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Letters To The Editor

Black Recruiting Lags

While I can agree with the basic
point of Tom Collier's colloquium
on Black Recruitment, that is, that
Student Council as an organization
has not made enough efforts of its
own in recruiting black students, I
cannot agree with his assumption
that Council members, as individuals,
have done nothing. I need only
refer to the work of Bud Ogle on
the Virginia Council of Human
Relations as an example.

I was especially disturbed because
Mr. Collier made no mention
of the High School Recruitment
Committee. This group was organized
last spring and therefore
was not as effective as it could be
last year, but we hope that by
beginning our efforts this fall we
will have more success. A meeting
of all students interested in recruiting
black and low-income white
students will soon be announced. I
invite Mr. Collier and all concerned
students to participate.

In response to Scott Ferguson's
request for me to clarify my
characterization of Mr. Battle as a
"war-mongering aristocrat", two
points:

1. It was a misprint it was to
have read in revised version —
"cold-warrior aristocrat";

2. It was based primarily on the
fact that the only public speech Mr.
Battle has given in Charlottesville in
the last four years, prior to the
recent electioneering, was an unqualified
(as well as uniformed)
defense of administration policy in
Vietnam (Mr. Battle's Asian-expert
qualifications resting on his position
as Ambassador to Australia).

For reasons I will not bother
enumerating here I intend to vote
for the corporate-moderate Democratic
ticket rather than the feudalistic-neo-fascist-Agnewite-Republi-

can ticket. But I do so with no
enthusiasm and no illusions of
progressive change on the march. I
simply don't want to march backwards.

There once was a great white
elephant

Whose surname was given as Relevant.

Said he, when asked to relate

What linked his fortune to fate,

"Essentially I'm existentialant."