Faculty Group to Review Banning of 'New Student'

The fate of the New Student will be decided once for all this afternoon when the Faculty Committee on Student Activities meets to accept or reject the Student Council's recommendations on the controversial magazine.

On hand to hear the Administration's verdict will be Robert K. Bingham '48 and Edward F. Burke '50, authors of the report which recommended that Dean Bender's committee reverse its stand and grant the Harvard Youth for Democracy publication recognition as an official undergraduate activity.

Bingham stated last night he expected to be told that the Faculty group would not accept the Council report. He said that previous conversations with Dean Bender had convinced him that the Administration did not intend to change its position on the New Student.

The six members of the Committee received copies of the Council report when it was issued two weeks before vacation, according to Associate Dean Watson, secretary of the Committee.

An attempt was made to hold a meeting of the Committee on the Friday before recess, but neither Bingham nor Burke was able to attend at that time. Dean Watson said that the presence of the two Council members was imperative.

Further Council action, in the event of a rebuff by the Faculty Committee, was a distinct possibility, Bingham said. As chairman of the Council sub-committee on student activities, he declared that he would ask the Council to press the matter, probably at its next meeting.

The next logical step, he said, would be an appeal from the Council to the Faculty as a whole, requesting that the Committee action be overridden. Bingham explained that this possibility was suggested by Dean Bender at a conference before vacation.