HLU Requests Council Probe 'Student' Ban

At the request of the Liberal Union, Student Council members will next week launch a full-scale investigation of the faculty's refusal Wednesday to grant recognition to "The New Student."

HLU officers told Council President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 in a midnight telephone call that "we have yet to be convinced there is an adequate basis for Dean Bender's decision" on the Harvard Youth for Democracy's controversial publication.

'Right to Publish'

"Any recognized student organization at Harvard should have the right to publish magazines unless there are the very strongest reasons against it" Liberal Union head Frederick D. Houghtelling '50 explained.

The fact that outsiders write for the magazine or that its circulation is mainly outside of Harvard does not seem sufficient reason to deny the right of free student publication," Houghtelling added.

Weld to Appoint

Weld announced that he would immediately appoint a committee to go over University files, confer with the dean's office and HYD, and report their conclusions and recommendations to the Council. "It is not a simple case," he said, "and will take a great deal of examination."

At the request of Lawrence M. Jaffa 2Div., regional chairman for the National Student Association, the committee's findings will also be referred to the NSA if its bill of rights has been violated. This would mainly consist of nationwide publicity for the case.

Jaffa's request was made after HYD chairman Harry A. Mendelssohn '48 bad labelled the faculty decision "a clear violation of the NSA bill of rights."