TO THE EDITOR:
Here we go again. Very early Sunday morning, UNC running back Romar Morris was arrested for driving while intoxicated. If you’ve ridden a Chapel Hill Transit bus recently, then you’ve almost certainly seen signs warning students that driving while intoxicated is the fastest way to get suspended from school.
Indeed, according to Section III.D.2 of the sanctions section of the rules governing UNC student conduct, “For operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol, drugs or other substances the usual sanction shall be drug or alcohol suspension for at least one full academic semester.”
Fortunately for Morris, he is not just a student — he is a football player. And if we have learned anything in the continuous state of scandal which has existed in our Department of Athletics for the past four years, it is that athletes are anything but “usual.”
So instead of being suspended from school for a semester, Morris will be suspended from the field for — wait for it — one game. Chancellor Folt tells us not worry. After all, the 70 plus reforms that have been recently implemented have all but solved the athletic and academic troubles which used to exist at our fine university.
The message that was sent from Coach Fedora on Monday, though, was that if football players can put their drunk selves behind the wheel and endanger others, then they will face a slap on the wrist. Or as he likes to call it, “hold(ing) our players accountable for their actions.”
Matthew Zipple
Senior
