The following letter was also sent to the Board of Governors of Trent University.

To the editor:

We are Peterborough residents and alumnus with grave concerns that the DNA cluster project is being rushed to board approval without sufficient consideration. Indeed we greatly fear this project, the way it stands, may be the end of Trent University.

It seems that there are many and vast questions which have yet to be answered.

Surely we need not rush into something which will so completely change the face of our beloved alma mater simply because there is a deadline attached to a mere $3 million dollars in funding?

First let there be guidelines and regulations as to the types of industries which will be allied with Trent.

Who will Trent's partners be and how much financial responsibility will they share? Where are these partners now? Where are the fiscal guarantees? Who will assume responsibility if Trent, which is financially threatened as it is, completely collapses as a result of this project? Who will then apologize to the Trent graduates who hold degrees from a defunct university? What will Trent become? What will you say to future generations who know Trent only as a noisy, smelly industrial park -- a factory complex -- spewing poisons into the air, the water and the marketplace. Please tread carefully now in case you are being led to lay waste this great, little university.

James Stephenson
Florence Lesley
Theresa Rees

Peterborough