MELANIE SCHOENBERG/YH Feed Me Stefanie Syman, PC '92, created Feed, an online magazine, only three years ago, and already 50,000 readers are regularly saying, "Feed Me." Read about Syman's success in this week's online exclusive. Don't just sit there, react. Sound off about articles in the Herald, and read what other people have to say. Listen to what you've been reading about. Visit the Planet of Sound to listen to songs from albums discussed in this week's Arts & Entertainment section. This week: Ani DiFranco's Little Plastic Castle, Chris Duarte Group's Tailspin Headwhack, and Pfilbryte's Imperfection.		TYLER MERTES and LIZ OLINER/YH Ask any of Yale's 12 fraternities about their relationship with the Administration and you will hear almost the same response over and over. Alpha Epsilon Pi President Andy Morris, BK '99, sums it up for the vast majority: "In my time, we've been pretty independent. We haven't had much to do with one another." Other fraternity presidents use words like "nonexistent" to describe communication between the houses and "autonomous" to characterize relations with the Adminstration. Most of the fraternities at Yale are not registered undergraduate organizations, and many are sold on the independence they feel this status provides. At the same time, however, it is not uncommon to hear fraternity members complain that Yale makes them feel unwelcome. "I don't think that the University supports fraternities at all. It's frustrating, because they are such an important part of some people's lives," Sigma Nu President Dave Bercovich, ES '99, said. Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg vehemently denies this characterization, dismissing fraternity claims of administrative condemnation as "kindergarten-type whining." The cover story for this week's print edition of the Yale Herald.
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