HYRC Says Beilenson Began Feud in Council Committee

Young Republican head Roger A. Moore '53 yesterday accused Anthony C. Beilenson '54, chairman of the Student Council's Committee of Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom, of blowing a minor issue into a feud and thereby negating any effect the Committee might have.

Moore said that although the HYRC did not formally lend its support to the Committee's statement backing President Pusey's stand on McCarthyism, it did not state any disapproval of it.

The Council motion last spring that established the Committee said that it could lend its name to any action providing that all the member organizations concurred in approving it. According to Moore, since the HYRC did not express any disapproval, the Committee had a right to call the statement representative of student opinion.

Attack on Beilenson

"Beilenson has manufactured a feud within the Committee," Moore said. "He has talked himself out of a forceful statement."

"The HYRC did not give the statement formal endorsement because some of its passages were ambiguously worded," Moore said. He referred specifically to the second sentence of the second paragraph: "We believe that (the President and the Corporation) will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort the facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths."

Moore said he felt that this statement was a broadening of the views held by Presidents Pusey and Conant and thee Corporation, views which, he felt, "the majority of the HYRC would stand solidly behind."