Young Republicans Try to Drive L.Y.L. Off Wisconsin Campus

Two student political organizations at Wisconsin tried to force another one off campus at the University of Wisconsin last December. Aiming their guns at the Badger chapter of the Labor Youth League, the Young Republicans and the Badger Veterans Association asked the University and the state legislature to ban "all subversive groups" from using university facilities. The Labor Youth League is on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations.

"We don't want them on campus," said a former Wisconsin YGOP chairman.

Regents Uphold LYL

Although the administrations of a number of colleges, including Colorado and Brooklyn, have abolished left-wing groups, this is the first instance on record of students themselves trying to do so. The President of the University, the Wisconsin Board of Regents, and the student council have repeatedly said the LYL chapter has a right to exist as long as it kept within the law. Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal said the YGOP had "grossly violated universally accepted principles of free discussion."

Ray Carlson, YGOP member, introduced the resolution December 19. Asking the college to ban all subversive groups, he said "such groups do the work of the Communist party." Speaking for the resolution, John Fritschler. Young Republican chairman for the Big Ten Colleges, said "we must prevent the training of traitors on campuses."

The resolution also passed the Mid-western Conference of Young Republicans in March.