University of Virginia Library

Judiciary Chooses
Pfister As Chairman

By GEORGE LYON

College third-year man Tim
Pfister was elected Judiciary
Committee Chairman for the
1973 fall session in Committee
elections last Sunday night.

Also elected were
Engineering third-year man Bill
Hughes as vice chairman and
second-year Law student Tom
Ross as secretary.

Mr. Pfister said that this
year the committee has tried to
settle as many cases as possible
without trials.

"Traditionally, Judiciary
has had a lot of petty things
come up for formal trials," he
said. "If these things come to
trial, it's likely that the
sanction given would only be
an oral reprimand."

"If a case does not have to
come to a trial, we'd prefer
that it didn't," he added.

Mr. Pfister said that this
year the committee has tried to
use informal procedures for
some trials. This procedure is
basically a round table
discussion, he said, in which

the accused pleads guilty, and
the committee is mainly
concerned with rendering a
decision acceptable to each
side.

Mr. Pfister, although saying
he does not favor eliminating
the first-year Judiciary
Committee, said that the
first-year committee has tried
some cases which the
University Committee could
have handled better.

He advocated a procedure