University of Virginia Library

Questionnaire
Student Organizations

like to the dropped from
the as well as
organizations they would
like to see kept on the
.

From the answers to these
questions, a "pattern" is
expected to develop, said Mr.
Sabato. This pattern is
somewhat dependent on the
collective knowledge (or
ignorance) about student
activities questionnaire
recipients are supposed to
possess.

Organizations who are
not reaching a broad base of
students at the University will
be those most unfamiliar to the
recipients," he explained.
Consequently these groups are
expected to be most likely to
appear on the "drop list,"
whereas organizations known
to the students should not.

While the students
completing the questionnaire
do not have any final decision
on these questions, neither does
Student Council, really, since
their decisions are subject to
appeal to, and reversal by, the
Board of Visitors. The most
recent example of this was the
Board's reversal of Council's
$45 allocation to the Gay
Student Union.

In this light, the present
survey may, as Mr. Sabato
stated, "hurt some
organizations." But it may also
help others receive more
adequate funding; or, in the
long run, it may do little to
actually change the present
distribution of allocations. The
worth of the survey, then, rests
not in the results, but in the
potential effect those results
will have, if any.