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Freshmen Smoker electioneering will run through this week and next, Chase N. Peterson '52, Student Council Freshman Affairs Chairman, said last night. Petitions are due at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at which time there will be a meeting of all candidates...
Discrimination in fraternities is important because fraternities themselves are important. There are more than 2,750 Greek-letter chapters in the United States, and at many schools they house and feed most of the student body. They frequently run the social and extra-curricular life of those schools. Educational authorities estimate that 90 per cent of these fraternities have discriminatory clauses in their charters. Most specify "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race;" some southern groups go even further, and admit only White Protestants." Last week, the fraternities voted that chapters should "take steps" to climinate such admission bars...
According to the original YPH statement, the National Scholarship Service was a fake name invented by the Student Council and the money donated to it actually went to the United Negro College Fund, which helps private, segregated Negro colleges...
...United Negro College Fund was on the Combined Charity list last year, and had attracted some student protest because it favored the segregation of Negroes. "It is apparent," said yesterday's YPH statement, "that the Council purposely changed the name of the Jim Crow weed" this year to deceive students...
Because of the alleged front organization, YPH said "we hereby charge the Student Council and its Combined Charity Drive with deliberate fraud and misrepresentation." Last night the Progressives confessed it was all a mistake...