Word: abolitionism
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The Freshman Union Committee last night unexpectedly followed the recommendations of its own Smoker Investigation Committee and voted 18 to 4, with two abstaining, to move for immediate and complete abolition of the Smoker.
The purpose of the visit by the Argentines and Uruguayans was to express their "solidarity" for university autonomy and to ask their respective governments for more competent professors instead of political appointees, freedom of choice in buying books, and an abolition of government spy networks in the universities.
The report urged abolition of the Smoker if the proposed vacation between terms passes the Faculty and Corporation. This vacation would be supplemented by a class function in the fall. Should the vacation plan be rejected, however, the report approves a modified, toned down, Smoker.
Of 26 entries surveyed, 11 reported clear majorities favoring the Smoker in its present form, nine supported a modified Smoker, and only one recommended abolition of the function. The other five were undecided. The between-terms vacation was not, however, listed as a possible alternative to the Smoker.
Their proposals, which were voted down by narrow margins, included censure of State Senator John E. Powers and other Democrats for their civil rights records, abolition of the Massachusetts Commission on Communism, and an attack on Attorney General George Fingold's recent "censorship drive."