BYU officials expressed concern about AFA's tactics.

"If they do have an issue with BYU, they should speak directly to BYU about it and not carry on a campaign through the press," said Joseph Ogden, assistant dean of the business school. "They conducted a mass e-mail campaign and their messages were deleted en masse. If they have an issue with the Marriott Corporation, they should find a way to do that."

Ogden said he couldn't comment on whether BYU would accept future donations from the family, but said the business school didn't have any issue with the Marriott family or the AFA other than the AFA's strategy of pulling BYU into the fray.

Wildmon instigated a campaign against Marriott in September 2003 that he claims hammered Marriott hotel executives with 300,000 e-mails. Last month, he sent messages to AFA members who have asked to be involved in such actions to begin a new campaign against Marriott. AFA directed some of the generic messages to three e-mail accounts at BYU used by the dean of business, the school's alumni magazine and a secretary.

When the editor of the alumni magazine complained, AFA ceased the new barrage, but BYU business dean Ned Hill estimated he received 8,000 e-mails in one day. He was unable to use his computer because it wouldn't stop downloading the messages.

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