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Council Seeks To Improve
Black Recruiting Program

By Peter Shea
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Acting in response to criticism voiced
by Tom Collier in yesterday's Cavalier
Daily, the Student Council voted last
night to take steps to further its efforts to
improve the University's program of
black recruitment.

Councilman Kevin Mannix proposed
the motion upon the recommendation of
Council President Bud Ogle.

In supporting the motion, Mr. Ogle
said that while he feels that the Council
has attempted to initiate concrete steps
to aid the recruiting program, he agreed
with Mr. Collier's criticism that the
Council has been too concerned with the
University's supposedly racist image.

Five Points

In acting to answer this criticism, Mr.
Ogle suggested taking five steps, all of
which were approved by the Council.

First, to show that the Council has
indeed been concerned with presenting
specific programs to aid equal opportunity, the
Council decided to "direct the President to
draw up a comprehensive report of Student
Council recommendations and actions to
promote equal opportunity at the University."

The Council decided on three other steps to
continue its efforts at promoting equal
opportunity. First, it instructed its Committee
on Equal Opportunity to "consult with the
Rotch Committee or members thereof and
make recommendations for increased efforts to
promote and provide equal opportunity at the
University."

Report Available

The reports outlined above would be made
available to members of the University
community.

Further, the Council also agreed that "the
members of the Council commit themselves to
spending at least one evening per month
discussing all relevant issues with other students
in the dormitories and fraternity houses,
although emphasizing the equal opportunities
question.

Finally, the motion asked that "the Council
commit itself to mobilize student support, to
encourage Mr. Hereford and the Board of
Visitors to reconsider priorities, and to escalate
the goals and efforts to increase the number of
black students at the University."

Acting on a motion tabled last week, the
Council officially passed a motion suggesting
that the Student Activities Committee and the
Council conduct a re-evaluation of the Student
Activities Fee.

The proposal, introduced by Mr. Ogle,
suggested making a number of changes. First, it
would designate one auditor to review the
books of all student organizations requesting
funds from the Student Council.

It also suggested making the SAC strictly an
appellate body with the Council making the
official allocations. The SAC's make-up would
also be revised such that the Council would
appoint five student members to the SAC with
the President serving automatically as one of
the five appointees.

Flexible Fees

Rather than set up set percentages or
amounts of the Student Activities Fee for
allocation to the Honor Committee or the
Judiciary Committee as was originally proposed
by Mr. Ogle, the Council decided to recommend
that these bodies' fee allocations be
flexible.

However, rather than include it with the
Honor and Judiciary Committees in granting it
a flexible budget as was also suggested by Mr.
Ogle, the Council voted 17-4 to recommend
classifying The Cavalier Daily as a regular
student organization forcing the newspaper to
fight for funds with the other groups.

Presently, The Cavalier Daily is allocated its
funds by the SAC and then the remaining
money is divided amongst the other organizations.

New Committee

In other action concerning student money,
the Council voted to establish a committee to
examine the current spending of the $122
Student Comprehensive Fee and to prepare a
working plan by which the Council could
assume the responsibility of collecting those
funds.

Presently, the general outlay of this money
is $30 for Student Health, $25 for the Faculty
retirement fund, $20 for Athletics, $15 for the
amortization of the bond for University Hall,
$14 for Newcomb Hall, and $7 each for
Alderman Library and the Student Activities
Fund.

The motion passed easily.

Mr. Ogle reported that only one of the
gubernatorial candidates, Linwood Holton, had
responded to the Council letter asking them to
clarify their stand on certain issues pertaining
to the University. Mr. Ogle was then instructed
to write another letter to the winner.

Finally, also on the political front, the
Council recognized two new organizations, The
Friends of Spiro and its counterpart the
Organization of Professional Agitators and
Effete Intellectual Snobs.