Editor:

As a general student, I was happy to finally see the resolution of the Kappa Sigma-MEChA conflict ("Kappa Sig admits to racial slurs," March 19). As president of the Interfraternity Council, I was pleased to see one of the chapters that I represent working to correct their actions in as positive a mannerism as possible. However, I was troubled and concerned by the remarks of MEChA member Tomas Martinez. Martinez stated he was sorry that Mr. Clark of Kappa Sigma was only losing his membership privileges for a semester and not forever. This comment concerns me because if MEChA disaffiliated its members who made incorrect and slanderous comments towards the Greek community, MEChA at a minimum would already have lost its president and advisor who have been quoted in the Wildcat saying, "all Greeks are racists."

I have been working for two months with the Dean of Students, the Panhellenic Association, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and MEChA to resolve this situation. I have been promised for nearly six weeks a letter of apology from MEChA advisor, Solomon Baldengro, Dean of Chicano Studies, recanting his statement. As of yet, I have received none.

It is hard for me to work to resolve this issue, and satisfy my constituents with the outcome, when I am not being completely met at the negotiating table by MEChA. I cannot and will not continue to work to resolve this issue when the MEChA that is working with me one day is a different MEChA the next day in the Wildcat.

Don Frerichs
IFC President