The right of college fraternities to discriminate in their choice of membership was defended by Dr. Carl R. Woodward, president of the University of Rhode Island, this week-end at a meeting of the National Interfraternity Conference here. President Woodward, however, urged the fraternities “to remove restrictions of membership that stem from racial origin or religious affiliation.”
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