Only 2 Clubs Form Despite Liberal Rules

Summer School students have formed only two political organizations under the new, liberalized regulations which went into effect this summer.

Walter H. Clark, dean of Men, said yesterday that no political club which complied with the new regulations had been refused recognition by the Summer School Committee. So far, only the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee and the Harvard Summer School Students for a Democratic Society, have received official recognition, although one other student group is presently applying for recognition.

Some Not Approved

The Committe did not approve two or three clubs with "primarily entrepreneurial aims," Clark said, because "what the clubs wanted to do would not have been of use" to the Summer School. Only one organization has pursued its project outside the auspices of the Summer School.

Clark speculated that so few clubs had been formed because "would-be political clubs are competing for energies with other established programs" such as PBH and the Summer News. In addition, since the official clubs are restricted to summer school students for their entire membership, Clark felt academic pressures tended to minimize the number of students willing to devote enough time to maintain a formal organization.

No Repetition of 1963

The new regulations have had a real effect, however, Clark said. "Requiring a list of members and sponsorship by a faculty member has protected us from organizations like last summer," he said. Last year, the Summer School withdrew recognition from the Harvard Young Socialists Club, setting off a long controversy, which finally produced the present regulations this Spring.

Phillips Brooks House reported yesterday that many more summer students are participating in its program this year than in the past. According to Michael Rein '65, approximately 160 students are working for the Mental Hospitals Committee, the General Hospitals Committee, which has never operated during the summer before, and the Lyman program.