The League of University Jewish Students, a new group, met for the first time yesterday at the Hotel Granada, Brooklyn, under the chairmanship of George Goldstein, a student at St. John’s Law School, who was elected president of the group.
According to the constitution adopted at the meeting, the League aims to “unite Jewish students in procuring recognition of fundamental rights as citizens and fight discrimination in colleges based on racial prejudice. The group hopes to attain a national membership of 5,000 Jewish students in various universities throughout the country.
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