Radcliffe Council to Study Formation of Joint Clubs

A committee to study the establishment of joint Harvard-Radlcliffe extra-curricular organizations was formed yesterday by the Radcliffe Student Council. The move followed the Harvard Faculty Committee on Student Activities' recent rejection of a petition by the College U.N. Council asking that Radcliffe students be admitted as members of the Harvard organization.

The Faculty Committee's answer to the petition on April 18 stated that the group would be "willing to reconsider this whole issue at its first meeting next fall, provided the Dean's Office receives an official communication from the Radcliffe Administration."

William J. McIntire '53, who framed the U.N. Council's statement, said that he and the group's president, Hugh J. Schwartzberg '53, plan to discuss the matter this week with Associate Dean Watson.

A similar request for a joint organization was made last fall by Radcliffe Playwrights Group. Dean Small would not grant the group permission then.

Negotiations Lengthy

Radcliffe and Harvard deans have long been negotiating the problem of joint organizations. In a letter to Radcliffe's Dean Sherman on May 26, following a joint deans' meeting, Dean Bender proposed that a category of joint Harvard-Radcliffe organizations be established.

This group would automatically include departmental and religious organizations, but he stated, "Individual Harvard or Radcliffe organizations not galling within the specified types could petition to become Harvard-Radclife organizations, each petition being considered on its merits by the Harvard and Radcliffe Student Councils and Faculty Committees."

Dean Sherman rejected these proposals.

The new Radcliffe investigating committee consists of vice-President Margaret Fechheimer '52 and Adele Gilmore '53.