<p>Yes, coase, he did come forward. Yes, he did apologize. He is, however, still an active member of the fraternity and (as someone who was a first hand witness to many of the events detailed in Firke’s Op Ed) was repeatedly defended by students in the fraternity in a way that eventually became systematic. </p>
<p>I would also like to draw attention to Mr. DU’s last string of responses–at one point he compares himself to someone being held at a “Japanese Concentration Camp.”</p>
<p>Swarthmore is currently alight with discussion about this issue. Many fear, though, a stagnation all too often associated with “discussion.” Discussion is great and necessary and liberating, etc., but as someone who has been privy to a couple campus wide “discussions,” the trend is sadly indicative that these discussions have a curious tendency to remain just that: discussions.</p>