As an Ames resident for most of my life, I have a simple question I would like Iowa State President Steven Leath to answer.

The Veishea activities involve more students, faculty and staff than any athletic program at the university. In the last two weeks, there have been riots at the University of Connecticut and University of Arizona related to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. If President Leath were the president of either of those institutions would he suspend the men’s basketball program for 2015? And can he offer assurances to the ISU community that if any drunkenness, disorderly conduct or property damage occurs, directly or indirectly, as the result of an athletic program’s performance he will suspend, indefinitely, the athletic program?