Dear College of William and Mary,
I would like to inform you that upon graduation from this institution, you can save yourself the money and time it would take to print and mail anything in regards to the alumni association or donating to the College. Based on your defiant decision today to continue with the ludicrous and disrespectful plan to build a dorm on Barkesdale with no regard for the students or alumni or Williamsburg community or for the tradition of this institution, I will not financially support such an end. The plan for the dorm, though contrived with good intentions is horrible and excluded, from the start, the possibility of other plans, which would have been better. The opinion of the students was completely ignored, even directly at a meeting of the notorious Board of Visitors. The beauty and prestige of that field, combined with its practical use as it relates to campus life was not accounted for, or if it was only minimally. The plan for the dorm itself will not deal with the student population problem in an appropriate way, nor the best way. The dorm will be yet another ugly building deviating from the traditional style of the original Old Campus buildings. It will be in full view of all cars driving on Jamestown Road once it is completed and the construction no longer shuts down large segments of one of the bordering roads of the College and Colonial Williamsburg.

any and all comments or responses are welcome at dabele@wm.edu