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Show A Boiling Pot Racial Uproar At Colorado U. By JUDY TODD Chronicle Editorial Writer A recent controversy on the University of Colorado campus at Boulder has provided strong evidence that racial segregation prob-llZ prob-llZ are by no means excluded from the Western West-ern states. THE "COLORADO DAILY," student newspaper news-paper of the University of Colorado, .reported 5ta a University ruling against discrimination has been violated by the alumni of Alpha Delta K SThfl956 ruling states that the Colorado University will place probation" . . . any fraternity, frat-ernity, social organization, or other student group that is compelled by its constitution, rituals, or government to deny membership to any person because of race, color, or religion. MRS. VIRGINIA BLUE, a former national officer of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, was one of the two University regents who cast dissenting dis-senting votes against an anti-discrimination ruling in 1956. According to the 'Colorado Daily, three student members of the Colorado University chapter of Alpha Delta Pi have placed themselves them-selves on voluntary probation from the sorority with the charge that "the corority's national officers and alumni have used their influence to support de-facto segregation in the sorority." THE THREE sorority members placed themselves them-selves on probation after a dispute over one member's Negro boyfriend. An editorial in the "Colorado Daily" said, in effect, that the chapter's alumni were almost al-most entirely responsible for the dispute, while most student members "neither objected or cared about the social life of the girl in question." ques-tion." A LETTER FROM the Grand President of Alpha Delta Pi answered the charges with a letter stating that "there is nothing in Alpha Delta Pi's constitution, by-laws, or ritual which denies anyone membership on the basis of race, color or religion." The three members on probation also objected to the system of membership selection select-ion which requires a recommendation from alumnae before a member can be pledged. "THEY CHARGED that a Negro applicant to the sorority was never pledged because of a lack of a recommendation. They did not however, know the reason why the applicant did not have a recommendation," wrote the "Colorado Daily." THE "COLORADO DAILY" editorial asserted as-serted that Colorado University should "take the strongest possible action to prevent fraternity fra-ternity and sorority alumni from jver behaving be-having similarly in the future." |