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Game Wardens Cause Concern
As Traditional Bust Approaches

Late Monday evening the offices
of the Cavalier Daily were alerted
to the presence of a large number
of police cars converging on the
first-year dormitories.

The informant, a staff writer for
the paper, related the information
he had heard from a fraternity
brother which had been passed to
him from an unknown source. The
nature of the information leak was
such that there was sufficient evidence
at hand to believe a bust was
taking place in the first-year dormitories.

Responding to this call, two
staff writers, who were still present
after having finished the next day's
issue, raced to the scene of the
disturbance. The supposed focus of
the bust was Bonneycastle, and
after waking one student, and interrupting
several others, these two
members of the staff began to
wonder as to the validity of the
information.

Neither the Department of
Security nor the Charlottesville
police were aware of any bust or
other disturbances in the first-year
dorms. Disappointed with the
results of the early morning excursion,
the reporters left the scene. As
they were leaving, they noticed
what appeared to be a police car.
And then they saw another, and
another, and another. The cars were
a variety of colors, but all had the
fateful insignia on the side.

Upon closer investigation, the
two reporters found that the official
looking cars, congregated
around the Emmet-Page complex,
belonged to a large number of
Virginia game wardens. Expecting
some new, perverted type of bust,
the undaunted reporters looked
around for a while, but uncovered
no more information.

New information was revealed
yesterday explaining the presence
of the game wardens. There was no
bust, either of the recognized and
respected tradition of last Midwinters,
or of a new and mutated
version using game wardens instead
of narcotic agents.

Wade Bromwell, director of
Security, and the School of General
Studies had collaborated to bring
again to Charlottesville the Annual
Game Warden's Conference. Each
year the state's game wardens meet
together to discuss the problems
and techniques of their profession.

The timing of the meeting was
not intended to intimidate anyone,
but pivoted on the opening of
dormitory rooms for the men to
occupy. For three days the wardens
will discuss the responsibilities of
their jobs, the laws governing the
forested areas of the state, and
conservation in general.

More specifically, they will be
discussing courtroom procedures,
handling of mental patients, and
report writing. All of these workshops
are intended to help the
warden function more expertly in
his profession.

With the wardens wandering
around the first-year dorms, no
students need worry, for the only
busts these men will make are
aimed at the dread Pythium blight
or the vicious Dutch elm disease,
both of which are reportedly being
harbored by furtive trees.