'Hostile waters' imagined

In reading "Hostile waters" by Melanie Sims, I found several aspects of her article contrived. My main complaint with this article is her extremely ignorant series of statements about President Herbert, beginning with "keep family business in the family." \nWhen a person is appointed to a public position of power he or she is subject to both public praise and public criticism. If we were to abide by this idea of "in the family," an extraordinarily large number of tuition-paying IU students and parents would have no idea of the president's situation and controversy. For example, if there is a major issue with the appointed president of a fraternity, should the information be kept exclusive to the brotherhood, the possible dangers that the president put their sons in not being public? If a leader is failing to lead, all those who are subjected to his or her power should have the ability to do what is necessary to inform the public, as well as those capable of bringing about progress within the leadership. \nFurthermore, Sims writes, "There are just some adjectives that shouldn't be used when describing black folks. 'Lazy' is one of them." She is now being racist herself. As a society, we cannot call any black person lazy, but white people are free game? Is it not possible that there might in fact be a lazy black person out there? It is ridiculous that a person can not be called lazy based solely on the color of his or her skin. \nI would completely agree with Ms. Sims if the faculty had said, "black people are lazy," or, "President Herbert is lazy because he is black." The idea that President Herbert might be lazy and the fact that he is black is are two events that are completely separate. I am tired of people writing about racism that is imagined and of the IDS for publishing such poorly conceived and poorly written ideas.