The Cavalier daily. :: Wednesday, May 7, 1969 :: University of Virginia Library

Student Council passed a
motion at its weekly meeting last
night recommending a $2.50 raise
in the Comprehensive Fee that will
provide funds for the Transitional
Program.

Originally, the Council had
urged a similar hike in the Student
Activities Fee, but the Student
Activities Council did not propose
the increase, claiming that it did
not have jurisdiction over the
academic program.

The motion accepted last night
was introduced by Rick Evans as a
substitute for a motion by Bud
Ogle. The motion said that the
Student Council requests the Board
of Visitors to increase the
Comprehensive Fee by $2.50 to
establish an Equal Opportunity
Fund which will be allocated by the
general faculty for the recruiting
and educating of the economically
and academically deprived for such
programs as the Transitional
Program.

Original Motion

Mr. Ogle's original motion provided
for the allocation of the
funds raised by the increase by the
Student Council, in conjunction
with the appropriate faculty and
administrative officials. There was
some opposition to the entire
motion, based on the lack of actual
support for the program. Gene
Angle argued "How can we pass
this if we can't even raise the
money ourselves?" referring to the
failure of most council members to
raise the money for the fund that
they had pledged.

Henry Doggrell said, "I hate to
see us tell the student body to shell
out $2.50 whether you like it or
not. By what authority can we do
this?" Mr. Doggrell said that he was
in favor of the program on a
contributory basis.

Same Authority

Walker Chandler countered that
the Council would be using the
same authority that the SAC uses in
allocating funds to other organizations.

Rod Campbell agreed with Mr.
Doggrell that there was much
"negative interest" around the
University in the program and that
the idea should be dropped. Ron
Cass replied that the Council had
supported the Transition Program
in the past and that it should
continue to do so.

Mr. Ogle's motion failed 13 to 8.
Mr. Ogle then asked that the
motion be reconsidered. Jim
Roebuck, chairing the meeting in
the absence of President Ron
Hickman, broke a 10-10 tie and the
request was granted.

Reversing Stand

Mr. Ogle argued "If we go on
record as reversing our stand
towards the Transition Fund and
the Black Studies/ Ethnic Studies
plan, we are saying something we
don't want to say." Tom Slater
pointed out that his opposition was
based on the question of who
would administer the funds.

Once this point was made, Mr.
Evens formally introduced his substitute
motion which was accepted
by a 11 to 9 vote.

In other business conducted last
night, Council struck down a
motion that would have required all
College candidates in the upcoming
elections to place their party
affiliation after their names on the
ballot. A similar motion making the
placing of the party name on the
ballot optional had failed twice
before.

Mr. Cass, in introducing the
motion, said that "for the edification
of the students voting, we
ought to have party labels on the
ballot." Mr. Evans thought that to
do so would be making a "bad rule
and setting a bad precedent."

Mr. Slater agreed with Mr.
Evans, fearing that it would let the
people vote by party without
thinking about it. He pointed to the
Virginia practice of voting only for
Democrats, regardless of the contestant's
abilities. Jackson Lears
rebuffed Mr. Slater's argument
saying, "I have more faith in the
University electorate than in the
electorate of the State of Virginia."

Mr. Evans continued Mr. Lears'
logic by saying that if the electorate
were so aware, they would know
the candidates well enough so there
was no need to put the parties on.
The motion failed 13 to 6.

For the second consecutive
week, the Council put off recommending
a health insurance program
until further information
could be obtained. Dr. James
Camp, Assistant Director of
Student Health, appeared last night
and argued that the Blue Cross/
Blue Shield plan recommended by
the Health Committee "provided
the best coverage we could offer to
students," despite the steady
increase in rates.

Dr. Camp said that the cause of
the price increase was the
"spiralling cost of hospitalization."

The Council tabled the issue in
hopes that a representative of Blue
Cross could come to the next
meeting and answer the member's
questions.