University of Virginia Library

Letters To The Editor

Those Evil Fraternity Boys

After reading Mr. Giltinan's column
regarding fraternities I would
like to thank your worthy newspaper
for finally printing the truth
about those evil fraternity boys. It's
about time that someone awakened
to the menace hovering over the
University and warned its unsuspecting
students, especially the tender,
innocent first yearmen about this
serious threat to our society. The
boys in these fraternities are just no
good. They are shiftless and lazy
cowards motivated by greed, as Mr.
Giltinan so accurately observed.
They expect to be able to sit
around of the front porches of their
fraternity houses and drink beer
while everyone else has to work
hard for their education.

On top of that - they act as if
the University owed them a degree!
Of course a couple of fratmen are
always good to liven up a party
(everybody knows that they are
natural-born partiers) but most of
them just don't know their place.
Ever since their founding, fraternities
have threatened the very foundations
of our morality. Why, have
you ever seen those boys carry on?

Even worse than this, they are
always trying to get involved in
activities around the University acting
as if they are just as good as any
independent. The trouble is that
they all look and act so much alike
that you can't tell one fraternity
brother from another. Thank you
C.D. for the warning.

One can only be thankful that
until all fraternity brothers can be
shipped back to where they belong
(University of Maryland, South Carolina,
etc.) that at least their houses
are segregated from the rest of the
grounds.

— Ed.