Student-Faculty Group Plans to Fight Affidavit

A student-faculty pressure group to seek repeal of the National Defense Education Act's loyalty oath and disclaimer affidavit held an organizational meeting last night. Attempting to prompt letters of protest to Congressmen, the organization during the next two weeks will sponsor speeches pointing out the need for, and potential value of, student action. It will concentrate its attack on the affidavit provision.

Alexander Korns '62 was elected president, and Harold C. Bakken 1G executive director. Bakken is a former president of the National Student Association.

In addition to speaking and publicizing the "odious" aspects of the affidavit, members of the group will visit Harvard and Radcliffe students from key congressional districts and encourage letter-writing. It is estimated that 15 members of the House Committee on Education and Labor will be particular targets of the group's efforts.

New Co-operation Venture

"This is a new venture in faculty-student co-operation," Korns commented last night, "and I hope it will be tried at other universities."

The Committee for the Repeal of 1001 (f), as the group will be known, was organized partially in response to statements from congressmen claiming a lack of any students interest in the issue. An office set up by the committee will inform students how their Congressmen voted and urge letter-writing to correct the impression of apathy.

In addition to undergraduate and graduate students representing every shade of political opinion, the organization presently has seven faculty members. They include David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Clark Byse, Professor of Law; George Wald, professor of Biology; Paul L. Lehmann, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government; Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education; and Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., instructor in Government.