My name is Chase Millemann, and I am the public relations representative for the Beta Rho chapter of Beta Theta Pi at the University. On March 4 of last year, Brian Reams, one of our brothers, was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident on the corner of 15th Avenue and Hilyard Street. This year, on the one-year anniversary of our brother's death, our housemother Jan Franklin, as well as multiple members of the house placed potted plants, bouquets of flowers and a card at the corner where the accident occurred. In mere hours, someone had stolen every piece of the memorial. It was clear that these pieces were placed in memory of Brian Reams, and sadly someone felt it was acceptable to take them.

I urge whoever took these items to take a moment to think about the difficulty of the past year, through which so many of my brothers and I have lived without one of our best friends and what those flowers and card represented. It was one of the pettiest and most pathetic actions I have seen in quite some time, and it was a hard thing to stomach on such a meaningful day. We send our thoughts and prayers to the family of Brian Reams and hope whoever dismantled his memorial realizes the effect he or she has had on the lives of so many people.

Chase Millemann
Beta Theta Pi

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