University of Virginia Library

Library Pilfering

The pilfering at the library alone
would reduce Ghengis Khan to
gaping admiration. Indeed the
student who passes four years here
as neither the victim nor
benefactor of some type of perfidy
is a unique, if not anti-social,
fellow.

The system has responded, or
'evolved' to be sure, but in a
manner more reminiscent of J.V.
Stalin than T. Jefferson. Stalin, we
recall, to carry out the morally
questionable dictates of the
'People' Will' (HIS Moloch)
vigorously curbed such 'bourgeois
freedoms' as 'life', thus substituting
the propagandistic hoopla of sheer
ruthless enforcement for an ethical
foundation.