Students deserve explanation

I was amused by the comments in The Chronicle that allowing displaced students from New Orleans to apply to transfer to our University "would raise certain institutional concerns... among other complications and difficulties," and would raise "non-trivial issues" ("Officials say 'no' to frosh transfers" Dec. 9, 2005).

Could we be a bit more opaque?

Can we not at least have the decency to tell these poor souls, who have suffered so much, why we can't find the heart even to look at their applications?

Brian Coggins

Trinity '03

Grad '10