University of Virginia Library

Visitors Take No Action
On Conduct Code Until April

By Philip Kimball
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

The Board of Visitors, acting on the
recommendations of President Edgar
Shannon and the Student Council, voted
this weekend in favor of allowing the
Newcomb Hall Bookstore to sell
hardback books. No action was taken on
the Code of Conduct nor the proposal
regarding Student Rights and
Accountabilities. Student Council
representatives said.

Parietal hours, the financial state of
Alderman Library, and room rents were
other topics of discussion by the Visitors
as they met in committee and general
meetings Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of last week.

Hardback Books

With regard to President Shannon's
proposal that the Newcomb Hall
Bookstore be allowed to sell hardback books,
informed sources said that President Shannon
"had the authority to implement action but
wanted the endorsement of the Board because
of long range implications." Specifically those
were involved with the expansion of the
Bookstore.

Kevin L. Mannix, Student Council president,
said that the Board asked the Council "to work
closer with President Shannon and D. Alan
Williams, Vice President of Student Affairs, in
order to resubmit a single proposal at the next
meeting that would incorporate both the Code
of Conduct and the proposal regarding Student
Rights and Accountabilities." The next meeting
of the Board of Visitors is in April.

Mr. Mannix also stated that "no plan was
adopted regarding parietals" but that "There
was still hope for changing parietal hours
through the Office of Student Affairs."

Disappointed

After meeting with the Student Affairs and
Athletics Committee, which consists of eight of
the sixteen members of the Board of Visitors,
Mr. Mannix said that while he was disappointed
that the committee had not taken action on
many of the Student Council proposals, he was
"still optimistic about the Code of Conduct and
the other proposals regarding student rights."
Also present at the meeting were Robert Strand
and Mike Cohen, co-chairmen of the Ad Hoc
Committee on the Code of Conduct; Mike
Boyd, former chairman of the Judiciary
Committee; and Ron Tweel, the present
chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

It was also announced at the meeting of the
Board that Alderman Library would receive a
gift amounting to $63,500 from C. Waller
Barrett, a member of the Board of Visitors. The
bulk of this gift is a collection of notebooks,
letters, family letters, first editions, manuscripts
and other papers of Robert Frost valued at
$60,000. The gift is "one of the best Frost
collections in existence," announced William .
Runge, Alderman Library's curator of rare
books. The gift includes the only surviving copy
of "Twilight." Frost's first collection of poems
printed in Lawrence, Mass. in 1894.

Also announced at the meeting was that Jose
Luis Sert, the retired dean of the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, will visit the
University this semester as the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of
Architecture. Mr. Sert was named by the Board
to the honorary chair established in 1965, "to
bring teachers of international distinction to
the University's School of Architecture."

The author of four books and numerous
other publications. Mr. Sert has served as
director of the New York Citizens' Housing
Council planning committee, chairman of the
Cambridge Planning Board and consultant to
the United Nations housing and planning
division.

It was resolved at the Board of Visitors
meeting that effective September 1, rental
charges for the Monroe Hill Dormitories and
the rooms on the Lawn and Ranges would be
increased. Rooms in the Monroe Hill
dormitories will be $380 per person for double
occupancy and $305 per person for triple
occupancy.

Rent for single rooms on the Lawn and
Bachelor's Row has been raised from $310 to
$335. Rooms on the Ranges will be rented next
year for $375 as compared with $355 for this
year.

The Board also resolved to increase tuition
next year for out-of-state students entering the
Law School by $100 per session. Students
presently in the Law School will not be
affected by the raise in tuition. Application fees
for all schools of the University will be raised to
$20 next year, the Board also announced. Some
schools do not presently collect application fees
while the application fee for the college is now
set at $10.

The College received $228,020 in gifts and
grants, the report from the meeting of Board of
Visitors announced. Among other gifts received
were $160,620 for the School of Education,
$31,268 for the Engineering School and
$440,808 for the Medical School. The estate of
Elizabeth M. Dobie totaling $46,925 was given
to the Law School in order to establish the
Armistead Mason Dobie Professorship.

Although the Board of Visitors focused
mainly on issues at the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville, attention was given to degree
programs at George Mason College and matters
pertaining to Patrick Henry College, colleges
that are also part of the state's educational
system.