University of Virginia Library

In reference to your smashing
"Bomber" headline and letter
printed in last week's final Thanksgiving
edition, may I suggest that
should another scare come to
Cabell Hall, your newspaper refrain
from slandering individuals
who have only been "charged."

However, since you have shown
the other eight-thousand students
that you mean business, that you
can shame individuals who, the day
before, were "members of social
fraternities as well as cheerleaders"
(positions doubtless held on high
by your newspaper), I sincerely
wonder whether or not the
situation will arise again.

True, a bomb scare is more
serious than painting Beta Bridge—
another of your more regular subjects—but
I am sure that even Mr.
Jefferson would agree that the
private rights of the individual
have been murdered. The argument
may follow that whoever
was responsible for the bomb scare
also inconvenienced and infringed
upon the right of the rest of the
student body. It is my personal
opinion that students enjoyed the
action of their classes
more than those who suffered.

Finally, the question must be
posed as to why the situation was
not handled in the same manner
as are honor violations. The coverage
in last Wednesday's Cavalier
Daily seemed to break the traditional
pattern of not revealing
names and incriminating information.

Unless University students see
themselves as interested in gossip
rather than the preservation of
individual rights, there is no need
for further demonstrations of yellow-journalism.

Henry Zinman
College 2

While the Honor Committee does
not release the names of students
dismissed from the University, the
local police do make public their
records of arrest. It is customary for
newspapers to publish these when
the charges are of significant public
interest. The bomb scare arrest story
appeared in the Daily Progress, by the
y, before The Cavalier Daily
printed it.—Ed.