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HEARING OF STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES

The Rector introduced to the Board seven students, Messrs. William L. Tazewell, Blaine T.
Phillips, Stuart Harris, H. Mebane Turner, Stuart Valentine, R. Wheat Wallenborn, and Twyman
Bowman, who had requested permission to confer with the Board at today's meeting

Mr. Tazewell read to the Board a gloomy but generalized statement bearing the signatures
of himself and his six associates. This statement, which was filed with the Secretary, referred
to alleged low student morale and a lack of student understanding and sympathy with the
administration as reflected in a meeting of a group of several hundred students who met at
Cabell Hall on the evening of May 27th

In the extended discussion that followed, a division of opinion appeared between those
of the students who favored more authority for the Student Council and those who felt that
the Student Council and the Director of Student Affairs had usurped disciplinary powers
that the President ought to delegate and leave to the Inter-Fraternity Council

Judge Barksdale expressed regret that the student committee had failed to meet with his
special committee of the Board at the time he had agreed to meet with them in May, and he
requested that Mr. Tazewell or Mr. Harris notify him as promptly as possible of a future date
convenient to the students for such a conference. Judge Barksdale requested also that each of
the seven students, regardless of whether he could come to the conference, should submit in
advance a detailed statement which should be specific as to both criticisms and suggestions