Council Censures HYRC Head for Conflicting Views

Anthony C. Beilenson '54, chairman of the Student Council's Committee on Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom, charged yesterday that Young Republican head Roger A. Moore '53 had "discredited his organization by making untrue and conflicting statements" in giving reasons why the HYRC refused to back the committee in its support of President Pusey's recently taken stand on McCarthyism.

Beilenson stated that last Friday, "Moore said that the HYRC 'did not give the statement formal endorsement because some of its passages were ambiguously worded.' He referred specifically to the second sentence of the second paragraph. On Tuesday, he said he thought the statement was a 'good one,' and stated his organization would not join the other groups because the committee violated a policy made last spring not to use its name for any statement or endorsement.

No Reason

"At the HYRC's planning committee meeting last Monday afternoon," Beilenson continued, "neither the second sentence of the second paragraph nor any other sentence was mentioned as a reason for not endorsing the statement. Since Moore's most recent explanation was not conceived of until last Friday, I will not accept it as the real reason for refusing endorsement four days previously."