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...deeply does the 1964 Civil Rights Act's Title VI - the provision that empowers the Federal Government to withhold funds from recipients practicing racial discrimination - cut into the social texture of U.S. academic life? Commissioner of Education Fran cis Keppel last week provided a measurement by ruling that any fraternity's refusal to admit a Negro on racial grounds could imperil the many millions of dollars that a university might be getting from the Government...
...West Coast. Therefore I must submerge any personal feeling and refrain from proposing a Japanese or Chinese boy because of the reaction it would cause among your alumni." Sigma Chi's attitude so irked Montana Senator Lee Metcalf, who joined Sigma Chi at Stanford, that he asked Keppel whether such discrimination violated the Civil Rights...
...more practical preventive against such abuse may lie in testing whether U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel has the power under the 1964 Civil Rights Act to withhold federal funds from school districts that discriminate against Negro teachers. One section of the act's Title VI specifically prevents him from trying to stop discriminatory employment practices, but Keppel nonetheless believes that discrimination against Negro teachers has a discriminatory effect on schoolchildren, and thus his office can require faculty as well as student integration as a qualification for federal...
...must not deceive ourselves that the exclusion of Negroes is not noticed by children," says Keppel. "What can they assume but that Negroes are not deemed by the community as worthy of a place in mixed classrooms? What can the white child assume but that he is somehow special and exclusive, protected from some sort of contamination? How can the world of democracy have meaning to such children...
...means inactive. Conservatives Merwin K. Hart Jr. '40 and Sidney Q Curtiss Jr. '40 charged that the money collected for Spanish relief the year before had actually been used for a "communistic demonstration" in Harlem. Their charge provoked how is of protest, and Student Council president Francis Keppel '38 promised to investigate...