Alumna comments on disturbance

Monday morning was a pleasant one as I awakened to the voice of my alarm clock radio announcer informing me, "Purdue University students set fire to their campus last night and broke windows … " A wide smile broke across my face as I thought of how helpful those bonfires must have been in guiding the basketball team’s plane into West Lafayette in the dark of night.

Truly, how team members must have appreciated the efforts of those rabid fans involved in the fiery celebration. After all, how many other collegiate student bodies care enough to annually sacrifice their own campus, paid for by their own Indiana tax dollars and tuition payments, both when the team wins the national championship and when they come up just short? I even heard that when Erika Valek’s knee brace wouldn’t fit into her customary post-championship, fire-retardant Boilermaker wear, some good Samaritans offered to toss her through her dorm window so that she wouldn’t have to crutch across the burning threshold.

It’s feel-good stories like these that make me proud to be a Boilermaker. On the contrary, it makes me question the heart of our women’s team because all they did was train their whole lives for this moment and play as hard as they could for 40 minutes. I mean, shouldn’t they have destroyed their locker room or torched the Arch if they really cared? All they did was graciously accept defeat in a hard-fought battle against a worthy opponent, which is hardly fashionable these days.

Juliet K. Lilledahl

Purdue Alumna

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