Civic Committee Pledges Support to College-Wide Probe of Club 100

Assurance that the city manager's committee on civic unity, firmed in 1944, would move to oppose the discriminatory proactive of the Club 100 against Colored students came from Mrs. Betty Lopez, secretary of the group, yesterday.

"We will do all we can," said Mrs. Lopez, who represents about 50 prominent Greater Boston citizens. But she added that the greater part of the fight will have to be carried by the College student Body, since the students comprise of chief patronage of the club.

She also announced the existence of a report compiled on information filed by Hallowell Bowser '44 that he had been denied admission to the club last November. Bowser, along with Chester M. Pierce '48, was blocked at the door last Saturday night, precipitating a Student Council protest.

During the fall the committee did not refer the action to the city license commission, preferring to postpone any move until the legalities of the situation were more carefully evaluated.

Extension of Function

Ordinarily the committee does not act in cases concerning individuals, she added. Their most effective weapon in situations suggesting racial tension has been to attack the roots of hatred found within law enforcement and civic organizations.

Gordon E. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, has worked with the committee along these lines, she said, and has spread information on local attitudes and problems of race prejudice, along with several other members of the faculty.