Student Council suggestions that the Faculty reverse its policy on the New Student magazine yesterday came in for praise, with reservations, from the executive committee of the Harvard Youth for Democracy, sponsors of the publication that was recently banned from circulation in College buildings.
The committee's statement in part:
"Although it considers the Student Council's statement in many respects weak and inadequate, particularly in the Council's failure to recognize the serious threat to academic freedom and democracy implicit in the Dean's office ban, the executive committee of the HYD applauds the Council's decision as the first step towards University recognition of the New Student."
Dean Bender was out of town and not available for comment.
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