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William A. Rusher, the Buckley conservative who founded the Harvard Young Republican Club in 1947, values decorum. Rusher, now publisher of the National Review returns to Harvard every year to speak to today's Republican Club. Last year he said he was pleased to see all the males who had come to hear him without beards and with ties...
...Executive Committee of the Harvard Republican Club, which runs and almost is the club, is not quite so prissy and conservative as Rusher might wish. Room 167 of Memorial Hall basement, where the committee meets, has been entered on occasion by a bearded Republican. Problems like alcoholism and punishment for parietal breaking are not unknown in recent Executive Committee history...
...Executive Committee attracts a particular type of person. Leslie A. Levis '67, one of the club's first Radcliffe members (the club merged with the Radcliffe Republican Club in the spring of 1966) said last year, "Executive Committee members all look like Midwesterners." A Jewish committee member from New York seems more like the Wyoming rancher Republican than other New Yorkers. And the president of the club, Jay B. Stephens '68, is an earnest Iowan...
These are not the sort of people who make headlines, at least not as undergraduates, and to most Harvard undergraduates the Republican Club seems lifeless because of the lack of excitement it generates. But the club is not unexciting to those who make it part of their Harvard career...
...attack was alledgedly provoked by an incident earlier in the night at the Waldorf cafeteria. After leaving the Pi Eta Club, Pieper and Vernaglia entered the cafeteria, where they saw a group of six or eight unidentified men "bothering" two other Harvard students and their dates, one of Pieper's friends said. Pieper and Vernaglia then tried to intervene, and asked the group to leave the couples alone...