University of Virginia Library

Your rush editorial of last week
and your "Comment of Rush" of
October 5 call into question the
motives behind your criticisms of
fraternities and the fraternity
system in general. By now, it is a
rather well-known fact that the
fraternity system at Virginia is in
trouble.

The houses themselves, are trying
to remedy this situation. Articles
such as the ones mentioned
(on the front page, no less) do little
in the way of helping fraternities
reform. It is not an easy job for a
fraternity to change, especially
when the changes call into question
the nature of fraternity life itself.

The job is made much more
difficult by the type articles your
paper has been printing. If the CD
is genuinely interested in a reformed
fraternity system in which
would be embodied the principals
of communal small group living, let
it say so.

If the CD is only interested in
the destruction of the fraternity
system (not a difficult job right
now, and, it seems to us, a less than
noble cause), as is suggested by
these two articles, let it also be
known. In the former course we
wish you success, in the latter, may
you fail miserably.

Carmine Scavo

Ed.