HYRC Has Not Acted On Council Statement Praising Pusey Reply

The President of the Young Republican Club said last night that his organiation "had not even considered" endorsing the Student Council's statement upholding President Pusey's recent answer to Senator McCarthy's charges that there are Communists here.

Roger A. Moore '53 said that although he thought the statement was a "good one," the HYRC objected to the way the Council handled it, and therefore did not join other groups in its ratification.

The principal objection to the measure was that the original announcement was made by the ad hoc Council Committee of Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom, and not by the Council as a whole.

Violated "Ground Rules"

Moore said that this violated one of the committee's "ground rules," not to use its name for any statement, but to use the Council's name. He said that he felt the many small organizations that comprised the Committee made it seem ineffectual, and that the statement should come from the Council itself as representative of the entire student body.

This, in effect, is what actually happened, for the Committee's statement was accepted on Monday night by the Council.

The HYRC head said that his group has had no chance to vote upon an endorsement, but that he felt that they would approve it "with certain reservations."

The problem of academic freedom will be discussed on a Student Council program over WHRB this evening, with David Bicks' 55 as moderator.