Word: hyrc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anthony C. Beilenson '54, chairman of the Student Council's Committee on Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom, charged yesterday that Young Republican head Roger A. Moore '53 had "discredited his organization by making untrue and conflicting statements" in giving reasons why the HYRC refused to back the committee in its support of President Pusey's recently taken stand on McCarthyism...
Beilenson stated that last Friday, "Moore said that the HYRC 'did not give the statement formal endorsement because some of its passages were ambiguously worded.' He referred specifically to the second sentence of the second paragraph. On Tuesday, he said he thought the statement was a 'good one,' and stated his organization would not join the other groups because the committee violated a policy made last spring not to use its name for any statement or endorsement...
...Council motion last spring that established the Committee said that it could lend its name to any action providing that all the member organizations concurred in approving it. According to Moore, since the HYRC did not express any disapproval, the Committee had a right to call the statement representative of student opinion...
...HYRC did not give the statement formal endorsement because some of its passages were ambiguously worded," Moore said. He referred specifically to the second sentence of the second paragraph: "We believe that (the President and the Corporation) will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort the facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths...
Moore said he felt that this statement was a broadening of the views held by Presidents Pusey and Conant and thee Corporation, views which, he felt, "the majority of the HYRC would stand solidly behind...