The Institute of Politics in the John F. Kennedy School of Government will expand its Student Program this spring, adding five new study groups and an array of guests.

The new study groups, like the old ones, are extracurricular, open to upperclassmen and graduate students. The new groups will discuss decision-making in Congress, third parties in American presidential elections, and intellectuals in politics.

Experts active in Government, business, or education will lead the groups. Samuel V. Merrick, special counsel to Mayor Kevin White, will head the groups dealing with urban problems, along with Paul Parks, administrator of the Boston Model cities Program.

Institute's Guests

The Institute's guests will also include Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution; Endicott Peabody '42, former governor of Massachusetts, and Charles Evers, field director of the Mississippi NAACP.

Also arriving are Charles V. Hamilton, co-author with Stokely Carmichael of Black Power; Richard M. Scammon, election consultant to the National Broadcasting Company; and John E. Grenier, executive director of the Republican National Committee in the Goldwater campaign of 1964.

Other guests are Richardson Dilworth, former mayor of Philadelphia; Kenneth Clark, author of Dark Ghetto; and Robert Novak, a political columnist and co-author of Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power.