Thank you for your post of the events that took place on the South Quad. As an alum, it is heartening to see so many people standing up for the unborn and the truth. It is my belief that this commencement is a watershed event. Father Jenkins and the administration has surely crossed a line in the sand with regards to safeguarding Notre Dame as a Catholic university. For those alumni and friends of the university who care about Notre Dame retaining its Catholic identity, now is not the time to retreat to the sidelines and let this sad event fade from memory. Instead, we must seize the moment and use it to bring real change to the university. How this is best done is open for discussion, but I have a few ideas. First, I believe a letter writing campaign to the trustees, and especially the Board of Fellows, is in order. The letter should include our sadness and anger at the university's abandonment of Catholic teaching and witness. It should ask, request, demand that Notre Dame take concrete actions to demonstrate its respect for Catholic teaching and the culture of life. The concrete actions that were raised by NDResponse would suffice. If Father Jenkins is unwilling to implement these actions, he should be removed and replaced by a Holy Cross priest who will work to uphold the Catholic identity of the university. Second, I think that Bishop D'Arcy needs to hear from us. He needs to know that he has our support. He also needs to realize that the faithful are waiting to see if the university's disregard for the bishops' teaching will be allowed to go undisciplined. The bishop cannot force Notre Dame to take any actions, but he is the sole authority in determining whether or not Notre Dame is allowed to call itself a Catholic university. I realize this is the nuclear option but, if exercised, would it not be only an acknowledgement of the path that Notre Dame has already consciously chosen? These are tough measures, and the medicine is strong. The disease is acute, however. As fathful alumni and friends of the university, we are obligated to witness to the Truth and do what we can to save Notre Dame's Catholic identity. My oldest son, who would have graduated from ND this month had he chosen to attend, asked me why so many people are upset about this action of the university when other Catholic universities regularly do similar things and nobody raises an eyebrow. My response to him was that maybe a lot of people realize that Notre Dame as a Catholic college is worth saving. I think it is, and I hope others do, too. I am willing to work with Project Sycamore on any course of action that the group decides to take. Yours in Christ, Chuck Allen Class of 1980.