What he should have said was, “We are really really, really super-duper sorry that previous service members, none of whom any of the current joint chiefs know, were reckless with the maid staff at Hotel Caribe.”

This is similar to the apology that the Koala — San Diego State’s alternative student-run newspaper — tendered to Associated Students as part of its sanction to become a student organization again. The Koala lost its student organization status about five years ago after an incident involving Koala staff members urinating in the elevators of the old Aztec Center. (When a student organization is in violation of the Student Organization Code of Conduct, Student Life & Leadership can impose various sanctions on it.) 

An apology was demanded in February 2010 as a part of its resolution against an article about rape in the Koala, condemning it for inciting rape and “diagramming how to rape, when to rape, who to rape and how to get away with raping a woman.”

—Richard Thompson,

Alumnus, ‘83