The Cavalier daily :: Thursday, May 9, 1968 :: University of Virginia Library

Three of the changes were
proposed in a motion by George
McMillan. He asked that the rule
requiring would-be demonstrators
to register their demonstration
with the Council 96 hours
before it takes place be changed
to only 24 hours advance notice.

"Anytime someone feels strong
enough to demonstrate, he is not
going to wait 96 hours before
doing so," Mr. McMillan said.

A second change proposed by
Mr. McMillan was to add "ad
hoc groups comprised of students"
to the groups allowed to
demonstrate. Under the old rules
only groups already recognized
by Student Council would be
allowed to demonstrate.

Loophole For Protesters

Beverly Crump protested against
this change because it left
a loophole where recognized
groups could simply register as
ad hoc groups to avoid any
punishment should their demonstration
get out of control.

But Pieter Schenkkan said that
this should be no problem as long
as the Council members could
recognize the group that actually
held the demonstration.

Three Signatures

As a compromise an amendment
from Mr. Crump was accepted
into Mr. McMillan's
amendment to the effect that
three signatures would be required
for ad hoc groups wishing
to demonstrate on the Student
Council form.

The final change made in the
procedure to register demonstrations
was that the number of
pickets would not have to be
specified. "There should be no
limitation on the number of students
allowed to demonstrate,"
Mr. McMillan said, "Because
often the organizers of demonstrations
do not know how many
people will show up.

'Worthy Undertaking'

"Take for example the demonstration
we had last semester
over segregated facilities at one
of our meetings. I think that was
a most worthy undertaking and
I would not like to discourage
such demonstrations in any way."

All four of these changes passed
unanimously.

Rick Evans asked the Council
members for a consensus of
opinion on whether the Council
ought, in the future, to make
judgments on the worth of
demonstrations or it should just
be a mechanical job of registering
the protests.

It was decided that the role
of the Council should merely
be to register any demonstration
as long as the rules for student
protests were complied with. Mr.
Evans said that he had been
under some pressure from administration
sources to come to
a decision on the matter.

Suspension Possible

Students participating in any
demonstrations not authorized by
the Student Council may be suspended
from the University.

Robert Yuhnke, president of
the Martin Luther King, Jr.
chapter of the Virginia Council
on Human Relations, asked for
support from the Council in his
group's efforts to increase the
number of Negro students at
the University.

Seed Money

Mr. Yuhnke, who has been
elected to serve on the Council
from the school of Graduate
Arts and Sciences, said that his
group had written a letter to
President Shannon asking that a
Negro admissions officer be appointed
to "help establish communications
with black high
school students."

The letter also asked for "seed
money" for the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Scholarship Fund, that
was started by members of the
faculty shortly after the assassination
of Mr. King.

No Reply

He said that he had come to
the Council because President
Shannon had not yet replied to
the letter, which was sent over a
week ago.

He pointed out that last year
the admissions recruiters spent
50 per cent of their time recruiting
in the private independent
schools in New England. Not
one single Negro high school in
Virginia had a college night or
was otherwise visited by University
admissions officials, according
to Mr. Yuhnke.

'Duplicating Services'

He said that another position
has been budgeted for the admissions
department for next year
and that the complaint that they
"were duplicating services" in
sending a recruiter to Negro
high schools could not be made.

Pieter Schenkkan moved that
the Virginia Council on Human
Relations be endorsed in their
efforts. Frank Homer then
moved that they not only be
endorsed but that the Council
urge that rapid consideration be
given to their requests. Both motions
passed unanimously.

Demonstration Planned

Mr. Yuhnke announced that
his group will hold a protest
demonstration at 1 this afternoon
in front of Pavilion VIII, President
Shannon's office.

He told The Cavalier Daily
yesterday that he hoped to have
at least 50 demonstrators at the
protest. Later on tonight the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapter
of the Virginia Council on
Human Relations will have a
"teach-in" in 10 Cocke Hall at
8:30. At the meeting the points
that the group is protesting over
will be discussed among other
things.

Mr. Yuhnke's group has about
65 members, including students,
faculty, and University employees.

In other business at the Student
Council meeting, Jacques
Jones announced that Mr. Canevari
was very receptive to the
idea of a conference on drugs
next fall when he met with him
over the past week. He said the
conference would probably take
place in October with required
attendance by first-year students
as part of their orientation.

Ron Hickman introduced a
motion asking the faculty Committee
on Committees to investigate
the feasibility of allowing
students to sit on non-administrative
committees of various
schools.

Avoiding Controversy

He explained that much of the
controversy in the Architecture
school could have been avoided
had there been a non-voting student
on the Curriculum Review
Committee.

His motion passed unanimously.

Frank Homer announced that
there will be elections for Student
Council officers for the first
semester of next year at next
week's Council.

Mr. Homer also announced
that any students who were interested
in canvassing neighborhoods
this Sunday as part of
the Good Neighbor campaign
should call either Tom Joseph at
296-2871 or 296-6952, or Shirley
Clement at 296-9007.