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Canadian University Abolishes Student Questions on Religious Beliefs

December 27, 1967
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The University of Western Ontario, here, announced today that it will remove questions on religious belief from registration verification forms that are filled out by enrolling students. The announcement, by university president D. Carlton Williams, was in response to students’ complaints that the question was an infringement of their civil liberties.

Dr. Williams said that the information on religion was kept for the convenience of others, especially chaplains, and was not used by the university. The university’s faculty club announced last week that it would hold no official functions on the grounds of clubs that were discriminatory in membership policies.

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