As a journalist, Newhouse School graduate and former Daily Orange writer, I’m proud of The Daily Orange for having the journalistic awareness and integrity to publish the Theta Tau video. That a university-approved fraternity would produce such filth and espouse such beliefs in an academic environment that embraces diversity is beyond imagination. Chancellor Kent Syverud took the first step by suspending Theta Tau, but the university’s response cannot stop there. It’s my understanding that the Department of Public Safety is pursuing identification of these young men for legal and disciplinary action. It’s my hope that each and every Theta Tau student involved in the creation of this video — and the others currently surfacing — will be expelled from Syracuse University and their parents formally notified of their children’s abhorrent behavior. As long as these youths are enrolled as members of the university’s student body, I’m ashamed to call myself a Syracuse alumna.

Sincerely,

Ana Hotaling, Class of 1990

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Published on April 19, 2018 at 1:27 pm