Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amidst charges of undignified conduct and personal effrontery, the Student Council last night ruled by a one vote margin to make illegal the constitution of any undergraduate organization if the the document includes a discriminatory membership clause...
Action on the loyalty oath, which the Council has been investigating for four weeks, will be in the form of a recommendation to be sent to President Conant, Provost Buck, and Dean Bender. The recommendation will "urge" that the University administrators "employ every means at their disposal" to secure the elimination of certain Navy oath requirements for reserve students which the Council feels to be "in conflict with the free and unhampered exchange of ideas in a free academic society...
...Then two Council members tried to destroy the quorum and hence invalidate any more Council action by walking out of the room. A quorum remained, however, and a roll call vote favored the adoption of the rule by a vote...
...question of having an anti-discrimination clause in the new "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations" was brought up at the Council meeting last Monday. It was tabled until this week so that any undergraduates with opinions on the matter could discuss them with the Council...
...Collins, president of the Smith Student Council, said, "Neither your awareness of world problems nor your generosity surprised me," but expressed doubts that prudish students would accept "such a Communistic health plan on a coeducational basis...