Representatives from six college organizations met last night to form a non-partisan organization to "protest abusive procedures by Congressional committees investigating Harvard and Radcliffe students and professors.

Members of the Student Council, HLU, HYRC HSMR, Radcliffe SDA, and the Harvard World Federalists attended a manning session, and agreed to urge their organizations to give support to the new group.

Meanwhile, officers of the Combined adversities students' Committee on Academic Freedom announced that over 2500 people have signed their petition protesting the current investigations, and said at a protest rally would be staged on Boston Common at 8:30 a.m. today.

CUSC said that Sen. Jonner's calling the proposed rally "silly and foolish," and an "indication that he has no valid answer to offer to the sincerity of student protest against the investigations."