AVC Renews Battle to Save Veterans' Housing Projects

The University chapter of the American Veterans Committee announced last night that it will continue to agitate against the destruction of the remainder of University-owned veterans' housing and will continue to suggest that part of the funds from the will of Allston Burr be used to aid the housing cause.

"The mobilization factor, the possibility that current crises will bring colleges back to a wartime basis with Army and Navy courses and an influx of married students, is a primary reason for the upkeep of present residential units," Roy F. Gootenberg 2 PA, vice-chairman of the Harvard Chapter of A.V.C., said yesterday.

Last spring, by means of a documented report based on a poll of nearly 2,000 married students, the A.V.C. expressed objection to the destruction of temporary housing near the Business School. Next summer the remaining 75 units, prefabricated structures near the Divinity School and on Western Avenue, are scheduled to be torn down.

Last weekend a letter was sent to President Conant restating the A.V.C.'s opposition to the use of Burr's money for a Varsity Club. "It seems to us," the letter read, "That the construction of anew Varsity Club would be almost frivolous by comparison with the additions to vetarans' housing, to cite one of the pressing building needs of the University.

"But we are not anxious to urge any one use for this money over all others; we are simply concerned lest precious funds be used for a purpose which we consider to be of little overall value to the University and peripheral to the main purposes for which Harvard exists.