Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charging that HUAC "serves as an instrument of segregation" and "is inconsonant with the ideals of the First Amendment," the petition asks the House of Representatives to refuse to continue HUAC as a standing committee when it convenes in January.
The petition attacks HUAC as a "libelfree center for false accusation." "The Mississippi press," continues, "consistently smeared participants in the 1964 Summer Project: they relied primarily on HUAC 'citations' for their smears."
"HUAC," the civil rights workers' petition concludes, "is the fountainhead of the threat to an open society. It denies what we went to Mississippi for."
"This accomplishment demonstrates one good reason for the existence of a representative student organization which can petition the Masters and achieve changes in the status quo," Ellis said last night. The HCUA is scheduled to be abolished and replaced by two new councils at a meeting tonight.
Observers believe that the Council will then give its OK to the petition. The bridge would connect the second and third floors of the main building to the $2 million annex, which should be completely finished by Jan. 1, 1966.