To the editor:
Dear Miss Tsaltas,
I would first like to apologize for some of the content in my rebuttal to your article about Greek life. The ad hominem personal attacks really didn't really help my argument. Nothing gets done when people just yell at each other over the Internet. After all, this isn't a train station and yelling is unproductive.
But, I digress.
I'm sure both of us received ample praise for our articles, but I also received something else; a job.
My article was posted to a popular website among Greeks, totalfratmove.com (probably not your scene, it may induce indigestion), and was seen by an executive member of Olympia Media Group.
Olympia Media Group is an all-Greek advertising company that produces and facilitates a newspaper called the Odyssey. The Odyssey is given to all fraternities and sororities on campus. The ladies will read it and eat their Coco Krispies out of pocket tees, and the fraternity men will read it wearing their visors and Croakies in zero-sun weather.
The Odyssey was started because the school newspaper at the University of Indiana had a slanted view on Greek life.
There's always a little bit of truth to a stereotype; I'm sure I came off as a complete asshole in my rebuttal.
Certainly, there are tons of fraternity men who ride in private jets to their own island in the Caribbean and blow a grand at the bar every week.
I myself am no saint, but please recognize that I value hard work. The short of it is, I'm working to change the view of Greek life through the Odyssey.
I don't have a trust fund, but my children will. I don't drive around singing "Sweet Child O' Mine" in a Range Rover sitting on 28' chrome wheels, more like a '98 4runner with 208,000 miles on it.
I don't get everything I want, but I'm pulling all-nighters in RBD to make sure my children grow up blessed and fortunate like I was.
Thanks, Kelly Tsaltas. I just got leveled with a lot of responsibility that will prepare me for the future, and I wouldn't be here without your article.
--Jake Sciotto, sophomore, pre-engineering
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