ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 26, 1991                   TAG: 9103260473
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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STUDENTS TAXED, LACK REPRESENTATION

YOUR EDITORIAL March 17 concerning student protests at Washington and Lee over the city's plans to tax student cars insinuates that all W&L students are rich kids driving expensive cars.

That might have been true 10 years ago, but now W&L takes pride in our academic merits, not our bank books. We didn't get to be the 15th-ranked school among national liberal-arts colleges for nothing, and our freshman class, with an average SAT of 1,300, reflects that.

Why should we pay taxes without representation? Is the city willing to let 2,000 students become registered voters? In a city the size of Lexington, 2,000 voting in a bloc might change the way things are done. And why should we pay taxes twice, since we are all required to pay them in our hometowns?

LEE A. RORRER W&L '93 LEXINGTON 


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