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Council Reacts

Godwin Action
'Disappointing'

By Tom Adams
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A letter to Virginia Governor
Mills E. Godwin expressing the
Student Council's disappointment
with the meeting between the
Governor and members of the
Student Coalition on March 12, was
adopted with little dissent at the
Council's Tuesday night meeting.

The letter was introduced by
Student Council representative Bud
Ogle, who was one of the students
who presented the Coalition's case
to Governor Godwin.

The letter reads, "While we are
grateful for the time you spent
preparing your remarks of March
12, we are deeply disappointed in
your performance that day. Your
refusal to answer questions,
unwillingness to hear and discuss
concrete issues, and general
evasiveness were most unfortunate.
We hope, as you reconsider your
policy positions, that actual
discussion will be possible in the
future.

"We remain committed, as you
profess, to a University of renown.
We insist, however, that justice is
essential to renown. We will persist
in efforts to provide equal
educational opportunity, and
sexual, racial and employee
justice."

In other business at the Tuesday
Council meeting, a motion by Mr.
Ogle "that it shall be the policy of
the University of Virginia that the
arrest, indictment, trial or
conviction of any person who
refuses to obey a directive of the
Selective Service System based on
conscientiously-held beliefs, shall
not be considered with respect to
any application for admission or
readmission," passed with little
dissent.

The motion asks that this
statement be printed in all
University catalogues.

The Council debated for almost
an hour on whether or not it should
seat Henry Doggrell as the
representative from the School of
Commerce.

The Commerce Council
recommended his appointment
after Dan Collins, who had been the
commerce school representative,
resigned for personal reasons.

Mr. Doggrell was eventually
seated, but only after it was
decided to hold a special election
the first week after the spring break
to choose a representative who will
serve until May.

It was decided to postpone
debate on the new Constitution
until a special meeting of the
Council is held, the first day after
the spring break.

The Student Council designated
the weeks of April 4 to April 18,
1969 as the Student Council
campaign for the transition
program, following a motion by
Tom Slater.