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Move To Open
Visitor Meeting
Made By Group

By Mike Russell
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

An ad hoc committee of
students has been formed to
attempt to have the next meeting
of the Board of Visitors made
public to the entire university
Community since the "issues in
question at that meeting intimately
involve every student on the
grounds," said Buzzy Waitzkin,
chairman of the committee.

Petitions are presently being
circulated throughout the
University to demonstrate student
support for this plan. The
culmination of this initial petition
drive will take place on October 29,
when the committee will make an
open presentation of the petitions
to President Shannon in front of
Old Cabell Hall.

The Petition will ask for an
open meeting with the Board of
Visitors, as well as offering the
student body to discuss any
grievances they presently have with
the administration.

The committee plans to ask
the administration to do several
things in regard to the Board
meeting.

First they are interested in
making public the agenda of the
Visitors meeting. Before the
meeting is held the committee has
requested that an open forum be
planned to allow all members of the
University to meet with the Board
of Visitors.

Their third request is that
representatives of the student body
be allowed to attend the Board
meeting, including representatives
of The Cavalier Daily and the
Virginia Weekly.

Buzzy Waitzkin in discussing the
response he hoped to get from the
administration on the twenty-ninth
said that their participation would
be a "demonstration of good faith
by the administration that the spirit
of Mountain Lake is neither dead
nor elitist in nature."

By elitist Mr. Waitzkin hoped
that the administration "will not
limit their communications to
student leaders alone, but will enter
into a dialogue with all interested
students."

Plans for the open forum
meeting are still somewhat
indefinite, but general areas of
interest have been indicated.
Students will preside over the
forum. The agenda will include those
topics of the Board's upcoming
meeting which are of interest to the
students: coeducation, the 3-3-3
committee, the dorm regulations
pertaining to discipline and girls in
the dorms. The committee hopes
that students, fraternity members,
and independents alike will support
their drive for the open meeting.