<p>I do find it deeply ironic that the sudden unprecedented drop in applications (when other LAC and the Ivy League this year have seen surges in applications) comes in the aftermath of rape accusations–even a suicide–when Biddy Martin, an open lesbian and person one would expect to be concerned about sexual harassment and sympathetic to women students, has in less than a year or so assumed the presidency of the College.</p>
<p>It seems to me that persons in the administration have made some serious mistakes, which of the course the College will refute. But to protect some at the expense of the reputation of the College seems to me a serious mistake.</p>