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Undoubtedly some men have signed the petition but of a feeling that the Council has been acting in bad faith in the rules question; undoubtedly many Council men feel that the petition is designed to discredit the Council's actions on the proposed rules. Both are wrong; there is no essential connection between the two issues: rules and Council abolition...
...University with the community are maintained." Hence "the Dean's Office must be enabled to keep track of what the various organizations are doing" so that it can prevent any acts by an organization that "would have particularly undesirable consequences. . . or which bring or threaten to bring discredit upon the University...
Three questions promptly arise. Who is to determine whether a given consequence is desirable or undesirable? And who is to determine whether a given act brings credit or discredit to the University? Should public opinion be allowed to affect the University's relations with its extra-curricular activities? Implicit in the proposed rules is the belief that this determination should be made by the Dean's Office, with the advice of the Student Council. This is certainly a far cry from the traditional College attitude towards extra-curricular activities. Not only is the new approach administratively far more complicated than...
Secondly, Church's allegation that YPH took the initiative in opposing the Loyalty Certificate in order to discredit the armed forces and to promote their infiltration by "communists," and that the many other groups, including the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who subsequently joined the protest, are dupes of a red conspiracy to sell atomic secrets to the U.S.S.R. is a shocking falsehood. YPH opposed and opposes the NROTC certicate and the loyalty program of which it is a part because we believe that this program goes beyond any justifiable measures of national security in such a fashion...
...Communist Party, realizing its unpopularity today, is returning to the popular front notion which gained for its such important victories as the acquisition of atomic secrets and the fall of Eastern Europe. Let us remember that the object of JRC and HYP participation in distributing these petitions is to discredit our armed forces and to ease communist infiltration into them if possible. the ultimate purpose: aid to the steady tide of Soviet expansionism. I do not care to aid or give comfort to anyone who keeps such an end foremost in all his actions. Francis L. Church '50. President, Free...