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...your editorial of February 24, you objected to the Ivy Films-HLU petition, also supported by the U.N. Council, for asking the Dean to act as a scheduling clearing-house on the grounds that student organizations should settle their own disputes and that the Dean is overly meddling in these matters...
Members of the Harvard Liberal Union will "storm" the State House Wednesday afternoon to testify against the Dorgan Bill, according to HLU Political Action Chairman Philippe Villers...
...would not bother to object if the Deans had not already shown too much love for meddling. Watson in the past has established great control over the film business, which includes limiting HLU and Ivy Films to a set number of pictures per month, ostensibly to protect the interests of other groups which prosper on film profits. This may seem like a good idea, to take the weaker groups under an official wing, but for that matter the HLU-Ivy Films request might seem a good idea...
Fortunately, Ivy Films and the HLU have not yet submitted their petition. We can only suggest that they tackle their own problems for a change, and that they renew the zeal for independence they once possessed. Surely, it would not be impossible to set up an inter-group committee among local film purveyors which would settle all these trivial disagreements whenever they appeared. Presumably, the Crimson Key's calender service could be of help...
Although the president of the Boston NAACP said he "would not protest" the HLU-HSMR showing of the controversial film, the City of Cambridge postponed decision on granting a license to the groups because "two or three" calls of protest had come into City Hall. John Harrington, head of the licensing bureau, said yesterday, "the only thing the city is worried about is an outbreak of violence, and if the police can be satisfied none will occur, the license will be granted." It was Harrington who held up the Boston Film Society's permit to show the film last week...