You can't fool me

I have a large family so I have had the opportunity to come into contact with many toddlers. I have to say my favorite experience with them is when their mothers or fathers ask them if they have soiled their diapers, or as some of my less eloquent cousins say, taken a dump. When the children nonchalantly reply "no" to this question, even they understand that the intense smell in the room means this: They aren't fooling anyone.\nI tell this little anecdote as an analogous situation to Sigma Chi's moving Tucker Max to Kilroy's Sports Bar for a recent book signing. According to Indiana Daily Student reports, Sigma Chi President Jerome Hayden said the fraternity decided to relocate the signing because of "value-based decisions." Interestingly enough, this is a load of crap.\nFor those of you unfamiliar with Tucker Max's work, his new book "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" includes many accounts of his personal exploits as a party animal. His Web site has a list of his stories, the most notable perhaps being "The Blowjob Follies" in which Max describes ... oh, never mind. \nMembers of Sigma Chi, despite a dispute between themselves and Max over the issue, invited this man to the University. Prior to the event, one of its organizers from the fraternity, Nick Basset was quoted as saying the signing should be "a good time."\nSigma Chi's decision to move the signing was no "value-based decision." The fraternity realized the extreme amount of criticism it would receive from having the event and decided to move it rather than deal with the consequences. \nHowever, this ploy does not remove the following facts: first, that Tucker Max, while having his own following that believes his humor hysterical, can be described with some degree of vindication as a despicable man; and second, that members of Sigma Chi invited him here, believing that a night spent with a man who consumes too much alcohol and objectifies women would be a good time. If it truly were a value-based decision to move the event, then why invite him in the first place?\nI admit I am operating on a generalization about the IU greek community that is one of low morality and a general "Bad Faith" hypothesis. However, when fraternities such as Sigma Chi invite such crude people as Tucker Max to this campus, I find it hard to believe that the movement of the event was with cliché "good intentions". I also find it hard to believe that my generalization is \nincorrect.\nSigma Chi, by moving Max to the sports bar, was simply trying to cover its own ass. I must conclude that the fraternity acted in such a way so that it would not reveal being on a similar wavelength as Max, despite what appeared to be great excitement prior to the author's visit. I suggest that Sigma Chi have no delusions about what it is (a place with similar ideas as Max, a man who "resigned myself to vacant sex with vapid idiots," according to a story on www.tuckermax.com) because it's not fooling anyone else.