University of Virginia Library

Visitors Approve Guidelines
For First-Year Car Privileges

By Debra Kroner
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

In this meeting last week, the Board of
Visitors approved a resolution allowing
first-year men to have cars on the
Grounds.

Robert T. Canevari, Dean of Students,
stated that undergraduate students who
meet the various requirements must
register their vehicles with the Security Police
within twenty-four hours after the car is
brought to Charlottesville.

The resolution states that a student is
eligible for motor vehicle privileges if he is "an
undergraduate student having at least one
semester of residence and a grade point average
of at least 2.0 for the previous semester, and is
not on academic or social probation."

Mr. Canevari commented that the Security
Police is presently registering students as they
come, in no particular alphabetical order. When
registering, students should have three things
with them: state registration, driver's license,
and a "certificate of insurance from a
recognized insurance company evidencing
coverage for public liability in conformity with
the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
namely, $15,000-30,000 bodily injury and
$5,000 property damage."

In addition to the $1.00 registration fee,
students under 21 years of age are required by
present regulations to have written parental
permission, this permission is to be shown to
the Security Police.

Included in the Student Motor Vehicle
Rules and Regulations is the section which
states that students may not register a vehicle
for another student who does not meet the
requirements. Mr. Canevari warns that a student
will be suspended from the University if he has
a car when he is not supposed to.

First year students on scholarships must
make written notification to the Office of
Financial Aid to Students. Mr. Canevari added
that students should realize that cars will be
treated as additional assets, possibly affecting
the status of their scholarships.

Possibly to the dismay of present owners of
registered vehicles, the first-yea men will be
permitted to park their vehicles in the same
areas as the other students.

All students should remember that the
accumulation of six parking violation tickets
per year results in the automatic loss of motor
vehicle privileges.