I sent the following message to David Haugh regarding his column in Tuesday's South Bend Tribune:

You might tell Frank Morock to look at the TV replay of the 1987 Notre Dame-Duke basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devil mascot wore a large headband that read "Buckwheat" and the Duke students chanted "Buckwheat" every time that David Rivers touched the ball. There was no racist outrage from the media and no apology from Duke.

At the 1989 Notre Dame-Miami football game in the Orange Bowl, the Miami students in the upper deck urinated on the Notre Dame fans in the lower deck. After the game, cars with Notre Dame decals were vandalized in the parking lots. I was there. I was president of the Notre Dame Club in Palm Beach. Again, there was no outrage from the media and no apology from Miami.

I have dozens of other examples from the past 30 years when Notre Dame has been the target of far worse incidents than the UConn game chant. Get off of your high horse and get a life!

Bill Fenton

Class of 1974

February 15, 2000

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