I was amazed to read Teddy Greenstein’s article (Tribune, Aug. 8) on the tribulations of college football player John Cerasani, which led to Cerasani’s transfer from Notre Dame to Northwestern. Implicit is a criticism of Notre Dame for enforcing its rules by suspending Cerasani for assaulting another student. The article argued that Notre Dame may have more harshly punished Cerasani than an ordinary student because he was an athlete. How ironic in this day and age of spoiled college athletes– who receive nothing but preferential treatment from their schools–that the article would actually criticize Notre Dame’s handling of the Cerasani case.
Let me pose this hypothetical: A Notre Dame football player assaults another student and the university ignores this so the player can stay on the football team. Would you not write a piece lambasting Notre Dame because the athlete was treated differently from the rest of the student body? Would you not argue that all Notre Dame cared about was winning football games?
