The Cavalier daily :: Friday, October 30, 1970 :: University of Virginia Library

Due to the academic nature of its
jurisdiction, the Student Council
proposed Tuesday evening that the
University Senate body now being
considered by the faculty should be
referred to as a "Faculty Senate."

"What we want and what the
University needs is a full University
Senate to deal with all University
problems," expressed one Council
member. "The body should be made up
of equal numbers of faculty members,
students, and administrators."

Feeling that neither the faculty nor
administration would favor such a body
at this time, the Council endorsed Laurin
Henry's Report of a Special Committee of the
University Senate and the proposed "Faculty
Senate" on the basis that it would provide at
least a minimal amount of student input into
faculty decisions. The motion passed
unanimously.

In other business the Council drafted specific
proposals in a letter to D. Alan Williams to
realize the solutions to some of the problems
confronting black students in the University.

Own Race

The first proposal would make it possible
for black students to arrange to have
roommates of their own race if they so desired.
This would be achieved by furnishing incoming
black students with the names of other
incoming black students so that they could
request roommates by name. The purpose of
this would be to help alleviate some of the
difficulties involved with adjustment to college
life.

In addition steps would be taken to make
the dormitory counseling program more
sensitive to racial problems. This might be
accomplished by establishing a counselor
orientation program run by former black
dormitory residents.

It was further proposed that a body be
established to investigate cases of
discrimination concerning off-Grounds housing
as well as all other facets of student life.

It has recently come to the attention of the
Council that certain local alumni association
groups and the University of Virginia Club of
Washington in particular are in fact
discriminatory organizations and are using, and
thus possibly supporting, facilities belonging to
segregated groups.

Whereas these groups may be associated
with the University in name, at least, and
because they frequently take part in University
recruitment efforts, the Council strongly urged
"the Virginia Alumni Association to request all
associated groups to refrain from segregating
and using segregated facilities for its meetings."

Students Investigated

Concerned over the possibility of students
being investigated without their own
knowledge, the Council proposed that in the
future all investigative personnel such as the
FBI, local and county police, and private
detectives be forbidden to come on the
University Grounds in an official capacity
without permission of the Council or President
Shannon with the notification of Council.

In order to raise money for the Legal Aid
Fund, President Kevin Mannix announced that
the Council would hold a "Great Pumpkin
Special" Saturday, October 31 starting at 10
p.m. This dance will be held in the Rotunda.

Next week's Council meeting will be held at
7 p.m. in the lounge of Mary Munford
Dormitory. Anyone wishing to attend may do
so.