Phillips Camp Clinches State YR Chairmanship

BULLETIN

A petition will be circulated around the University today asking the Student Council to pass a resolution prohibiting the President or vice-President of the Council, during their tenure of office, from holding office in, or acting as spokesman for, any ideological or partisan organization.

The petition also asks that if the Council does not pass the resolution by the required two-thirds vote at its meeting tonight, it should be put before the student body as a referendum.

The resolution is designed to prevent the situation that currently exists--where the views of the President of the Student Council have been taken as representative of the views of the Harvard Study Body.

Howard J. Phillips '62, Council president, has had his name attached to documents representing ideological positions on certain issues.

For instance, at the recent National Conference on Youth Service Abroad, Phillips' name and Council office appeared on the letterhead of the Committee for an Effective Peace Corps, which advocates a conservative position on the Peace Corps.

Howard J. Phillips '62 demonstrated impressive political support as he easily won his battle for College Chairman of the Massachusetts Young Republicans Saturday. In the crucial showdown vote of college delegates, Phillips crushed Hugh W. Barber 29 to 14.

For Phillips, the victory climaxed weeks of bitter infighting in the HYRC. After the club had denied him a place on the HYRC delegation, he obtained a convention seat as a representative of the Law School club. His petition for a review of the HYRC delegation was denied as "illegal" earlier in the week, and Thursday, in a meeting he boycotted, the club voted 73-11 not to include him.

Battle May Have National Significance

The battle is of potential national significance, as Tom A. Alberg '62, HYRC President, is a candidate for national college YR chairman. Following Saturday's triumph, Phillips said he is "available" for the key national post, and hinted he "probably would run."

Commenting on Saturday's results, Alberg said Sunday he thought "the mixed circumstances of Phillips' election will effectively restrict any possible influence he might seek to exercise" nationally. Phillips, however, reports that recent YR elections in the mid-west are "very pleasing."

Barber, backed during the chairmanship struggle by Alberg, fought Phillips on many fronts. He first challenged Phillips' position as a Law School delegate before the credentials committee. After a lengthy debate on the legal technicalities of the challenge, the committee voted 2-2 on a motion to seat Phillips, with chairman Jack E. Molesworth, "an old friend" of Phillips, voting to break the tie in Phillips' favor.

Once assured of the nomination of the college caucus, practically a guarantee of election by the General Council, Phillips' forces moved quickly to fill up all remaining posts with loyal delegates.

With Phillips smiling broadly and "very satisfied with the results," the "ABC" forces of Alberg, Barber, and Bruce K. Chapman '62 retired dejectedly to discuss strategy. Earlier in the day Barber had promised to fight Phillips on the Council floor, regardless of the action in the caucus.

Phillips' election was not as automatic as expected, however. After outgoing college chairman Jerry B. Fulmer 3L had nominated Phillips as "absolutely outstanding," Chapman obtained the floor and began to attack Phillips on the basis of the feud within the HYRC. He was greeted with a loud mixture of hisses and applause.

Chapman had just begun his remarks when the chairman gaveled him to his seat. On the roll call vote, 111 delegates went for Phillips, with 38 abstaining. Robert Moran of Springfield brought chuckles and cheers when he announced his vote "against Mr. Phillips."