University of Virginia Library

Declined Standards

As the students and faculty are
closeted off in their own separate
areas how can one expect them to
act responsibly to one another? As
the individual entering classes are
weaned on the Jeffersonian
concepts of a community of
scholars and then roughly ejected
from that community at the close
of their first session who can expect
them to believe in the precepts of
higher education? As the individual
student is thwarted more and more
by off-grounds housing, parking
impossibilities, inadequate dining
facilities, the crush of pedestrian
traffic, and the impersonal nature
of large overcrowded classes can
there be any doubt as to whether
the standard of education has
declined? Then how can the
administration have the gall to
pursue this mad gambit?