The open meeting to air the case of R. Deborah Labenow '51 ended yesterday minutes after it began, when Dean Small announced that a closed discussion with Student Government "would prove more fruitful" and walked out of the room.

The council later met in secret with President Jordan and Dean Small for three and a half hours. It then issued a statement that "no individual student rights have been violated" in Radcliffe's order that Miss Labenow quit her job as Radcliffe Bureau Chief for the CRIMSON.

Miss Labenow, CRIMSON editors, and the Boston press were present at the open council meeting yesterday afternoon. None of them were allowed at the secret session last night. Council members refused to disclose what went on at the meeting.

At 11 p.m., several council members retired to Cabot Hall and said they were preparing a release for the CRIMSON. At 11:45 p.m., the girl on bells said, Dean Small phoned Cabot Hall and talked to council Vice-President Cynthia Williams '51.

"Rights Not Violated"

Three minutes later Miss Williams issued the following statement on Student Government stationery, printed in its entirety:

"It is tse opinion of Radcliffe Student Council, after having reviewed the facts with the Radcliffe Administration, that no individual student rights have been violated."

The council meeting was originally called as an open session at 4 p.m. yesterday in Moors Hall. About 30 students were present to hear Dean Small air the problem with the council. She announced the closed meeting at that time.

Small "Clarifies Issues"

Stating that "we welcome an opportunity" to discuss the matter in public. Small said that she "would like simply to clarify a few issues which must by now be very confused in your minds."

Small referred to the report that Miss Labenow would be expelled from college if she continued to work on the CRIMSON. "In probations of any kind," she said, "if the person deliberately violates the probation, she will be asked to leave the college."

In her brief speech, Miss Small said, "We are not concerned with the suppression of the right of a girl to express her opinion for or against the college, as long as it is her opinion and not a misrepresentation of the facts.

"What we are concerned with is a misrepresentation of facts as far as ther are concerned with Radcliffe policy."

"Permission" to Report

One CRIMSON editor present at the meeting questioned Dean Small on her statement that "Reporting for the CRIMSON as well as the Boston newspapers is a permission granted by the College."