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...anti-bias resolution includes a recommendation that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities put the law into effect by including it in the official "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations." It prohibits discrimination on grounds of "race, color, nationality, or religion...
...this manner we will not harm any church groups, which have a perfect right to discriminate, but we shall bring the public wrath onto other groups that maintain bias provisions in their charters," Houghteling said. The proposal was tabled until next week...
...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...
...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...