'Bedfellows'

To the Editors of the Crimson:

As usual with anti-freedom vigilantes--especially the type like Stephen Saperstein who think themselves otherwise--they forever shout "foul" when caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

The issue, Mr. Saperstein, is not whether you and your bedfellows and Tony Chase and his bedfellows have the freedom to oppose the Moonies and the Lampoon, as you presented in your letter in March 16th's Crimson. The issue is rather precisely as I stated it in my letter (March 15th)--the right of the Moonies to peddle their wares and the freedom of the Lampoon to shape its own humor.

And within the framework of Harvard College these groups have a corollary right of freedom from the kind of administrative pressures which the critics of the Moonies and the Lampoon have asked the College deans to exercise against them. This sort of thing is unacceptable in Harvard College and I think it important that Mr. Saperstein and other ethnic militants be told as much.

Finally, rather than an apology from me--which I am as inclined to give to the Saper-stein-and-Chase crowd as I am to the anti-freedom vigilantes of old like Joe McCarthy--the best I can offer is some sound advice: the ethnic militants around Harvard ought to start the difficult but rewarding task of growing up. Martin Kilson   Professor of Government