The following is an itemised recapitulation to clarify the facts made public so far in connection with the Radcliffe administration's order that R. Deborah Lebanow '51 cease her activities as the CRIMSON'S Radcliffe Buerau Chief and as a member of the Radcliffe Press Board.

It is Radcliffe administrative policy to refrain from public comment on its own disciplinary actions. Student Government President Elizabeth K. Heaton '51 and Radcliffe News Editor Ann Roberts '51 cooperated with the CRIMSON in checking over the facts in which Student Government was concerned.

Great Issues Story

On November 14, Miss Labenow was given the information for the story by several council members who requested that their names be withheld. Miss Labenow's idea for the story sprang from a statement at an open council meeting that President Jordan would have tea with the council to discuss the "Great Issues" course project further.

Miss Labenow asked for comment and amplification from Jordan. His secretary said that Jordan was ill, but promised to give Miss Labenow a statement from him next day. That statement was that Jordan did not think there was enough information for a story at that time. He gave no other comment.

The story appeared on page one of the November 16 CRIMSON.

On November 17, Mary C. Small, Dean of Residence, told Miss Labenow that she was in serious danger of disciplinary action for misrepresenting administrative policy in a news story.

(Asked later for information to correct the article, President Jordan told the CRIMSON that he had not offered it before and would not then because he did not feel that the errors in the story were worth correcting publicly. Last Friday the Radcliffe News printed a story clarifying the "Great Issues" course story. The News explained that the council, not Jordan, had made the original suggestion for the course. For Jordan to have proposed the course in this way, it said, would have been clearly contrary to University procedure.)

Graduate Center Story

On October 18, Dean Cronkhite told Miss Labenow the facts, checked them, and said the story was accurate in every detail. She then asked Miss Labenow, as a personal favor, to stop at the Publicity Office on her way out of Fay House and to tell Miss Projansky, the director, to prepare a release for the Boston papers.

Miss Labenow could not find Miss Projansky in the office. She then wrote a completely accurate story for the CRIMSON and sent a story on the subject to the Boston Herald. The Herald did not use the story, although the Traveler did the following afternoon.

Several days later, Miss Projansky restated to the Press Board (the Radcliffe students who report Annex news for various papers) a college rule that all stories for Boston papers should be cleared with her as Publicity Director. (Present and past Press Board members later stated that this rule has not always been enforced in recent years.)

No question was raised about the Graduate Center story until November 30, when the Board of Deans told Miss Labenow that she had violated a college rule by submitting the story to the Herald.

On December 12, Miss Projansky informed a meeting of the remaining members of the Press Board that the clearing rule need not be mandatory. Instead of submitting copy, members were now asked simply to notify her what stories they were writing.

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