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This came from the "Letters to the Editor" section in Sunday's Dallas Morning News. On my campus, the Sigma Chi chapter was highly regarded so I was very surpised to see something like this. What can you say to this father after this?

"My son branded

My son comes home for Memorial Day vacation with a new brand, like they brand cattle. The brand is from his secret society Sigma Chi at Texas A&M Commerce. Is this sadistic degrading behavior still being a part of university life, or is it a function of the new house being funded by Dallas alumni and old members of the fraternity? All withstanding, I consider the branding of children a sick and depraved activity about which the police and university appear to have no control.

Recommendation: Send your child to Texas A&M Commerce. He will come home with an appropriate lifelong disfigurement – a brand – then you will know how to recognize him.

Stephen Oliver,

extremely distraught father,

Dallas "