TO THE EDITOR:
Roy Williams: As a longtime resident of North Carolina and a Tar Heel athletics fan, I am shocked that P.J. Hairston has been allowed to stay on the basketball team.
After all the incidents that have plagued the athletic department throughout the last couple of years, keeping Hairston on the team is like throwing gasoline on a fire.
The incidents that he has been involved with are a little more than an indiscretion; they are a pattern.
Allowing him to continue his basketball career at North Carolina is a slap in the face of all the other athletes that play by the rules and stay out of trouble. There is no place for him on the team.
If he is serious about his academic future, let him pay for his mistake by attending classes and getting a degree. As it appears right now, he is laughing in the face of authority, and you have enabled him to do this.
I have always admired your integrity, thought that you represented the University well and ran a clean program, but after seeing the decision you made to keep Hairston on the team, I have quickly lost respect.
In my mind your only interest was to win games at any cost.
Scott Spaine
Holly Springs
