Charges that a “numbers clausus” exists against Jews seeking admission to Rutgers University has stirred local Jewish spiritual leaders and fraternal representatives to ask for an investigation.
The following statement denying that discrimination exists against Jewish students has been issued by Dean Fraser Metzger of Rutgers.
“All applicants for admission must meet certain requirements. This questionaire is the same for all. This is an undenominational institution, and it is a general proposition here, applying equally to all, that no one racial or religious group is permitted to dominate. We have about 1,400 students, and of this number between 200 and 250 can be considered in the Jewish group from a racial standpoint.”
The Jewish Daily Bulletin last Sunday published a story from its Perth Amboy correspondent containing an interview with Julius Kass, lawyer of that city and an alumnus of Rutgers, who charged openly that the University was accepting students on a basis other than scholarship and that “a great many Jewish students who were recommended by the principals of the high schools from which they graduated were refused admittance while their non-Jewish classmates, with lesser qualifications matriculated at the University.” More specifically Mr. Kass charged that only 33 Jewish students were admitted this year out of a Freshman class numbering about 330.
RATIO OF JEWS 15%
During a conference on the situation
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