DuBois Chapter Forming Here; Response Light

About 25 students met to organize a Harvard-Radcliffe DuBois Club Thursday night, but only seven put their names on the dotted line. The club needs at least ten members to gain formal University recognition.

William S. Barus '67, temporary chairman, explained that the club is being formed to protest Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's demand that the national DuBois Club register as a Communist-front organization. "The DuBois Club must not be the first of a string of dissent organizations to dissolve simply at the mention of the McCarran Act" Barus said.

He did not explain the apparent lack of interest but was confident that enough students would join within the next few days to make it official.

Elliot Kenin, a local folksinger and member of the present Cambridge DuBois Club, explained that the DuBois program differs from that of S.D.S. by stressing community organization and off-campus civil rights projects. "S.D.S. assumes that the student intellectual is the moving force in social change," Kenin said "We of the DuBois clubs put more faith in the 'common man'."

If the club gains University recognition, it plans a joint conference with S.D.S. and local civil liberties groups to discuss the McCarran Act, the 1950 law which requires Communist-front organizations to register with the Subversiva Activities Control Board.