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Dear President Nichol,

As a parent of a junior in high school, with a gpa of 4.23, who is currently checking out colleges in Virginia, it is nice to know ahead of time that I can already cross one off of our list due to their ignorance and intolerance: William & Mary. Despite the fact that my daughter's Aunt is a 1974 alumni, you can be assured that you are not even in the running. The atmosphere that you are fostering at your college would be detrimental to our daughters' furthering education. It is our hope that you come to your senses before you lose even more promising young people. Restore the cross to its proper place in Wren Chapel, it is the right thing to do.

Respectfully,
Beth Little


Dear Ms. Kulick:

As President of the Faculty assembly, I am writing you concerning the absurd item I saw in the U.S. News and World Report's most recent issue. In it there was a quote which stated, "This is not intimidating. Only Dracula would shrink from it." Virginia Delagate Robert Marshall, on his failed attempt to require the College of William and Mary to restore the cross to the school's chapel, removed in October so it wouldn't offend non-christians.

Talk about a sign of the apocalypse. Is this the doing of the Faculty Assembly. Do you advise the President and the Provost on this matter. How Absurd. The true test of cowards is the manner in which they do not stand up for what is right and do what is right. As Dante' or my Aunt stated, "The greatest fires of hell are for those who just stand aside and do nothing." I guess we need to advise the president and the Provost to take down the star of David and any other religious symbols that might creep in and "influence" someone to actually have a religious thought. How long has the cross been on the Chapel? Whose idiot idea was it to suggest that a cross should be removed from a chapel? I can't believe that a historic university such as William and Mary and its advisors would be so stupid as to actually allow someone to even think that doing such a thing was the right thing to do or politically correct. Do me a favor and ask the backwards thinking individuals that suggested that the cross be removed what they are thinking of next. A University is supposed to be a place for expanded thought, to open the mind, to listen to everyone and make a decision based on a reasoned thought process. I am sure your next mission will be to remove every religious symbol known to man from every public building which ever existed. When you meet, do morals play any part in your discussions or is it only the liberal non western philosophy that drives your decisions. How closed minded your University must be. The true test of character would have been to say what is honest that the removing of a cross from a chapel was the most idiotic idea (I hope) which was every conceived at the university.

A university should expand thought, not restrict it to the thoughts of a close minded few. God help us if you cannot see the forest for the trees.

You have my permission to forward this to the student newspaper at William and Mary for publishing.

Peter A. Landry