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The Sally Hemings Vol 2, No. 2

The Charlottesville community will meet tonight at eight o'clock in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom in order to organize a bail fund for our city.

How are YOU fixed for bail money? Irrelevant question, innocent ones? The testimony of two "witnesses" who weren't a hundred per cent sure was enough to convict Tom Doran. To keep Doran on ice the court set bail at the exorbitant figure of $5000 in a town that has no bail bondsman. Not until today, when a Richmond bail bondsman received court certification to put up bond--for a $550 fee--was Doran released from Charlottesville's lovely medieval jail. Two hundred and twenty-five dollars are still needed to repay money loaned to meet the bondsman's fee. Please send checks for this purpose to:

Rev. Howard Gordon Box 3365 Charlottesville, Va. 22903

Last May's "campus disorders" raised several issues. University involvement with the military, Unicops carrying guns, de facto segregation. U.Va.'s administration could have taken a long look at these problems and acted to solve them. But we should be so lucky. To the administration, what bugs the Virginia establishment is far more important that what bugs the students. And to the Commonwealth puppeteers, intimidating statements of Lawn Order are far more impressive than real solutions to real problems. So, true to form, the Board of Visitors responded not with solutions but with rules, rules, and more rules. We note this without surprise. But we not particular points of these regulations with virtual awe.

Mr. Shannon states, in his report of Sept. 9, that the University of Virginia is a commnity of scholars in which the ideals of freedom of inquiry, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and freedom of the individual are sustained. It is committed to preserving the exercise of any right guaranteed to individuals by the Constitution. He then lists certain standards which belie this eminently reasonable introduction. In particular, No. 8 (which prohibits "disorderly conduct or lewd, indecent, or obscene conduct or expression"), No. 11 (which permits the University to intervene in "any violation of law in a way that affects the University's pursuit of its proper educational purposes") and the interm suspension (which sounds to us too much like preventive detention) are downright objectionable, to say the least.

Student Council, already half-way through a proposed "revision" of these rules, is mounting its white hourse more as a defender of the Boards' presumption than as a defender of the students' rights. Council will continue this consideration on Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. on the fourth floor of Newcomb Hall. If you have anything to say in self-defense, then y'all better show up.

The American Bar Award and a recordine of "Wil Turkey in the Straw" by John Philip Souse to: The Honorable Alan Spitzer, for meritorious service on the other side of the Bar.

REMEMBER THE MAYFLOWER: GIVE TO THE CHARLOTTESVILLE BAIL FUND