University of Virginia Library

The Pressure

There is one misapprehension
regarding the expansion of the
University which continues to
exist: the belief that the General
Assembly is forcing this expansion.
This is not so. At the
Student—Legislator Open Forum in
Richmond last spring, discussions
which state legislators indicated that
they are NOT the source of the
pressure to expand and, if anything,
tend to be opposed to the
expansion of this University.

The pressure to expand comes
from our own University
administrators — President Edgar F.
Shannon, Jr., and those he has
appointed — which for ten years
have fostered the very expansion
which they pretend to accept as
inevitable. Our administration is
creating this problem.