University of Virginia Library

As your editorial, "Bacchus on
Alderman Road," so aptly stated,
"The combo party held behind
Tuttle House after the game
Saturday," was, indeed, a "notable
event." We were overwhelmed with
the singular kindness shown us poor
cultural hermits. We are certain that
the counselors (and the others)
were rubbing their little hands
together with glee as they gaily
went about planning a party for us.
And what a delightful location they
chose! What could be better than
having a party at four o'clock in the
afternoon in our scenic parking lot?
After all, soul music is infinitely
more appreciable when one can,
while hearing the music, view the
splendors of stately Tuttle House,
and feel the heartburning qualities
of the GLASS FAT pervading the
atmosphere.

All of these splendors aside,
however, we were not at all
confused by the small turnout. A
reason for the lack of enthusiasm
became readily apparent after the
"Broken Record Soul Band" had
been playing for five minutes. One
immediately sensed a lack of
variety in their repetitive repertoire.
In addition to this, we were told
that a prime objective of this party
was to give the lucky inhabitants of
Alderman Road an opportunity to
become acquainted with the local
womanry. Those two entertaining
GO-GO Gays aside, we can only
surmise that the women in the area
either did not know about it, that
they did not care, or that the "Star
Trek" troupe destroyed them en
route.

We wish to take hearty
exception to your suggestion that
the Alderman Road dorms may
become the scene of as much
revelry as "Rugby Road-Mad..."

The brainwashing techniques we
have been subjected to ever since
entering the dorms have convinced
us that the dorms are meant to be
places of study and sleep. We like it
that way. If there are any cultural
left deviationists who feel socially
deprived, it is not difficult to find
"action" elsewhere.

If it is true, as you suggest, that
"perhaps" those who lament their
social exclusion as dorm residents
are not so numerous as their
spokesmen would have us believe,"
then perhaps it would be better to
leave the scene status quo as it is.

It would certainly be better than
dragging students against their
collective will into an unsettling
Rugby Road-Mad, replete with
inferior soul bands, invited by the
counselors, and mayhap a railroad
spur to complete the Mad Lane
atmosphere. We are not, by any
means, advocating social exclusion,
social stagnation, or antisocialism;
we are merely advocating
sociocultural autonomy, to which,
we believe, every student has a
right.