Plan to Censure Senator M'Carthy Signed by 1,500

Petitioners for the Students for Censure of McCarthy movement obtained over 1500 signatures in the dining halls yesterday, despite threatening calls, attempts to dissuade students from signing, and what J. C. Peter Richardson '56, co-ordinator of the movement, called "scared liberalism."

Richardson said last night that at least 50 percent of those refusing to sign agreed with the petition, but were--by their own admission--afraid of reprisal.

"This sort of fear action," according to Richardson, "is ample proof that a censure of McCarthy is necessary." Commenting on the movement, Archibald McLeish, acting Master of Eliot House, said last night, "Any man who has done as much as McCarthy has to weaken the democratic institutions of this country--and I mean both the Presidency and the Senate--certainly deserves censure from every citizen."

Several attempts were made in the dining halls to suppress the petitions. One student spoke for over an hour at Harkness Graduate Commons, standing beside the petitioner, and pleaded with the passing graduate students to sign his own "Ten Million for McCarthy" petition. When no one would sign, he cried out, "I'm going to sign it in front of you, anyway, even though I've already signed once."