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Roebuck Seeks Changes,
Questions SAC Structure,
Comprehensive Fee Equity

By Mark Pirrung
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

In the Student Council meeting last
Tuesday night President Jim Roebuck set
forth several innovative suggestions for
review of the Student Activities Committee.

Among programs designed to reform
the structure of the SAC, Mr. Roebuck
proposed that the non-elected students who sit
on the Committee be removed from that office.

Of the three voting students on the SAC at
present, two represent societies which have not
faced elections by his College.

The students on the SAC now are the
President of the Student Council, President of
the Raven Society, President of Omicron Delta
Kappa, and the Vice President of Student
Council ex-officio.

Mr. Roebuck also proposed that the Student
Council set forth a system of percentages which
would insure that club sports and other student
activities receive an assured apportion of the
SAC funds.

This proposal is mainly directed at reducing
the influence of The Cavalier Daily in SAC
considerations. The student newspaper has
traditionally been assured that its budget be
considered first, and in effect other activities be
allocated what remains.

Mr. Roebuck told The Cavalier Daily
yesterday that he hopes to assure the varied
student activities a fixed proportion of
allocations.

In regard to the Comprehensive fee which
every student faces yearly and which funds the
SAC, Mr. Roebuck suggested that the Board of
Visitors increase the tab to allow for the
expansion of student activities and to provide
for new considerations when women enter the
College next fall.

In the same proposition Mr. Roebuck asked
that the comprehensive fee be broken down
into its various services so that students know
exactly what they were funding.

Mr. Roebuck also read to the Council a
letter signed by Governor Linwood Holton
which constituted a response to the council's
letter of March 4.

The governor assured the council that he
had given "serious consideration" to the
suggestions that the Council had made concerning
appointments to the Board of Visitors.

Mr. Holton wrote, "I also want you to know
how glad I am that you felt free to express your
disappointment directly to me about the failure
to appoint a Black individual to the Board."

The governor explained, "This, too, I
considered, and on balance I felt it was not an
appropriate time to make such an appointment
at the University."

Charles Murdock, Council Representative of
the College, presented a motion "the Student
Council's Curriculum Evaluation include an
evaluation of the College Administration."

Passed by the Council, the motion will
enable students to formulate and publish a
detailed study of the efficiency and progress
made by the administration of the College in a
given semester.