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The shattering of the American Student Union left a void in College politics which may be filled by a National Student Merger Committee, if a plan supported by the Harvard Liberal Union proves successful.
Committees exist in every major college which support the program endorsed by the HLU. When the Merger Committee meets at the University of Michigan during the Christmas vacation, it hopes to join all such groups into a national union whose membership will number in the 3,000's.
The Student Defenders of Democracy and the College Division of the Committee to Defend America are two intercollegiate groups defintely slated to join the merger, which will not enforce a rigidly centralized policy as did the American Student Union. Girls' committees from Swarthmore, Vassar, and Mt. Holyoke will round out the coeducational side of the Merger Committee.
Adam Yarmolinsky '43 is one of the three men on the secretariat directing the growth of the proposed union.
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