He interprets the constitutional clause dealing with the Bulletin broadly. The passage reads, "The Graduate Bulletin Committee shall publish a newspaper containing notices and news features of interest to all graduate students."

"My personal opinion," Parker replies, "is that the Bulletin should be a newsletter. It's not independent--the Council supports it."

THE move to silence Feintuch is complicated by the role allegedly played by J. Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Both Feintuch and Miss Theeman claim, in Feintuch's words, that "pressure from Dean Elder to kill the Bulletin after the Pusey editorial" was the decisive factor in securing passage of the motion curbing it's editor.

There is no doubt that, regardless of whether Elder and Pusey actually wanted pressure brought on the Bulletin, Council officers said that they did.

One member of the Council recalls that "Joe Budelis told me that he had spoken to Dean Elder and that Elder had told him that he was very angry about the Pusey editorial, and that President Pusey was angry and upset."

This member also overheard Roger Rifer, who had spoken to Elder, say "that Pusey wanted to get Feintuch expelled from school."

The statements by Budelis and Rifer were made the evening of February 5, minutes before the motion to silence Feintuch passed.

This Councilman also says that "I asked them (the sponsors of the motion) point-blank, and they said their intention was to end the Bulletin as a newspaper and turn it back into a monthly newsletter."

Elder said last night that these accounts of his role "sound like an Orient Express plot. I'm not going to try to get anyone out of an editorship--I not only didn't I wouldn't." Although asserting that he deplored Schwartz's editorial for what he called its inaccuracies, he said he had congratulated Feintuch for doing a good job with the bulletin. He added that "if President Pusey is furious about something he can express his own fury."

Parker says that "Elder did not exert any pressure" for a particular manner of dealing with Feintuch. "He mentioned it, and we mentioned it, and he just wanted to know if this was the position of the Council."

THE referendum clash and the battle over the Bulletin are both crucial points of departure in the GSA issue. The referendum, if it fails to pass, may well be the last attempt for a long time to make over the Council into a partially political animal. And Feintuch's support is eroding on all sides.

As for Budelis, Parker, Munyon, and company, on many sore points between their group and the radicals, they are guilty merely of clever politicking. But White's appointment and the Elder myth that served as a bludgeon prior to Feintuch's muzzling constitute something more.