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Judgement of Fresch's lifestyle inappropriate in memorium article

TO THE EDITOR:

I read your article on Tim Fresch and I just have to say that I am absolutely disgusted. The fact that this was allowed to be printed is downright disgusting.

Your writer, Ms. Audrey Davis, took a memoriam and turned it into a bashing on Tim's character and used it as a form of publicity to shed negative light on the Greek community.

It is not your place or anyone else's to judge someone on their lifestyle, especially since no one at your department seemed to have even known Tim. To say that he was lead down a bad path by the Greek community and fraternity life is nothing but pure bias against Greek life.

You have no right to put any judgement on Tim and what he did, as well as to use your article to provide a "warning" to other students. It's nothing but ridiculous and disgraceful of you to portray Tim as some degenerate who's only goal in life was to get blacked out and do drugs.

I am not saying what Tim did was right or that he made no mistakes, but you have no place bashing him for how he lived.

This piece is not a memoriam, its an insult and it's pure propaganda, a way for you to hurt the status of Greek life and try to shed negativity on the Greek community.

The problem is that none of you understand what it's like to be in a fraternity, none of you understand the lifestyle of the younger generation, and none of you understand that what you published is nothing but a disgraceful attempt of a memoriam.

Your story has gone viral, kids from colleges all over the country are reading your disgusting article on the death of Tim and there is nothing but outrage and disgust.

It sheds a terrible light on the Miami community all because you and the Miami University Board of Directors have a bias toward Greek life and want to see it go when you don't know the first thing about what it is like to be a member of a Greek institution.

You guys need to take a long look in the mirror and realize that not only is this article nothing but wrong, that your view on Greek life, what it means and what we do, could not be more inaccurate. Next time try doing some real reporting.

I demand that The Miami Student be suspended and that the writer of this article be punished for the disgraceful and dishonorable article. I am not one voice, again this story has gone viral and there are thousands nationwide that agree with me.

Nothing but disgust.

Michael Daas

daasma@miamioh.edu