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Committee Plans Anti-War Action

By Terry Jasperson

In response to the invasion of Laos, 70
students met Monday night to revitalize
the anti-war movement at the University,
through an organization called the
Virginia Mobilization Committee.

Ken Lewis, Student Coordinator for
the National Student Association,
outlined the purposes of the anti-war
group. "To revitalize the anti-war
movement here, to distribute and work
on ways to implement the People's Peace
Treaty and to start making plans for thy
spring anti-war offensive."

The committee was formed because of
the inability of Student Council and the Union
of University Students to implement an
effective program for the People's Peace Treaty.

The Virginia Mobilization Committee has
already collected 400 individual signatures
along with the ratifications of Student Council,
the Union of University Students, the
Charlottesville Draft Resistance and the Friends
of Free Palestine.

Today through next Thursday, the
committee will be campaigning for signatures
through the first year dorms and at tables set
up in Wilson Hall, Cocke Hall and Newcomb
Hall.

In the near future the V.M.C. will seek
approval from the First Year Council,
Fraternities and most importantly the City
Council, Mr. Lewis said.

Another organizational meeting is being
called for this coming Monday night.