University of Virginia Library

College Historian Assumes New Responsibilities

By MARK HOGREFE

Among the Student Council offices to
be filled in next week's elections is the
college historian, a post recreated last
year after a decade's absence to lighten
the college secretary's workload.

The historian's duties include recording
the minutes of Honor Committee
meetings and trials and voting in
committee decisions during trials.

He also must see that all trials are
tape-recorded, that the tapes are properly
filed and coded, and that all evidence
from the trials is either filed or destroyed.

The historian must also keep a
scrapbook of all material printed by or
about the Honor Committee during the
year.

Present historian Dick Price explained,
"When the school expanded so fast, it
produced an additional workload for the
chairman and vice chairman of the
committee, so that the office of historian
was reinstituted to reduce the workload
on the two primary officers."

Mr. Price said the office dates back to
Student Council's beginning in 1909 but
it was phased out "in the late fitties" due
to lack of work.

The college secretary then assumed his
duties, but the secretary's responsibilities
as Bad Check Committee chairman
expanded so the historian was again
needed.

Mr. Price has served as chairman for
"five or six honor trials" since assuming
office last year.

The historian is called upon to chair
when the committee's three superior
officers are ineligible to serve.

Mr. Price will chair the third Richard
Carmona retrial because the Honor
Committee chairman, vice chairman and
secretary each chaired the previous trials
and according to committee rules a
committee officer can only chair one
retrial.

Candidates for the office are first-year
student Nancy Noell, and third-year men
Paul Garvey and Steve Edwards.

Mr. Edwards commented,
"Performance in the past has been
effective but limited. As expansion strains
our Honor System, this office must grow
in importance and responsibility."

Photo by Bob Humphrey

College Historian Dick Price

Council Recreated His Post Last Year