University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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The Class of 1968 may well be the last group to know the old University, renowned in song and in the memories of alumni, but now as irre- vocably gone as the duck races at Carroll's Tea Room or last year's Easters. ln its place is a new University, not only a larger and a more bustling one, but in essence, it seems, a different one. Any University is a living organism changing from year to year, but the sort of evolution the Class of '68 has witnessed seems nothing less, to borrow from Darwin, than the appearance of a new species. Whether this new University is a better place than the old is a question often debated over coffee at the Colonnade Club or over beers at the Raven Room. We think it is a better place. The University's first duty has always been to educate its stu- dents, and it is doing a better job of that today, by all recognized standards, than when the Class of '68 came to Charlottesville. But what of less easily measured considera- tions-the atmosphere, the manners, the quality of life? To attempt to answer this, we need to examine this widely discussed change more closely. First of all, the University is different physical- ly. lVlr. Jefferson's buildings, wearing their age so well, still stand, but all about them new struc- tures are rising-some conforming in red brick simplicity, others aggressively modern. Ancient trees are being toppled, new walks and roads are being cut in the red Albemarle clay, the buzz and rattle and crash of the construction crews are competing with the instructors for attention. Some old structures have been transformed- the Commons now houses the Registrar-while others have been put to make-shift use pending their demolition-the Amphitheatre, for exam- ple, is ending its days as a parking lot. The Uni- versity has drawn up an ambitious and contro- versial Master Plan, calling for study and living complexes that will reshape the face of the Grounds, save for the Jeffersonian center. Al- though the University regrettably has failed to produce a modern building of first-rate design- with the possible exception of the new chemistry block-the opportunities for architectural excel- lence in the next few decades will be numerous. 4-

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An even more noticeable change is the greater number of students-especially to anyone who has ever tried to park around the Grounds lately. Enrollment by 1975 or 1980 is talked of in terms of 15,000 or more-a size not uncommon for state universities, but one which causes conster- nation among the admirers of the relative inti- macy of the present Hacademical village. As the University grows larger, it inevitably grows more impersonal. Students discovered this the first day of the session when the Reg- istrar presented them with that nasty little computer card marked Do not FS!lVlt . These ominous letters were deciphered at the bottom ofthe card to mean told, spindle, or mutilate. Do not FS!lVlt, indeed! There have been sug- gestions that someone should FS, not to men- tion Nlt, the bureaucrat who ever devised that message. The bureaucrats are multiplying, however, and the many items of business once handled in a casual, personal sort of way are now inextrica- bly bound in red tape. The level of personal ser- vice likewise has fallen, from the practically non- existent maid service to the stale food dis- pensed by metallic blocks of vending machines.