Pusey Stops Conferences With Crimson

President Pusey has discontinued his separate twice-monthly press conferences with the CRIMSON and WHRB.

Instead, Pusey has initiated "weekly administrative conferences" with several Administration officials and the CRIMSON, WHRB, the Student Council, the Freshman Council, and the House committees. Attending the meetings will be Edward A. Mason, Acting Dean of the Faulty of Arts and Sciences, Dean Monro, Dean Watson, Administrative Vice-President L. Gard Wiggins, and perhaps President Bunting of Radcliffe.

After his return in December, the President plans to attend every other conference.

For more than a decade, CRIMSON executives have met regularly with Presidents Conant and Pusey in what Harper's in 1958 called "a spirit of potentates conferring with another chief of state."

In a letter to the CRIMSON, Pusey said he suggested the change "to save time and avoid duplication." "As in the past," added Pusey, "administrative officials would be available to the CRIMSON or WHRB to help develop particular stories or stories of special urgency."

CRIMSON Objects to Change

Harvard Radio Broadcasting, Inc., approved of the new conferences, but the CRIMSON has objected to the change.

A reply from the newspaper's executives said, "CRIMSON reporters would want to discuss issues that mean little to the other groups (urban affairs, educational policy, faculty appointments, graduates schools, building projects, etc.); and members of the other groups undoubtedly want to discuss issues of little direct concern to the CRIMSON."

Pusey said, "We cannot be altogether sure on this point until we have tried the new plan."

The CRIMSON also claimed that for full reporting, it needed certain background information "which cannot be released to a large number of students at an enlarged conference."