An Iraq war veteran who was barred from the Community College of Baltimore County after publishing a provocative essay on killing says he no longer wants to return to the Catonsville campus.

Charles Whittington, a Baltimore resident, says he provided the psychological evaluation requested by college officials as a condition for letting him return. But in a Dec. 27 letter to Whittington, the college's vice president of enrollment management said the evaluation was "not the documentation that was requested" and that the proper records had to be mailed by a "mental health professional."

The letter from Richard Lilley said that if Whittington does not respond to the request for more complete records by Jan. 15, "we will assume that you have made the decision not to return to CCBC."