University of Virginia Library

A Joke?

I always thought April Fool's
Day came in April, but apparently
not so, unless of course one
happens to believe that The
Cavalier Daily is a year-round joke.
I refer you to your miscellaneous
column of last week, in which was
printed daily advertisements
concerning mixers at Madison,
Longwood and Randolph Macon.

I realize in a town of
Charlottesville's caliber that your
people are hard-pressed to fill up
space, but you surely could have
chosen something better than ads
for mixers which were held last
week. Yes, its true-some of us
were disloyal and ignored the lure
of Homecomings at U.Va. and
headed down the road instead, only
to find we were 168 hours late.

Unable to admit that the C.D.
had committed 2 errors in the same
issue, some of us immediately
headed for another girl's school,
only to find that this time we were
169 hours late. So we got to laugh
twice at your joke.

Our thanks then for a wonderful
weekend, and the experience of
driving through nearly 200 miles of
lovely Virginia countryside, which
we were unfortunately not able to
see due to darkness. And just one
word of warning: any replication of
such a grave error will result in
cancellation of my subscription. So
beware. C.D..

James Anderson
College 2

Ed.)