 | Board of Visitors minutes April 14, 1956 |  |
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS FEE
The President presented the following letter from Mr. Shea:
Charlottesville
2 March 1956
Mr. Runk and I have discussed various ways of operating the Cavalier Daily.
It is our opinion that it would be unwise to discontinue the current support of
the Daily by an assessment against the student body. The reason the fee was
initially instituted was because student subscriptions were limited largely to
entering students and one or two subscriptions per fraternity house. The older
boys just would not subscribe sufficiently to cover the operating cost.
It is our recommendation, if you agree, that the Board of Visitors be asked
to discontinue the practice of earmarking $4.00 of the $5.00 student publication
fee for the Daily and place the entire $5.00 under the control of the Student
Activities Committee, which you have recently appointed.
Under such a plan the Cavalier Daily, like any other student activity, would
have to justify the amount needed to run the Daily by submitting to the committee
a budget of salaries and expenditures, and the amount allocated would be limited
to that actually needed. The committee could thus disapprove expensive parties,
and large salaries and bonuses to staff members of the Daily. Any saving from
the $4.00 per student being currently allocated to the Daily would, thus, be
available to support other worthwhile student activities.
President
University of Virginia
After discussion the Board resolved: (1) that the present practice of earmarking $4.00 of
the publication fee for the Cavalier Daily and the remaining $1.00 for other student activites be
discontinued, and (2) that the entire fee of $5.00 be allocated to the Cavalier Daily and to
other student activities by the Student Activities Committee, which shall be charged with
authority and responsibility, under the President, to review and approve budgets submitted by the
Cavalier Daily and other student activities.
| Board of Visitors minutes April 14, 1956 | |