University of Virginia Library

Dear Sir:

To The Members of the Young
American For Freedom:

Your threat to seek a court
injunction against the University if
it closes for the Vietnam Moratorium
is quite a praiseworthy tactic as
compared to the liberation of
buildings or any other typical
student disruption. However, I find
your motives quite debase. Surely,
you freedom fighters are not in
support of the war, for if you were
I'm sure that you would be in
fatigues in Vietnam rather than
coats and ties in Charlottesville.
Rather your motives must be to
create a counter reacting to the
liberal-radical student headliners as
you were told to do at your
summer convention.

The trouble with characters like
you is that under the pretense of
defending freedom you take what
rights a democracy offers and twist
them around for your own selfish
purposes. True, no student should
be denied the right to go to classes,
but there are certain things which
are more important than our daily
routines. If you would look beyond
your own small circles you would
realize this.

I hope that if the administration
had any plans to take part in the
Moratorium that they won't be
intimidated by your antics, for it
would be a great loss to the
University not be "involved."

Alvin Schmaler
College 4