WELLESLEY DEBATERS ATTACK EQUAL RIGHTS

In a topsy-turvy radio discussion yesterday afternoon Crimson debaters defended the "Equal Rights for Women" amendment against the attacks of a Wellesley team that suggested that passage of the amendment might mean that Harvard college "might have to admit women onto its sacred premises."

Taking the affirmative on the question, "Resolved: That Congress should pass the Equal Rights Amendment" were Malcolm R. Wilkey '40 and Eno W. Hobbing '40. Ruth Frankel, Chairman of the Debate Club and Margaret Delahanty, President-Elect of the Wellesley Forum, argued against the amendment on the grounds that it would destroy the present program of "specific bills for specific ills."

This was the fourth and last of a series of debate broadcasts sponsored by the Debating Council.

The Crimson based its case for the amendment on the fact that present specific legislation designed to benefit workers has in many cases actually thrown many women out of work and cited many examples of civil rights being denied to women by state and local governments.