Greek Discrimination

[DRau]

A horrible thing happened today and I just wanted some advice/thoughts from you guys.

For those of you who have been following the 'Rush at UCSC' thread, you know that Greeks are not supported at all at Santa Cruz. I could go on and on about this, but even though there are 14 groups encompassing 350 students (about 3% of UCSC Undergrads), they get no funding, no resources, no recognition outside 'student organization' and no full-time Greek Advisor. I am a grad. student who is serving as a Greek Affairs Intern part-time, and I knew that this bias existed when I started in July. Well, some great things have been happening and I was really starting to see things look up, and then I came into work today.

The newly formed Inter-Greek Council was granted cubicle space in the new Student Union, and for the first time the 'Office of Greek Affairs' had it's own phone line and computer. About 15 other orgs. have space in the Student Union (including 5 that actually have closed-door office space), as well the the Student Union Assembly which is the Student Government on campus so there is a lot of students flowing through at all times.

Anywat, our IGC President went by the cubicle this morning to leave me a message only to discover that someone had torn down all our posters, ripped down flyers and scattered my papers all over the desk. In addition, the one binder I have on the desk, the NPC Green Book, was thrown across the cubicle and a bunch of pages were bent.

I was irrate when I found out, and when I went looking to see if anyone had seen or heard anything, all I got were shrugged shoulders. Hello! How could someone trash an open cubicle and have no one see or hear?

This just makes me so angry because I have never seen a prejudice against Greeks like this! I mean, not everyone likes Greeks and thats fine, different strokes for different folks, but this is just flat out wrong. For a campus that everyone thinks is so liberal, some people are so closed-minded and so quick to judge it makes me sick.

Sorry for the vent, just had to get it out.