Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Some of the seminars, however, are doing better than others on the matter of attendance. While no group has been completely disbanded for lack of student interest, membership in more than one has dwindled to a lone undergraduate and the person in charge of the group. Since the structure of the various seminars is for the most part similar--meetings once a week, often around the dinner table--topics, speakers, and, oddly enough, the House it is given in have emerged as the determining factors with respect to attendance...
William R. Hruschka '63, spokesman for the Harvard students, said they disapproved of the Liberal Union's "sluggish feeling" about inviting speakers tagged as, for example, Communists. This new group, he continued, wants to invite anyone without worrying about his label, to talk about anything, and to conduct extensive study groups...
Hruschka thought the Harvard Socialist Club was too dogmatic ("They are socialists.") and didn't do enough for these students' interests. The group decided to meet again, and draft a constitution...
...limitation of Uphaus's freedom of association illustrates how little segregation and civil liberties decisions really impinge upon each other. When Alabama tried to force the NAACP to hand over membership lists, the Court answered that group privacy is indispensable to freedom of association. Since Wyman was cooperating with Attorney Generals from 37 states in compiling a blacklist, there is little reason why the Alabama decision should not apply to Willard Uphaus as well...
...this appeal to the superior authority of his conscience, the values of his religious group, and the Bible, is just the one made by defenders of segregation. There is a fundamental conflict here. The irony of this case is that in employing civil disobedience and challenging the authority of the Supreme Court--but not in just criticizing it--Willard Uphaus might in the long run impair its development as the defender of civil rights and civil liberties...