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Letters To The Editor

Recruitment Of Black Students

Dean Williams' recent
statements which focused attention
on University efforts to increase the
number of black students on the
undergraduate level are profoundly
disturbing if one regards this matter
with the sense of urgency it
deserves. If, as Dean Williams
maintains, the summer programs as
they are presently constituted are
the key to intensifying the
recruitment of black students, then
the University of Virginia will
indefinitely remain the essentially
lily-white institution with which we
are all familiar. For, however
beneficial the effect of the Upward
Bound program may be on the lives
of its participants, its total impact
on the University Community is
negligible and represents an
inadequate effort.

Until Dean Williams and his
administrative colleagues are willing
to seriously consider more effective
ways of attracting black
undergraduates to the University
(e.g. experimentation with
admissions standards, the hiring of
a black Admissions Officer, the
development of a vigorous
recruitment program, the provision
of significant scholarship
incentives) and are moved to regard
integrated education as a matter of
the highest priority, we will wait in
vain for a concrete realization of
the ideals with which President
Shannon memorialized Dr. Martin
Luther King last spring. The bland
reiteration of familiar problems is
no substitute for creative and
effective action to diminish the
racial injustice which has been
tolerated for far too long in this
University

Radar Traps

Regarding the article by Mike
Russell on Charlottesville radar
traps, one solution by the
anonymous law student is
conspicuously absent: slow down
and obey the law!

The solutions open to a violator
of the speed laws offered in the
article, questioning the radar
accuracy or fleeing the scene both
avoid the central issue: obeying
versus violating the law.

The same page of this, October
2, issue interviewed Dean Monrad
Paulsen of the Law School who,
referring to law students, said:
"Students want to participate in
society." It appears that Dean
Paulsen has one student who wants
to circumvent rather than
participate in society. Or perhaps
familiarity with the law places him
above it.

The suggestion that at this time
of civil strife the police should
ingratiate themselves to the public
is laudable. There is no better way
to do this than to fairly, actively
enforce the laws regardless of the
distaste it may incur in persons who
invest their time in alibiing their
illegal actions rather than in
obeying or changing existing
statutes. The anonymous student
would have escaped the "insidious"
trap by merely slowing down!

'Schenkkan Plan'

In covering the Student
Council's consideration of motions
concerning self-government in the
dormitories, The Cavalier Daily
reporters and headline writers have
been very kind to me personally.
Especially since this has not always
been so this fall, I do not wish to
appear ungrateful. But I would like
to correct an impression these
articles may have left. I am not the
sole or even the primary author of
the so-called "Schenkkan plan."
Rick Evans, the President of the
Council, asked me to draw up
proposals on parietal and other
rules on the way back from the
Mountain Lake weekend. I passed
the buck back partially by asking
Mr. Evans over to join several other
Councilmen, University Party
president Randy Ross, Bruce Wine,
and other students in drafting the
motions presented to the Council
three weeks ago. There they have
been and are being debated at
length. The "Student Council plan"
would be more in line with The
Cavalier Daily's long tradition of
accurate reporting and even-handed
editorial comment.