University of Virginia Library

Council Creates Bail Fund
To Post Bond For Students

Student Council has established a Bail
Fund which now has $500 available to
any Virginia student who is arrested. This
fund provided 11 percent of the bond for
each of the six students arrested last
week, which was needed to pay the
bondsman.

A separate checking account has been
established which requires the signature
of either the Student Body President or
Student Council Treasurer on a check.
Any student who is unable to get the
money to pay the bondsman now need
only contact either Kevin Mannix at
295-3457 or Alan Botsford at 973-6541.

The $500 has been taken from the
Student Activities Fee, and it is planned
that $500 should be allocated from the Student
Activities Fee to the bail fund until a
reasonable sum is developed.

In addition to this Student Council Fund an
independent Legal Defense Fund has been
established which is made up entirely of
donations. The Legal Defense Fund is intended
for the use of any individual in the
Charlottesville community who needs, in the
minds of the Council and concerned students
(such as the current Union of University
Students) to be defended in court or bailed out.

Whenever the Legal Defense Fund is to be
used a public meeting will be called, open to all
members of the community, to decide how the
fund will be allocated, unless the President of
the Student Body must take quick action in an
extreme situation.

Presently the Legal Defense Fund has $236
in an account at the National Bank and Trust
Company which requires the signature of either
Mr. Mannix or Mr. Botsford.

Donations will continue to be taken for the
Legal Defense Fund and it is hoped that
eventually the fund will be administered by a
council made up of members of both the
University and Charlottesville communities.