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Letters To The Editor

Remit The Money Ralph, And Take Your Choice

(The following letter was
sent to Ralph E. Main, Director
of Housing, and to our offices.
–Ed.) Re: Mutual Contract
Obligations; Commode Seats
and Lampshades.

In response to your
December 6 and 11 billings for
the replacement of one of the
commode coverings in Dobie
210, we have resolved the
disparity between the
reparation liabilities and the
Housing Office's negligence to
fulfill its contract.

We are sure you fully
recognize your obligation to
provide lampshades for the
central living chamber of our
accommodations, and that our
six requests for said items were
not satisfied. We can appreciate
the difficulties which the
Housing Office has to undergo
in the performance of its
function, so we have decided to
help you by relinquishing your
responsibility over such
particulars, as well as the
obliteration of our invoice.

The payment of our
collective bill for $16.64 has
therefore been transferred to a
special trust fund for the
purchase of three highly
desired lampshades. We can
understand your gratitude for
such a profitable solution and
we also look forward to the
installation of our furnishings.
As Mr. Jefferson once said,
"Delay is preferable to error."

Enthusiasm

UVA basketball fans have
been treated to a cohesive,
thrilling basketball team during
the past two seasons. Are we
now spoiled?

The 1972-73 team is not
endowed with a quick, 6-10
(bless him) Scott McCandlish.
It does not have four players
who have played nearly as one
unit for four years to give it
that dare to develop quality
called cohesion. So we fans
compare, criticize and sit
silently on our behinds as a
much talented bunch of great
guys bust their guts trying to
put it all together this year.
The lack of enthusiasm on the
part of the fans in U Hall this
year has been surprising.

What is a fan? Is he
someone who only attends
games of and cheers for
consistent winners? I think
not True fans have filled RFK
Stadium for years to cheer
their beloved "Skins", long
before Lombardi and Allen.
Enthusiastic fans help win
games: in RFK stadium or in U
Hall. I don't buy that line: "We
will cheer after the team has
shown us something to cheer
about."

Two years ago, opening
against a sophomore laden,
nationally prominent Duke
team, U Hall was packed as a
result of great promotion. Our
team had not been a winner,
and its potential super star was
still felt by many to be a
figment of Bill Gibson's
imagination. But the Hall was
filled, and it rocked. The ACC
Atmosphere born in that game,
helped crack the Duke
sophomores in the last two
minutes of the game, and the
rest is history. That
atmosphere and that
enthusiasm must be at each
home contest. It will spur our
current team to greater efforts
and help "crack" the
opposition. It will actually help
win games.

Every true fan should show
up ready to cheer his head off
for the Cavaliers this
Saturday against State. If
you had planned to come and
sit quietly, please give your
ticket to someone less reserved.

Custer?

General George Armstrong
Custer once summed up his
plans for making peace with
the Indians by saying; "We'll
bring peace to this land if we
have to kill every last one of
them."

Isn't it comforting to know
that our president's solution
for forcing the
North Vietnamese to make
more "reasonable" concessions
at the Paris talks follows the
guidelines of such an
exemplary American
peacemaker as Custer?