The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling on the right of the State University of New York to ban national fraternities and sororities from its campuses.
Involved in the court’s action was a ruling by university trustees that no social organization would be allowed to operate if it barred students “on account of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or other artificial criteria. ” Since the court, in effect, recognized the university authorities’ right to ban national groups, the ruling on discriminatory social groups will stand.
(in Albany, the president of the State University, Dr. William Carlson, said the ruling means “we can continue to keep discrimination from our colleges.” The ruling covers some 21,000 students at 22 units of the university.)
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