Word: biased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council regulation forbidding discrimination would state in legal terms what these groups already know, the discrimination is becoming an unpopular standard for picking your associates. It would probably make the bias of one group tacit rather that overt. That is all. And the measure would be an-other restriction on the freedom of undergraduate groups. This one abridgement of freedom would imply the Council's right to make any such abridgements, to put restrictions on what an organization can do, or what it can say, or where it can meet. A rule forbidding discrimination, which might be a good rule...
...national fraternities met in Washington. They worried about incidents which "had given fraternities a bad name" such as Dartmouth's Cirotta Case, Brown's brawls last spring, and Williams' troubles with fraternity drinking. They discussed the perpetual problem of raising money. But most important of all, they talked about bias...
...odds are very good that this weeding out of fraternity bias will be a long and slow process. There are three big obstacles...
...fraternity is much like an iceberg--only about ten per cent of it shows. There are more than a million fraternity brothers in the U. S.; about 100,000 of them are undergraduates. The rest of the fraternity men comprise graduate boards, which have consistently fought lifting bias rules. And the graduate boards pay most of the bills...
...Right now nothing can be done about tacit discrimination in the College," he added. "Something should be done, but this bias is so undercover if would be impossible...