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Membership discrimination in College organizations will come under Student Council examination soon, William D. Mulholland, Jr. '50, co-chairman of the Student Council Extra-Curricular Activities Committee, announced last night...
...There's a possibility," Mulholland said, "that the Harvard S. A. E. may get into trouble as a group taking orders from outside. The College wants organizations to be autonomous...
William D. Mulholland '50 set up standards for approval of student groups aspiring to official status in a motion passed by the Council 13 to 0. There was one abstention. Mulholland's criteria are that the applicant group must be a "bons fide organization of undergraduates," that the group should "state in good faith its aims and purposes," and that it must "conscientiously observe the rules . . . relating to undergraduate organizations . . . of the Student Council and Harvard College...
Opposition to Mulholland's motion centered around the Council's right to "review the aims of possibly detrimental organizations." Members cited possible new final clubs as examples. It was also suggested that the motion failed to eliminate discriminatory clauses in organization charters...
...Council finally decided, however, that these questions were not implicit in Mulholland's motion; Edward F. Burke '50, Council President, closed the decision by stating that "we will approve organizations as such; any subsequent pishtosh is none of our business...