University of Virginia Library

Letters To The Editor

JAG School Should Move

If the Judge Advocate General's
School could be persuaded to move
off the grounds of the University,
the Law School could expand into
its buildings, saving the monetary
and psychological impact of the
proposed new Law School on
Copeley Hill.

The JAG School serves a useful
purpose for the military, but it is
not entirely in the spirit of
academic free inquiry which the
University was founded to
encourage. It, rather than a school
of the University, should leave, for
this reason and for practical ones of
space.

With our all-weather flashlight,
pencil, paper, and key in hand, we
took 5-M without a struggle. Our
hearts pounding as we entered the
dark recesses of the inner sanctum,
we made our way cautiously as the
grate clanged behind us. Though we
had both worked in the library for
over a year, we had never
scrutinized, volume by volume, the
forbidden fruits of Alderman. And
what we found shocked us! Almost
into silence. Feeling ourselves
indeed fortunate to have returned
unmolested, we would like to spare
others the trauma that wretched
place provoked. To that end, we
hereby publish the complete,
unadulterated, TRUTH! Here, in its
entirety, is what we found:

Twelve shelves, both sides PL
480 books.

Two shelves, both sides, PL 480
serials. (An example of the above
is: Textual criticism of the
Sudamacaritra, a Hindi KHAN
DAKAVYA of the 16th Century
A.D. by Haladharadasa.)

Esquire

Playboy

Two shelves, one side only,
genealogical books.

Fifteen books, none
pornographic, related to sex (now
in the process of being catalogued).

...And in the attic, even further
from the beaten path, we found:

Old set of Harvard Classics

Very old encyclopedias
(Britannica, Compton's etc.)

Outdated Who's Who in America
(duplicate).

PL 480 storage boxes

Air filters,

British events of the year,
summarized (1700's).

Fire extinguisher.

Old library fine receipt books.

Classification books for the
Dewey Decimal system.

Old shelving.

Broken chairs.

Boxes of cards (blank).

One box of assorted Classical
music scores (in poor condition).

Back copies of Publishers'
Weekly.

Copy 2 of the Saturday Review.

One empty safety match box
with picture entitled "The
Fireside" on cover.

Yours, in the interest of honor
among thieves,

The Cavalier Daily published a
very nice picture of Tom Gardner
in its February 26 edition. He was
demonstrating that the grapes
which he gingerly held in his hand
were "indeed of the California
variety, picked by the Mexican
farm workers striking for union
recognition since 1965."

Question. Which am I to
believe? 1) That the grapes are
vintage 1965, or 2) That they were
recently picked by the so called
"striking" workers?