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Council Seeks Robinson
For Educational Talks

By SAM BARNES

To better inform students
about legislative policy on
higher education in Virginia,
Student Council last night
voted to ask seventh district
Congressional representative J.
Kenneth Robinson to appear in
a discussion session on higher
education sometime before Christmas.

NSL Suggestion

Suggested by the National
Student Lobby (NSL), the
meeting will be open to students
from all colleges in the seventh
district. The NSL will do much
of the organizing at the other
schools, Council President Jim
Rinaca said.

"Our purpose is to discuss
some of the major issues
coming before Congress when
it re-convenes in January,"
Council Vice President Larry
Sabato said.

Mr. Sabato pointed out that
Mr. Robinson, a member of the
House Appropriations
Committee, might be very
influential on behalf of
students in supplying money
for educational programs.

Mr. Sabato also said that the
issue of education policy in the
state might be discussed at the
talk session since Mr. Robinson
is a possible candidate for
governor in 1973.

In other action Council
voted 11 - 7 to allocate $200
from its own personal activities
fund to assist the Rifle and
Pistol Association in meeting
its budget for the year.

The action came in an
organizations and publications
hearing in which the Rifle and
Pistol Club requested Council
to allocate additional funds
from the Council-administered
student activities fund.

Club Warrants Allocation

Council said that, although
it could not justify taking
additional funds from the
already depleted activities
fund, it did believe that the
club had demonstrated a
sufficiently pressing need to
warrant the special allocation.

The Rifle and Pistol Club
had requested $3,198 in funds
from the activities fund but
received only $800 in
organization and publications
allocations.

"There's no better way to
show that such a need exists
among club sports than to
show that Student Council has
to dip into its own personal
funds to supply that need,"
Council secretary Bill Huyett
said.

'Dangerous Precedent'

Some Council members;
however, expressed concern
over making such an allocation
from its own funds to an
individual club.

"It's setting a very
dangerous precedent,"
third-year college
representative Gregg Luce said.

"While it is a very expedient
answer to the immediate
problem,"Mr. Luce
explained,"it does bring up the
question of whether we should
fund other sports in the same
manner."

Law School Representative
Joel Gardner said that the
club's need merited special
consideration by Council.
"Looking at this case
realistically, I think this club
deserves the money far more
than a lot of the others funded
by the committee," he said.

Spokesmen for the club,
reputed to be one of the top
shooting teams in the nation,
told Council that their group
needed the additional money
to provide much-needed
equipment and continue
competition with
highly-ranked teams.