THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, September 4, 1995              TAG: 9509040056
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                    LENGTH: Medium:   52 lines

STUDENT WHO SUED U.VA. HAS ENROLLED THERE A YEAR AFTER HURT FEELINGS HAD HEALED, BOTH SIDES TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT EACH OTHER.

A young West Virginia man who sued the University of Virginia last year because the school rescinded his admission has enrolled at the school.

Admissions officials rescinded Raymond Glover's acceptance about a week before freshman orientation last year. Officials had received Glover's final quarterly report card from his Charleston, W.Va., high school and the grades had taken a dive.

Glover, 20, was admitted to the Charlottesville school this semester. He spent the past year at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., where he attained a 3.83 grade-point average while taking six courses each semester and serving as editor-in-chief of a weekly student newspaper.

``I guess I wasn't the misfit that they thought I was,'' Glover said.

Glover said he failed two classes in his last quarter of high school because he needed to work 35 hours a week to earn college tuition money. Glover was president of his high school National Honor Society chapter and founder of the school newspaper.

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III last fall called Glover's lawsuit ``an unjust and gratuitous assault'' on the university. He said Glover had not satisfactorily explained the grade drop to admissions officials.

Glover dropped his lawsuit when Marshall heard about his situation and offered to accept him as a student at the 11th hour. Marshall President J. Wade Gilley gave Glover a scholarship.

But Glover said ``curiosity got the better of me'' and he decided to reapply to Virginia in the spring as a transfer student.

``He was competitive as an out-of-state transfer applicant, so he was offered admission,'' said Dean of Admissions John A. Blackburn. ``We're always happy to have students who do well in college and transfer.''

For his part, Glover now says he accepts Virginia's explanation for rescinding his admission the first time around.

``I understand I didn't have the grades that met the guidelines,'' Glover said. ``I made a choice between making money and making the grades and I should have struck a better balance.''

But there's one thing he won't forgive.

``What I hope they never do again is notify someone a week before they're supposed to get there,'' Glover said. by CNB