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Council Candidates Ask
Improved Recruiting Policies

One of the most important issues
facing the University today is the
problem of black recruitment. The
Student Council has been making some
effort in co-ordination with the
Admissions Office to rectify this
situation. With Council elections this
we is important to see how the
candidates stand on the problem of black
recruitment.

The four candidates for Student
Council from the College representing the
Virginia Progressive Party are Ken Lewis,
Buzzy Waitzkin, Kevin Mannix, and Tony
Sherman. All of these candidates have
tended to support the present programs
of the Student Council and the
Administration and have called for
improvements in recruiting policies.

Both Messrs. Lewis and Waitzkin have
praised the efforts of the black recruiters,
the efforts to improve off-grounds
housing for blacks, and the Transition
Program. Mr. Waitzkin also has praised
the work of the Rotch Committee and
the Barbershop boycott.

Mr. Lewis has also called for the
establishment of a Black Studies
department and the investigation of
out-of-state alumni recruitment policies
to improve the black recruitment
problem.

'Racial Imbalance'

Mr. Mannix, besides supporting his
party's platform of black recruitment, has
stated that a racial "imbalance" now
exists at the University and feels that
"alumni organizations must be on notice
that the University has changed." He has
also stated that he feels that students
should provide much of the help needed
by the Admissions Office in their
attempts to increase black recruitment.

Mr. Sherman, in supporting the efforts
of Council to improve black recruitment,
has stated that he feels that a letter
should be sent to all University recruited
black students informing them of the
efforts of Council in this area. Included in
this letter should be the work of Council
with the barber shop boycott, with the
suggestion to the Pep Band to stop
playing Dixie, and in its efforts to obtain
a Black Studies Program and a black
Assistant Dean of Admissions.

The four candidates for Student
Council from the College representing the
Jefferson Party are Quinn Spitzer, Tom
Brown, Henry Bowden, and Bill Hurd.

Mr. Spitzer has agreed that there
seems to be a racial imbalance at the
University and feels that a visitation
program of one week for disadvantaged
students as guests of interested members
of the University would help to improve
that imbalance.

Social Life

Mr. Brown has stated that "The
University should attempt to recruit all
students who meet the entrance
requirements of the University" no
matter what race they are. He also feels
that "special efforts should be made to
both inform black students about the
University and to provide them with a
social life once they arrive."

Mr. Bowden has stated a grave
disappointment that he has with the
present efforts of the University and
Student Council to improve black
recruiting. In his statement to The
Cavalier Daily, Mr. Bowden stated that he
has felt "that black recruitment efforts
have been somewhat misdirected in the
past year."

He has agreed with his fellow
candidates from the Jefferson Party that
a visitation program run by individuals at
the University would help black
recruitment more than the present
programs.

As Mr. Bowden put it "for two or
three black recruiters to go to high
schools seems to me to be ineffective,
piecemeal recruitment. For recruitment
to work, the black students must come
here and see for themselves that the
University is like."

Mr. Hurd has also come out in favor of
the visitation program stating that what
Council has "done hasn't hurt anything
nor has it helped much."

Not Enough Power

Both candidates for Council from the
College representing the Liquifactionist
Party, Donald Trease and Michael
Capobianco, have stated that Student
Council does not now have enough power
to do very much about black recruitment.

Mr. Capobianco has praised the
Council in its efforts but has stated that
all it can do now is to "prod the
administration to do something." He has
also called for "white, red, and yellow
recruitment."

Expanded Transition

Bruce Tyler is a candidate from the
College for Council representing the
Young Americans for Freedom ticket.
Mr. Tyler has stated that he supports
"black recruitment for qualified or
quantifiable students" and that the
Upward Bound and Transition programs
should be expanded.

Eric Royce, representing the
Independent-Libertarian Action ticket in
the Council election from the College has
come out in favor of nondiscriminatory
University admissions and favors the use
of students as recruiters. He is also against
a quota system for black admissions and
feels that special programs should be
available to help prepare underprivileged
students.

Yippie candidates for the Council
from the College are Clyde Ellis and