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Show 0 Rights Problems fa Foreign Student foreign student look .ed:? Civil Rights ' V chairman of : :Sent Associauon said "Progress on civil rights is much too slow." He said that foreign students can't accept "democracy" as they i see it America. Referring specifically specifi-cally to incidents on this campus, Mr. Ali said that there has been discrimination against students from India who have been "mis- , taken" for Negroes." I s HE SAID the only incident that has been really publicized took place two years ago when a student was refused service at two downtown down-town clubs in a single evening. "There have been other incidents just this year," Mr. All said. "But the students themselves are sensitive. sensi-tive. If they are refused service at a bar and the incident is publicized, publi-cized, the word goes back home." MANY OF THE students don't want the people in their country to know that they have been in American bars, he said. He said that there is even a danger dan-ger that a student might lose his scholarsip through a misunderstanding. misunder-standing. Mr. Ali said that the problem should be of real concern to Americans, because it is the American image that is bemg affected. af-fected. "These students will be leaders in their countries when they go back," Mr. All said. "If they have been refused service in a Salt Lake restaurant res-taurant or bar, what kind of feeling are they going to have towards America?" Mr. Ali asked. The commission also discussed job problems for colored students at the University. |