University of Virginia Library

Visitors To Discuss Parietals,
Student Rights, Bookstore

By James M. Beeghley

Student Rights, parietal hours, and the
management of the Newcomb Hall
Bookstore will all be topics brought
before the Board of Visitors. Saturday
February 13, by Kevin Mannix, Student
Council President.

Mr. Mannix will suggest that no
"psychological or actual" limits be placed
on the Newcomb Hall bookstore in regard
to their selling hardback books.
According to Mr. Mannix, the store's
good service and generous donations to the
University Union speak well for the store's
interest in the students of the University. In all
the facility contributed approximately $10,000
to the Union this year.

Mr. Mannix will ask the Board of Visitors
for "blanket control" of parietals for first year
students, the only men and women in the
University community who can't set parietal
hours or regulations without limits.

After presenting the statement on Student
Rights and Accountabilities, already approved
by the December referendum, he will present to
the Board a twelve page "conceptual" report
entitled "A Proposal Regarding Student Rights
and Student Accountabilities." Essentially, this
report calls for a system where "students shall
establish their own system of accountabilities
and shall enforce it via the judiciary
committee," with the cooperation of
Administration and faculty.

This report is based on the proposal that just
as the Honor Code violations are subject to the
Honor Committee, "the enforcement of
student accountabilities should be placed in the
hands of the Judiciary Committee, which
presumably would delegate certain enforcement
powers to the dormitory judicial committees."

"In essence, it proposes that the Board of
Visitors entrust students with the control of
student conduct, and it places the University in
a position of formally guaranteeing the rights of
other members of the community vis-a-vis
students by regulating student
accountabilities."

In regard to the widening of Emmet Street
and Valley Road. Mr. Mannix will continue to
oppose construction on the grounds that the
widening of the arteries would increase the
volume and speed of traffic, and would disrupt
the residents who would be directly affected by
the construction involved.