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MIT defeated the Debate Council on the subject of the federal civil rights program last night in Eliot House.
Jerome B. Spunt '50 and Robert S. Hirschfield '50, who upheld the affirmative for the Crimson, argued that "rigidly enforced federal legislation is causing our country trouble in social, economic, an international fields."
"You cannot legislate away discrimination," was the answer of Tech debaters Thomas Erber and David B. Kret. They based their point on the fact that discrimination is psychological, not openly rational.
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