300 Columbia Teachers Back Adlai in Times

Three hundred members of the Columbia faculty and staff endorsed Adlai Stevenson in a full page advertisement in the New York Times last night. Their statement followed in the wake of a disclosure by Carl W. Ackerman, Dean of the School of Journalism, that university officers had been urged to keep quiet on the campaign.

The statement declared that "the high level of Stevenson's campaign is a landmark in the history of American politics." It went on to say that the advertisement was paid for by "the Volunteers for Stevenson on the Columbia University faculties and staff, and their families and friends."

Lou Little for Ike

Earlier in the day, 30 professors and administrators, including football coach Lou Little, signed a statement calling General Eisenhower "the best qualified candidate for president."

Ackerman made his disclosure in a telegram to the St. Louis Post Dispatch Tuesday. He said that he and others had "been urged to remain silent in order that the name of the university should not be brought into the campaign."

The dean declared that he would not "remain silent as long as General Eisenhower is free and unrestricted in use of the university name and property for campaign purposes." He observed that "by using the ... president's house for conferences with Senator Taft and other Republican supporters," the General "has himself made Columbia University a campaign issue."

Dr. Grayson Kirk, acting president of Columbia, admitted that he had "suggested" to a few Columbia administrative leaders that they refrain from public expression of their political preference since that would imply an "official attitude" on the part of the university.