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Dartmouth Fraternity Body Calls for Elimination of Bias in College Societies

November 17, 1949
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The Dartmouth College Interfraternity Council today called on twelve colleges and universities in New England to outlaw racial and religious discrimination in fraternities.

In a letter to the Northeastern Interfraternity Conference, the Dartmouth body called on the member schools to support the elimination of discriminatory restrictions in fraternity charters at the forthcoming national conference of fraternity groups. The member colleges of the New England body to which Dartmouth appealed for action are: Amherst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell, Middlebury, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence, Syracuse, Union, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Maine State, New Hampshire State and Vermont State.

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