I am very disturbed at the fact that anyone can make a bold statement without doing their research. For those of you who do not know, The Caribbean Students Association enjoys naming our events after titles of popular songs. ‘Get Crazy’ was a No. 1 song for over three months this past summer and my events coordinator was more than honored to name our party after it. Instead of attacking the title of our party, my organization would like to personally invite individuals like Ted Finlayson-Schueler to come out to our events and understand why the title is applicable to the event. As for referring to the naming of our event to be a mistake in regards to the HillTV episode, we are deeply insulted to even be put in the same destructive category as HillTV. I understand that due to your capacity within disability studies the word ‘crazy’ may be offensive, but before you go off on a tangent about a word why not look into the actual usage first. A person cannot be diagnosed as crazy; instead a common term is mentally challenged. Knowing this would prevent you from throwing out crazy assumptions that students of color have no sense of diversity and may name our parties ridiculous titles such as ‘Get Black’ or ‘Get Crippled,’ and the ultimate one you stated, ‘Get Ghetto.’ For a graduate student research should be your top priority both in and out of the classroom, obviously this was not the case, and I would advise for it to become part of your own evaluation of what discrimination really is.

Shavon R. ChambersSenior television, radio and film and sociology majorChambers is president of the Caribbean Students Association.