The appointment last week of Walter Levine of Lock Haven, Pa., as captain of the 1930 football team of Washington and Jefferson College, of this city, by the athletic council, has caused wide dissension amonst the student body. Levine is the first captain in thirty-four years to be selected at the institution who has not been a fraternity man. Fraternities on the college campus were backing Andrew Cochrane of Pittsburgh, for the captaincy.
In a personal interview with a correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Levine did not attribute the disapproval of the student body to the fact that he is a Jew, but rather to the fact that he is not a member of a national fraternity. Levine asserted that the Jewish students at the college, of which there are about 500, have not experienced anti-Semitic feeling and that they participate actively in college affairs. Although this view was corroborated by others, the Jewish students, not members of a college fraternity, are planning their own organization.
Published reports which attempt to show disapproval of the entire college over the election of Levine is attributed to one who has marked feeling against the school. Levine, who is a Junior, and popular amongst his own classmates, has just been elected secretary-treasurer of his class.
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