University of Virginia Library

Political Mouthpiece

It is a recurring source of
annoyance to me that I have
involuntarily subsidized the
propagation of the editor's political
opinions which spew forth on the
Cavalier Daily's editorial page.
Passing over the question of why
this particular person's political
opinions should be so glorified.

I ask why, by all that is
Jeffersonian, should I be forced
through the comprehensive fees to
contribute to a publication that has
made itself a political mouthpiece
(e.g. characterizing Mr. Nixon as
liar (last year), "monster" (last
semester), and the Vietnam war as
"lost" (last week).

May the same libertarian
wisdom which caused the Harvard
Crimson to become self-supporting
manifest itself soon at the
University.