Conservative Club Minority Fights Merger in Adams House Meeting

Almost all 13 members of the New Conservative Club who voted against merging with the Harvard Conservative League Thursday night, held a closed meeting in Adams House last night to discuss plans for fighting the unification plan.

The minority refused to issue a public statement, but said it would not resign from the NCC, a move indicated after the merger meeting. At that time, by a one vote margin, the NCC decided to accept the unification proposal signed by NCC President Kenneth E. Thompson '57.

Yesterday morning the group visited the Dean's Office in an attempt to cancel the merger, but the Deans would take no action.

Under the terms of the merger, the HCL, consisting of about nine active members, and the NCC, with 56 members, would combine under the name of the Harvard Young Conservative Club, but the Constitution and officers of the NCC would still be retained.

This NCC minority said that by unifying with the HCL, the NCC was undermining its own conservative stand on campus.

Also, the minority, which includes some of the founders of the NCC, believed that Brady's policies as president have more and more brought the club into politics, a purpose for which the club was not intended. "We are as much a cultural group as anything else," one member said, "but most people don't even know this."