be rather a much similar a battle rattle in hopes of pacification by seeing his name in the I am sure the deprecatory gestures and mealy-mouthed speaks of Wells have not met approval of either the Greeks or the unaffiliated students on our IN CONCLUSION I feel thos of us here at the University to gain an education feel this issue which has been raised is a recurrent or cyclic The same issue comes year after the same ground is fought over the same when the conflict is both persons have- expressed their and the relation can return to its former Larry F. Jewkes |