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Council Demands Report Release

Approval by President Shannon
of a motion passed last Tuesday by
Student Council will be demanded
in a letter by the Virginia Council
on Human Relations.

The motion recommends that
the University Committee to
Investigate the Advisability of
Admitting Women into the College
be forced to release its report on or
before November 11.

The University Committee,
whose chairman is Dean T. Braxton
Woody, was appointed by President
Shannon last January and has been
preparing a report on the
advisability of co-education at the
University. This report is to be
submitted for referendum to the
meeting of the Board of Visitors on
December 13.

The Council on Human
Relations said, "We have every
reason to believe that the
committee will recommend that the
University go co-educational, and if
not, legal action will follow from
the Civil Liberties Committees.
However, we want to know what
the University Committee is doing.

"The University Committee, is
surveying the student body's
opinion of coeducation, contacted
the presidents on the ODK
society, the various social
fraternities, the Raven Society, the
Judiciary Committee, the Honor
Committee, and the Student
Council," the Relations Council
reported. "Findings of the
committee revealed that the
feelings of the student body about
co-education were mixed.

"We believe that the
committee's view is a distorted one,
because the people interviewed
were mainly 'southern gentleman'
oriented and fraternity men." A
spokesman for the Council then
said, "Dean Woody told me that
the Independents would be in favor
of co-education whereas fraternity
men would be against it."

The recruiting meeting, which
was held yesterday in room 4B in
Newcomb Hall, was attended by
three Human Relation spokesmen,
five interested persons, and two
members of the press.