In response to a letter written by Kathryn Haraldson, Jennifer Lenkszus and Kelly McInerney concerning the football team’s behavior at the Homecoming pep rally, the opinions expressed by the aforementioned scholars are quite obviously uninformed and naive. Allow me to address each unfounded remark individually:

Number one: the reason the football players left the stands to come down onto the gym floor was that WE were performing IN THE PEP RALLY.

If these young ladies would have actually noticed, we proceded onto the gym floor to get the pep rally underway. The host was asking the STUDENT BODY to sit down so we could do so.

Number two: as for these young ladies accusing us of poking fun at the many Greek organizations taking part, might they like to know that a substantial proportion of the football team is Greek-affiliated. So, I guess we were making fun of our own houses, huh?

Number three: one of the writers accuses a football player of stepping on a friends foot, and failing to apologize.

Now, tell me, in the usual chaos that follows the completion of a pep rally, isn’t it probable that quite a few people’s feet got stepped on? Or maybe this is just the first time this perons’s foot has ever been stepped on accidentally without an apology?

Wake up and smell the coffee, ladies. Football players are not as rude as you think. On the contrary, we are actually quite friendly, if you get to know us. Stigmas, however, that people like you put on us do not help.

And by the way, Ms. Haraldson, I COULD read your letter.

Doug Feldman

Sophomore

English, pre-law