The students of Dartmouth College voted this week-end to outlaw fraternity discrimination on grounds of race, religion or national origin. The vote, in which 85 percent of the student body participated, was 1,128 to 1,120 in favor of the anti-discrimination clause.
The student governing council will request the college trustees to make a ban on fraternity discrimination effective April 1, 1960, giving fraternities six years to eliminate discriminatory practices. Beyond that date discrimination will cause a fraternity to be expelled from the campus.
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