I am a 1975 Hesston College graduate who is baffled by the college’s effort to reinvent itself as a four-year institution (Nov. 24). Do the Hesston powers-that-be refuse to acknowledge or hope the larger Anabaptist world is not aware of Bethel College, a four-year Mennonite school less than eight miles away? With decreasing family size and fewer Anabaptist students attending Mennonite colleges, what makes Hesston believe this imprudent attempt at survival will succeed? The college would be far better off to openly confess, genuinely repent of and work to remedy its past and present sexually abusive culture rather than desperately struggle to reincarnate itself into something redundant.

Frank Peachey, Akron, Pa.