To the Editor:
While I completely agree with the main point Kevin Walsh '98 is trying to make in his May 2 column, I do have a small complaint. In short, the article was entitled "Greek Houses Have a Responsibility to Maintain Their Exteriors," and yet the only offending houses he mentions in the text of the article were single-sex fraternities on Webster Avenue.
While the [single-sex] fraternities on this campus do comprise the largest portion of the Greek community, they are by no means the only form of Greek life at Dartmouth. [Walsh's column] took a bad aspect of [single-sex] fraternities and headlined it into a sweeping negative generalization of all the fraternities, sororities and coed fraternities on this campus.
That Walsh is a "staff columnist" at The Dartmouth makes this look even worse to me. The Dartmouth has had an abysmal track record in recent years of either ignoring the coeds completely, or lumping them in with the other Greek houses in generalizations that make absolutely no sense.
We are coed. We are different. We take care of our land and houses. So do the sororities. That [Walsh's column] completely ignored this fact, and consistently equated [single-sex] fraternities with "Greek organizations" and "Greek Houses" does us and the Dartmouth community a disservice.
