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Council Recommends 8
To Fill Visitors Posts

By Peter Shea
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

In an effort to achieve more communication
with the administration, the
Student Council has recommended the
nomination to the Board of Visitors of
eight persons whom the Council considered
"acceptable" in the eyes of the
student body.

Meanwhile, the Council was granted a
delay in the case concerning the law suit
by three students involving the Council
funding of the Students for a Democratic
Society.

The Council's recommendations were
sent to the Alumni Association which
normally gives the Governor a list of its
own recommendations. Gilbert J. Sullivan,
Director of the Association, said yesterday that
the group would consider the Council recommendations
along with the thirty or so other
lists which usually come in.

The Alumni Association will meet to make
its recommendations on January 16. Seven of
the sixteen spaces on the Board will be opened
on February 26 when the terms of the persons
now serving as Visitors expire. Of the seven,
four of the Visitors will be eligible for
renomination to the group.

Four Seek Terms

Three of those four, Mrs. E. Parker Brown,
Dr. Edwin L. Kendig, Jr., and J. Harvie
Wilkinson, Jr., are reportedly seeking another
term. William M. Birdsong, the other eligible
incumbent, reportedly is not interested in an
extra term.

In addition, three other Visitors are
ineligible for re-nomination: Walkley E. Johnson,
Lewis M. Walker, Jr., and the current
Rector, Frank W. Rogers, Jr.

The Council expects four seats to be filled
by new persons and submitted its own
recommendations in the hope of establishing
some student voice on the body.

Council President Bud Ogle also sent a letter
to Governor-Elect Linwood, Holton seeking to
arrange a meeting with someone in his office to
discuss the upcoming nominations and the
student body's wishes concerning them.

Mr. Holton has made no response to the
letter and a spokesman in his office said that he
had made no decision yet and apparently did
not know when he would consider the affair.

The persons included on the Council list
were John Lowe, a Charlottesville ACLU
lawyer; Peter Schenkan, a former student and
Rhodes Scholar; Gordon Calvert, a former
student and Council representative who was
active in the University's Young Republicans;
and Kevin Mannix, the present Council
Secretary.

Marsh Recommended

The Council also recommended Henry
Marsh, a liberal democratic ex-State Legislator;
Bob Williams, a former law student; and Leroy
Hamlett, also an ex-student and presently a
local attorney.

The Council's final recommendation was
given to Mr. Harrison who is eligible for
renomination to the Board.