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When Senators Kennedy and Clark failed last summer in their effort to repeal the loyalty provision of the National Defense Education Act, their opponents used the lack of serious student protest as an important argument against repeal. Since then, both Kennedy and Clark have said that they will carry on the fight in the current session of Congress, and have called upon college students to aid by writing to their Congressmen, urging repeal...
...formation of a student-faculty committee to press for repeal of the disclaimer affidavit and to encourage and process student letters to Washington on the issue is a promising but long overdue sign of student interest. The new committee is to be commended for its initiative, and hopefully, it will meet with an enthusiastic response...
...student-faculty pressure group to seek repeal of the National Defense Education Act's loyalty oath and disclaimer affidavit held an organizational meeting last night. Attempting to prompt letters of protest to Congressmen, the organization during the next two weeks will sponsor speeches pointing out the need for, and potential value of, student action. It will concentrate its attack on the affidavit provision...
...Committee for the Repeal of 1001 (f), as the group will be known, was organized partially in response to statements from congressmen claiming a lack of any students interest in the issue. An office set up by the committee will inform students how their Congressmen voted and urge letter-writing to correct the impression of apathy...
...legislature in Comstock's native Connecticut made it illegal to use, or to help or advise anyone to use, "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception." Penalty: $50 fine and up to one year in jail.* Despite perennial campaigns to soften or repeal it, and despite the evident availability of contraceptives in many Connecticut drugstores, the ban is still on the books: it is stoutly supported by the state's Roman Catholic clergy, and in Connecticut, Roman Catholics make up a powerful voting bloc (47% of the population...