Trustees of Dartmouth College here this week-end gave fraternities six years to rid themselves of membership restrictions based on race, religion or national origin. The trustees approved an undergraduate recommendation to this effect.
The students had previously voted in a special poll to ban fraternities after 1960 which do not eliminate discriminatory requirements for membership. One chapter at Dartmouth has already left its national body because of the latter’s refusal to drop discriminatory clauses from the constitution.
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