University of Virginia Library

In the Monday edition of the
Cavalier Daily it was stated that 29
fraternities supported a statement
that was in favor of a strike at the
University. It was also reported that
four fraternities did not support
this statement. We are one of those
four fraternities.

In the past two days we have
received a sizeable amount of
negative feedback because of this
statement. Since the article implied
that we did not support the strike
we felt it necessary to clarify our
position.

We have no specific restriction
in our charter that prohibits this
type of action. However, it was
decided by a majority of the
members that as an organization
The Sigma Phi Society should
neither take an affirmative nor a
negative position on this political
issue; although individually 31
members support the strike, 8
oppose it, and 4 members' sentiments
are unknown.