Fowl reporting
Re: The woman who knew too much?, Sept. 14
I was planning on letting the Varsity’s heavy-handed article on the supposed discrimination against Caroline Xia go without comment, but given the foolish letters to the editor in support of the article, I cannot.
As somebody who has spent hundreds of hours volunteering at SAC, I have seen my fair share of Ms. Xia in action (though I’ve seen suspiciously little of self-proclaimed SAC- and Xia-expert David Melville). Though most of Ms. Xia’s behaviour is fairly benign, I have also found her, at times, to be quite unfair in her dealings with SAC executives, employees, and volunteers. Ms. Xia has seemed for years to be quite eager to make what I know to be largely bogus claims of SAC’s supposedly inequitable policies, proclaiming people of many different races, creeds, religions, and sexual orientations to be deficiently PC in one way or another.
I hope that most Varsity readers saw the article on Ms. Xia for what it was: a one-dimensional piece of birdcage liner.
Alex Tepperman
Campus Life Commission member
