To the Editor:
I would like to address some of the issues that perhaps are myths of the so called "fraternity scene". Boarders are not taken in lightly by all houses. I joined my fraternity because I felt ties of family with those in my house. The house we live in is not just a building where we sleep, eat and study. It is our home and letting in non-family members destroys that feeling.
I would also refute the idea that all houses are places where, as Jeff Caterino believes ("CFS housing policy wrong," Jan. 16), people do not want to live because of conditions that are adverse to studying. I managed to receive better grades since moving into my house than when I lived in a dorm, so let's not generalize about fraternity conditions, especially since each house is unique in how it handles its physical plant.
Our house has sunk well over $70,000 into renovations, and I think it is a great place to live -- much nicer than most of the dorms I have seen and with many more amenities. I hope that each house can work out something with the College, and I hope that the CFSC will do its job and look to the interests of the system it represents first when it comes time to compromise with ORL. But I will not accept any mandate placing people who I do not want living in my house next door to me simply because the College has failed to have the forethought to handle its own housing crisis. Let each house do all it can to help, but as I have heard said in many administrators' offices, "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an automatic emergency on my part." The CFS houses did not cause this problem in the first place -- why should we bear the cost of fixing it?
