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To Aid Underprivileged

Student Activities Fund Increase
Approved At Council Meeting

By Tom Adams
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A long sought-after raise in the
Student Activities fund to be used
to help attract black students to the
University was approved at
Tuesday's meeting of the Student
Council.

The motion was presented by
Bud Ogle, and it asked that a $2.50
raise in the Student Activities Fund
be made, the money from which
would be applied to both a summer
transitional program for
underprivileged students and to a
black studies department at the
University.

No Dissenting Votes

This raise, which had met with
opposition at previous meetings of
the Council, passed without a
dissenting vote. A second part of
the same motion asked that
representatives of the Student
Council plus members of the
student coalition be allowed to
present this proposal and the
coalition's 11-point program to
President Shannon.

Mr. Ogle added this section
because he thought Ron Hickman,
president of the Student Council,
was unwilling to present it. But Mr.
Hickman said he would be glad to
do so and thus the second portion
of the motion was dropped.

Building Takeover

A motion that would have put
the Student Council on record as
being opposed to student takeover
of University buildings was
defeated by a lopsided margin at
the same meeting of the Council.

The motion was introduced by
law school representative Tom
Slater, to signify the Council's
"affirmation of our support for the
principles of the democratic process
which bring about change through
reasoned discussion rather than
senseless violence and minority
tyranny."

Mr. Slater's motion read, "I
move that the Student Council go
on record as being opposed under
any circumstances to student
takeover, liberation, or possession
of a University building or
disruption of classes."

Robert Rosen, one of the
leaders of the student coalition,
proposed an amendment from the
audience that the Council also go
on record as being opposed to sin.
Rick Evans said he thought the
amendment was "frivolous" and
unnecessary.

Charles Murdock replied that he
thought the entire motion was
rather frivolous. Both the
amendment and motion failed,
15-6.

Improper Registration

Another motion, presented by
the other representative from the
School of Law, Charles Majors,
failed by the same vote. It asked
that the privileges of the SDS,
SSOC, and the coalition be
suspended for a two-week period
because of a failure to register their
demonstrations properly.

Ron Cass then said that as long
as the Council was going to try and
enforce law and order they might as
well go all the way. He was going to
ask the secretary of the Student
Council how many members had
missed three or more meetings
without an excuse. Under the
Student Council's bylaws any
representative who misses three or
more meetings may be expelled
from the Council.

Instead, Mr. Cass yielded to
Charles Murdock who asked in two
separate motions that both Tom
Slater and Gene Angle be dismissed
because both had missed four
meetings without excuse.

Mr. Murdock's motions failed,
gathering only the vote of himself
and Walker Chandler.

Class Cutting

In other business at the Tuesday
night meeting, Charles Murdock
presented a letter to be sent to the
academic faculty through Fredson
Bowers, Dean of the Faculty,
asking that the restrictions on
cutting classes before and after
vacations be abolished.

Mr. Murdock explained that he
had contacted 20 Universities in the
area asking if they had similar
regulations. He reported that
practically none did. He asked in
his letter that the faculty take
action on this as soon as possible so
that it will be in effect for the
spring vacation.

The Council approved the letter
with only Gene Angle abstaining.

Engineering representative Bill
McManus, on behalf of the
First-Year Committee of the
Student Council, presented a
motion that would allow girls in the
first-year dormitories this weekend
if approved by the Executive
Committee of Counselors. The
motion, however, asked that the
first-year men themselves, through
the First-Year Committee, enforce
the visitation rule.

Paul Hurdle said that if action
was not taken on this proposal, a
walk-in of girls had been
threatened. He said that this would
put the dormitory counselors in the
awkward position of having to
enforce a regulation that they don't
believe in. Walker Chandler said
that he himself would lead this
walk-in.

The motion passed with only
Rick Evans voting against it.

Open Meeting

Early in the meeting Tuesday
night, Ron Cass presented a motion
asking that representatives of the
Student Council, the ad hoc
Committee for an open meeting
with the Board of Visitors, the
Alderman Road Committee, the
First-Year Committee, Mary
Munford, McKim, and The Cavalier
Daily, be allowed to meet with the
Board of Visitors to discuss the
possibility of having an open
meeting with them.

Steve Squire objected, from the
audience, to the motion saying that
it excluded representatives of a
large segment of students who
wanted to meet with the Board and
who would seek "other means if
not included."

Gene Angle offered an
amendment asking that only
representatives of the Student
Council be allowed to attend the
meeting, inasmuch as they were the
only elected representatives of the
student body.

His amendment provoked a
lengthy discussion of whether or
not the Student Council was
representative of the student body.

Bud Ogle said that the
Councilmen were "missing the
boat" in arguing whether or not
they were "representative." "our
goal is to communicate with the
Board of Visitors." He said that the
more diverse group would aid this
purpose.

Mr. Angle's amendment failed,
12 to 9, the same margin that the
original motion passed. Messrs.
Saul, Evans, Kurtz, Majors, Slater,
Angle, Collins, and DeWitt voted
against the motion, as did Miss
Spencer.