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> After months of resisting the demands of students and faculty, Frank L. Hereford Jr., president of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, yielded last week. He resigned his membership in the nearby Farmington Country Club, an institution that denies admission to blacks. Hereford stated that he had hoped to change the club's restrictive practices by retaining his membership and working from within. Even when Farmington members voted overwhelmingly to uphold the club's racial rules (TIME, Feb. 9), Hereford hung on, hoping that the Farmington board of directors would reject the vote. But after the board failed to do so, Hereford said he could no longer accept the club's "segregationist policy" and quit. Eighteen other club members joined Hereford in handing in their resignations, including Jill Rinehart, a Charlottesville councilwoman and wife of the president of Farmington.

> At Bennington College in Vermont, Joseph S. Iseman, 59, a New York lawyer and member of the school's board of trustees, was named acting president to replace Gail Thain Parker, 33. Parker and her husband Thomas, 33, vice president of the college, had resigned after heavy pressure from the faculty. Only three years earlier, the couple had been welcomed to the campus as a young, innovative team. Since last fall, however, many faculty members had refused to work with President Parker, charging that she was uncommunicative and aloof. They were particularly aroused by a Parker report on the future of the college that, among other recommendations, called for an end to the tenure system at Bennington. Still bitter about the dispute, Gail Parker says: "I quit because it wasn't worth it. I'm not willing to be abused unless I'm damned sure there will be some real gain." Iseman's tenure will also be short. He plans to leave in June, and the search is already on for a new president.

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