Miss Roberts and her staff say that, "We are a college paper and as such must never be unmindful of the fact that we are members of our college. That goes without saying. If a news story is going to hurt your college, I'd think long about it before printing it."

In order to preserve the "newsworthiness and accuracy" of stories, Miss Roberts says she has ignored the graduate center and Radcliffe's violation of the minimum-wage law. Yesterday, in a brief story on the Labenow question, the News did not mention that anyone had protested Radcliffe's action.

Why is the News like this? A high executive on the new board answers: "Why? Because Radcliffe's perfect, that's why." Another staff member says this: "Students have to buy the News. The Administration is behind it; the News knows where its support is coming from."

Radcliffe and the CRIMSON

Radcliffe has had a tougher time with the CRIMSON. In 1947 it was glad to see the CRIMSON accept Radcliffe girls as correspondents--according to one student source, because "Radcliffe girls will be more sympathetic in writing the news." But the CRIMSON always presented the sour with the sweet, and one student complained, "We don't like to have all our business aired. Our interests are not their interests."

This week--for the first time--Radcliffe tried to clamp down on the CRIMSON, too. It ordered the paper's Radcliffe Bureau Chief to quit her job on threat of expulsion.

The Bureau Chief, Miss Labenow, had learned of a projected Great Issues course from Student Council members. She tried to check it with President Jordan; Jordan was ill and replied that he thought it was too early to write anything." Sometime after the story appeared demanded that Miss Labenow drop all her CRIMSON activities. Radcliffe gave several reasons. President Jordan said that the story contained inaccuracies--and this is probably true. But Miss Projansky told John Fenton of the New York Times: "Miss Labenow has gone ahead and had stories printed in the CRIMSON which were contrary to the best interests of Radcliffe."

Annex deans have ordered Miss Labenow not to reveal the letter of production she received from them. But Dean Small wrote the following explanation to Miss Labenow's mother:

"We are all sorry that Deborah cannot understand that she has failed to meet the standards of responsibility and journalism which Radcliffe expects of its students.

"The strong feeling which has pre-vailed for some time, that information not ready for publication must be kept from Debby because getting a scoop has more importance to her than any other obligation is not without basic in fact.

"Whatever the practice of the CRIMSON may be in printing stories which appear as official but have not been verified as such, Radcliffe students are answerable to their college for any misrepresentation."

This Radcliffe attitude is a sharp contrast to the attitude at Harvard, where a CRIMSON reporter has never been disciplined for anything he wrote. At the CRIMSON'S 75th Anniversary Dinner in 1948, President Conant himself stated that at times the CRIMSON makes the Administration "uncomfortable." "But," he said, "Nothing has ever been done to limit its freedom, and nothing will be done. It is a healthy force in the Harvard community."