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Ironic Irony

Perhaps while seeing the irony
of a barber shop on the corner
refusing to cut a Negro's hair within
100 yards of the "so-called bastion
of intellectuality of the state of
Virginia," you missed some other
ironies.

What about the irony of your
highly-moralistic editorial on page
two, on page one you find it
necessary to describe as Negroes
those who disrupted a University
concert.

And it is ironical that the
University newspaper has never
spoken about the fraternities being
a last bastion against integration at
the University.

Of course, you will say you
were only quoting Mr. Shipley on
the disturbance and point out that
no Civil Rights Act applies to
private associations.

How ironical!