Political Action Committee Holds Meeting Tonight

Model cities, urban community organization. and the welfare system are among the topics of a three-day community-action conference beginning at 8 p. m. tonight in Burr Lecture Hall.

In a series of a three panels and two workshop sessions, the conference-subsidized by the Kennedy Institute of Polities-will consider such questions as university expansion in urban areas and the role of students and professionals in community organization.

Tonight's panel will discuss model cities and will feature Ralph Taylor, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, as speakers.

Tomorrow's panel, an open forum, will discuss Harvard expansion and its impact on the Cambridge and Boston housing markets. Barbara Ackerman, Cambridge City Councillor. Edward S. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, and Robert S. Parks, president of the Roxbury Tenannts of Harvard. will appear as panelists.

On Sunday, there will be a panel discussion of the welfare system. George Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization, and Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, will be among the speakers.

Co-sponsored by Phillips Brooks House and the Radcliffe-affiliated Education for Action, the conference is free and open to the public.