The Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter at Williams College here this week-end resigned from the national fraternity because the local group insisted on pledging a Jewish member, despite a ban in the national fraternity’s charter which limits membership to white students of “Aryan blood.”
The issue arose in 1952 when the local chapter pledged the Jewish student. The chapter was suspended in 1953 and this week-end’s action is the first move since then. The local group has renamed itself the Order of Phi Delta. Since 1952, when the chapter took its action, no fraternity on the Williams College campus has operated under discriminatory bans.
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