I was disgusted to read your article "Student death raises questions", Jan. 10. The death of a young member of our UCF family is truly a tragedy and no person can ever imagine the pain that must be felt by Yancy family.

However I was taken when reading your article by a significant dichotomy of facts that place the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity unfortunately in the middle of unsubstantiated inference. Factually, on Nov. 14, 2004, your article reports that John Yancy was arrested for possession of cocaine and prescription drug medication and that police found a wide plethora of drugs and paraphernalia when they entered Mr. Yancy's home after his death. It would seem to any able reader that Mrs. Yancy's claims that "her son had never done drugs before college" are nothing more than a naivety or unwillingness to address her sons problems. Speculatively, the Yancy family is seemingly displacing its grief in an unwarranted direction towards the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Over the past years of reading the Central Florida Future I have read many positive accounts as well as many negative accounts to Greek Life at UCF, however it is appalling to suggest that a group of students 18-22, who have undoubtedly lost a close friend, are the reason for his actions. John Yancy chose to associate with Pi Kappa Alpha and correctly we can assume its members are his friends and he is theirs. John Yancy was not only a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, but a student at UCF as well, yet Mrs. Yancy does not blame UCF for her son's drug involvement, the place where in her words he first became a user.

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