University of Virginia Library

Letters To The Editor

Fans Berated For Crass 'B. P.' All-American Publicity Paraphernalia

Although we realize the
great contribution Barry
Parkhill as made to Virginia
sports, we feel that the
exploitation of his image has
gone too far.

While Barry Parkhill post
cards were novel at best, the
"Barry Parkhill for President"
bumper stickers were
thoroughly distasteful. But the
latest attempt to capitalize on
the Cavalier star's popularity,
a record soon to be cut, titled
"Mr. B.P.," is degrading both
to the University and to the
basketball team.

Everybody is ecstatic about
the number six ranked "Hoos,"
and we are no exceptions. But
enthusiasm should not be
confused with crass
commercialism, and the various
articles of Parkhill
Paraphernalia overstep the
bounds of enthusiasm.

David A. Peifly

David S. Hecht, Jr.

David I. Zolet

Thomas Hall

Edward Berdick

Richard Hafter

Kirk Story

Wayne Peck

Charles Wolf

—Ed.)

No Formalities

One of the distinctive
features in an honor trial is
that it does not resort to all the
formalities practiced in a court
of law. Law books and
precedents, essential tools in
court, are of little help at an
honor trial. Complying,
however, with the principles of
procedural fairness an honor
trial is intended to give an
accused student the
opportunity and all the
latitude needed to defend
himself. The following two
references are offered to those
who feel strongly about Mr.
Carmona's forthcoming
defense and his grounds of
double jeopardy.

In: Asa S. Knowles,
Handbook of College and
University Administration:
Academic, p.1-16: "There has
been an attempt, thus far
unsuccessful and justifiably so,
on the part of some students to
claim the constitutional right
of double jeopardy as provided
for in the Fifth Amendment of
the United States Constitution
and the constitutions of
probably all the states in the
union. In the author's opinion,
this argument is not legally
supportable because the double
jeopardy clause applies only to
criminal prosecutions for
violations of state or federal
statutes, and no authority
whatsoever has been uncovered
which would even indicate that
the question of double
jeopardy has any bearing in
those situations where the
student is not only convicted
in a court for violation of
statute but, as a consequence,
is also suspended or dismissed
from an educational institution
pursuant to its rules and
regulations of student
conduct."

In June 1967, The
American Association of
University Professors, and
three other Associations
drafted the Joint Statement on
Rights and Freedoms of
Students. Under article V there
appears: "Students who violate
the law may incur penalties
prescribed by civil authorities
but institutional authority
should never be used merely to
duplicate the function of
general laws."

It is possible that these
references could have some
bearing on Mr. Carmona's case
were he tried by the Judiciary
Committee and not by the
Honor Committee.

Standing Joke

Depending upon how
serious the problem of getting
books is to you, the U. Va.
library is either a standing joke
or a nagging inconvenience.

But I was pleased to
discover that in spite of its
embarrassing inadequacies, our
library performs with success,
and, indeed, great distinction
one function: It may be unable
to satisfy the academic
demands of students and
faculty, it may be incapable of
maintaining quiet in its reading
rooms, (the Reference Room
in particular providing the
sundry entertainments of a
busy bus station), and it may
playfully maroon
stack-dwellers in darkness well
before the announced
closing-time (undoubtedly to
offer students a unique tactile
experience of the environment
as they grope for their books
and the exits); but it achieves a
glorious semblance of
efficiency in the administration
of fines and the epistolary