Word: petitioners
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The Council will decided shortly whether or not to grant the Coop's petition for the bridge.
Charging that the committee "serves no useful purpose" and is "irreconcilable with a system of free expression in this country," the professors have sent a petition to members of the new Congress urging them to refuse to continue HUAC as a standing committee when they convene in January.
The petition also asks that the committee's files be placed in the government archives and sealed for 50 years. "Self-respecting citizens of a democratic country," it asserts, "cannot allow their representatives in government to keep dossiers on their beliefs, ideas, political views, or associations."
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, is listed as one of eight sponsors of the petition. Other faculty members who signed it are Clark Byse '34, professor of Law; David F. Cavers '20, Fessenden Professor of Law; Vern Countryman, professor of Law; John P. Dawson '17, Charles Stebbins Fairchild...
The petition accuses HUAC of attempting to "create in the legislative branch a permanent institution....designed to serve as a bureaucratic Big Brother to censor the opinions and associations of American citizens."