[dekeguy]

We seem to have tracked onto considering what the university can or cannot do where it might be useful to consider what the university ought or ought not do in response to certain complaints.
I do not know with any certainty what actually happened in this incident but I find it interesting that some of the the original chants referred to were performed during an earlier incident involving another fraternity. A little 'due dilligence' might seem appropriate in the reportage of this inappropriate but hardly earth shattering occurance.
What bothers me is the heavy handed response of the University Administration to what appears to be a breach of PC expectations. I think we have all seen attitudes of mandatory PC become more and more hide bound over the past few years. This bothers me far more than college pranks in poor taste.
Have we as a nation become such cry-babies that we have to run to 'big brother' and demand Draconian responses to any show of sillyness or high jinks?
Was anyone really hurt?
Was anyone really intimidated?
Was anyone really made to fear for their lives and safety?
I think not.
I think that young adults who are old enough to vote, to marry, to take up arms in defense of our country are surely old enough to discern between serious threats and sillyness in poor taste. Has anyone who is bright enough to gain admission to and pursue the rigors of one of our very best universities really not been aware of the sort of sillyness that has existed there and on nearly every other campus for generations? I am not arguing that what apparently happened was perfectly all right. I am suggesting that the response was absurdly heavy handed and pandered to the self righteous demands of those who want a perfection of behaviour in an all too imperfect world. Corrective action - yes. Thermo nuclear response - inappropriate.
Give me a break. The incident may well be very tasteless and very silly, but its hardly a serious threat. Deal with it.