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More letters from alumni about Princeton gets bigger

I couldn't agree more with Jack Huyler '42's letter regarding the risks that Princeton loses some of its unique character by going for growth. I wrote a letter, which appeared in your May 2000 issue, critiquing the Wythes Report conclusion to increase the size of the university. I predicted they'd use this mandate and the growing endowment to "pave over the entire campus with new architectural monstrosities."

Now I read that they are going to build the new college in place of one of the most beautiful parts of campus; the tennis courts and the surrounding space.

With all the people like Ben Kessler (Shaping the Campus, May 16) who believe in "well conceived planning" or with all the alum (and non-alum)  architects on the university dole coming up with grand plans to expand to Route 1, doesn't anyone on the Board of Trustees ask the more basic, aesthetic questions?

What a joy it was to have dozens of tennis courts in the middle of campus. What hell it will be to see that space and that luxury destroyed with yet another travesty a la Butler College or Scully Hall.

Andrew M. Keller ’87
Geneva, Switzerland

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