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NEW HAVEN, Dec. 10-President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale yesterday announced that elections in the Colleges on today and tomorrow would set up a special student committee to advise him on Yale policies in the event of a national emergency.
Immediate opposition to the plan has arisen from students who have interpreted the directive as an attempt to set up a form of student council. Councils, with the purpose of advising the administration on undergraduate opinion and needs, have been repeatedly scorned and voted out of existence by the student body in the past.
The committee is first supposed to make recommendations to Griswold as to whether Yale should line up with supporters of universal military service or universal military training. It will consist of ten seniors, one freshman, and Thomas C. Mendenhall II, master of Berkeley College.
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