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Parking, Bus Permits Now On Sale

The Department of Parking
and Transit has announced that
parking permits for summer
session students are on sale. A
bus pass accompanies that
permit, allowing the holder to
ride University transit buses
around the Grounds and to and
from classes. The buses will
continue on regular schedules
Monday through Friday.

Reserved parking spaces are
available at eight dollars a
month. A student parking
permit for the entire summer
session, June 19 through
August 21, costs four dollars.
Permits for the first semester
of summer school cost $2.50,
and for the second semester,
July 9 through August 21,
$3.25.

Permits will be sold at the
Department of Parking and
Transit on Brandon Ave.

Bus passes are also available,
at $2 for the first semester,
$2.50 for the second semester,
and $3 for the entire summer
session.

Picnic

The University community
is cordially invited to attend a
picnic in the Dell below
Bonnycastle House tonight at 6
P.M.

Beer and grinders will be
served. Admission is $1.

$921,260 Gift

The University has received
nearly $1 million from the
estate of the late Mrs. Helen B.
Barnes, it was announced
recently.

The gift of $921,260 is not
restricted to any particular use.
Mrs. Barnes was the wife of the
late Donald C. Barnes,
chairman of the Vepco board
for many years.

Board of Visitors member
C. Waller Barrett has also given
$11,000 to Alderman Library
for the purchase of Literary
Americana.

Students Sentenced

Three University students
received 12-month probation
May 31 after being arrested
earlier in May on marijuana
possession charges.

Charlottesville Municipal
Court Judge D.B. Marshall gave
the probation to fourth-year
men David Wright and Peter
Dierks and third-year man Paul
Lumbye. The three were
arrested in a raid on the ZBT
fraternity house.

Two other students who
were arrested in the raid,
third-year men Paul Dawkins
and Edward Chastka, were
scheduled for hearings May 31
but their cases were continued.
Both were charged with
possession of marijuana with
intent to distribute.

Suspect

A 22-year old Scottsville
man charged along with two
other men and a juvenile with
abducting and raping a 20-year
old University student March
19, pleaded not guilty Monday
in Albemarle County Circuit
Court.

Trial for the defendant,
James Melvin Johnson, was
scheduled for June 27.

During a preliminary
hearing April 26 in Albemarle
County Circuit Court, James
Gray Livesay, 23, confessed to
the abduction and rape. He
said he, Johnson, David Jerome
Skeen, 18, and a 16-year old
juvenile, forced the girl into a
car on the Grounds, drove out
in the country, and raped her
repeatedly.

Livesay, who is expected to
plead guilty, is scheduled for
trial August 8. Skeen's trial is
set for July 10.

The case against the juvenile
will be sent to a Special Circuit
Court grand jury for
indictment as an adult.

The three adults are
currently in custody in lieu of
$50,000 bond each.