Lamont Bars Its Facilities To Recruiters

Lamont Library has banned all recruiting activity within its walls.

"For the next year--maybe two years--we don't care to have any type of recruiting in Lamont," Gregory C. Wilson, acting librarian of Lamont, said last night.

Until this year, VISTA, the Peace Corps, and the Marine Corps have been permitted, at their request, to set up information desks and distribute literature in the Lamont lobby.

But after the Dow sit-in, Wilson said, the library administrators decided to avoid a similar demonstration that might take place in Lamont.

"We don't feel the library should be made an instrument of student protest," Wilson said.

Wilson said the library had reached "mutual agreement" with the Marines, who have set up a table in the lobby for the past five years, that no such arrangement would be permitted this year.

The library also refused to allow workers for the New England Universities Referendum on Vietnam to distribute their forms in Lamont last week, Wilson said.

The librarians, Wilson said, "have always been very leery of having any sort of advertising in the library." He said he had personally considered the presence of VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Marines an "intrusion" on the academic character of the library even when they were permitted to recruit.

"It's the feeling of the librarians that we wish to preserve the integrity of the undergraduate library," he added.

The Peace Corps, at Harvard this week, will set up its tables at Phillips Brooks House, Harkness Commons and Eliot Hall at Radcliffe.