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Enforcement

The only way left for
enforcement of strict parietal
hours, and the only practical
means, would be to set up a
University Vice Squad between the
Office of Student Affairs, and the
Department of Security. This vice
squad would have only a minimum
number of assignments as one
dormitory raid would insure that
students would be more careful
next time. One can picture D. Alan
Williams. Ray Houchens, and Wade
Bromwell, accompanied by several
security guards surrounding let's
say Humphreys Dormitory, at 3
a.m. on the Saturday of Easters.
Mr. Williams with a loud speaker, would begin the raid.

"All right, Humphreys. The place
is surrounded. No one try to
escape. This is The University Vice
Squad and we're checking for
violation of parietal hours and
operation of a bawdy house. Stay
in your rooms while we come check
all written permission slips.

The security guards would then
swarm over the halls and arrest any
girl who was under 21 and did not
have a written permission slip from
her parents to allow her to visit a
boy's room.

One would imagine that only
one raid of this type would be
necessary as students from that
time on would be scared stiff to
enter a room of a member of the
opposite sex without a written
permission from her parents. By the
means then, the moral standards of
these students of the residents of
Virginia would be protected and
upheld within our free society.