Review's Kaufman Will Not Debate With Lubell

Andrew L. Kaufman '51 3L, president of the Law Review, has refused to appear on a Brandeis College forum tonight with Jonathan Lubell 3L.

The Law Review, in a virtually unprecedented move earlier this year, voted not to invite Lubell to become a member even though he had received grades high enough for election. Lubell had cited the Fifth Amendment last March before the Jonner Committee on questions concerning alleged Communist activities at the Law School and Cornell University.

"I was asked to speak with Lubell and I refused," Kaufman said last night. "We're not making any more public statements about the matter."

Lubell, according to Daniel Morganstern, president of the forum, was definitely willing to come. Lubell was unavailable for comment last night.

Postpone Forum

Morganstern is the president of the Brandeis Student Political Education and Action club. He said last night that the forum will be postponed, but that a member of the Law Record, the weekly newspaper, will probably speak with Lubell after Thanksgiving.

The Lubell forum was to be the first in a series about the role of the dissenter in America, Morganstern said. He did not want a specific discussion of the Lubell case, but instead a general talk on the dissenter in academic freedom.

Lubell was voted down by the Law Review at a meeting of 25 of the 26 eligible editors early this September. He had resigned from the Law Record last spring after being elected Associate Editor.

Last month, Lubell called the Review's decision "indicative of the current state of our time. If this had happened in 1948 or 1949 the result would have been completely different.

"And of all the Law School organizations, I would expect a great deal more from the Law Review," Lubell added.

Last spring, Samuel Sears, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, charged that Lubell and his brother should not be allowed to remain in the Law School.