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Some Intriguing Questions

(78)5. Should a certain small number of graduate students
be considered an integral part of the new campus? (Thus
constituting a third, "bridge," group between undergraduates
and faculty, and providing increased diversity, maturity, and
intellectual resourcefulness to our self-contained community.)

(79)6. Can we begin to plant in the minds of Albemarle
County school authorities the idea of locating an experimental
laboratory school on or adjacent to the Birdwood property?
(To give our undergraduates the chance to become better
learners by also being teachers, and to provide an alternative
learning situation for those Albemarle County families who
desire it for their children.)

(80)7. Should an attempt be made to incorporate the
maintenance, cleaning, and clerical people into the community
as part of the living/learning arrangement? (It would be
educational for the Scarsdale and Fairfax types among our
students to see a real live worker in his habitat off-hours, but
the reciprocal benefit may be absent.)

(80a)8. Should the University, in eventually making its final
plans for Birdwood, set aside for the most part the state
square-footage guidelines for building space of various kinds,
assuming that a truly imaginative plan for residential colleges
will attract private donors wishing to attach their names to
portions of the complex proposed? (Not being familiar with
the state limitations, I don't know if they are niggardly or
liberal, but as a taxpayer I would assume the former—in which
case the compromise buildings I have denounced might well be
our sad fate unless we devise a concept we believe very
strongly in and are then willing to noise it about wherever
private money is lurking.)