To the Editor:

As expressed in last week’s Mailbox by Brian Philippi and elsewhere by other community members, I am writing to voice my shared disappointment with the University’s abrupt and unnecessary kicking out of the many, long-time community members of Dillon Gym. Those members have long (for decades) used the gym for their fitness and health. To suddenly have it closed to them seems excessive and cold-hearted. And the reason given, overcrowding, has been noted by community members as disingenuous, if not an outright lie. 

We hope that the University will re-consider and re-instate access to the gym. Consultation and re-scheduling access rather than summarily cancelling would be the responsible approach. That the University has acted in the manner that it has is frankly a shock. (Albeit in a time of such shocks.)

H. K. Fairman, Jr.

Mount Lucas Road