Aside from the rightness or wrongness of the decision of the new  
president of W&M, he could have handled it better. Considering how  
tradition-minded Virginians are, he could have taken that into  
consideration, had some public meetings, presented his thinking,  
perhaps made a few converts to his POV, and then done exactly what he  
did do. But it would have made people feel they were consulted and he  
took the time to discuss his reasoning with them. Instead of breezing  
into town and saying the cross must go. IMO he handled it very  
poorly, and that kind of high-handed attitude will not win you any  
friends.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone

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