In response to the recent controversy surrounding the Graffiti Dance, let me take time to defend it. The Graffiti Dance is Notre Dame reality. It may not be pretty, it may be a meat market, but that is Notre Dame. In a very real way, it does "orient" one to ND. Ever been to a party? That's reality. I feel like every night at Senior Bar is really "free-undergrad night" for the Law School...

If we have a problem with meat markets, or with upper-classmen drooling over freshman girls, then for heaven's sake let solve the problem, not the symptom. Canning the Graffiti Dance does nothing for our current and continued subjugation of women, minorities and other "outsiders" on this campus.

Will McDonald

Knott Hall

March 22, 2000

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• Graffiti Dance is part of a larger `meat market'