Two more students arrested for cocaine

Who cares about your sorority or the sorority of the author? I mean, really , this wont matter once you graduate...in the real world of working adults and families, nobody cares which sorority you were in, or who recruited who..blah blah.... point is, in the big bad world of journalism, the little details matter. If this many chi-o girls are using, dealing, helping their boyfriends deal, whatever, then its news. The DTH reports, on the whole, about much more than Greek life, so find something else to complain about. The mention of the sorority should not set you all on fire...you should be worried about the # of women on your campus making the news for cocaine. Address the bigger problem ladies, jeez.

Oh how BIASED this journalism is! How dare you, Dean. How dare you besmirch this holy institution that is the Greek system. I'm appalled at how upfront you are with these innocent ladies' organizational ties. This is obviously biased journalism because you are drawing correlations between individuals who have all recently been charged with possession of cocaine.

@ krantz: First of all, lay off the ellipses. Secondly, if five out of seven charged drug users were part of a club sport or something, I would consider this pertinent information. Perhaps, it is all coincidence, but I believe that that high of a percentage warrants note (and probably investigation).

Dean, I do not know you personally, but if it is true that you are a Tri Delt, then you are not the person that should be reporting this story. Whether you intend it or not, your writing and inclusion of their sorority affiliations are going to seem biased and vindictive considering your sorority consistently competes for the same group of girls every year. Furthermore, I find it disheartening and troubling to find a member of the Greek system piling on the DTH's recent Greek-bashing train by choosing to continue to emphasize one particular organization to which these girls belonged. Above all these girls are UNC students, and yes, just like many North Carolina students, they are members of a group on campus, yet I have the strong feeling that if it were not a Greek organization, and in your case, Chi O, this would have not been so strongly emphasized, if mentioned at all. This is tabloid press, not journalism, and I am sick of what I have recently seen on a consistent basis from the Daily Tar Heel.

Enough with the victim mentality. Of course the DTH reported that they had Greek affiliation, since it is part of the story. You're sounding like those that scream racism, sexism, or whatever-ism whenever they run out of arguments.

Dean,

As a proud member of the UNC Greek Community, I find your article disgusting and incredibly biased. It is appalling to think that knowing the current state of Greek relations with the University a fellow member would be one to write this. Granted, its not usually surprising to find an article belittling the Greek System in the DTH, it is a shock to see this much bias coming from within.

As much as I have respect for the DTH, this paper needs to end its obsession with the UNC Greek system.

These students also have major. Should those majors be shut down for having drug-using students? If someone on the DTH gets arrested for cocaine charges, would that make your front page? Should the paper be shut down for that?

Including these students' Greek statuses is a piece of information that should be included in the articles. But when your writers consistently center these stories about the Greek organizations, rather than the individuals who have committed the charges, you betray a bias that should not be present in a high-quality paper.