The Cavalier daily. :: Wednesday, January 8, 1969 :: University of Virginia Library

Ron Hickman was elected
President of the Student Council
last night at a meeting all 22
Council representatives attended.
Pledging to work hard to relay
information between students and
the administration, Mr. Hickman
defeated. Jackson Lears easily for
the post, 13 to 6.

In the contest for the post of
Vice-President, Jim Roebuck beat
Charles Murdock, 9 to 7. Julia
Spencer was elected Secretary, and
Pat Saul was chosen Treasurer, as
each ran unopposed for these two
positions.

Rick Evans, who has already
served as Council President for two
semesters did not seek a third term,
although he was eligible to do so.

Mr. Hickman has already served
on the Council for two semesters,
and was reelected as the School of
Architecture's representative for
another year in balloting that ended
yesterday.

Vice-President

During this semester he was
Vice-President of the Student
Council. As such, he was chairman
of the Organizations and
Publications Committee of the
Council. That Committee was
responsible for recommending
allocations of student funds to the
Student Activities Committee.

While serving as that
Committee's chairman, he
presented a plan that was approved
by the Board of Visitors at their
last meeting, which gives the
Student Council final control over
allocations of all student groups
except those which are dissatisfied,
who may still appeal to the SAC,
and The Cavalier Daily.

Able Administrator

Prior to the voting last night,
Mr. Hickman was praised by his
fellow councilmen as being
"organized, articulate and
aggressive," an "able administrator,"
and "the hardest worker on the
Council."

Jim Roebuck was elected to the
Council last Spring from the
Graduate College of Arts and
Sciences. During his first semester
on the Council he has served on its
two most important committees,
the Political Societies and Elections
Committee, and the Organizations
and Publications Committee, which
he will now chair.

Willingness To Try

Prior to his election, he told the
Councilmen that his "main concern
this past semester has been to try to
instill a willingness to try."

Retiring Council President
Evans spoke briefly about the job
of President, saying "We are
saddled with a form of government
that allows the Council to elect its
own President. This system allows
the Council to select its best member
for that office but does not allow
him to carry out his
responsibilities."

He said that the President of
Student Council is "not really a
president, but a chairman, not a
leader of students as he should be."
Mr. Evans said he thought the
President should be popularly
elected by the Student body, so he
could speak for all students and not
just the Student Council.

Mr. Evans then went on to
comment about the Student
Council, as he has seen it during the
year and a half he has served on it.

Many Changes

He noted that there have been
changes in car rules, parietal rules,
student representation on
committees, and more Negroes
enrolled since he first ran for the
Council. He noted "a budding of
our sense of awareness," since he
joined the Council.

But he also noted that there had
been virtually no change in the
problem of opening lines of
communication between the
Council and the Board of Visitors
and administration, nor in the
Council's power to regulate the
lives of students.

Council's Fault

He said that much of the fault
for this lies with the Council, which
has "not pushed hard enough on the
right fronts, and which has been
incapable to spend the time
required" on those problems.

"We need a larger Council and
more confidence in ourselves," he
said.

He said that the administration
needs reports from the Council
because "facts we see clearly are
not quite so evident to someone 40
years older than ourselves."

He thanked the councilmen for
allowing him to serve as President
for a "twistedly enjoyable year."

At the beginning of the Council
meeting Mr. Evans congratulated
the recently elected members of the
Council and said "I hope they can
leave with a greater sense of
accomplishment than some of those
who are finishing their term on the
Council."

In other business, Gordon
Calvert announced that no
representatives to the Judiciary
Committee have been selected from
either the Medical School or the
College of Graduate Arts and
Sciences because there have been
no candidates for the office. He
said that officers of the schools
involved and members of the
judiciary Committee are working
to find some candidates.

At the end of the Council
meeting, retiring Council
representative George McMillan was
presented with an orange bowling
shirt with "Old-Timers" stitched on
the back and "George" above the
pocket. He accepted the shirt,
which was presented by Walker
Chandler, with a grin and promised
to wear it to the his last Council
meeting, next week.

pile of garbage waiting to be disposed, swept
through a room of Cobb Chemistry Building
yesterday morning, leaving it a charred and
smoking interior. H. I. Taylor, Director of the
University building and grounds department,
time of the blaze. The building is being
reconditioned for use by the University's
School of Medicine, but, fortunately, no
renovation had yet been conducted on the
room. A damage estimate has not been made.