To the Editor:
In her article ("Is the University suffering an identity crisis?" Nov. 29), the writer raises some thought provoking questions for the campus community. That said, some of her assertions demonstrate the same weak institutional memory she accuses the wider undergraduate population of having.
The naming of the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, for example, can hardly be evidence of a recent "orientation towards money." The writer is apparently unaware that Faunce House, which houses the campus center, was originally called Rockefeller Hall when it was erected in 1904. The decision to rename it in honour of "beloved" President William Faunce was made at the request of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the donor who paid for the building's expansion in 1930.
While the current leadership transition does feel like a good moment for campus introspection, it shouldn't be based on a baseless nostalgia for an era that never was.
Kevin Dallas '00
