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Show SOCIAL BARRIER SWEPT OUT OFT Selected Social. Clubs Ruled Out by President Harris. All social (dubs and societies organized or-ganized in the Brigham Young uni-jvorsity uni-jvorsity must eeaso to exist, aeeord-I aeeord-I ing to an announcement made, this morning hy President Frank Harris. '".Not that any members of these clubs have over done anything contrary con-trary to the spirit of the Brigham i Young university," President Harris Har-ris said, "hut in order that this great democratic student body may not cease to be as democratic as it has always been known to bo. We have been unique in our democracy anions the institutions of the world, and we wish to remain so. Wo want students who come here to know that there arc no class distinctions or social barriers. "This does not mean that girls with black hair may not associate together if they wish to do so or that congenial people may not get together for parties or for a good time, hut it does mean that purely social clubs made up of selected members chosen arbitrarily from the student body are not to exist here. This announcement, President Harris continued, has nothing to do with clubs such as the Dixie, Idaho, or Sanpete clubs or other organizations organi-zations of that kind where all the people from that vicinity are members; mem-bers; it has no reference to the Block Y club or debating clubs or other organizations which stress achievements as the creiterion by which prospective members nre to be judged. It has reference only to social societies and clubs that ' are in effect sororities and fraternities. fraterni-ties. President Harris was followed by President-Emeritus George H. Brimhall who gave one of his characteristic char-acteristic inspirational serinon-ettes. serinon-ettes. Superintendent-elect H. Claude Lewis of the Provo city school, as well as Superintendent Aldous Dixon made brief remarks in which they expressed their attitudes towards to-wards the B. Y. U. |