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...AVC spokesman said last night that it was scheduling a meeting of all veterans' families who contributed to the housing report to discuss the University stand. He added that the AVC hoped a committee would form to continue urging the University to change its veterans housing policy...
Wellington F. Scott '49 1L, who drew up and tabulated the questionnaires on which the AVC based its report, said he was pleased by the serious consideration the University gave the AVC recommendations to keep all available veterans housing, but that he was of course disappointed with the final decision...
Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's charges about Communists in the State Department were labelled as "Irresponsible slander and abuse" last night by Michael Straight, editor of new Republic and national chairman. Straight spoke before an audience of about 70 persons at a University AVC meeting at Littauer...
...AVC chairman said that McCarthy's accusations of innocent people will lead to the stifling of diversities of opinions. At this time, Straight declared, it is important that "our minds be unfettered by fear," and that we give vent to a "clash of ideas." Straight added that we must have "courage to be unafraid of this (McCarthy's) kind of smear...
...AVC chairman condemned not only "the substance, but also the methods and the motives," of Senator McCarthy's accusations. Straight claimed that McCarthy used FBI records which were filed "without reference to the truth" as source material for the charges. Much of the material, Straight stressed, was based on "malicious gossip" and "wild rumor...