University of Virginia Library

Council Requests Visitors
To Oppose Ave. Widening

By LIBBY WITHERS

Student Council last night
unanimously passed a
resolution asking the Board of
Visitors "to withdraw their
support of the widening of
University Avenue."

The resolution, presented
by Council Secretary Bill
Huyett, asked for the Board's
reconsideration since the
"academic community and
Council is opposed to the
widening."

The Board of Visitors
passed a resolution of support
last June in the midst of other
plans which included the new
University Hall parking lot, and
plans for redirecting traffic
through Preston Avenue to
Barracks Road. The latter plan
was an alternative for the
removal of congestion on
University Avenue and West
Main Street.

Mr. Huyett pointed out
there was "a lot of give and
take last year with the Board
o Visitors," referring to the
numerous plans under
consideration.

He called the Board a
"rubber stamp group" that
considers problems before
them, not future problems.

"With such vociferous
opposition, they will probably
reconsider their resolution,"
Mr. Huyett said.

Would Have Been Passed

Mr. Huyett, who
represented Council at last
week's City Council meeting
on the widening issue, said that
the proposal to widen
University Avenue would have
been passed "if not for the
objections of University
students and faculty."

Council also approved the
establishment of an "ad hoe
committee to look into the
functioning of Newcomb Hall
as a student union and to
include use of transportation
facilities into this study."

The resolution arose from
complaints that non-students
are disrupting studying, eating
and transportation at
Newcomb Hall and other areas
of the Grounds. Since the
problem is broad, the study
will encompass only two major
problems at present.

The first is the noise and
bother created in Newcomb
Hall by classes that are part of
the University School of
Continuing Education. The
second was these non-students
have been issued temporary
parking spaces at University
Hall and bus service to the
Grounds.

Deplores Policy

A resolution staling that
Council "thoroughly deplores"
the Food Service Department's
policy of year-long contracts
and sale of a contract to
another student in order to be
released from the contract was
defeated by a five to eight
vote.

Though the majority of
Council favored the resolution,
it was defeated since this
problem is now under
consideration of the Council
Food Services Committee,
which will be able to present a
more researched and better
defined presentation.

Council also defeated Mr.
Huyett's proposal to send a
telegraph to Pres. Nixon
expressing Council's
disapproval of his present
efforts in the Vietnam
settlement. Members
denounced the proposal
because of the majority
opinion that Council should
not enter into national
political matters.