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No Big Issue

Unlike most large universities,
Virginia has no big issue that has
crystallized student support for
warfare on the administration.
Black students are few and disorganized,
and residents of a state
replete with Quantico, Fort Meade,
and Norfolk Naval Base are not
likely prospects for anti-ROTC
campaigns.

But beneath the placid, apathetic
facade a new trend is
emerging from the students who are
no longer content to spend four
years here and leave. They want to
implement their ideals, and the
spoken ideals of the University,
before they leave.

Last year significant progress
was made on behalf of black
students when a part-time black
recruiter was hired to find worthy
black students here in Virginia, and
when a Transition Fund campaign
raised some of the funds necessary
to give them the academic awareness
to compete here in this
environment. But the real crunch
was political.