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Letters To The Editor

Table Tennis Club Absurdly Illegal

Recently in the mail I
received a letter from C.
Wavely Parker, Attorney at
Law, representing six students,
accusing some sixty student
organizations (all of them) of
being "social and political and
non-tax exempt
organizations," whose
allocations violate among other

things "the constitutions of the
United States and the
Commonwealth of Virginia."

I not only find these
charges totally absurd (what is
so political about the Table
Tennis Club?) but also quite
libelous and insulting. I find it
hard to believe that, for
example, all of these 60
organizations are being charged
with the "unlawful taking of
private property for private
use."

I certainly hope that
Student Council replies firmly
to these libelous accusations
and hope that members of
these 60 clubs write Mr.
Parker a letter of concern.
Hoping that these ridiculous
objections come to an end
quickly, I am

People

TO: Dr. Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Associate English Professor

In regard to your letter of
February 26 in the Cavalier
Daily:

I would like to apologize
for the treatment your wife
was given at the Kiddy Corner
Day Nursery Center but I
really don't feel there is any
need for that.

Why is it that you have
fought for recognition and
worked your way up to the
position you are in, but
through this education and
fight you have not gained the
knowledge that all white
people do not have these
beliefs? Why condemn all
whites for the ignorance of a
few? All people will learn in
time what many already know.
What it takes is understanding
not pre-judgment.

I was brought up in an
anti-black home and held my
beliefs that people are people
no matter what color. As long
as I can remember, I have had
more really close friends that
were black rather than white.
In having black friends I have
totally accepted them as
people like myself and I have
also learned from them that
they themselves will not let me
forget they are black.

Why can't we as people
unite to open the eyes of
others rather than separating
ourselves in this effort?

I say "Black is Beautiful"
but why degrade the color
white when this can be
changed with your help and
mine?