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Harvard Young Democrats and Young Republicans will debate tonight whether the House Un-American Activities Committee should be abolished. The debate will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Sever 17 and is open to the public. A recent HYDC resolution accused the committee of "violating civil liberties...
According to Michael J. Piore '62, president of the HYDC, the conference is designed to impress upon the participants the need for considering the problems of political philosophy while in college, rather than leaving these problems completely to professional politicians...
...relatively calm debate over the resolution turned into chaos, when attendance proved one short of the 34 members required for a quorum. At one point, supporters of the resolution desperately asked the CRIMSON reporter on the scene to join the HYDC...
...separate resolution, the HYDC stated its reasons for wishing to eliminate HUAC. It accused the Committee of "violating civil liberties" and placing "undue emphasis on defaming witnesses, and noted the film "Operation Abolition" as an example of HUAC's "propaganda...
...HYDC's meaningless outburst of sound and fury simply confirms popular student opinion that a curious film of unreality is spread over the doings of student politicians. If Harvard really is a of bed of political apathy, it is in large part because its politicians are nothing to get excited about...