Program to Open Here Today To Train Republican Students

The College Republican National Committee will hold a three-day workshop and training program on the Harvard campus beginning tonight to train potential Republican leaders in campaign techniques.

The program, which is called a Student Fieldman Training School, is scheduled to include sessions in political canvassing, voter registration and campus club-building, and will climax in a banquet tomorrow night.

About 25 students are expected to attend the training school. Most of these students will come from Republican organizations on other campuses throughout the New England area and New York.

The funding to pay for the training school's materials and staff comes from mandatory $20 registration fees charged of all participants in the program. The school charges an additional $5 for the banquet.

According to the College Republican National Committee, the purpose of the program is to present "an exhaustive curriculum designed to give a complete training to student GOP activists."

In a circular sent to all of the students attending the meeting, the committee said: "1973 and 1974 are important years for the Republican Party on campus. Nearly 8 million collegians have the vote and many of them cast their first ballot last year for Republican candidates.

"The Party must have them making a permanent commitement [sic] to the GOP. To receive that committement, the College Republicans must actively engage in organizing, persuading and registering students," the circular concluded.

The sessions in the Harvard training school, the 14th program which the Republicans have sponsored, will center on topics such as "Candidate's Campus Appearance," "Press Relations," "Youth Oriented Literature and Graphics," and "Organizations and Use of 'Youth for. . .' Groups."

Intriguing Title

Another session has the intriguing title of "Up the Hard Core!" William B. Schuck '74, the campus representative coordinating the Republican affair, explained that the session will give "an organizational plan for forming the nucleus, or hard core, of a campus organization."

"I don't know how they dreamed up the name," he added.

Schuck, who is a member of the Harvard Republican Club--the group hosting the training school--said that the program is one indication of a resurgence of Republican activity on campus.

"It's not an invitation--it's a recrudescence of Republicanism at Harvard," he said. "It hasn't always been the case that Harvard students showed a monolithic left-liberalism."