I'm writing in response to a piece W.E. Warnock wrote ("Let there be an end," Jan. 16) in the online Chapel Hill News advocating that we all forget about Anson Dorrance's conduct in the Melissa Jennings case.

It strikes me as a bit unseemly to be asking us to forget about the case only one day after Mr. Dorrance admitted in legal documents that he participated in "inappropriate and unacceptable" (his words) conduct yet denied for 10 years that he did anything wrong, and that he and the University of North Carolina continue to downplay in their press releases.

For the last 10 years, Mr Dorrance has denied any wrongdoing, except for his giving ground in those cases where the accusers' statements could be corroborated by additional witnesses, and has either denied or claimed failed memory in other instances.

If you recall, his original stance was total denial when there was only one accuser, then he altered his stance to his conduct being only "playful banter" in the Debbie Keller settlement.

Now "playful banter" is "inappropriate and inexcusable," yet he receives no censure from his employer, the state of North Carolina.

Perhaps a bit of humility and recognition of past mistakes would go a ways towards ending this pitiful episode. Until then, it's not over. There is still the harassment policy review the University will have to go through. Then there will be the reeducation the parties at the University will need to go through to meet those guidelines.

Only after that will Mr. Dorrance's reputation and the reputation of the university, the athletic director, and the chancellor begin to be rehabilitated, not before.

To those who cite the 95 players who supported Dorrance, I say great -- those were some young women who didn't see his seedy side.

When I see that the list includes great players like Angela Kelly, Carla Overbeck, Christine Lilly and lesser player like oh, say, Charlotte Mitchell, then I'll think the program is on its way back.

To those who say that the program hasn't been harmed by this whole episode, I'll just point out that the program lost once in 18 championships before this affair began, and has lost six times in the 10 years since. At least one of those years, it failed to even make the tournament. Clearly it's not the same since the affair began.

Until the entire University recognizes it needs to change, the program will never be what it was. -- Larry Geib, (a soccer fan), Portland, Ore.